Mercury

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**~ GODS LIST ~**

***"The faster you go the harder you hit. Smack enemies in the face with your fists."***

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

## Lore

Mercurial. A word that evokes volatility, quickness, and cunning. But to compare anything to the speed and wit of the Messenger God Mercury would be to compare a hot day to the searing forge of Vulcan, or a blooming rose to the glory of Venus. It is but a pale comparison. Mercury can leap the space between lightning and thunder, outfox the fox king, and reach tomorrow before the sun.

As an infant, Mercury escaped the watchful eye of his half-brother, Apollo, stole his cattle, fashioned a lyre from a tortoise shell, and snuck in a nap, all before Apollo found him missing. His father, Jupiter, found the child's mischief boisterously entertaining, and awarded him the task of delivering messages for the Gods, traveling between the Heavens, the Earth, and even to the depths of the Underworld.

Now war looms and Mercury races to keep the lines of communication open, though he is often caught in the thick of battle. No stranger to combat, he once slew the monster Argus, the demon with one hundred watchful eyes, using speed and guile alone. But this war is different. The foes are stronger, the stakes higher, and Mercury a pivotal cog in the machine. Should he fail to deliver even a single order the balance could tip, and the time left for this world would be truly mercurial.

## Trivia

### General

* Mercury's greek counterpart, Hermes, is one of the twelve olympians along with Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hephaestus, Hera, Poseidon, Zeus and either Hestia or Dionysus.
* Mercury is the only playable god to have the disorient CC.
* The name of Mercury's passive, *"Fastest God Alive"*, is a reference to DC Comics superhero The Flash and his slogan "The fastest man alive.".

* This is the only ability in the game that is affected by jumping.

* His base movement value of 381 is because the developers wanted to keep Mercury as the fastest god in the game without making him overpowered.
* Mercury's recall animation is a reference to a statue titled "Flying Mercury" by Giovanni da Bologna.
* One of Mercury's jokes, ▶️*"Na na na na na na na na na..."*, could be a reference to the 1970's tv series The Six Million Dollar Man.
* One of Mercury's death quotes, ▶️*"Another one bites the dust.."*, is a reference to the song Another One Bites The Dust by the British rock band Queen. Their singer, Freddie Mercury, also shares his name with Mercury which is probably the reason of this quote.
* When Mercury uses his second ability he sometimes says ▶️*"Gotta go fast!"*. This is a reference to the Sonic X anime series' Intro, and the internet meme spawned by it.
* Mercury's dance emote is based on the Running Man.

### God Skins

* **Quicksilver**

* The name of this skin could be a reference to the marvel character Quicksilver who is named "Mercúrio" in the Portuguese/Spanish translations of the X-Men.

* **Captain Quick**

* This skin could be based on the Speedster Hero archetype.
* The actor who voiced this skin, Christopher Niosi, also voiced K-9 Anubis and Riftshaker Janus.
* This skin shares its theme with Infernal/Infernal Blaze Agni, Gamma Slam Cabrakan, The Sparrow Nike, The Marksman Rama and Dawn Defender Thor.

* **Demon Puncher**

* This is the first male skin for this skin theme.
* This skin shares its theme with Miss Senshi Bellona, Corrupted Kenshi Mulan, Demon Dasher Ne Zha, Senpai Slayer Serqet and Doomsayer Sensei The Morrigan.

* **Michelangelo/Radical Michelangelo**

* These skins are cross promotions between Hi-Rez Studios/Titan Forge Games and Nickelodeon to promote the show Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
* The actor who voiced this skin, Nick Landis, also voiced Grand Magus Anubis, Metal Carnage Fenrir, Rama, Orbital Strike Rama, Sacred Arrow Rama and Reaper Tech Thanatos.
* These skins share their theme with Splinter Hachiman, Slash Kuzenbo, Raphael/Radical Raphael/Retro Raphael Loki, Leonardo/Radical Leonardo Osiris, Shredder/Super Shredder Ravana, Donatello/Radical Donatello Sun Wukong and Krang Xing Tian.
* There is an announcer pack themed after this skin, You can hear it here: Michelangelo Announcer pack.

* **Run.EXE**

* Both Mercury and this skin were voiced by Joel McDonald.
* During the PTS phase of the patch this skin was part of, this skin had a completely different voice pack. You can see a sample of it in this video.
* When Mercury uses his ultimate ability with his Run.EXE skin he sometimes says ▶️*"Ludicrous speed!"* or ▶️*"Light speed too slow!"*. Both are references to the American film Spaceballs.
* This skin shares its theme with Hun.BAT Hun Batz, Critical.DMG Ne Zha, Sun.GOD Ra and Jag.RAR Xbalanque.

* **Prizefighter**

* This skin is based on a club fighter during the period of Prohibition.
* The actor who voiced this skin, Brad Venable, also voiced Abyssal Acolyte Agni, Sand Viper Ao Kuang, Abyssal Executioner Chaac, Cyber Samurai Hachiman Hunkules Hercules, Jandroid Janus, Kumbhalayan Yeti Kumbhakarna, Omni Tech Odin and Fun pocalypse Xbalanque.
* His joke line ▶️*"The first rule of Smite Club is that you don't talk about Smite Club!"* is a reference to a quote of the movie Fight Club.
* This skin shares its theme with La Roca Hercules, Rock From Bisrakh/King Of The Ring Ravana and Dropkick Terra.

* **Shaolin Fury**

* This skin is based on the chinese martial artist and actor Bruce Lee.
* Both Mercury and this skin were voiced by Joel McDonald.
* This is the only Mercury skin that throws kicks along with punches in his basic attacks.

* **Modern Messenger**

* The actor who voiced this skin, Jonah Scott, also voiced Heaven's Arrow Hou Yi, X-Calibur King Arthur and Frostfire Ullr.
* This skin's model was updated shortly after being shown in the update show due to overwhelming community feedback being that the face looked very odd.

* **Shonen Spark**

* The name of this skin is a reference to the Shonen Genre of manga/anime, which is aimed at teenage boys.
* The actor who voiced this skin, Vic Mignogna, is famous for voicing the protagonist of the anime Full Metal Alchemist Edward Elric.

* **Shadow Step**

* This skin is based on a ninja.
* This skin looks similar to the champion Koga from the game Paladins.
* The actor who voiced this skin, Austin Lee Matthews, also voiced Freedom Retriever Anubis, Cultus Chronos, Galaxy Maverick Ne Zha and Infernal Omen Tsukuyomi.
* This skin shares its theme with Death Lotus Da Ji, Shino-bo Kuzenbo, Blind Vengeance/Silent Blade Nemesis, Pink Lotus Pele, Kunoichi Serqet, Shinobi Slayer Tsukuyomi and Shinobalanque Xbalanque.

* **Celestial Deliverer**

* This skin shares its theme with Midnight Dove Awilix, Radiant Heroine Bellona, Archangel Chernobog, Angel of Chaos Cthulhu, Celestial Mayhem Discordia, Celestial Eset, Sacred Grounds Geb, Divine Wind Gilgamesh, Inner Demon Hel, Seraph Horus, Heaven's Arrow Hou Yi, Striking Archon Ishtar, Divine Axe Izanami, Divine Right Jing Wei, Gazing Archon Medusa, Master of Light Merlin, Celestial Guard Odin, Holo Halo Pele, Radiant Archon Ra, Sacred Arrow Rama, Celestial Inferno Surtr, Archon Thanatos, Angelic Archon Yemoja and Almighty Archon Zeus.

## Skins

* Default
* Quicksilver
* Centurion
* Captain Quick
* Demon Puncher
* Michelangelo
* Radical Michelangelo
* Run.EXE
* Prizefighter
* Shaolin Fury
* Envyus
* Modern Messenger
* Rocket Punch
* Shonen Spark
* Shadow Step
* Celestial Deliverer
* Golden
* Legendary
* Diamond

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   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 was part of the Heavenly Light event.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests or via direct purchase.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by purchasing and achieving enough levels in the TMNT 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 could only be obtained by purchasing and achieving enough levels in the TMNT 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 ability effects.  The skin, its ability targeters and ability effects constantly rotate between several colors.  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 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 can only be obtained by reaching level 17 in the Season Ticket 2017.  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 was part of the Hera's Odyssey 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: Underworld 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 only be obtained by purchasing and achieving enough levels in the Celestial Syndicate Battle Pass.

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## Changelog

**SMITE Version 10.8.7671 (August 8, 2023)**

* **Special Delivery**

* Decreased Physical Power Scaling per tick from 20% to 16%

* Ticks 4 times for a total decrease of 80% to 64%

**SMITE Version 10.2.7456.14 (March 7, 2023)**

* **Fastest God Alive**

* Decreased Passive Physical Power bonus per unit traveled from 0.06% to 0.04%

* (decreased max from 30% to 20%)

* Fixed Merucry’s ability text to describe that the Movement Speed gained by all gods when leveling up to level 7 is intended to count toward his passive.

* **Made You Look**

* Increased Cooldown from 8s to 9s

**SMITE Version 9.6.7130.11 (June 28, 2022)**

* **Fastest God Alive**

* Decreased the Physical Power bonus on his next Basic Attack from  0.08% per unit traveled to 0.06% (Decreases max damage from 40% to 30%)

* **Sonic Boom**

* Increased Cooldown from 90s to 100s

**SMITE Version 8.12.6904.3 (December 14, 2021)**

* **Made You Look**

* Can now be fired through walls

**SMITE Version 8.6.6618.4 (June 15, 2021)**

* **Made You Look**

* Increased Base Damage from 70/105/140/175/210 to 80/115/150/185/220

**SMITE Version 6.2.5291 (February 21, 2019)**

* **Sonic Boom**

* Fixed an issue that was causing players hit to be facing sideways permanently.

**SMITE Version 5.23.5202 (December 19, 2018)**

* **General**

* Fixed an issue where the Shonen Spark skin would play multiple voice lines on a single ability fire.

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

* **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.

**SMITE Version 5.21.5125 (November 12, 2018)**

* **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).

**SMITE Version 5.20.5103.3 (October 29, 2018)**

* **General**

* Fixed Shonen Spark Mercury abilities ‘Made You Look’ and ‘Special Delivery’ voice lines playing multiple times.
* Fixed swapped voice lines for Shonen Spark Mercury VGS lines VT2 and VT3.

**SMITE Version 5.19.5053.2 (October 15, 2018)**

* **Made You Look**

* Increased Cooldown from 8s to 10s.

**SMITE Version 5.14.4910 (August 6, 2018)**

* **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.

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

* **Made You Look**

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

**SMITE Version 4.11.4145.1 (June 20, 2017)**

* **General**

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

**SMITE Version 3.22.3756.1 (November 21, 2016)**

* **General**

* Increased Movement Speed from ~~375~~ → 381.

* **Maximum Velocity**

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

**SMITE Version 3.14.3547.1 (August 2, 2016)**

* **Made You Look**

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

**SMITE Version 3.13.3518 (July 19, 2016)**

* **Maximum Velocity**

* Changed duration from ~~3/3.5/4/4.5/5s~~ → 5s at all ranks.

* **Special Delivery**

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

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

* **Fastest God Alive**

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

**SMITE Version 3.1.3217 (December 15, 2015)**

* **General**

* Changed art for targeters to Roman.

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

* **Fastest God Alive**

* Increased maximum damage bonus for distance travelled from ~~50%~~ → 75%.

* **Special Delivery**

* Increased throw height from ~~300~~ → 350.

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

* **Fastest God Alive**

* Increased additional power from ~~25%~~ → 30% of his movement speed from items.

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

* **Fastest God Alive**

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

**SMITE Version 1.0.2418 (November 19, 2014)**

* **Special Delivery**

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

**SMITE Version 1.0.2326 (October 1, 2014)**

* **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.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2268.2 (August 19, 2014)**

* **Special Delivery**

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

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

* **Sonic Boom**

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

**SMITE Version 1.0.2188.3 (June 24, 2014)**

* **Sonic Boom**

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

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

* **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.

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

* **Sonic Boom**

* Increased disorient duration from 1 to 1.5s.

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

* **General**

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

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.2015.1 (March 5, 2014)**

* **Sonic Boom**

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

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1988.3 (February 19, 2014)**

* **Maximum Velocity**

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

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

* **Special Delivery**

* Fixed interaction with Arachne’s Cocoon.

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

* **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.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1875.1 (December 11, 2013)**

* **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%.

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

* **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.

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

* **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%.

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

* **Maximum Velocity**

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

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

* **General**

* Victory screen animation has been modified.

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

* **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.

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

* Mercury has been added to the game.