Chronos

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**~ GODS LIST ~**

***"Control time to hinder enemies or even cheat death itself."***

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

## Lore

Existence is measured in age. How many years has a mortal lived? What was the construction date of the Parthenon? When were the cosmos formed? Time begins at birth, at creation. But, inevitably, time for all things comes to an end.

Except, of course, time itself.

Bearer of the clock of eternity, rimmed by signs of the Zodiac, the Keeper of Time, Chronos, counts every tick of the second hand, preventing interference with that essential forward momentum.

If he knows who or when the eternal clock was wound, Chronos does not tell, but upon the first stroke, he came to be. Emptiness was the ocean, then, and his only companion was Ananke, Queen of Fate. Together, their powers divided the vastness into heaven and earth and sea and sky. Thereafter, Chronos became an observer, the watchman of infinity.

Patient to a fault, Chronos knows no urgency. He does not fear pain, or war, or death, for he is time itself and will outlast all. For this reason, his presence on the field of battle is alarming. This war between Gods must portend a conclusion so dire as to threaten the very existence of time. Perhaps, all the Gods should begin counting the seconds of the eternal clock. There may be few of them remaining.

## Trivia

### General

* One of Chronos' phoenix kill quotes, ▶️*"In time even stars burn out!"*, is a reference to the same quote from the novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
* Two of Chronos' taunts, ▶️*"Time brings all things to pass!"* and ▶️*"Time brings all things to pass, even you!"*, is a reference to the Ancient Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound which was written by the Ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus.
* One of Chronos' taunts, ▶️*"The two most powerful warriors are peace and time!"*, is a reference to a quote made by the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.
* One of Chronos' jokes, ▶️*"Time is like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff."* is a reference to the British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who.
* One of Chronos' jokes, ▶️*"Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives."*, is a direct reference to the intro of the American soap opera Days of our Lives.
* Chronos, along with Freya, Olorun and Sol are currently the only mages that are ADCs.
* Chronos was the first playabe god in the game to have a Ramp-Up CC.
* Chronos' dance emote is based on The Time Warp.

### God Skins

* **Timelord**

* The name of this skin could be a reference to the British television series Doctor Who.
* Curiously, this skin and Gatekeeper Janus share a similar color scheme.

* **Fallen Lord**

* The original concept for this skin was created by Sciamano240 as an entry that won SMITE's 2nd Birthday's Skin Contest.
* His joke ▶️ "I was time traveling way before that pathetic guy with the Ph.D." is a reference to Doctor Who.
* The actor who voiced this skin, Alan Ayo, also voiced Laughing Skull Bakasura.

* **Cultus**

* The actor who voiced this skin, Austin Lee Matthews, also voiced Freedom Retriever Anubis, Shadow Step Mercury, Galaxy Meverick Ne Zha and Infernal Omen Tsukuyomi.

* **Teferi**

* This skin was a cross promotion between Hi-Rez Studios/Titan Forge Games and Wizards of the Coast to promote Magic: The Gathering.
* This skin shares its theme with Vivien Reid Artemis, Karn Atlas, Garruk Chaac, Nissa Revane Eset, The Wandering Emperor Mulan, Liliana Vess Nu Wa, Chandra Nalaar Pele, Atraxa Thanatos, Nicol Bolas Tiamat and Jace Beleren Yu Huang.

* **Super Chronos 64**

* This skin is a reference to the Nintendo 64.
* The clouds in this skin's card art resemble the ones that appear in the Super Mario series.
* The actor who voiced this skin, Austin Tindle, also voiced Hou Yi and Iron Crow Hou Yi.
* His line for when he uses his ultimate, Rewind, ▶️*"I'll be back!"* and his line for placing a ward, ▶️*"I'll be back... for you!"* are references to the movie Terminator.

* Chaac and Bizzy B Cupid also make reference to this movie.

* This skin's directed taunt towards Janus, ▶️*"You weren't thinking with portals!"*, is a reference to the puzzle videogame Portal.

* **Father Time**

* This skin is based on the concept of the anthropomorphized depiction of time.
* The actor who did the voice for this skin, J. Michael Tatum, also voiced Dragon Knight/Dragon Templar Ao Kuang, Fernando Ares, Chaacolate Chaac, Lord Slashington III Fenrir, Hercules, Hug Bug Khepri and Sun Wu Xing Sun Wukong.

* **NRG**

* Both Default Chronos and this skin were voiced by Stan Robak.

* **Illuminator**

* This skin shares its theme with Infinite Duality Agni, Infinite Seer Ah Puch, Illuminator Baron Samedi, Infinite Overseer Cerberus, Infinite Oracle Morgan Le Fay, Infinite Ruler Olorun, Infinite Wave Poseidon, Infinite Shift Sun Wukong and Infinite Avatar Vamana.

## Skins

* Default
* Time Lord
* Fallen Lord
* Cultus
* Teferi
* Super Chronos 64
* Father Time
* NRG
* Illuminator
* 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 could only be obtained from certain Treasure Chests, or via direct purchase.  This skin was part of the Talons of Tyranny event.

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  This skin comes with custom character effects and ability animations.  This skin was part of the Magic: The Gathering Event.  This skin could 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 2015 event.  Unlocking the skin during the Odyssey 2015 would also give you the Gears avatar.  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.

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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 10.13.7832.2 (December 12, 2023)**

* **General**

* Increased Base Attack Speed from 1 to 1.05

* **Accelerate**

* Decreased Cooldown from 15s to 14s

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

* **Accelerate**

* Decreased Section I Heal from 1.5% Max Health Per Second to 1% Max Health Per Second

**SMITE Version 9.11.7229.4 (November 15, 2022)**

* **Accelerate**

* Increased the attack speed effect of this from 15/20/25/30/35% to 25/27.5/30/32.5/35%
* Increased the effect of Section 3 from an increase of 25% Magical Power to an increase of 35%

* **Stop Time**

* Increased Base Damage from 50/70/90/110/130 to 50/75/100/125/150

* This ability his all targets twice, so from 100/140/180/220/260 to 100/150/200/250/300

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

* **Time Lord**

* Decreased time per stack from 2m to 1.5m
* Buffed to 125 at 37.5m

**SMITE Version 8.1.6381.5 (January 26, 2021)**

* **General**

* Increased Attack Speed per level from 0.8% to 1.5%.

* **Time Rift**

* Increased Scaling from 40% to 45%. (80% to 90%)

**SMITE Version 7.6.6084.2 (June 16, 2020)**

* **General**

* Increased basic attack projectile speed from 100 to 110.

* **Accelerate**

* Increased initial Movement Speed from 15% to 20%.

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

* **Accelerate**

* Decreased initial Movement Speed from 25% to 15%.

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

* **General**

* Increase Base Health from 370 to 400.
* Increased Per Level Health from 70 to 75.

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

* **Stop Time**

* Changed Slow to Stun to a new CC term, Ramp to Stun. The ramp up to the stun is considered a stun for all CC immunity purposes and if it is cleansed it will result in the full stun not applying.

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

* **General**

* Increased Basic Attack Power from 35 to 40.

* **Time Lord**

* Increased Magical Power per Stack from 3 to 5 (75 to 125 at 50 Minutes).

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

* **General**

* Now all mages have magic prot scalings of .9 per level.

**SMITE Version 4.18.4332 (September 26, 2017)**

* **General**

* Fixed an issue where Chronos' Basic Attacks had a larger hitbox than intended.

**SMITE Version 4.16.4284 (August 30, 2017)**

* **Accelerate**

* Fixed Chronos' Accelerate description error.

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

* **Time Rift**

* Decreased Magical Power scaling from ~~85%~~ → 80%.

* **Accelerate**

* Decreased Section IV Basic Attack Damage buff from ~~45%~~ → 35%.

**SMITE Version 4.13.4202 (July 18, 2017)**

* **New Passive - Time Lord**

* All parts of “Wheel of Time” have been relocated to the “Accelerate” Ability
* Chronos becomes empowered as time flows around him. Every 2 minutes he gains a Stack that increases his Magical Power. Stacks up to 25 times, Stacks are permanent.

* Magical Power per Stack: 3

* **Accelerate**

* Description changed to include all details of the Wheel of Time.
* This Ability still functions exactly the same as it did before 4.13.

**SMITE Version 4.8.4062.1 (May 9, 2017)**

* **Stop Time**

* Increased Base Damage from ~~40/60/80/100/120~~ → 50/70/90/110/130.

* **Rewind**

* Decreased Cooldown from ~~120/110/100/90/80s~~ → 100/95/90/85/80s.

**SMITE Version 4.2.3906 (February 14, 2017)**

* **Wheel of Time**

* Increased Magical Power of Section III buff from ~~20%~~ → 25%.
* Increased Basic Attack Power of Section IV buff from ~~35%~~ → 45%.

* **Accelerate**

* Increased Movement Speed from ~~20% initial + 4/8/12/16/20%~~ → 25% + 12/14/16/18/20%.

* **Stop Time**

* Increased damage from ~~30/50/70/90/110~~ → 40/60/80/100/120.

**SMITE Version 4.1.3882 (February 1, 2017)**

* **General**

* Increased Base Movement Speed from ~~355~~ → 360.

* **Accelerate**

* No longer provides Immunity to Basic Attack Movement Penalty.
* Cooldown decreased from ~~17s~~ → 15s.

**SMITE Version 2.10.2868 (July 21, 2015)**

* **Rewind**

* Fixed FX showing up enormous to players at a distance.

**SMITE Version 2.8.2806 (June 16, 2015)**

* **General**

* Fixed clipping issue when using Dance emote in lobby.

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

* **Accelerate**

* Fixed Lotus Crown Passive not working when Section 1 is activated.

**SMITE Version 2.0.2573.3 (February 11, 2015)**

* **Stop Time**

* Stop Time now reduces attack speed by 20% while slowing.
* Stop Time can no longer be cleansed by slow immunity, and is considered a Stun for the purposes of CC removal.
* Cooldown increased from 16/15/14/13/12 to 18/17/16/15/14.

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

* **Wheel of Time**

* Section II Mana refund increased from 75% to 100%.

* **Accelerate**

* Mana cost reduced from 70/75/80/85/90 to 60/65/70/75/80.

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

* **Rewind**

* Fixed an interaction issue with this ability and Portal.

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

* **Accelerate**

* Now properly updates the stats UI for all quadrants.

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

* **General**

* Improved visual presentation of rewind ball (smoothed client simulation).

**SMITE Version 1.0.2070 (April 8, 2014)**

* **General**

* Fixed an issue that could cause Chronos to die and be stuck in an infinite death loop.

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

* **Rewind**

* When using Blink or Teleport, Chronos will now regain the health and mana values from 8s ago.

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

* **Stop Time**

* The slow-to-stop effect will no longer be applied to targets that are immune to slows at the time of application.

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

* **Accelerate**

* Recovery time reduced from 0.3 to 0.1.

* **Stop Time**

* Recovery time reduced from 0.2 to 0.1.

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

* **Accelerate**

* Increased cooldown from 15s to 17s.
* Decreased attack speed bonus from 20/25/30/35/40 to 15/20/25/30/35.

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

* **Wheel of Time**

* The additional benefits granted by Wheel of Time when Accelerate is activated now last 7 seconds to match the duration of Accelerate.

* **Accelerate**

* Over the weekend, fixed an issue where sometimes he would deal too much damage with his basic attack when selecting the IV quadrant.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1831.1 (November 7, 2013)**

* **Accelerate**

* The duration of this ability has been reduced from 8s to 7s.

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

* **General**

* Ground targeters modified.

* **Accelerate**

* The additional movement speed gained over time has been reduced from 10/15/20/25/30% to 4/8/12/16/20%.

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

* **Rewind**

* Improved FX on build up.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1705 (August 27, 2013)**

* **Rewind**

* You can no longer cancel this ability during its build up time.

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1616.2 (July 12, 2013)**

* **Wheel of Time**

* Heal 1.5% of his maximum health per second.

* **Accelerate**

* This ability now updates the movement speed on the hud.
* This ability now gives 20% movement speed when activated for 8s in addition to the movement speed increase over time

**SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1616.1 (July 10, 2013)**

* Chronos has been added to the game.

## Replaced abilities

  Section I: Heal 1.5% Max Health per Second
  Section III: +25% Magical Power
  Ability Type: Buff
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