Game Guide - Dictionary Smite Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

This dictionary contains collocations and abbreviations which are used in this guide as well as in the game itself. Knowing them will make the communication within the team easier and faster. It is not always possible, during the game, to use complex sentences, so, undoubtedly, they will make things easier. Dictionary, to ease the use of it, is alphabetical.

AA (Auto Attack) - Automatic attack, which is accomplished by pressing PPM on the aim.

AD (Attack Damage) - Physical damage which is the result of one's character's attacks.

AFK (Away From Keyboard) - It is a term which a player uses when he/she needs to stop the game for a moment and to leave his/her character by himself/herself for a moment. It also has a pejorative form in case, when a player just stops playing, and as a result is an AFK.

AoE (Area of Effect) - It is the action of the skill on a certain area.

AS (Attack Speed) - Character's attack speed.

Aura - A bonus effect, which, more often than not, incorporates other members of the team, for ex ample the aura with additional bonus for the attack speed.

BG (Bad Game) - The BG abbreviation is used, mostly after the game is finished, when a player wants to show that he/she is not happy with the result of the game, for example when one of the allies left the game and the rest of the team had to play 4 to 5.

Bot - The name of the bottom lane on the map.

BRB (Be Right Back) - A player is telling the he/she will be right back.

Brush - Brush which is placed in different parts of the map.

Buff - Bonus which changes the statistics of a given character which continues for a while, for ex ample bonus to Reynar's attack speed.

Build - Set of all of the character's skills and items.

Burst - Making a huge damage in the shortest amount of time possible.

Carry - Characters which are a bit weaker at the beginning of the game so that they need to be reinforced by a suitable farm and gaining of the kills.

CC (Crowd Control) - It is a name for all of the effects which limit the control over the character, such as fear, stun, slowdown, toss etc.

CD (Cooldown) - A time of the renewal of a given skill.

Daily quest - Daily quests, which players do to earn some currency in the game - favor. After finishing a quest from one day the next one will be given to you on the next day.

Def (defend) - It is a defense of some particular place on the map, such as Tower or phoenix.

DC (Disconnect) - Is a disconnection of one of the players from the game.

DMG (Damage) - Abbreviation which simply means damage.

DoT (Damage Over Time) - Damage made over some particular period of time.

Feeder - A term for a player who feeds the opposite team, by getting killed all the time in their favor. It has a close connection with a term "Fed" which defines a player who has a lot of kills.

Focus - Means being focused on a particular enemy or building.

Gank - A term for a help from a team in killing an enemy. If we ask someone to kill an enemy on our line we ask for a gank.

GG (Good Game) - It is used after the game is finished in order to thank allies and enemies for a game.

GJ (Good Job) - When someone did a good job during an action it is nice to reward him/her with a short GJ - Good Job!

GL (Good Luck) - Used at the beginning of the game in order to wish allies and enemies good luck.

God - A God.

HF (Have Fun) - Used at the beginning of the game, mostly with GL, to show that you hope that everyone will have fun during the game.

Kiting - To kite means to hold off an enemy so that he/she can't come close enough to fight you.

Leaver - A term for a player who left the game and never came back.

Harass - To harass an enemy in order to lower his morale and health bar.

Lane - Lane, aisle, there are three of the on the map.

MIA (Miss in Action) - It means that someone is missing on a given line.

MID - The name of the Middle Line on the map.

MOUNT - The saddle horse on which you can ride on the map.

MS (Movement Speed) - The speed of the movement.

Noob - A pejorative term for players who don't know how to behave during the game and who make things harder. Most often it is confused with the term Newbie.

Newbie - A beginner.

OOM (Out Of Mana) - A player is telling the team that he/she is out of mana, which is needed to use a given skill.

OP (Overpowered) - Characters which are overpowered are far more stronger than the Rest of the characters and they Reed to be balanced.

Passive - Passive skill of a character.

RE (Return) - Used when an enemy has returned to his/her former position after being lost for a while.

Root - The negative effect, which forbids a character's movements.

Silence - The negative effect which forbids the use of Any skill and silences a given aim.

Skillshot - A skill which needs a ability and timing in order to hit the enemy.

Skin - Additional skin for a character, which you can buy for the real money.

SS - Abbreviation for "Miss" which means the same as MIA.

Stun - Stun which overpowers the enemy and forbids the taking of any kind of action by him/her.

Support - Term for the players who help the team with additional effects such as auras, heeling etc.

Suppression - Negative effect which forbids the character's use of the skill.

Tank - A character, which takes all the strokes from the enemy and all the scathes so that the team can attack the enemies.

TBH (To Be Honest) - Simply to be honest, and to say what you really, honestly think about a given topic.

TOP - Top Line on the map.

TP - Teleport.

Taunt (Mockery, Taunt, Provocation) - The negative effect which provokes the aim to attack the character which used that skill. The provoked character uses the control over the figure for the as long as the taunt lasts.