i think you are referring to an old bug that can happen to all stance switchers - i feel like its been reported before on merlin or ullr - we have never been able to replicate it

It seems very rare or based on connectivity

any information about how exactly to get into this state would be much appreciated

Theme is very important - and you asked more on that so we will come back to it soon. Tsuku has more components in order to make his passive design feel complete. Has has the light and the dark basic attack, each are ranged, each with different shapes, and a different effect. The dark bonus attack also has a bonus effect, as does the light one youre referring to. You could argue that neither needed this extra bonus attack - being ranged and a different shape is enough - but we felt like the attack should have something additional and unique to diversify them.

ah the old "winrates being skewed" discussion - the answer is no - persephone and yemoja still get thousands of matches - hundreds of thousands in non-ranked. This is a lie reddit tells itself to make them feel better when their opinions have no basis in stats. Persephone and Yemoja have proportionally just as many "mains" as any other god - and their normal vs ranked conquest stats track well to eachother. ...

I do have good replies for all of those but cannot share them now with a baby in my arms lol

Do not imply that the devs of this game "havent played" - its absurd and rude.

Im not denying the fact that the ability is strong. I was describing how its nothing like Loki.

Ive also done a lot of extensive testing on the timing of this ability and how easy/hard it is to evade the taunt - I agree with you that I still think its a little on the strong side.

Thanks!

Yea I agree - you can compare these gods at a surface level pretty easily - they both have similar "trickster" themes so thats an obvious result of our design process.

We pushed ourselves to make Danza unique in many ways, especially from Loki, and I think we succeeded.

The god is a little OP - which im not afraid to admit - which is bringing about more of these intense emotions. We will continue to aim for balanced and when we miss it, make adjustments asap.

This change is purely visual. It makes Serqet LOOK like she is leaping - it does not do repeated leap damage, nor provide her untargetable states.

The nature of this bug is that certain animation states will continue to play even after the god has left the state. The Serqet player will see themselves acting normally, their leap will go on cooldown, but other players will see spammed leaps as they attack.

We are actively looking into this bug and are already testing a fix. I cannot promise a hotfix release yet, but as soon as we feel safe we will launch it.

• Danza ult is much more detectable? It has a very long warm up - moves rather slowly - and is easily avoided with a movement ability. It certainly can get lost in chaotic fights, but not much more so than other god abilities. Dealing with the inundation of information during team fights is a unique challenge for Mobas and a different discussion entirely.

• It doesnt taunt towers - and it has a considerable warm up time before it CCs anyone. Its also counterable. This is a very shallow comparison and not the same problem we saw with old Loki at all.

• This "stealth" is easily broken by any damage and even gives you many indicators as to where it might be worth attacking to reveal the god. Comparing this to Loki stealth and claiming "we havent learned our lesson" is just kinda of straight up rude. We clearly implemented a series of new counterplay options to this "stealth" as well as created a unique ability with strong themes fitting the god. Im ...

Ive seen a lot of comments on new gods in general, so this response is going to go outside the scope of just OPs comments - but it seems like a fine time to share some more accurate and up to date information

First - OPs topic here

On the concept of "power creep"

New gods are designed to bring new features, new themes, and new experiences to the game. We are not intentionally overpowering new gods, we are not intentionally adding elements specifically for power.

Abilities have multiple components to add to the gods theming, or to put new gameplay twists on abilities.

On balance vs design

Balance does not directly relate to the "number of things" an ability does - its easy to have an ability that does a lot of different things and still be weak or feel weak, so comparing these two concepts directly is a bit of a misdirect in itself. Often new gods winrates go down substantially through some reasonable numbers nerfs, no components ...

Not sure what parts and pieces of dev commentary youre cherry picking to put together this reddit tier conclusion, but this is not accurate.

I'll try to work up a quick response in a separate comment in this thread to give more information about this process.

EDIT: Longer - New God Launch Design Considerations can be found here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Smite/comments/kluxnq/why_does_every_new_god_have_to_have_power_creep/ghbwyv0/