Assault is better in S2
My brain cannot fattom the fact that yall are saying that Assault is better in S1 when is "dived or be dived simulator", literally the ONLY better thing is the map layout, not even the map itself since it doesn't have the buff spawner.
Smite's 2 is an overall improvement over the Smite 1 Assault, you have said buff spawner to destroy objectives faster, poke better, bait with the Fire Dagger, etc., built-in medi to not force everyone into buying Shell + Amanita, better farm in the waves and a slimmer and shorter map to encourage tfs and make the game actually fun instead of a ping pong game of poking and determined by RNG, which is fixed in S2 by forcing a healer in every team + again, the buff spawner to give a chance to the worse set-ups.
Also, if the Japanese themed map is in the same quality as the Joust map it will be 10x better than the norse map, 12 years and not a single theme change, c'mon Hi-Rez, every game mode had that type of change except Assault