General

• Mercury and Golden Blade quickly became best friends, allowing Mercury to quickly clear any jungle camps with ease and dealing some heavy splash damage.
• While we feel Golden Blade is relatively balance when used with normal Basic Attacks, the interaction with Made You Look has proven to be too strong.
• With this interaction existing Mercury either needs to rely on Golden Blade or Golden Blade needs to be weak enough that it really is only usable with Mercury.
• Rather than overnerf Golden Blade, Made You Look is getting a tweak in how it functions. While it can still Crit, it will no longer trigger Basic Attack items and will now proc Ability item effects.
• In a previous patch we increased the cooldown of Made You Look to help keep his clear speed with Golden Blade in check, but with this change we can reduce the cooldown back to 8s.

Made You Look

• This ability is no longer considered a Basic Attack for item effects.
• Ex: Frostbound Hammer, Golden Blade
• This ability still can critical strike.
• This ability is now considered an Ability for the purposes of item effects.
• Ex: The Crusher, Brawler's Beat Stick
• Decreased cooldown from 10s to 8s.

General

• Since the return of Golden Bow (Golden Blade), Mercury has been quickly rising to the top of the meta. Mercury's ability to move and clear quickly feel core to his themes,
• but his one shot damage can be frustratingly high. We are decreasing the power boost he can gain from his passive ability for now. We will surely be keeping a close eye on this god going forward,
• and there will likely be more adjustments in future patches.

Fastest God Alive

• Reduced Power charged per passive stack from 0.1 to 0.08 (50% physical power increase down to 40% physical power increase).

General

• Golden Blade has taken Mercury from a strong pick to a top pick. He is one of the strongest gods in the game at all levels of play.
• Even though Golden Blade is enabling his power, we want to be careful adjusting that item. Many off-meta struggling gods are using Golden Blade to reach new levels of success.
• The item passive was recently brought back with a positive reception. We don't want to hurt all of those other applications just because one god overperforms with the item.
• We will be looking at the interactions of Golden Blade and Made You Look in the future, but for now we will be increasing the cooldown of Mercury's primary damaging ability. His clear will still be strong but he will need to pace himself more carefully with this ability. Two seconds on a big damage ability can make a big difference, and should bring Mercury down a notch without limiting the good pool in other places.

Made You Look

• Increased Cooldown from 8s to 10s.

General

• Fastest God Alive
• Fixed an issue where the Movement Speed from Bumba's Mask would not provide additional Power until something else updated his Movement Speed.

General

• Mercury both excelled at early game clear speed and late game carry potential, causing him to really run up the ranks. We are reducing the base damage for the early ranks of Made You Look to keep his clear speed more in line with his late game potential.

Made You Look

• Decreased Base Damage from 90/120/150/180/210 to 70/105/140/175/210.

General

• Fixed an issue on the Captain Quick Skin where he was playing multiple audio sounds when activating Special Delivery.

General

• The Fastest God Alive will finally regain his title! Mercury has had a wild ride over the seasons of Smite, but his theme and playstyle should obviously include more Movement Speed related perks.
• Increased Movement Speed from 375 -> 381.

Maximum Velocity

• Maximum Velocity now cleanses Slow and makes the player immune to Slows for the duration.

General

• Mercury is seeing an additional adjustment to better round out his offensive capability.

Made You Look

• Increased Damage from 90/115/140/165/190 to 90/120/150/180/210.
• Increased Physical Power Scaling from 50% to 60%.

General

• Mercury is a character who excels in situations where he can get in and box his opponents or isolate them into 1 on 1 scenarios. By increasing Maximum Velocity's duration in his early ranks as well as making Special Delivery pack more of a punch in late game scenarios, Mercury will be better equipped in these favorable scenarios

Maximum Velocity

• Changed duration from 3/3.5/4/4.5/5s to 5s at all ranks.

Special Delivery

• Increased Physical Power scaling per tick from 15% to 20%.
• Increased Physical Power scaling for minion damage from 60% to 80%.
• Decreased mana cost from 70/75/80/85/90 to 60/65/70/75/80.

Fastest God Alive

• Reduced Physical Power bonus from movement speed items from 30% to 25%.
• Reduced Physical Power bonus on next basic attack from distance traveled from 75% to 50%.

General

• Changed art for targeters to Roman.

General

• Mercury players who use Fastest God Alive to its fullest often see themselves landing very powerful in-hands out of their Ultimates or when ganking. We like this playstyle and how it forces people to go just far enough with their Ultimate so they can turn around and punch the god with a powerful hit. Because of this we have chosen to up the payoff potential of this Passive.

Fastest God Alive

• Increased maximum damage bonus for distance travelled from 50% -> 75%.

Special Delivery

• Increased throw height from 300 -> 350.

Fastest God Alive

• Increased additional power from 25% to 30% of his movement speed from items.

Fastest God Alive

• Fixed Mercury gaining full bonus on his Passive from Talaria Boots, even while in combat.

Special Delivery

• Decreased the amount of time thrown targets are airborne when tossed from special delivery. This does not affect the distance thrown.

Made You Look

• Radius increase per rank reduced from 7.5/10/12.5/15/17.5 to 7.5/9/10.5/12/13.5.
• Range reduced from 55 to 48.

General

• Updated Mercury Run.EXE voice

Special Delivery

• Fixed an issue where Mercury would dash past his target when dashing along walls.

Sonic Boom

• Fixed rare issue that could him to get stuck in a running animation.

Sonic Boom

• Fixed a bug that caused him to run endlessly if cast from the spawn platform in assault.

General

• Updated targeters for Quicksilver skin.

Special Delivery

• Fixed a bug where it didn't calculate in physical power from the Fastest God Alive passive for all hits.
• Can no longer throw arachne while she's attacking him with Drain Life.

Sonic Boom

• Increased disorient duration from 1 to 1.5s.

General

• Fixed an issue in which his inhand streak FX were not showing for the Golden/Legendary skins.

Sonic Boom

• Other players can now hear the audio “boom” when this ability is fired.
• Now can be fired when crippled.

Maximum Velocity

• Attack speed buff increased from 20/30/40/50/60% to 30/40/50/60/70%.

Special Delivery

• Fixed interaction with Arachne’s Cocoon.

Sonic Boom

• There is now a 0.5s buildup time after firing, before Mercury dashes forward. There is now a warning indicator on the ground during this time.

Maximum Velocity

• Mercury is no longer immune to slows while this ability is active.
• Attack speed bonus reduced from 30/40/50/60/70% to 20/30/40/50/60%.

General

• Removed a few random ‘s’ characters in his description.

Made You Look

• Now correctly indicates that it scales off of Basic Attack damage rather than Item-based Physical Power.

Sonic Boom

• Hydra’s Lament and Hydra’s Demise no longer proc when the targeter is canceled.

Made you Look

• Now applies damage to all targets instantaneously. Note: This means golden bow will now only proc once per enemy hit by the ability, rather than a potentially unlimited number of times.

Special Delivery

• Fixed an issue where targets would continue to be tossed if Mercury was silenced while spinning around the target.

Sonic Boom

• Reduced physical damage scaling from 120% to 100%.

Maximum Velocity

• The root immunity on this ability has been removed. Mercury will also no longer gain unintentional immunity to Cripple effects while active.

General

• Victory screen animation has been modified.

Fastest God Alive

• Now gains additional physical power equal to 25% of movement speed granted by items or abilities. (Previously 20% of only items).

Made You Look

• Adjusted base scaling from 70/100/130/160/190 to 90/115/140/165/190.
• Increased radius scaling from 5/7.5/10/12.5/15 to 7.5/10/12.5/15/17.5

Maximum Velocity

• This ability now provides a 2/4/6/8/10% passive movement bonus as it’s ranked up.
• Fixed a bug where Mercury could still be rooted while this ability is active.

Special Delivery

• Victims are no longer thrown if Mercury dies while using Special Delivery.
• Fixed an issue where Special Delivery could end early if Mercury used Sonic Boom immediately beforehand.