@@kyleat126 it was eeaaarly. I vaguely remember but theres a clip out there where Bart mentions it I think during one of their closet patch note shows they did back in the day. I think it was a very temporary thing but it really made me hate anubis xD
@@fortafied morrigan was a mess, I remember when she had a bug where she would carry over her stats to the god she transformed to, nearly doubling their stats
@@SunderingLoki Freya has a banish on her 3, Janus basically has a banish on his 1, Khumba has one on his ultimate, so does Ne Zha on his ultimate. But none of those are broken. So no Heims ultimate is not broken because it banishes you. If that's the cases then Janus's 1 is broken af since it does the same and you get it on a way lower cooldown.
Smogy it’s not his AA that makes him OP.... his release horn was busted and his ult is busted and always will be busted his autos help him but they aren’t the reason he’s top ADC
I honestly didn’t know Guan Yu used to be a Guardian. Hell, when people said Amaterasu’s Ult was/is a weaker rip-off of Guan’s old Ult, I thought they were joking. Amaterasu was the reason I found Smite to begin with.
Honorable shout of to the Morrigan who gets every broken ability in the game as long as there's something playing the character in the match... including at least one of the ones on the list though I doubt her ult would have been used to cerunnos.
Alot of other abilities games and systems count yourself as an ally most aura items count you as an ally so you get the extra buffs on top of the base item and it goes back to table top RPGs and like DND to this day has alot of things where it says allies and if it doesn't explicitly say not yourself you get the effects as well
Everyone’s forgetting about the menace that storm kata used to be. 420 damage with 180% scaling, and he didn’t even have to dash to use it? And hit basically everyone cuz of how big the ability is? This definitely deserved a spot on the list
Believe me, as someone who witnessed Ama and Susano's release, that definitely wasn't as bad as these. This is stuff that broke the game to a new level. If we brought back some of those changes and compared them to release Susano's Storm kata? Susano would be dead in water.
Yes! And I swear its like she has infinite cooldowns and movement speed, she just empties her entire kit and it's an easy triple, and can catch up to or escape from anybody! Not to mention knock up CC being one of her primary skills... but leave it to hi rez to be totally fair and balanced.
She was actually a little lackluster on release. Because she was broken in pts. They learned their lesson from baron. After pele was released she was then quickly buffed and was crazy powerful.
@@itfollowsme6565 What did you expect? Her kit focuses on randomized dps, attack patterns, and random potions. We knew that from the beginning. Why would you expect anything that you cant control to be highly viable? There are enough broken gods in Smite as it is to satisfy your cravings, just play Pele or Heimdallr and move on.
That wasn’t Bellona’s original Scourge, originally, on release it was 100% lifesteal on the third hit. Way more busted, I remember people would build crit and get effectively 33% lifesteal...
When fenrir was released people just bought a power pot at Lvl 1, went to the enemy's jungle, and hit a brutalize for a oneshot. It was stupid. it was glorious and he just kept doing that shit for the entire match, brutalize used to oneshot basically everyone.
yeah those were good times... would be nice for hi-rez to show fenrir some love and make brutalize on hit again, maybe without the crits to balance it tho
what you do is find a cooldown MOTD play as anubis. go full dmg and realize guan yu did as much dmg as anubis's ult on a shorter cooldown while not rooting himself
Ive been patiently waiting for another Top 5/10/15 for a while, worth the wait, your videos always get me really excited for my conquest match, you’re actually the one who got me hella into conquest.
I feel like susano deserved a spot,he did 420 base dmg with 180% scaling on his storm kata on release with it double procing bluestone and a fast as hell dash.
Hes not the most broken god on RELEASE tho I still say guan yu takes the cake on that one they literally had to change his entire role from Guardian to warrior to tone him the fuck down lol
Nike's passive deserves an honourable mention. 12% power and 7% movement speed for the team and the minion goal required 50 fewer minions. The power was 4x what it is now and the movement speed was 3x. She basically won games by existing.
The funny part was she wasn't considered OP while she had it. Most people didn't consider the impact it had on the game at all until everyone noticed her winrate was in outer space.
@@Archerforthelord I think she was overall pretty OP when she came out. Her passive, 1, 3 and ult were all repeatedly nerfed across the first 4 patches after release. But I agree that people didn't realize that even after all those nerfs she had one of the highest win rates while not feeling individually impactful, solely due to her passive. Hence the eventual rework.
@@Fenriir because Sylvanus is a persistent heal. IE it would keep the minions full HP for longer and could literally regenerate them as they were taking tower shots letting you stay in tower an absurd amount of time longer than usual. And the tick on enemy minions pretty much erased them giving sylv an amazing clear for a guardian
@@regagegmr4189 again didn't think about that, the recent buff Ra got to his heal does that effect minions too? Or are they only affected by the heal and not the power buff? If they're affected by the power buff too then that's mad
Medusa could overcap attack speed with her 1. Imagine a 4 attack speed medusa triple critting you in less than a second, healing off of lifesteal items and triple poisoning you. After you've beem basically stunned by her twice since her ult checking if you looked at her or not wasn't working that well
The reason release guan yu scales off magic was because everyone used to be split that way. Left click attacks were physical and ALL abilities were magic. I used to run crit/attack speed/movement speed ymir. Deathbringer, rage, Qins, fatalis. Watch the 1000+ crits roll in after you hit with an ability
I would have liked to see mention of release Ravana back when he could ult the weakest link and proceed to fight the entire enemy team 1v5 since he could only take damage from the person he ulted. Not to mention he couldn't miss because it was a lock on ability unlike now.
You forgot to mention Bellona's flail also used to let you heal of off towers. I watched someone solo FG at 10 minutes solo as release bellona with that heal. She was insane. So for Guan Yu to take that top spot...that should tell you how broken he was
Hirez: Guardians don't build magical damage so 200% scaling should be fine Common sense: but what if they do build a lot of magical damage? Hirez: then um... oh... 2000+ damage uh... whoops
Baba yaga's ult is the single most OP ability we have ever seen. if you hit all four shots it can do a THIRD of the enemys carry's health! (thats right i said a third and its not a typo, you may think a quarter is reasonable for an ult but NOPE, bab yaga is in sicko mode!!!) all while making yaga slow moving and unable to use relics :O i hope hirez nerfs soon or the entire fun of healer meta is gonna be ruined :(
In before Jesus is added to the game and his passive being upon his first death the enemy team immediately loses the game for killing Christ. Just like how the Roman's fell after killing him, so too shall your team
How about ah puch release ult? That shit slowed for every corpse hit up to 70%, with gem of iso you were just litterally unable to move, and only could jump away, use beads or wait death. It also lasted during ah puch death, so you could blink-ult enemy backline, sacrifice and basically win a teamfight by yourself. So broken.
I think original rat passive should get an honorable mention opal acorn and emerald acorn were so ridiculously good, it allowed him to flex between a susano like burst assassin or be a camazotz like sustain and poke assassin in the solo lane. Don't know if I could replace anything in the top 15 with it however. Great video
I would mention Raijin's 2, when it was released, there was this thing (most likely unintended) when it could double proc Soul Reaver (if you hit a marked enemy with your 1 or 3, you would get the Soul Reaver proc from these abilities but also your 2). This meant it dealt an extra 30% of the enemy health as TRUE DAMAGE (Soul Reaver use to deal 15%) on a 40 second cooldown if I remember well. On a tanky dude, it could easily raise to 1200 extra true damage, which was insane for a non ultimate ability. You would get deleted no matter the health and protection you guy, nothing you could do about it
He was in a state where he could only be super op or super weak. I miss the old kit but it wasnt good for the game..... Then again loki still exists so lol
Susanoo 1 used to have 220% scaling and the dash was just a dash. Reworked Ravana had 50% dmg reduction for like 8 seconds on his ult and it had like a 70 second cooldown. Arthur ult used to do around 30% max health true damage and hit for like 600 before scaling. Cu Chulain passive used to give him all abilities when it procced and he had like 20 power for free at lvl 1
Don't forget that Bellona's scourge heal used to proc on tower hits too! You could build full atk speed and just face tank towers. Also, Ah Puch definitely deserves a spot on this list. He wasn't good in conquest, so some people might not remember, but he absolutely broke every other game mode. I remember rushing him to diamond and I finished with a 2.23 kdr and 73% winrate. Absolutely busted. Pretty sure he's the only Drybear god that didn't make this list too lol His base damage was just way higher, and his ult had a STACKING slow. Check this clip from back in 2015 (look at the size of those corpse heals!): th-cam.com/video/gQvecZlgfOE/w-d-xo.html
Idk why people never talk about release Xing Tian. I started playing on season 2 and he is still the most broken release god I've ever experienced. Maybe it's just because me and my friends were low level, but I clearly remember him tanking all of my teams abilities and then killing the entire team by himself. I remember pressing "y" and seeing 700 dmg from his 1, 1200 dmg from his ult, 400 dmg from his 3, etc
The fun thing is, I remember that Rat was considered really bad pre-rework for a time... But then some Pro used him in Solo lane to counter another guy and since nobody played Rat they didn't know how to counter him and he won lane. And then I believe people started to find ways to use him better..
You missed a few things. Khepri release Ult had a much longer range. Nemesis shield didn't break upon taking hard CC. Geb release shield also provided Knockback immunity.
the top 4 needed to be release guan yu. his dash slowed for 40% regardless off rank and had no cooldown basically ratatoskr's old dash mechanic but no limit on the use, his heal also had no cooldown hel's heal as much as you want, his 3 scaling and base damage overshadows most magical carries entire kits including this ult and his ult is basically a ymir ult that slowed and stunned while jumping around with immunity frames basically a better amaterasu ult. Well i just finished the video you need to add the dash and heal since if you dash into an enemy you lost 2 seconds off ALL your abilities and if you healed you lost 2 seconds off ALL your abilities basically 6 sec heal becomes 3.6 seconds with full cdr which you got teir 2 boots (they gave you 10 cdr at the time) and chronos pendant with the cooldown buff as in lvl 6 he had infinite healing and infinite dashes.
The fenrir part was wrong the criting and ability counting as a autoattack was a rework, the release ability was just like it is today but beyond broken you used to buy a red pot at level 1 do red buff and then one shot mages and hunters with just 3 at lvl 2 u get ur 2 ability and use that and 3 and you could kill any God in one ability. Release fenrir made me upgrade my PC so I could load faster and pick him.
Nah, his 3 definitely counted as auto attacks when he was released. You're right about the strat though where you went fenrir mid, grabbed a lvl 1 red pot, got red buff then immediately brutalized the enemy mid the second they stepped into lane. Pretty much a guaranteed first blood at lvl 1
@@kazgamer no it didnt lol i am 100% sure and there are videos of it even check drybear. The release was just a ability like today but much more broken the auto attack version was a rework some weeks after release that was meant to nerf him literally killing everyone at lvl 1 with a targeting ability, but aa version was also busted and that was changed again.
@@mcballe just watched the drybear video uploaded 3 days after release day and brutalize crit and gave lifesteal. Also the changelog for fenrir says on-hit effects were removed 1 week after his release.
release ares ult shoulda been on here imo. not only did it do more damage, but you could move full speed while channeling it. meaning you could, with some movement speed built, pull someone from one end of lane to the other.
Pre Zues rework and before magic and physical items were split. You could build crit for basic attacks. It was insane, criting for around 900 and detonate for more then 2000 dmg. Basically every god could be really busted. YMIR for example was hilarious, that was the real face punch ymir.
Being around smite since alpha, Im gonna have to say that IMO i think fenrir's brutalize should've been number 1. While true that guan's 3 had a massive amount of scaling and such, there would be ways to circumvent it late game. back when fenrir released, you could buy a power pot and girdle and literally kill anyone in the game at level 1 with your 3 (unless they built like a tier 2 breastplate at lv 1) They only way to survive was an aegis amulet. While the public barely found this out right before the nerf, it was common to buy your pot and girdle, run straight to the enemy jungle and kill the first person you see for free gold.
Old hercules: Mitigate wounds 12 second cooldown. heals for 15/25/35/45/55 every second for 4 seconds when initiated. The percentage damage done within the 4 seconds that is returned as healing 30/55/80/105/130% (+1% for every 2% health missing) and he wasnt in the video. whack.
To be completely accurate, you'd have to go all the way back to the first release to beta players, where most abilities could end up being a one shot mechanic, cough cough arachne.. But one that comes to mind is release patch Chang'e her 3rd ability could easily ignore 3 ults if timed correctly. Really old smite, like the first two years, had even more broken abilities than these, but yes you're correct vanilla Guan-Yu was probably one of if not the most broken single character many people remember.
Been playing since closed beta and oh boi was there a lot of broken stuff back then.... My worst (and probably funniest?) memory I have is Loki and oh boy that guy was a pain back then, he ulted you and put only the 3 on ya and you'd be dead, doesn't matter how many kills he had, he'd kill you in an instant, unless you got the reaction of a god and could use bead (aegis)..
Executes should negate the pull rather than bypassing khepri ult entirely. As unfun as people say khepri ult is i find it much more unfun when thanatos drops from the sky and instakills me because I was under 40%hp
Dont forget bout Raijin 2, it used to be burst damage instad of a tick like now, did way more damage and could proc soul reaver twice. People used to build soul reaver first item and use the 2 and the 3 and one shot you
I’m surprised none of Susanoo’s abilities made it on here, namely his one. Easiest ability in the game to hit, every hit proc’d hydras (so he had 3 hydras procs in one ability), both hits did 90% SCALING, and his dash was longer abd almost instant travel speed, plus it gave him a stack on his OP passive that gave him movement speed for on cooldown abilities. He had the best burst and poke in the game, he’d teleport in (which was faster and longer range on a shorter cooldown), press 1 twice and do 360-400 damage plus 180% of his physical power, and then dash away with no hope of ever catching him. That’s not even including the rest of the kit
I think you should make another top just to include Tiamat. I still think she's more broken than the latest 2 before and the latest 2 after her release
What about yemoja? I mean have you ever played her/ seen people player her on a motd where infinite mana was involved? Because I'll tell you this she is the embodiment of what op stands for. Becease of her annoying passive. having only the ult ability with a cooldown. her 1st ability. is just broken, and i'm not talking about that hilarious buble. I'm talking about her moonstrike ability. It's basically her 2nd ult when given infinite mana, she can just spam it every one second to stunlock you to death. cause of her passive alone. Her 2 with infinite mana. The potential it has is just ridiculous. If your entire team is ganking in one lane with her, she will just give her entire team a shield. is constantly adding more shields if just spammed on just 1 teamate close to her, while also giving said shield to herself to when spamming her 2 on said teamate. it heals teamates. and it goes trough teamates and can hurt enemies. Also becease of the passive having no cooldown on all her abilities except her ult makes it almost impossible to kill her when she has a teamate close to her. Her 3 with infinite mana. You might not even need shoes if you have no cooldown on that ability. You can just casually throw/trap your enemies into towers. Can use it on enemies so they fly into your teamates attacks/abilities. or throw them away from you while also slowing them. It Increases her and her teamates speed while going trough her 3rd ability. And can effectively escape with it cause of the temporary increase in speed and spamming cause of her passive. There is a reason for why she is banned on some motds like infinite assault. Cause if just one person played her it was basically game over from the start.
She's not OP if she's only strong in infinite mana lol. Then Chang'e would be completely busted because of her 3 second CD aegis and beads in Omnipotence
God i miss 1v5ing with bellona frosbound and full attack speed with 1 life steal item just 3 and auto for life Old bloodforge was good on her also such good times Kind of...
I love the comments about "how did this even get past testing?" Simple answer? They were either inexperienced (early Smite), or they release broken gods on purpose to bring people back and play the game. People hate playing against broken gods, but LOVE playing with them.
Heimdal should be on here. His ult had 120% scaling and I got hit for 1700 with it before. He could basic for about 1100 and his 1 did about 700 damage late game.
Actually you didn’t mention that bellona was able to heal of towers with her 3. When she was released. And of course she could solo GF at early lvl. Plus u didn’t mention that nemesis had been released with bug. Her shield in reality reflected 100% dmg. It was bug. Though don’t remember the healing. Was it 50% or also 100%.
Man I've been on the brute force of these abilities and used them when they released and boi do I have PTSD whenever I see Guan Yu. I just get flashbacks of him murdering me instantly and without warning.
I've been playing since console beta and the only one I distinctly remember was squirrel the other oppressive as shit thing was when they released kaldur with his auto attack bot companion skadi and those are the only 2 times the game felt almost near unplayable if you cued with out one on your team or against one
I clicked just to see where Fenrir ranked and woulda disliked if he wasn't decently high, although imo still way too low. I've played since Alpha and Fenrir on release was INSANE you just land brutalize on someone and back then the items were huge for building crit & power - gotta remember items back then were pretty diff than current items! Dev gloves were standard among other things and anything not a tank would often get crit and die before all 4 hits plus it healed you to full and if you got whacked with a CC you could ult and change the tide of battle while resetting your brutalize for more wrecking. Upon release games were just who had the better Fenrir and it was truly just Fenrir vs Fenrir in Arena or Conq - it didn't matter he was just a monster. Also definitely agree on release Guan - I LOVED playing him back then, you did build 1 defensive item on him btw the thing that buffed his passive healing which made him insane plus tons and tons of damage. Some mentions I thought that would be worthwhile were release Chronos - easy pentakill god with his insane ability to box anything down and dive without death, Hades scaled way too hard with lifesteal, pen and power and could easily devour a full team with just a 1 into the ult and lastly old Vulcan had a thumper cannon that would do damage + slow and your ult buffed both turrets and with that he could solo a duo lane or hold a lane and leave to help another, definitely more balanced now but he was insanely powerful if you abused the turrets properly
you mean the level 13 fen that would solo fire...a thing we luckily have and will never see again ,yea he should probably be 5-7 ish territory. plus he was one of like 4-5 characters who could actually jungle when bumba's was introduced(if i remember right it was thor, loki, nezha, old wukong/hunbatz, and fen(and spiderbitch but nobody knew about bumbas bugging out and giving you additional stacks if you killed two camps at the same time)).
You keep mentioning how Guan Yu's abilities were insane to have on a guardian, but he wasn't a guardian. Guardians didn't exist when Guan Yu was released. 'Bruiser' *might* have existed, I can't remember exactly, he might've just been a Bruiser that scaled with magic power. It wasn't until a while later that the role system was reorganized to make more sense. He was definitely completely broken though and it wasn't even close.
I just started Smite in 2019 so I’m only familiar with release Arthur, Merlin, Yemoja, and Heim. I don’t think Jorm was op when he first came out but I could be falsely remembering.
Woe , he was because there were 2 bugs that made him insanely broken: 1. His basic attack breath had minion push back on it, which with the amount of ticks it has basically meant he stunned the minion wave indefinitely 2. HIS BASICS PROC’D ITEM AFFECTS! HE COULD STACK DEMONIC GRIP INSTANTLY AND TELEKHINES ON HIM WAS LITERAL ANUBIS ULT AS A FREE RESOURCE Other than that he wasn’t too too insane, it took people a while to figure out and a few buffs and he was top tier for an entire season
Alright you missed a huge reason Sol's 3 was so busted. IT COULD HIT TOWERS! Sol's 3 could be used to deal insane damage to the tower. You'd proc it and run around the base of the tower and it absolutely would clear everything in that lane. Worked on phoenixes as well.
And as an honorable mention don't forget when they accidentally put an extra digit into anubis's ult scaling and he legitimately erased people
Profile picture checks out, I'll believe you.
IHeartSnorlax they did WHAT?! Where was I when that happened
@@kyleat126 it was eeaaarly. I vaguely remember but theres a clip out there where Bart mentions it I think during one of their closet patch note shows they did back in the day. I think it was a very temporary thing but it really made me hate anubis xD
Any of you guys remember that morrigan bug I only heard bits and pieces on a wolfy stream.
@@fortafied morrigan was a mess, I remember when she had a bug where she would carry over her stats to the god she transformed to, nearly doubling their stats
Just to put all this into perspective, Heimdallr wasn’t even on this list. That’s how broken these abilities were.
Hou Yeet heimdallrs moves aren’t broken
Heimdallr ability are not broken, it's is AA that makes I'm op
Smogy An ult that banishes you, and right when you come down you get ulted again. Seems pretty op
@@SunderingLoki Freya has a banish on her 3, Janus basically has a banish on his 1, Khumba has one on his ultimate, so does Ne Zha on his ultimate. But none of those are broken. So no Heims ultimate is not broken because it banishes you. If that's the cases then Janus's 1 is broken af since it does the same and you get it on a way lower cooldown.
Smogy it’s not his AA that makes him OP.... his release horn was busted and his ult is busted and always will be busted
his autos help him but they aren’t the reason he’s top ADC
I’ve been playing since 2012 in the closed beta. So I’ve experienced every single one of these abilities firsthand. This video brought back some PTSD
I experience 14 of the 15, not broken Guan, Thank God.
Me too dude. I’ll be having nightmares about Guan tonight
I honestly didn’t know Guan Yu used to be a Guardian. Hell, when people said Amaterasu’s Ult was/is a weaker rip-off of Guan’s old Ult, I thought they were joking. Amaterasu was the reason I found Smite to begin with.
@@twoface9959 I see you.
Its Lethal ??
Honorable shout out to The Morigan's ultimate on release for being so broken it could crash your game.
FUCK I FORGOT BOUT THAT
Honorable shoutout to The Morrigan's ultimate who can still crash your games in 2021.
Honorable shout of to the Morrigan who gets every broken ability in the game as long as there's something playing the character in the match... including at least one of the ones on the list though I doubt her ult would have been used to cerunnos.
"Guan Yu also counted as an ally when he healed himself."
Typical Hi Rez.
Alot of other abilities games and systems count yourself as an ally most aura items count you as an ally so you get the extra buffs on top of the base item and it goes back to table top RPGs and like DND to this day has alot of things where it says allies and if it doesn't explicitly say not yourself you get the effects as well
My man said internal testing at Hirez
That's the best joke I've ever heard
Everyone’s forgetting about the menace that storm kata used to be. 420 damage with 180% scaling, and he didn’t even have to dash to use it? And hit basically everyone cuz of how big the ability is? This definitely deserved a spot on the list
Akshay Sadeeshkumar also each use of it gave him hydras lel
Believe me, as someone who witnessed Ama and Susano's release, that definitely wasn't as bad as these. This is stuff that broke the game to a new level. If we brought back some of those changes and compared them to release Susano's Storm kata? Susano would be dead in water.
Fenrir brutalize was 284 + 520% scaling and could crit, allowing it to be effectively 568 + 1040%. Just so we are clear.
Pele was the first broken release i witnessed. She blinked> wiped the floor with you and your partner > Dipped.
Yes! And I swear its like she has infinite cooldowns and movement speed, she just empties her entire kit and it's an easy triple, and can catch up to or escape from anybody! Not to mention knock up CC being one of her primary skills... but leave it to hi rez to be totally fair and balanced.
She was actually a little lackluster on release. Because she was broken in pts. They learned their lesson from baron. After pele was released she was then quickly buffed and was crazy powerful.
She still does this lol
Baba is awful sadly
@@itfollowsme6565 What did you expect? Her kit focuses on randomized dps, attack patterns, and random potions. We knew that from the beginning. Why would you expect anything that you cant control to be highly viable? There are enough broken gods in Smite as it is to satisfy your cravings, just play Pele or Heimdallr and move on.
I like this video. Never seen someone just talk about abilities.
That wasn’t Bellona’s original Scourge, originally, on release it was 100% lifesteal on the third hit. Way more busted, I remember people would build crit and get effectively 33% lifesteal...
You could heal off of TOWERS.
it was a heal im sure
original scourge was a 100 base heal on third hit
don't forget the manticore, who was APPEARENTLY so busted that even highrez themself thought he was too op and didnt even release him
I thought manticore was an April fool's joke
what you mean they did release him he was too broken and was removed from the game
@@curydude th-cam.com/video/bYOgeWeBfTo/w-d-xo.html
Show me any actual gameplay footage of him. He was an April Fool's joke.
@@Leoj305 Take a joke, read the room.
well
When fenrir was released people just bought a power pot at Lvl 1, went to the enemy's jungle, and hit a brutalize for a oneshot.
It was stupid. it was glorious and he just kept doing that shit for the entire match, brutalize used to oneshot basically everyone.
yeah those were good times... would be nice for hi-rez to show fenrir some love and make brutalize on hit again, maybe without the crits to balance it tho
Smite history is really interesting to me and you do an amazing job of explaining what went on. Keep up the good work and congrats on almost 50k!
Can we bring back release guan for a late april fools?! I would like to experience that...
Oh God the bongos
just play motd lmao
You really don't. You reaaaally don't. *has vietnam-war-like-ptsd flashbacks*
what you do is find a cooldown MOTD play as anubis. go full dmg and realize guan yu did as much dmg as anubis's ult on a shorter cooldown while not rooting himself
No... you wouldn't like that. Trust me on that.
Ive been patiently waiting for another Top 5/10/15 for a while, worth the wait, your videos always get me really excited for my conquest match, you’re actually the one who got me hella into conquest.
I feel like susano deserved a spot,he did 420 base dmg with 180% scaling on his storm kata on release with it double procing bluestone and a fast as hell dash.
Adam Taurus6659 yes sirrrrr I just commented about it pop
@@akshaysujatharani lol and everyone forgets you can easily do 1k damage with it so long as you had 270 power
Heimdallr is an op ability release
Hes not the most broken god on RELEASE tho I still say guan yu takes the cake on that one they literally had to change his entire role from Guardian to warrior to tone him the fuck down lol
@@KetteiThe7th_ wait he used to be a guardian?????
@@xdknights Did you watch the video?
@@Scyxurz yeah and I just realized 😳
@@xdknights lol
Fenrirs brutalize would one shot if you hit one auto beforehand. This was at level 1...
Oh god exactly. Most op thing ever... and you couldnt even effin leap it
Nike's passive deserves an honourable mention. 12% power and 7% movement speed for the team and the minion goal required 50 fewer minions.
The power was 4x what it is now and the movement speed was 3x. She basically won games by existing.
The funny part was she wasn't considered OP while she had it. Most people didn't consider the impact it had on the game at all until everyone noticed her winrate was in outer space.
@@Archerforthelord I think she was overall pretty OP when she came out. Her passive, 1, 3 and ult were all repeatedly nerfed across the first 4 patches after release.
But I agree that people didn't realize that even after all those nerfs she had one of the highest win rates while not feeling individually impactful, solely due to her passive. Hence the eventual rework.
You forgot any of ao kwangs release habilities. The 3 could also proc poly and one shot
Sylvanas heal? It healed minions and damaged enemy minions.
Why doesn't it still heal minions now?
Ra, Hel, Horus, Guan all heal minions and I'm pretty sure other gods do too?
@@Fenriir because Sylvanus is a persistent heal. IE it would keep the minions full HP for longer and could literally regenerate them as they were taking tower shots letting you stay in tower an absurd amount of time longer than usual. And the tick on enemy minions pretty much erased them giving sylv an amazing clear for a guardian
@@draconiandraco that makes sense, I hadn't thought about the fact it's a tick heal rather than a burst heal
Draconian Draco kinda bad example, meaning is there but ra is tick heal with protections and more healing
@@regagegmr4189 again didn't think about that, the recent buff Ra got to his heal does that effect minions too? Or are they only affected by the heal and not the power buff?
If they're affected by the power buff too then that's mad
Medusa could overcap attack speed with her 1.
Imagine a 4 attack speed medusa triple critting you in less than a second, healing off of lifesteal items and triple poisoning you. After you've beem basically stunned by her twice since her ult checking if you looked at her or not wasn't working that well
A lot of people forgot that Sol's 3 stunned I miss it yo
The reason release guan yu scales off magic was because everyone used to be split that way. Left click attacks were physical and ALL abilities were magic. I used to run crit/attack speed/movement speed ymir. Deathbringer, rage, Qins, fatalis. Watch the 1000+ crits roll in after you hit with an ability
I would have liked to see mention of release Ravana back when he could ult the weakest link and proceed to fight the entire enemy team 1v5 since he could only take damage from the person he ulted. Not to mention he couldn't miss because it was a lock on ability unlike now.
Guan Yu's 3 is ridiculous, I wasn't playing the game yet at that time, but he's insane
Fuck you
Who remembers the Medusa's first ability viper shot back then? It had 100% attackspeed on every point
Yeah and did 1000 dmg lol.
Can you make a vídeo about "habilities recicled"? Like, Aracne's Grab, now is on Sylvanos. And Old Guan Yu ult is now Amaterasu Ult
You forgot to mention Bellona's flail also used to let you heal of off towers. I watched someone solo FG at 10 minutes solo as release bellona with that heal. She was insane. So for Guan Yu to take that top spot...that should tell you how broken he was
Hirez: Guardians don't build magical damage so 200% scaling should be fine
Common sense: but what if they do build a lot of magical damage?
Hirez: then um... oh... 2000+ damage uh... whoops
Baba yaga's ult is the single most OP ability we have ever seen. if you hit all four shots it can do a THIRD of the enemys carry's health! (thats right i said a third and its not a typo, you may think a quarter is reasonable for an ult but NOPE, bab yaga is in sicko mode!!!) all while making yaga slow moving and unable to use relics :O
i hope hirez nerfs soon or the entire fun of healer meta is gonna be ruined :(
Zhong Kui's release ult, still gives me nightmares...
Just started playing in February and Found your channel and it has genuinely helped me learn the game faster and entertained me with all your vids
In before Jesus is added to the game and his passive being upon his first death the enemy team immediately loses the game for killing Christ. Just like how the Roman's fell after killing him, so too shall your team
You’re missing avout 400 years there
@@pwesto2186 the religious change in the roman empire following Christ was what helped destabilize power in Rome that eventually led to its fall
How about ah puch release ult? That shit slowed for every corpse hit up to 70%, with gem of iso you were just litterally unable to move, and only could jump away, use beads or wait death. It also lasted during ah puch death, so you could blink-ult enemy backline, sacrifice and basically win a teamfight by yourself. So broken.
I think original rat passive should get an honorable mention opal acorn and emerald acorn were so ridiculously good, it allowed him to flex between a susano like burst assassin or be a camazotz like sustain and poke assassin in the solo lane. Don't know if I could replace anything in the top 15 with it however. Great video
I would mention Raijin's 2, when it was released, there was this thing (most likely unintended) when it could double proc Soul Reaver (if you hit a marked enemy with your 1 or 3, you would get the Soul Reaver proc from these abilities but also your 2). This meant it dealt an extra 30% of the enemy health as TRUE DAMAGE (Soul Reaver use to deal 15%) on a 40 second cooldown if I remember well. On a tanky dude, it could easily raise to 1200 extra true damage, which was insane for a non ultimate ability. You would get deleted no matter the health and protection you guy, nothing you could do about it
I miss pre-release rattatoskr, now he just doesn't seem fun to play.
He was in a state where he could only be super op or super weak. I miss the old kit but it wasnt good for the game..... Then again loki still exists so lol
@@keiganm1287 It was soooo fun back then. I would be totally fine if hed always be below average but playable, I hate new rata, he's just so boring
I think he's fun as hell but that's probably because I didn't play him when he was OP. He has a dash a stun and his ult has good mobility
Susanoo 1 used to have 220% scaling and the dash was just a dash. Reworked Ravana had 50% dmg reduction for like 8 seconds on his ult and it had like a 70 second cooldown. Arthur ult used to do around 30% max health true damage and hit for like 600 before scaling. Cu Chulain passive used to give him all abilities when it procced and he had like 20 power for free at lvl 1
You forgot to mention that Bellona's 3 used to proc the heal on towers
Don't forget that Bellona's scourge heal used to proc on tower hits too! You could build full atk speed and just face tank towers.
Also, Ah Puch definitely deserves a spot on this list. He wasn't good in conquest, so some people might not remember, but he absolutely broke every other game mode. I remember rushing him to diamond and I finished with a 2.23 kdr and 73% winrate. Absolutely busted. Pretty sure he's the only Drybear god that didn't make this list too lol
His base damage was just way higher, and his ult had a STACKING slow.
Check this clip from back in 2015 (look at the size of those corpse heals!): th-cam.com/video/gQvecZlgfOE/w-d-xo.html
Idk why people never talk about release Xing Tian. I started playing on season 2 and he is still the most broken release god I've ever experienced. Maybe it's just because me and my friends were low level, but I clearly remember him tanking all of my teams abilities and then killing the entire team by himself. I remember pressing "y" and seeing 700 dmg from his 1, 1200 dmg from his ult, 400 dmg from his 3, etc
what about the bug with soul reaver and Raijins 2 ? Didn't it double the Soul Reaver effect?
yo how old is the baron clip at 3:20 ? why is his one hitting for literally 1000 damage
yeah i dont know why barons entire kit wasnt on this list... literally every ability he has got nerfed like 3 times
It was from his release, all of the gameplay in the video besides Fenrir is release gameplay.
@@Inters3ct Drybear had a video on May 4th that could've been used maybe.
something not a lot of people know, Sol's 3 could hit towers on release, although that was a bug and not intended
skadi's release ult. still have nightmares about that one
Only the ogs remember 😭
The fun thing is, I remember that Rat was considered really bad pre-rework for a time... But then some Pro used him in Solo lane to counter another guy and since nobody played Rat they didn't know how to counter him and he won lane. And then I believe people started to find ways to use him better..
That was when the healing acorn became popular after nerfing opal to the ground if i remember.
You missed a few things. Khepri release Ult had a much longer range. Nemesis shield didn't break upon taking hard CC. Geb release shield also provided Knockback immunity.
the top 4 needed to be release guan yu. his dash slowed for 40% regardless off rank and had no cooldown basically ratatoskr's old dash mechanic but no limit on the use, his heal also had no cooldown hel's heal as much as you want, his 3 scaling and base damage overshadows most magical carries entire kits including this ult and his ult is basically a ymir ult that slowed and stunned while jumping around with immunity frames basically a better amaterasu ult.
Well i just finished the video you need to add the dash and heal since if you dash into an enemy you lost 2 seconds off ALL your abilities
and if you healed you lost 2 seconds off ALL your abilities basically 6 sec heal becomes 3.6 seconds with full cdr which you got teir 2 boots (they gave you 10 cdr at the time) and chronos pendant with the cooldown buff as in lvl 6 he had infinite healing and infinite dashes.
The fenrir part was wrong the criting and ability counting as a autoattack was a rework, the release ability was just like it is today but beyond broken you used to buy a red pot at level 1 do red buff and then one shot mages and hunters with just 3 at lvl 2 u get ur 2 ability and use that and 3 and you could kill any God in one ability. Release fenrir made me upgrade my PC so I could load faster and pick him.
Nah, his 3 definitely counted as auto attacks when he was released. You're right about the strat though where you went fenrir mid, grabbed a lvl 1 red pot, got red buff then immediately brutalized the enemy mid the second they stepped into lane. Pretty much a guaranteed first blood at lvl 1
@@kazgamer no it didnt lol i am 100% sure and there are videos of it even check drybear. The release was just a ability like today but much more broken the auto attack version was a rework some weeks after release that was meant to nerf him literally killing everyone at lvl 1 with a targeting ability, but aa version was also busted and that was changed again.
@@mcballe just watched the drybear video uploaded 3 days after release day and brutalize crit and gave lifesteal.
Also the changelog for fenrir says on-hit effects were removed 1 week after his release.
Just ask: where is Nox? I think she was brouken god too, especialy with her 2 and 3 (when she wasnt take dmg when she was in shadow).
The infamous bongo man takes both second and first place, you really got to wonder just what was Hi-rez thinking when they made Guanyu.
release ares ult shoulda been on here imo. not only did it do more damage, but you could move full speed while channeling it. meaning you could, with some movement speed built, pull someone from one end of lane to the other.
Pre Zues rework and before magic and physical items were split. You could build crit for basic attacks. It was insane, criting for around 900 and detonate for more then 2000 dmg. Basically every god could be really busted. YMIR for example was hilarious, that was the real face punch ymir.
Being around smite since alpha, Im gonna have to say that IMO i think fenrir's brutalize should've been number 1. While true that guan's 3 had a massive amount of scaling and such, there would be ways to circumvent it late game. back when fenrir released, you could buy a power pot and girdle and literally kill anyone in the game at level 1 with your 3 (unless they built like a tier 2 breastplate at lv 1) They only way to survive was an aegis amulet. While the public barely found this out right before the nerf, it was common to buy your pot and girdle, run straight to the enemy jungle and kill the first person you see for free gold.
Old hercules: Mitigate wounds 12 second cooldown. heals for 15/25/35/45/55 every second for 4 seconds when initiated. The percentage damage done within the 4 seconds that is returned as healing 30/55/80/105/130% (+1% for every 2% health missing) and he wasnt in the video. whack.
You could also run old Guantlet of Thebes and get 25% more healing too
Tsuku took OP to a whole new level
To be completely accurate, you'd have to go all the way back to the first release to beta players, where most abilities could end up being a one shot mechanic, cough cough arachne.. But one that comes to mind is release patch Chang'e her 3rd ability could easily ignore 3 ults if timed correctly. Really old smite, like the first two years, had even more broken abilities than these, but yes you're correct vanilla Guan-Yu was probably one of if not the most broken single character many people remember.
Honoroble mention to Sylvanus healing his own minions and damaging the opposite. it was very op on release.
Zeus’ stun on his 3 was pretty game changing ngl
Been playing since closed beta and oh boi was there a lot of broken stuff back then....
My worst (and probably funniest?) memory I have is Loki and oh boy that guy was a pain back then, he ulted you and put only the 3 on ya and you'd be dead, doesn't matter how many kills he had, he'd kill you in an instant, unless you got the reaction of a god and could use bead (aegis)..
Denneh I remember that and I’m disgusted of how I used to abuse that
And still remember when I used to go full crit with he to the point that he’d one shot a full set sup
@@Cn99h it was so annoying lmao
I'm surprised that there's no old zeus' in this list. His shield applied charges and the detonate damage was ridiculous
I miss the stun on detonate.
Remember when Raijin could double proc Soul Reaver? Back when it did like 15% max health damage on a codown?
I forgot if reworks counted or not, but rework Freya’s 1. It’s burst was crazy. And if you were near a minion wave......dear god.
You forgot ares ult release. In his ult, he would move insanely fast and could pull enemies from T1 tower to the mid of the lane
Executes should negate the pull rather than bypassing khepri ult entirely. As unfun as people say khepri ult is i find it much more unfun when thanatos drops from the sky and instakills me because I was under 40%hp
Dont forget bout Raijin 2, it used to be burst damage instad of a tick like now, did way more damage and could proc soul reaver twice. People used to build soul reaver first item and use the 2 and the 3 and one shot you
I’m surprised none of Susanoo’s abilities made it on here, namely his one.
Easiest ability in the game to hit, every hit proc’d hydras (so he had 3 hydras procs in one ability), both hits did 90% SCALING, and his dash was longer abd almost instant travel speed, plus it gave him a stack on his OP passive that gave him movement speed for on cooldown abilities. He had the best burst and poke in the game, he’d teleport in (which was faster and longer range on a shorter cooldown), press 1 twice and do 360-400 damage plus 180% of his physical power, and then dash away with no hope of ever catching him. That’s not even including the rest of the kit
Honorable mention to the recent gilgamesh infinite stun! Get kicked once and be stunned for every frame you moved
Every god after Bellona can have a case made at how they were busted at release
My worst experience was release Susano, that bastard deleted everything
Do you remember chronos' 2 working as a fatalis?
No Nu Wa ult (Pillars of Heaven, Ganesha's current ult) I'm pretty sure that was broken on release.
It was only broken when combined with fenrir ult
@@andremartinez418 shake n bake. Not like today when everyone got free beads from lv 1 to.
8:26 I think the most op thing about the shiled was that the cc didnt destroy it like nowdays.
I love that Nemesis was also released as a warrior
What about herc heal that healed for, i think, 125% of dmg taken????
I think you should make another top just to include Tiamat. I still think she's more broken than the latest 2 before and the latest 2 after her release
Release guan footage hitting me right in the nostalgia
Heimdallr and Achilles deserves a spot on here for sure imo
What about yemoja? I mean have you ever played her/ seen people player her on a motd where infinite mana was involved? Because I'll tell you this she is the embodiment of what op stands for. Becease of her annoying passive. having only the ult ability with a cooldown.
her 1st ability. is just broken, and i'm not talking about that hilarious buble. I'm talking about her moonstrike ability. It's basically her 2nd ult when given infinite mana, she can just spam it every one second to stunlock you to death. cause of her passive alone.
Her 2 with infinite mana. The potential it has is just ridiculous. If your entire team is ganking in one lane with her, she will just give her entire team a shield. is constantly adding more shields if just spammed on just 1 teamate close to her, while also giving said shield to herself to when spamming her 2 on said teamate. it heals teamates. and it goes trough teamates and can hurt enemies. Also becease of the passive having no cooldown on all her abilities except her ult makes it almost impossible to kill her when she has a teamate close to her.
Her 3 with infinite mana. You might not even need shoes if you have no cooldown on that ability. You can just casually throw/trap your enemies into towers. Can use it on enemies so they fly into your teamates attacks/abilities. or throw them away from you while also slowing them. It Increases her and her teamates speed while going trough her 3rd ability. And can effectively escape with it cause of the temporary increase in speed and spamming cause of her passive.
There is a reason for why she is banned on some motds like infinite assault. Cause if just one person played her it was basically game over from the start.
She's not OP if she's only strong in infinite mana lol. Then Chang'e would be completely busted because of her 3 second CD aegis and beads in Omnipotence
If we're basing it on motd modes have you seen thanatos in Omni? Can 1v3 at level one and get an easy triple.
I mean she was buffed after release she was always good but the buffa took her over the top.
If you can somehow keep someone on Ganesha's ult for the full duration, it deals 3150 + 504% magic scaling.
Just use your 3 when someone's about to step on the line.
God i miss 1v5ing with bellona frosbound and full attack speed with 1 life steal item just 3 and auto for life
Old bloodforge was good on her also such good times
Kind of...
I love the comments about "how did this even get past testing?" Simple answer? They were either inexperienced (early Smite), or they release broken gods on purpose to bring people back and play the game. People hate playing against broken gods, but LOVE playing with them.
People im general were much worse at the game back then. Shit i remember all the bad release serqets even though she was op.
Heimdal should be on here. His ult had 120% scaling and I got hit for 1700 with it before. He could basic for about 1100 and his 1 did about 700 damage late game.
whatta bout chiron passive? able to solo FG at like 10 minutes
Actually you didn’t mention that bellona was able to heal of towers with her 3. When she was released. And of course she could solo GF at early lvl.
Plus u didn’t mention that nemesis had been released with bug. Her shield in reality reflected 100% dmg. It was bug.
Though don’t remember the healing. Was it 50% or also 100%.
Man I've been on the brute force of these abilities and used them when they released and boi do I have PTSD whenever I see Guan Yu. I just get flashbacks of him murdering me instantly and without warning.
Lets not forget Zhong's Ult, back when it healed allies and made him immune to CC.
I've been playing since console beta and the only one I distinctly remember was squirrel the other oppressive as shit thing was when they released kaldur with his auto attack bot companion skadi and those are the only 2 times the game felt almost near unplayable if you cued with out one on your team or against one
im honestly surprised kaldr didnt make this list. skadi release was so busted
Skadis still busted
I clicked just to see where Fenrir ranked and woulda disliked if he wasn't decently high, although imo still way too low. I've played since Alpha and Fenrir on release was INSANE you just land brutalize on someone and back then the items were huge for building crit & power - gotta remember items back then were pretty diff than current items! Dev gloves were standard among other things and anything not a tank would often get crit and die before all 4 hits plus it healed you to full and if you got whacked with a CC you could ult and change the tide of battle while resetting your brutalize for more wrecking. Upon release games were just who had the better Fenrir and it was truly just Fenrir vs Fenrir in Arena or Conq - it didn't matter he was just a monster. Also definitely agree on release Guan - I LOVED playing him back then, you did build 1 defensive item on him btw the thing that buffed his passive healing which made him insane plus tons and tons of damage. Some mentions I thought that would be worthwhile were release Chronos - easy pentakill god with his insane ability to box anything down and dive without death, Hades scaled way too hard with lifesteal, pen and power and could easily devour a full team with just a 1 into the ult and lastly old Vulcan had a thumper cannon that would do damage + slow and your ult buffed both turrets and with that he could solo a duo lane or hold a lane and leave to help another, definitely more balanced now but he was insanely powerful if you abused the turrets properly
you mean the level 13 fen that would solo fire...a thing we luckily have and will never see again ,yea he should probably be 5-7 ish territory. plus he was one of like 4-5 characters who could actually jungle when bumba's was introduced(if i remember right it was thor, loki, nezha, old wukong/hunbatz, and fen(and spiderbitch but nobody knew about bumbas bugging out and giving you additional stacks if you killed two camps at the same time)).
You keep mentioning how Guan Yu's abilities were insane to have on a guardian, but he wasn't a guardian. Guardians didn't exist when Guan Yu was released. 'Bruiser' *might* have existed, I can't remember exactly, he might've just been a Bruiser that scaled with magic power. It wasn't until a while later that the role system was reorganized to make more sense. He was definitely completely broken though and it wasn't even close.
Excellent video. made me very nostalgic
Why u ignored old Arachne ult? It was very powerful, when u could pull someone from large distance
10:20 you really didn't find any other bellona gameplays beside dmbrandon? 💀
I just started Smite in 2019 so I’m only familiar with release Arthur, Merlin, Yemoja, and Heim. I don’t think Jorm was op when he first came out but I could be falsely remembering.
Woe , he was because there were 2 bugs that made him insanely broken:
1. His basic attack breath had minion push back on it, which with the amount of ticks it has basically meant he stunned the minion wave indefinitely
2. HIS BASICS PROC’D ITEM AFFECTS! HE COULD STACK DEMONIC GRIP INSTANTLY AND TELEKHINES ON HIM WAS LITERAL ANUBIS ULT AS A FREE RESOURCE
Other than that he wasn’t too too insane, it took people a while to figure out and a few buffs and he was top tier for an entire season
I started playing when Geb was released and I remembered these *balanced* abilities
Alright you missed a huge reason Sol's 3 was so busted. IT COULD HIT TOWERS! Sol's 3 could be used to deal insane damage to the tower. You'd proc it and run around the base of the tower and it absolutely would clear everything in that lane. Worked on phoenixes as well.
What about ra's 1 that could hit multiple times?
triple hit ra beam while standing in the heal to get additional power and procs .... i miss those heal procs
I think release sylvanus heal, chiron passive, herc 3, arthur ult, medusa 1 could all be here