Baron Samedi

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**~ GODS LIST ~**

***"Friends, have a drink and party! Enemies beware...You may find yourself overcome with Hysteria."***

**Baron Samedi** is one of the playable Gods in SMITE.

## Lore

Death. If you think that it means the end, then allow me to introduce you to someone.

You thought it was all over, but Baron Samedi is going to change your mind. The only fire here is in the water, so share a drink with him. Let the sights and sounds entrance you. Join the celebration, feel your pulse pounding so hard you've forgotten your heart stopped beating.

Forget what you think you know. There is a life after death, and Baron Samedi will be your guide. So come along and let Baron Samedi show you the wonders of a whole new world, and that even a god of death can be the life of the party.

After all, what have you got to lose?

## Trivia

### General

* Baron Samedi was the first Voodoo god in the game.
* Baron Samedi along with Baba Yaga and Ratatoskr are currently the only gods who can build special items from either abilities or item store that no other god can own by default.
* The actor who voiced Baron Samedi, Edward Bosco, also voiced Blood Axe Chaac, Marrow Eater Fenrir and Winds of Change Kukulkan.
* There is an announcer pack themed after Baron Samedi, You can hear it here:Baron Samedi Announcer pack.

### God Skins

* **Red Rum**

* The color of the interior of the coffin and Baron Samedi's coat are switched from his default look.
* The skin name is "murder" spelled backwards, in reference to Stephen King's The Shining.

* **Illuminator**

* In this skin, Baron Samedi's rod is replaced by a Fountain pen.
* The actor who voiced this skin, Gerardo Davila, also voiced Cosmic Conqueror Hercules.
* This skin shares its theme with Infinite Duality Agni, Infinite Seer Ah Puch, Infinite Overseer Cerberus, Illuminator Chronos, Infinite Oracle Morgan Le Fay, Infinite Ruler Olorun, Infinite Wave Poseidon, Infinite Shift Sun Wukong and Infinite Avatar Vamana.

* **Half-life**

* This skin's name is based on atomic half life.
* This is currently the only skin where Baron Samedi has 2 snakes around his rod.
* His "I'm the greatest" line, ▶️*"I am become death! Destroyer of worlds!"* is a verse from The Bhagavad Gita. It was notably quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer when he was speaking about the Trinity test.
* The actor who voiced this skin, Matthew Watterson, also voiced Shield Guardian Cabrakan.
* This skin shares its theme with Toxic Overload Achilles, Necro Fumes Agni, Toxic Tide He Bo, Detoxify Maui, Caustic Skies Nu Wa, Meltdown Sol, Necro Alchemist Vulcan, Toxic Current Yemoja and Nuclear Winter Ymir.

* **Count**

* The full name of this skin, Count Baron Samedi, has two titles in their name.
* This is the first skin to not have a snake wrapped around Baron Samedi's rod.
* This skin shares its theme with Vampiress Amaterasu, Cursed Bloodline Ao Kuang, Countess Chang'e, Scarlet Coven Eset, Prince of the Night Hou Yi, Biting Countess Maman Brigitte, Vampetrify Medusa and Vampiric Scylla.

* **Voodoo Rock**

* In this skin, Baron Samedi's rod is replaced by a microphone with a cobra wrapped around it.
* The actor who voiced this skin, Major Attaway, also voiced Infinite Overseer Cerberus, Ragnarok Fenrir and Archon Thanatos.
* This skin shares its theme with Stingpunk Ah Muzen Cab, Vicious Apollo, Portal Punk Janus, Mini Metal Jing Wei, World Tour Nemesis, Devil Horns Raijin, Cherrybomb Sol and Heavy Metal Thor.

* **Halloween Hysteria**

* In this skin, Baron Samedi's rod is replaced by a cross.
* This skin shares its theme with Headless Norseman Loki and Jack the Reaper Thanatos.

* **Devilish Charm**

* This skin shares its theme with Soul Piercer Achilles, Demonic Pact Anubis, Torment/Agony Bellona, Hellscape/Heretic Cernunnos, Hellrider Chiron, Fiendish Rage Cu Chulainn, Sin of Greed Fafnir, Infernal Beast Guan Yu, Hellraider Hercules, Howler Demon Hun Batz, Fiendish Flight Jing Wei, Infernal Winds Kukulkan, Miss Misery Nike, Crimson Kraken Poseidon, Angel of Death Thanatos, Demonic Thanatos, Nightbringer Demon Xbalanque and Infernal Lord Zeus.

* **Stellar Demise**

* This is the first Tier 5 skin to be obtainable at the beginning of a Odyssey Event.
* This is the first Odyssey final reward skin to not be released in December.
* This is the sixth final reward skin for the Odyssey Event along with Demonic Pact Anubis, Godslayer Ares, Archon Thanatos, Ragnarok Force X Thor and Frostfire Ullr.

* **Funny Bones**

* Both this skin and default Baron Samedi were voiced by Edward Bosco.
* This skin shares its theme with Leading Lady Aphrodite, Toon Mania Cthulhu and Toony Terror Scylla.

## Skins

* Default
* Red Rum
* Illuminator
* Half-life
* Count
* Voodoo Rock
* Halloween Hysteria
* Dapper
* Devilish Charm
* Rotten Rascal
* Golden Touch
* Stellar Demise
* Funny Bones
* Golden
* Legendary
* Diamond

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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, or via direct purchase.  This skin was part of the Battle for Olympus event.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by unlocking all the contents of the Voodoo Chest from the Divine Uprising 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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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by obtaining the Season 8 Esports & Live Streams viewer pass bundle.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained 3 skins from The Reaping 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 obtaining at least 6 items from the Community Celebration Event (Season 9) event.

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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 ColorForge: Worlds Collide event.

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  This skin was a Commendations reward, granted to anyone who played at least 50 matches during Season 5 without getting banned once.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin has an animated loading screen card.  This skin changes appearance, character animations, and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by unlocking all items from the Odyssey: Underworld event or via. direct purchase after the event ends.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by purchasing all content from the Imperial Chest from the Heavenly Light event, has been available for direct purchase since the event ended, and is available in Miraculous Chests.

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## Changelog

**SMITE Version 10.10.7739.5 (September 26, 2023)**

* **Life of the Party**

* Increased Damage Mitigation from 35% to 50%

**SMITE Version 10.3.7494.12 (March 28, 2023)**

* **Cosign Spirits**

* Decreased Flat Heal from 40/65/90/115/140 (+10% of your Magical Power) to 30/55/80/105/130
* Decreased Missing Health Heal from 7.5% to 5%
* This ability now applies slow immunity for the buff duration

* Instead of just slow cleanse

**SMITE Version 9.6.7130.5 (June 14, 2022)**

* **Consign Spirits**

* Decreased the missing health heal aspect of this ability from 10% to 7.5%

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

* **Life of the Party**

* Decreased Self Slow from 60% to 40%
* Increased Tick damage scaling from 6% of your Magical Power to 8%

**SMITE Version 8.7.6665.1 (July 13, 2021)**

* **Hysteria**

* Increased Hysteria applied from Basic Attacks from 2 to 5

* **Vivid Gaze**

* Increased Hysteria applied from 10 to 15 per hit
* Added Power Debuff duration to the description (3/3.5/4/4.5/5s)

* **Consign Spirits**

* Decreased Cooldown from 15/14/13/12/11 to 13/12.5/12/11.5/11

**SMITE Version 7.10.6230 (October 6, 2020)**

* **Vivid Gaze**

* Increase Magical Power Scaling from 60% to 70%
* 69% to 80.5% when hitting both beams

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

* **Vivid Gaze**

* Increased damage from 80/120/160/200/240 to 90/130/170/210/250.

* **Wrap It Up**

* Increased scaling from 5% to 8% (25% total to 40% total).

**SMITE Version 7.1.5858.2 (January 28, 2020)**

* **Vivid Gaze**

* Increased Base Damage from 60/105/150/195/240 to 80/120/160/200/240.

**SMITE Version 6.6.5466 (May 29, 2019)**

* **General**

* Increased Base Mana from 250 to 300.

**SMITE Version 6.1.5286.8 (February 11, 2019)**

* **Consign Spirits**

* Decreased Bonus Healing based on Missing Health from 12.5% to 10%.

* **Life of the Party**

* Decreased Total Health Damage from 15% from 10%.

**SMITE Version 5.18.5022.1 (October 1, 2018)**

* **Wrap It Up**

* Increased Cooldown from 12s to 14s.

* **Life of the Party**

* Fixed an issue where he could do unintended amounts of damage if Khepri revived him while firing Life of the Party.

**SMITE Version 5.16.4960.4 (September 4, 2018)**

* **Consign Spirits**

* Decreased mana cost from 75 to 60.
* This ability no longer provides slow immunity. (still cleanses slows on hit)
* Reduced Movement Speed buff from 20/25/30/35/40% to 25% at all ranks.

**SMITE Version 5.15.4934 (August 20, 2018)**

* **Life of the Party**

* Decreased Hysteria per hit from 8 to 5.
* Increased self slow while casting from 40% to 60%.

**SMITE Version 5.13.4890 (July 24, 2018)**

* **Hysteria**

* The skull that appears to show a player is affected by Hysteria has now been offset to help players see while affected.

* **Vivid Gaze**

* Damage decreased from 80/130/180/230/280 to 60/105/150/195/240.
* Scaling decreased from 70% to 60%.

* **Consign Spirits**

* Decreased Heal from +15% of a target's missing health to 12.5%.

* **Wrap It Up**

* Changed Slow to Root to a new CC term, Ramp to Root. The ramp up to the root is considered a root for all CC immunity purposes and if it is cleansed it will result in the full root not applying.
* Decreased damage over time and Hysteria AoE duration from 4s to 2.5 to match the Ramp to Root FX.

* This causes the overall damage this ability deals to go from 80/144/208/272/336 (+40% of your Magical Power) to 50/90/130/170/210 (+25% of your Magical Power).

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

* **Hysteria**

* Fixed an issue where Baron Samedi gained an additional 10% of his Magical Power while consuming Baron's Brew.
* Decreased bonus damage targets take while at max hysteria from 25% to 20%.

* **Vivid Gaze**

* Fixed an issue where the second beam hit did 30% of the first beam's damage, rather than the listed 15%.
* Decreased Damage from 90/140/190/240/290 to 80/130/180/230/280.
* Reduced Magical Power scaling from 80% to 70%.

* **Wrap It Up**

* Fixed an issue where targets with root immunity were still being rooted.

* **Life of the Party**

* Fixed an issue where Life of the Party couldn't be used while Crippled.
* Decreased Base Damage on Hit from 140/210/280/350/420 to 100/170/240/310/380.
* Reduced Damage mitigation from 50% to 35%.
* Reduced Stun duration from 2s to 1.5s.

**SMITE Version 5.11.4838 (June 26, 2018)**

* Baron Samedi has been added to the game.