History YMMV / Smite

** Some people didn't take Hercules' remodel well, as Herc went from a [[BoisterousBruiser boisterous]] BarbarianHero who is pretty much a BigFun which was a normal way to portray Herc in many media into...a muscular but armored hero who lost his barbarian features and his beard as well as having a quieter personality. Some like the change anyway, seeing that it will make more sense for a grief-stricken man who killed his family in a fit of madness and [[TheAtoner his labors are his way of atonement]].

** Related to the above, Ne Zha will plague your bot games if you are a mage. Ne Zha himself is not any harder than any other jungler, but they almost neurotically run down the middle rather than jungling forcing the mage to fight two bots in what's supposed to be a single god lane. In addition since he mixes in physical skills and has a combo that stuns you and pulls him close enough to launch his ult, with computer aim to make sure he never misses the first part, he will single-handedly reduce mid-lane to the hardest to the defend of the 3 lanes unless you cheat and have players swap your mage for a tank in midlane [[note]] Such as Jormungandr who's immune to his ult and grapple as well as Baron's and Agni's gimmicks [[/note]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse:

* HarsherInHindsight: The Futbol skin of Xbalanque to celebrate UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup 2014, seeing that it's held in Brazil. Looks like fun. Then it turns out Brazil was [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] by Germany by ''1-7''. Seeing Xbalanque still passing balls like that happily just felt eye-rolling when most Brazilians are weeping for their team's loss at home nation. Looking at it after the [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Rio 2016 Olympics]] "rematch", [[HilariousInHindsight however...]]

** You can also reunite the ''VideoGame/{{Dota 2}}'' crew with a team of Zeus, Medusa, Sun Wukong and Ares[[note]]Known as his Roman name, Mars, in that game.[[/note]].

** Fenrir is known for being stuck in DevelopmentHell before he was finally made playable. However, this DevelopmentHell stuck in the mind of fans that anytime there's a new God announcement, they still refer to "Still waiting for Fenrir" or "New God Fenrir". It lived on so much that [[AscendedMeme Hi-Rez decided to elevate this]] as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMKm2ThMBz4 an April Fools joke for 2018.]]

---> ''"If you can't see me, it's because you are about to die!"''

* UnexpectedCharacter: Smite usually limits themselves between deities overall. Therefore, it ''really'' surprised the playerbase when they revealed that the 99th and 100th "Gods" turn out to be Myth/KingArthur and [[Myth/{{Merlin}} Merlin the Wizard]], both of them mythological characters/heroes that have no speck of godly essences unlike the likes of Cu Chulainn or Hercules. And eventually topped further in the next year... with [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]].

*** Nox is appreciated mostly on her lore and MILF design, but her gameplay? It is divisive at best. She can be a terror for new players, but is ultimately a CrutchCharacter. On release she was extremely weak, her main skill rooted both her and her target, the delay on her burst made it easy to dodge, her silence wasn't nearly as long as it needed to be, and her ultimate was, at the best of times confusing, and at the worst of times completely irrelevant. Even her passive was awful because it required her to be hit, and she's not nearly as tanky a mage as Zhong Kui or Raijin. Even after her rework she remains one of the least played gods in the game because she's just overshadowed by everyone else.

** Just look at Hel for the biggest example. While Light Hel wears a fanservicey mink coat that offers AbsoluteCleavage and has her shoulders bare, Dark Hel has all those, combined with more skin-revealing spots, sports FemmeFatalons and lets her long hair down instead of covering it with hood.

** This question: should Smite be limited to official Gods or are they allowed to include extremely famous or legendary humans, or some that got involved with myth? This has already been going since the beginning, as Arachne was one of the launch Gods of Smite. Then it expanded to the likes of Guan Yu (who to be fair was indeed deified after his death), Hercules, Fenrir, Medusa... then goes further into Cu Chulainn, King Arthur, Mulan and by 2020, they went and added Cthulhu. Either you're going to be okay with these stretched out additions and think it's awesome to see them fight against official Gods... or you think that Hi-Rez has been running out of ideas.

** Likewise, in Joust, you can make a ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' team featuring Hercules, Medusa and Cu Chulainn. If you want a more 'loose' lookalike team for a 10-player map and based on ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', just add Artemis and Da Ji.[[labelnote:*]]While not used for this game, it is implied in the myth that Da Ji later fled to Japan and became Tamamo-no-Mae[[/labelnote]] It gets more hilarious with the announcement of Arthur and Merlin, and later on Gilgamesh and Tiamat, and then [[spoiler:Cernunnos]], then Lancelot.
** In Joust, you can also reunite the ''VideoGame/{{Dota 2}}'' crew with a team of Zeus, Medusa and Sun Wukong.

** Similarly, post rework Nu Wa is Nu Nu Wa or New Wa. This ends up as an AscendedMeme as the Retro skin of hers is officially named 'Old Wa'.

** "Goobis" for Anubis...particularly if [[GlassCannon he's bad at it.]]

** Crossing with with PunnyName and inverting it, fans like to elongate Chaac's name further into... [[Creator/ChuckNorris Chaac Norris]]. Similarly to this one, Guan Yu for some reason is referred as [[Wrestling/JohnCena Guan Cena]]

* GoodBadBugs: The Funny Bones skin for Baron Samedi has a unique recall animation where he tosses his hat on the ground with the top facing it, then he jumps up and lands into the hat while the hat momentarily expands before the recall is complete. However, if the recall is canceled just before it's finished, [[https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1836922484753807684/1BD1309661E47F50042E8CCEC3F28F1C40E8678E/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false Baron Samedi's head will then wear]] [[TheHilarityOfHats the hilariously-large hat]] for some time or until he tries recalling without performing the glitch again.

** ''Jing Wei''. Aside of how her gameplay is generally seen as kind of unappealing for an ADC (her ultimate is often considered rather lackluster when it was supposed to be dealing damage), Jing Wei's model is often considered an UncannyValley (especially her model's eyes, they look quite devoid of life) and her personality is designed as a bubbly teenager, that alone could irk a lot of players... but even then, the delivery of her voices could come across as DullSurprise most of the time, sometimes deriding her as a '[[PoorMansSubstitute poor man's]] [[GenkiGirl Neith]]' (didn't help that her win animation is similar to Neith, a bubbly dance where the dance music overrode the usual victory music). All in all, the stacks are very against Jing Wei and she is overall regarded as one of the worst hunters in the game.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/user/nevercakegames Nevercake]] is a freelance animator who creates and narrates some of the extra content and animations Hi-Rez likes to have to fill in their channels. He has done other types of fan-animations, including rival game ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''. Then he made a series of animations called "Who is (insert Smite God here)" where he told abridged versions of Gods' lores. Nevercake likes to put puns and some good-natured humor in his videos, and his suave voice also won the heart of fans, leading them to want Hi-Rez to either hire him or make an Announcer Pack for him, just like the Lore Lady. Nevercake is still a freelance animator today, but he still keeps good contact with Hi-Rez and makes other unofficial animations for Smite when there's no Gods to "chronicle". He's so popular with the fans that an announcer pack for him was announced for 2017.

* ScrappyMechanic: ''Server Rollup''. Hi-Rez had the idea that in order to ensure low queue time and thus quality matches, the game modes which had overly high queue times at times during low-times should be combined into other crowded servers, forgetting that it would result those from other regions will have super high pings that makes the game unplayable for the non-locals. This limits the player's game modes severely and eventually, as of Patch 4.19, [[AuthorsSavingThrow it was removed altogether]] now that they already made an alternative with 'Multi-Queue' (basically queueing in multiple game modes at once)

** Isis is the "Goddess of Demonetization", because [=YouTube=] videos will be automatically demonetized for having her name in its title due to it being spelled the same as a commonly-used acronym for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant an infamous militant terrorist group]]. In fact this has prompted the developer team to [[RenamedtoAvoidAssociation change her in-game name to “Eset,”]] one of the many ways to transliterate her ancient Egyptian name, to prevent this tendency.

** Likewise, in Joust, you can make a ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' team featuring Hercules, Medusa and Cu Chulainn. If you want a more 'loose' lookalike team for a 10-player map and based on ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', just add Artemis and Da Ji.[[labelnote:*]]While not used for this game, it is implied in the myth that Da Ji later fled to Japan and became Tamamo-no-Mae[[/labelnote]] It gets more hilarious with the announcement of Arthur and Merlin, and later on Gilgamesh and Tiamat, and then [[spoiler:Cernunnos]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The Futbol skin of Xbalanque to celebrate UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup 2014, seeing that it's held in Brazil. Looks like fun. Then it turns out Brazil was [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] by Germany by ''1-7''. Seeing Xbalanque still passing balls like that happily just felt eye-rolling when most Brazilians are weeping for their team's loss at home nation. Looking at it after the [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Rio 2016 Olympics]] "rematch", [[HilariousInHindsight however...]]

%%* HarsherInHindsight: It's good to see that long-time fan favorite Creator/VicMigogna (Shonen Spark Mercury and Serenity Vamana) made it into Smite, but after Vic was accused of sexual harassment from female fans and even voice actresses including Creator/MonicaRial and Creator/JamieMarchi, many [=VAs=] commented on the accusations and the impacts of sexual harassment on their Twitter feeds. With several of the Smite cast aware of the scandal, Vic will probably never look at Smite the same way again.

%%* HarsherInHindsight: It's good to see that long-time fan favorite Creator/VicMigogna (Shonen Spark Mercury and Serenity Vamana) made it into Smite, but after Vic was accused of sexual harassment from female fans and even voice actresses including Creator/MonicaRial and Creator/JamieMarchi, many VAs commented on the accusations and the impacts of sexual harassment on their Twitter feeds. With several of the Smite cast aware of the scandal, Vic will probably never look at Smite the same way again.

*** Khepri is often considered one of the scariest guardians to confront in the game with his surprisingly good damage output and just how much he can help his team. His passive ability places a little of shield around himself and allies, already making himself and his team harder to kill if they make sure to stay close to him. His grab comes quickly, drags someone for a while, and can do extra damage if Khepri has the Mystical Mail which deals damage to everyone near Khepri. His grab also works super well with his stun, which has a great amount of range, and his sun that he throw, which also buffs allies if they hit it. Finally Khepri's ult allows him to revive an ally with half health and bringing them over to him, so unless Khepri is himself surrounded by enemies there is a good chance that person is going to run away and heal up safely.

** The in-game stories provided are this as well, with them usually being overly dramatic and trying really hard to be poetic, making them come across as pretentious.

* TheScrappy: While most Gods have most of their supporters and detractors, design-wise, some Gods kinda stand out that they have very vocal haters and many would point it out as just plain bad, in both combination of 'irkwise' design and 'lore accuracy gone really wrong'.

** ''Jing Wei''. Aside of how her gameplay is generally seen as kind of unappealing for an ADC (her ultimate is often considered rather lackluster when it was supposed to be dealing damage), Jing Wei's model is often considered an UncannyValley (especially her model's eyes, they look quite devoid of life) and her personality is designed as a bubbly teenager, that alone could irk a lot of players... but even then, the delivery of her voices could come across as DullSurprise most of the time, sometimes deriding her as a '[[PoorMansSubstitute poor man's]] [[GenkiGirl Neith]]' (didn't help that her win animation is similar to Neith, a bubbly dance where the dance music overrode the usual victory music). All in all, the stacks are very against Jing Wei.
* ScrappyMechanic: ''Server Rollup''. Hi-Rez had the idea that in order to ensure low queue time and thus quality matches, the game modes which had overly high queue times at times during low-times should be combined into other crowded servers, forgetting that it would result those from other regions will have super high pings that makes the game unplayable for the non-locals. This limits the player's game modes severely and eventually, as of Patch 4.19, [[AuthorsSavingThrow it will be removed altogether]] now that they already made an alternative with 'Multi-Queue' (basically queueing in multiple game modes at once)

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The continued remodels of less humanoid gods. To whit, Nu Wa had her snake form de-emphasized, Bakasura was made more humanoid in shape, and Ao Kuang is only a dragon when he uses his ultimate. The fact that his was (allegedly) to please Asian players has just frustrated English speaking players even more.

*** Ravana is often seen as the worst God in the game, and it's hard to really argue against it. He's somewhat DifficultButAwesome, but... Without the awesome, as so many other characters outdo him in any of his strengths. His ultimate in particular is quite disliked for essentially being a glorified catch-up tool with little offensive power. He did eventually become the focus of a minor rework in which his passive and his ultimate were changed around to be much more generally useful, along with rather heavy buffs all around.
*** Nox is appreciated mostly on her lore and MILF design, but her gameplay? ''Oh momma.'' On release she was extremely weak, her main skill rooted both her and her target, the delay on her burst made it easy to dodge, her silence wasn't nearly as long as it needed to be, and her ultimate was, at the best of times confusing, and at the worst of times completely irrelevant. Even her passive was awful because it required her to be hit, and she's not nearly as tanky a mage as Zhong Kui or Raijin. Even her rework, while not making her useless, is still one of the least played gods in the game because she's just overshadowed by everyone else.
*** ''Xing Tian''. When he debuted, he was a really terrifying Guardian, shit-ton of sustain, percentage HP damage, root, mobility and an instantaneous crowd control ultimate that can send numerous players to unwanted position. Realizing this, Hi-Rez then nerfed Xing Tian horribly, exchanging his root with a slow, lowering his nuke damage output, and giving his ultimate more and more windup time that makes it more projected and easier to dodge, to the point of people claiming he's really unplayable. Pretty much the Smite equivalent of [[Memes/LeagueOfLegends getting Olaf'd in League of Legends. Bonus points for also wielding axes.]]

*** Out of all the Gods in Smite, Loki is easily one of the most hated to play against. His burst damage lets him shred through anything but the most tanky of Gods in seconds, his invisibility makes it hard to keep track of him (and especially when in ''Smite'', invisibility detection is very limited), his wave clear is ridiculously good with his decoy essentially letting him clear without even having to stay in lane, which also makes him an insanely good tower killer. On top of that, even his teammates hate him due to the fact that his toolkit doesn't work well in team fights, meaning in most cases Loki players will leave their team to a 4v5 while they push towers in other lanes.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/user/nevercakegames Nevercake]] is a freelance animator who creates and narrates some of the extra content and animations Hi-Rez likes to have to fill in their channels. He has done other types of fan-animations, including rival game ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''. Then he made a series of animations called "Who is (insert Smite God here)" where he told abridged versions of Gods' lores. Nevercake likes to put puns and some good-natured humor in his videos, and his suave voice also won the heart of fans, leading them to want Hi-Rez to either hire him or make an Announcer Pack for him, just like the Lore Lady. Nevercake is still a freelance animator today, but he still keeps good contact with Hi-Rez and makes other unofficial animations for Smite when there's no Gods to 'chronicle'. He's so popular with the fans that an announcer pack for him was announced for 2017.

** Izanami, when compared to her more wholesome good 'stepdaughter' Amaterasu. The loose kimono that shows off her ample bosom and bare shoulders sometimes would make you forget that she's supposed to be a decaying corpse filled with vengeful intents that would rather kill you horribly.

* FandomEnragingMisconception: The sheer amount of non-Smiters who accuse the game as 'a copy of ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''' has firmly enforced this complaint as a surefire method to annoy just about any Smiter.

* ParanoiaFuel:

*** And even moreso after the announcement of ''Warriors Orochi 4'' confirms that Zeus himself would be part of the roster and would bring some of the Gods from Olympus with him in that game. He did bring two: Athena and Ares. But surprisingly, Odin also joins in the fray. [[spoiler:Loki as well.]] And by ''Ultimate'', they're also joined by Terra ([[AncientGrome Gaia is her Greek name]]), Hades and Erlang Shen (Yang Jian being his alternative name).
** Likewise, in Joust, you can make a ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' team featuring Hercules, Medusa and Cu Chulainn. If you want a more 'loose' lookalike team for a 10-player map and based on ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', just add Artemis and Da Ji[[labelnote:*]]While not used for this game, it is implied in the myth that Da Ji later fled to Japan and became Tamamo-no-Mae[[/labelnote]] It gets more hilarious with the announcement of Arthur and Merlin, and later on Gilgamesh and Tiamat, and then [[spoiler:Cernunnos]].

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The continued remodels of less humanoid gods. To whit, Nu Wa had her snake form de-emphasized, Bakasura was made more humanoid in shape, and now Ao Kuang is only a dragon when he uses his ultimate. The fact that his was (allegedly) to please Asian players has just frustrated English speaking players even more.

** Ravana is often seen as the worst God in the game, and it's hard to really argue against it. He's somewhat DifficultButAwesome, but... Without the awesome, as so many other characters outdo him in any of his strengths. His ultimate in particular is quite disliked for essentially being a glorified catch-up tool with little offensive power. He did eventually become the focus of a minor rework in which his passive and his ultimate were changed around to be much more generally useful, along with rather heavy buffs all around.
** Back then, the old version of Sun Wukong was considered this, due to his solid movement speed passive, amazing mobility (from his 1st ability) and solid CC. His 3rd ability even managed to bounce back and forth on the same target(s), and overall he had very solid damage due to that in tandem with his other attacks. His passive allowed him to clear parts of the jungle at nearly any speed due to his powerful roaming, allowing him to gank very effectively. Of course, as soon as Wukong's old version was reworked into Hun Batz, he's been in a balanced spot nowadays.
** Joining them is also Nox. On release she was extremely weak, her main skill rooted both her and her target, the delay on her burst made it easy to dodge, her silence wasn't nearly as long as it needed to be, and her ultimate was, at the best of times confusing, and at the worst of times completely irrelevant. Even her passive was awful because it required her to be hit, and she's not nearly as tanky a mage as Zhong Kui or Raijin. Even her rework, while not making her useless, is still one of the least played gods in the game because she's just overshadowed by everyone else.
** ''Xing Tian''. When he debuted, he was a really terrifying Guardian, shit-ton of sustain, percentage HP damage, root, mobility and an instantaneous crowd control ultimate that can send numerous players to unwanted position. Realizing this, Hi-Rez then nerfed Xing Tian horribly, exchanging his root with a slow, lowering his nuke damage output, and giving his ultimate more and more windup time that makes it more projected and easier to dodge, to the point of people claiming he's really unplayable. Pretty much the Smite equivalent of [[Memes/LeagueOfLegends getting Olaf'd in League of Legends. Bonus points for also wielding axes.]]
** Out of all the Gods in Smite, Loki is easily one of the most hated to play against. His burst damage lets him shred through anything but the most tanky of Gods in seconds, his invisibility makes it hard to keep track of him, his wave clear is ridiculously good with his decoy essentially letting him clear without even having to stay in lane, which also makes him an insanely good tower killer. On top of that, even his teammates hate him due to the fact that his toolkit doesn't work well in team fights, meaning in most cases Loki players will leave their team to a 4v5 while they push towers in other lanes.

** All right, so, you know that Hi-Rez likes to have extra content or animations to fill in their channels? Well, that's where [[https://www.youtube.com/user/nevercakegames Nevercake]] comes in. Just a particularly pretty good animator and narrator. You see, Nevercake was never part of Hi-Rez. He was just a freelance animator, who has done other types of fan-animations, including rival game ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''. Then he made a series of animations called "Who is (insert Smite God here)" where he told abridged versions of Gods' lores. Nevercake likes to put puns and some good-natured humor, and his suave voice also won the heart of fans that they wanted Hi-Rez to either hire him, or make an Announcer Pack for him, just like the Lore Lady. Nevercake is still a freelance animator today, but he still keeps good contact on Hi-Rez and makes other unofficial animations for Smite when there's no Gods to 'chronicle'. But he sure is popular for someone who... never got the invitation cake from Hi-Rez. Until an announcer pack for him was announced for 2017. And Nevercake finally got his well-deserved cake. (''OOOOOAAAAEEEEEE~'')

** Ymir's emoticon "Hi!" might be normal, until Hi-Rez released a mini-series called 'Smite Machinima' where Ymir does and says absolutely nothing except his "Hi!" once per episode and using his actual voice clip while others use voice acting. Fans always thought that Ymir and his "Hi" were the best and most hilarious part in the series, and now attaches that greetings to Ymir all day long for hilarity.
** Mentioning [[BestialityIsDepraved Cerberus and Freya together]]. You see, someone hacked into Smite's twitter account and [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiANvecV4AAYgOi?format=jpg&name=large posted a sentence quite unsafe for work]]...

** [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Let's get down to business...]][[labelnote:Explanation]]The song from Mulan is pretty popular to accompany Chinese deities, but this gets even more elevated when Mulan herself is announced.[[/labelnote]]

--> ''"If you can't see me, it's because you are about to die!"''

** ''Jing Wei''. Aside of how her gameplay is generally seen as kind of unappealing for an ADC (her ultimate is often considered rather lackluster when it was supposed to be dealing damage), Jing Wei's model is often considered an UncannyValley (especially her model's eyes, they look quite void of life) and her personality is designed as a bubbly teenager, that alone could irk a lot of players... but even then, the delivery of her voices could come across as DullSurprise most of the time, sometimes deriding her as a '[[PoorMansSubstitute poor man's]] [[GenkiGirl Neith]]' (didn't help that her win animation is similar to Neith, a bubbly dance where the dance music overrode the usual victory music). All in all, the stacks are very against Jing Wei.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Many players assume Ne Zha is a girl upon first appearance. Some still have trouble believing he isn't even after reading about him! As a 7 year old boy he has a very high-pitched voice. He wears a lot of pink, which as a shade of red was seen as a manly color even 100 years ago, but is now a girly one. He incorporates a lot of flowers into his imagery, which is universally symbolic in Chinese culture but girly in the West. Finally he has his (long) hair done up in pigtails which was how boys wore their hair at the time, but even people familiar with Chinese culture tend to think of the queue as being the predominant Chinese hairstyle whereas it was only worn by men, not boys, and is actually a Manchu hairstyle introduced (forced upon) the Han Chinese when the Qing dynasty conquered China in 1644 AD; Ne Zha fought to overthrow the Zhou dynasty and would've been born circa 263 BC.
** Lampshaded by Hel in her directed taunt to Ne Zha.
--->'''Light side:''' Take that, little girl!\\

** Likewise, in Joust, you can make a ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' team featuring Hercules, Medusa and Cu Chulainn. If you want a more 'loose' lookalike team for a 10-player map and based on ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', just add Artemis and Da Ji[[labelnote:*]]While not used for this game, it is implied in the myth that Da Ji later fled to Japan and became Tamamo-no-Mae[[/labelnote]] It gets more hilarious with the announcement of Arthur and Merlin, and later on Gilgamesh and Tiamat.