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The deities and mythological characters of ancient Greece which are playable in SMITE. The Classical Mythology page deals with and can provide beneficent information about their real world counterparts.- Advanced Ancient Acropolis: The Greeks and Romans have access to Steampunk and Clockpunk technologies with a good amount of Magitek. However, this isn't as far fatched as it sounds, since the myth about the Bronze Talos giant sounds alot like a story about an ancient robot.
- Ancient Grome: The developers have confirmed that the Greek and Roman Pantheons are one and the same, with every character being referred to by both of their names (e.g. Zeus and Jupiter). The reason why the Roman Pantheon was added is due to the Greek myths having way too many characters to fit into a single team, so they had to be split in two parts.
- Composite Character: As
Word of God has stated that the Greek and Roman Pantheons are the same, each god in this pantheon also combines traits with his or her Roman equivalent. - Spotlight-Stealing Crossover: There are currently about 120 playable characters in the game, with 33 being from Greco-Roman mythology, which takes between 1/3 and 1/4 of the game's total roster. Granted, the Greco-Roman pantheon is the most well-known and famous in the world, as well as having numerous characters.
- Starter Mon: They are the first default basic pantheon that was originally released in the game.
Warriors
Achilles, Hero of the Trojan War
Voiced by: Ricco Fajardo
Knight of Mordred Skin Voiced by: Jeff Leach
Modern Android Skin Voiced by: Alejandro Saab
Nautical Legionnaire Skin Voiced by: Kaiser Johnson
Revenant Skin Voiced by: Jordan Reynolds
Soul Piercer Skin Voiced by: Jacob Browning
Star Trooper Skin Voiced by: Ricco Fajardo
Tiger's Fury Skin Voiced by: Bill Millsap
Born from the nereid Thetis and the mortal Peleus, during his infancy, Achilles was bathed in the River Styx, granting him nigh-invulnerability. Achilles grew as a warrior and heeded the call of King Agamemnon to fight under his banner in the Trojan War, gaining fame, friends, and victories through death-defying combat andmany actions. Achilles was unstoppable and the Greek side was poised for victory, until Agamemnon slighted Achilles, causing him to pull his forces back and refuse to battle. The Trojan prince Hector managed to push back the Greek army and seemingly killed a returned Achilles, but it turned out to be Achilles' best friend Patroclus.
Filled with grief, Achilles truly returned to battle and fought Hector in a duel. Hector was no match for a near-immortal fighter like Achilles and fell. The gods realized how dangerous Achilles had become and aided Hector's brother Paris to shoot a guided arrow right at Achilles' one weak spot that wasn't covered during his bath in the River Styx: his heel. With that spot shot, Achilles finally perished.
And yet as the battle between gods rose, Achilles returned from the depths of Hades. He's not amused at how the gods were envious at his glory and life and wants vengeance against them.
Achilles is a Warrior god that can engage in battle as either a tanky Warrior or as a high-damaging Assassin.
- His passive, Gift of the Gods, allows him to take off or put on his armor by attacking in his team's fountain. His Armored mode grants him bonus health and protections, while his Unarmored mode grants him bonus movement speed and physical power.
- His first ability, Shield of Achilles, has him punch forward with his shield, generating a shockwave in a cone that damages enemies. His shield can also directly hit enemies in a smaller cone in front of him, briefly stunning in addition to dealing damage.
- His second ability, Radiant Glory, grants him a blessing from the gods, giving him bonus physical power, protections, and crowd control reduction for a small period. While this blessing is active, Achilles heals himself for each enemy damaged by his abilities.
- His third ability, Combat Dodge, lets him dodge in the direction he's moving, granting him a brief window where he can strike back. If he successfully hits an enemy god with this strike, he can use Combat Dodge again before it goes on cooldown.
- With his ultimate, Fatal Strike, Achilles majestically dashes forward, passing through minions and stopping on the first enemy god he hits. All targets are damaged, and the god he hits is executed if the god is below 30% health. Successfully executing a god allows Achilles to use his ultimate again, up to five times. However, each successful execute makes Achilles more cocky; for a brief period, he will take additional damage, also stacking up to five times.
- Achilles' Heel: Not exactly seen in-game, but it becomes a debuff for his Fatal Strike. If Achilles executes a god, his heel gets "more exposed" and he takes additional damage. Though it's mentioned in his lore naturally, as it leads to his death and said death provides him with a reason to get involved in the battle between pantheons.
- Bling of War: He wears brilliant golden armour, though since his heel is the only vulnerable part of his body, it makes sense.
- Blood Knight: Always looking for a worthy fight. Unlike many other gods, Achilles is pleased at being low on health, as it means his opponents are being a challenge.
- Came Back Wrong: Revenant Achilles is a lot more sadistic and power hungry than his live counterpart.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: As much of a jerkass as he is, he fondly remembers his mother's protection during one of his jokes.
- Finishing Move: His ultimate, Fatal Strike. If he successfully hits someone with it while they're at 30% health or lower, they're dead.
- Gorgeous Greek: A handsome Greek warrior who's also a literal demigod, Achilles certainly qualifies as this.
- I'm Cold... So Cold...: One of Revenant Achilles' death quotes.Achilles: I... I feel... cold.
- Jerkass: Achilles might be polite enough to his team, but he's still extremely arrogant and condescending to everyone, friend or foe.
- Kill Streak: His ultimate is obviously intended to give pretty good odds at pulling one off, though every successful kill with it also makes him more vulnerable to damage to add a Death or Glory Attack element to it.
- Mr. Fanservice: He's a Long-Haired Pretty Boy with a ripped body, and he gets to show that off whenever he chooses to forgo his armor. Lampshaded in his victory animation, where he blows kisses and gets roses thrown at him. Then he snaps his fingers, his breastplate and shoulderpads disappear, he starts flexing, and a lot more roses get tossed to him.
- As if all this isn't enough, his Candy Shop skin straight up turns him into a Chippendales Dancer who poledances in his special emote.
- Revenge: He knows exactly who guided Paris to shoot the killing shot on him: Apollo. So he has a special line for killing him:Achilles: We get to fight face to face! No more hiding behind Paris!
- Shield Bash: His first skill is bashing his shield forwards, stunning anyone close to him.
- Smug Super: Achilles is quick to boast about his combat prowess, but seeing as he's freakin' Achilles, he can more than back up his boasts.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: Revenant Achilles very rarely raises his voice while talking about how much he loves causing pain and destruction.
- Student–Master Team: He was one of the heroes taught by Chiron, so they can possibly this if put in one team. Achilles also has a special quote for beating him:Achilles: Ah! My former trainer! Let's see if I've surpassed the master...
- Technicolor Toxin: His Toxic Overload skin is green.
Nike, Goddess of Victory
Voiced by: Elizabeth Maxwell
Conqueror Skin Voiced by: Elizabeth Maxwell
Pillow Fight Skin Voiced by: Sophia Esperanza
The Sparrow Skin Voiced by: Michele Knotz
Star Spangled Skin Voiced by: Hayden Bishop
Zero Gravity Skin Voiced by: Erica Schroeder
History is written by the victors and victory itself has a form: the goddess Nike, implying that she herself shaped history.
Those who prayed for Nike and gained her favor will be granted victory, from winning golden medals in Olympics to defeating one's enemy in the fields of war. Those who do not get her favor will be doomed with defeat.
Even Zeus knew the influence of Nike as he sought her help during his war against the Titans. With Nike marching on Zeus' side and her plans for victory at hand, the Olympians claimed victory and managed to shape the history of Greece henceforth. One could wonder how Greece and the world would turn out had Zeus not won Nike's favor...
And now Nike has taken the field again, whichever side she takes never mattered, but for whichever side she gets into, victory is assured.
Nike is a Warrior goddess who can lead her team right from the front lines.
- Her passive, To Victory!, establishes three goals for her team to achieve: eliminating 10 gods as a team, eliminating 250 minions as a team, and having two allies at level 20. Each goal completed grants Nike a global aura that increases her team's power and movement speed while she is on the battlefield.
- Her first ability, Rend, has Nike slam the ground three times. Each slam launches a damaging shockwave, and an enemy that's been hit more than once is debuffed, losing protections if hit twice and momentarily disarmed if hit three times.
- Her second ability, Barrier Formation, has her channel a shield in front of her that blocks basic attacks and damages and pushes away enemies that touch it. It will eventually explode in front of her, dealing damage, though the ability can be fired again to explode it early.
- Her third ability, Valiant Leap, is a jump that damages and knocks up enemies.
- Her ultimate, Sentinel of Zeus, has a light shine on her and pulse, damaging and slowing nearby enemies. The light transforms Nike into an armored sentinel for a short period of time, granting her up to 50% of her max health as a shield for the duration.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Of victory.
- Barrier Warrior: Barrier Formation has Nike create a barrier of orange light that moves with her, blocks ranged autoattacks, constantly knocks back any enemies that approach it, and damages enemies within the barrier’s radius when it ends or is canceled, but reduces her movement and rate of turning.
- Boring, but Practical: Nike's main source of damage is easily interrupted by crowd control, and she's more based around slowing enemies with her ultimate and knocking them into the air with Valiant Leap rather than truly killing the enemy...aside from her passive constantly granting her team bonus power and movement speed after the team kills enough gods, kill enough minions and reaches level 20. As it turns out, this is so practical that this Goddess of Victory's win rate is one of the best in the game.
- Born Lucky: Or, uh, victorious. Her lore mentions that whichever side she's on is sure to be victorious, and Zeus had to enlist her help against the Titans.
- Boyish Short Hair: Her short hair spikes up in a gravity-defying way, and her hairstyle seems to be a combination of a Mohawk and pompadour. Nike herself has almost no traditionally feminine traits, and is fairly martial in attitude.
- Combos: Valiant Leap between enemies and your allies, followed by Barrier Formation in front of your enemies to save your allies...or Valiant Leap behind enemies, followed by Barrier Formation to knock them back into your allies, to their doom.
- Dynamic Entry: Valiant Leap has Nike leap forward and crash down dramatically, knocking up enemy gods in the area where she lands.
- Gold and White Are Divine: Nike's a goddess, and her laurel crown, hair, weapon and armor accents are gold, while her wings are covered in gold and white feathers.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: By default, she doesn't wear a helmet despite wearing a full suit of armor otherwise; it materializes on her head when she casts her ultimate, and disappears as soon as its duration ends.
- Lady of War: Nike is a calm and composed goddess who's at home on the battlefield leading her allies' charge.
- Mercury's Wings: Her armored boots have small winged decorations on each side.
- Mix-and-Match Weapon: Nike's axe has a spearhead on the other end.
- No-Sell: Barrier Formation utterly stops ranged basic attacks, and the knockback will also prevent dashing through her. Sentinel of Zeus also does a decent job at stopping enemy attempts to kill her, since it provides crowd control immunity for a moment and then gives her half of her total health as a shield.
- Power Echoes: While buffed up with Sentinel of Zeus, Nike’s voice becomes echoey, as most evident if she uses VGS during its duration.
- Power Glows: After casting Sentinel of Zeus, a bright light shines from Nike and her wings, signifying that she's shielded and anything around her is slowed.
- Sadly Mythtaken: In the myths, Zeus didn't seek out her service for the Titanomachy. Instead, when he called for lesser titans to join his side, Nike's mother Styx was advised by her father Oceanus to bring her four children to Zeus's camp. As they were the first titans to join his side, Styx's name was honored as an oath and her four children, Nike included, became Zeus's constant companions and loyal bodyguards.
- Shockwave Stomp: Rend creates shockwaves from her striking the ground with her axe.
- Shout-Out:
- Her jokes point out the
Adaptational Displacement of how her name is more synonymous with a certain sportswear company than her in the modern day:
- Her jokes point out the
- Silliness Switch: Her "Pillow Fight" skin transforms the regal and fully armored winged warrior goddess into a girl wearing purple dragon pajamas, wielding a dragon head pillow on a stick and talking about slumber parties.
- Token Wholesome: Of the Greek pantheon, along with Artemis, Scylla, and Charybdis, though she does have some of her arms showing unlike the other three. She's fully covered with armor and lacks high heels, which means she dresses more appropriately than her friend Athena when going into battle.
- Winged Humanoid: She has a pair of actual bird wings attached to her back.
Guardians
Ares, God of War
"Sound the drums of war!"
Click here for his Classic look
Click here for his Classic look
Voiced by: Jason Douglas (English), Salvador Reyes (Mexican Spanish), Gilberto Baroli (Brazilian Portuguese)
Crimson Steel Skin Voiced by: Kyle Phillips (English)
Fernando Skin Voiced by: J. Michael Tatum (English)
Godslayer Skin Voiced by: Griffin Puatu (English)
Oni Guardian Skin Voiced by: Cory Yee (English)
Primal Fire Skin Voiced by: Brady Hales (English)
Soldier of Fortune Skin Voiced by: Chris Rager (English), Victor Delgado (Mexican Spanish)
Spectral Sword Skin Voiced by: Jessie James Grelle (English)
The bloodthirsty Greek god of war. Ares is not exactly everyone's favorite god. The sky darkens whenever he takes the field, riding a chariot drawn by fire-breathing steeds and delighting the clash of battle and smell of bloodshed. He represents a lot of things his people despised: war, strife, chaos, murder.
His father Zeus hated him for suspecting that he's born from an affair with Hera no thanks to Zeus' own infidelity. And his sister Athena hated him for standing for the opposite of what she stood for; intelligence, strategy and leadership in war. When they clashed in the Trojan War, she wounded and forced him to retreat. Ares also took interest in Aphrodite as a way to relieve his stress from all of the above.
At the very least, the Spartans worship him wholeheartedly for his manliness and fighting spirit, but even they know better to chain his statues to keep his unpredictable fury in check and making sure his spirit of victory never escaped Sparta.
Ares is both a bloodthirsty being and also a tortured and lonely soul. Still, a war between gods would feel more like home to him.
Ares is a Guardian god that can keep his opponents locked in place for his allies to take down.
- His passive, Blessed Presence, grants him bonus magical power for each item with an Aura effect he has. In addition, Ares benefits from the largest increase in Basic Attack damage from leveling up, with his base basic attack power rivalling even Hunters.
- With his first ability, Shackles, Ares launches a chain from his shield that pierces enemy minions and will shackle onto the first enemy god it contacts with, slowing, crippling, and dealing damage over time. If the first chain hits a target, Ares can launch up to two additional chains at no cost as long as the previous one hits.
- His second ability, Bolster Defenses, buffs Ares and all nearby allies for a few seconds, increasing their Protections, HP regen, Crowd Control Resistance, and Basic Attack damage. For each enemy afflicted by Shackles, the Protection buff is increased.
- With his third ability, Searing Flesh, flames start pouring out of Ares's shield for a few seconds, damaging all enemies in front of him for a percentage of their maximum health.
- With his ultimate ability, No Escape, Ares launches chains at all surrounding enemy gods. After a brief delay (during which Ares is Crowd Control Immune and takes reduced damage) Ares will pull all chained enemies to his current location, damaging and stunning them.
Ares' alternate skins include Destroyer Ares, Diamond Sword Ares, SWC 2015 Ares, Soldier of Fortune Ares and Fernando Ares.
- Achilles' Heel: Ares has the longest cripple in the game combined with extremely high base damage with his Shackles ability, meaning he is quite dangerous for anyone to fight early game and has the potential to set up strong ganks. However, he was pretty much barred from use in the solo lane or jungle on account of having quite possibly the worst wave clear in the entire game, until Searing Flesh was changed to do more damage against minions. His new main weakness is missing his Shackles ability, which robs him of movement speed to get into the thick of an enemy team and prevents him from chasing enemies down.
- Action Dad: He's the father of Cupid/Eros, and is a strong combatant in the war of the gods.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Of war, specifically the violence and bloodshed.
- Art Evolution: A beneficiary, with his model getting cleaned up a bit at one point. His original model, named "Classic Ares," was reintroduced as a purchasable skin.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: His entire kit is built around aggression. Fitting, since the mythical Ares was all about offense and bloodshed aspect of war, while Athena was about defense and strategy.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Despite being a Guardian, Ares' kit is more reminiscent of a Warrior's—lots of damage, but little CC, which is the exact opposite of what you need as a tank. He has very powerful CC on his ultimate; the problem is that it's too telegraphed and gives opponents too much time to react and counter it. However, he's far more useful in Arena and Assault due to the modes' almost-constant 5v5 teamfights, meaning CC immunities are very likely to be wasted before he uses his ult.
- Chained by Fashion: His armor is covered in lots of chains that he uses for his attacks.
- Chain Pain: Though not very improvised. One of Ares's abilities involves chains coming out of his shield, while his ultimate has him fling chains outward to enemies within range and then reeling them all in after a short duration.
- Composite Character: Quite possibly as a result of Ancient Grome seeped with Gameplay and Story Segregation. Personality-wise, Ares is the original Greek version: ruthless, bloodthirsty, and rude. However, he's designated as a Guardian, a role meant for soaking up damage and protecting his allies, a role much more fitting for Mars. The Romans saw Mars as a great benevolent and protective deity as a result of their War Is Glorious attitude. The Greeks thought War Is Hell, hence Ares' personality.
- Crutch Character: Probably the best example of this among the Guardians. He hurts a lot early game and his ultimate is more likely to work early game as well, as it's more likely that people haven't bought the Purification relic yet. However, his damage starts to fall off after level 9 as he cannot rank up Shackles any further; combined with the ease of countering his ult and his lack of hard CC outside of this, this causes him to be much less effective mid and late game. This is a major reason that he isn't picked often in competitive play.
- Cutscene Power to the Max: In the lore, Ares is a monster among gods, performing feats such as snatching Chaac's axe and killing him with it, and the act of releasing him to fight Cthulhu is considered a Godzilla Threshold that results in the war god going on a worldwide rampage tearing through Cthulhu's cultists like a hot knife through butter "in a mere matter of hours." In-game, he can't even steal other gods' weapons and because he's a Guardian, he's less likely to kill other gods that easily, Chaac definitely included, and his poor wave clear means even minions would take a while to take down.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: His ability to dish out a lot of damage by himself is what sets Ares apart from other tanks, and this is how he does it. He can fire up to three chains, which can stack on the same target and each tick for damage four times, and then follow up with Searing Flesh, which ticks for damage eight times with each tick dealing two separate instances of damage. All told, his full combo of 3 Shackles + Searing Flesh deals twenty-eight separate instances of damage in about five seconds. For extra fun, pick up Mystical Mail, which will tick for damage five or six times during that combo while also proc-ing Ares's passive.
- Expy: No Escape is basically a delayed Reverse Polarity.
- Fire-Breathing Weapon: He blows fire from the skull mouth of his shield.
- Foil: To Athena. They're both Guardians, but Athena uses her ultimate to go over to her allies to aid them and taunt enemies off of them, while Ares pulls enemies into him for his team to kill, and all of his crowd-control has a more delayed delivery method which makes him a bit poor at saving allies in dire straits, but great at initiating a successful attack for them.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: But thankfully Denton the Cyclops will, as he tries to hold back Ares from attacking the screen during his losing animation.
- A Good Way to Die: His death quote suggests that being slain in combat is this for him. As a Blood Knight and War God, this is unsurprising.Ares: "A warrior's death."
- Irony: The manly Ares' damage type is magical, so he cannot buy items that showcase his physical prowess, instead building more like a Mage. Referenced by a specific line the G.E.B. 1 skin has for killing him:"ERROR 201: You do magical damage with a sword."
- Lethal Joke Character:
- If played in the jungle despite his bad wave clear (as mentioned above) he can invoke this, as people will almost certainly not expect him to be in this role and subsequently won't buy Purification at level 1 to counter his ultimate, leading to an easy gank for him at level 5. However, it's also quite likely to just be a straight up Joke Character and get you flamed by your team. Just thinking that only his ultimate counts can spell doom to those underestimating him, however, because Ares's Shackles, when aimed properly, will prevent any movement skills, so his victims can just try to run in vain while their gap-closers cannot be used to escape, and then Ares can just burn that victim while his friend help beat down the shackled victim (even better if the victim is squishy). Sure, Purification can set them free, but that means it'll make them vulnerable to his ultimate, unless they have other means of anti-crowd control. Because of this, Ares thrives more in non-Conquest modes like Arena or Assault, as when combined with other crowd control-capable gods he basically forces a Sadistic Choice if they want to sacrifice their anti-CC feature for Ares's ultimate (or force them to buy Purification rather than something else for their two Active items whenever they see Ares as one of their enemies), or the other mass crowd control attack, and the nature of 'constant teamfights all the time' gives him more targets to capture at once more frequently.
- He usually gets more dangerous in any case he's paired with the Morrigan. While his ultimate is telegraphed and easy to counter, if the Morrigan copies Ares and pulls the same ult again in a short time, the ultimate practically becomes unavoidable unless the enemy learns to spread out and completely flee the enemy team in a short time and not grouping up for awhile.
- Mighty Glacier: He has notoriously high damage output for a tank character with his Shackles ability, and Bolster Defences is a surprisingly powerful protection and crowd-control reduction aura. However, he has no inherent mobility in his kit whatsoever, unless he's attacking you with ''Shackles''.
- Not the Intended Use: His passive clearly indicates to players "Build aura items to support your team." However, crowd control immunity (such as the Purification Beads relic) can stop his ultimate completely, and the only way to deal with that is to be able cast it again before the crowd control immunity sources are available again, so cooldown reduction items are more valuable to Ares.
- Paper Tiger: Played with in one of his unused jokes. He'd boast that he'll never be beaten by a girl, but backpedals a bit to make sure a certain girl (Athena) isn't around to hear it."Me, defeated by a girl?! That's just a horrible rumor!... Uh, she is not here, is she?"
- Percent Damage Attack: The only god to have one as a normal ability, with Searing Flesh.
- Playing with Fire: His shield is permanently aflame, and Searing Flames has a steady cone of flames burst out of his shield, searing enemies in front of him.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: If you hear him saying "I have you now!" and there's a chain around you, you better prepare your CC-immune options in the right time, because if not, Ares will 100% drag you to him, stunned, and a big ass-kicking by him or his allies is sure to follow.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Both his splash art and his in-game model depict him with glowing red eyes.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ares is the Hot-Blooded, violent and aggressive red to Athena's calm, stalwart and focused blue.
- Sadly Mythtaken: Portraying him as hypermasculine. Not only do ancient Greek statues portray him as a youth, but the Greeks (except the Spartans) absolutely hated him for being cowardly, blustering, and bloodthirsty, traits that aren't exactly considered manly and well-liked today. Essentially he was more like a teenage bully than a hulking, musclebound man. Then again, since most of these myths were written by Athenians, Cultural Posturing must be taken into account.
- Serrated Blade of Pain: To go along with how he represents the cruelty and brutality of war.
- Shoulders of Doom: Wears a very large shoulder pad on his left arm.
- Shout-Out: It's hard to imagine his ultimate line "I have you now!" isn't a Darth Vader reference.
- Status Buff: Bolster Defenses increases the protections of Ares and all allies in an AOE around him, and reduces the duration of crowd control on them as long as the buff lasts.
- Sword Pointing: In his laugh emote.
- The Unfavorite: Just like the original source, everybody hates Ares. In fact, when Zeus got his visual update, the only child he got a special taunt for was just Ares.
- Variable-Length Chain: These chains can reach pretty damn far, especially for his ultimate.
- War God: One of the more famous and disliked.
- You Will Not Evade Me: The aptly named No Escape, in which every god chained by Ares is pulled to his location after a short delay, and stunned to boot.
Athena, Goddess of Wisdom
Voiced by: Kara Edwards (English), Erica Edwards (Mexican Spanish), Letícia Quinto (Brazilian Portuguese)
Amazon Skin Voiced by: Jeannie Tirado (English)
Blight Guardian Skin Voiced by: Dawn M. Bennett (English)
Classic Skin Voiced by: Kara Edwards (English)
Demon Scourge Skin Voiced by: Katelyn Barr (English)
Enforcer Skin Voiced by: Kara Edwards (English)
Knight of Wisdom Skin Voiced by: Jeannie Tirado (English)
Liberté Skin Voiced by: Karen Strassman (English)
Mystic Guardian Skin Voiced by: Sandra Saad (English)
Peacekeeper Skin Voiced by: Kara Edwards (English)
Wise Hare Skin Voiced by: Elsie Lovelock (English)
There are two kinds of soldiers in war: Those fighting for blood, craving the clash of steel and smell of slaughter, and those fighting for honor, knowing the wisdom of justice, the kindness of mercy, believing that life should never be taken wantonly. The former usually seek Ares, but the latter seek his sister Athena.
Athena pretty much stood as the opposite of Ares; favored by her father Zeus, being a paragon of incorruptible virtue and worshiped with righteous fervor, and the greatest city Athens is named after her. To Athena, life is a precious thing that shouldn't be wasted in frivolous battle.
During the Trojan War, Athena sided with the Greeks to fight against Ares while upholding the divine law of war. After a mighty battle, Athena rose victorious and with that, the Greeks defeated the Trojans.
Both deities were prayed upon for this war between gods, but for Athena, battle is a necessity. She knows that honor is for the living; the dead need none of it.
Athena is a Guardian goddess, feared for her crowd control and her consistent map presence.
- Her passive is Reach:
- After using an ability, her next basic attack is ranged and pierces all enemies hit, dealing increased damage to the first enemy struck.
- Athena generates Block stacks when hitting at least one enemy God with a Reach attack. Athena will consume Block stacks when hit by enemy basic attacks to greatly reduce damage taken.
- With her first ability, Preemptive Strike, Athena charges up and then dashes forward, stopping upon colliding with an enemy god and damaging and slowing them. Hitting an enemy also grants a stack of Block.
- Her second ability, Confound, emits a wave of light from her shield, damaging all opponents in a cone in front of Athena while forcing them to approach and attack her for a brief period of time.
- Her third ability, Shield Wall, summons a host of spectral warriors around Athena that damages and slows all opponents around her on arrival and, after a brief delay, strike again and disappear, damages and slows all nearby enemies again.
- With her ultimate ability, Defender of Olympus, Athena selects an allied God anywhere of the map and, after a few seconds, launches herself into the air and lands next to them, damaging all surrounding foes. Additionally, while she's preparing to jump, the allied God gains increased Movement Speed and both Athena and her target take reduced damage.
- Action Girl: As goddess of both war and strategy, Athena isn't afraid to fight on the field.
- Adaptational Heroism: Like the other Greek gods, the mythological Athena could be more brutal and petty than the version shown here. For instance, in Medusa's lore she punishes Medusa for accepting a proposition from Poseidon (which she couldn't turn down anyways). In one of the original stories Medusa was straight-up raped by Poseidon and Athena still punished her.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Is now this thanks to her visual update, whereas before she was blonde.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the strategic aspects of war.
- Art Evolution: Her May 2021 art update overhauled much of her key visuals, giving her a cuirass and helmet, a new face and dark hair instead of blonde.
- Big Damn Heroes: Her ultimate, Defender of Olympus, has her teleport to an ally after 4.2 seconds while making them take 20% less damage during those 4.2 seconds. She also does magic damage upon arrival, which can allow her to pull off some critical entries into a fight."Reinforcements on the way!"
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In her Classic voicepack she seems to be aware of having a Russian accent and will insist that it's Greek...but when using the Red Star Athena skin, she has a quote saying that she now gets the "joke" and remarks about Hi-Rez's "smart move".
- In her current voicepack, she seems to reference the fact that she got a remodel:
“There have been many artworks of me over the years, but the one you see before you now is the best of them.” - Chewing the Scenery: The Russian accent in her Classic voicepack makes her a little hammier than most gods, but she still keeps her voice level normal at least. Except for one of her quotes for buying an offensive item, in which she seems to suddenly emphasize one word in particular out of blue."Sometimes POWERRRR is needed!"
- Combat Stilettos:"It is not easy fighting in these high-heels. Oh, but it is so worth it!"
- Combos: Her Shield Wall ability hits twice, but has a significant two-second delay on the second hit which does the majority of the ability's damage, which makes hitting enemy gods that are unhampered and paying attention largely impossible. Thus, Athena depends on using her Confound ability to pull enemy gods toward Shield Wall's area to damage them with the second hit.
- The Cavalry: Don't die in 4.2 seconds (the 20% damage reduction will help you a bit with that), and Defender of Olympus will let Athena pop in to save your day.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: While not as nasty as the trope usually is, she does smack Denton and some creeps around in her losing animation.
- Dynamic Entry: Athena's ultimate, Defender of Olympus, can have Athena appear unexpectedly from the other side of the map to help the ally it was cast on. Even more so if an ally manages to stay nearby when she enters, as the damage of the ability is decently significant.
- Foil: Ares is directly compared to her in her background as another Greek War God who goes about his position rather differently. Their ultimates are also downright opposites - Athena uses hers to directly go to the aid of a single ally while Ares uses his to pull potentially multiple enemies to himself.
- Genius Bruiser: Goddess of wisdom and actually stronger than her brother Ares, if their respective health pools are anything to go by.
- Genius Ditz: In her Classic voicepack her outlandish accent, enthusiastic voicelines, and lack of proper grammar make it a bit hard to believe she’s a goddess of wisdom."You is rockstar!"
"I am greatest!" - Gold and White Are Divine: As one of the major Greek goddesses, she wears armor with prominent gold ornamentation and white robes.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: In her Classic appearance, her heroic Martial Pacifist approach to war is reflected in her blonde hair. Her Foil Ares has brown hair. Also unmentioned in her background (but quite likely researched and known by the developers regardless) is that she was a virgin goddess. She is also confirmed to be one of the gods who wanted to protect humanity from the gods who wanted to subjugate them, as confirmed in the Smite comics. Definitely good.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: Two famous people from Classical Mythology that she has cursed have now taken a stand against her: Arachne and Medusa.
- I Shall Taunt You: Her ability ''Confound' does this, releasing "a shockwave of power from her shield, taunting enemy gods, and forcing them to fight or chase her.""Over here!"
"Face me!" - Javelin Thrower: A slight example - her passive, Reach, causes her to throw a spear as a ranged attack that passes through all targets, which deals slightly more damage than a normal basic attack.
- Liberté Athena wields a musket with a bayonet instead of a spear and she well, also hurls it. No, she doesn't fire the musket at all.
- Light Is Good: Athena does not directly Light 'em Up, but she is portrayed very sympathetically and her abilities use a golden-light color regardless. That said, there are some chinks in her apparent goodness. First is what happened to Arachne and Medusa. The second? Her victory animation is actually having her act downright abusive to Denton. But besides that she's mostly good.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: From enemy basic attacks.
- My Eyes Are Up Here: As one of her jokes:"I like to imagine my enemy's fear looking me in the eye, but we both know where they truly gaze."
- Mythology Gag: One of her jokes references the (in)famous “YOU IS ROCKSTAR” voiceline from her Classic voicepack.“Sure I have a taste for music. But I wouldn’t call anyone a rockstar.”
- No-Sell: The passive bonus granted by her first ability, Block, allows her to do this with enemy basic attacks. When she has stacks of Block available, enemy basic attacks will neither do damage nor apply any on-hit effects to her. The word "absorb" even pops up in text over her head.
- No Sense of Humor: Liberté Athena's joke lines all consist of her saying the plight of her people is nothing to joke about. Yeah well, how does fighting here help them?!
- Not the Intended Use: As with Ymir, Athena's high base damage and powerful CC has led to her being played as a jungler in addition to her traditional role as a support.
- Practical Taunt: Her Confound ability taunts enemy gods, forcing them to use basic attacks against her and only basic attacks for the duration of it. Some exploit this by buying items which punish gods for hitting her with basic attacks, such as Hide of the Nemean Lion and Midgardian Mail.
- Recruiting the Criminal: Does this in the comic book.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Ares's red.
- Retirony: Referenced in one of Peacekeeper/Enforcer Athena's joke lines."Have you heard? Minion 6 only two days from retirement! Lucky guy."
- Rule of Funny: The only possible explanation for her accent before it was changed in May 2021.
- The Smart Guy: The archetypal example in the Greek Pantheon as the Goddess of Wisdom.
- Spin Attack: Every third hit in her basic attack chain.
- The Strategist: She's the goddess of it.
- Stripperiffic: Her Amazon skin's outfit is little more than a leather bra and skirt.
- Unexplained Accent: Before her May 2021 visual update she had a Russian accent. Sure, the nations of eastern Europe owe a lot to the Greeks culturally, but the accent's a bit much (and the chances are good that the folks at Hi-Rez don't know this anyway, making the accent completely inexplicable). It's used as an in-joke for her Red Star Athena skin.
- Vocal Evolution: Along with her visual update, she got a completely new default voice that removed the Russian accent and brought her closer to her serious, dignified persona from mythology.
- War God: More specifically of just war and strategy.
Atlas, Titan of the Cosmos
"I control the heavens above. I wield their strength, and I will use this strength to bring forth a better future!"
Voiced by: Bob Carter
The strongest and wisest of the Titans, Atlas is best known for holding up the cosmos on his shoulders—a punishment given by Zeus for opposing the Olympians in the Titanomachy. He was involved in one of Heracles/Hercules‘ Twelve Labors where the Titan was given a chance at freedom from his punishment, but got tricked into resuming the duty. Considered the inventor of astronomy in some sources.
As a Guardian, Atlas uses brute strength and his mighty Astrolabe to crush his foes under the weight he had endured for countless millennia.
- The Astrolabe is essential to his fighting style, and his passive has him build Energy when taking or dealing damage. After building up enough Energy, his next basic attack while holding the Astrolabe is charged up, dealing additional damage in an area in front of him, trembling enemy Gods and stunning minions. The sheer power means the empowered auto takes longer to perform, but its base damage will be proportionally increased.
- His first ability is Unburden, which has him throw the Astrolabe to a target location to damage and slow enemies. While unequipped, Atlas’ basic attacks change to create explosions around the Astrolabe that damages enemies around it. The Astrolabe will return to Atlas after a few seconds or when recasting the ability.
- His second ability, Gravity Pull, has the Astrolabe create a cone-shaped gravitational pull that sucks in enemies in its range after a short channel. Enemies at the edge of the pull are launched to Atlas's location while enemies closer to the Astrolabe are trapped inside it for a short period before getting launched out in the direction Atlas is facing. If the Astrolabe was deployed by Unburden, the pull changes to a circle around the Astrolabe, and enemies pulled inside are thrown towards Atlas' current location when released.
- Atlas’ third ability is Kinetic Charge. When charging, nearby allied gods are unburdened, cleansing any slows and increasing their movement speed. Hitting an enemy god deals damage and applies a slow that gets stronger for each allied god unburdened.
- Finally, his ultimate tears apart the sky to unleash a Gamma-Ray Burst on a target area, rapidly dealing damage and applying Radiation to enemies, a stacking debuff that reduces their Protections and Power. After a few seconds or when Atlas recasts the ability, the Gamma Ray will focus in power and begin moving across the battlefield, dealing increased damage and applying Focused Radiation, which is equivalent to 3 stacks of Radiation.
- Apocalypse How: In the lore of Yulefest 2021, Tiamat and Merlin ask Atlas to set down his celestial burden so the current world (whose cosmic cycle has been broken by Merlin’s past actions) can come to an end. After much consideration, Atlas complies, causing time itself to stop, the stars to die and the rest of reality to be gradually overtaken by the primordial ocean. While the purpose is to literally help Restart the World, Atlas states that he would like to enjoy his freedom while the current world lasts.
- Atlas Pose: As the Trope Namer, he strikes this pose as he lifts up the sky in his teaser trailer. He also carries his astrolabe this way in his default splash art.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In his teaser trailer, it is evident how massive he is—enough for him to prevent the entire sky from crashing down onto the earth. While he is nowhere near as large in-game, he has a camera angle that’s taller than Jormungandr due to the additional height conferred by his astrolabe.
- Baritone of Strength: Has a deep, gravely voice that suits his status as an ancient Titan and master of the heavens.
- Chained by Fashion: Wears chains around his upper arms and waist, a reference to how his task of supporting the sky was a confining punishment.
- Combos: Slow enemies with Unburden or Kinetic Charge to make it easy to grab them with Gravity Pull. Set down the astrolabe with Unburden to be able to grab multiple enemies with Gravity Pull at once from its location. Use...pretty much any of his other abilities to keep enemies inside Gamma-Ray Burst's circle for longer.
- Cursed with Awesome: As he states in some of his voicelines, being burdened with the heavens has only given him a chance to harness its power and make himself stronger.
- Facial Markings: Has a golden circle in the middle of his forehead.
- Genius Bruiser: Aside from being strong enough to hold up the heavens for thousands of years, Atlas is also noted to be well-versed in philosophy and astronomy (the latter of which he actually invented himself). His only blemish is being Out-Gambitted once by Heracles/Hercules.
- Glowing Eyes: Very apparent in his teaser trailer, where they shine a bright blue.
- Gravity Master: His second ability Gravity Pull has him activate a gravitational field around his astrolabe that sucks in nearby enemy gods. When enemy gods are close enough to it, they are stuck to it for a short duration - even if Atlas is holding the astrolabe!
- Locked into Strangeness: His hair, beard and eyebrows have turned blue-purple and starry from his millennia of holding up the sky.
- Our Titans Are Different: He is actually the first playable Titan in SMITE. While he generally looks human like the Olympian gods, he is distinguished from them by his greater height, his rocky skin and his cosmic hair and beard.
- Purple Is Powerful: As the strongest of the Titans and a wielder of cosmic forces (including gravity), his outfit is rendered in various shades of purple.
- Sculpted Physique: His skin is literally made of stone, alluding to how he was petrified by Perseus using Medusa’s head in one story.
- Space Is Magic: His major theme. Atlas hefts a living cosmos contained in an astrolabe, and harnesses its gravitational power in battle. His ultimate ability, Gamma-Ray Burst, even has him summon a gamma ray from outer space that afflicts enemies with cosmic radiation.I alone command the Heavens!
- Time Abyss: As a Titan, Atlas was one of the first gods to exist—a child of Uranus (sky) and Gaia (earth). He is so ancient that most of the gods (including the Olympians) have largely forgotten about him. The Yulefest 2021 lore further reveals that he too has transcended many world cycles—the periodic ends of the world only briefly lighten his burden before it gets heavy again.
- Understatement: In the Yulefest 2021, lore, he utters one after he sets down his burden at Tiamat and Merlin’s request, triggering The End of the World as We Know It.”Well. This will be interesting.”
- The World Is Just Awesome: His victory screen has him enjoying looking through the stars, using his astrolabe to shift where he is among them.
Cerberus, Warden of the Underworld
Voiced by: Bruce DuBose
Brimstone Skin Voiced by: Kellen Goff
Dino-Mighty Skin Voiced by: Ryan Bartley
Frost Bite Skin Voiced by: Andrew Love
Oblivion Hound Skin Voiced by: Bruce DuBose
Pup Patrol Skin Voiced by: Dino Andrade
Warmaker Skin Voiced by: Jonathan Lipow
Cerberus is the three-headed hellhound with a snake for his tail. The bite of any of his heads is capable of tearing through the souls of the dead. He was born from the mother of monsters, Echidna, but was given the ownership to the King of the Underworld, Hades, where Cerberus guarded the gates of the Underworld, and could be seen just as souls traveled by the River Styx before he mercilessly chewed on their souls.
Lately, Cerberus could be seen outside of the underworld, hunting for souls in the surface during the battle between Gods. He has the orders from Hades, and like a loyal pet to his master, Cerberus is eager to do his new job.
Cerberus is an aggressive Guardian god geared towards sustaining himself with area control and lifesteal.
- His passive, Spirit of Death, reduces the healing of any nearby enemy god by 40%. Cerberus is healed whenever reducing healing with this aura, gaining 80% of the healing effect's base restoration.
- His first ability, Paralyzing Spit, fires a ball of venom from his snake tail, damaging enemies and stopping at the first enemy god. Each of Cerberus's dog heads becomes Alert after a successful basic attack, and each Alert head will also spit venom when the ability is cast. Each projectile that hits the same target deals less damage, but the target is stunned if hit with all four.
- His second ability, Ghastly Breath, bellows toxin from his heads in a cone in front of him, damaging enemies several times over a few seconds. Each hit applies a stacking Protection Reduction debuff, and the center on the cone inflicts a stacking Slow. Additionally, all of Cerberus's heads are automatically made Alert afterwards.
- His third ability, Soul Expulsion, is a short leap that damages and severs the souls of enemies hit. Severed souls appear as damageable ghostly visages that will heal Cerberus if he kills them. Cerberus's basic attacks will automatically hit souls in range in addition to his main target.
- His ultimate, Stygian Torment, makes him wail out, lifting and damaging all enemy gods around him. After a brief delay, Cerberus pulls all affected gods to a spot directly in front of him. During this delay, Cerberus can move freely, allowing him to position where enemies will be pulled.
- Ascended Extra: He was mentioned during one of Hades' jokes, when he's reminding himself to bring enemy bones for him, and the Conquest map has a statue of him somewhere... and suddenly he’s a playable deity.
- Breath Weapon:
- His snake tail spits a glob of venom in a line by default when casting Paralyzing Spit, and if his heads are Alert, they spit too. Landing all three stuns the enemy hit.
- With Ghastly Breath, his heads breathe out a cone of noxious toxins that deals damage over time and reduces enemy protections.
- Difficult, but Awesome: Paralyzing Spit is capable of a very impressive amount of damage and can stun the enemy, but hitting an enemy with all four projectiles to do the latter is one of the tougher skillshots in the game.
- Everybody Hates Hades: Along with his master, the game depicts him as an evil dark creature, when in the original mythology he was simply the Underworld's guard dog, a necessary position given how the dead frequently attempt to escape. Here, he's not only ferocious, but sentient and actively malicious.
- Heal Thyself: Cerberus' passive makes him a walking healing counter - you heal around him, you heal for less...and he steals half of the healing for himself.
- Hell Hound: The vicious and terrifying warden of the Underworld, who makes sure the dead don’t escape and the living don’t enter. He’s the Trope Codifier and all.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Officially, he's supposed to be a three-headed dog with a snake for a tail. But he's also covered with scales and has exposed teeth and nostrils like common (but inaccurate) depictions of Tyrannosaurus rex.
- Multiple Head Case: His three dog heads must be made "Alert" by landing attacks or using Ghastly Breath, otherwise his snake tail will be the only head spewing venom with Paralyzing Spit.
- Poisonous Person: His snake tail spits venom, and his heads breathe some sort of poisonous toxin at enemies.
- Silliness Switch: His Pup Patrol skin transforms him from a terrifying, vicious three-headed monster dog covered in scales into a fluffy, overexcited, hyper and cute three-headed puppy dog, and even his snake tail looks much less threatening.
- Slasher Smile: His three heads each have their teeth displayed in the manner of a T-Rex, which makes him appear to be sporting three Slasher Smiles.
- Soul Power: He can consume souls in order to heal himself, and summons souls of the dead during Stygian Torment to hold his enemies in the air and pull them toward him.
- Stone Wall: Zigzagged. He’s a Guardian, and is meant to focus on building protections to soak damage for his team, but Paralyzing Spit and especially Ghastly Breath deal good damage for a Guardian, especially early in the game. He’s labeled with “Medium Area Damage” as one of his pros.
- Talking Animal: Demonic as he may be he is still very clearly a three-headed dog. That does not prevent him from being just as fully voiced as any other god.
- Technicolor Toxin: The toxic breath Cerberus' heads breathe when casting Ghastly Breath is colored a combination of purple and blue.
- You Will Not Evade Me: His third ability allows him to leap a moderate distance, his first lets him stun an enemy if his passive is charged and he lands all three projectiles, and his ultimate surpasses even Ares in reeling in enemies - before they are pulled over to him, they’re suspended in the air.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: Landing his third ability on an enemy cleaves their soul from their body, which he can kill to heal himself. It is his job to keep them in the Underworld... he's just being proactive now on the battlefield.
Charon, The Ferryman
"Gods? Mortals? It matters not! All souls will inevitably become passengers on the barge of the damned!"
Voiced by: Earl Fisher
A key figure in one's journey through the Greek underworld, Charon is the guardian of the rivers Acheron and Styx, carrying souls from one world to the next. While he is compassionate enough to do this to the deceased regardless of morality, his services are not delivered freely, requiring the dead to be buried with coins in order to be sailed across. Due to his nature as a carrier of souls to the afterlife, Charon's image is one that has endured even with his minor status overall, remembered as a needed ally for many heroes and feared as a symbol of death. However, in an age wrapped in chaos from warring gods, Charon now has to run counter to his ideas and role by commanding the dead, shrouding the gods in a grim new age: the Age of Souls.
As a Guardian, Charon descends to the Battlefield to personally guide lost souls to the afterlife... but not before sending them against his enemies.
- His passive Ferryman Of Souls causes jungle monsters and allied lane minions near him to drop their souls when then die. Chiron can pick them up, gaining 1 gold and a Soul Stack for each soul he collects. He can ferry up to 20 Soul Stacks at a time, and can bring them to his fountain to permanently increase his maximum health.
- His first ability is Spectral Surge, with Charon launching a soul out of the Styx to damage enemies while stopping on the first god hit. Upon hitting an enemy god, it will explode to leave a damaging area that silences enemies that stand in it, and gods struck by the explosion will leave behind a damaging, slowing trail for a few seconds.
- Damnation is his second ability. Charon opens a rift to the underworld, damaging enemies and marking enemy gods hit by it. Marked enemy gods are revealed and have reduced attack speed. Charon and his allies gain shields when attacking marked gods based on Charon's max HP.
- His third ability, Swift Voyage, has him charge forward at high speed with a reduced turn radius, becoming immune to slows and knockbacks and causing the wake of his boat to surge. Enemies hit by the charging boat or the surging wake are damaged and rooted, the root's duration halved if hit by the wake compared to the boat.
- His ultimate has him Summon Styx, granting him CC immunity before sending out a massive tidal wave across the entire battlefield. Enemies hit by the wave are damaged and feared, while allied gods gain protections when hit by the wave and movement speed if they are within the area behind it.
- Dark Is Not Evil: In stark contrast to the rest of the Greek underworld deities (the actively malicious Hades, Cerberus and Thanatos; and the cunning and manipulative if well-intentioned Persephone), Charon is a solidly neutral if not outright benevolent figure, shown in his reveal trailer as he ferries Anubis and Maui to safety after the former was struck down by Surtr's wrath in the fire giant's own trailer.
- Dem Bones: Beneath the dark cloak/armor he wears, Charon takes form of a bare skeleton. His ribcage is open for others to see.
Mages
Aphrodite, Goddess of Beauty
Voiced by: Martha Harms (English), Carla Castañeda (Mexican Spanish), Márcia Regina (Brazilian Portuguese)
Aphra Cadabra Skin Voiced by: Lindsay Seidel (English)
Beach Babe Skin Voiced by: Kara Edwards (English), Dulce Guerrero (Mexican Spanish)
Bunny Bomber Skin Voiced by: Ryan Bartley (English)
Burning Desire Skin Voiced by: Misty Lee (English)
Diva Skin Voiced by: Martha Harms (English)
Ice Queen Skin Voiced by: Salli Saffioti (English)
Med-Tec Skin Voiced by: Anairis Quiñones (English)
Oasis Djinn Skin Voiced by: Salli Saffioti (English)
Temptress Skin Voiced by: Dina Sherman (English)
Venus Skin Voiced by: Monica Rial (English)
Violet Sorceress Skin Voiced by: Marie Westbrook (English)
As the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite has the perfect looks to inspire radiance to anyone she came across. Her soul, on the other hand, has been rather lonely and insecure.
After being married with the god of smiths, Hephaestus (or known as Vulcan in Rome), she was ignored as he locked himself in his smith to quell his rage of being thrown from Olympus by Hera. This was a severe blow to Aphrodite's sense of worth, feeling herself unworthy of her marriage. To find consolation over this pain, she either courted with Ares or entered as many beauty contests she could find.
One day, the goddess of discord, Eris (Discordia in Rome) threw a golden apple with the writing "To the fairest" on it during a wedding. Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena fought over it. Zeus appointed Paris, a Trojan prince, to pick a winner. He couldn't decide so the three goddesses offered him things in return for choosing them. Aphrodite won the title by offering him Helen of Troy (who was already married). This ultimately led to the catastrophic Trojan War and the end of the Greek pantheon, devastating Aphrodite as a result of her victory.
She found her chance to redeem herself in the current war between gods, hoping to stop the war and find true inner beauty.
Aphrodite is a Mage goddess, capable of supporting an ally god with strong heals, buffs, crowd control, and her own not-inconsiderable damage.
- Her passive, Center of Attention, grants her physical and magical protections for all gods nearby her, stacking up to nine times.
- With her first ability, Kiss, Aphrodite blows a kiss forward in a line. If it hits an allied God they will be marked as her Soul Mate, forming a link between the two that will grant them bonus movement speed as well as sharing a portion of Aphrodite's MP5 and protections to her Soul Mate. However, it will break if they stray too far away from each other, and she can only have one Soul Mate at the same time. If it hits an enemy God they will be damaged, briefly stunned, and Aphrodite's Soul Mate will get Jealous, temporarily increasing all damage they deal.
- Her second ability, Back Off!, emits a blast of energy from Aphrodite, damaging and knocking back all surrounding enemies. If she has a Soul Mate, a second explosion will emit from them, damaging and slowing all surrounding foes.
- With her third ability, Love Birds, Aphrodite will call forth a flock of doves that will fly forward in a line, damaging all enemies in their path over time for a few seconds. Aphrodite and her Soul Mate are also automatically healed over time for the same duration. Each tick of healing also slightly reduces any active cooldowns for Aphrodite and her Soul Mate's abilities.
- Her ultimate ability, Undying Love, cleanses Aphrodite and her Soul Mate of all crowd control effects and renders them immune to all damage for a brief duration. They will also gain the Jealousy buff for a longer duration.
Aphrodite's alternate skins include Majestrix Aphrodite, Afro-Dite, Diva Aphrodite, Beach Babe Aphrodite, Aphra Cadabra Aphrodite.
- Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Funnily enough, this trope is done by the soulmate bond between Aphrodite and an ally breaking just from moving a decent amount of distance away from each other!
- Action Mom: She's the mother of Cupid/Eros, and a combatant in the war between the gods.
- Adaptational Heroism: The original Aphrodite was similar to most Olympian gods and could be horrific if she wanted to, like antagonizing her son Eros and Psyche. In this rendition, while she does act like how she did in the original myth, her lore implies that she's a Broken Bird trying to cope with her lack of self-worth through all her Proud Beauty acts and cheating. She is actually horrified with the result of the Trojan War that was caused because she won "the Fairest" apple from Hera and Athena, whereas in the original myth, she's just satisfied with winning the title and couldn't care less about the war, only participating out of obligation that her patron got attacked, and her reason to join the Battlefield of the Gods is to make amends. Thanks to some liberties, Aphrodite can somehow look sympathetic.
- Adaptational Modesty: To be fair, it's not hard to wear more modest clothing when your original version is portrayed as being completely naked most of the time. Zigzagged with some statues of her portraying her topless, but with a long skirt covering her bottom half. Obviously Justified given the game's Teen rating.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Why else do you think she hangs out with Ares? Though subverted in that only Aphrodite gives a damn about him, the rest of the ladies thinking he's horrifying. And even then, she's not above taunting him if she ever scores a kill on him.
- All Witches Have Cats: Her witch-themed Aphra Cadabra skin has a black cat.
- The Atoner: To some extent, for inciting The Trojan War, which in this universe, caused the destruction of her Greek pantheon.
- Bedlah Babe: Her Oasis Djinn skin wears this outfit.
- Braids of Action: What she wears her long hair in.
- Broken Bird: Her lore describes her feeling worthless due to her husband's inattention, and courting others in order to fill the void, as well as feeling regretful about indirectly causing the Trojan War and seeking to atone. None of this is evident with her in-game lines, however.
- Broken Tears: Mostly Played for Laughs. Her defeated animation first has her crying over her defeat so much that she faints onto Denton's arms. Aphrodite is not too pleased when she finds out who protected her fall, and then proceeds to kick the crap out of Denton before going back to crying.
- Captain Ersatz:
- Zigzagged. While they look nothing alike, Aphrodite probably takes a lot of cues from Ahri, being the resident Ms Fanservices with the power to seduce anyone they want while harboring deep regret over the effects of their powers and trying to atone for their past. Not to mention both of their repertoires involve blowing a kiss. However, Aphrodite (Support Mage) plays completely differently than Ahri (Assassin Mage), even how their kisses work.
- With Taric, who shares almost all of Aphrodite's mechanics, including healing allies and an invulnerability ultimate. However, while Taric technically came first, all these changes came from a recent rework, which means Hi-Rez actually did it first.
- Her Kiss/Love Birds mechanics are very similar to Io's ability to tether to an ally and share any regen. However, she has more straightforward damage than Io in her own right and the ultimates provide very different benefits to the tethered allies.
- Chick Magnet: Gender Flipped, and of such a degree that her second ability, Back Off, was created after having to fend off her innumerable suitors.
- Combat Medic: While she requires an allied god to be made her soulmate with Kiss to use all her kit's offerings, she is decently capable on her own between Love Birds' impressive healing and Back Off's ability to harass an enemy out of lane.
- Combos: Love Birds travels slowly down a clearly marked rectangular area, making it very easy to avoid normally. Hence she will usually hit an enemy with Kiss first to stun them and guarantee that Love Birds will hit. And of course, Kiss is meant to be used on an ally so you can also heal them and make them invincible with Love Birds and Undying Love respectively.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Or girl, or whatever Aphrodite's soulmate happens to be. Aphrodite blowing a kiss toward an enemy enrages her soulmate enough to give them a damage boost against the unlucky target.
- Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: The actual Cthulhu, as well as other eldritch and physically monstrous gods like Jormungandr and Tiamat, are just as susceptible to her Kiss as all others.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Blowing a kiss at enemy gods stuns them. Any god. Doesn't affect minions, though; perhaps they get she's out of their league.Aphrodite: One kiss from me will make you forget why we were even fighting.
- Does This Make Me Look Fat?: One of her possible responses if buying a defensive item.Aphrodite: As long as it doesn't make me look fat!
- Even the Girls Want Her: Any god can be affected by Aphrodite's Kiss ability, which marks them as soulmates.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Aphrodite's soulmate can include male gods, female gods, demons, anthropomorphic animals, monkeys, wolves, dragons, Ne Zha, Cupid... and they are all easily distracted by her blowing a kiss at them.
- Feathered Fiend: Her Love Birds ability heals Aphrodite and her soulmate... but also damages any enemies caught in its range over time.
- Gorgeous Greek: Well, she's the goddess of love and beauty, and she's from a Greek pantheon. This goes without saying.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Double Subverted - she's a Broken Bird blonde that Really Gets Around who caused The Trojan War with her insecurity... but is implied to have genuinely regretted her actions and seeks to atone for it.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Undying love is a more physical than abstract concept with regards to Aphrodite. She uses it to increase her soulmate's mana regeneration, heal herself and her soulmate with Love Birds, and make them completely immune to damage for a short time.
- Hot God: The hot god. Being the goddess of beauty, she's appropriately attractive to match.
- Hot Witch: Her Violet Sorceress Aphra Cadabra skin combines a sorceress theme with a revealing outfit. Her Aphra Cadabra skin does the same with a more "classic" witch theme.
- Hypocritical Humor: Despite her being a Broken Bird looking to find true value outside of physical appearance, this doesn't stop her from insulting and mocking her enemies' and allies' physical appearance in her taunts and jokes.Aphrodite: Oh, but you are beautiful![[Beat...]] in the dark.Aphrodite: You should strive to find beauty in all things! Clearly in some things, it's just easier to find.
- Magic Staff: Wields a staff overflowing with pink magical energy, where she channels most of her magical power for both normal attacks and her offensive spells.
- Ms. Fanservice: By default, her outfit emphasizes her belly, long legs and large breasts. Completely justified, as Aphrodite isn't the "goddess of beauty" for nothing.
- My Eyes Are Up Here: Serves as one of her jokes.
- No-Sell: Undying Love renders Aphrodite and her soulmate immune to all damage, and removes any crowd control effects upon them for the short duration.
- Obnoxious In-Laws: Even if she's a more sympathetic Broken Bird in this version, it doesn't change the fact that she's still pretty antagonistic to Psyche as detailed in Cupid's lore (considering that she's Venus).
- Pink Means Feminine: While she's not wearing pink, a lot of her spell colors are frilly pink, and she's very feminine.
- Power Floats: Aphrodite is of the many, many gods who apparently think walking is beneath them.
- The Power of Love: Aphrodite's abilities turn love into a physical concept, which she uses to support and heal her allies, and disable and hurt her enemies.
- Proud Beauty: She isn't subtle about her job in her emotes, though her lore would imply this is just her trying to compensate for her insecurity.
- Pyrrhic Victory: She won the title of "the Fairest" from Eris/Discordia's apple... and then the Greek pantheon ended due to the Trojan War as a result and turned into the Roman pantheon afterwards. Not exactly a victory Aphrodite can be proud of.
- Really Gets Around: If you know anything more about the goddess Aphrodite than her name, you probably would've known this already.
- Sadly Mythtaken: Her Broken Bird description for SMITE is certainly artistic license verging on Wild Mass Guessing, where her myths provide no hints that she had any sort of self-esteem issues, much less gave a damn about starting the Trojan War (she supported the Trojans by the way). She was one of the nastiest goddesses in the Greek pantheon.
- Shout-Out:
- Buying an offensive item might make her exclaim "So hot right now!" Killing Zhong Kui might have her ask him to paint her like one of his Chinese girls.
- Diva Aphrodite resembling Lady Gaga is not where it stops with the pop song references (for starters, the death quotes are "Now we got bad blood!" and "All you ever did was wreck me!").
- Her hairstyling, while not exactly alike to it, nonetheless quite resembles◊ that of the famous painting The Birth of Venus.
- Succubi and Incubi: The Temptress skin strongly evokes the image of a succubus.
- Sympathetic Adulterer: Cheats on her husband Hephaestus... a lot... but Hephaestus is stated to be inattentive, which leaves her feeling worthless. However, Hephaestus is also stated to be doing this to her unwittingly.
- True Beauty Is on the Inside: She doesn't think she's found she has it yet though.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Sort of. Hephaestus is noted to be hideous to look at when compared to Aphrodite. However, Hephaestus' Roman counterpart, Vulcan, is in the game and isn't that bad looking. No Ship Tease exists between Aphrodite and Vulcan so far.
- Valley Girl: Aphrodite has a minor case of this, with several "Oh. My. God" lines and inserting "totally" in some of them. She racks it up when wearing the Beach Babe skin.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: While she is mostly Support, Aphrodite actually has a rather high damage potential, so if her soulmate is bullied, a well-placed Kiss followed by Love Birds and Back Off may end up driving away or killing anyone that harasses her mate. For further bonus, it also encourages her soulmate to join in the violence since they deal additional damage against an enemy hit by Kiss.
- World's Most Beautiful Woman: Is officially the prettiest Greek goddess thanks to Paris awarding her the title. She's also arguably the most Stripperiffic.
Chronos, Keeper of Time
Voiced by: Stan Robak (English), Andres Garcia (Mexican Spanish)
Cultus Skin Voiced by: Austin Lee Matthews (English)
Fallen Lord Skin Voiced by: Alan Ayo (English)
Father Time Skin Voiced by: J. Michael Tatum (English)
Illuminator Skin Voiced by: Andy Chanley (English)
NRG Skin Voiced by: Stan Robak (English)
Super Chronos 64 Skin Voiced by: Austin Tindle (English)
The immeasurable element known as time has existed since the beginning, measuring existence by the means of age. Inevitably, however, time for all things always come to an end, but time still remained a constant in the universe.
Managing this time through the clock of eternity is the Keeper of Time, Chronos. He has existed since the primordial chaos when everything was empty, and along with his mate, the Queen of Fate Ananke, he weaved through the cosmos and divided their power to heaven, earth, sky and sea. Afterwards, his job was to be the observer of all things. And as time itself, he will outlast everything, so there is no sense of urgency within Chronos.
And yet the war between gods threatens the existence of time itself, forcing Chronos to take up arms and any other gods may want to count their remaining time left.
Chronos is a Mage god who continually gets stronger thanks to his passive.
- His passive, Time Lord, grants him a stack increasing his magical power every two minutes of game time, up to a max of 25.
- With his first ability, Time Rift, Chronos creates a time anomaly at a nearby area that detonates after a brief delay, damaging all foes inside.
- His second ability, Accelerate, grants Chronos a movement and attack speed bonus for a few seconds, with the movement speed bonus slowly increasing as the ability gets closer to wearing off. It also stops the Wheel of Time, which grants Chronos a different bonus for a few seconds depending on what section it stops on: increased health regeneration, refunding mana used for his other abilities, bonus magical power, or bonus magical scaling on his basic attacks.
- His third ability, Stop Time, shoots several time gears forward, damaging, slowing and reducing the attack speed of all enemies they pass through. The slow will, over a short period of time, ramp up to completely immobilize the opponent. If not cleansed, the enemy will be damaged and stunned at the end of the ramp up.
- With his ultimate ability, Rewind, Chronos moves back in time to his location eight seconds ago, with the same health and mana he had at that moment as well as resetting the cooldown of all his basic abilities.
Chronos' alternate skins include Timelord Chronos, Fallen Lord Chronos, Super Chronos 64 and Father Time Chronos
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Of time.
- Clock Punk: Has a bunch of gears on him, and his upper body is made of gears. He takes some of said upper body gears out to juggle for his victory animation.
- Eyepatch of Power: Covers his left eye with an eyepatch.
- Fragile Speedster: Chronos is fairly squishy. However, he not only has an ability that speeds him up, but he also usually buys the highest movement speed item in the game on top of (between the item and his steroid) not having either attacking or backpedaling movement penalties. And then if you do manage to lay a hand on him his ultimate lets him rewind eight seconds to where he was with the health, mana, and cooldowns he had back then. Have fun trying to kill him.
- Magic Knight: Chronos can be built as a magical basic-attacker, much like Freya and new Ao Kuang. If done like that, by the end of the game, his abilities would be the least of your worries as his normal attacks will hurt you more than any of his abilities do.
- Magikarp Power: Chronos has fairly lackluster damage and wave clear during the early game, and has one of the few completely non-damaging ultimates, so he doesn't get a big spike in potential damage at level 5 like most Mages. However, the scaling on his abilities is excellent; come late game, he won't need a big flashy ultimate to kill you and you'll wish he didn't have an ultimate so you can actually kill him.
- Mystical White Hair: Very long and white.
- One-Steve Limit: Of a mythological sort. Chronos should not be confused with Cronus, king of the Titans and father of Zeus. That "h" makes all the difference.
- Retraux: His Super Chronos 64 skin is a blocky polygonal model made to look like something from the Nintendo 64.
- Shout-Out:
- One of Chronos's jokes state that time is a wibbly wobbly Timey-Wimey Ball. More subtly, he has a skin called "Time Lord".
- His dance is one to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
- Time Master: You know, just in case his title didn't make it clear enough for you.
- Winged Humanoid: Has a pair of small, mechanical wings which serve no purpose but to look cool.
Hades, King of the Underworld
Voiced by: Patrick Seitz (English), Enrique Cervantes (Mexican Spanish), Marcelo Pissardini (Brazilian Portuguese)
Chilling Wraith Skin Voiced by: Jake Foushee (English)
Cursed Pharaoh Skin Voiced by: Jeff Plunk (English)
Grim Wraith Skin Voiced by: Patrick Seitz (English)
Heebee Chibi Skin Voiced by: Patrick Seitz (English)
Plague Lord Skin Voiced by: Neil Rogers (English)
Prince of Darkness Skin Voiced by: Armen Taylor (English)
Ragnarok Skin Voiced by: Daman Mills (English)
Slushii Skin Voiced by: Jack Hawkins (English)
The Legion Skin Voiced by: David Lodge (English)
The king of the Underworld and the eldest son of the Titan Cronus. Hades was consumed by his father, but was saved by his younger sibling Zeus and along with his siblings he waged a rebellion that overthrew Cronus and set up the age of the Olympian gods. For his participation in the rebellion, Hades was given the Underworld to rule. It's not the most beloved job, but it is an inevitability that people die in the end, someone has to take care of it. And Hades knows ways to make sure the souls never leave.
For instance, when Hades desired a wife, he kidnapped the daughter of Demeter, Persephone, causing Demeter to be filled with anguish and cursed mankind with a great famine that other gods begged her to stop, but she would not relent until her daughter was returned to him. Hades decided to let Persephone go, but not after he had her consume some pomegranate seeds that would force her to return to him for part of the year, thereby creating what is known as winter.
Although he rules over dark aspects, Hades was known to be a stern and fair ruler since his domain is a necessary one. He hates those who cheat death and steal from him. However, for some reason, Hades might have his own sinister agenda in the wake of this war between gods...
Hades is a Mage god, formerly a Guardian, who packs a lot of crowd control and sustained damage, as well as a surprising amount of resilience.
- His passive, Blight, applies a debuff to any enemy struck by his basic attacks or his first two abilities, reducing their Power. Hades's other abilities gain additional effects when damaging a Blight-afflicted enemy.
- Using his first ability, Death From Below, Hades submerges below the ground and emerges in the target area, dealing damage and applying Blight to all enemies caught by the blast. Enemies already affected by Blight are additionally slowed.
- His second ability, Shroud of Darkness, projects a wave of energy in a short but wide cone in front of him, silencing and applying Blight to all affected enemies. Enemies already affected by Blight are feared, forced to run directly away from Hades.
- His third ability, Devour Souls, deals damage to all nearby enemies. Additionally, every struck enemy that had been affected by Blight explodes, consuming the debuff and dealing damage to nearby enemies, as well as healing Hades and his allies.
- His ultimate ability, Pillar of Agony, is a stationary channel that damages over time and drags closer all enemies caught in the area-of-effect. Enemies affected by Blight additionally have their protections reduced. The cooldowns of Hades's basic abilities are reduced for each enemy God hit, and Hades gains Protections and damage mitigation during the channel.
Hades' alternate skins include Bloodfire Hades, Soultaker Hades, Classic Hades and Grim Wraith Hades.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, he helps murder Zeus. He's not much better in the game itself, being the closest thing it has to a Big Bad.
- Big Bad: The side-stories are putting him more and more in this category.
- Bird People: The Crow of Torment skin gives Hades the head of a crow.
- Boring, but Practical: Hades's laning phase consists of little more than dashing into the middle of creeps and following up with his 3, then waiting for the next wave to do it over again. However, this combo clears the enemy creep wave instantly while healing Hades for a huge amount, and also making it very dangerous for the enemy god to come near while he does it. Early game, he's very hard to trade with or force out of lane because of this.
- Casting a Shadow: Specifically, his attacks spread plague and terror.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Though it sure isn't nice. And it's scary.
- The comics have a double-subversion. Turns out Hades is amongst the Gods that wanted humanity to be subjugated so it would seem that they play him as a villain. However, he acted out of order instead of malice.
- This may also be averted as it turns out in the comic, Hades conspires with Hel to kill Zeus in order for him to claim the throne of Olympus for himself.
- The Dreaded: Everyone's afraid of Hades and one of his attacks used on a Blighted foe will send them running in a panic for a short while.
- Everybody Hates Hades: The game plays into the common modern stereotype of Hades being an evil and vengeful god, with the lore often placing him in the position of Big Bad.
- Fog Feet: Which he uses in his ultimate to swirl soul around and draw people in.
- Lightning Bruiser: Among the Mages, he's this. Death From Below allows him to zip around quite frequently, Devour Souls lets him stay in the fight far longer than what you'd expect from a mage, and while he lacks burst he has more than enough sustained damage to murder half a team.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: His Plague Doctor skin is themed as a plague doctor, but secretly poisons his "patients" instead of curing them.
- Nepharious Pharaoh: Hades's Cursed Pharaoh skin turns him into an undead pharaoh.
- No Sense of Humor: What's that? You were expecting him to be like James Woods? Let his "joke"-command tell you what you're up for when playing as him:"Hades does NOT make jokes!"
- Not the Intended Use: Despite being classified as a Guardian, Hades has a ranged basic attack like a Mage (and he's one of only two Guardians with this trait), and tends to be played in the mid or solo lanes with damage items, also more like a Mage (as opposed to other Guardians, who usually play a support role in the duo lane). Whether or not Hi-Rez designed him with this in mind isn't clear.
- Later just straight-up changed to being a Mage in Season 3.
- Shout-Out: His dance emote references this video.
- Skeletons in the Coat Closet: His robe is made partly of bones.
- Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: They're pretty much the only part of Hades' face you can see under that horned helmet.
- You Will Not Evade Me: The main purpose of his ultimate. It tends to be a case of Awesome, but Impractical since any dash or leap ability can be used to escape from it scot-free, but if you get caught in it without an escape you're probably dead (if not from the damage of the ultimate, then from his teammates following up with free skillshots while you're held in place for four seconds).
Hera, Queen of the Gods
Voiced by: Lydia Mackay
Battle Queen Skin Voiced by: Lydia Mackay
Gambit Queen Skin Voiced by: Salli Saffioti
Iron Conqueror Skin Voiced by: Sonya Van Sickle
Lilac Bloom Skin Voiced by: Marianne Bray
Power-Up Skin Voiced by: Emily O'Brien
Ragnarok Skin Voiced by: Brianna Roberts
Born from the Titan Cronus, devoured and then rescued by her brother Zeus, Hera was eventually wed to Zeus and reigned as the queen of the gods, with the mastery of divinity and reshaping anything, from nature to whoever crossed her. She has watched over the universe shaping their legends, from legends of her husband Zeus and her stepson Hercules, but as the gods between various pantheons waged war against each other, Hera could watch no longer; she had to take matters into her own hands.
By her side was her mighty champion, Argus. Hera has had experience in war, leading armies and rallying great heroes on her own. With the world descending into calamity, it is Hera's duty to set it right and set her name among the legends of gods.
Hera is a Mage Goddess with a dual presence thanks to the existence of her champion, Argus.
- Her passive, Commanding Presence, reduces the cooldown of Divine Shroud and her ultimate, Argus, the Defender, for every ability or basic attack she lands on an enemy god if Argus is inactive. If Argus is currently on the field, he is healed instead.
- Her first ability, Royal Assault, makes Hera unleash a wave of energy in front of her as well as summoning two portals in the same direction. After a short delay, Argus punches through each portal, slamming the enemy where the fists intersect. Minions struck by the initial wave are thrown between the portals.
- Hera's second ability, Polymorph, has her blast out a wave of magic in line, damaging anyone in the way, and if it hits an enemy god, they will be turned into a random, harmless monster, slowed, and silenced for the duration.
- Hera's third ability, Divine Shroud, grants her a shield and bonus movement speed for a few seconds. If Argus is active, he gains a large speed boost and a divine aura that rapidly damages enemies around him.
- Hera can summon Argus using her ultimate, Argus, the Defender, where he will crash into a target area, knocking up enemy gods in the area, and start attacking nearby enemies with a single target-AOE normal attack combo that slows enemies on the second hit. Hera can redirect his target by re-casting the spell while he's on the field.
Hera's alternate skins include Crimson Queen Hera, Ragnarok Hera and Gambit Queen Hera.
- Abusive Parents: The most well-known myth that says how Vulcan became crippled has her throw him off Olympus for being ugly (or she threw him off for already being crippled). That said, Zeus isn't much better as a parent towards him (and another version says Zeus was the one that threw him off for intervening in a fight between him and Hera on her behalf).
- Action Mom: She's the mother of Ares, Bellona/Enyo, and Vulcan/Hephaestus, and fights alongside the other gods in the war.
- Adaptational Heroism:
- Zigzagged. Though several lores paint her as the brutal and petty goddess that she's characterized as in the original myths, Smite's in-game lore appears to paint her in a more heroic light. There's an entire Odyssey event where she ventures out into the world to save it from Jormungandr, and afterwards she tries to unite the pantheons by calling a special council.
- Her lore and in game lines seem to paint her as a noble queen who fights for the sake of her people. Her Odyssey implies that with Zeus out of commission, it's up to the next highest authority to defend Olympus; it just happens to be Hera, the queen.
- Animal Motif: As the peacock was Hera's sacred animal, Hera sits on a throne where the backrest looks like a peacock's tail feathers for her splash art, the end of her dress also looks like a peacock's tail feathers, and she's got a few peacocks in her throne room for her teaser.
- Awful Wedded Life: Downplayed, since she doesn't really go on about it a ton, but nonetheless she unsurprisingly doesn't have a single kind word for Zeus the three times she mentions him.
- Bait-and-Switch: One of her jokes:
- Barrier Warrior: Divine Shroud shields Hera, but also speeds up herself and Argus while creating a damaging aura around Argus.
- Bodyguarding a Badass: Hera dishes out most of the pain, but Argus is a very handy for rude introductions, and standing between Hera and her enemies, and slowing them to better ensure Hera can hit them with her skillshots.
- Combos: I mean, prediction and aiming is nice and all, but what about instead dropping Argus on an enemy, knocking them into the air so you won't miss Polymorph and then using Royal Assault on the slowed target?
- Cooldown Manipulation: Is Argus and/or Divine Shroud on cooldown? Get to hitting the enemy with your basic attacks and other two spells, so your passive makes them available sooner.
- Dynamic Entry: Argus, the Defender in a nutshell: a portal appears over an area and then a giant golem crashes down, knocking up all enemies in the area.
- Expy: League of Legends players will be able to tell that Hera's basically a higher-risk-and-reward Annie (which granted is a pretty big distinction from a character who was designed to be as straightforward as possible).
- Eye Motifs: Argus has got eyes drawn all over him in-game, and the targeter indicating he's going to beat up a targeted enemy is a stylized eye.
- Eyepatch of Power: Hera's Iron Conqueror skin covers her right eye with an eyepatch.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: Argus' design has the appearance of this, though none of them look like true organic eyes. This prevents it from being creepy like the usual use of the trope and is really just a Mythology Gag concerning the mythical Argus.
- Forced Transformation: Hera can turn enemy gods into animals with Polymorph, much like Cernunnos, though she could only transform them within a much smaller line at a time (but can use hers more often).
- Golem: Argus is a gigantic, metallic humanoid creature who follows Hera's orders, protects her, and attacks her enemies, summoned by Hera via portal.
- The High Queen: She's the queen of the gods, and is a regal, commanding and elegant presence throughout.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Hera enters the war of the gods in an elegant gown, complete with fine jewelry, and with Argus can lay down much ass-kicking indeed.
- Magic Staff: Her weapon is an elegant-looking magic staff, which she uses to delivers blasts of magic at range.
- Mythology Gag: Argus' name and design are a reference to Argus Panoptes, the hundred-eyed giant who was Hera's servant in Greek myth. One of his most notable tasks was keeping watch over the mortal Io, a priestess of Hera and one of Zeus' many lovers, who was transformed into a heifer in order to stay hidden from Hera. When he was killed by Hermes, she rewarded him for his loyalty by placing all his eyes on the peacock, which is why it's her sacred bird (notice her peacock imagery and the birds roaming the palace on Olympus in her teaser trailer).
- Peacock Girl: Downplayed - only her throne, seen in her teaser or her splash art, gives this impression with the backrest of the throne she's sitting on strongly resembling peacock feathers. In the actual game where she's walking about, such a "tail" is absent, and her peacock motif is only apparent in her dress's hemline, which is shaped and decorated like peacock feathers.
- Pet the Dog:
- Hera genuinely wishes for the best between Hou Yi and Chang'e whenever she scored a kill on either of them. Since marriage is one of her main domains, it makes sense.
- She finds Cerberus endearing, despite him failing to stop Hercules.
- With Vulcan in her Battle Queen skin, where she claims that he's done well for himself despite his obstacles in life. Like how she crippled him by throwing him off Mount Olympus, for one.
- Hera genuinely wishes for the best between Hou Yi and Chang'e whenever she scored a kill on either of them.
- Power Floats: A variant, unlike most other Gods in the game with this trope, she walks on air a few inches above the ground.
- Pragmatic Adaptation: Argus was probably designed as a Golem because making him a more mythologically-accurate giant man covered in eyes which move and blink would be a huge challenge to model and animate.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something:
- She is the Queen of the Olympian Gods, and according to her lore she has joined the fray to combat the chaos brought by the gods' various battles.
- In her personal Odyssey, she ventures beyond Olympus to bring order to the world. She travels to Asgard where she helps Thor defeat Hel’s rebellion, then forms a team of gods to deal with the threat of Jormungandr.
- Sadly Mythtaken: Hera's servant Argus is depicted as a metal Golem with multiple faces, as opposed to an organic being with multiple eyes, most likely because it would be easier to animate like that.
- Thinking Up Portals: Hera works with Argus via portals. Royal Assault has him punch at an area through two portals, summoning him of course has him pop out of a portal from above the targeted area, and these portals also appear for Hera's recalling and victory animations.
- Woman Scorned: The natural consequence of her finding out about Zeus' repeated infidelities.
Persephone, Queen of the Underworld
"My plants will reach into the heavens and drag those self-serving fools from their thrones!"
Voiced by: Allegra Clark
Cute Cultivator Skin Voiced by: Jill Harris
Malware Monarch Skin Voiced by: Cari Favole
NecRomancer Skin Voiced by: Kristi Rothrock
Oblivion Ruler Skin Voiced by: Jeannie Tirado
Demeter's daughter and the goddess of Spring; she was kidnapped by her uncle Hades to be his wife. Demeter desperately wanted her back, but since she was tricked into eating a pomegranate from the underworld, she could only return topside for part of the year, thus explaining the seasons.
Persephone is a Mage goddess with an affinity for controlling small areas of the map using her plants, not even letting death get in the way of her "gardening".
- Her passive is Pomegranate Seeds, which gives her a seed every time one of her plants wither away, up to 100, which she can sell at the fountain. In addition, she takes on a ghostly state when her HP reaches zero, with which she can go around the map and place up to six Harvest skulls to use when she respawns. However, she cannot see or interact with other gods until she respawns.
- Her first ability is Bone Rush, which sends a skeleton to charge forward. When it hits the end of its charge or an enemy god, it will send its bones out down a line to slow and deal damage, with its skull landing on the ground and becoming a plant.
- Her second ability is Harvest, which creates an explosion at a targeted area. Three skulls are planted around the explosion's edge, which sprout into flowers after a few seconds. Persephone can hit these plants with her basic attack to activate them, with skulls healing her and flowers charging in the direction she's facing. Flowers will bite the nearest enemy (prioritizing Gods), damaging in a cone around their target. After being activated, the plant withers.
- Her third ability is Flourish, which has her jump directly forwards or backwards, creating a large explosion at her starting point. Enemies in the area take damage while plants in the radius charge forward as flowers regardless of their current level of growth.
- Her ultimate, Grasp of Death, launches a mass of vines that forms into a cage when hitting an enemy god or a wall. If a god is hit, they become trapped, resulting in a cripple, root, and reduced attack speed. Regardless of what was hit, the vines will lash out at nearby enemy gods, dealing damage, crippling them, and prevent them from outside of the area. The cage can be destroyed by basic attacks to end the effect early.
- And Now You Must Marry Me: Was solely kidnapped to be Hades' wife and since she has to return to him for part of the year, the attempt was successful. It honestly kinda turned out OK, seriously. Well, compared to the rest of Olympus, at least.
- Artistic License – Biology: Pomegranate fruits grow off of pomegranate shrubs. Pomegranates do not merely grow off of its flowers...or, you know, sprout legs and bite enemies as Persephone wills after flowering. Definitely an Acceptable Break from Reality with the lack of shrubbery since Persephone covering an area in 10 properly-sized shrubs would make it difficult to see anything in that area.
- Ascended Extra: Previously she only made a brief appearance in Hades' lore, with how she became queen of the underworld coming off like just another Tuesday for Hades (despite the fact that this is the only major role Hades plays in Greek myth). Now, she's a playable god.
- Botanical Abomination: Persephone might get pomegranate seeds from her flowers, but we all know pomegranate flowers don't sprout three legs from their roots and bite people...and their fruits come from the pomegranate shrub.
- Damsel in Distress: Famously kidnapped by Hades, though later ruling over the underworld.
- The Dead Can Dance: Her victory animation has skeletons dance while she claps along.
- Everyone Hates Hades: Unlike most depictions of her, Smite gives her a dark, whithered aesthetic reflecting her position as Queen of the Underworld in addition to being the goddess of Spring. Downplayed in that the lore entries depict her as generally being on the side of humanity, unlike her husband.
- Green Thumb: Most of Persephone’s abilities involve plants.
- Guile Hero: Unlike her mythological counterpart, this version of Persephone is a cunning figure who uses her powers and wits to fight for the liberty of humans. In the Odyssey: Underworld event lore, she lures Olorun and his allies into the Underworld, sending them on a quest to rescue gods who died in the comics while she herself sails to the World Tree Yggdrasil. She plans to bend part of the tree to her will and “remove power from the gods” so that humans can escape their influence. Heimdallr appears just in time to force her to retreat and prevent her from completely succeeding, but she was still able to cause enough damage to weaken the gods and corrupt their power, leading to (among other unseen consequences) jade soldiers attacking China and Mulan's ascension.
- She returns in the Odyssey: Perilous Seas lore as a strategist for Tiamat in the war against the Olympians. Since most of the Olympians are opposing Tiamat because of Zeus, Persephone advises the primordial dragon goddess to free Scylla and Charybdis, two beings who have a specific vendetta against Zeus. She reasons that the defeat of Zeus would not only make the Olympians less united against Tiamat, but also demonstrate Tiamat’s righteousness as a ruler (since both Scylla and Charybdis were wrongfully imprisoned and cursed by Zeus).
- Life/Death Juxtaposition: A one-goddess embodiment of this trope. She summons skeletons and/or skulls with Bone Rush and Harvest, but said skulls will grow into flowers, Flourish lets her grow those flowers faster, and Grasp of Death holds enemies down with vines.
- Man-Eating Plant: Her flowers try when activated, at least. They're kinda small though, so they're just going to damage you and can't really devour any Gods whole - however, they definitely come close to the height of the minions.
- Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Persephone is incapable of doing full damage to enemy gods without having her skulls nearby them for at least 2.5 seconds. Before her rework, even playing against her has a weird distinction - to dodge her flowers chasing you, unless you have a lot of movement speed and/or are very far away from them when they were activated, the way to avoid getting hit by them is to turn back toward them as they get close and run to one side of them as they try to perform their biting cone.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Deeply regrets her actions during the Underworld Odyssey event with the disastrous results that came from them, and joins Mulan and Guan Yu during the Grim Omens event to help fix things.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Her Oblivion Ruler skin's cleavage plunges to her belly button.
- Necromancer: Her abilities include summoning skeletons and reviving herself, albeit temporarily. This is in spite of her plant-like powers, making her a one-woman Life/Death Juxtaposition.
- Nice Job Breaking It Heroine: While her actions during the Odyssey: Underworld event were good-intentioned, they damaged the World Tree Yggdrasil which led to a series of disastrous events around the world, culminating in the release of Cthulhu from his prison.
- Plant Mooks: Enemies can't even attack them either, only keep away from them and dodge them!
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She has red hair and green eyes, and she's a goddess of spring.
Poseidon, God of the Oceans
"Rising tides, drown those who stand against me!"
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Voiced by: Richard Epcar (English), Octavio Rojas (Mexican Spanish), Walter Breda (Brazilian Portuguese)
Abyssal Sorcerer Skin Voiced by: Phil Parsons (English)
Dreadbeard Skin Voiced by: Sonny Strait (English), Pedro D'Aguillon Jr. (Mexican Spanish)
Freedom Overlord Skin Voiced by: Patrick McAlister (English)
Hydro Machina Skin Voiced by: Daman Mills (English)
King of the Deep Skin Voiced by: Bob Hess (English), Servolo Augusto (Brazilian Portuguese)
Might of Neptune Skin Voiced by: Kayleigh McKee (English)
Poolseidon Skin Voiced by: Scott Freeman (English), Alfonso Obregon (Mexican Spanish)
Riptide Skin Voiced by: Jason Marnocha (English)
Sunken Sorcerer Skin Voiced by: Jake Foushee (English)
Vapor Wave Skin Voiced by: Jason David Frank (English)
The ruler of the sea and one of the children of Cronus, consumed out of his fear of a prophecy that one of his children would overthrow him. Poseidon was saved by his brother Zeus and they waged a rebellion to overthrow Cronus and set themselves up as gods on Olympus. For his participation, Poseidon was rewarded with control over the sea.
Sea, no matter how you put it, is always beneath the sky, so in the end, Poseidon was beneath the shadow of Zeus who got the highest position and he's not that happy about it. Despite this, he still gathered his own set of worshipers while quenching his rage.
His chance for glory would come when he encountered one of mankind's wondrous cities...but someone else had been vying for the worshipers from that town: Zeus' daughter Athena. Poseidon then proposed a contest: both gods would offer a gift for these would-be worshipers so they could select their sponsors. Offering his trident, Poseidon made a limitless spring, but the water was from the sea and thus salty and undrinkable. Athena on the other hand made an olive tree that counted multiple gifts as one: food, wood, oil. Thus, the city was named Athens and glory eluded Poseidon again.
This constant denial of glory finally reached its peak and Poseidon decided to put his lot in the war between gods. He has somehow taken control of the creature from Nordic legends known as the Kraken, so perhaps the tide will turn in the favor of the god of the oceans for once.
Poseidon is a Mage god with potent area-of-effect spells.
- His passive, Changing Tides, increases Poseidon's movement speed and the damage dealt by his abilities (by up to 10% and 15% respectively) based on his Tide level. Landing basic attacks increases Tide, while using abilities decreases it.
- Poseidon's first ability, Tidal Surge, summons a narrow wave of water that travels in a line, damaging and pushing back all enemies it hits.
- His second ability, Trident, is a steroid that increases Poseidon's movement speed and attack speed while also making his basic attacks fire a three-shot spread. The center hit is a Basic Attack that deals increased damage, while the side projectiles deal fixed ability damage (but still increase Tide on hit).
- Poseidon's third ability, Whirlpool, creates a pool of swirling water at a target area. Enemies caught within are crippled (unable to use movement abilities), dealt light damage over time, and slowly pulled towards the center.
- Poseidon's ultimate, Release the Kraken, causes the mighty sea beast to erupt in the target area. Enemies caught in the large area are slowed and take damage; enemies in the power's inner circle take even more damage, are thrown in the air, and Stunned.
Poseidon's skins include The Earthshaker Poseidon, Dreadbeard Poseidon, London Conspiracy Poseidon, King of the Deep Poseidon and Poolseidon.
- Art Evolution: Has received a visual update that cleans up his model and gives his Kraken a less cartoonish look.
- The Beastmaster: Poseidon's ultimate, Release the Kraken!, could technically count toward this, but doesn't have the same feel as other examples, since his only appears from underground to attack above once.
- Butt-Monkey: From getting eaten by Kronus to being put under Zeus' shadow and eventually humiliated by Athena when trying to get a city named in his honor, there's no wonder Poseidon gets a little pissed.
- Calling Your Attacks: "Release the Kraken!"
- Combos: The travel time and delay for Tidal Surge and Release the Kraken! means you can dodge them...but it sure would be a shame if Whirlpool held you in so you can't dodge them any more...
- Cool Crown: a large silver one with five prongs.
- Cthulhumanoid: Tentacles extend from the diving helmet worn by Poseidon's King of the Deep skin.
- Eagleland: The aptly named Freedom Overload skin makes him into a hyper-masculine take on Uncle Sam, riding on a fighter jet. The Kraken is replaced with a highly muscular Bald Eagle man who ends the ability's animation doing one of two bodybuilder poses. Like Ramerica, there's not much relation to the concept with the original god - indeed, ironically, democracy was named after the governing system of the city-state Athens that Poseidon lost getting to name.
- Failure Is the Only Option: While he didn't know it, he was doomed to lose the contest over the city to Athena.
- Foregone Conclusion: It's thought by scholars that Athena was named after the city and the myth of her and Poseidon fighting over naming rights was a later invention to explain the city's name (which is of unknown etymology). Poseidon never had a chance at winning the contest with Athena.
- Jerkass: One of his joke quotes, in his normal skin, takes potshots against fellow water Mage god from another pantheon, He Bo:"I ate that He Bo guy for breakfast...with He Biscuits!"
- Lord of the Ocean: The archetypal example.
- Making a Splash: He’s a sea god who summons tidal waves and whirlpools with his abilities.
- No Shirt, Long Jacket: His Freedom Overload skin does wear a vest, but bares his chest to the world, letting us know that it's rather chiseled.
- Papa Wolf: Turns out to be one in the second chapter of the Odyssey: Perilous Seas event. When his cursed daughter Charybdis is freed by Tiamat to wreak havoc on Greek settlements, he at first appears to help subjugate her at the behest of Zeus, but then suddenly betrays his brother to save her. He ends up taking Charybdis and Scylla to seek asylum with Tiamat, joining the Goddess of the Salt Sea’s forces against Olympus.
- Pirate: Dreadbeard Poseidon.
- Prongs of Poseidon: You can't have a game with Poseidon in it without his trident!
- The Resenter: Has elements of this towards Zeus.
- Sadly Mythtaken: Like in Clash of the Titans and most other fiction about Greek myths, Poseidon can summon a Kraken to attack an area for his ultimate, despite it being a creature from Norse myth while he's a Greek god.
- Sea Monster: The aforementioned Kraken.
- Shout-Out: Poseidon's ultimate will have him yell out "Release the Kraken!" Really, the film is obviously the reason he has that ultimate at all when the Kraken is actually a Norse myth.
- Shown Their Work: On the other hand, they got Poseidon having a Hair-Trigger Temper right.
- Silliness Switch: The "Poolseidon" alternate skin has him wearing nothing but swim trunks, decked out with various pool accessories, and sporting noticeable tan lines. The skin has an alternate voice which turns him into an obnoxious man-child with a ridiculous lisp, and he summons an enormous rubber ducky instead of the Kraken during his ultimate (accompanied by "WEWEASE.... DA QUACKEN!!").
- Spread Shot: His basic attacks with Trident active.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: His Riptide skin covers his torso with nothing but a mantle, which leaves most of his chest exposed.
Scylla, Horror of the Sea
Voiced by: Carrie Savage (English), Cristina Hernández (Mexican Spanish), Marli Bortoletto (Brazilian Portuguese)
Bewitched Bunny Skin Voiced by: Dawn M. Bennett (English)
Child's Play Skin Voiced by: Carrie Savage (English)
Daisy Despair Skin Voiced by: Carrie Savage (English)
Dragon Queen Skin Voiced by: Carrie Savage (English)
Godscylla Skin Voiced by: Carrie Savage (English)
Lil' Red Skin Voiced by: Carrie Savage (English)
Living Death Skin Voiced by: Tiana Camacho (English)
Mystical Monster Skin Voiced by: Deneen Melody (English)
Prototype Skin Voiced by: Jeannie Tirado (English)
Snow Day Skin Voiced by: Carrie Savage (English)
Steel Alchemist Skin Voiced by: Suzie Yeung (English)
Terror of the Deep Skin Voiced by: Lindsay Seidel (English)
Vampiric Skin Voiced by: Carrie Savage (English)
Ancient poems would tell you about the dangers of a narrow channel of water where two dangers approach. The first is Charybdis, a deadly whirlpool that would swallow everything without mercy. The second one is the creature known as Scylla.
Scylla has the body of a petite child, but her lower body is made of massive multiple tentacles with heads of hounds. Every time a ship came across it, her tentacles would snap at them, ravaging every remains of the ship and killing every passengers all while she just laughed disturbingly with a child-like laugh. Only one hero managed to get past her, the hero Odysseus, but even he had to sacrifice some of his men for it.
There were some who tried to humanize her, stating that she was a nereid cursed due to a priestess' jealousy over a boy who loved her (Scylla). However, others believe that she was simply born pure evil without excuses. And now, Scylla managed to find her way to the lands and entering the war between Gods, where none would be safe from her tentacles' ravage and her disturbing giggle.
Scylla is a Mage goddess, difficult to use but offering excellent damage and escape potential.
- Her passive, Quick Learner, grants Scylla's abilities an additional effect when they reach max rank, and for every maxed-rank ability she gains a boost to her magic power.
- Her first ability, Sic 'Em, sends two of her tentacles out to attack an enemy, dealing damage and snaring them. At max rank, two enemies near the first enemy struck will also be snared.
- Her second ability, Crush, creates a magical field that slows enemies and detonates after five seconds or when activated a second time. At max rank, the field lowers the enemy's magic resistance, and enemies hit will have the slow and Protection debuffs linger for a second.
- Her third ability, Sentinel, passively grants her mana regen. Using it summons one of her tentacles to the targeted location and gives her vision of the map, and using it again will pull her to the tentacle. At max rank, the tentacle can be placed further and the vision area is wider and can see through player-made walls.
- Her ultimate, I'm a Monster, has Scylla pull her tentacles out of the ground to reveal her true form. While she's in this form she's immune to crowd control, travels faster, and has access to a single, powerful attack. If she kills an enemy god with the attack, the effect refreshes and she can use it again. At max rank, the movement speed bonus doubles.
Scylla's alternate skins include Tiny Terror Scylla, Daisy Despair Scylla, Lil' Red Scylla, COG Scylla, Child's Play Scylla, Vampiric Scylla, Eleven Scylla and Toph Scylla.
- Adaptational Villainy: This interpretation of Scylla was always an evil sea monster, instead of being turned into one by Circe.
- Aerith and Bob: Her wolf-tentacles are named Ajax, Achilles, Cyril, and Zoey, though the latter is an Ironic Name if taking the Greek meaning of the name.
- Age Lift: She looks like a small girl instead of a grown woman above the waist. Then again, she's probably Older Than They Look.
- Badass Adorable: She's cute until she reveals her true nature, at least, and as a mage can output huge amounts of damage.
- The Beast Master: The 'beasts' in question are dog-headed tentacles that are part of her body, but she gives them verbal orders and appears to have minimal actual control over them, if her defeat screen, where they drag her helplessly around while chasing a ball, is anything to go by.
- Body Horror: What does her lower body look like under her skirt? Four serpent-like tentacles with wolf heads.
- Creepy Child: She's childishly upbeat and cute, but very malicious, notwithstanding the fact that she's a monster with four dog-headed tentacles.
- Evil Laugh: The "creepy giggle" variety, and Scylla is one of the more malicious and evil gods in the game.
- Evolving Attack: One of her gimmicks due to her passive, as all of her abilities gain additional effects once they reach max rank.
- Freudian Excuse: Defied. Her lore goes to pains to point out that, despite attempts by poets to provide one of these for her, Scylla is simply pure evil, despite her childlike appearance.
- Guest Fighter:
- The 2021 Stranger Things collaboration gives her two skins of Eleven based on her appearances in Seasons One and Three of the show.
- The Avatar: The Last Airbender 2023 collab has two more Scylla skins of Toph Beifong, one of her classic look and the other of her Fire Nation clothes.
- I Am a Monster: The name of her ultimate, where she reveals her true form, which she also quotes verbatim. Contrary to the trope, however, she doesn't suffer any angst from it.
- Ironic Name: The name of her last wolf-tentacle is Zoey. Zoey, or Zoe, is a Greek female first name meaning "life" (ζωή). Clearly, she's trying to be clever with that one.
- Little Miss Badass: Her youthful appearance belies how terrifyingly powerful her magic is.
- Little Red Fighting Hood: Her Lil' Red skin has her dress up as Little Red Riding Hood, with her wolf-tentacles adopting the disguise of the grandmother. She's still extremely dangerous and capable of fighting.
- Older Than They Look: She looks like a little girl, but has to be ancient going by the mention of "old poems" in her lore.
- Precision F-Strike: The Eleven skins and announcer pack marks Smite's first usage of uncensored swear words, with the announcer pack stating that "They dumped your ass" when you die and both using "Bitchin'!" in different circumstances.
- Really 700 Years Old: She's probably several hundred or thousand of years old; she'd have to be in order to have existed when the Greek gods were originally worshiped. Since she has the appearance of a little girl, it's hard to tell her actual age.
- Savage Wolves: What the tentacles below her waist end in. She sends them out to root enemies, and slams her enemies with them wih her ultimate.
- Shout-Out: Her "Daisy Despair" skin is one to the works of Tim Burton, specially Beetlejuice. This is especially obvious with one of her hounds' heads looking like Zero from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
- Sickly Green Glow: Scylla's one of the most malevolent gods in the game, and Crush has her fling out sickly-green fire that explodes in an area, and her basic attack uses the same green flame.
- Token Mini-Moe: She's one of the youngest-looking characters in the game, taking the appearance of a little girl.
- Vampire Lolita Archetype: Her Vampiric skin keeps her as short-statured and villainous as ever, while also giving her vampiric traits such as a blood-red dress and her tentacles having bat heads.
Zeus, God of the Sky
"Immortals have invaded my realm and my children rebel against me. Dark days these are, but my strength shall bring resolution and my lightning, illumination!"
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Voiced by: Christopher Sabat (English), Gerardo Reyero (Mexican Spanish), Jonas Mello (Brazilian Portuguese)
Eternal Tormentor Skin Voiced by: Lucien Dodge (English)
Heaven's Rave Skin Voiced by: Jessie James Grelle (English)
High Voltage Skin Voiced by: Richard Epcar (English)
Infernal Lord Skin Voiced by: Kellen Goff (English)
Omniscient Oracle Skin Voiced by: Chris Guerrero (English)
Prince of Lightning Skin Voiced by: Alejandro Saab (English)
Sky Tech Skin Voiced by: Jessie James Grelle (English)
SWC 2016 Skin Voiced by: Kent Williams (English)
Uncle Skin Voiced by: Patrick Seitz (English), Alfonso Ramirez (Mexican Spanish)
Zappy Chibi Skin Voiced by: Christopher Sabat (English)
The king of Olympus, the god that was responsible for overthrowing his father, the Titan Cronus, after he consumed his siblings, while Zeus was saved by his mother Rhea, who substituted him for a rock, and he grew up in secrecy until the time came for him to strike and together with his siblings he overthrew his father and set up the pantheon atop Olympus. With him on the top as the god of the sky and heavens, of course.
Zeus is responsible for setting up the rules for men and fellow gods to follow, but since he's the ruler, he could just violate the rules on his own whenever he deems it necessary (especially when it came to cheating on his wife). Indeed, Zeus' infidelity caused the birth of several well known heroes and other gods. This infidelity of course did not sit well with his official wife Hera, but she could do nothing, he has more authority after all.
However, his authority has been challenged lately, which shifts Zeus' mood to be volatile and the storms that he ruled as well. Other immortals has invaded Olympus and some of his children were rebelling. It's time he showed them who's in charge and how the order of things should be.
Zeus is a Mage god that can create zones where he can guarantee high burst damage.
- His passive, Overcharge, places up to three electrical charges on any target struck by Zeus's basic attacks or abilities. Zeus' basic attacks deal 30% more damage for every charge on the target.
- His first ability, Chain Lightning, fires a bolt of lightning which will leap between up to five enemies, dealing damage, slowing, and applying charges.
- With his second ability, Aegis Assault, Zeus throws his shield forward, which damages enemies in an area. The shield stays on the spot for several seconds, where it can be used as a target to conduct Chain Lightning. When hitting the shield with a basic attack or the initial hit of Chain Lightning, the shield will emit another burst of lightning to damage enemies around it. Each burst of lightning will apply a charge. While unburdened by the shield, Zeus benefits from increased Movement Speed and Attack Speed.
- Zeus's third ability, Detonate Charges, consumes all charges on all enemies, dealing damage for every charge consumed regardless of where they are on the map, including if they are otherwise untargetable.
- Zeus's ultimate, Lightning Storm, creates a storm over a wide area, dealing damage and applying a charge to every enemy within every second of its five-second duration.
Zeus' alternate skins include Thunderhead Zeus, Wrath of Olympus Zeus, Stormbringer Zeus, Almighty Zeus, X Zeus, Uncle Zeus and SWC 2016 Zeus.
- Action Dad: He is the father of Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Athena, Dionysus/Bacchus, Hermes/Mercury, Heracles/Hercules, Hephaestus/Vulcan, and Enyo/Bellona.
- Ancient Grome: He is directly called father by Hercules and is directly called Jupiter by Khepri in his Dark Matter skin and referred to as such in Cupid's lore.
- Art Evolution: Got an update to his game model along with some new voicelines.
- Authority Equals Ass Kicking: Why he's the Top God of the Greek and Roman Pantheons, but with the "in-charge" part questioned by other pantheons invading and even his children rebelling, he'd like to reassert his authority.
- Baritone of Strength: Of course, courtesy of Christopher Sabat.
- The Casanova: Even a T-rated video game giving a small summary of his mythology cannot leave out mentioning this.
- Chain Lightning: The name of his first ability, appropriately enough.
- Combos: Detonate Charges relies on charges placed by Zeus's basic attacks and every other ability and these same charges improve the damage from his lightning attacks.
- Deflector Shield: His old Aegis Shield which created four shields out of electricity swirling around him for the duration. They granted him protections, increased movement speed, made him immune to slows, and served as a Counter-Attack to basic attacks upon him, damaging and applying a charge.
- Depraved Bisexual: Verrrrrrrrryyyyyy downplayed, in that Zeus' bisexuality might be vaguely hinted at in Hera's teaser trailer: In the room full of nymphs Zeus is flirting with, there is also a single heavily-bearded fellow in the party.
- Glass Cannon: Zeus has literally zero innate mobility. He also can nearly double the damage done by his basic attacks and hit multiple players like nobody's business.
- Grandpa God: Like most depictions of him, Zeus in Smite is portrayed as old, white-haired, and white-bearded with a deep, commanding and authoritative voice. In one of his jokes, he even dabbles in some Biblical speak to reference God the Father (whom he greatly resembles)."And I spoke unto them, 'Look upon these guns!', and they did, and they knew I was a god!"
- Herd-Hitting Attack: THE SMITE CHARACTER! While AoE abilities are far from rare in Smite, Zeus is inherently capable of hitting multiple players at once literally every time he uses an ability.
- Hypocrite: He hates Ares because he suspects that he was conceived as a result of Hera cheating on him. And yet, he constantly cheats on Hera...
- It's Personal: For some reason, one of his opening quotes implies that things just got personal for Zeus in this whole battle.Today I fight not for Olympus, but for myself! These immortals need to be taught the order of things!
- I Was Quite a Looker: The Almighty Zeus skin◊ depicts Zeus when he's younger...and he's quite a stud!
- Large Ham: Most of his lines are delivered this way. Considering he's voiced by Chris Sabat, it's not entirely surprising.
- Lightning Can Do Anything: His old Aegis Shield. Not only does it damage gods, minions, monsters, minotaurs, turrets and phoenixes, it can be used to shield Zeus! Well, are you going to tell him it doesn't work that way? (Apparently Hi-Rez can and did.) Otherwise, he just uses lightning to zap the daylights out of the entire enemy team.
- Magic Knight: If Freya and Ao Kuang are essentially Assassins that happen to use magical power, then Zeus is a magic Hunter, complete with a gap-closer/escape move, a heavy reliance on the attack speed of his ranged basic attack, and pretty good damage with said attacks after a charge or two. After being given Aegis Assault, he lost his gap-closer/escape, but he can deliver more AOE hurt this way.
- Power Floats: On a small cloud, as to be expected of the god of the sky.
- Really Gets Around: Though it may already be obvious to those who know of Zeus, his lore page (naturally) makes reference to how many of his children are from different mothers. In-game, it's pretty downplayed with a single unused voiceline directly mentioning it and two taunts directed at Nu Wa and Serqet that are vaguely sexual (and more overtly punny). Hera's teaser also references this, with Zeus being "out to lunch"—which is to say, turning into animals and flirting with a bunch of women in a room.
- Sadly Mythtaken: An overall minor example but Zeus' reason for hating Ares in myth has nothing to due with suspecting Hera of cheating; not once does he ever think this. He hates him because of his violent, destructive personality like everyone else.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: His justifications for holding high expectations for others, yet not keeping those standards for himself is that he's Zeus, the guy in charge. Right, Hera?
- Shapeshifting Seducer: Referenced in Hera's teaser trailer, which has him flirt while turned into his infamous swan and bull forms.
- Shock and Awe: To be expected of the Greek thunder and lightning god.
- Shout-Out: When Zeus casts Chain Lightning, he may say "Lightning bolt!"
- A taunt has him ask if you're "...ready for 21,000 gigawatts!"
- Spin Attack: One of his basic attack animations after his visual update.
- Top God: Of the Greek Pantheon. Because Ancient Grome is in effect, he is also this to the Roman Pantheon as Jupiter.
- Younger Than They Look: Contrary to his Grandpa God appearance, Zeus is actually the youngest of the original male Olympians.
Assassins
Arachne, the Weaver
Voiced by: Colleen Clinkenbeard (English), Claudia Motta (Mexican Spanish)
Arachnoid Skin Voiced by: Lindsay Seidel (English)
Fae Mantis Skin Voiced by: Rebecca Davis (English)
Grim Weaver Skin Voiced by: Elizabeth Maxwell (English)
Itsy Bitsy Chibi Skin Voiced by: Kristen McGuire (English)
Ma Cherie Skin Voiced by: Dawn M. Bennett (English)
Tormentula Skin Voiced by: Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)
Once upon a time, there was a mortal woman named Arachne who was so talented in weaving that she grew prideful and boasted that her work was a heavenly masterpiece that could only be produced by a genius unrivaled by Gods. Athena tried to warn her while disguised as an old crone, but Arachne still boasted, saying that Athena's works couldn't even match hers. After shedding her disguise, Athena accepted the challenge of a weaving contest.
Athena made a glorious tapestry depicting her victory over Poseidon in naming the city of Athens, and it was glorious. Arachne made something even more glorious... but depicting Zeus' many-many infidelities. Athena was forced to acknowledge such skill, but Arachne's hubris had gotten out of hand in her eyes. As a punishment, not only did Athena tear Arachne's piece of work, she touched Arachne's forehead and turned her into a spider, the first of the spiders, so that she could weave for all eternity, since Arachne was that close to committing suicide.
Athena only meant such a transformation as a pity and also a lesson not to possess such hubris. However, Arachne ended up with another desire in her hubris' place: Desire for vengeance for such an unfair curse. She became a violent, aggressive spider instead of a reclusive one and to sate her vengeance, she desired to kill all Gods that currently warred against each other.
Arachne is an Assassin goddess, focusing on slowing enemies and powerful basic attacks.
- Her passive, Predator, makes her basic attacks deal more and more damage for every 5% of the target's missing health.
- Her first ability, Venomous Bite, is a steroid that boosts her next basic attack, making it deal extra damage and inflicting a draining poison that reduces the target's healing and causes further damage over time while healing Arachne for a small amount with each tick.
- Her second ability, Cocoon, is another steroid which greatly increases her Attack Speed. Additionally, the first god she hits with three basic attacks while the buff is active becomes stunned and has any active cooldowns increased.
- Arachne's third ability, Web, fires a ball that, after travelling a certain distance, creates a wall of webs. Should an enemy pass through the wall (or get hit by the projectile), the web breaks and sticks to the enemy, causing a long-duration slow that also reveals them to Arachne and makes them leave behind a web that lets her move faster and ignore slows while on it. In addition, up to three Broodlings will spawn and attack.
- Arachne's ultimate, Night Crawler, has her leap onto a web spun above the battlefield, becoming untargetable and able to move at high speed for up to five seconds. She may, at any point, leap off her high perch to deal damage to all targets in an area.
Arachne's alternate skins include Black Widow, Toxic Caress, Grim Weaver, Tormentula, and Ma Chérie Arachne.
- Adaptational Badass/Adaptational Villainy: In the original myth, there were no signs that Arachne became a hostile spider; she just spent the rest of her life weaving as a normal spider. However, here Arachne is a monstrous half-human half-spider hybrid that hates Athena so much that she's started to hate all gods and wants them dead.
- All Webbed Up: Pre-rework, she inflicted this with her ultimate. Post-rework, she does it with her second ability.
- Art Evolution: Received a visual update in 2016 that established her current white-haired look (before that she had red hair and had no clothing on her upper half).
- Cannon Fodder: The Broodlings are useful to tank jungle creeps early in the game.
- Crutch Character: Pre-rework Arachne may well have been the single most powerful early-game 1v1 god in the entire game. However, her damage didn't scale well into late game and she was extremely vulnerable to both crowd control and area effect attacks, both of which abound in late game team fights. That said, a good Arachne could make sure a game doesn't even last that long.
- Cursed with Awesome: She may be a hideous monster now—well, sort of, the humanoid part of her is still quite well-endowed—but without being turned into a giant spider monster, it's hard to imagine that she could've held her own in the arena of the gods, which even includes the very goddess that cursed her in the first place.
- Eyeless Face: Her Xeno Weaver skin doesn't have visible eyes.
- Godiva Hair: Goes just barely short of touching her arachnoid body.
- Gratuitous French: Ma Chérie Arachne does this occasionally.Arachne: J'adore the sounds of a good scream.
- Kneel Before Zod: One of her emotes has her tell everyone listening to bow down to her.
- Mook Maker: Has an ability for this both before and after her rework. At one point she could lay down up to five eggs at level 1, with each one producing two Broodlings to attack.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Which can qualify as either Fanservice or Fan Disservice depending on whether or not you find her Giant Spider repulsive as a whole.
- Poisoned Weapons: Arachne's pre-rework passive, Poison Claws, described her, well, poisoned claws, although it is unclear if it was referring to Arachne's arm claws or her spider leg claws. Post-rework, she has "Venomous Bite" instead.
- Sadly Mythtaken: As stated above, Arachne was changed into a normal, non-threatening spider who couldn't take revenge against Athena even if she wanted to. It's likely Hi-Rez knew this, but had to make changes to make her a playable character, so she became a half-spider half-human hybrid.
- Spider People: The first one, in fact.
- Sssssnake Talk: It's a bit subtler than other examples, but her esses are slightly elongated.
- Terms of Endangerment: She'll drop these occasionally, especially Ma Chérie Arachne. For example, Tormentula Arachne's taunt towards Artemis:Arachne: Hunting you was fun, my dear!
- This Cannot Be!: Tormentula Arachne says this nearly verbatim in one of her death quotes.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Arachne has visibly white hair, and she's a lot more vindictive than she was in the original myths.
- Yandere: Ma Chérie Arachne loves you and wants to play with you and you don't want to know what happened to the last person who said no.
- You Will Not Evade Me: Her old ultimate grabbed an enemy and dragged them towards her, even through walls. In a teamfight, this spelled instant death.
Nemesis, Goddess of Vengeance
Voiced by: Amanda Doskocil (English), Mireya Mendoza (Mexican Spanish), Rosa Maria Baroli (Brazilian Portuguese)
Blind Vengeance Skin Voiced by: Apphia Yu (English)
Leona JPF Skin Voiced by: Whitney Rodgers (English)
Modern Mercenary Skin Voiced by: Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)
Primal Vengeance Skin Voiced by: Tiana Camacho (English)
Revenge Tech Skin Voiced by: Amber Lee Connors (English)
Sweet Justice Skin Voiced by: Kira Buckland (English)
World Tour Skin Voiced by: Suzie Yeung (English)
Elegant Skin Voiced by: Elizabeth Maxwell (English)
Vanquisher Skin Voiced by: Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)
The one thing acknowledged by Greeks to be the highest form of crime is hubris, a form of arrogance and pride that extended beyond gods. Nemesis is the being that punishes any who commit such a crime and even Zeus is susceptible to it and he rightfully fears for any time Nemesis comes knocking.
A famous example of a mortal Nemesis punished for their hubris was Narcissus, an extremely vain man so proud of his beauty. For that, Nemesis lead him to a pond where he fell in love with his own reflection. He stayed there staring at himself until he died of starvation.
The pantheons were engulfed in war and naturally, there were a lot of godly levels of boasting. They were just begging for Nemesis to come in and punish any hubris present.
Nemesis is an Assassin goddess, formerly a Warrior, who specializes in simultaneously debuffing her enemies and buffing herself.
- Her passive, Scales of Fate, applies a stacking % Power Reduction debuff to enemies hit by her basic attacks while granting her a % Power increase for each hit.
- Using her first ability, Swift Vengeance, Nemesis dashes a short distance forward, passing through enemies and dealing damage to them. She may use the ability twice in a row if she wishes.
- Nemesis's second ability, Slice and Dice, strikes a large cone-shaped area in front of her with two ghostly swords. Enemies directly ahead of her take double damage and are slowed.
- Nemesis's third ability, Retribution, grants her a shield that absorbs damage, up to a cap or until its duration is up. If an Enemy God hits her while she is shielded, 50% of the damage dealt to the shield is reflected back at the attacker while Nemesis heals for 70% of the shield health lost. Hard Crowd Control effects will immediately revoke the shield and its benefits.
- Nemesis's ultimate, Divine Judgement, reduces the health of a target enemy god by a percentage of their current HP. In addition, Nemesis steals a large portion of the target's movement speed and protections.
Nemesis' alternate skins include No Mercy Nemesis, Red Vengeance Nemesis, Blind Vengeance Nemesis, AFK Nemesis, Leona JPF Nemesis, Executioner Nemesis and Silent Blade Nemesis.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Of vengeance and retribution.
- Armor-Piercing Attack: One of the strongest in the game with her ultimate, which can steal up to half of an enemy's protections. While this may not do a whole lot to a squishy character that has built no defense anyways, it's huge when used against a bruiser or tank character.
- BFS: Carries a rather large sword with her.
- Counter-Attack: Nemesis's third ability is a shield that reflects damage back at enemies.
- The Dreaded: Even Zeus is afraid of her. Let that sink in.
- Fridge Brilliance: Her kit is extremely effective against the likes of Zeus, who has no mobility or crowd-control effects whatsoever and relies on burst damage. Just her Retribution ability on its own is terrifying to him, let alone her ability to hound and hunt him down with everything else.
- The Faceless: To a certain extent, given that the upper part of her head is always covered by her hood, even in her alternate skins. During her new dance emote, however, one can very briefly see her Glowing Eyes of Doom.
- This◊ is what her model looks like under the hood.
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- In the Hood: Her cowl attached to her shirt, which is also attached to the visor that hides her eyes.
- Lightning Bruiser: Upon release she definitely qualified, with her high mobility and damage complemented by a Warrior's defensive stats and her shield's ability to completely nullify big nuke ultimates and other burst-damage abilities. Since her re-classification as an Assassin, she tends to be more of a Glass Cannon, though she does still have the shield to make her hardier than most others in her class (unless you use hard crowd control on her while she's shielding).
- Mystical White Hair: Below her hood, you can see Nemesis' hair is this colour.
- Not the Intended Use: So much so that her class was officially changed by Hi-Rez as a result of it. At first release she was labeled a Warrior, but was used almost exclusively in the jungle with damage items due to having poor wave clear but an excellent capacity to focus down single targets. She was subsequently re-labeled as an Assassin.
- One-Handed Zweihänder: Nemesis only briefly holds her enormous sword in two hands for one of her autoattack animations - otherwise, it's one-handed.
- Percent Damage Attack: Her ultimate.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: She's the goddess of revenge. What did you expect?
- Scales of Justice: Nemesis is seen with them in her splash art and game play; such as when she's defeated. Two of her abilities also play with this trope "Scales Of Fate" and "Divine Judgement" with the scales seen in the abilities iconnote .
- Skull for a Head: Her Soul Slayer skin has a skeletal head.
- Stocking Filler: She wears fishnet stockings, despite these not being standard ancient Greek clothing.
- Stripperiffic: Surprisingly, Nemesis actually strikes a balance between "wholly clothed" and "revealing stuff." While it's true most of her is covered, she still has some exposed lower arms (which involved her armpits), bare belly and the aforementioned fishnet stockings.
- Weight Woe: One of her jokes reveals she has this:Nemesis: What happens when the goddess of balance weighs herself? Fits of depression, followed by binge eating! Trust me on this!
Thanatos, Hand of Death
Voiced by: Scott Freeman (English), Alejandro Villeli (Mexican Spanish)
Reaper Tech Skin Voiced by: Nick Landis (English), Arturo Casanova (Mexican Spanish)
Ruby Rose Skin Voiced by: Lindsay Jones (English)
Final Boss Skin Voiced by: Anthony Bowling (English)
Cyber Scythe Skin Voiced by: Stephen Fu (English)
Demonic Skin Voiced by: Calvin Scott Roberts (English)
Winged Death Skin Voiced by: Grant Young (English)
Valkyrie's Rage Skin Voiced by: Amber Lee Connors (English)
Deathy Chibi Skin Voiced by: Michael Zekas (English)
Archon Skin Voiced by: Major Attaway (English)
Draconic Devastator Skin Voiced by: Bradley Gareth (English)
Thanatoast Skin Voiced by: Scott Freeman (English)
Inevitably all mortals die and head to Hades. But someone had to ferry them over from their mortal coils. That someone is Thanatos, the Grim Reaper.
Mortals die with various expressions: some accept death with grace, some have to be dragged kicking and screaming. Thanatos has done his job for eons with satisfaction, but he had no joy in humans. They die too easily and gave no further satisfaction than what he had so far. Gods, on the other hand, are immortal and thus can't die. Thanatos grew disgusted, considering it a perversion of what he stood for: death comes to all.
The war between gods erupted; this was Thanatos' chance. He could find out if gods could truly die and if they could...well, he's going to be very busy.
Thanatos is an Assassin god that can easily cling to single targets, and is rewarded for each successful kill.
- His passive, Harvester of Souls, reveals enemy gods to him that are within the execution threshold of his ultimate. Additionally, killing enemies heals him for a percentage of the victim's maximum health; killing gods restores more and shortens his cooldowns. However, to compensate, each of his abilities costs both mana and a percentage of his current health.
- His first ability, Death Scythe, throws his scythe directly forwards, dealing damage to the first target hit and slowing the target. If the target is a god, they take additional damage equal to 10% of their maximum health. Thanatos heals for 75% of the damage dealt, regardless of what was hit.
- His second ability, Scent of Death, is a steroid that grants Thanatos movement speed, slow immunity, and armor penetration. When moving towards a target marked by Harvester of Souls, the speed bonus doubles.
- Thanatos's third ability, Soul Reap, has him perform a wide sweep of his scythe after a brief delay, during which he moves slower. Enemies hit take damage and are silenced.
- Using his ultimate, Hovering Death, Thanatos flaps his wings and lifts off into the sky, able to move over obstacles at great speed. At any time, he can descend to attack a target area. Gods marked by Harvester of Souls are killed instantly; all other enemies are damaged and stunned.
Thanatos' alternate skins include Soul Harvester Thanatos, Reaper Tech Thanatos, Jack the Reaper Thanatos, and Archon Thanatos.
- Adaptational Villainy: Taking souls to the underworld is just part of Thanatos' job in the original myths, and he only does it for mortals who died peaceful deaths. Here, however, he's a straight-up Omnicidal Maniac who wants to kill every living thing, including other gods. According to Hesiod, Thanatos did despise the gods, but he didn't go into detail as to why.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Of death.
- Anti-Escape Mechanism: First he has his Harvester of Souls ultimate to chase down and execute fleeing god, but he's also got Scent of Death to make him run up to 60% faster while going toward enemies whose health is low enough for him to execute with Harvester of Souls.
- Blood Knight: Very eager to reap up souls, especially immortal souls. This is why he has heavy preference on Attack! Attack! Attack! strategy, no defensive/escape mechanisms, and pouts like a child when being told to buy defensive items.Aww, do I have to?
- Cast from Hit Points: All of his abilities cost a percentage of his health in addition to mana.
- Cooldown Manipulation: Thanatos immediately takes five seconds off his abilities' active cooldowns after killing a god, to better help him kill another.
- Crutch Character: Thanatos is one of the most powerful characters during the early game, due mainly to how much damage his Death Scythe ability deals. At low levels it can shave off nearly half of a victim's health by itself; since it also heals him for 75% of that damage, he's going to win most any trade at this point. Additionally, his health costs compensate for his mana costs being very low and along with all of his Life Drain, he can hope to heal back up off of jungle camps or minions as long as his mana isn't already out while most other characters are going to have to be casting more carefully. And then after killing a player, he'll heal 20% of their total health to get to work onto the other players. However, if the game goes long, his damage doesn't stay that way aside from against the squishiest of players, and his kit is rather risky to be using in a teamfight since he can either jump in onto an enemy and hope some bonus movement speed will let him get away or run in and hope he will live long enough to finish charging up Harvester of Souls if he needs it to escape.
- Dark Is Evil: Considering how he wishes to kill almost every mortal and the gods themselves, he makes one of the few exceptions of non-evil dark guys in this game.
- Light Is Good: Archon Thanatos is all about light, and, depending to your interpretation, he is definitely fighting to vanquish evil, even if he gets a little overzealous.
- Death or Glory Attack: Often the case when Thanatos is using his ultimate to fly into a fight, since he is quite frail and has no leap or dash abilities to help him escape if things go badly.
- Evil Laugh: Oh yes. In addition to his laugh emote, he also has one for when he kills someone with his ultimate.
- The Faceless: Unless, of course, the "mask" is his face.
- Finishing Move: His ultimate instantly kills an enemy god if they have a low enough percentage of health, no ifs, ands, or buts short of total damage immunity.
- For the Evulz: During his victory animation, he kills off Denton and a random soldier for fun, then brings them back to life as they run away. Why? Because it amused him.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: As part of his victory animation, Thanatos knocks on the screen, points at you, and then at his wrist, as if to say "your time is coming"...
- Gender Flip: His Valkyrie's Rage skin changes Thanatos's gender.
- The Grim Reaper: Or at the very least, the Greek version.
- Guest Fighter: He has two Exclusive skins that turn him into Ruby Rose, the main heroine of RWBY, in both her Atlas Arc and Beacon Arc costumes.
- Hates Everyone Equally: He despises both gods and mortals alike, who in return hate him back.
- Heel–Face Turn: The Archon Thanatos skin is what happens if instead of being an outright evil, omnicidal dark deity, Thanatos was instead an angel fighting for justice. Still a bit of a Knight Templar though.
- Herd-Hitting Attack: One of the few gods to have an area attack in his basic attack chain, which is once every three attacks on the third attack.
- "Instant Death" Radius: A very large one if his ultimate is up and you're under the execute threshold, since it doubles his movement speed and lets him fly over walls. However, if you see him coming and you can guess when he'll swoop down, you can use a leap or damage immunity ability to dodge it, which will usually require some impressive prediction as Harvester of Souls comes down very fast.
- Irony: Makes note of it sometimes when he dies.
- Kill Streak: Thanatos is quite good at getting these given his low mana costs, his Life Drain from hitting Death Scythe, and his passive healing himself from killing enemies as well as reducing his cooldowns from killing Gods. His mana costs being lower in compensation for his abilities being Cast From Hitpoints also help, as it won't be often he'll have to back down from being out of mana even early-game as long as he hits Death Scythe to keep himself healed.
- Knight Templar: Can go both ways, depending your interpretation. By default, Thanatos seems to be more dedicated to doing his job of reaping the dead, regardless of how much suffering it will cause. When using his Archon Thanatos skin, he gets so overzealous in banishing all that is evil that some Dark Is Not Evil deities do not even escape his wrath.
- Large Ham: Thanatos is mostly a Softspoken Sadist. Then the Archon Thanatos skin comes and suddenly he feels like chewing a lot of ham.
- Life Drain: A benefit of both his passive and his first ability, perhaps to compensate for the fact that his abilities all cost health. You can even see little wisps appear and dart into him when he kills minions.
- Malevolent Masked Men: He wears a pale, emotionless mask on his face.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: When activating his ultimate:"Your time has come!""This ends now!"
- Sadly Mythtaken: Unfortunately, the dark and edgy Smite Thanatos is a huge stretch from the Thanatos of Classical Mythology who is a youthful and neutral figure associated with the gentle passing of death. He also wears no armor or mask at all, dressing like a normal Greek would at the time; basically he's very human-looking in sharp contrast to Smite's Thanatos.
- Shout-Out: His default design seems to take a bit of a visual cue from another rendition of him.
- His "Final Boss" skin is pretty much one huge tribute to Sephiroth of Final Fantasy 7. A majority of his lines reference characters or events related to him, and the way he calls his name when chosen is very reminiscent of the way Sephiroth's name is chanted in his battle theme.
- Sinister Scythe: His main weapon.
- The Starscream: A unique voiceline he has for killing Hades has him declaring that "you're next, 'Boss!'"
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Death Scythe, natch. The ability is simply him tossing it forward in a spin.
- Victory Is Boring: Reaping the souls of mortals? Too easy for Thanatos. Reaping the soul of gods? Now that's a challenge.
- Why Won't You Die?: One possible reason why Thanatos is on a rampage. He views gods' immortality as an insult to his job of reaping souls and would like to test if he can reap immortal souls.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: Sometimes says this when executing someone with his ultimate.
Hunters
Apollo, God of Music
Voiced by: Phil Parsons (English), Carlo Velazquez (Mexican Spanish), Luiz Laffey (Brazilian Portuguese)
Vicious Apollo Skin Voiced by: Max Mittelman (English)
Spell Chanter Skin Voiced by: Cory Yee (English)
Elite Agent Skin Voiced by: Phil Parsons (English)
Curse Voice Skin Voiced by: Phil Parsons (English)
Winner's Circle Skin Voiced by: Phil Parsons (English)
Divine Machina Skin Voiced by: Joe Ochman (English)
As the god of music, Apollo gains the admiration of many, being able to change the course of battle in one single arrow and overall being a terrific musician that soldiers, mothers, kings, emperors or other gods rise in glorious melody in his tribute.
When he was just four days old, his mother Hera sent a great serpent, Pylos, to kill him and his twin sister Artemis. Apollo merely picked up a legendary bow gifted to him and shot the serpent dead. He then spent his youth as a cattle herder, where he tangled with the trickster god Hermes and in turn obtained the lyre made by Hermes in exchange of his cattle. Years later, Hermes sent his son Pan to reclaim the lyre, but Apollo used his guile and dexterity to defeat Pan in a lyre contest.
Apollo would take his place in Olympus, but not for long, since he had one last music show to perform, one that takes place in an area where gods waged war.
Apollo is a Hunter god who can attack and travel quickly and easily.
- His passive, Audacity, grants him a stack with every successful basic attack or when his abilities damage a god. Upon reaching ten stacks, Apollo's next five basic attacks will enjoy a massive Attack Speed increase and increased projectile speed.
- With his first ability, So Beautiful, Apollo plays his lyre, sending forward a wave of sound so enrapturing that it damages all enemies it passes through.
- His second ability, Serenade, mesmerizes all opponents around Apollo with his beautiful singing voice, disabling them for a brief duration or until they take damage while also granting Apollo a bonus to his Protections.
- With his third ability, The Moves, Apollo slides on his knees forward, damaging and knocking aside all enemies he passes through. When he arrives to his destination he slows all nearby opponents while giving himself and all nearby allies a movement speed bonus. This ability also grants an Audacity stack for every minion it hits.
- His ultimate ability, Across the Sky, has Apollo ride his chariot into the sky, at the cost of some mana per second for as long as he has mana left. When he reactivates the ability he will dive at the target location, damaging enemies over time as he falls and inflicting a weak knock-up when he lands.
Apollo's alternate skins include Slickshot Apollo, Battle Bard Apollo, Elite Agent Apollo, Team SoloMid Apollo, Curse Voice Apollo and Vicious Apollo.
- Anime Hair: In his Classic skin he wears his hair in a stylish pompadour, whereas the original Apollo was a Long-Haired Pretty Boy.
- Art Evolution: Got a visual update in January 2022 which gave him less cartoonish proportions as well as improved details for his armor and weapons. His chariot also got a refurbished look.
- Big Brother Instinct: ... Sort of. If he killed an enemy Artemis, he remarks that she really needs to get laid with another man. Which might bring a little cringe, because, well, he personally ruined her attempt when it comes to a certain Orion... Or maybe he thought the "man" in question is himself.
- British Rock Star: Hi-Rez wanting to invoke this trope with him is probably why he has a British accent. Otherwise it's just as misplaced as all the other non-Greek accents in this pantheon.
- Double Entendre: One of his jokes:"Is that a lyre in my pocket or am I just well—Oh yeah, never mind...that IS my lyre!"
- Dynamic Entry: As a character with a global ultimate, he is very adept at pulling these, and it's one of the main things that sets him apart from other ADCs.
- Finger Firearms: His basic attacks are bolts firing from Finger Guns he's making with his hands.
- Fragile Speedster: Apollo averts this to a degree, being the only ADC able to buff his own defenses, via Serenade. It's still advisable to use it to mesmerize enemies and get out of there, and his ultimate also makes him one of the fastest gods in terms of strategic mobility in the game.
- Guest Fighter: The 2021 Stranger Things collaboration gives him two skins of Chief Jim Hopper.
- It Runs on Nonsensoleum: His capabilities are among the game's silliest for actually working. He kills people with sunlight and music! It was inevitable once Hi-Rez decided on which of his many domains they wanted him to use in the game. Not that Apollo really had domains that wouldn't fall under this trope.
- Light 'em Up: Fires bolts of light from his fingertips as his basic attack. Fittingly so, as light is one of his many domains in myth.
- Magic Music: His music is apparently so divine that it can harm or stun gods and humans alike.
- Musical Assassin: Cases in point:Apollo strums a single cord on his lyre. It's so beautiful it hurts...Apollo uses his amazing voice to mesmerize all nearby enemies and bolster himself with additional protections.
- Odd Job Gods: Apollo had a ridiculous number of attributes in the myths, including but not limited to healing, plague, music, light, and sporting events/athletes. The "light" function was even extended to include the sun, even though they already had a separate god of the sun in Helios which led to the two being syncretized.
- The Rock Star: One of his abilities, The Moves, is...him sliding on knees while throwing up the "heavy metal horns" on both hands. Also what else did you expect from a god of music?
- Rule of Funny: The reason he attacks with finger guns instead of, say, a bow given his status as the god of archery.
- Sadly Mythtaken: Apollo doesn't drive the chariot of the sun; if he did he couldn't be on earth causing trouble. It's driven by Helios, the personification of the sun. This is an extremely common misconception nowadays. Even if the Greeks eventually equated him with Helios, no sources actually said he, as Apollo, ever drove it.
- Shout-Out: During his victory animation, Apollo sets fire to his lyre in the style of Jimi Hendrix.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Runs into battle completely bare-chested. God of male beauty, you see.
Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt
Click here for her Classic look
Voiced by: Brina Palencia (English), Marisol Romero (Mexican Spanish), Alessandra Araujo (Brazilian Portuguese)
Primal Huntress Skin Voiced by: Erica Mendez (English), Rebeca Gomez (Mexican Spanish)
Oak-Seer Skin Voiced by: Kassandra Marron (English)
Mystic Archer Skin Voiced by: Brittany Lauda (English)
Kitty Cafe Skin Voiced by: Valeria Rose Lohman (English)
Valiant Huntress Skin Voiced by: Megan Shipman (English)
Snuggly Artemis Skin Voiced by: Cherami Leigh (English)
Peace Out Skin Voiced by: Ryan Bartley (English)
Orbital Strike Skin Voiced by: Melanie Minichino (English)
Artemis, along with her brother Apollo, was the product of infidelity of Zeus and Leta. Naturally, this angered Hera, so she cursed Leta so she was not allowed to give birth on land or sea. Thankfully, she found an island that did not touch the land or sea, therefore she gave birth to the two safely, with Artemis as the elder twin.
Artemis grew into a fine hunter, spending her time more in the wilds. Her skills also grew with her own pride and ruthlessness whenever she was slighted, mostly on attacks on her skills as a hunter, or affronts to her other domain: Chastity. Adonis boasted about his own hunting skills to surpass her, and Artemis sent her Calydonian Board to kill him. The twin demigods Otos and Ephialtes, who could not be killed by anyone except themselves, threatens to kidnap and force their marriage on Artemis, and she tricked them into killing themselves. Actaeon peeped on her during her bath time, and she cursed him to turn into a stag and then devoured by his own hunting dogs.
Hunters and midwives praised her name for their hunts and childbirth. Military campaigns began with a sacrifice to her. Adolescent girls were sent to her temple to serve for a few years. Artemis is a focused, beautiful, deadly, chaste huntress that now set her sights to the war between gods.
Artemis is a Hunter goddess specializing in holding her enemies still and dealing high amounts of damage.
- Her passive, Still Target, increases Artemis' damage on her basic attacks against enemies suffering from crowd control (aside from blinds, knockbacks and grabs).
- Her first ability, Transgressor's Fate, allows Artemis to place up to four traps on the ground that, when an enemy walks over them, snares them with vines, damaging and immobilizing them for a brief duration.
- Her second ability, Vengeful Assault, grants Artemis a large bonus to her movement and attack speed for a few seconds. Artemis will cleanse and become briefly immune to Slows when the ability is cast.
- With her third ability, Suppress the Insolent, Artemis fires a volley of arrows into the air that fall at a nearby area, damaging and slowing all enemies inside.
- Her ultimate ability, Calydonian Boar, summons her mighty wild boar, which will charge at nearby enemy gods and minions every few moments during a brief duration, damaging and stunning the target.
Artemis' alternate skins include Briar Queen Artemis, Wrangler Artemis, Recon Artemis, Convention 2012 Artemis, Stalker Artemis and Primal Huntress Artemis.
- Adaptational Modesty: In classical artwork depictions, such as sculptures, Artemis wears a short hunter's tunic that displays her legs and arms. This version of Artemis wears a tunic that covers both her arms and legs, appropriately for a virgin goddess.
- All Animals Are Dogs: Tusky, the Calydonian Boar, wags his tail, pants, and plays fetch in her victory animation.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Her Moonlit Ranger skin, who calls herself a moon elf, has lavender skin.
- The Beastmaster: Artemis's ultimate has her summon the Calydonian Boar for a short duration. The boar also makes appearances in her after-game victory and defeat animations.
- Boring, but Practical: Compared to other gods like Poseidon, with bursts of flashy damage, or even other physical carries, her arsenal is pretty underwhelming. Roughly 90% of her damage comes from her basic attacks. However, if you manage to survive to late game, she is one of the strongest gods in the game in terms of raw damage.
- Combos: Transgressor's Fate has a fairly short range and a significant delay between when the command is given and when the trap becomes active, making it tough to hit somebody with it in the middle of a fight. The much-easier stun from her ultimate, however, guarantees a Transgressor's Fate as a followup. And since you're not going to miss a snared target, so why not also activate Vengeful Assault at this moment? Further encouraging this is her passive, Still Target, causing her to do more damage against enemies afflicted by crowd control.
- Critical Hit Class: Used to have an obvious synergy with many critical strike items given she could get 15% for free from her passive, but the passive was later changed.
- Difficult, but Awesome: She is widely considered to be one of the hardest gods to play due to being extremely slow with no dash or leap abilities (Vengeful Assault's bonus movement speed is usually considered not enough for chasing) and a poor early-game, but once she's got enough items, she has one of the highest damage potential in the game.
- Full-Boar Action: The Calydonian Boar that she summons for her ultimate rams enemies one by one, stunning them and dealing damage.
- Ghost Pirate: The Dread Captain skin is based on the myths of ghost ships.
- Glass Cannon: She’s fragile, and without an escape will die quickly if jumped on, but she can pump out some of the highest damage in the game once she’s built.
- I Will Find You: In the newest comic for Smite, after being nearly taken by Hades, Artemis discovers that her brother is missing, and she allies herself with Amaterasu, Thor, Nu Wa and other gods in order to find him.
- Magikarp Power: It'll probably be rough going for Artemis at first, but with some items and levels, she'll be shooting off a bunch of painful arrows very quickly...which she can even do while immune to crowd control!
- Male Gaze: The new splash art for her Wrangler skin puts her shapely rear end front and center. The old splash art looked almost directly down her low-cut top. Maybe this is a compensation for how much she averts this normally, as described below.
- Mundane Utility: The traps placed by Transgressor's Fate are great in a fight, but they can also be used as an early-warning system. Two of them can be placed so as to completely block an entrance into her lane from the jungle, alerting her player to an intruder whenever the orange damage numbers pop up on the edge of their screen.
- New-Age Retro Hippie: Her Peace Out skin makes her this, with a cartoon hippie bus replacing her boar.
- No "Arc" in "Archery": Her arrows fired from her basic attacks fly horizontally parallel to the ground from her in a straight line before disappearing. Her arrows fired from Suppress the Insolent fire vertically perpendicular from the air downwards, also in straight lines.
- No Shirt, Long Jacket: Her Dread Captain skin wears an open jacket, leaving her bra and midriff exposed.
- No Social Skills: Artemis isn't exactly a social girl, being secluded in the forests by choice. Her jokes thus come off like taunting her enemies further:"Training a boar to fight with you is much easier than house training him.""This arrow has your name on it. See? "Moron", it's on all of them!"
- Nubile Savage: The Primal Huntress skin gives her a cave girl theme, complete with a dinosaur to replace the boar.
- Pirate Girl: Her Dread Captain skin is themed like a pirate.
- Rain of Arrows: Suppress the Insolent has her fire a volley of arrows skyward, which rain down in a circular area, damaging all enemies within the radius.
- Redhead In Green: As depicted in a lot of works.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Many gods have abilities whose names rather plainly reflect what they actually do, such as Ullr's Thrown Axe, Aphrodite's Kiss, or Poseidon's Whirlpool. Then there's Artemis, who has Trangressor's Fate and Suppress the Insolent.
- Slut-Shaming: Her taunts toward Aphrodite and Neith, specifically her calling Aphrodite a slut outright and mocking Neith's choice of clothes. Her taunt towards Aphrodite was later removed by Hi-Rez, probably thinking that an overly direct taunt on such a subject would not be good for publicity. Now, Artemis says nothing about her.
- Token Wholesome: Played with. If we count standard skins alone, she's the most well-covered goddess in the game (aside from Amaterasu and Scylla, who has the excuse of looking like a four year old) and even calls out a couple of the most Stripperific goddesses. Even Athena and Chang'e show some leg and some cleavage, respectively. Possibly going along with this is her joke that it's "stupid" how "all these guys" are "so serious over her." She has a good justification on this, though: chastity is one of her domains. On the other hand, Artemis is not lacking in "sexy" alternate skins, like Moonlit Ranger, Oak-Seer, or Valiant Huntress.
- The Wild West: Her Wrangler alternate skin turns her into a cowgirl.
Charybdis, The Ceaseless Whirlpool
"Feel free to keep running or simply give up. This is fun for me either way."
Voiced by: Xanthe Huynh
"Between a rock and a hard place". "Catch-22". "The lesser of two evils". There are many ways to describe difficult situations with no clear right answer, and the Greeks have "Between Scylla and Charybdis".note The daughter of Poseidon, Charybdis is the whirlpool to Scylla's crushing rocks, an inseparable duo, and after being trapped underwater for centuries by the other gods, Charybdis has returned to seek vengeance.
Charybdis is a Hunter who seeks to pin down and overwhelm her opponents with deadly daggers before revealing her true nature and eliminating whoever stands in her way.
- Her passive is Raging Tides, which gives her a Tide meter that increases by landing basic attacks. Her Tide meter increases her attack speed and can be consumed to enhance some of her other abilities. In addition, the third auto attack in her attack chain is also split into 3 daggers that each trigger item effects, although she deals reduced damage with damaging item effects like Qin Sais and Odysseus Bow.
- Her first ability, Spike Shot, summons The Maw to empower her basic attacks, increasing the projectile's size and travel speed as well as allowing them to pierce through enemy minions. If the spikes hit an enemy god or a wall, they will split into six projectiles around the impact point to deal additional damage and help build Tide.
- Her second ability, Capsize, has her absorb water before firing it from The Maw, dealing damage and inflicting a Slow and Physical Protection debuff on her target. Charybdis can channel the ability to consume some of her Tide meter to increase the projectile's damage and width as well as the length of the debuffs.
- Her third ability, Whirlpool Form, has her dive into a whirlpool that The Maw patrols, increasing Charybdis' movement speed, damage enemies caught in the area, and make Charybdis untargettable and immune to damage. Charybdis can choose to consume Tide to increase her movement speed, the ability's damage, and allow her to deal extra damage and a knockup when exiting the whirlpool.
- Her ultimate is The Maw Hungers, which has Charybdis reveal her true nature, increasing her movement speed and granting herself Unstoppable for a few seconds. During this period, she can unleash a single powerful attack where The Maw charges forward, damaging and pushing enemies hit before unleashing a powerful bite that deals massive damage and stuns them. If this attack kills her target, the ability's duration resets and she can use the attack again.
- Badass Adorable: Looks like a cute little girl, and she can shred through enemies in short order with her throwing daggers. Well, cute until she reveals her true nature, at least...
- Blood Knight: She's extremely eager to hunt enemy gods, and gets especially excited when she's on a killing spree.Charybdis: The battlefield runs crimson and wet! Delightful!
- Boyish Short Hair: Charybdis doesn't have any traditionally feminine traits, and has short black hair to contrast with Scylla’s more conventionally girlish look.
- Close-Range Combatant: Downplayed. Charybdis has more range than non-mage classes due to her role as a Hunter, but she also has less range compared to those she shares the role with.
- Creepy Child: She's deadly serious and fairly violent, despite looking like a child. As you may expect from Scylla's partner.
- Cursed with Awesome: Zeus cursed her arm to mutate into an eternally hungry, destructive monster. But Charybdis embraces the power it brings, uses it to wreak her vengeance and even treats it as a friend of sorts.
- Foil: Scylla and Charybdis are sea monsters with the appearance of young girls in royal dressnote who are both capable of high damage output and have ultimates that can be used multiple times if the player lands a killing blow. However, Scylla is a powerful mage who prefers playing (read: gleefully destroying any ships that come near her domain) over working and dresses more extravagantly. Charybdis is more of a tomboy, a skilled hunter who accompanies Poseidon in political matters, trains/hunts with her daggers, and tends to dress more formally... as well as destroying any ships that come near her domain. Both also have hidden monstrous limbs, but while Scylla’s are attached at the leg, Charybdis’ limb takes the place of her arm. In the second chapter of the Odyssey: Perilous Seas event, it is revealed that they have contrasting personalities: while Scylla thinks murdering everybody is fun, Charybdis is more level-headed and focuses her vengeance on a single target, Zeus.
- Lamprey Mouth: Her third ability has her dive into a whirlpool, revealing and enlarging the nightmarish Maw, and damaging all gods she passes under.
- Little Miss Badass: Her youthful appearance belies her deadly skill with daggers, as well as the power of her savage Maw.
- Making a Splash: As the daughter of Poseidon, she has the ability to manipulate water. Her second ability Capsize has her suck up water with the Maw, then shoot it in a damaging cone (a reference to how she sucks up then expels sea water three times a day in the original mythology).
- Mark of the Supernatural: Has one blue eye and one orange eye, the latter hinting at her monstrous nature (the Maw has orange eyes).
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Expectedly, her Maw has a massive set of sharp, deadly-looking teeth. One of her jokes actually poke fun of this; sure it looks scary, but brushing it is a pain.Charybdis: 'Brush your teeth daily,' they say. 'It's important!' they say. It's so much work though, uggghhh!
- Older Than They Look: You wouldn't expect she would be centuries old, as she looks like a young girl.
- Red Right Hand: While usually covered by her cloak, she has a giant anglerfish-like monster called "The Maw" instead of a left arm.
- Revenge: Towards Zeus who cursed her to become a monster and confined her in the sea. Now that she has been freed by Tiamat, she and Scylla are ready to take their vengeance.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's the daughter of the Lord of the Ocean, and tended to accompany her father with matters of sports or politics, and loves training and hunting with her daggers.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: She and Scylla are revealed to be this in the first chapter of the Odyssey: Perilous Seas lore. Tiamat frees them from their chains at the bottom of the ocean so they can help her defeat Zeus, the one who imprisoned them.
- Sea Monster: One of the most famous examples from Greek Mythology along with Scylla. In SMITE, she reveals this aspect in her third ability Whirlpool Form where she expands her Maw, a giant toothy mouth poking out of the water, and in her ult The Maw Hungers when she lets out her monster arm to attack foes.
Chiron, the Great Teacher
Voiced by: Phil Parsons (English), Alejandro Villeli (Mexican Spanish), Emerson Camargo (Brazilian Portuguese)
Centaurion Skin Voiced by: Orion Acaba (English)
Constable Moosejaw Skin Voiced by: Josh Tomar (English)
Fabulous Skin Voiced by: Sean Chiplock (English)
Headless Horror Skin Voiced by: Luis Bermudez (English)
Hellrider Skin Voiced by: Aaron Aryanpur (English)
Slay Bells Skin Voiced by: R. Bruce Elliott (English)
Chiron is one of the many centaurs, creatures with the upper body of a man and the lower body of a horse. For the most part, centaurs are brutish, cruddy, violent creatures, but Chiron was different. He was instead a scholar, poet, astrologer and teacher. He has taught many many legendary heroes, from Perseus to Ajax to Achilles, and most of them were about art of war.
Deep down, however, Chiron would prefer a quiet life of reading books and bonding with nature rather than going to war. Tragically, his life came to end when one of his students, the legendary Hercules, asked him about the venom coming from the creature known as Hydra. Chiron was infected and died in agonizing pain, but Zeus saw it fit that he was rewarded for his teaching history and turned him into a constellation in the sky, the constellation Sagittarius.
And now, the gods waged war against each other. Chiron descended back from his constellation, not to read more books or scrolls, but to take up arms with his bow and armor and protect the wondrous world that fascinated him.
Chiron is a Hunter god with some supportive capabilities and good mobility tools.
- His passive, Herbal Medicine, causes him to periodically store a poultice, stacking up to three times. Whenever he uses an ability, a poultice is consumed and a nearby ally will receive a slight overtime heal and an increase to their power.
- His first ability, Training Exercise, has Chiron warn allies to evict an area, cleansing CC on his allies in the area before exploding after a delay, damaging enemies caught in the area.
- His second ability, Masterful Shot, passively makes his basic attacks, Training Exercise, and Centaurus shots reduce the physical protections of his targets. It also marks them for the active component, which fires homing arrows at all marked targets, damaging and slowing them.
- His third ability, Giddyup!, has him gallop forward, knocking up enemy minions and kicking enemy gods behind him. Chiron may still use basic attacks and Masterful Shot while dashing, and he deals increased damage during the charge.
- His ultimate, Centaurus, has him transform into a constellation, allowing him to fire three long-range shots that pierce through everything, moving at reduced speed while firing. If Chiron is reduced to 0HP while in this state, he will be immobilized, but will be able to fire any remaining shots before dying. In this scenario, Chiron can save himself by killing an enemy God, instead reviving with health equal to the damage dealt by the killing blow.
Chiron's alternate skins include Sagittarius Chiron, Chevalier Chiron, Hellrider Chiron, Fabulous Chiron and Constable Moosejaw.
- Always Accurate Attack: Masterful Shot always hits every target marked by his basic attacks, even if Chiron can't see them.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite being surrounded by many magical and mythical entities and he himself being a centaur, Chiron does not believe in unicorns.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: What the above lore didn't tell from the reveal video is that Chiron later died by Hydra's poison, but Zeus rewarded his death by turning him into the constellation Sagittarius. And just for this war, Chiron descended from that plane of existence.
- Badass Teacher: Judging by what he's saying, he probably sees his team as his pupils with many of his lines from using his abilities being advice or adages you'd say to an archery student. Training Exercise can even pull out a save on them with its crowd control cleansing.
- Black Knight: His Hellrider skin has this aesthetic, being almost fully covered in a black helm, armor, and barding.
- Combat Medic: His passive heals allies while Training Exercise cleanses crowd control, giving him this feel. His dialogue further supports this.
- Combos: Hit someone with an autoattack, then shoot a Masterful Shot to slow them and plant a Training Exercise on them they've been slowed by Masterful Shot. Alternatively, you can swap it around and land Training Exercise on its own, then making them open to Masterful Shot (which allows you to hit enemies with these abilities while staying out of ranged-autoattack distance).
- Cool Old Guy: Grey hair, considerably aging but still has a very fit physique, and seeing that he trained many younger heroes, he fits the archetype.
- Crutch Character: Doesn't really have anything to him that scales with the basic attacks Hunters are usually known for, but his passive is helpful sustain early in lane, he clears minions easily with Training Exercise and Masterful Shot, and his ultimate is initially pretty painful. He can also be very hard to catch thanks to Giddyup!.
- Cultured Badass: He is the Great Teacher, after all. He's also one of the few centaurs who is very much cultured, when centaurs are usually brutes.
- Death or Glory Attack: Centaurus can be used much like this. If he fails to secure a kill while an enemy is barreling down on him, he's as good as dead, but if he secures a kill with the ultimate, he'll live on.
- Do Not Run with a Gun: Chiron refuses this assertion! He can shoot as much as possible in Giddyup! - though turning around will a much harder task.
- Fragile Speedster: He has the highest base movement speed in the game (just beating out some Assassins) and can be quite slippery with Giddyup! and Training Exercise used well in tandem, but he is still a Hunter, so he falls fairly easily if you manage to get to him regardless of these tools.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: His card art and character design show that he should be left handed (his quiver faces his left side), but he wields his bow with his right hand in-game.
- Hellish Horse: His Hellrider skin's horse half has flaming hooves and tail.
- Moose and Maple Syrup: His Constable Moosejaw skin turns him into a moose in a Canadian mountie uniform, with his voicelines peppered with the stereotypical Canadian accent and slang.
- Multi Shot: Masterful Shot shoots an arrow at all marked targets from other arrow attacks from him. If he managed to mark twenty different targets, then he'll shoot twenty arrows, one for each marked target.
- No "Arc" in "Archery": Well, it's still frequently the case with him, but Masterful Shot provides an (impossible) aversion to this - he fires the arrows upwards, which then sway left and right as then land down onto their target.
- Our Centaurs Are Different: A centaur that is cultured and uses finesse over brute force. This is true to the myths as mentioned in his lore.
- Shout-Out: Incidentally, Hellrider Chiron could be one to The Divine Comedy, where Chiron appears there and is portrayed as a punisher of the damned in one of the circles of Hell.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the original myths, Chiron died when Heracles accidentally shot him with an arrow dipped in the Hydra's blood, relinquishing his immortality to escape a Fate Worse than Death. That doesn't appear to have happened at this point in Smite. However, in his ultimate ability he briefly takes on the form of the constellation he was turned into after he died (Sagittarius).
- Unexplained Accent: He has a Scottish accent, despite being Greek. It's much softer than Tyr's accent, though.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: His Fabulous skin's "shirt" barely qualifies as one, leaving his chest exposed.
Martichoras, the Manticore King
"The scent of humans reeks throughout this realm. I will savor each and every delectable morsel, as I tear them limb from limb!"
Voiced by: Tim Bick
Originally a creature from Persian mythology, the manticore is a ferocious beast that has enraptured and haunted the minds of many ever since first arising alongside Tiamat. With their sharp claws, vicious fangs, and venomous spines, manticores are known throughout ancient times as a vicious hunter, greedily devouring those it passes by. However, even the most beastly of creatures need a leader, someone to help guide their kind in being the most effective predators possible. And with the Ages of Monsters tearing the realm of the gods asunder, the time has come for the king of the manticores, Martichoras, to arise. May the gods beware, as Martichoras' mind is set in hunting the most dangerous game of all: the divine.
Martichoras is a Hunter-class god who fights using his natural weaponry, with his horns, claws, and spines all being able to spread a vicious brand of venom.
- His passive is Monstrosity. Martichoras gains stacks of Ferocity when hitting basic attacks, abilities, and participating in kills. After receiving enough Ferocity stacks, he consumes them to gain a temporary Attack Speed buff that can be extended by damaging enemy gods. He also gains a stack of Monstrosity, increasing his lifesteal and ability lifesteal. In addition, his basic attacks have slightly reduced base damage compared to other hunters, but apply Venom, a stacking damage over time debuff. Martichoras applies 4 stacks of Venom on initial application and it can stack up to 8 times.
- His first ability is Acid Rain, which sends out a barrage of venomous spikes that damage enemies caught in the downpour. The spikes remain in the ground for a few seconds, damaging and slowing enemies that walk across it.
- His second ability is Poisoned Barb, which fires a stinger that pierces through minions and stops on the first god hit. After being fired, the barb will either stick in the ground at the end of its path or be stuck in a god, where they can be detonated by Martichoras' basic attacks and abilities. An exploding stinger will damage and temporarily halve the incoming healing of enemies caught in the blast, and gods will be rooted by detonated stingers that were stuck to them.
- His third ability is Stalk Pray, which creates a patch of grass that remains on the battlefield for several minutes. Martichoras and his teammates are invisible while inside the patch. While hidden, Martichoras' basic attacks deal increased damage and immediately apply maximum Venom stacks. He also gains a movement speed increase that persists for a few seconds after leaving the patch.
- Death From Above is his ultimate, which has Martichoras take to the skies and rain down bursts of toxin, damaging and applying a stacking physical protection debuff on enemies hit.
- Ascended Meme: The manticore has been long-requested by the fans as a playable character, to the point of getting a fake trailer released for it on April Fools Day, 2016. And with Martichoras, it's finally happening.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: As a manticore, he has a stinger-tipped scorpion-like tail that oozes glowing green venom — and in his reveal trailer is shown using it to almost kill a Greek soldier, managing to knock off her helmet.
- Eyeless Face: His Annihilator skin doesn't have visible eyes.
- A Kind of One: The mythical manticore is typically presented as a Single Specimen Species. Here the manticores are a more established race, enough for Martichoras to emerge as its king.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": His name is taken from a mistranslation of Aristotle's transcriptions, which would eventually be anglicized into the term "manticore" itself.
- Monster Lord: Martichoras is the king of the manticores, who were included in the game's beta as an enemy before being removed and became the subject of a running gag among the fandom.
- Original Generation: Martichoras is an original character, one made as a unique representation of the manticore, and is the first playable example of such in the game. Slightly downplayed in that he is presented as the original manticore discovered by Ctesias, but so much of his lore is invented by Hi-Rez (including his name and title) that he effectively qualifies.
- Sadly Mythtaken: A manticore is actually a creature from Persian mythology. However, the lack of a Persian pantheon in this game, alongside how the manticore is often used in Greek literature (first coined by Greek physician Ctesias, who worked in the Persian court in his life) meant that Martichoras is lumped into the Greek pantheon.
- Martichoras's lore also states that he and possibly other manticores are children of Tiamat. Not only does this connection not exist in the original accounts of Ctesias, but he actually connects the manticore to India instead.
- Spike Shooter: He's shown firing venomous quills at a Greek soldier before knocking off her helmet with his tail and diving at her in an Eat the Camera shotnote .
Medusa, the Gorgon
Voiced by: Rachel Robinson (English), Conny Madera (Mexican Spanish), Melissa Lucena (Brazilian Portuguese)
Brood Mother Skin Voiced by: Dawn M. Bennett (English)
Crystal Gaze Skin Voiced by: Brianna Roberts (English)
Glacial Gaze Skin Voiced by: Samia Mounts (English)
Gummy Worm Skin Voiced by: Katelyn Barr (English)
iDusa Skin Voiced by: Lydia Mackay (English)
Nebula Skin Voiced by: Jad Saxton (English)
Queen Cobra Skin Voiced by: Tiana Camacho (English)
Sea Maiden Skin Voiced by: Cristina Valenzuela (English)
Snakey Chibi Skin Voiced by: Rachel Robinson (English)
Tormented Soul Skin Voiced by: Erin Yvette (English)
One of the Gorgons, a woman with snakes for hair whose gaze turns anyone looking at her into stone. Medusa was formerly a priestess of Athena, both beautiful and devout. However, eventually Poseidon was attracted to her and wanted to court her. No mortals could refuse Gods, so Medusa accepted.
Athena did not take this well. For her betrayal, she was cursed into the form she was best known for, the snake-haired monster with a petrifying glare, the Gorgon. Ashamed and furious, Medusa fled from the world, nursing her own hatred towards everything that wronged her, and especially Gods.
And as the gods started warring against each other, Medusa decided it was time to take her vengeance, while wearing a mask to conceal her horrifying face that could inflict petrification. Perhaps with that, she could reclaim her beauty.
Medusa is a Hunter goddess who, unlike other Hunters, deals most of her damage through abilities instead of basic attacks.
- Her passive, Sidewinder, lets her suffer no movement penalty from strafing and half the movement penalty when moving backwards.
- Her first ability, Viper Shot, has her shoot out four vipers in rapid succession which poison enemies over time. While this steroid is active, her attack speed is increased.
- With her second ability, Acid Spray, she spits out acid that, if it hits an enemy or a statue, will spread out in a cone. Any statues she created in the cone will explode. Enemies hit are damaged and get receive reduced healing for a short period.
- With her third ability, Lacerate, she slithers forward, slashing enemies she passes through. She will stop on the first god hit, who will be rooted for a brief moment.
- Her ultimate ability, Petrify, has her remove her mask to reveal her hideous face. Enemies that are facing her take full damage and are stunned, while enemies that face away from her take slightly reduced damage and are slowed. If an enemy dies while affected by a Petrify debuff, they will turn into a statue.
Medusa's alternate skins include Black Gorgon Medusa, Mortal Coil Medusa, iDusa and Sea Maiden Medusa.
- Abnormal Ammo: Viper Shot is...pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin. She's loosing vipers at you from her bow.
- Acid Attack: Acid Spray, of course. It appears to be shot out of all of her snake hairs.
- Ancient Grome: Despite being placed in the Greek Pantheon, she's given her Roman backstory, as opposed to the Greek backstory where she was a monstrous sea nymph and half-sister to Scylla among others.
- Arch-Enemy: Athena, natch, though she's also rather elated when she gets to take revenge on Poseidon.
- However, much like fellow arch-nemeses Lucian and Thresh, she and Athena make for an excellent Guardian-Hunter combination, since Athena's taunt is one of the few abilities that can outright force enemies to look directly at Medusa for the full effect of her ultimate. Teeth-Clenched Teamwork at its finest.
- Badass Boast: Also borders on being a Blasphemous Boast in the context of the game. Medusa is just a monstrous creature, but on killing Kukulkan, who, mind you, is a Top God from another Pantheon, she declares that she'll make him her pet. It takes balls to make a pet out of a Top God.
- Boring, but Practical: Medusa's Sidewinder passive is not as flashy or dramatic as some of the passives available to the rest of Smite's roster. However, it allows you to easily kite enemies as all enemy gods, other than Medusa, move slower while strafing or moving backwards.
- Butterface: With the mask on, Medusa remains quite attractive, despite her obvious serpentine features. Without it...well, it's not ugly enough to petrify the viewer, but it's certainly something of a turn-off.
- Cool Mask: The White Mask of Doom she wears to conceal her face and make her appear more "normal." Also serves as a Power Limiter so she doesn't petrify the wrong people.
- Cute Monster Girl: She's honestly not that hideous, even with her Butterface.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Like Hou Yi, Medusa's inclusion was foreshadowed by a line from Curse Voice Apollo.
- Evil Sounds Raspy: Specifically a serpentine hiss. Add to it the rasp and it makes her sound even more threatening than Kukulkan.
- Femme Fatalons: Despite being a Hunter, Medusa has iron claws and one of her abilities uses them to inflict damage and healing reduction.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: Normally, Medusa's petrification glare has one weakness: mirrors, which will reflect the glare and in turn petrifies herself (this is how Perseus defeated her; re-imagined in her losing animation with a nameless centurion taking Perseus' place). In-game, no mirrors, not even sacred ones like Amaterasu's Mirror of Yata, can protect anyone from Medusa's glare.
- Gorgeous Gorgon: Defied, hard. Beneath that porcelain mask, Medusa's every bit as nightmarishly ugly as she was depicted in the older versions of the myths.
- Hates Everyone Equally: Medusa makes it no secret that she hates every god, regardless of who they are and what they've done, and that if the battle didn't let her strike back at those who've wronged her she wouldn't have even shown up. This is extremely evident with her voice pack's variant of the "You rock!" quote, which is a bold faced threat to kill the ally before they become a threat to her.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Very downplayed as it is only barely possible and very unlikely to happen with how small the area that they cause this is, but the statues left from Medusa killing with her ultimate can actually count as obscuring a player from a future use of her ultimate.
- Her defeat animation scene is this: A minion fails to sneak up on with her then tossing him to the ground on his back and unleashing her ultimate...but he puts his shield over him which reflects it back at her, turning her to stone long enough for him to escape.
- Lighter and Softer: Her lore mentions Poseidon propositioning her, despite her being a priestess of Athena. Those who know about Classical mythology know what that really entails.Explanation
- Malevolent Masked Man: And you certainly don't want to see what's behind it.
- Medusa: The one, the only, the original!
- One-Person Victory Party: In her victory animation, Medusa throws a party to celebrate the win. Problem is, none of the other gods showed up, so the only guest are a stone statue of someone and a statue of Chang'e's rabbit, both whom are cowering in fear. The entire thing makes the victory somewhat bittersweet.
- Organic Bra: Her Brood Mother skin has brown "plates" covering her nipples.
- Revenge: Naturally she's still pissed at Athena and Poseidon for her situation, odd because the two of them are also not fond of one another.
- Revenge by Proxy: While her main beef is with Athena and Poseidon, she's not choosy if she can't get to them, and takes pleasure in forcing whatever gods end up on the enemy team to feel her pain.
- Sadly Mythtaken: The half-snake archer rendition of Medusa is an invention of Clash of the Titans. Acknowledged by Word of God, stating that this appearance was chosen because it is her most popular and iconic modern portrayal, not unlike Poseidon and his Kraken.
- Heck, you could even make a case of her history with Poseidon and Athena qualifying for this, as in the original Greek myths, she was always a snake monster. (The story of her being a priest of Athena who attracted Poseidon was invented in the first decade AD by Roman poet Ovid.)
- Seashell Bra: The Sea Maiden skin is a mermaid and wears a seashell bra.
- Shout-Out: Sea Maiden Medusa is a redhead mermaid, hence most of her quotes being references to The Little Mermaid. Along with one taking on Drake's "Hotline Bling", "You used to call me on my shell phone, late night when you need my buff."
- Snake People: Unlike some other depictions, where Medusa is more or less human below the hairline, Smite's Medusa is fully serpentine from her head to her tail. Even her face is far more serpentine than human, with a flat, lipless mouth full of razor sharp teeth and scent pits instead of a nose.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Perseus hasn't come to slay her in this version.
- Sssssnaketalk: Downplayed. She does elongate the "s" phoneme, but it's not as exaggerated as Kukulkan's.
- Taken for Granite: Her ultimate ability does this if enemies are directly facing her when it goes off. The effect becomes permanent if it kills them, creating persistent statues that can be destroyed with attacks or used as targets for her Acid Spray ability.
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Hecate, Goddess of Sorcery
The Greek goddess of magic and crossroads. Her role is officially unknown, though has been announced as ranged and magical and is most likely a Mage.
She is notably the first god to be revealed for Smite 2.
She is notably the first god to be revealed for Smite 2.
