New Polynesian God – Pele
Goddesses of Volcanoes
Passive – Everlasting Flame
When Pele drops below 50% health her flame is set alight, and she gains increased Physical Power, Lifesteal and Ability Lifesteal. This passive has a 20s cooldown.
Power: 5+2 per level
Lifesteal: 40%
Ability Lifesteal: 20%
Cooldown: 20s
Duration: 6s
Pyroclast
Pele flourishes and fires out a magma orb ahead of her in a line. Once the fiery projectile reaches maximum distance it hovers for a brief instant, solidifies, and then returns back in pieces, dealing damage to enemies on the way back. The number of shards returning is dependent on the rank of this ability.
Pele has 2 charges of this ability.
Damage: 60/100/140/180/220 (+60% of your physical power)
Return Damage: 20 (+10% of your physical power)
Range: 60
Cooldown: 14s
Mana Cost: 40/45/50/55/60
Eruption
Pele fiercely erupts energy into the ground, exploding in an area around her, causing damage and Knockup to all enemies. At ranks 3 and 5 the area expands again at a delay, dealing less damage and a smaller Knockup.
Three Exploding circles
Inner Damage: 100/140/180/220/260 (+80% of your physical power)
Outer Damage: 80/120/160/200/240 (+60% of your physical power)
Knockup: 280/240/200
Radius: 15/25/35
Cooldown: 15s
Mana Cost: 60/65/70/75/80
Magma Rush
Pele starts to churn the land around her, dealing damage to nearby enemies and giving her constant movement speed while this ability is active. Toggle this ability again to enter an amplified state, expending more fuel but dealing more damage and providing additional movement speed. This ability has no cooldown but uses a fuel gauge and cannot be activated when below 10 fuel.
Damage: 20/25/30/35/40 (+10% of your physical power) every 0.5s
Amplified Damage: 40/50/60/70/80 (+20% of your physical power) every 0.5s
Movement speed: 30%
Amplified speed: 60%
Initial Fuel Cost: 5
Mana Cost: 10
Cooldown: 0s
Volcanic Lightning
After a short warm up, Pele dashes forward dealing massive damage and a slow to the first enemy God hit, and dealing additional damage to enemies behind in a cone. For the next 10 seconds or 3 attacks, every time Pele hits an enemy with a basic attack, additional damage is dealt behind the enemy as well.
Damage: 200/280/360/440/520 (+60% of your physical power)
Extra Damage: 100/140/180/220/260 (+40% of your physical power)
Range: 60
Slow: 30%
Slow Duration: 6s
Cooldown: 90s
Mana Cost: 100
NEW GOD SKINS
Primal Storm Susano
Molten He Bo
Mystic Guardian Athena
Mastery Skins | Pele
New Cosmetics
- Polynesian Loading Frame
- Polynesian Music Theme
- Cutesy Pele Avatar
- Primal Storm Fountain FX
New Announcer Pack
- Primal Storm Announcer Pack
New Emotes
- Pele Clap
- Pele Wave
Awesome Chest
- New Additions to the Awesome Chest
- Electric Dream Nox
- Chompy Chibi Fenrir
Fantasy Points Store
- New Additions to the Fantasy points Store
- Beamy Chibi Ra
- Bizzy B Cupid
- Scarlet Coven Isis
PROJECT OLYMPUS
Ranked Joust
- Increased the second ban phase from 1 ban to 2 bans (total bans increased from 3 to 4).
Jungle Practice
- Added a pad for players to add protections to Odin Bots
- Added a pad for players to spawn minion waves in the Tower/Phoenix area
Arena
- Decreased the minimum respawn time from 20s to 10s to make deaths less punishing in the early game or on losing teams
Triumphant Chests
- Have been relocated to the "Play" Screen on Xbox and Ps4
Prompt for Report
- Decreased the likelihood of being prompted for reporting due to frequent deaths.
BUG FIXES
Clash Phoenixes
- Fixed death animations and attack animations
Joust XP Camp
- These should now correctly appear as Tigers, not Cyclops.
Fountains
- Will now only heal or damage Gods
General
- Fixed an issue where some percentage increase or decrease effects were not additive
- For example: an item with 20% increased damage dealt and 15% damage dealt should result in 35% damage dealt
- Sundering Spear
- Runeforged Hammer
- Bakasura's Take Down
- Artemis's Still Target
- For example: an item with 20% increased damage dealt and 15% damage dealt should result in 35% damage dealt
- The Popular Items tab will now default to showing Tier 3 items
Audio
- The following Voice Packs and Announcer Packs have been remastered for more consistent quality and volume
- Announcer Ddot
- Khepri Steel Scarab
- Neith Scarlet Dangerfield
- Odin Pandamonium
- Raijin Drum's Out
- Rama Nature's Guardian
- The following Abilities have been remastered for more consistent quality and volume
- Secret Agent Apollo's Ultimate
- Guan Unicorn Guan Yu's Basic Attacks
UI
- Fixed an issue where bank time could appear in Normal matches after playing a ranked match
- Fixed issues where the scoreboard was sometimes missing players
Spectator
- Fixed an issue where gods/items could get out of order if a player disconnected
Commendation System
- Fixed an issue where the screen would be off-center on some resolutions
- Fixed an issue where the skip button would not work sometimes
- Changed the text of this button from "skip" to "continue" to make it clear your commendations are saved even if you leave the screen early
- Fixed an issue where commendations were not counting for the correct progress amount
Items
ETHEREAL STAFF
- Fixed an issue where a god could have more than 3 debuff stacks if multiple opponents had the item
Gods
AH PUCH
EMPTY THE CRYPTS
- Fixed an issue where his Ultimate was damaging structures
ARTIO
- Fixed an issue where spamming stance change could cause the bear to T pose
BAKASURA
- Fixed an issue where Take Down debuff would display confusing damage calculations in the combat log
CHERNOBOG
- Chernobog can no longer recall to base while inside of a wall
FREYA
- Fixed an issue where her abilities were highlighting too many enemies
HEL
- Fixed issues where certain Hel skins would not play certain audio emotes on certain skins
FASTEST GOD ALIVE
- Fixed an issue where the Movement Speed from Bumba's Mask would not provide additional Power until something else updated his Movement Speed.
SCYLLA
- Fixed an issue where the item stack pad would fully stack her passive in Jungle Practice
THE MORRIGAN
- The Morrigan's ultimate now copies the target gods item stack number and evolved items
- The Morrigan will now gain the correct amount of gold while in her ultimate form
- Fixed issues where The Morrigan could be hit by certain effects more than once when reverting out of her ultimate
THOTH
- Fixed an issue where his ability targeters werent always highlighting enemies in the area over walls.
ITEM BALANCE
ATALANTA'S BOW
Atalanta's Bow has seen a lot of adjustments throughout Season 5. It's core design goal is to give Hunters access to additional Movement Speed. While this item is something Assassins or Warriors could use, they have access to powerful options in the Katana tree. We feel Atalanta's Bow is fairly statted and viable in some situations, even if it has not caught on yet. We are shifting some of the Movement Speed to be available all the time, with less of the weight being on the passive. This tweak should help it be a more consistent Movement Speed option for our Hunters.
- Added 10% Movement Speed
- Decreased Max Stacks of the passive from 4 to 3
- Decreased Movement Speed per stack from 7% to 5%
GLADIATOR'S SHIELD
Season 5 came with a full redesign of starter items, which caused the loss of Death's Toll. This had a large impact on Warriors that relied on basic attacks. Basic Attack Warriors dominated Season 4, but have fallen behind in Season 5. We are giving these gods access to an effect similar to Death's Toll through Gladiator's Shield. Although it can only be accessed a little later in the game, this change to Gladiator's Shield should help bring them back.
- Added component to this item where Basic Attacks heal 0.5% of your Maximum Health and Mana on successfully hitting an enemy
- Updated description to clarify these heals can trigger multiple times per ability or basic attack, scaling on number of targets hit
FIGHTER'S MASK
- Updated Description text to show classes who can buy the item
RANGDA'S MASK
- Updated Description text to show classes who can buy the item
PROTECTOR'S MASK
- Updated Description text to show classes who can buy the item
LONO'S MASK
Lono's mask has been fulfilling its design goal of letting other classes flex into Supports. We have seen one specific case that seems to be the clearly powerful choice for this item: Healing Mages. These mages don't feel the sacrifice in damage as much as other gods because they rely on healing. To even this out across all types of Gods, Lono's mask will now cause the wearer to sacrifice healing done as well as damage done.
- Added a new sacrifice stat to the passive
- -20% Healing Done
- Updated Description text to show classes who can buy the item
GOD BALANCE
ACHILLES
Achilles had a strong release, using his incredible early game to really bring the pain to his opponents. While his overall performance wasn't stand out, this pressure caused him to be a popular pick and ban in ranked and competitive, so much so that it took multiple nerfs for players to really start opting for different picks. Now that his prevalence has begun to subside we want to shift his power.
We are bringing down his offensive power in the early game with a nerf to Combat Dodge's cooldown and damage, as well as the bonus Radiant Glory brings at rank 1. However, his late game is getting an increase, with a direct buff to his defensive capability and the bonus scaling provides from Radiant Glory. While he will still bring early pressure, it shouldn't be as difficult to manage and his overall performance won't be determined by how hard he carries the first half of the game.
GIFT OF THE GODS
- Health Bonus increased from 35 + 10 per level to 25 + 15 per level
- 235 to 325
- Protections Bonus increased from 5 + 1 per level to 5 + 1.5 per level
- 25 to 35
RADIANT GLORY
- Physical Power and Protections now scale from 15% to 10/12.5/15/17.5/20%.
COMBAT DODGE
- Cooldown changed from 12s at all ranks to 14/13/12/11/10.
- Damage Reduced from 55/95/135/175/215 to 50/90/130/170/210.
BAKASURA
We are continuing a pass on shorter gods to make their camera heights match default gods. This can have a significant impact on visibility and feel for these gods. There are still more camera height adjustments to come so this won't be the last patch you see this type of note. Also it should be known that we will not be decreasing the camera height of tall gods. Tall gods need that extra height to make sure they can see the battlefield.
GENERAL
- Increased Camera Height from 42 to 64
GENERAL
- Increased Camera Height from 36 to 64
GENERAL
- Increased Camera Height from 36 to 64
FREYA
The Valkyrie has returned to SMITE in a big way after update 5.13. Her adjusted abilities give players more flexibility than ever and smooth out Freya's power curve. She still seems to feel a bit too much like a burst mage and not enough like a Mage ADC. We are decreasing the late game damage of her AoE burst to reduce this feeling. We are also decreasing her mana cost for using ranged Basic Attacks. This will allow Freya to play like a hunter more often.
NORTHERN LIGHTS
- Decreased Magical Power Scaling from 60% to 50%
AURORA BLADE
- Decreased Mana Cost per shot from 25/33/41/49/57 to 20/25/30/35/40
SKADI
The Goddess of Winter and her loyal Wolf haven't been making much of a showing lately on the battlefield of the gods. Kaldr has been the target of many nerfs over his lifetime, and how that his damage and tankiness seem to be in good spots, we want to increase his uptime. Kaldr can regenerate HP faster to make sure Skadi players get to use him often. We are also giving Skadi a slight cooldown buff to her primary clear ability to help her early lane phase.
KALDR, THE WINTER WOLF
- Decreased time taken to regenerate 1 hit point from 10s to 7s
PIERCING COLD
- Decreased cooldown from 15s to 14s
THE MORRIGAN
SMITE's most difficult goddess has dropped lower than we anticipated. One factor that is limiting her is her ability to more directly compete as a mage during the laning phase. Her early clear being weak was not a specific design choice, but a result of balancing the flexibility she brings to a team. It can be seen now that it was too low and hurt her too much. We are increasing the amount of damage Dark Omen deals to minions by a significant amount to help The Morrigan more closely match the pace of other mid laners.
DARK OMEN
- Increased Minion Bonus Damage from 20/35/50/65/80 to 40/70/100/130/160.
VULCAN
The smith of the gods is getting some much needed upgrades to his forging tools. Backfire will now go through walls, helping this god get more successful hits in the jungle. Also Inferno Cannon will gain a new feature that deals more damage to tanky gods. This ability has always paired well with lockdown but its lack of penetration really holds it back in these scenarios. Vulcan should now become a top pick for his ability to provide consistent follow up damage.
BACKFIRE
- Now goes through walls
INFERNO CANNON
- Now Cannon deals damage as if the target had 25% less magical protections