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Originally posted by TehOtherFrost

My main concern is that competitive games are designed/balanced relative to the demographic that plays them. If a game's player base had mechanical aficionados then character design would look much different compared to if you had toddlers making up the bulk of your player base.

Let it be known that I think all games have balance problems, but I think Smite has some exclusive issues because of its audience. I also think you and the rest of the devs are doing the best with what you are given.

"Popularity based on complexity": Popularity can be quantified by pick rate but how can we denote what the player believes to be complex? Is it in all modes, Conquest, Ranked?" Yemoja and Persephone are consistently said to be characters who suffer a low win rate because of how complex they are. However the inverse is true because their win rate suffers in higher ranks. I interpret this to mean that the complexity in the characters is mostly present as a steep starting learning ...

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Originally posted by True_FX

I guarantee all of your metrics are skewed toward a 50% win rate for newly released gods because you include W/L for mirror matches. During initial releases, almost every game of Conquest has the new god on both teams. This inherently comes with an automatic 50% W/L because one always wins and loses.

The number of games with the god only on one team is small enough that when those games have an overwhelming number of Wins, the win rate is watered down by all of the 50/50 matches.

Maybe consider parsing your metrics to accurately convey the state of the god by removing mirror matches.

Originally posted by Kumatetsu94xX

One big thing though. You said you guys are constantly designing these new gods to implement new types of abilities, features, and experiences. This is great. However it is essentially making some older gods completely obsolete because next to nothing is being done for them. It seems like maybe one older god gets a rework each year to bring them kinda up to snuff with the newer ones, but I dont think its fast enough at all. You have over 100 gods and at least 20 have abilities that do nothing but damage and feel lack luster, especially when compared to gods released in 2020. So maybe take next year to just focus on buffing and reworking older gods to be what they need to be instead of expanding on a already very large roster.

Originally posted by CloutDaddyLloyd

how do i read the launch data? i’m confused how you do the percentages

Originally posted by Avernuscion

Heya Ajax, it's good to know that you guys keep us in mind :P

Still, I'd like to mention one of my biggest irks so far with new kits is just the raw damage output they do. A lot seem to well, have a lot of things that total up into just more numbers. Like Cthulhu and Arthur having many damaging abilities, Tsukuyomi always throwing something that hits like a truck, Merlin throwing out a crazy amount of fireworks, etc. Or the lack of counterplay on some kits. I.e. Tsukuyomi able to hit air targets, Arthur not being affected by roots by auto attacking out from it, Cthulhu being immune to CC while in his ultimate, Danza being damage immune, etc. It might have been okay if they had like 4 flat abilities and then sort of had these addons to then work around, but it's like I'm seeing a pattern of "extra" so to speak (more so if they have stances, multi-shots or transformations).

If there's one thing that I think would be my 2 cents towards the process it's that I think god...

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Originally posted by mrmasterjinx

The same visual glitch happens with cabracken. he does the animation for his single target stun for each auto attack