Ymir

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**~ GODS LIST ~**

***"Freeze your enemies in place and erupt in devastating shards of ice."***

**Ymir** is one of the playable Gods in SMITE.

## Lore

As far as it is known, Ymir has long been dead.

In Midgard, in the North, it is believed that Ymir's skull is the sky, his flesh the earth, and his blood the sea. Though, these claims could merely be the boasting of proud Odin and his brothers, who take credit for slaying the first jotunn and fashioning the earth from his body parts.

At the beginning of time, the Realm of Fire, Muspell, and the Realm of Ice, Niflheim met at the place called Ginnungagap; the void of space. Steam rose and froze again, and from that primordial mixture, Ymir, King of the Frost Giants took shape. From his body dripped other beings that would become the ancestors of Gods, Men, Dwarves, and of course, Giants. Even the mighty Odin must claim Ymir as his grandfather. Yet Ymir, like all giants, was an evil creature and led his Giant brethren against the Gods. After ages of warfare, Odin and his brothers slew the Giant-King and forged the world from his remains.

Yet there are other whispers. Rumors that Ymir, though not a God, was still a Primeval Being, and as such cannot truly be destroyed. Perhaps he only lies dormant in Niflheim, the realm of ice, eager to return and wreak vengeance upon Odin in his kin.

## Trivia

### General

* Ymir was one of the 9 playable gods in the Alpha build of SMITE's first presentation to the public at PAX Prime 2011.
* Ymir was one of the 17 playable gods in SMITE closed Beta.
* Ymir and Odin were the first Norse gods introduced in the game.
* Ymir and Arachne were the first non-god characters added to Smite.
* Ymir along with Artemis are the only gods that don't have a standard recolor skin.
* Ymir has been a free starter character for every player account created since the start of the game's closed beta.
* There is an announcer pack themed after Ymir that you can listen to here:Ymir Announcer pack.
* One of Ymir's taunts, ▶️*"You're mine now! Ymir will love you, and squeeze you, and call you George!"*, is a reference to one of Looney Tunes shorts, The Abominable Snow Rabbit. This character is, himself, a reference to the character Lennie Small from John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
* In February of 2015, Ymir received a remodel changing his Default, Twitchymir, Nuclear Winter and Mastery skins. His Obsidian Shard, Digi-MIR 9000 and Cacodemon skins had only their animations changed.

### God Skins

* **Obsidian Shard**

* This skin has the same name as the item  Obsidian Shard.
* This was one of the few skins who were lowered from a Tier 3 to a Tier 2 skin along with Black Widow Arachne.

* This makes this skin one of the few Tier 2 with custom effects.

* This is one of the few skins that still uses its 3D model for its card art instead of a digital painted card art. The other ones being Feaster Bunny Bakasura, Lil' Devil Cupid, Red Demon Hun Batz, Solar Sentinel Ra, Blood Eagle Thor, Digi-MIR 9000 Ymir and Stormbringer Zeus.

* **Digi-MIR 9000**

* This is the only skin in the game that uses the default VGS for commands but not for abilities.

* This may have happened because this skin was introduced before gods got their individual voice lines.

* **Crystal Colossus**

* This skin changes Ymir from being an ice giant to a crystal dragon.
* This skin was voiced by Kyle Hebert.
* This skin along with Death Dragon Anubis, Sashimi Neko Bacchus, Biohacker Chernobog, Labryinth Keeper Heimdallr, and Pendragon King Arthur are the only skins in the game to give a tail to a god who previously did not have one.
* This skin shares it's theme with Crystalline Chaos Nu Wa.

* **Cryomech**

* This skin shares its theme with Jackal Tech Anubis, Solar Vanguard Atlas, Tremor Tech Cabrakan, Vamp Tech Camazotz, Glaive Tech Cernunnos, Storm Tech Chaac, Shadow Tech Chernobog, Dual Tech Hel, Flare Tech Hou Yi, Warp Tech Janus, Living Alloy Jormungandr, Tornado Tech Kukulkan, Kuzenbot Kuzenbo, Sentai Mulan, Revenge Tech Nemesis, Omni Tech Odin, Reaper Tech Thanatos, Ragnarok Force X Thor, Whirlwind Tech Xing Tian and Sky Tech Zeus.

* **General Graardor**

* This skin is a cross promotion between Hi-Rez Studios/Titan Forge Games and Jagex to promote RuneScape.
* This skin shares its theme with Sandwich Lady Amaterasu, Rune Armor/Black Plate Bellona, King Black Dragon Cerberus, Wise Old Man Merlin, Blessed Dragonhide Neith and Gnome Child Vamana.

* **Twitchymir/Boss Twitchymir**

* This skin was part of a reward for using the in game streaming option, but since the streaming in game was removed, this skin cannot be obtained this way anymore.

* This skin is now available using the twitch drops systems during certain broadcast such as the SMITE World Championship.

* **Nuclear Winter**

* This skin, together with Derpules Hercules, were the first skins exclusive to chests.
* Both Ymir and this skin were voiced by Charles Campbell.
* This skin shares its theme with Toxic Overload Achilles, Necro Fumes Agni, Half-Life Baron Samedi, Toxic Tide He Bo, Detoxify Maui, Caustic Skies Nu Wa, Meltdown Sol, Necro Alchemist Vulcan and Toxic Current Yemoja.

* **Irezumir**

* This skin is based on a Sumo fighter.
* This is the first skin to change Ymir into a humanoid character.
* In this skin, the ability Ice Wall changes from normal blocks of ice to frozen fish.
* The actor who voiced this skin, Bill Jenkins, also voided Eldritch Ra, Ullr, Berserker Ullr and Vulcap'n Redbeard Vulcan.

* **Baron Frostchild**

* Both Ymir and this skin were voiced by Charles Campbell.
* This skin shares its theme with Duke dan de Lyons Anhur, Lord Slashington III Fenrir, Sir Pentsworth IV, Esq. Kukulkan, Sir Snooze Kumbhakarna, Sir Sandington Set, and Earl Wubert St. Kongfrey Sun Wukong.

* **Belly Ache**

* According to Tina Belly, Ache Ymir was created by Sweet Justice Nemesis.
* In this skin, the ability Ice Wall changse from normal blocks of ice to ice cream sandwiches.
* This skin shares its theme with Baked Perfection Awilix, Feaster Bunny Bakasura, Chaacolate Chaac, Rocky Road He Bo, Confectionary Khepri, Gummy Worm Medusa, Sweet Justice Nemesis, Playful Bunny Nu Wa, Sweet Tooth/Sweetie Pie Sol and Thanatoast Thanatos.

* **Titan Forge**

* This skin could be a reference to the in-house studio that produces SMITE, Titan Forge Games.
* This skin changes Ymir's ice element to its opposite, fire.
* There's an announcer pack themed after this skin, You can hear it here: Titan Forge Announcer pack.

* **Bloody Butcher**

* The actor who voiced this skin, David Lodge, also voiced The Leigon Hades.
* This skin shares its theme with Slaughterhouse Chaac.
	+ His direct taunt to Chaac ▶️  *"Oo, I see you're into butchering too!"* , is aimed at his Slaughterhouse skin.

* **Freezy Chibi**

* This skin was also voiced by Charles Campbell.
* This skin shares its theme with Itty Bitty ChiBee Ah Muzen Cab, Sunny Chibi Amaterasu, Itsy Bitsy Chibi Arachne, Chompy Chibi Fenrir, Heebee Chibi Hades, Screamy Chibi Izanami, Blinky Chibi Janus, Breezy Chibi Kukulkan, Snakey Chibi Medusa, Beamy Chibi Ra, Steamy Chibi Sol, Stormy Chibi Susano, Deathy Chibi Thanatos, Rumbly Chibi Thor, Beaky Chibi Thoth and Zappy Chibi Zeus.
* In the wallpaper version of the skin's card art, Steamy Chibi Sol can be seen.

* **Walking Blight**

* The actor who voiced this skin, Marc Graue, also voiced Shell Shock Agni, Great Tengu Cernunnos and Finrawr Fenrir.

* **Gecko Guardian**

* In this skin, Ymir is water driven by three small geckos, two on his body and one inside his weapon.
* This skin shares its theme with Gecko Taverner Cabrakan, Croaki Loki and Gecko Gladiator Xing Tian.

* **Freezy Bot**

* This skin shares it's animations with the Freezy Chibi skin.
* This skin shares it's theme with Doom Bot Hades.

* **Cryonic Demon**

* This skin shares it's theme with Bionic Demon Gilgamesh and Bionic Bruiser Tyr.

* **Striking Machina**

* The actor who voiced this skin, Cyrus Rodas, also voiced Seraph Horus and Hammerhead Vulcan.
* This skin shares its theme with Divine Machina Apollo, Molten Machina Fenrir, Rune Machina Ganesha, Winged Machina Nike, Hydro Machina Poseidon and Honorable Machina Tyr.

* **Cacodemon/Cacodemon X/C4codemon**

* The original Cacodemon skin was a reward for reaching account level 30 on PC before the game released out of beta.
* The Cacodemon X and C4codemon skins were part of the Xbox One and PS4 Founders Packs respectively.
* These skins could possibly be a reference to an enemy from the video game *Doom*.

* **Mastery**

* This skin still uses pre-remodel Ymir card art.

## Skins

* Default
* Obsidian Shard
* Digi-MIR 9000
* Crystal Colossus
* Cryomech
* General Graardor
* Twitchymir
* Nuclear Winter
* Irezumir
* Boss Twitchymir
* Baron Frostchild
* Belly Ache
* Titan Forge
* Bloody Butcher
* Freezy Chibi
* Walking Blight
* Gecko Guardian
* Freezy Bot
* Cryonic Demon
* Cacodemon
* Cacodemon X
* C4codemon
* Striking Machina
* Golden
* Legendary
* Diamond

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  This skin comes with custom ability effects.  This skin can also be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin can also be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin can also be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin can also be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests or via direct purchase.  This skin was part of the Hope Reborn event.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was part of the Runescape Event.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin is unlocked with a special code.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was part of the Rising Dawn event.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin is unlocked with a special code you can get from Twitch Prime.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by accumulating 52500 Odyssey points in the Odyssey 2017 event.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was part of the Odyssey 2018 event.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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 Requirements
  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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 Requirements
  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was part of the Dawn of Babylon event.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could be obtained by purchasing the Gecko Guardian Bundle.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained as a final reward of the premium track from the Chibi Bots Battle Pass.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was part of the Odyssey: Soaring Isles event.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was awarded to players that reached Level 30 prior to the games' official release.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  The only way to obtain this skin is by acquiring the Founder's Pack from the Xbox One version.  The skin can be unlocked on PC by linking your Hi-Rez account with an Xbox Live account that has a Smite profile: Link.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  The only way to obtain this skin is by acquiring the Founder's Pack from the PlayStation 4 version.  The skin can be unlocked on PC by linking your Hi-Rez account with a PlayStation Network account that has a Smite profile: Link.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by purchasing all the content from The Dreamer Chest from the Grim Omens event or via. direct purchase after the event ends.

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## Changelog

**SMITE Version 10.12.7798.1 (November 14, 2023)**

* **Glacial Strike**

* Decreased pre-fire time from 0.45s to 0.35s

**SMITE Version 10.9.7702.2 (August 29, 2023)**

* **General**

* Increased MP5 per level from 0.4 to 0.45

* **Ice Wall**

* Decreased Cooldown from 13s at all ranks to 13/12.5/12/11.5/11

**SMITE Version 9.12.7365.1 (December 13, 2022)**

* **Ice Wall**

* Shifted Wall Lifetime from 2/3/4/5/6s to 2.5/3/3.5/4/4.5s
* Shifted Cooldown from 14/13/12/11/10 to 13s at all ranks

**SMITE Version 9.3.7020.3 (March 22, 2022)**

* **Frost Breath**

* Decreased Cooldown from 16s to 16/15.5/15/14.5/14s

**SMITE Version 8.8.6750.15 (September 7, 2021)**

* **Frostbite**

* Decreases the damage reduction debuff Ymir applies to enemies from 15% to 10%

**SMITE Version 8.5.6555.13 (June 1, 2021)**

* **Ice Wall**

* Increased Cooldown from 12/11/10/9/8s to 14/13/12/11/10s

**SMITE Version 7.12.6319.17 (December 18, 2020)**

* **Frostbite**

* Fixed passive Basic Attack Damage Reduction stacking on target.

* **Ice Wall**

* Can now be cast over walls. (missed balance change)

**SMITE Version 7.12.6319.9 (December 15, 2020)**

* **Ice Wall**

* Can now place this ability in locations over walls

**SMITE Version 7.7.6121.3 (July 14, 2020)**

* **Frostbite**

* Increased duration from 4s to 6s.
* Increased the damage reduction from 10% to 15%.

**SMITE Version 7.5.6039 (May 19, 2020)**

* **Ice Wall**

* Ymir can now re-fire this ability to destroy the wall early, he can re-fire this while under the effects of CC or while dead.
* This ability now goes on cooldown only after the wall dies.
* Decreased cooldown from 14s to 12/11/10/9/8s.

* **Shards of Ice**

* If Ymir dies while channeling this he will still deal damage for his current amount charged.

**SMITE Version 6.12.5745.1 (November 12, 2019)**

* **General**

* Fixed an issue where the Bloody Butcher Skin had some inconsistent voice lines.

* **Shards of Ice**

* Fixed an issue where Ymir would gain CC immunity from his ultimate but not be able to escape Persephone Ultimate. He can now escape the vines if he moves out after firing his ultimate.

**SMITE Version 6.9.5607.4 (August 20, 2019)**

* **Shards of Ice**

* Fixed Ymir Bot from jumping during ability charge.

**SMITE Version 6.7.5510.3 (June 25, 2019)**

* **Frost Breath**

* Reduced cooldown from 18 to 16s.

**SMITE Version 5.22.5162 (December 3, 2018)**

* **General**

* Increased Base Movement Speed from 365 to 370.

* **Shards of Ice**

* Increased slow from 30% to 40%.

**SMITE Version 5.12.4860 (July 9, 2018)**

* **Shards of Ice**

* Fixed an issue where Ymir's ultimate would create debuff icons for his passive ability with different text.

**SMITE Version 5.1.4571.1 (January 30, 2018)**

* **General**

* Increased Movement Speed from 360 to 365.

**SMITE Version 4.22.4444 (November 20, 2017)**

* **Shards of Ice**

* Frostbite Passive is now immediately applied to enemies in the area, and refreshed by the detonate.

**SMITE Version 4.18.4334 (September 28, 2017)**

* **General**

* Fixed Belly Ache Ymir VGS “attack middle lane” and “attack right lane”.

**SMITE Version 3.11.3462 (June 21, 2016)**

* **Frostbite**

* Enemies afflicted by Frost Bite now deal 10% less damage to all targets.

**SMITE Version 3.1.3217 (February 2, 2016)**

* **General**

* Fixed an issue where he would T-Pose on death.

**SMITE Version 2.21.3182.1 (January 12, 2016)**

* **General**

* Ymir's footsteps have been redone on all Ymir skins.

**SMITE Version 2.18.3094 (November 17, 2015)**

* **General**

* Fixed some lighting issues with Obsidian Shard skin.

**SMITE Version 2.13.2948.1 (September 1, 2015)**

* **Ice Wall**

* Fixed ranks 2 and 3 being 1s shorter than stated.

**SMITE Version 2.4.2684.1 (April 15, 2015)**

* **Shards of Ice**

* Added timer on the ground targeter indicating when the ability will expire.

**SMITE Version 2.3.2660 (April 1, 2015)**

* **Ice Wall**

* Improved the accuracy of the wall stopping players.

**SMITE Version 2.1.2598.1 (February 25, 2015)**

* **Ice Wall**

* Made it easier for Ymir to run past his wall after deploying at his feet.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2531 (January 19, 2015)**

* **General**

* Fixed Nuclear Ymir skin having no textures in Lobby if texture detail is set to Low or Medium.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2529.2 (January 14, 2015)**

* **General**

* Updated the Obsidian Shard icon.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2173 (June 12, 2014)**

* **General**

* Added targeters for Cacodemon Skin.

* **Frostbite**

* Updated tooltip.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2091 (April 16, 2014)**

* **Shards of Ice**

* Once again addressed an issue where he would remained crouched after cancelling this ability early.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.2044.1 (March 19, 2014)**

* **Shards of Ice**

* Addressed an issue in which Ymir could remain in crouching position when fired too early. Please report if this issue still appears.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1968 (February 6, 2014)**

* **Glacial Strike**

* Increased Casting time from 0.31 to 0.45.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1948 (January 29, 2014)**

* **General**

* Additional FX modifications have been made to the Digi-Mir 9000 skin.

* **Ice Wall**

* Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.4 to 0.1.

* **Glacial Strike**

* Corrected a bug where some ranks had a 0.1s Pre-Hit delay rather than a 0.3s Pre-Hit delay.
* Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.5 to 0.1.

* **Frost Breath**

* Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.42 to 0.1

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1868.3 (December 5, 2013)**

* **Shards of Ice**

* Updated visual FX during buildup. This should also fix an issue where the FX were playing to completion even if this ability was interrupted early.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1850 (November 20, 2013)**

* **General**

* New loading screen card.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1831.1 (November 7, 2013)**

* **Shards of Ice**

* The time between detonating and damage being dealt has been reduced from .3s to .1s.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1805 (October 23, 2013)**

* **Shards of Ice**

* The camera is now rotatable during this ability.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1774 (October 9, 2013)**

* **Glacial Strike**

* This ability no longer require`s line of sight.

* **Frost Breath**

* This ability no longer require`s line of sight.

* **Shards of Ice**

* This ability no longer deals damage if he dies before detonation.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1764.2 (October 2, 2013)**

* **General**

* Minor FX improvements.

* **Glacial Strike**

* The amount of time between firing this ability and the damage occurring has been reduced from 0.79s to 0.5s.

* **Shards of Ice**

* This ability has been changed so that you can right click to detonate it early for reduced damage.
* The base damage has been reduced from 600/750/900/1050/1200 to 500/650/800/950/1100.
* The magical power contribution has been decreased from 200% to 150%.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1738 (September 18, 2013)**

* **General**

* His base mana has been increased from 185 to 200.
* His mana per level has been increased from 30 to 32.
* His base physical protection has been increased from 21 to 23.

* **Glacial Strike**

* The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 11s to 8s.
* The magical power contribution has been increased from 60% to 70%.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1705 (August 27, 2013)**

* **General**

* Ground targeters have been customized.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1682 (August 14, 2013)**

* **Frostbite**

* The basic attack damage buff has been increased from 50% to 100% additional damage.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1666 (August 7, 2013)**

* **General**

* Basic attacks switched from dealing/scaling physical damage to magical.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1640 (July 23, 2013)**

* **Shards of Ice**

* The slow effect on Shards of Ice works every time. (Used to fail the first time the ability was cast).

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1517 (May 15, 2013)**

* **Shards of Ice**

* A new camera treatment has been added to the Ultimate. Please provide feedback. Additional adjustments may be made in future patches.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1349 (February 13, 2013)**

* **Ice Wall**

* Wall lifetime is 2/3/4/5/6s.

* **Glacial Strike**

* Slow by 35% for 4s at all ranks.

* **Frost Breath**

* Stun for 1.25/1.5/1.75/2/2.25s.

* **Shards of Ice**

* Slow by 30% while in the buildup.

**SMITE Closed Beta Version 0.1.1267.2 (December 27, 2012)**

* **Frost Breath**

* Base stun duration has been increased from .75/1/1.25/1.5/1.75s to 1.25/1.5/1.75/2/2.25s.
* Focus contribution now increases the stun duration up to 3s instead of 2.75s.

**SMITE Closed Beta Version 0.1.1215 (December 3, 2012)**

* **Frost Breath**

* This ability now does 50/90/130/170/210 (+50% of your magical power) magical damage.

* **Shards of Ice**

* The slow applied during his ultimate has been increased from 30% to 40%.

**SMITE Closed Beta Version 0.1.1080 (September 26, 2012)**

* **Glacial Strike**

* Reduced the delay between firing this ability and Ymir being able to move.

**SMITE Closed Beta Version 0.1.1018.0 (August 17, 2012)**

* **Ice Wall**

* Players should no longer get stuck inside of Ymir’s ice wall.

* **Shards of Ice**

* Changed this ability to have a ground target before firing.

**SMITE Closed Beta Version 0.1.934 (June 21, 2012)**

* **Glacial Strike**

* Cooldown changed from 15/14/13/12/11s to 11s at all ranks.

* **Frost Breath**

* Stun at all ranks has been increased by .5s.
* Cooldown changed from 20s to 18s at all ranks.