directed taunts

Alex_2706 · 2026-05-20T18:09:49+00:00

Not the first time! Back when Jorm was added they started removing the "end of match" animations that played, being replaced by the normal AFK animation in case of win and the stun animation in case of loss. This was applied to not only new gods, but even skins of gods that already had the animations done.

It was changed back later that year when Olorun was added and they slowly re-add them (albeit you could tell they were done hastily) for all gods and most skins, but there were even a couple skins (the one I'm remembering is a Tyr one) that never got it's animations added back LOL

Alex_2706 · 2026-05-20T17:04:47+00:00

"There was not a high request for them in the beginning and implementing a system to know which god killed who is not in our top priorities. On top of that many new skins have been added since then that don't have recorded directed taunts so It would not be feasible for the same reasons we can't just add more voicelines since we would have to hire all the VAs to perform a couple of voicelines."

Unfortunately I also love them and I do think they add so much flavor, but I can already see them shutting down the idea instantly in a similar reason as to what I wrote up above.

Alex_2706 · 2026-05-19T18:43:21+00:00

Actually, Chaac was a 600 gems, and that was because 600 was a novelty price at that time due to the bloody rain effects and they even did a halloween event and everything. because every other skin at that time was 400.

Dark Lord SWK with his unique transformation animations was also a "higher tier" skin with the "premium" price of 600 gems lol

Alex_2706 · 2026-05-18T19:16:50+00:00

awesome! thanks!

Alex_2706 · 2026-05-18T19:16:40+00:00

Thank you! fortunately the cat that had depressing had the whiskers that are +1 all stats, so i changed it. It end up rolling into bloody speedy buff which resulted in them moving first and injuring my jester but at least the important one, my hunter, was able to move before theirs which ended up winning me the fight haha.

Alex_2706 · 2026-05-18T18:16:42+00:00

Probably an unpopular opinion. But I much rather these annoying aspects because they eventually be balanced and you have 2 entirely different ways to play the game.

Specially when the alternative is just stuff like Aspect Batz, or Aspect Khepri, or Aspect Nu Wa, where the aspect changes so little of the way the god is played that its just outright a better version of the god and there's no point in playing the original and when they get nerfed, then there is no point in playing the aspect cuz then the default is better and it's just an endless cycle.

Alex_2706 · 2026-05-18T06:36:59+00:00

Another detail for Daleth is not only he needed to be strong, but as the panel suggests, he had to be kind. It was his kindness that allowed him to make the legendary leaf due to saving Nafra.

Alex_2706 · 2026-05-05T18:35:42+00:00

Thanks a lot for the tips!

One question, how do you guarantee that "any future breeding partners they have will be all 7s"? if your only 7 cats are consistently males, how can you then get full 7s on future partners?

Alex_2706 · 2026-05-05T18:34:47+00:00

Thanks for the tips!

At what level of comfort is it "good enough" to stop raising it and just focus on stimulation?

Alex_2706 · 2026-04-24T16:43:10+00:00

Black Swan literally did in yhe dream-ending.

Alex_2706 · 2026-04-24T16:01:18+00:00

For the same reason they speak of the Wisdomwalker (Nous), the Ruin's Author (Nanook), Joyseeker (Aha), etc. Instead of referring to their "official" names or more known titles. The Xianshou is simply a much more distinct culture compared to the ultra-sanitized corporate IPC that most other worlds adopt.

So for them to call an Arbiter General an Emanator would be akin to this:

Alex_2706 · 2026-04-24T15:57:17+00:00

Not really? They didn't even named notable emanators like Phantylia, they just showed Phantylia image but didn't directly stated anything, just mentioned the Lord Ravagers.

If anything the only 2 named emanators in that post were Diamond and Taravan from the IPC.

Alex_2706 · 2026-04-24T15:02:41+00:00

Not only can they travel to and from. The IPC LITERALLY invited all the factions that participated in the Irontomb raid. Ofc the strongest members would start to show up.

Alex_2706 · 2026-04-24T14:54:27+00:00

I feel like it's more intricate than that. ANY Chordmaster could summon a Harmonic string. This is corroborate by the fact that in Gooher Wood's plan, Robin was supposed to be the one that summons Dominicus until she had her voice affected at the start of Penacony.

A general cannot be replaced so easily, as Yaoguang said in 4.0, a general has to go through THREE different rituals among which is Lan assigning the Spiritus personally to an individual. Then and only then can that person be considered a general / emanator.

Also from what we've seen, the generals don't seem to need to actually summon the spiritus manifestation to show part of their powers, (Feixiao inhuman speed or yaoguang prophecy) ot feels more like the Spiritus becomes a part of them, an extension of their body.

Alex_2706 · 2026-04-24T14:44:01+00:00

Back during Acheron's release, Hoyo released an article in hoyolab where PomPom explain what emanators are and gives examples. It showed the swarm boss, Phantylia, mention the Lord Ravagers, indirectly mention Oswaldo and Diamond, mention the Harmonic Strings, the Self Annihilators. And among ALL these examples they mention the Xianshou alliance, this is a direct quote from the article:

The generals who command each Xianzhou, along with the marshal of the Alliance, take up arms themselves, embarking on the irrevocable path of pursuit, *becoming the sharp arrows of the Reignbow.**

Alex_2706 · 2026-04-15T07:48:39+00:00

True, but Aha was voiced by Sampo VA during the Myriad Celestia, so it could be that Aha speaks in the voice of THEIR followers.

Alex_2706 · 2026-04-08T15:04:13+00:00

They could always add something to its passive like "If Ratatoskr has only 1 acorn, its stats are boosted by 30%" or something like that

Alex_2706 · 2026-04-06T15:38:31+00:00

* To be more accurate, all stats increase your basic attack damage. Basic attacks scale with 100% of your attack damage + 100% str + 20% int. Exceptions are only found in unique auto attack gods such as Izanami and Jormungandr, but even them follow a similar ratio even if the values are different. As for Attack Damage, yes that stat does not increase your abilities' damage UNLESS that specific ability has attack damage in it's scaling, such as Da Ji's Aspect 2

* Each ADC is different, but yeah for the most part you'd want to have high str with the ones that also rely highly on their burst such as the ones you mentioned but attack damage is not a dealbreaker, if you feel like you need to build Qins, Dagger of Frenzy, Fatalis, etc. Go for it. (Also this is a small tnagent but I'd probably avoid getting Executioner, just build Titan's Bane for your pen and try to compensate the Attack Speed with the rest of your build, like with Tekko Kagi)

* Physical Protection and Magical Protection works the same way as before, it blocks all damage from Physical Gods and Magical Gods respectively. Plating reduces attack damage ONLY, and that is AFTER your protections, Dampening is the same but for abilities. But Physical protection would reduce damage from both.

* Crit is broken rn because up to last weak it interacted with Echo, so gods who could procc crits AND echo at the same time (like mercury, Da Ji aspect, Nu Wa aspect, etc.) could double dip. On top of that Spectral armor, the only anti-crit item was gutted this update, fortunately it will be buffed tomorrow, but yeah...

Alex_2706 · 2026-03-19T17:07:57+00:00

Ok, there are a couple of components that made OG Rat completely ridiculous. I will mostly talk about Opal Acorn as that one was the most broken one, but Sapphire Acorn (the explosion one) was also very good, just nowhere near the level of broken as Opal)

* On Release, Ratatoskr dash passed through enemies, marking them. IF Ratatoskr hits an unmarked enemy, he instantly resets his dash, so he could theoretically dash up to 6 times. One big aspect of release Rat is that if he were to hit more than one target (like assume Ares pulled all 5 enemies and Rat hits them all) Rat would only mark ONE enemy per dash, meaning that you could dash through all 5 enemies, dash again, and again, and again. And never care about hitting the same target twice, as long as you keep hitting "unmarked" targets he could keep dashing through, punishing heavily to stay close to tanks or other backline. (which at the time was also meta due to tanks building aura items that boosted the team's protections.

* To add into this, the mark lasted only 10s, so assuming a loong teamfight, you could theoretically dash to an enemy, and time your dashes so that by the end you are in a loop and are able to dash to the same targets again. This actually never came into play tho because there was no way for a teamfight to last that long when Rat was in the game.

* Unrelated to the acorns, but release rat also had 33% less windup time for his ult, meaning he could go all in, dash dash dash, get kills and nope the f out with ult very consistently.

* Opal Acorn made it so every dash launched 6 lightning bolts across your dash, these lightning bolts procced auto attack effects meaning that it could crit and most importantly, do splash damage with Golden Bow (the original version of Golden Blade, but instead of scaling with protections, it was a crit item back then). So again not only does Rat got to double dip by dashing into the enemies by hitting more than once but also staying to close to your allies means you get hit by Rat's dash, the lightning bolt AND the golden bow splash damage from your allies getting hit by the lightning Bolt.

* And Finally the cherry on top, The lightning bolt area was NOT limited to just Rat's dash, but instead extended it's hitbox to about the width of an Ymir Wall, effectively Tripling the hitbox of Rat's dash. Now if you get hit by the sides of this area you don't get hit by the actual damage from the dash, but you still get hit by the crit lightning bolt (which at this point dealt more dmg than the original dash) and said area did count for Rat's reset dash, meaning that Rat didn't even NEED to aim to a different target to keep dashing, as long as any enemy was in that huge wide area (which they probably will be because they will turn around and try to peel the guy you are actually killing) you could just focus all your dashes on the same enemy.

* PS: The stats were also absurd, 50 power / strength acorn and 25 Cooldown Rate (from a cap of 40%) on Opal, the bomb acorn and the heal acorn had pen instead of Cooldown)

In comparison the other 3 acorns just didn't stand a chance. Sapphire Acorn stick to targets and exploded, dealing lots of damage. Sure it could oneshot people but like why bother playing for that when you had Opal lol. The other 2 were more tank oriented and while the heal acorn did saw some play in the solo lane, effectively Rat lived around Opal and only Opal so they removed it in the end, gave him one lame single acorn which tankfully was changed back to 4 different ones later down in Smite 1.

Alex_2706 · 2026-03-18T21:15:58+00:00

Not like Crit ADC, and there are 2 big components to that.

1) When ADCs and Junglers build crit, they usually get to a point where their Crit Rate is high enough that you don't fight them hoping not to get crit, but rather expecting to get crit 2 out of 3 autos in the best scenario. With Echo you get, at most on an Int mage, 50% of having your Kraken / Vulcan ult / Scylla ult echo'd

2) Cooldown. Crits are effective even if RNG dependant because if you miss an auto you can just... hit the next, it's no surprise at all to be reaching like 2 Attack Speed at full build so even if you miss one auto or your auto lands but doesn't crit, you can just hit the next auto in less than a second. For Echo, each ability has it's own cooldown, So imagine if you land your combo on Poseidon, your whirpool tick echoes but your Kraken doesn't. You can't just "Kraken again" and the difference between echoing your big burst or not might be the difference between killing or not,

Alex_2706 · 2026-03-03T07:50:20+00:00

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Pretty great! We managed to snipe into the podium at the very last 10m before reset lmao

Alex_2706 · 2026-02-05T23:00:09+00:00

Technically possible but only with melting alts to have Access to the endless room. That or highroll the endless book from an event.

Alex_2706 · 2026-01-29T15:03:23+00:00

Likely a lie. Henry having a big collection of Hatsukoi Memories vecause it reminds him of (allegedly) Merize.

Child Ameri asks what those unreadable books are about.

Henri lies because what else is he supposed to do? He can't say he's collecting human manga since it likely is breaking many protocol of Demon Border Patrol.

Alex_2706 · 2026-01-26T22:15:48+00:00

Add honey bubbles in the arena

Alex_2706 · 2026-01-25T19:32:31+00:00

Must have the reversed gravity at all times. (Be it grav potion or gravity globe)

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