SMITE - God Reveal | Bake Kujira, Yokai of Despair 

We need more "nonhuman" characters like this. I still hope for Aten The Solar Disk someday but this is awesome too.

This is my type of character. He looks simple and effective with just being in the enemies way and being disruptive.

One of my favorite Yokai. He has a wonderful design and emits an eerie aura. They should have included the “otherworldly “ birds and marine life that accompany his presence. That could have added some ranged attacks.

What I really love about this is how they decided to add a yokai that's verily shrouded in mystery (like, I think there's only one or two stories surrounding Bake-Kujira that's accessible or at least known). I only knew about this yokai due to the amount of research I was doing a few years ago... and now I get to see him in a game~!

I expected him to be slightly larger but in that form is probably more balanced. I quite like his abilities especially auto attack passive but I wish sonic wave have reveal effect like camazotz's 1. Also it would be nice if ult had animation with whale jumping like on lore video and then activating aoe effect.

I haven’t heard played this game in 5 years. This god makes me want to play.

i’m going to school in order to get a degree in marine biology with the intention of hopefully studying mammalogy at some point and ever since i heard about bake kujira, it inspired me to get an entire tattoo piece on my back resembling the yokai of despair. haven’t played smite in over nearly 2 years but this announcement might very well bring me back.

I’m excited to see the type of skins this guy could have. Eldritch monsters and a mosasaur skin would be awesome.

His kit synergizes well with each other, but his ult needs a little work imo. Not being cc immune really hurts his team fight, but having cc immunity on a 3 second ult like that would be busted, so maybe he could use some small amount of mitigations to compensate. Also watching this video confirms that his time dilation doesn't work like olorun field and projectiles still fire at the same speed even if they are shot slower.

I’m absolutely in love with this design

I hope this means more Yokai will be added

I really need to start playing this again 👌

Great design, wish his abilities weren’t so boring 😭

Very interesting kit. Love initiators that shove enemies into your team. Very nice flanker.

Would like to see a Mosasaurus skin for Bake-Kujira.

Best lore section in a while loved the art

Looks really fun to play.

nice seeing the old style of animation for trailers coming back

He’s gonna be slept on 😂 y’all tripping if you think he’s gonna be boring!

Looks like another hit, can’t wait to play

Man League needs more character designs like these

Looking forward to playing him. =)

I feel your pain gojira..

Damn Smite adding Special Grade Curses to the God pool now.

I love how the art style of the lore reflect the gods culture

I don't play smite but since they've done all the gods everyone knows it is so cool to see the niche picks they have to choose

does the indicator above its icon serve any purpose? or is it there just because every other god has one?

Playing them with olorun could get craaazzy. The ult synergy

wailord used splash, super effective

I love this just outa no where one of my favorite spirits ever gets added to a game i might start playing this over league....

Great lore narration.

I hope this means we'll have even more legends that aren't human-shaped. Doesn't necessarily have to be from Japan. Hell, I'd love to see something more from Lovecraft works.

Oh wow another new guardian!

I don’t think I heard anything about his ancient history before but it is interesting 😊

I like the ult. It's gonna be pretty annoying in a large fight.

Don't even play the game anymore but man I love the reveals

God dam I’m going to come back and start playing smite again. These new gods and designs look so cool

Literally the coolest character in the game. by far.

Nurarihyon should be your next Japanese god reveal. “Night Parade of 100 Demons” would be such a cool idea for an ultimate ability.

His ult is so pretty. I wish it healed too.

i love the animal like characters, dragons, wryms the sorts!

Sweet, my favorite yokai!

Oh GOOD, the new episode of “Bake The Grappler” is out!

I wanna see what happens if bake and olorun ult at same time.

Bakekujira was one of my mains in another Moba hahahaha this made me interested.

okay that does look pretty cool

Welp time to start playing Smite.

hopefully 2024 comes out with gods more often!

Gojira: Flying Whales Waters of chaos have invaded all space The flood on Earth again, I have to find the whales That once did guide us to dry lands of life I won't despair, I'll break this dark around Under heavy sea I'll search the flight of whales Beneath the seas, I searched and had a different view Of us on Earth, the sinking ship of men But it's beyond the stars, I found the place where They were, and they finally came to light Over the winds They dwell in light Like the arrow in the sky I found myself on higher grounds from up here For I see them all the ways in flight Now I can see the whales Looming out of the dark Like arrows in the sky I can't believe my eyes But it's true Huge tunnel ends in light Like banks of clouds, they gather See massive shape of flesh Swimming giants in the clear The mightiest comes to me I'm on the wing, wide open They teach me how to fly Slowly moving in the air So much told with no words at all Powerful presence for only speech Breath Over the winds They dwell in light Fly

Embarking on a supernatural journey with Bake Kujira, the Ghost-Whale in Smite! 🐋✨ Excited for the God reveal and all the mystical adventures it promises.

how long have i been away from smite for them to make a freaking Whalelfall character!

Looks very easy to play, i love the design and colors are biautiful big up to everyone who work on that

Animations could definitely be better here like i wish he had some fog beneath him instead of him just straight up flying and some of the sounds could be better also

Still wanting a Godzilla crossover, even have some ideas for it, but a Whale kaiju is nice too, lol.

love the skill set they made for him

Adept finally got her video game appearance

He looks really fun.

Man I thought we were going to get Jormungandur 2.0 and see a massive whale pop up that you can see from across the map

I always find it really funny when there's an absolutely gargantuan god introduced like Cthulhu or Tiamat and then in the actual game they're like the size of a horse. Like not small surely but certainly not big. (speaking of it would be really cool to see more gods in the great old one pantheon, namely Nyarlathotep or Hastur.)

I need to see Erzulie Dantor and Erzulie Freda

All I know is that Bake reminds me of Bakemon, and Kujira sounds like Gojira combined with Hideo Kojima.

Looks really fun!

He should breach like whales do when he ults. Theres not enough dynamic movement in his animations to convey the gravitas his art/design and actual whales have lol. Otherwise really happy with this god. Please keep adding monsters and original designs!

Whale may be the reason I get back on smite

Is this being added in smite 2 as well?

Id love to see more yokai for japanese gods in smite 2 yokai like Yama-Uba (a japanese ice witch), a tengu- like god (tengu are forest demons) and a Kama-Itachi yokai (a weasel spirit that is said to be the explaination for wind burns)

Hear me out now we can have an Appa skin! With a special of the avatar gang riding his back!

i dont even play this game, but this character really caught my eye

I don't think this god will really stick as a favorite among gaurdian players, but I do love how the audio drowns when you get hit by his ulti

“Bake Kujira imbues his body with cursed energy.” YOU ARE MY SPECIAL

I will say, smite absolutely dumpsters all over league when adding new charaters. What a unique looking god.

Ok, official Payakan skin when!?

Idk about the ult

Every time she says “cursed energy” my brain goes “JUJUTSU KAISEN! DOMAIN EXPANSION!”

He arrives on my Birthday, awesome

That’s great I hope next year Balor king of the Formorians becomes a playable god representing the Celtic pantheon.

Rowe what were you doing on guan yu

do Nurarihyon next please 🙏🏾

NOW I CAN SEE THE WHALES, LIKE ARROWS IN THE SKY!!!

They should do Honengyo next. It's the yokai who is similar to Godzilla.

We need more assassins man

I wish he came out before charon so he could’ve had the big wave ult would’ve been cool on a whale

Looks like we've got a hot one for Gaijin Goombah!

Out of all the possible characters…this was a surprising choice! Tho i do not complain!

the best part is that he's a perfect fit for the missing member of the avatar team: APPA!

I am sold

Oh look at those abilities! They added Magikarp!! 😆

should have added a execute passive to him when he eats enemies at 10% hp 😋

I always wanted Cabrakan could move while using his 3. Now I could kind of do that with this god 😂

I want see how they will make the Liviathan or Behemot XD

Waiting for certain kind of artists to draw him in certain kind of way.

the ult should be wave all around not just one side

This is interesting. A tank more concerned with debuffing the enemy than healing or buffing allies.

Dude splashes so hard it does damage.

Am I understanding correctly that the ult gives the opponent lag?

Hell of a solo lane

I think you must release skin for this.. I recomended 'appa' from avatar thats womuld be awesome

Now we need a Magikarp skin for Bake-Kujira

HE INFUSES HIS BASIC ATTACK WITH WHAT!!! 1:52

Yay! I'm a big yokai fan!