History Characters / SmiteHinduPantheon

* ArcherArchetype: Rama is a cool-headed ADC, and with Shiva's Bow as his weapon he's capable of raining down destruction in his wake.

* DropTheHammer: His weapon is a large warhammer covered in elephant tusks.

* His second ability, ''Ohm'', has him chant, increasing physical protections of all ally gods near him. The chant is also bellowed outward in a cone that silences enemies in front of him.

* His ultimate, ''Dharmic Pillars'', summons four pillars in a square formation with a magic field between them. Any enemy god that passes through this field is damaged, slowed, and has reduced protections.

* His passive, ''Sleepy'', makes him fall asleep instead of being slain when reduced to zero HP. Unless hit with six to ten (depending on his level) basic attacks within eight seconds, he will wake up with 25% health and mana. The passive, however, has a lengthy cooldown.

* Using his second ability, ''Groggy Strike'', Kumbhakarna lifts his staff overhead and, after a painfully-long delay, brings it down on a cone area in front of himself, dealing damage and rooting all enemies hit.
* Kumbhakarna's third ability, ''Mighty Yawn'', releases a yawn that puts any enemies nearby to sleep for a considerable duration. If damaged, they awake, but are slowed briefly. He can use this ability even if asleep from ''Sleepy''.

* His passive, ''Combustion'', grants him a stack with every successful basic attack. Upon reaching four stacks, his next ''Flame Wave'' or ''Rain of Fire'' will also set their targets on fire, dealing damage over time for a few seconds.
* His first ability, ''Noxious Fumes'', summons a cloud of combustible gas at a nearby area for a few seconds, damaging all enemies inside. Additionally, if any of his other abilities hit the gas cloud they will make it explode, stunning all enemies inside.

* His first ability, ''Take Down'', makes Bakasura leap to a nearby area, damaging and reducing the physical protections of all enemies around his landing point.
* With his second ability, ''Eat Minion'', Bakasura grabs a nearby enemy or non-buff neutral minion and consumes it, healing himself and gaining a bonus to his physical and magical protections for a brief duration. Additionally, he can store up to six minions for use with his ultimate ability.

* With his ultimate ability, ''Regurgitate'', Bakasura spews forth a shadowy mass, slowing and crippling all enemies in a targeted area. For every minion stored with ''Eat Minion'', Bakasura will also spawn a goo-covered soldier to fight for him for a few seconds. Bakasura attacks using ghostly jaws for several seconds, hitting all enemies in a cone-shaped area. Additionally, he is immune to crowd control for a short duration.

* His second ability, ''Infinite Arrows'', has Rama focus to gain a large Attack Speed increase. While Rama is focused, every three hits on enemy gods will restore an Astral Arrow

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One of the main deities in Hinduism, Shiva is (alongside being Ganesha's father and Parvati/Kali's husband) one of the Trimurti, which consists of Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the preserver), and Shiva himself (the destroyer), all three gods representing the endless cycle of creation and destruction. He is the first god to be released for the ninth season of ''SMITE''.\\\

While washing herself after a celebration, the Goddess of fertility and love, Parvati, noticed the dirt and sweat on her body. She made a boy and son out of that, and told him to guard the door until she was done. The son did his job too well—he even refused the entrance of Shiva, Parvati's husband. As a result of this and fearing for Parvati's safety, Shiva beheaded the boy.\\\

Parvati was horrified at the murder and urged Shiva to save the boy. Shiva replaced the child’s head with that of an elephant, known as the wisest creature in the world, and thus the boy was reborn as Ganesha.\\\

Ganesha is in charge of the thing his mother tasked him with: Obstacles. He is generous, warm-hearted and optimistic, but he will not be lenient towards arrogant ones, for he will place various obstacles from financial difficulties, faulty materials or unhappiness to plague their actions. But for the honest and hard-working, Ganesha will remove the obstacles, clearing them for a life of good fortune, bright skies and joyous laughter.\\\

To this day, mortals pray to Ganesha, the remover of obstacles, when they started a new endeavor, so they will be granted success and bright future.\\\

As the battle between Gods erupt, with reluctance, Ganesha had to join the fray since to him, violence is only last resorts. Gods are of a greater threat to existence than mortals, and Ganesha needs to determine who should succeed and who should fail.\\\

* His passive, ''Sleeping Giant'', grants him bonus physical power based on his physical protection. Additionally, being attacked by enemy gods while under the effect of his ultimate extends its duration by up to ten seconds.

* Vamana's ultimate, ''Colossal Fury'', makes him grow to immense size, gaining crowd control immunity, protections, power, and rapid health regeneration. His basic attacks also all hit in an AOE while large.

* AchillesHeel: Curse prevents all healing while it's active, and Vamana is affected by it even in his ult, turning him from a giant god to a giant pincushion.

* {{Determinator}}: Big time during his ultimate, as it includes a protections buff and a huge healing factor. Attacking him while it's active simply makes it last longer, leading to more healing, making it largely pointless to do anything other than run away.

* SuperMode: Vamana's ultimate, ''Colossal Fury'', increases his damage and protections, lets him heals faster, makes him immune to crowd control, and lets him hit all enemies around him with his basic attacks. And to top it all off, it makes him gigantic!

* GlassCannon: Post-rework Kali is encouraged to build this way. She has a lot of abilities that heal her but depend on doing damage and her ultimate makes her immune to most soft CCs and unable to die (you still lose health).

* His passive, ''Astral Quiver'', generates and stores up to five Astral Arrows, which are consumed by some of his other abilities. One arrow is generated every twelve seconds, but every successful attack Rama lands will reduce that by two seconds.
* His first ability, ''Astral Strike'', costs no mana and has no cooldown, but instead consumes one Astral Arrow per shot. Activating ''Astral Strike'' makes Rama's arrows pierce through all enemies, slowing and dealing extra damage to all targets hit.
* His second ability, ''Pick Me Up'', passively gives a chance (up to 50%) that a target hit with an Astral Arrow will spawn a pickup which Rama may collect to restore one Astral Arrow to himself. Rama can also activate this power to increase his attack speed for a brief duration.

* Using his ultimate ability, ''Astral Barrage'', Rama leaps into the sky, protecting him from harm, giving him a commanding view of the battlefield, and letting him release three arrows at any spot within the ability's immense range. Each arrow deals more damage in a smaller area than the one before it. These shots do not consume Astral Arrows.

* BadassBaritone: He has the deepest voice of the Hindu pantheon, barring his brother.

* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Harish Bhimani.

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Aside from some tiger skin, most of his well-formed torso is exposed.

* DifficultButAwesome: Ganesha can deal a surprising amount of damage over time with Dharmic Pillar, but it requires his target to stand still in the barrier lines, which no enemies would have done unless they are locked down while standing on the barrier line, but the line is thin enough that it requires timing and precision to pull it off. But if Ganesha manages to lock down an enemy God this way, with even smaller follow up, the enemy is more likely to be deader than ever.

* [[BottomlessMagazines Bottomless Quiver]]: Played with. He never runs out of normal arrows, but managing his limited supply of Astral Arrows is a crucial part of playing him.

* His passive, ''Chain of Blows'', gives Ravana a shield for 5% of his max health for every eight hits on an enemy, stacking up to three times.

* His second ability, ''Overhead Kick'', has Ravana send a shockwave forward to damage all enemies in a line. He cannot be damaged during the action, but he is not immune to crowd control effects.
* His third ability, ''10-Hand Shadow Fist'', damages all enemies, passing through minions and rooting the first god hit. Damaging enemies heals Ravana based on damage dealt, up to 20%.
* His ultimate, ''Mystical Rush'', causes Ravana to rush to an area, knocking aside all enemies in his path. The closest enemy to the center of his landing point takes heavy damage and is linked to Ravana, doing full damage to him while all other enemies do reduced damage.

** Likewise to Surtr. Both are their pantheon's respective [[DestroyerDeity Destroyer Deities]] classified as Warriors and released at the beginning of their respective seasons (9 and 10). But while Shiva is known as a benevolent and revered DestroyerDeity who brings a new age of beginning for more deities out of necessity to undo Tiamat's damage, Surtr is a feared DestroyerDeity who brings a new age of monsters out of his own rage of being constantly beaten as a BonusBoss.

* BadassAbnormal: Though he's a GodInHumanForm, he's still more or less human (since only a mortal can kill Ravana) and before the introduction of Cu Chulainn, Merlin and Arthur he used to be the only mortal in ''SMITE'' (this would have been a span of nearly six year of the game's lifespan). Regardless, he still possesses enough raw skill and talent to pose a threat to immortal deities.

* {{Foil}}: To Tiamat. While both deities can create and destroy universes, more emphasis is placed on [[ThePowerOfCreation Creation]] for her and [[DestroyerDeity Destruction]] for him. However, Shiva is not a straight DestroyerDeity; he signifies the ending of all things so that a new universe can be made. In his teaser trailer, he is also calm and wise in contrast to Tiamat's aggressiveness and pride, telling her that the world is not made in her image. Both deities are also [[StanceSystem stance switchers]] with each stance representing creation (Tiamat's flying stance and Shiva's Bliss state) or destruction (Tiamat's ground stance and Shiva's Destruction state). Additionally, their second abilties are [[ShockwaveStomp Shockwave Stomps]] that knock up enemies, while their third abilties are movement abilities that allow them to dash in both directions. Finally, their ultimates allow them to choose between three different effects to utilize.

This page is for the Hindu Pantheon deities that are playable in Smite. [[https://www.smitegame.com/gods The entirety of any God's lore can be found on the official Smite website]]

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* ArcherArchetype: Rama is a cool-headed ADC, and with Shiva's Bow as his WeaponOfChoice he's capable of raining down destruction in his wake.

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* BrokenStreak: Shiva is the first god introduced since Achilles in 2018 to not have an ability that slows enemies. Up to that point, the tendency to add slows to new god kits was so prevalent that it became an in-joke among the developers and fans.

* GuestFighter: Has an Exclusive skin that turns him into Oroku Saki, alias the Shredder, leader of the Foot Clan and ArchEnemy of the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles.

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* LightningBruiser: He often builds with this in mind, buying items that increase both his defenses and movement speed, especially since his passive increases his power by a portion of his armor. UpToEleven if he uses Sprint during his ultimate.