Gilgamesh

Warrior · Physical · Melee · Babylonian

Builds and guide for SMITE® 2, patch OB47

Jungle Solo

Gilgamesh Jungle build

Top players on Gilgamesh Jungle: 56.0% win in 605 games, past month (SmiteBrain, Master+ ranked)

Recommended for Conquest, in buy order. For Joust, Assault or a specific enemy team, open it in the tool.

STARTHunter's Cowl
1Devourer's Gauntlet
2Jotunn's Revenge
3Barbed Carver
4The Reaper
5The Crusher
6Heartseeker

Relic: Sundering Arc

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What top players buy

Item	In builds	Win rate
Jotunn's Revenge	62%	55.5%
Barbed Carver	60%	56.1%
Heartseeker	53%	57.8%
The Reaper	42%	59.0%
The Crusher	29%	55.7%
Devourer's Gauntlet	25%	59.3%

Best matchups

Hardest matchups

Top-player items, win rates and matchups: SmiteBrain, Master+ ranked, past month.

How to play Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh is a melee warrior from the Babylonian pantheon who deals physical damage. Top players mostly play Gilgamesh in the Jungle (56% of games) and the Solo lane (44% of games).

In your kit, Hero's Advance (lead allies, leap) is your way in and out of fights. Sun-forged Scimitar (empowered attacks) and Drop Kick (drop kick enemies) add damage and pressure. Your ultimate is Winds of Shamash (ring of trapping wind), on a long cooldown (about 90s at rank 1), so save it for fights that matter.

Community guides level Sun-forged Scimitar, Hero's Advance and Drop Kick first. Max Sun-forged Scimitar first, then Drop Kick, then Hero's Advance.

You are a front line fighter who deals damage and takes it. Walk into the fight first, start it with your crowd control, and stay on the enemy your team is focusing. In the jungle, clear your camps quickly and help other lanes by ambushing enemies who have used their escape.

Start with Hunter's Cowl, then buy Devourer's Gauntlet. Buy it early so it finishes stacking. Your core is Jotunn's Revenge and Barbed Carver, and you finish with The Reaper, The Crusher and Heartseeker. A good relic is Sundering Arc. If the enemy team heals a lot or you keep dying, open the full tool and enter the enemy gods for the exact swaps.

If you own Aspect of Shamash, it reworks Epic of Gilgamesh, Sun-forged Scimitar (empowered attacks), Drop Kick (drop kick enemies), Hero's Advance (lead allies, leap) and Winds of Shamash (ring of trapping wind). It changes what to build, so turn on Aspect in the tool when you play it.

Top players win most often against Discordia, Neith and Sol, and struggle against Scylla, Medusa or Cupid. Against those, play safer and consider a defensive item earlier.

Skill order

Levels 1 to 5: Sun-forged Scimitar, Hero's Advance, Drop Kick, Sun-forged Scimitar and Winds of Shamash. Max Sun-forged Scimitar first, then Drop Kick, then Hero's Advance, and put points in Winds of Shamash whenever you can.

Sun-forged Scimitar	1			4		6	7		9
Drop Kick			3					8			11	12		14
Hero's Advance		2													15	16		18	19
Winds of Shamash					5					10			13				17			20

From a SmiteFire guide by lestimics, updated 2026-11-03.

Abilities

Passive Epic of Gilgamesh
Ability 1 Sun-forged Scimitar · Empowered attacks
At max rank: 210 damage (50% Strength), slow 25%, slow duration 2s, radius 3.2 m. Cooldown 10s, 70 mana.
Ability 2 Drop Kick · Drop kick enemies
At max rank: 85 bonus damage (20% Strength), stun duration 1.2s, range 4 m, radius 1.92 m. Cooldown 14s, 80 mana.
Ability 3 Hero's Advance · Lead allies, leap
At max rank: 230 damage (40% Strength), range 8.8 m, radius 4.8 m. Cooldown 16s, 70 mana.
Ultimate Winds of Shamash · Ring of trapping wind
At max rank: 310 damage (40% Strength), slow duration 2s, range 7.2 m, radius 5.44 m. Cooldown 90s, 100 mana.

Ability numbers at max rank: SMITE® 2 by Hi-Rez Studios, patch OB47, via the SMITE 2 Wiki. Descriptions are our own wording.

Community guides

Recent SMITE 2 guides from SmiteFire, best rated first. Where top-player data is thin (off-roles, new gods), their builds also nudge the recommended build.

Solo guide by lestimics rated 9.5/10 from 11 votes · updated 2026-11-03