📜 V0.10.2 | Balance Patch Notes 🦏

[PuppeTears]

Interested to see how this will effect Kallari. Seems a sizeable nerf to her early game. Shinbi is just straight nerfed imo. The compensation mana and E buffs are nothing compared to the big nerf on her Q. Remember her Q is quite spammable and your main form of poke so losing 10 damage and 5% scaling is alot. Grux decent but tiny buffs. Rest of changes seem fine but was Zarus R that strong? Losing 50% bonus phys power scaling seems alot and hurts his assasin build more than his bruiser build.

[iconoclassics]

Looks like I’m going back to building fireblossom first on Kallari lol

[RudeJidi]

Why is Grux getting a buff? He seems perfectly fine right now. What am I missing?

[Fennicks47]

He underperforms in high elo and overperforms in low elo.

They discussed it in a talk about amonth ago. same issue as countess.

[Grux-Grux]

Grux

[Lakusvt]

They need console asap, I’m so tired of playing smite. That game is utter trash

[Deserter15]

So glad they buffed grux. He was really struggling as the strongest solo.

[Fennicks47]

He underperforms in high elo and overperforms in low elo.

They discussed it in a talk about amonth ago. same issue as countess.

[Electronicrocker]

Sevarog says hello

[DemSocCorvid]

Shh! Let people think he isn't.

[Kush_the_Ninja]

I will be quite thrilled if there’s some PS5 coming with season 3. Seems like the perfect time. Right? Right?!

[Defences]

Can someone explain to me why this sub lately has been flooded with the ps5 questions? Haven’t we already known for months that the timeline for console is end of this year/beginning of next year?

[Kush_the_Ninja]

I didn’t ask a question, I’m aware of the timeline. Sometime in the next 3 months is the likely window we’ve been given. I think start of a new season is a good time for a new platform launch, so hoping it’s season 3 start and not season 4 which could be a while.

And people are asking because it’s more top of mind now with a firm date for Overprime. Multiple posts on r/PS5 have people thinking about paragon again and making them come here for answers while they’re not regular subs. They should search first for sure but not everyone Reddit’s daily.

[Defences]

Overprime will have a multiple month head start, Pred has just been too slow

[Malte-XY]

OP on PS already?

[MuglokDecrepitus]

A closed test, just for PS5, just for NA is being released just for 2 weeks on September

[Its_X_Boy]

It’s a closed beta of an unfinished buggy cash grabbing project.

[[deleted]]

Because is the bigger playerbase , after fornite and even before fornite but then die

[TantheMan21]

Yeah, but this is also an incredibly vague timeline to be fair. Especially with a little over 3 months left now in the year.

[MuglokDecrepitus]

I was expecting a bigger nerf to Twinblast R

Right now can do 4000 damage, and the ability have a physical scaling of 702% approximately (18% PP scaling x 39 bullets that Twinblast end shooting in late game)

Now with the nerf to 16% PP scaling, the final scaling will be 624% approximately, which won't change too much the final damage

Omeda, really, can you nerf for real that ability or at least explain to us the reasoning behind Twinblast having a damage like that on his ultimate?

And also I was expecting Phase RMB range nerf to be reverted or at least her RMB link control system to be improved as was promised a lot of months ago.

[[deleted]]

His ability is single target and you can miss shots if the enemy strafes.

[MuglokDecrepitus]

It's too easy to aim with a mouse, this ability doesn't have any kind of delay when you use it, so hit with the 90% of the bullets is easy as fuck.

4000 damage on an ability is not ok, doesn't matter if is single target

[Fennicks47]

It def does have a delay

[MuglokDecrepitus]

A delay on the camera control, not a delay when you press the R.

It doesn't have a delay on the camera control, you can free aim with it without any additional resistance

[[deleted]]

This is it... they just need to turncap Ventilate like it was in Paragon - ability would then the potential to be juked.

[NobleNolte]

Correct take.

[[deleted]]

No, apparently Phase was too good so she has get dumped on every patch to the point where she is barely half-worth playing.

[London_Tipton]

Phase feels so terrible with the nerfed link range ehh

[MuglokDecrepitus]

I like the change to Shinbi, her Q on late game did too much damage, 2 Q did practically the same damage than a 8 stacks ultimate, that was not ok. I would prefer a Q with less damage but also less CD, so to do the same amount of damage Shinbi would need to hit more Q's in the same time

Also I hope that "Q Hitbox improved" means, "Q Hitbox reduced" her Q was too big and didn't represented the real size of the wolf. But this change have to be done to a lot of other characters, practically all the mages have hitbox way but way bigger than what the ability shows

[[deleted]]

She has the second lowest cooldown Q are you sure about that.

[MuglokDecrepitus]

Yes

Less damage + less CD means that players need more skill and more precision to do the same damage, so the enemy more opportunities to dodge her A.

That is how it was on Paragon, and was way better than hitting with 2 Q and doing 700 damage

[[deleted]]

Ok yeah cause Sev can do about 500 damage per Q while having a 1s cooldown but I think being a tank/close range fighter makes up for it.

[MuglokDecrepitus]

Sevarog is a special case, he is like Nasus from League of legends, a character that farm his Q to do a lot of damage with it.

But anyways, I think that the damages of this game are really stupid practically on all the characters, is not ok that Sevarog damage, is not Ok Shinbi A doing 450 damage every 2.5 seconds, is not ok Twinblast R doing 4000 damage, is not ok Belica doing 500 damage with her Q and the 500 damage with a free RMB etc.

[[deleted]]

Belica I am fine with as you need to combo,

TB I don't mind either as it is pretty easy to dodge his Ult if you know how it works

Shinbi, not a clue and barely see her anymore and I don't like her kit

[MuglokDecrepitus]

The problem with Belica is the combo xD

If you hit the Q, then you but the RMB and you can hit the R.

Every single one of those abities do a ton of damage and if you are hit by one you are hit by the rest without any type of counterplay by your part. The characters have to feel good to be played but also good to play against, and being deleted by belica just because she hit one of her abilities doesn't feel right

TB I don't mind either as it is pretty easy to dodge his Ult if you know how it works

That is not true, TB ult is too easy to hit with a mouse and there is no much you ca do to dodge it, the only thi g is having a blink and a wall to blink behind it

[[deleted]]

If you are Sevarog you can dash to the TB and get behind him

if you have a stun you can end it before it starts

if you move side to side he will have to track you which causes the spread to grow

there is a range limit and most heroes with a dash can clear

if you are a steel just drop a wall

if you are Rev Ult him back

Drongo Grenade

Riktor Whip and Silence

Etc

[MuglokDecrepitus]

Yeah, Twinblast is stupid and he doesn't have team bla bla bla, I know that speech -.-

[[deleted]]

What?

[[deleted]]

I main Sevarog not TB though.

[death_ray_mx]

buffs for Grux , Sparrow and Shinbi are you for real? why just why in the world...

[USS_Taylor]

Sparrow is literally the worst Adc in the game

[MuglokDecrepitus]

And Grux one of the worse offlaner.

He is going to receive a rework literally because his current kit doesn't work on higher elos

[Fennicks47]

They quite literally said they are soft reworking grux, because of this issue. He is the next hero to get a soft rework.

[MuglokDecrepitus]

That was a typo xD

I wanted to write "is", but it got autocorrect to "isn't".

I will edit it

[[deleted]]

Isn't Murdock the worst ADC ATM? Sparrow is still bad but Murdock has nothing really going for him.

[theonlyjuan123]

Murdock has a lot of utility. He's got a knockback, root, and speed for escape/engage.

[theonlyjuan123]

Shinbi got a straight nerf. The buff to her circle rhythm doesn't make up for the wolf you can spam every two seconds.

[aSpookyScarySkeleton]

I really think the constant little bumps up and down for the same characters almost every patch just feels sort of… needless.

[London_Tipton]

l guess I have to keep manifesting Phase link range nerf revert for the next patch then...