Arachne

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**~ GODS LIST ~**

***"Entangle your enemies in webs and let your broodlings tear them apart."***

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

## Lore

Once, a beautiful and talented weaver of cloth and fabric, a single prideful mistake made a monster of Arachne for all time.

With loom and thread, there were none more skilled than the mortal Arachne. Viewers traveled leagues just to see her art. So wondrous and majestic were her tapestries, it was said the spinner must have been instructed by the patron Goddess of Weavers herself, Athena. To this comparison, Arachne proudly scoffed, claiming not even the Gods rivaled her talent at weaving.

When Athena heard this, disguised as a crone, she visited Arachne and encouraged her to show proper respect to the Gods. Arachne dismissed the old woman and issued a challenge that no God, not even Athena, could weave better than she. Furious, Athena revealed herself and accepted the challenge.

They both set to the loom with fervor. Athena wove a glorious tapestry depicting her battle with Poseidon over the city of Athens. Her detail and imagery were exquisite. Yet Arachne's weavings depicted Zeus in his many infidelities with mortals. So flawless, so lifelike was her artistry, not even Athena could refute the skill, nor could she contain her anger at such a sleight. Violently, she tore Arachne's tapestry and pressed a finger to Arachne's forehead. Twisting in anguish, Arachne fell to the ground as additional legs grew from her body, screaming as she transformed into the first spider.

It was an act of anger and pity, a lesson and a curse, for spiders are the greatest of weavers, and Arachne, in particular, was to weave for all time, but none could doubt the consequence for Arachne's pride. Still, within her twisted heart, Arachne never forgave Athena, consumed by a dark hatred that can be sated only by the destruction of the Gods.

## Non-Conquest Balance

These additional modifiers will affect the god when they're played in any game modes besides Conquest:

* -10% Damage taken
* -10% Ultimate cooldown

## Trivia

### General

* Arachne was one of the 17 playable gods in SMITE when the closed Beta was released.
* Arachne and Ymir were the first non-god characters added to Smite.
* Arachne received an overhaul of her abilities with SMITE Version 1.0.2298.3. For more information about the old kit, see Replaced abilities.
* In April of 2016, Arachne received a remodel, changing her default and mastery skins, her Toxic Caress skin was preserved but the animations were updated to the new ones.
* The actress who voiced Arachne, Colleen Clinkenbeard, also voiced Ne Zha and Modern Mercenary Nemesis.
* One of Arachne's taunts, ▶️*"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we want to suck the juicy bits out of our enemies!"*, is a reference to the 19th century poem Marmion written by Walter Scott.
* One of Arachne's jokes, ▶️*"I wouldn't call me itsy bitsy if I were you."*, is a reference to the famous children's song Itsy Bitsy Spider.

### God Skins

* **Toxic Caress**

* This is one of the few recolor skins to be released after the god was released.
* This skin preserved Arachne's original 3D model.

* **Black Widow**

* This was one of the few skins to be lowered from a Tier 3 to a Tier 2 skin along with Obsidian Shard Ymir.

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

* **Grim Weaver**

* The actress who voiced this skin, Elizabeth Maxwell, also voiced Clockwork Chaos Discordia, Midnight Raven Eset, Elegant/Scarlet Judgement Nemesis, Nike, Fallen Angel Nike, Conqueror Nike, The Morrigan, Woodland Rogue The Morrigan and Pale Raven The Morrigan.
* This skin shares its theme with Grim Horseman Guan Yu, Grim Wraith Hades, Grim Eclipse Hou Yi and Grim Shadow Nox.

* **Tormentula**

* This skin was also voiced by Colleen Clinkenbeard.

* **Ma Chérie**

* Arachne's broodlings in this skin look similar to one of Cid's toys in the movie Toy Story.
* This skin makes a cameo in Godscylla card art.
* Her direct taunt to Izanami "We would make excellent partners!" is aimed at her Dreadful Doll skin.
* Her direct taunt to Scylla "I heard you liked playing with dolls." is aimed at her Child's Play skin.
* The actress who voiced this skin, Dawn Bennett, also voiced Blight Guardian/Sinister Sentinel Athena, Death Lotus Da Ji, Celestial Eset, Crystal Fae Eset, Brood Mother Medusa, Cove Queen Nu Wa, Mystic Flare Pele and Bewitching Bunny Scylla.
* This skin shares its theme with Deadly Doll Cliodhna and Dreadful Doll Izanami.

* **Itsy Bitsy Chibi**

* This is the first Chibi skin to not use the God default look as its base.
* In the full version of this skin card art, an Sunny Chibi Amaterasu can be seen wrapped in web along with skeletons that resemble that of Baron Samedi and Fenrir.
* The actress who voiced this skin, Kristen McGuire, also voiced Prototype 2.0 Charybdis and Lunar Moth Discordia.
* This skin shares its theme with Itty Bitty ChiBee Ah Muzen Cab, Sunny Chibi Amaterasu, 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, Freezy Chibi Ymir and Zappy Chibi Zeus.

* **Fae Mantis**

* The actress who voiced this skin, Rebecca Davis, also voiced Shadow Prowler Bastet and Extraterrestrial Tiamat.
* This is the first Arachne skin to change her ultimate animations. Instead of walking on a web above the player, she flies with wings.

* **Arachnoid**

* The actress who voiced this skin, Lindsay Seidel, also voiced Aphra Cadabra Aphrodite, Neith and Terror of the Deep Scylla.
* This skin shares its theme with Modern Android Achilles, Tokyo Knight Ares, Spectral Oni Cliodhna, Mecha Empress Hera, Rogue Android/Rogue Cyborg Izanami and Sakura Android Neith.

* **Xeno Weaver**

* This skin shares its theme with Xeno Thrasher Fenrir, Annihilator Martichoras, Dread Queen Serqet and Extraterrestrial Tiamat.

## Skins

* Default
* Toxic Caress
* Black Widow
* Grim Weaver
* Tormentula
* Ma Chérie
* Itsy Bitsy Chibi
* Fae Mantis
* Arachnoid
* Xeno Weaver
* Web of Fate
* 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 was part of the Escape from the 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 was part of 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 comes with a special emote.  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 comes with a special emote.  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 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 was part of the Dharmic Era 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 and achieving enough levels in the Boss Monsters Battle Pass.

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## Changelog

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

* **Cocoon**

* Decreased Attack Speed from 30/40/50/60/70% to 20/30/40/50/60%

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

* **Cocoon**

* Decrease amount of hits to stun from 3 to 2
* Decrease duration of the buff from 6s to 4s
* Decouple the stun from the Attack Speed Stim

* **Web**

* Increased number of Broodlings from 2 at all ranks to 2/2/2/2/3

* **Night Crawler**

* Increase leap range from 40 to 50

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

* **Venomous Bite**

* The debuff from this ability now applies 40% Healing reduction for the duration
* Decreased Healing per Tick from 8/16/24/32/40 (+8% of your Physical Power) to 8/15/22/29/36

* **Cocoon**

* Targets successfully stunned by Cocoon also have their active cooldowns increased by 2s flat (anti-CDR)
* Decreased Cooldown from 15s to 14s

**SMITE Version 9.4.7059.2 (April 19, 2022)**

* **Predator**

* Decreased Arachne’s Basic Attack Damage Increase from 1.5% to 1.25% for every 5% of a target’s missing Health.

* **Venomous Bite**

* Decreased Physical Power Scaling from 10% to 8% per tick

**SMITE Version 9.1.6950.5 (January 25, 2022)**

* **Web**

* Decreased Cooldown from 16s to 14s

**SMITE Version 7.8.6152.8 (August 25, 2020)**

* **Venomous Bite**

* Decreased Damage per Tick from 10/20/30/40/50 to 10/18/26/34/42
* Decreased from 110/195/280/365/450 to 110/183/256/329/402 Total damage

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

* **General**

* Fixed Itsy Bitsy Chibi skin from t-posing during Ne Zha Ultimate.

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

* **Venomous Bite**

* Decreased Base Healing per Tick from 10/20/30/40/50 + 10% to 8/16/24/32/40 + 8%.

* **Web**

* Decreased Slow from 25% to 15%.

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

* **Web**

* Fixed Ma Cherie Arachne's Web not appearing for the enemy team.

**SMITE Version 5.24.5226 (January 7, 2019)**

* **Night Crawler**

* Arachne now creates a 25 unit radius area of Web that lasts for 5s wherever she lands. Enemies in this area are slowed by 25% and Arachne gains 40% Movement Speed and is immune to slows while on the web.

* Overlaying Webs from Night Crawler and her third ability “Web” do not stack in intensity.

**SMITE Version 5.3.4624.1 (February 27, 2018)**

* **Web**

* Reduced Cooldown from 18s to 16s.
* Can now have 3 webs at once, up from 2.

**SMITE Version 4.22.4446 (November 22, 2017)**

* **General**

* God portrait has been corrected.

**SMITE Version 4.16.4283 (August 29, 2017)**

* **Web**

* Changed how Web functions in regards to Slow Immunity. Players who are Slow immune will still leave behind Web trails on the ground behind them.
* The keyword “Pet” has been added to the description to better convey Broodling's classification.

**SMITE Version 4.15.4255 (August 16, 2017)**

* **Night Crawler**

* Fixed an issue where landing on unleashed monsters would not deal damage.

**SMITE Version 4.7.4031.1 (April 25, 2017)**

* **Night Crawler**

* Updated the description of this ability with the correct radius for this ability.

**SMITE Version 3.16.3599.1 (August 30, 2016)**

* **General**

* Fixed the spiders on Arachne's web not showing their Mastery color.

**SMITE Version 3.15.3572 (August 16, 2016)**

* **Web**

* Fixed some issues where the web could “stack” in unintended ways.

**SMITE Version 3.12.3494 (July 6, 2016)**

* **Web**

* Now fires as a projectile of Web and Spiders!
* Arachne shoots a line of Web forward. She is Immune to Slows and moves faster on Web. If the Web reaches max range a Web trap will spawn. Enemy gods who walk through the trap or get hit by the projectile are Slowed by 25%, revealed to Arachne, leave a trail of Web behind them, and are attacked by Broodlings. Arachne can only have two Web traps active at a time and the Webs last 240s.

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

* **General**

* Arachne has undergone a visual upgrade. This means she now has a new model, textures, animations, FX treatments and new card art. Her mastery skins will be modeled in her new style.

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

* **Web**

* Changed Bonus Movement Speed from ~~10/20/30/40/50%~~ → 40% at all ranks.

**SMITE Version 2.19.3115 (December 1, 2015)**

* **Web**

* Arachne no longer loses web trails when her target becomes CC immune.

**SMITE Version 2.7.2766 (June 2, 2015)**

* Web

* Fixed Web fx disappearing too early.

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

* **Night Crawler**

* Added timer on the ground targeter indicating when the ability will expire and Arachne will be forced to land.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2476 (December 17, 2014)**

* **General**

* VGS and Voice pack pickups lines have been added to the game.

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

* **Night Crawler**

* Fixed a tooltip description error where it stated her duration on web was 7s instead of 5s.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2348.1 (October 17, 2014)**

* **Web**

* Fixed an issue with Arachne's spiders.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2347.1 (October 15, 2014)**

* **Web**

* Fixed an issue that was limiting the number of spiders she could have out to 2 at a time, even if both webs were broken.

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

* **General**

* Adjusted web FX for Night Crawler ability on Black Widow skin.
* Fixed her basic attack stats to show her full damage instead of ½.

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

* **General**

* Arachne has had her kit redesigned, to better fulfill her role as an Assassin.

**SMITE Version 1.0.2069 (April 2, 2014)**

* **General**

* New loading screen card.

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

* **Broodlings**

* Can no longer hide her eggs in towers.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.2027.1 (March 12, 2014)**

* **Black Widow Skin**

* New loading screen card.

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

* **Poison Claws**

* Fixed issue where the debuff icon was not showing up on targets affected by the poison stacks.

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

* **Poison Claws**

* Reduced scaling from 20% of physical power per tick to 16% per tick.

* **Drain Life**

* Duration changed from 3s to 2/2.25/2.5/2.75/3s.

* Note, this now starts it at 80 damage +100 scaling and 80 healing +40% scaling, plus a 2s silence (rank 1). Please verify.

* **Tangled Web**

* Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.5 to 0.1.

* **Cocoon**

* Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.3 to 0.1.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1930 (January 22, 2014)**

* **Poison Claws**

* Modified damage per tick from 8 + 15% to 5 + 20%.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1928.2 (January 16, 2014)**

* **Broodlings**

* Deployed eggs no longer act as wards. Spiders still have vision range that will reveal nearby targets once triggered.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1928.2 (December 18, 2013)**

* **Broodlings**

* Max active egg count reduced from 5 at all ranks to 1/2/3/4/5.

* **Tangled Web**

* Slow increased from 20/25/30/35/40% to 20/27/35/42/50%.

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

* **General**

* Now gains 0.9 magical protections per level, to be consistent with all other Assassins.

* Broodlings

* Fixed an issue where sometimes the spiders would spawn underneath the map.

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

* **Tangled Web**

* The ground target for this ability should now highlight eligible targets.

* **Cocoon**

* Increased stun duration from 1s to 1.5s.
* Increased projectile width from 3 to 5 ft.

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

* **Broodlings**

* + The camera is now rotatable during this ability.

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

* **Cocoon**

* The range of this ability has been increased from 70 to 80 feet.

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

* **General**

* New ground targeters.

* **Cocoon**

* This ability can now be fired through walls.

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

* **Broodlings**

* The broodlings now start weaker with lower health pools and gain health later.

* Before - 200 hp at all ranks.
* Now - The hp scales per rank of the ability from 100/175/250/325/400.

* **Drain Life**

* The base damage and healing of this ability has been reduced from 30/40/50/60/70 to 20/30/40/50/60.
* The physical power contribution of the damage on this ability has been increased from 15% to 25% per tick.
* The physical power contribution of the healing on this ability has been increased from 5% to 10% per tick.
* Fixed an issue where she could attach to Aphrodite at a great distance during her ultimate.

* **Tangled Web**

* This ability no longer cripples her enemies.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1667.2 (August 9, 2013)**

* **Broodlings**

* Fixed an issue in which Arachne’s spiders were dealing magical damage.

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

* **Broodlings**

* The spiders are now correctly dealing physical damage instead of magical damage.

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

* **Drain Life**

* If Arachne uses Drain Life on a minion, and it is hit by a basic attack, she will not be knocked off.
* Arachne can use Drain Life on Fenrir while he uses Brutalize. The silence will interrupt Brutalize.

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

* **Broodlings**

* If the eggs are broken by damage, 1 spiderling is spawned instead of 2.
* The spiderlings will now attack enemy that caused the eggs to burst.

* **Tangled Web**

* The radius of the web has been reduced from 25 to 20 ft.
* The web now cripples enemies that are within its radius, preventing movement based abilies from being used.
* The lifetime of the web has been changed from 7s at all ranks to 3/3.5/4/4.5/5s.
* The speed at which the web is fired has been increased. The web will now deploy immediately if fired at her feet.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1434 (April 4, 2013)**

* **Drain Life**

* Fixed issues with Arachne detaching from enemy.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1350 (February 20, 2013)**

* **Drain Life**

* Physical power contribution has been added to this ability, increasing by 5% of your physical power per tick.

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

* **Drain Life**

* Healing per tick no longer scales with additional stats.

* **Tangled Web**

* Slow by 20/25/30/35/40% for 7 seconds.

* **Cocoon**

* Stuns for 1s at all ranks.

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

* **Tangled Web**

* Base slow has been increased:

* Old - 10/15/20/25/30%
* New - 24/28/32/36/40%

* Base lifetime has been changed:

* Old - 5s
* New - 3/4/5/6/7s

**SMITE Closed Beta Version 0.1.1113.1 (October 18, 2012)**

* **Broodlings**

* Broodling sacs no longer detect enemy wards.

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

* **Poison Claws**

* Base damage increased from 5 to 8.
* Physical power contribution increased from 10% to 15%.

* **Drain Life**

* Arachne no longer falls off of enemies that jump when Arachne attaches.

**SMITE Closed Beta Version 0.1.975.1 (July 20, 2012)**

* **Drain Life**

* Arachne no longer gets stuck in place when using Drain Life on enemies that are performing their own movement abilities.

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

* **Broodlings**

* The base damage the spiders do has been reduced from 25/35/45/55/65 to 20/30/40/50/60. Go ahead and consider this one a nerf.

* **Drain Life**

* The physical power contribution was intended to be 15% but was actually configured at 25%. This ability has now been properly set to 15%. Don’t consider this a nerf as much as “we fixed the glitch.”

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

* **Drain Life**

* Description has been changed to indicate the silence on her enemies.

**SMITE Closed Beta Version 0.1.907.0 (June 7, 2012)**

* **Cocoon**

* Has been changed to deal physical damage.
* Now scales off 50% of her physical power.

## Replaced abilities

  Ability Type: Melee Target
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  Damage per Attack: 20/30/40/50/60 (+17% of your Physical Power)
  Broodlings Lifetime: 10s
  Ability Type: Ground Target
  Cooldown: 15/14/13/12/11 seconds
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  Duration: 2/2.25/2.5/2.75/3s
  Cost: 65/70/75/80/85 mana
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  Ability Type: Ground Target
  Cost: 70/75/80/85/90 mana
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Breaking the web also spawns Broodlings, which deal damage to nearby enemies. Arachne can only have 2 Webs active at a time. The Web(s) has a lifetime of 240s.
  Slow: 4/4.5/5/5.5/6s at 25%
  Broodlings: 2
  Ability Type: Web
  Cooldown: 18 seconds
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  Damage: 100/150/200/250/300 (+50% of your Physical Power)
  Ability Type: Projectile
  Cost: 75 mana
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