He Bo

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***"Draw bouts of water in succession to drown your enemies in crushing waves."***

**He Bo** is one of the playable Gods in SMITE.

## Lore

As God of the Yellow River, He-Bo tamed the massive and turbulent waters with humility and sacrifice. Now, the forces of the great river are at his command!

Throughout history, no river has been the source of more nourishment or more destruction than China's Yellow River. Its basin valley was the cradle that birthed Chinese civilization, feeding fields with water and millions of tons of collected sediments, which give the river its yellow hue. The river is also treacherous and prone to flooding, destroying shoreline settlements and drowning thousands.

Long ago, Feng Yi, a mortal man living along the riverside, watched in dismay as a storm stirred the waters and gorged the banks. It would not be long before the mighty river consumed his village. Both humble and wise, Feng Yi tied rocks to his belt before casting himself into the waters. This act of sacrifice did more than appease the angry river, it promoted Feng Yi to Godhood over it. Thus, he became He Bo.

Much time passed, and He Bo grew proud of his great river, so proud that he declared the Yellow River the biggest body of water anywhere. A passerby asked if He Bo had seen the North Sea, but He Bo dismissed the comment, for heavy rains were falling and the river was roaring and full. As time wore on, thought of the North Sea tickled his mind, so he made the journey. There, the Dragon King of the Northern Sea warmly met him. Viewing the endless expanse of water, He Bo was humbled and returned to his River wiser.

For He Bo, there are no greater virtues than wisdom and humility. With the force of the Yellow River at his command, He Bo will remind his enemies what it means to be humble.

## Trivia

### General

* He Bo and (Release)Sun Wukong were the first chinese gods in the game.
* He Bo was one of the 9 playable gods in the Alpha build of SMITE's first presentation to the public at PAX Prime 2011.
* He Bo was one of the 17 playable gods in SMITE closed Beta.
* In November of 2013 He Bo received a remodel, changing his Default, Cascade, and Mastery skins. These skins had their 3D model, animations, and voice pack changed while the He Bro skin preserved its original animations.
* He Bo was voiced by the famous voice actor Christopher Sabat, known for his role as the voice of Vegeta in Dragon Ball Z.

* He also has voiced Anhur, Royal Champion Mount, Fenrir, Chompy Chibi Fenrir, DJ Ohm Ganesha, Geb, Moonlight Love Chang'e's bunny, Countess Chang'e's bunny, Spellbound Chang'e's bunny, Zeus and Zappy Chibi Zeus.

* One of He Bo's jokes, ▶️*"Rolling on the river. Row, row, row your boat. I do not like these songs."*, is a reference to the songs Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival and the nursery rhyme Row, Row, Row Your Boat.
* One of He Bo's taunts, ▶️*"The glass is half empty, but it floats on the mighty river."* is a reference to the common expression Is the glass half empty or half full?.
* He Bo's dance emote is based on the 1960's dance fad, "The Swim".

### God Skins

* **He Bro**

* This skin was also voiced by Christopher Sabat.
* One of this skin's jokes, ▶️*"Right it's just like.. Dude, you got the best Barrels ever dude. Just like, you pull in and you just get spit right out of 'em. You just drop in, just smack the lip. Baam! You jump down. Say blaah! Then after that, you just drop in. You just ride the Barrel and get pitted man. So pitted."* is a slightly altered version of an interview of a Surfer Dude that spawned an internet meme.
* This skin shares its theme with Sun Kissed Amaterasu, Beach Babe Aphrodite, Life's a Beach Geb, Hunkules Hercules, Pool Party Jing Wei, Chef's Special Khepri, Challenger/Ace Nu Wa, Poolseidon Poseidon, Land Shark Sobek and SPF 666 The Morrigan.

* **Rocky Road**

* In the full artwork of this skin's card art, Sweet Tooth Sol and Belly Ache Ymir are visible in the background.
* This skin shares its theme with Baked Perfection Awilix, Feaster Bunny Bakasura, Chaacolate Chaac, Confectionary Khepri, Gummy Worm Medusa, Sweet Justice Nemesis, Playful Bunny Nu Wa, Sweet Tooth/Sweetie Pie Sol, Thanatoast Thanatos and Belly Ache Ymir.

* **Infinity Wave**

* This skin was also voiced by Christopher Sabat.
* One of this skin's death quotes, ▶️*"You can't take.. the sky from me.."*, is a reference to the theme music from the TV show Firefly.
* One of this skin's taunts, ▶️*"Why so Sirius?"*, is both a pun and a reference to a quote made by The Joker from the movie The Dark Knight.
* One of this skin's jokes, ▶️*"Infinite cosmic power... itty, bitty texture space."*, is a reference to a quote made by the Genie from Disney's Aladdin.
* This skin shares its theme with Gemini Agni, Cosmic Power Anubis, Galactic Void Chernobog, Cosmic Fortune Ganesha, Cosmic Conqueror Hercules, Nebula Medusa, Galaxy Maverick Ne Zha, Galaxy Shaper Nox, Cosmic Sol, Galaxy Forger Vulcan and Galactic Gentleman Yu Huang.

* **The Sydney Shredder**

* This skin was released to commemorate the creation of the oceanic servers.
* This skin uses He Bro's rig.
* This skin shares its theme with Crikeydile Sobek.

* **Lord of the Amazon**

* This skin could have been slightly based on the myth of Cobra Norato.
* Both this skin and Quetzakukulkan Kukulkan were originally granted to players who migrated their LevelUp Brazil account to the International version.
* This skin is, currently, the only skin whose default voice is in Brazilian Portuguese instead of English.
* This skin shares its theme with Amazon Athena.

* **Pixel Rush**

* The original concept art for this skin was created by Joseph Pegg.

* He also made the original concept arts for The Crusher Cabrakan, Draco Knight Tyr and Grove Keeper Xing Tian and was hired to make the concepts of Blight Guardian Athena, Star Commander Bellona, Storm Tech Chaac, Blood Axe Chaac, Oni Musha Hachiman, Cyber Samurai Hachiman, Seraph Horus, Sylvan Sentinel Hou Yi, Blinky Chibi Janus, Chilling Death Odin, Spectral Blade Pele, Freedom Overload Poseidon, Unichrome Set and Brimstone Demon Thor.

* This skin shares its theme with Bit Battler Ares, Pixel Beast Cernunnos, Pixel Chaos Discordia, Pixel Buster Freya, Bit Fortune Ganesha, Pixel Lancer Skadi, Pixel Hammer Thor, Bit Slayer Tsukuyomi and Bit Builder Vulcan.

* **Molten**

* The actor who voiced this skin, Nazeeh Tarsha, also voiced Rez in the SWC Champion skin, Gilgamesh, Fun-pocalypse Hachiman, Howler Demon Hun Batz, Lost Soul King Arthur, Kittykarna Kumbhakarna and Critical.DMG Ne Zha.
* This skin shares its theme with Volcanic Agni, Molten Destroyer Cthulhu, Molten Shogun Erlang Shen, Molten Doom Kuzenbo and Igneous Terra.

* **Toxic Tide**

* The actor who voiced this skin, Cory Yee, also voiced Spell Chanter Apollo, Oni Guardian Ares, Iroh Bacchus, Splinter Hachiman, Malworm Jormungandr, Crimson Authority King Arthur and Yu Huang.
* This skin shares its theme with Toxic Overload Achilles, Necro Fumes Agni, Half-Life Baron Samedi, Detoxify Maui, Caustic Skies Nu Wa, Meltdown Sol, Necro Alchemist Vulcan, Toxic Current Yemoja and Nuclear Winter Ymir.
* There is an announcer pack themed after this skin, you can hear it here: Toxic Tide Announcer pack

## Skins

* Default
* Cascade
* He Bro
* Rocky Road
* Infinity Wave
* The Sydney Shredder
* Lord of the Amazon
* Pixel Rush
* Molten
* Toxic Tide
* Golden
* Legendary
* Diamond

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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 only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests, or via direct purchase.  This skin was part of the Grim Omens event.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was part of the Odyssey 2015 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 by redeeming a PAX Aus 2014 skin code or 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 originally granted to players who migrated their LevelUp Brazil account to the International version.  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 was part of 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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## Changelog

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

* **Atlas of the Yellow River**

* Increased Cooldown from 12s to 14s

**SMITE Version 10.9.7702.7 (September 12, 2023)**

* **Water Cannon**

* Increased Cooldown from 3s to 4s

**SMITE Version 10.2.7456.4 (February 21, 2023)**

* **Waterspout**

* Decreased Base Damage from 80/130/180/230/280 to 70/120/170/220/270
* Decreased Magical Power Scaling from 65% to 60%

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

* **General**

* Increase Base Movement Speed from 355 to 360
* Increased Base HP Per Level from 70 to 75

* **Water Cannon**

* Both Lane Minions and Jungle Camps take an extra +15% damage from this ability

**SMITE Version 9.4.7059.9 (May 3, 2022)**

* **Steady Flow**

* Decreased Magical Power Buff per stack from 5% to 4%

* (Decreased Total Magical Power % buff from 15% to 12%)

* **Crushing Wave**

* Decreased Base Damage from 370/450/530/610/690 to 350/430/510/590/670
* Decreased Magical Power Scaling from 115% to 105%

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

* **Waterspout**

* Removed the self root on He Bo while firing this ability
* Decreased Magical Power Scaling from 75% to 65%

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

* **Water Cannon**

* Increased Base Damage from 60/110/160/210/260 to 80/125/170/215/260

**SMITE Version 7.10.6230.4 (October 20, 2020)**

* **Water Cannon**

* Decreased damage from 70/120/170/220/270 to 60/110/160/210/260

* **Atlas of the Yellow River**

* Decreased Slow from 25/30/35/40/45% to 20/25/30/35/40%
* Decreased Movement Speed Buff from 25/30/35/40/45% to 20/25/30/35/40%

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

* **General**

* The Sydney Shredder and He Bro skins have been re-enabled. Fixed an issue where some of their abilities had no hit box.

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

* **Water Cannon**

* Decreased damage from 70/125/180/235/290 to 70/120/170/220/270.

* **Atlas of the Yellow River**

* Decreased Movement Speed and Slow from 30/35/40/45/50% to 25/30/35/40/45%.

**SMITE Version 5.10.4812 (June 12, 2018)**

* **General**

* Increase Base HP from 365 to 400.
* Decrease HP per level from 68 to 67.

* **Water Cannon**

* Decreased damage from 90/140/190/240/290 to 70/125/180/235/290.

**SMITE Version 5.4.4654 (March 13, 2018)**

* **Atlas of the Yellow River**

* Increased cooldown from 10s to 12s.

* **Waterspout**

* Decreased Magical Power Scaling from 85% to 75%.

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

* **General**

* Now all mages have magic prot scalings of .9 per level.
* Increased Movement Speed from 350 to 355.

**SMITE Version 4.12.4165.1 (July 5, 2017)**

* **Water Cannon**

* Decreased Post-Fire time to match animation.
* The time from when Water Cannon is cast to when He Bo can cast another Ability has been cut in half.

**SMITE Version 3.10.3438 (June 7, 2016)**

* **Waterspout**

* Mana cost reduce from ~~70/80/90/100/110~~ → 65/70/75/80/85.

**SMITE Version 3.7.3369 (April 26, 2016)**

* **Atlas of the Yellow River**

* Increased slow debuff from ~~20/25/30/35/40%~~ → 30/35/40/45/50%.
* Increased speed buff from ~~20/25/30/35/40%~~ → 30/35/40/45/50%.

**SMITE Version 2.15.3014 (October 6, 2015)**

* **Atlas of the Yellow River**

* He Bo and his allies are now immune to Slow effects while on the River.

**SMITE Version 2.5.2721 (April 28, 2015)**

* **General**

* Fixed Denton showing off to the right on He Bro and Sydney Shredder during Defeat.

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

* **Steady Flow**

* Updated tooltip to be more general.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2298.3 (September 10, 2014)**

* **Water Cannon**

* Base damage reduced from 90/145/200/255/310 to 90/140/190/240/290.

* **Waterspout**

* This ability no longer slows when it knocks up enemies.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2247 (August 5, 2014)**

* **Atlas of the Yellow River**

* No longer able to jump over part of the scroll.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2215.6 (July 15, 2014)**

* **General**

* Cascade Skin now properly has CC Immune glow.

* **Steady Flow**

* Magical Power bonus reduced from 7% to 5% per stack.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2151.3 (May 28, 2014)**

* **Steady Flow**

* Corrected a tooltip error with his magic power percentage.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2125 (May 6, 2014)**

* **Crushing Wave**

* Fixed an issue where sometimes damage wasn’t being dealt.

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

* **Atlas of the Yellow River**

* Recovery time reduced from 0.26 to 0.1.

* **Waterspout**

* Recovery time reduced from 0.4 to 0.1.

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

* **Steady Flow**

* Reduced Magical Power buff per stack from 10% to 7%.

* **Water Cannon**

* Reduced magical power scaling from 90% to 80%.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1918.2 (January 8, 2014)**

* **Waterspout**

* Animation has changed.
* This ability can now be placed inside of walls.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1887 (December 18, 2013)**

* **General**

* Modest changes have been made to He Bo's 3D Model in order to better reflect the artist's vision for the character.

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

* **General**

* Modified Default Voice Recordings.
* Removed the two water spout animations during recall to avoid confusing players.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1838.1 (November 13, 2013)**

* **General**

* He Bo’s model, FX, animations and 2D Art have undergone a significant makeover, in order to better fit his mythology and legend.
* As part of this change, the “Flood Waters” ability has been renamed to “Atlas of the Yellow River”.
* The Cascade skin has also been remade as part of this change.

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

* **General**

* New Ground Targeters.

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

* **General**

* Basic attacks changed from physical to deal 35 (+25% of your magical power) magical damage.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1490 (May 1, 2013)**

* **General**

* FX have been improved for looks and performance.

* **Steady Flow**

* The amount of magical power increased after using an ability has been increased from 5% to 10%.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1467 (April 17, 2013)**

* **General**

* The starting health has been increased from 340 to 365.
* The health gained per level has been increased from 64 to 68.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1459 (April 11, 2013)**

* **Flood Waters**

* The flood waters now give allies the movement speed increase as well as himself.

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

* **Flood Waters**

* Speed buff/debuff is 20/25/30/35/40%.

* **Waterspout**

* Slow by 25% for 2s at all ranks.

**SMITE Closed Beta Version 0.1.1272.2 (January 1, 2013)**

* **Waterspout**

* Magical power contribution has been reduced:

* Old - 100%
* New - 85%

**SMITE Closed Beta Version 0.1.1148 (November 2, 2012)**

* **Crushing Wave**

* This no longer ignores deployables / obstructions.

**SMITE Closed Beta Version 0.1.1069.0 (September 19, 2012)**

* **Crushing Wave**

* Aegis now cancels the ultimate and also consumes the cooldown.
* This no longer goes through deployable walls.

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

* **Water Cannon**

* FX changed to better indicate the length of the attack.

**SMITE Closed Beta Version 0.1.997 (August 3, 2012)**

* **Steady Flow**

* Magical power increase for each ability used has been reduced from 10% to 5%.

* **Water Cannon**

* Base damage reduced from 100/160/220/280/340 to 90/145/200/255/310.
* Decreased the magical power contribution from 100% to 90%.

* **Waterspout**

* Reduced the amount of time He Bo is rooted while firing this ability to give him more mobility.

* **Crushing Wave**

* Base damage reduced from 400/480/560/640/720 to 370/450/530/610/690.
* Decreased the magical power contribution from 130% to 115%.

**SMITE Closed Beta Version 0.1.920.0 (June 15, 2012)**

* **Water Cannon**

* Increased the base damage per rank from 80/130/180/230/280 to 100/160/220/280/340.