SMITE New God is Bake Kujira, the Whale Yokai

Bake Kujira will likely be SMITE’s 129^th playable deity, however he is perhaps essentially the most distinctive one added to the sport.

Whereas not as standard as League of Legends or Dota 2, Hello-Rez Studio’s third-person MOBA, SMITE remains to be going robust. The ten^th World Championship will happen in simply over a month, and there’s nonetheless biweekly updates and a ton of latest content material added to the sport.

Essentially the most hype additions are in fact the brand new gods, the playable deities that replenish matches of SMITE as a substitute of champions or heroes. The final god, Maman Brigitte was added virtually 3 months in the past on September 26, so it was excessive time the following character left the Titan Forge – and he’s positive to make a splash!

SMITE New God: Bake Kujira

The 129^th god within the 10-year previous sport will likely be Bake Kujira, an obscure, however extremely cool Japanese deity. In line with Japanese folklore, Bake Kujira, or Ghost Whale is the spirit, or end result of spirits of hunted whales alongside the Japanese shoreline. It’s adopted by unusual fish and eerie birds, and brings curses upon fishermen and fishing villages. Bake Kujira is normally depicted as a whale of a skeleton, and in some tales, fishermen merely can’t hit him resulting from being a skeletal spectre.

Within the teaser launched by Hello-Rez Studios, Bake Kujira retains this backstory, as we are able to see a whale hunted down by fishing vessels when it got here up for air. After turning right into a vengeful spirit at nighttime depths, it returned to the floor to destroy the people that hunted it down.

Whereas the teaser didn’t verify any skills for Bake Kujira, we are able to make some normal assumptions:

• He ought to have some form of submerging capability akin to Jormungandr’s 3, possibly tied in with a talent that lets him burst out from below the waves to knock enemies up,
• He’s accompanied by the spectral birds from the folklore, so he may need a mechanic tied to them, possibly a damage-over-time impact or some form of harassment,
• On the finish of the video, Bake Kujira is confirmed with an opened mouth, and as some real-life whales can gulp up unbelievable quantities of fish, we would see a capability just like that – possibly an final that can be an execute?

We don’t have to attend lengthy till the vengeful whale swims to the Battleground of the Gods, as on the finish of the video his launch date was revealed: Bake Kujira is arriving to SMITE on December 12^th! The Season of Worlds begun on November 14^th, heralding the top of the ten^th aggressive break up of SMITE, in addition to the approaching new content material and the SMITE World Championship. Regulate ESTNN for the most recent drops from the Battleground of the Gods!