Mercury

Assassin · Physical · Melee · Roman

Builds and guide for SMITE® 2, patch OB47

Mercury Jungle build

Top players on Mercury Jungle: 52.9% win in 1,017 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
1Rage
2Dagger of Frenzy
3Deathbringer
4Heartseeker
5Riptalon
6Avatar's Parashu

Relic: Sundering Arc

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What top players buy

Item	In builds	Win rate
Rage	80%	53.3%
Deathbringer	80%	53.7%
Dagger of Frenzy	68%	54.2%
Riptalon	43%	57.5%
Musashi's Dual Swords	32%	57.1%
Hydra's Lament	30%	55.3%

Best matchups

Hardest matchups

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

How to play Mercury

Mercury is a melee assassin from the Roman pantheon who deals physical damage. Top players play Mercury in the Jungle.

In your kit, Special Delivery (dash, grab, throw) is your way in and out of fights. Maximum Velocity (speed buff, slow immunity) slows enemies. Made You Look (area damage) adds damage and pressure. Your ultimate is Sonic Boom (global charged dash), on a long cooldown (about 90s at rank 1), so save it for fights that matter. Your passive is Fastest God Alive: move to gain bonus damage.

Community guides level Made You Look, Special Delivery and Maximum Velocity first. Max Made You Look first, then Maximum Velocity, then Special Delivery.

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 Rage. Buy it early, because it grows with every kill and assist. Your core is Dagger of Frenzy and Deathbringer, and you finish with Heartseeker, Riptalon and Avatar's Parashu. 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.

Top players win most often against Jing Wei, Hercules and Atlas, and struggle against Hades, Gilgamesh or Anubis. Against those, play safer and consider a defensive item earlier.

Skill order

Levels 1 to 5: Made You Look, Special Delivery, Maximum Velocity, Made You Look and Sonic Boom. Max Made You Look first, then Maximum Velocity, then Special Delivery, and put points in Sonic Boom whenever you can.

Made You Look	1			4		6	7		9
Maximum Velocity			3					8			11	12	13
Special Delivery		2												14		16		18	19
Sonic Boom					5					10					15		17			20

From a SmiteFire guide by Sleipne, updated 2026-08-17.

Abilities

Passive Fastest God Alive · Move to gain bonus damage
Ability 1 Made You Look · Area damage
At max rank: 220 damage (70% Basic Attack Damage), range 7.68 m, radius 2.2 m. Cooldown 9s, 50 mana.
Ability 2 Maximum Velocity · Speed buff, slow immunity
At max rank: buff duration 5s. Cooldown 12s, 80 mana.
Ability 3 Special Delivery · Dash, grab, throw
At max rank: 35 damage (20% Strength), stun duration 1s, range 8.8 m, radius 0.48 m. Cooldown 15s, 80 mana.
Ultimate Sonic Boom · Global charged dash
At max rank: 500 damage (100% Strength), stun duration 1.25s, buff duration 5s, radius 2.59 m. Cooldown 70s, 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.

Guide by Sleipne not rated yet · updated 2026-08-17