46 Fun Facts About Smite

Unlike most MOBAs, which are played top-down, Smite is played from which perspective?

Third-person view puts the camera right behind the god, a setup that plays naturally on a controller and eased the game's move from PC to consoles.

In most Smite modes, what must a team destroy in the enemy base to win?

The titan is a giant warrior waiting in each base, and it can't even be attacked until at least one of the phoenixes guarding it has been destroyed.

What is Smite's default and largest game mode, played on a three-lane map?

Conquest threads a jungle between its lanes, where monster camps drop buffs when killed, so teams usually send one player to roam it rather than hold a lane.

Which pantheon supplies the most playable gods in the original Smite?

Greek figures outnumber every other pantheon by a wide margin, and the game treats the word god loosely: the monsters Medusa and Cerberus and the mortal hero Achilles are all on the list.

Which fantasy hero shooter did Smite's developer release in 2018?

Paladins was already in the works when Blizzard unveiled its own hero shooter, its makers say, and the team spent years fending off comparisons between the two.

Smite's Norse assassin Ratatoskr is what kind of animal?

A squirrel: in Norse myth Ratatoskr scurries up and down the world tree Yggdrasil, carrying insults between the eagle at the top and the dragon Nidhogg at its roots.

Which Smite god class is built for tanking and starting fights?

Guardian gods tend to deal little damage themselves: they soak up hits and pin enemies in place so that teammates can finish the kill, which is why they usually play support.

Apollo and Medusa belong to which Smite class?

Hunter is the game's name for the role other MOBAs call a marksman: these gods deal most of their damage with basic attacks, which makes them unusually dependent on their items.

Which Smite mode pits two teams of three on a single-lane map?

Joust starts its gods at level 3 rather than level 1, so on its single short lane the three-a-side fighting starts almost at once.

In Smite's Joust mode, what does killing the Bull Demon King do for a team?

Disables an enemy structure: the first tower or phoenix still defending stops attacking for a while, and the whole team also gets a health and mana regeneration buff.

In which Smite mode is every player assigned a random god instead of choosing one?

Assault gives nobody a choice of god, and with no trips back to base to heal or shop, dying is the only way to spend gold on new items.

Smite's Arena mode has no lanes or towers, so what does each team defend instead?

A portal sits in front of each base, and every enemy minion that walks into it burns one of the team's 500 tickets; the first side to hit zero loses.

In Smite's Arena, what can a team spawn after collectively killing ten enemy gods?

Minotaurs march with the minion waves, and each one that gets through costs the enemy fifteen tickets, three times the price of a god's death.

Smite's Slash mode, added in 2022, takes its name from which two discontinued modes?

Siege and Clash were both retired in 2022 to make way for Slash, which kept Siege's juggernauts, lumbering monsters that deal bonus damage to enemy structures.

Which boss eventually spawns in the middle jungle of Smite's Slash mode?

Apophis is named after the giant serpent of Egyptian myth that attacked the sun god's boat every night; in Slash it takes over the camp at the centre of the map partway through a match.

In Smite, Baron Samedi and Maman Brigitte make up which pantheon?

Voodoo is a pantheon of two, and they are a couple: Maman Brigitte is the consort of Baron Samedi, the rum-loving spirit of the dead whom the game sells as the life of the party.

In Smite's Ranked Leagues, what do players earn from wins to climb the divisions?

Tribute Points lift a player into the next division once they pass 100, but the ladder runs both ways: lose enough games on zero and you can drop back down.

In Smite, Cu Chulainn and the Morrigan belong to which pantheon?

Celtic myth gives the game Cu Chulainn, the Irish hero whose battle frenzy warps him into a monster; in Smite, building up his rage triggers the same berserk transformation.

In 2021, Smite gave its Egyptian goddess Isis which new name?

Eset is an ancient Egyptian spelling of the same goddess's name; the studio switched because videos and streams that mentioned her risked being demonetised.

In Smite, the Cthulhu Mythos characters are grouped into which in-game pantheon?

The Great Old Ones are the roster's one pantheon lifted from modern horror fiction rather than from religion, myth or legend, and Cthulhu, added in 2020, is its only member.

Which three Hindu deities were playable in Smite's beta when Hindu leaders objected in June 2012?

Kali, Agni and Vamana were the only Hindu gods in the game that June; Kali's outfit drew particular objection, and the studio later reworked her look.

Who led the 2012 objection to Hindu gods being playable in Smite?

Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, asked for the gods to be removed; the studio's Todd Harris replied that Smite would add "even more deities, not fewer".

Which studio, founded by Erez Goren and Todd Harris in 2005, developed and published Smite?

Hi-Rez Studios revived the Tribes series of jetpack shooters with Tribes: Ascend in 2012, two years before Smite's release, and in 2015 gave the older Tribes games away as free downloads.

Smite's developer has its headquarters in Alpharetta, a suburb of which US city?

Atlanta became home to the pro league as well in 2019, when the regional leagues were scrapped for a single league played in person at the studio's Alpharetta base.

When Smite's developer set up separate in-house studios in August 2018, which one took over the game?

Titan Forge Games took Smite while two sister studios each took another of the company's live games, so that every title had a studio of its own.

Cthulhu, who joined Smite in 2020, was created by which horror writer?

H. P. Lovecraft introduced the tentacled cosmic being in a 1928 short story, and the studio built it a brand-new pantheon rather than squeeze it in among the ancient gods.

Which king of Uruk, hero of a Mesopotamian epic, joined Smite as a warrior in 2021?

Gilgamesh goes looking for eternal life in the epic after his friend Enkidu dies, and fails; the game lets him send enemies flying with a drop kick instead.

Which console got Smite first, in August 2015?

Xbox One got Smite's full release nine months ahead of PlayStation 4, and the 2016 World Championship added a separate tournament for the Xbox version.

In 2013, Smite's developer partnered with which company to publish the game in China?

Tencent, the Chinese internet giant, became the game's publisher in China, and the two firms said they were working together to keep its Chinese gods authentic to their culture.

Which goddess do new players control in Smite's basic tutorial?

Neith, an Egyptian goddess of war and weaving, is the character the tutorial hands to newcomers, and they get to keep her: she is one of the starter characters every new account owns for free.

What are Smite's two in-game currencies?

Gems and favor do different jobs: favor is earned simply by playing and unlocks gods, while gems are the premium currency behind most skins.

Which in-game event raised money for the first Smite World Championship's prize pool?

The Odyssey sent a share of the price of each of its cosmetic items into the prize fund, which had grown to $2.6 million by the time the tournament began.

Which North American team won the first Smite World Championship in 2015?

COGnitive Prime won a final that went the full five games, and its $1.3 million first prize was more than any League of Legends event had paid out at that point.

Sean Schemmel, the voice of Smite's Sun Wukong, is best known as the English voice of which anime hero?

Goku makes it a neat piece of casting: the Dragon Ball hero was himself modelled on Sun Wukong, the Monkey King.

Under what new banner did the 2016 Smite world champions repeat in 2017?

NRG Esports signed the reigning champions in September 2016: the five had split from Epsilon eSports and were playing as Panthera, with no organisation behind them, when the US outfit picked them up.

Which player became the first to win the Smite World Championship three times, in 2020, 2021 and 2022?

Zapman won each of the three titles under a different banner: SK Gaming in 2020, the Pittsburgh Knights in 2021 and the Atlantis Leviathans in 2022.

The Atlantis Leviathans' Smite world title in 2022 was a first for which region?

Latin America got its first world champions in a 3–0 sweep of the final, and the Leviathans' Colombian solo laner Jarcorrr was named the tournament's most valuable player.

Where was the 2023 Smite World Championship played, the first staged outside the developer's home state?

Arlington, Texas, staged it at Esports Stadium Arlington, where the finals were played in front of a live crowd for the first time in two years.

Smite 2, announced in January 2024, is built with which technology?

Unreal Engine 5 replaced the original's ageing Unreal Engine 3, a leap so big that old skins couldn't simply be carried over, so the studio planned a legacy scheme to reward veterans instead.

What was announced for the original Smite in February 2025, weeks after its sequel went free-to-play?

An end to its development came alongside layoffs, a reversal of the studio's promise a year earlier to support both games side by side; the servers stayed online.

In 2016, Smite won the esports audience award at which ceremony?

The BAFTA Games Awards shortlisted five rivals for the prize, among them Dota 2, League of Legends and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Smite beat them all.

Smite's three-lane main mode follows the template set by which Warcraft III custom map?

Defense of the Ancients was a fan-made map, started in 2003 by a modder known as Eul with Warcraft III's own editing tools, that a wave of standalone games then set out to copy.

Which Arthurian enchantress joined King Arthur and Merlin on Smite's roster in 2021?

Morgan Le Fay is cast as the Dark Enchantress, and the game's lore keeps a detail from some medieval tellings: she learned her magic as a pupil of Merlin.

Smite's Bake Kujira is the ghost of which animal?

A whale: in Japanese folklore the bake-kujira is a whale's skeleton that appears off the coast trailed by strange fish and birds, and in one tale no harpoon could touch it.

Which famous painter got an official crossover skin in Smite in 2017?

Bob Ross became a skin for the tree-riding god Sylvanus, a nod to his happy little trees, two years after his old TV show became a surprise hit with viewers on the streaming site Twitch.

In Smite, Maui and Pele represent which pantheon?

Polynesian myth supplies two of the roster's stars: Pele, goddess of volcanoes, and Maui, the trickster said to have fished up whole islands with his hook and snared the sun to lengthen the day.