History VideoGame / Smite

* PhysicalGod: Every playable character is this. It's like, the game's thing.

** Most obviously averted by Bacchus.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Numerous goddesses. Aphrodite. Arachne. Bastet. Freya. Kali. The list goes on and on.

* '''Arena''': A deathmatch-like game mode similar to the {{Battlefield}} series' conquest mode where the teams have a pool of tickets that are drained from their players being killed. Where {{Battlefield}}'s alternative methods of losing tickets is controlling more points than the enemy, Arena has waves of minions that drain from their team's tickets when killed, and can drain tickets from the enemy team if they survive reaching the other end of the line they walk on and enter into a portal.

Smite is an upcoming [[MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena MOBA]] game from High-Rez Studios, makers of TribesAscend. Unlike most other MOBA games, Smite is played in third person view instead of the classic isometric perspective popularized by [[DefenseOfTheAncients DOTA]] and it's other derivatives. Instead of heroes or champions, the players in Smite get to control gods from various mythological pantheons, like Greek, Egyptian, Chinese etc. Like in almost all MOBA games, there are three lanes, defended by towers that have regular waves of npc mooks running down them. The objective of the player is to help these mooks destroy the enemy towers and eventually their base(or Minotaur, in this case) while preventing the enemy team from doing the same. Players gain gold and experience for killing NPC and enemy gods which they use to buy new items and abilities. There are, however, several other game modes that deviate from the standard formula.

* '''Daily Random''': An exhibition match mode where you play as certain champions themed after something, such as Ra and Apollo or Zeus and Thor.

* BadassBeard: Anhur has one done up from his chin. Apollo and Ares have a goatee. Guan Yu has an impressively beard and mustache, with some sides on his chin being hairless making it resemble a van dyke turned UpToEleven. Hercules has a noticeable beard and moustache that don't go far off his face. Odin has a massive beard with the ends of his also lengthy moustache done in the style of BraidsOfBarbarism. Poseidon has a large beard and long moustache disappearing into the beard. Sun Wukong has a chinstrap. Thor has facial hair similar to Hercules. Vulcan has a large handlebar moustache and a rather puffed out beard beneath it. Ymir has a long beard with two ends of a large moustaches above it. Zeus has a similar style to Ymir, with a finer moustache.
* TheBeastmaster: Artemis' ultimate has her summon a boar for a short duration (the boar also makes appearances in her after-game victory or defeat animations). Bastet summons three cats for her ultimate. Poseidon's ultimate Release the Kraken! could technically count but doesn't have the same feel as his only appears from under the ground to attack above once.
* BigBadassWolf: Fenrir, as he was in Norse mythology.
* EyepatchOfPower: Odin has only one eye as is told of him, with the missing eye covered.
* HealingFactor: Hercules' Mitigate Wounds ability has a three-second activation period after using the ability, after which a percentage of the damage taken during that time is healed back. It heals more the lower percentage of Hercules' health was. At earlier ranks of it, it heals less than the damage taken. At later ranks, he can heal back ''more'' damage than what he took.
* HornyVikings: Odin wears a helmet with the horned style of the trope, though especially very large horns compared to other examples
* ImprovisedWeapon: Hercules' ultimate, Excavate... [[SuperStrength has him tear a large boulder out of the ground and throw it]].
* ImAHumanitarian: Bakasura's Eat Minion ability has him do... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just that to enemy minions and monsters]]. Eating up to six makes his Regurgitate ultimate more powerful.
** Fenrir's ultimate has him grow huge and eat the first enemy champion he attacks, then he spits them out after the time runs down and he returns to normal. And his winning animation has him hack up the armor and weapons of some creeps/gods it's implied he ate after winning.
* InASingleBound: Thor's ultimate, Anvil of Dawn has him jump up into the air. If enemies are about where he comes down, they'll get a large helping of DynamicEntry from being damaged and stunned by it.
** Ne Zha's ultimate Wind Fire Wheels has him dash forward. If he hits an enemy god, ''he'll take them upwards into the sky with him'' to unleash a flurry of attacks before sending them back down and head back to where he started before casting.
* InTheHood: Bakasura's face is usually covered by a hood casting a shadow over his entire face. His ghastly visage including MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily and ExtraEyes is revealed from using some of his abilities, and shown on his icons.

* LightEmUp: Ra's entire gameplay.

* PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: Thor's Mjolnir's Attunement has him toss a hammer forward in a line, damaging enemies hit, and then returning to him to do half damage against minions and double against gods. He may also teleport to the hammer at any time while it's in flight.

* SadlyMythtaken: Like ''ClashOfTheTitans'', Poseidon can summon a Kraken to attack an area for his ultimate, despite it being a Norse myth while he's a Greek god.
* SliceAndDiceSwordsmanship: Odin has a joke where he says "Depth perception? Hah! I stab and Gungnir finds its target. ''Always''."... yet the only time he ever uses it in a stabbing motion within gameplay when he strikes downward in a leap for his Lunge ability. Otherwise, he swings it.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Numerous goddesses. Aphrodite. Arachne. Bastet. Freya. Kali. Neith, however, [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it along with the irony of being titled "''Weaver'' Of Fate" in one of her jokes.
--> ''"I'm a weaver you know. I once wove the whole world into creation... but oddly enough, never found the time for pants."''
* SuperMode: Vamana's ultimate, Colossal Fury, increases his damage, protections, heals faster, makes him immune to crowd control, and to top it all off, makes him gigantic!
* SuperStrength: As expected for Hercules, displayed by his abilities with Earthshaker where he does a GroundPunch causing the ground to rise up to do damage, as well as knocking enemies up into the toward him at the end of ability, and his Excavate ability where he pulls a huge boulder out of the ground and throws it.
* ThePowerOfLove: Aphrodite's abilities in a nutshell.

* WildHair: Bacchus is a hedonist party animal. His large amount of facial hair easily shows him uninterested in grooming.
* WizardBeard: Ao Kuang appears to have a chipstrap. He Bo has a large beard and moustache going into it.

** Fenrir's ultimate has him eat an enemy champion after growing huge and carrying them for a bit. And his winning animation has him hack up the armor and weapons of some creeps/gods it's implied he ate after winning.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Many players assume Ne Zha is a girl upon first appearance. Some still have trouble believing he isn't even after reading about him!

* BadassBeard: Anhur has one done up from his chin. Apollo And Ares have a goatee. Guan Yu has an impressively beard and mustache, with some sides on his chin being hairless making it resemble a van dyke turned UpToEleven. Hercules has a noticeable beard and moustache that don't go far off his face. Odin has a massive beard with the ends of his also lengthy moustache done in the style of BraidsOfBarbarism. Poseidon has a large beard and long moustache disappearing into the beard. Sun Wukong has a chinstrap. Thor has facial hair similar to Hercules. Vulcan has a large handlebar moustache and a rather puffed out beard beneath it. Ymir has a long beard with two ends of a large moustaches above it. Zeus has a similar style to Ymir, with a finer moustache.

* SpinAttack: Kali's ultimate Frenzy has her do this continuously for the duration of it. Thor's [[MarvelVersusCapcom Berserker Barrage]] ability does this over its duration as well. Odin's Gungnir's Might ability has him do a backward spin around once for it, and he occasionally does a backward spin for his autoattacks.

* SpinAttack: Kali's ultimate Frenzy has her do this for the duration of it. Odin's Gungnir's Might ability has him do a backward spin around once for it, and he occasionally does a backward spin for his autoattacks.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Neith. She lampshades the irony of it being titled "''Weaver'' Of Fate" in one of her jokes.

* PhysicalGod: Every playable character is this.