SMITE Ragnarok Force X Thor & Japanese Pantheon - Behind the Scenes

Go behind the scenes of the Ragnarok Force X Thor skin, the ultimate Odyssey 2016 reward! Plus, get a sneak peak at the Japanese Pantheon, coming to SMITE in 2016!

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What is a MOBA?

Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas, or MOBAs for short, originated as a sub-genre of the RTS (Real-Time Strategy) genre. Because of this, in most MOBA games, the player takes control of a single character from the isometric (top-down) view akin to most RTS games. Typically, in MOBA games, a player takes control of a single character on one of two teams. Those players choose characters that all have their own abilities, or “kits”. To win, the players must use a combination of abilities, teamwork, and strategy to not only best their opponent, but destroy the opponents main structures. A bonus to the genre is that most MOBAs are free games, which is definitely a contributing factor of the their massive success. The genre has many titles, the largest of which being Defense of the Ancients (DoTA) and DoTA 2, League of Legends (LoL), and most recently SMITE!

What is SMITE?

SMITE is one of the more recent free MOBA games to enter the fray. In SMITE you don’t just choose a character, you choose a god. You’ll instantly feel an attachment to characters like Thor and Zeus because even if you don’t know the lore behind them, you’ve at least heard their names before! What makes SMITE so immersive is Hi-Rez Studios’ inclusion of historical lore into the gods’ abilities, kits, and play styles. Thor and Loki aren’t just characters from Marvel comics and movies. They’re also a part of Norse mythology and you can take control of them in SMITE!

What makes SMITE different?

SMITE takes all of the strategy of the top MOBA games and adds another layer of difficulty by putting you into the action! Unlike most MOBA games, SMITE offers players the chance to experience the MOBA genre they know and love from a third-person perspective. This unique perspective allows for an extremely immersive experience unlike any other game in the genre. While this doesn’t sound like such a big change, once you play it you’ll understand! All of these things added together is what has gaming websites everywhere continually rating SMITE as one of the best MOBA games available!

[sgtgyn]

Hopefully Hirez will show some love to Hades/Arachne/Ne Zha/Hel and all those forgotten characters who only have 1 skin.

[JonnyJoestar_]

The Pilot Thor is gross. It looks like it was ripped out of Runescape.

[DukeSloth]

Japanese Pantheon teases @ 2:52 - 2:55 .. damn look those look amazing

[renegade]

Yato from Noragami as new god from Japanese pantheon lol :)

[water]

welp just guessing on the two japanese gods and the way they are being designed...
Well I'm guessing the first one is Amaterasu the Sun Goddess... I mean it's a woman character with a giant floating mirror, and will probably be one of the first in the pantheon to be released... Pretty sure its Amaterasu

The second one is a bit more of a guess... it's a Warrior with a giant blade... I'm guessing it's Susanoo... Although it could easily be someone else.

[Kirinketsu_]

Why didn't you guys just make a new god called Goddam-S0, and have it play / fight like a Gundam... could have it be range, with its 4 giving you an sword and turning you into have it be the first Japanese Pantheon god. I would still pay $100 for it.


FYI I am still waiting for Jesus. 
Jesus, Role Support: 
passive: allows him to return after he dies for 10 sec to cast his abilities only, also acts as a object preventing movement and incoming attacks.
1 I Will Always Love You: Jesus reminds his allies he loves them, healing them for X amount over time, if used on an enemy, the enemy feels bad for attacking Jesus and can not auto attack Jesus for 2 sec. 
2 Let Me Take Your Burden: Jesus cures an CC effect on an ally, and prevents the ally from being CC for 1.3 sec, if the ally is not CC again by the end of the duration, the ally gets an protection buff.
3 Swift As Water: Jesus has passive increase movement speed, when activated Jesus will move faster when moving towards ally below 50% HP.
4 Eye For An Eye: Jesus will blind all his allies enemies, who attack one of Jesus allies within the last 5 sec, Jesus allies will also be able to see through objects if standing 10 meter by Jesus when he cast Eye For An Eye.


Skins
White Jesus
Real Jesus
Black Jesus

[Fireewire]

Oh I am going to get this skin... Time to lern how to play with Thor thou...

[HeavensMaestro]

Most popular god? No.

Hi-Rez's favorite god? Yes

[deathkillrt]

Most popular god not, overused god by Hi-rez yes.
What made Thanatos Archon awesome, it was community voted, i'm still fail to see what makes the Thor skin awesome, not community voted, shown near the end of the Odyssey, another assassin and japanese Mecha out of nowhere.

[Lockfin]

This is cool and all HiRez, but two assassins in a row?? Cmon, show some love to the other gods. Make a tier 5 warrior skin or something

[BrowneePointz]

I KNEW IT! AMATERASU! And I think the other one is Raijin.

[UnconvincingX]

The Hair on that Thor is crazy. xD

though, even if it is an unpopular opinion, i like the skin!

[hugeguy]

One of the most popular smite gods? Uhhhh. You sure about that

[jordaniscool]

im just scared smite is turning into a weeb game

[Filip]

00:53 So what actually makes this a blend of norse and anime, cause all I see is anime.

[treygon]

get ready for the next 10 gods to all be ninja knock off's, with really bad racist accents, and a 600 gem ninja skin.

[Highretrogamelord]

Yes, finally Japanese gods! :D Now I also hope Celtic gods will make it as well one day...

[superblanco]

The Japanese swordsman reminded me of yasuo haha

[dylaz]

After watching this I returned to Smite after the whole summer + autumn away from it. I immediately bought all available Odyssey Items. I NEED THAT THOR SKIN!

[HouYi-bg]

Looks like Susano-o and Amaterasu are the first Japanese/Shinto gods. Susano-o because the concepts of the male god has a lot of wandering swordsman looking vibe which is what Susano-o became when he was banish from the heavens for being rude to his sister, by breaking her necklace. 
Wonder if Smite plans on adding the third sibling Tsukuyomi, who was a bigger jerk than Susano-o because he killed a food goddess because he didn't like the way she made her food, while he was visiting on his own sister's/wife's behalf. Vuess what Amaterasu never wanted to see Tsukuyomi ever again which is why the moon and sun are apart in the sky.