Mordred

Warrior · Physical · Melee · Arthurian

Builds and guide for SMITE® 2, patch OB47

Solo Jungle

Mordred Solo build

Top players on Mordred Solo: 55.2% win in 983 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.

STARTBluestone Brooch
1Devourer's Gauntlet
2Shifter's Shield
3Sanguine Lash
4Genji's Guard
5Freya's Tears
6Kinetic Cuirass

Relic: Blink Rune

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What top players buy

Item	In builds	Win rate
Freya's Tears	53%	58.2%
Shifter's Shield	51%	55.5%
Devourer's Gauntlet	44%	55.6%
Sanguine Lash	41%	55.1%
Genji's Guard	27%	60.5%
Brawler's Ruin	26%	55.8%

Best matchups

Hardest matchups

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

How to play Mordred

Mordred is a melee warrior from the Arthurian pantheon who deals physical damage. Top players mostly play Mordred in the Solo lane (69% of games) and the Jungle (31% of games).

In your kit, Severing Slice (projectile bleed, slow) slows enemies. Cruel Strikes (cone slash, line slam) and Bloodrage (area damage, speed buff) add damage and pressure. Your ultimate is Heart Slash (root, drain), on a long cooldown (about 20s at rank 1), so save it for fights that matter.

Community guides level Cruel Strikes, Severing Slice and Bloodrage first. Max Cruel Strikes first, then Severing Slice, then Bloodrage.

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 solo lane you will often fight one on one, so attack when their key ability is on cooldown.

Start with Bluestone Brooch, then buy Devourer's Gauntlet. Buy it early so it finishes stacking. Your core is Shifter's Shield and Sanguine Lash, and you finish with Genji's Guard, Freya's Tears and Kinetic Cuirass. A good relic is Blink Rune. 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 Rage, it reworks Shoulder Charge (interact to dash) and Bloodrage (area damage, attacks grant cooldown). It changes what to build, so turn on Aspect in the tool when you play it.

Top players win most often against Morgan Le Fay, Cabrakan and Xbalanque, and struggle against Achilles, Fenrir or Hua Mulan. Against those, play safer and consider a defensive item earlier.

Skill order

Levels 1 to 5: Cruel Strikes, Severing Slice, Bloodrage, Cruel Strikes and Heart Slash. Max Cruel Strikes first, then Severing Slice, then Bloodrage, and put points in Heart Slash whenever you can.

Cruel Strikes	1			4		6		8		10
Bloodrage			3												15	16		18	19
Severing Slice		2					7				11	12		14
Heart Slash					5				9				13				17			20

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

Abilities

Passive Wrath of the Forsaken
Ability 1 Cruel Strikes · Cone slash, line slam
At max rank: 45% Protections bonus damage, heal 45% Protections. Cooldown 10s, 65 mana.
Ability 2 Bloodrage · Area damage, speed buff
At max rank: 250 damage (60% Strength + 40% Intelligence), buff duration 6s, radius 3.2 m. Cooldown 14s, 70 mana.
Ability 3 Severing Slice · Projectile bleed, slow
At max rank: 175 damage (70% Intelligence), 45 bleed damage per tick (12.5% Strength), slow 30%, range 9.6 m, radius 0.6 m. Cooldown 12s, 80 mana.
Ultimate Heart Slash · Root, drain
At max rank: 320 damage (75% Strength), heal 40, range 6 m, radius 1 meter. Cooldown 20s, 40 Wrath.

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 7.2/10 from 87 votes · updated 2026-11-03