Kali

Assassin · Physical · Melee · Hindu

Builds and guide for SMITE® 2, patch OB47

Jungle Carry

Kali Jungle build

Top players on Kali Jungle: 52.7% win in 564 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
1Tyrfing
2Jotunn's Revenge
3Transcendence
4Silverbranch Bow
5Heartseeker
6The Executioner

Relic: Sundering Arc

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What top players buy

Item	In builds	Win rate
Tyrfing	38%	59.3%
Hastened Fatalis	34%	55.7%
Odysseus' Bow	29%	63.0%
Silverbranch Bow	26%	60.7%
Polynomicon	26%	46.4%
Hydra's Lament	24%	50.8%

Best matchups

Hardest matchups

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

How to play Kali

Kali is a melee assassin from the Hindu pantheon who deals physical damage. Top players mostly play Kali in the Jungle (71% of games) and the Carry (duo) lane (29% of games).

In your kit, Nimble Strike (leap damage heal) is your way in and out of fights. Incense (area stun damage, heal) is your main crowd control. Lash (thrown blades bleed) adds damage and pressure. Your ultimate is Destruction (damage immunity), on a long cooldown (about 90s at rank 1), so save it for fights that matter. Your passive is Marked for Death: kill target to heal.

Community guides level Lash, Incense and Nimble Strike first. Max Lash first, then Incense, then Nimble Strike.

Your job is to find and defeat a fragile target, usually the enemy mage or hunter. Do not start fights head on: wait for someone to use their escape or step out of position, then strike. 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 Tyrfing. Your core is Jotunn's Revenge and Transcendence, and you finish with Silverbranch Bow, Heartseeker and The Executioner. 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 Unbound Destruction, it reworks Marked for Death (ranged attacks, stacks heal), Incense (area knockback) and Destruction (power, lifesteal, piercing attacks). It changes what to build, so turn on Aspect in the tool when you play it.

Top players win most often against Ne Zha, Danzaburou and Hachiman, and struggle against Geb, Amaterasu or Neith. Against those, play safer and consider a defensive item earlier.

Skill order

Levels 1 to 5: Lash, Incense, Nimble Strike, Lash and Destruction. Max Lash first, then Incense, then Nimble Strike, and put points in Destruction whenever you can.

Nimble Strike			3												15	16		18	19
Lash	1			4		6	7		9
Incense		2						8			11	12		14
Destruction					5					10			13				17			20

From a SmiteFire guide by TottiGR, updated 2026-11-01.

Abilities

Passive Marked for Death · Kill target to heal
Ability 1 Nimble Strike · Leap damage heal
At max rank: 305 damage (80% Strength), heal 60, range 8.8 m, radius 2.4 m. Cooldown 13s, 60 mana.
Ability 2 Lash · Thrown blades bleed
At max rank: 75 damage (25% Strength + 30% Intelligence), 30 bleed damage per tick (5% Strength + 7% Intelligence), range 11.2 m, radius 0.48 m. Cooldown 10s, 80 mana.
Ability 3 Incense · Area stun damage, heal
At max rank: 115 damage (15% Strength + 30% Intelligence), 28 bonus damage per stack (8% Strength + 10% Intelligence), heal 50, stun duration 0.8s, buff duration 6s. Cooldown 15s, 60 mana.
Ultimate Destruction · Damage immunity
At max rank: 28 damage (4% Strength + 6.5% Intelligence), duration 4.5s, radius 3.2 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.

Carry guide by TottiGR rated 9.4/10 from 29 votes · updated 2026-11-01