ARTICLE
AGAINST THE GRAIN – BEEF
IN THE MIDDLE
By Brad Devillez
I
n this current Meta Warriors serve many
purposes and can fill many roles to balance
out a team composition (or comp for short). Most
Bruisers are gods, or builds on gods that
usually don’t fill this role, that fall between the
damage dealing carries and the damage soaking
traditionally bruisers are put into the Solo role
supports. This usually means they have great
because of their survivability and sustain (healing
durability and/or sustain while still being able
of some sort) that help them come out into the
of dishing out decent amounts of damage.
midgame ahead and with tons of farm. More recently
we’ve seen bruisers in the jungle in order to give
thought up recently. Though it was not extremely
a skilled solo player a chance to play a hard carry
common gods like Chaac and Hades were sometimes
while still maintaining a frontline a team needs to
put in mid to flesh out a solid team comp. But I’m
keep the comp from being too heavy on backline
here to tell you that if you love bruisers as much
gods. Both of these strategies are meant to open up
as I do and you find yourself playing in the mid
god pools for highly skilled and experienced players,
lane, don’t be afraid to pull one out every once in
giving a team more options and for me options
awhile. Not only do most have great match-ups
are always good. So what if you want a different
against Mages, but they also are mobile and hefty
option? What happens if you want to go against the
enough to survive one of the most volatile lanes
grain and decide to put a little beef in the middle?
in SMITE. Bruisers can dominate the lane and get
Believe it or not bruisers and Warriors in the
so far ahead the enemy will never come back.
middle lane is not a brand new, crazy theory that was
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