General

• We are seeing very promising stats from Loki since his rework. His popularity is remaining quite high (possibly due to Raphael) and he is putting up well balanced win-rates near 50% and the middle of the pack for gods. In ranked we have seen many more players trying him out in both jungle and solo, making him one of the top 10 most played gods at high ranked conquest. We are still seeing a good amount of concerns from Loki players about Flurry Strike, leading to this change. We are holding our ground on the abilities speed, this was an important part of the rework and Loki’s opponents need that reaction time. However, we are shifting the base damage to help his early jungle clear even more and increasing the scaling to make sure this ability stays impactful throughout a match.
• We do hear the concerns around Flurry Strike and the speed of this ability, leading to this change. We want to make this ability feel rewarding to land but are holding our ground about the speed of this ability. The goal of the rework was to reduce frustration and the ability to see, react, and counter this ability is absolutely critical to that goal. We are increasing the final hits damage early to help his Jungle clear while boosting the scaling for Loki players in any role.
• Fixed an issue where enemies who stealth as Loki uses his Ultimate on them would prevent Loki from firing the 2nd attack of his === T timate Default Icon.png timate ===
• Fixed issues where Loki’s achievements didn’t work with his new kit

Flurry Strike

• Increased Final Strike Damage from 40/65/90/115/140 to 55/75/95/115/135
• Increased Final Strike Scaling from 60% to 70%

General

• Fixed an issue where buying and using Arondight could break the visual FX of Loki’s stealth
• Fixed an issue where Loki’s Diamond and Legendary skin’s card art would not show properly on certain screens

General

• Loki’s rework has hit the battleground to great reception! He has been in the majority of games and the feedback surrounding his previous frustrations seem to be greatly improved. The goal was to bring new strengths to his ability to fight enemy gods while giving enemies more room to counterplay his previous tactics. He is essentially a new god in terms of balance which means players still have some learning to do before they can fully unlock his potential. With that being said we do see some consistent feedback around power and feel and want to address those while players continue to learn him.
• Agonizing Visions felt like it lacked a little damage even when getting a target stuck inside it. A boost to its scaling will help Assassin Loki’s who find good opportunities get more damage out. Flurry Strikes is also getting a scaling boost on its initial damage with an additional slow to anyone that is hit by the first five strikes. The reward for landing Flurry Strikes as well as the ability to keep someone in it was too high so these changes will help Loki bring more consistent higher damage to a fight. We will continue to watch new Loki and look forward to seeing his gameplay evolve over the course of the next few patches!

Agonizing Visions

• Increased Physical Power Scaling from 10% to 15%

Flurry Strike

• Increased Flurry Damage Scaling from 15% to 18% on the Initial 5 Strikes
• (135% to 150% total Scaling, 5 Initial Strike + 6th Final Strike)
• Each Initial strike now applies a 15% slow that refreshes. The final hit still applies a 30% slow

General

• Loki Rework
• Loki fans and haters alike, the Loki Rework is finally here! This trickster will have a mixture of familiar elements with some entirely new surprises to bring to the battleground. We focused on preserving the stealth Assassin feel his kit evoked, but removed many of the frustrations surrounding him. Enemies should feel more in control when fighting against a Loki, having options to counter his incoming damage with a larger window to react. Loki mains should however find an array of new abilities to use when it comes to Jungling and teamfighting. All this is tied together with stronger lore ties and a doubling down on his dagger mastery. Prepare to face his tortured past and try your best to dodge his flurry of dagger strikes once this god hits the battleground!
• In the initial dev blog update we discussed our vision but also the need for us to continue to iterate through development and playtesting to find the right timings, balance, and tweaks that may be needed. To see where we started from and to give context on the changes below we encourage you to read the initial dev blog here : https://www.smitegame.com/news/developer-update-loki/
• Increased Basic Attack damage on the initial hit from 80% to 100% damage.

Behind You! (Passive)

• Behind You! now has additional interactions with Agonizing Visions and Flurry Strike.

Vanish

• Loki will now fade into stealth quickly, rather than instantly.
• If Loki takes damage while stealthed, he will now be revealed for .33s.
• The audio for this ability has been adjusted.
• Friendly Loki Stealth is slightly quieter.
• Enemy Loki Stealth has an additional laughter component to help it stand out.

Decoy

• Decoy has been removed and replaced with Agonizing Visions.

[NEW] Agonizing Visions

• Loki summons a vision of his tortured past at a target location for 4s. Enemies in range of the vision feel the poison themselves, taking damage and having their Damage Dealt reduced. This effect stacks up to 4 times. If an enemy gets 4 stacks they become Blinded, allowing Loki to benefit from Behind You! from any direction for 3s.
• Damage : 13/18/23/28/33 (+10% of your Physical Power)
• Damage Dealt: -5% for 2.5s
• Notes: This ability will still body block enemies.

Aimed Strike

• Aimed Strike has been removed and replaced with Flurry Strikes

[NEW] Flurry Strike

• Loki unleashes a flurry of 5 dagger strikes quickly in front of him, damaging enemies. After this flurry he winds up for a final heavy strike that deals higher damage and slows enemies hit. This ability can benefit from Behind You!
• Flurry Damage: 15/25/35/45/55 (+15% of your Physical Power)
• Final Damage: 40/65/90/115/140 (+60% of your Physical Power)
• Slow: 30% for 3s

[REWORKED] Assassinate

• Assassinate has undergone a heavy adjustment in its functionality.
• Upon activation, Loki teleports to his ground target location. If an enemy god is within the radius, Loki will slice that target doing damage and crippling them for 1s. After he teleports he will wind up a heavier strike, damaging all enemies in front of him and stunning them.
• Cripple Damage: 70/105/140/175/210 (+35% of your Physical Power)
• Heavy Damage: 100/145/190/235/280 (+90% of your Physical Power)
• Stun: 1s
• This ability has kept the teleport poof and warning sounds, in addition to new sounds to convey the buildup to the stun attack.

Behind You!

• Moved the backstab damage numbers 2D art up a few units to provide better visibility for Loki while attacking

Agonizing Visions

• Decrease Anim time from 0.3s to 0.1s

Flurry Strike

• Increase Base Flurry Damage from 15/25/35/45/55 to 19/28/37/46/55 per hit
• This ability is now knock up immune

General

• Everyone loves a good Loki nerf, right? This god is discussed often but is usually just outside the meta. Loki has risen surprisingly high in the stats toward the end of Season 5,
• causing a good bit of chaos along the way. This god is controversial. He can cause a lot of frustration, but his playstyle is one of a kind. Loki seems to be healthiest for the
• game when he is just below the point of balance, allowing Loki specialists to excel but without being overbearing. He will be seeing two solid nerfs to bring him back down to that safer spot.
• The first nerf decreases the damage potential of all his combos, allowing Loki's opponents to better react to his ambushes.
• Also, Vanish will stop reducing the damage Loki takes while stealthed. Stealth already greatly reduces the chances of being hit, and players should be rewarded for predicting Loki's
• movements and hitting him anyway.
• Decreased Damage progression from 1/.5/.5/.5/1.5x damage to 0.75/.5/.5/.5/1.5x damage.

Vanish

• Removed the Damage Mitigation from this ability.

General

• With the upcoming changes to Conquest, Junglers are much more reliant on Assassin's Blessing to clear effectively. Loki's Decoy does not benefit from this item as it is a pet, resulting in his clear speed being heavily reduced compared to other gods. We are reducing the cooldown and increasing its damage to help him compete in the jungle, or in lane, Season 5.

Decoy

• Decreased Cooldown from 14s to 12s.
• Increased Damage from 75/125/175/225/275 to 90/140/190/240/290.

General

• Increased the saturation of Joki Loki and Last Laugh Loki.

General

• Fixed mis-colored teeth for Mastery skins.
• Fixed Loki's hands clipping through his face on Infiltrator Victory screen.

Vanish

• Updated art for buff icon.

Assassinate

• Fixed Loki not playing stab animation when dealing killing blow.

Vanish

• Fixed Loki playing his low health speech while stealthed.

General

• Fixed Arena Recommended Item Build missing last item.

Decoy

• Fixed Loki Decoy pulling Arena buff Monster’s out of their cages before the intended spawn time.

Vanish

• Fixed the buff timer disappearing when using Basic Attack and not hitting anything.

General

• Fixed another bug where Loki might be perma-revealed.

General

• Added targeters for Infiltrator skin.

Vanish

• Fixed an issue with other players not seeing the Vanish poof fx.
• Addressed an issue that may have caused Loki to be always be revealed

Assassinate

• Hit FX updated.

Vanish

• Updated tooltip to indicate this ability also removes existing slows when activated.

Decoy

• Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.2 to 0.1.

Vanish

• An issue has been fixed that was removing Loki from invisibility when he used consumables and active items.

Decoy

• The base damage of this ability has been reduced from 90/155/220/285/350 to 75/125/175/225/275.

Vanish

• The cooldown for this ability has been reduced from 18s to 15s.
• While invisible, Loki now takes 25% less damage from all sources.

Decoy

• The physical power contribution of this ability has been increased from 80% to 100%.

General

• Basic Attack
• The last hit of his melee progression has been reduced from 200% to 150% of his physical power. This matches the original intended design (there was a bug in the previous release that made the last hit too strong).

General

• Loki's basic attacks now use a hit progression with a 1/.5/.5/.5/1.5x timing and damage scale
• Loki's model has undergone modest visual improvements.

Aimed Strike

• The physical power contribution has been decreased from 150% to 100%.

Assassinate

• Addressed an issue with Loki not always arriving behind the target.

Vanish

• Gain 35% movement speed after vanishing at all ranks.

Aimed Strike

• Slow by 25% for 3s at all ranks.

Assassinate

• Stun for 1s at all ranks.

Assassinate

• No longer hits players that were not targeted.

Vanish

• The duration that Loki remains invisible has been increased from 3s to 4s.

Aimed Strike

• Physical power contribution has been increased from 80% to 150%.

Assassinate

• Stun duration has increased:
• Old - .5s, increasing with Focus up to 1s
• New - 1s, increasing with Focus up to 1.5s

Decoy

• Decoy is now properly scaling off of physical power

Decoy

• Decoy Now properly deals physical damage (a bug had been in place so that it was deal true damage).

Aimed Strike

• Aimed Strike Now properly deals physical damage (a bug had been in place so that it was deal true damage).