Ymir

How to play Ymir

Ymir is a melee guardian from the Norse pantheon who deals magical damage. Top players play Ymir in the Support role.

In your kit, Ice Wall (wall; knockback on deploy) and Frost Breath (cone stun) are your crowd control. Glacial Strike (area damage slow) adds damage and pressure. Your ultimate is Shards of Ice (channel slow, explode damage), on a long cooldown (about 70s at rank 1), so save it for fights that matter. Your passive is Frostbite: abilities weaken enemies.

Community guides level Glacial Strike, Frost Breath and Ice Wall first. Max Glacial Strike first, then Frost Breath, then Ice Wall.

Your job is to start fights and protect your team, not to get kills. Move in when your team is close enough to follow up, then stay near your hunter and protect them from anyone who jumps on them. Your build makes you very hard to kill, so you can stand in front and absorb damage. As support, stay with your duo lane partner early and use your crowd control to set up kills.

Start with Heroism, then buy Gauntlet of Thebes. Buy it early so it finishes stacking. Your core is Shifter's Shield and Stampede, and you finish with Genji's Guard, Kinetic Cuirass and Freya's Tears. 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.

Top players win most often against Chaac, Eset and Mercury, and struggle against Bellona, Awilix or Rama. Against those, play safer and consider a defensive item earlier.