Hera

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**~ GODS LIST ~**

***"Command Argus and your divine power to rule over the battleground!"***

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

## Lore

From the summit of Mount Olympus she has watched the gods and pantheons. Their triumphs, their follies. She watched as the legends of Zeus, of Hercules, and all the others were etched into history. The world has descended into calamity, and she can watch no longer. Now, the time has come for the legend of Hera to be written.

By her side stands Argus, her champion, the indomitable agent of her will...and vengeance. Through her charisma and skill Hera has rallied great heroes and whole armies to follow her, yet she is no distant general. Hera is Queen of the Gods, born of the Titans, and any who cross her shall know her justice first hand.

While the other gods are masters of lightning, or fire or death, Hera is master of divinity itself. She can reshape nature, including her foes, and she will hold nothing back as she steps forth upon the Battleground of the Gods.

For the Queen of the Gods has come at last, and she has come to rule.

## Trivia

### General

* Hera was the last god released in 2018.
* Hera is married to Zeus.
* Hera is one of the twelve olympians along with Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hephaestus, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus and either Hestia or Dionysus.
* The actress who voiced Hera, Lydia Mackay, also voiced Covert Ops/Crimson Ops Bastet and iDusa/iDusa Elite Medusa.
* There is an announcer pack themed after Hera, You can hear it here:Hera Announcer pack.

### God Skins

* **Crimson Queen**

* This recolor shares its theme with Crimson King Gilgamesh

* **Battle Queen**

* This skin is also voiced by Lydia Mackay.

* **Ragnarok**

* The actress who voiced this skin, Brianna Roberts, also voiced Crystal Gaze Medusa and Sea Nymph Sol.
* This skin shares its theme with Ragnarok Fenrir, Ragnarok Hades and Ragnarok Jormungandr.

* **Power-Up/Rematch**

* The name of the cat piloting the robot is Widget.

* **Iron Conqueror**

* This skin was a purchasable item from the Jade Corruption event.

* **Gambit Queen**

* This was the first skin to have a casino theme.
* The actress who voiced this skin, Salli Saffioti, also voiced Ice Queen Aphrodite, Oasis Djinn Aphrodite, Lady of the Lake Freya and Spell Slinger Sol.

* **Lilac Bloom**

* The actress who voiced this skin, Marianne Bray, also voiced Bone Chiller Skadi.
* This skin shares its theme with Sylvan Sentinel Hou Yi, Riftshaker Janus, The Green Knight King Arthur, Nature's Guardian Rama, Wolfsbane Skadi and Grove Keeper Xing Tian.

* **SWC Starlet**

* This skin shares its theme with SWC Star Awilix, SWC Champion Chang'e and SWC Challenger Thanatos.

* **Mecha Empress**

* This skin shares its theme with Modern Android Achilles, Arachnoid Arachne, Tokyo Knight Ares, Spectral Oni Cliodhna, Rogue Android/Rogue Cyborg Izanami and Sakura Android Neith.

## Skins

* Default
* Crimson Queen
* Battle Queen
* Ragnarok
* Power-Up
* Iron Conqueror
* Gambit Queen
* Lilac Bloom
* SWC Starlet
* Mecha Empress
* Rematch
* Golden
* Legendary
* Diamond

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by accumulating 120 Odyssey points in 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 can only be obtained as a roll from Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could be obtained by purchasing the Sweet Victory 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 Jade Corruption 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: Reckoning 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 roll from Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained from the SWC Twitch Drop.

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  This skin comes with custom animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained as a final reward of the premium track from the Cyber Tokyo Battle Pass.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was earned as a final reward from the prestige track in the Sweet Victory Battle Pass.

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 Voicelines

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## Changelog

**SMITE Version 10.11.7775.1 (October 24, 2023)**

* **Polymorph**

* Increased Base Damage from 90/135/180/225/270 to 90/140/190/240/290
* Increased Damage Scaling from 80% to 85%

* **Divine Shroud**

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

**SMITE Version 9.11.7339.4 (November 15, 2022)**

* **Royal Assault**

* Increased Range of the Deployable Hand attack from 45 to 50

* **Divine Shroud**

* Increased Base HP from 70/110/150/190/230 to 70/115/160/205/250

**SMITE Version 9.7.7157.3 (July 12, 2022)**

* **Commanding Presence**

* Increased Cooldown Reduction on Argus from 1s to 1.5s
* Increased Cooldown Reduction on Commanding Presence from 0.33s to 0.5s

**SMITE Version 9.2.6981 (February 22, 2022)**

* **Polymorph**

* Increased Base Damage from 80/120/160/200/240 to 90/135/180/225/270

* **Argus, the Defender**

* Increased Argus’ Protections from 25/30/35/40/45 to 25/35/45/55/65

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

* **Commanding Presence**

* Increased Magical Power Scaling on Argus’ First Hit from 30 to 35%
* Increased Magical Power Scaling on Argus’ Second Hit from 30 to 35%
* Increased Magical Power Scaling on Argus’ Third Hit from 40 to 45%

* **Royal Assault**

* Increased fist damage from 80/130/180/230/280 to 80/135/190/245/300

**SMITE Version 8.5.6555.4 (May 18, 2021)**

* **Polymorph**

* Increased Magical Power Scaling from 75% to 80%

* **Divine Shroud**

* Increased Health Shield from 50/100/150/200/250 to 70/110/150/190/230
* Increased Health Shield from 15 to 17 \* Hera’s Level

* Total shields are: 65 to 550 vs 87 to 570 based on lvl1 rank 1 and lvl 20 rank 5 min and max

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

* **Divine Shroud**

* Decreased the Health on the shield from 20\*Hera’s Level to 15\*Hera’s Level

**SMITE Version 6.11.5701.1 (October 15, 2019)**

* **Argus, the Defender**

* Fixed Argus sometimes unable to target Towers.

**SMITE Version 6.10.5654.3 (September 17, 2019)**

* **Argus, the Defender**

* Fixed Pyromancer from pushing Argus out of Agro range, causing the fight to constantly reset.

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

* **Royal Assault**

* Fixed missing animation during wind up of firing ability.

* **Polymorph**

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

**SMITE Version 6.8.5557.1 (July 24, 2019)**

* **General**

* Fixed missing sound for fists closing on Royal Assault with Crimson Queen and Mastery skins.

**SMITE Version 6.5.5418 (April 30, 2019)**

* **General**

* Added missing “Pros” on tooltip: High Area Damage, High Crowd Control.

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

* **Argus, the Defender**

* Increased cooldown from 70 to 90.

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

* **General**

* Fixed an issue where slow immune targets were also being immune to Polymorph.

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

* **General**

* Fixed missing Hera God description in the About section.

* **Commanding Presence**

* Damage from Royal Assault and Polymorph also reduces the cooldown of Divine Shroud by 0.33s.

* **Royal Assault**

* Increased base damage from 75/120/165/210/255 to 80/130/180/230/280.
* Fixed an issue where her ability 1 visuals would sometimes play more times than intended on a single fire.

* **Polymorph**

* Polymorphed enemies are now Slowed by 20%.

* **Divine Shroud**

* Fixed the in game description to accurately state how much shielding Hera receives.
* Increased Shield Health from 40/80/120/160/200 + 15 Per level to 50/100/150/200/250 + 20 Per Level. (Maximum increased from 500 HP to 600 HP)

* **Argus, the Defender**

* Increased deploy range from 55 to 65 units.
* Increased maximum leash range from 85 to 125.
* Increased Protections gained from 15/20/25/30/35 Physical Protections and 15 Magical Protections to 25/30/35/40/45 of both Protections.
* Increased Argus' Health from 700/1275/1850/2425/3000 to 700/1400/2100/2800/3500 Health.
* Increased Crash Landing Damage scaling from 35% to 55% Magical Power.
* Argus Attack – Increased targeter range from 65 units to 80 units.
* Argus 2nd Attack in Hit Chain

* Reduced self movement penalty on Argus's Ground Slam windup from 50% to 35%.
* Increase Slow duration from 1s to 1.5s.

* Fixed an issue where Hera's ultimate could go on cooldown without summoning Argus if she was interrupted at a specific time.

**SMITE Version 5.19.5056.2 (October 24, 2018)**

* **General**

* Fixed an issue with Argus causing server hitches in matches.

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

* Hera has been added to the game.

**Pre-release**

* **Commanding Presence**

* Tooltip now lists Argus' basic attack information instead of health, protections and movement speed.
* Reduced Argus' first and second hit's damage from 40 to 30.
* Reduced Argus' third hit's damage from 60 to 45.

* **Royal Assault**

* Increased fist damage's scaling from 75% to 80%.

* **Argus, the Defender**

* Tooltip now lists Argus' health, protections and movement speed instead of his basic attack information.
* Increased Argus' health from 600/1200/1800/2400/3000 to 700/1275/1850/2425/3000.