SMITE: What Went Wrong With Baba Yaga? 

Daniel Fraiz lmao

@@Silent-ig9kb tfw you ult and it won't let you throw the god damn fireballs.... smh

You can cancle her ult actually with right clicking, if i am not wrong. So.. just be smart :)

Szuna Loneheart yeah same, I use it to get a quick shield and a knockback in scary situations and then cancel it and use my 3 to get away

Yet Persophone one of the recent gods can ult and kill you across the map... while she's dead.

what's rng?

@@guilhermeoliveira2048 random number generation

Guilherme Oliveira random number generation. A good example in smite is crit chance, where you have a chance to get 5 crits in a row or none at all for 10 basic attacks. It’s basically luck/randomness, which isn’t exactly good when you want to play a skill-based game.

Thats something i also thought. They remove randomness to release a random god

Hirez also reverted a price reduction on the oracle chalice (ward) from 300 back to 400 some time ago, stating the game felt "too safe". Now we all get free wards from the start.

Now... THAT is kinda interesting xD

I had something similar happen in the same game where my two bugged! I couldn't use my two, but I could fire all my bolts when in cabin, then when I popped out I got to fire a second round as baba yaga! It was a funny way to make up for the bugged two

I had that bug happen to me 2 games in a row

Joe same for me until i ulted and had to hold down the fire button then spam the fire button. same thing with her potions, her potions kept switching from red blue then white but wouldn’t fire and i couldn’t even consume the potions

You know whats fun? Coming out of a bugged ult and not being able to fire any abilities and only being able to use basic attacks :)

That would be unclear because of the visuals

Interesting, but possibly too strong. Not sure. I definitely like it better than the current iteration though.

I just think the shapes shouldn't be that random the fact that I can play a whole game and get the Y once and the L more than 75% of the time and the oval is trash lol

Lispy Queer the oval is actually very good depending on which effect it gives if it’s an oval silence then it is actually really good because you can pretty much trap someone if there in the middle and if you throw it in a team fight it covers allot of area and silence creates allot of disruption. The oval slow is also alright.

I like the oval the most, but it feels really bad right now because it doesn't hit exactly in front of Baba, as opposed to every other shape of the 1. Making it very easy to miss. Also, 15% on return hit is terrible, for how slow the Oval is, it should be rewarding if you manage to hit something more than once with it. I like the randomness aspect, at least in the 1, the problem to me is more than the effects aren't impactful at all. Even the silence field is just a small area with no teamfight usage. Maybe if they lasted 1 more second. And ofc, as Duke said, the passive meter is not visible in a teamfight. They can double the size of the "next shape" icon, even over the top of the house icon.

I hate that too

When Gilgamesh says so, its truth! na jk she really looks alright, her house is the coolest. but well overall eh

Agreed

It wouldve been better if the house just fights.

Yeah as I said in another post, this character seems to be designed to be only fun to play, in a game where players goes straight for the safer pick to get easy wins. You play her in pursue of having a fun game and get destroyed by tryharders in casual. How great fun.

They could just make the O rectangular (narrow), so that way it would at least be more precise to aim. []

Define Reality yeah or make the “O” narrow like “0” and instead of it being a line drawn in a circle shape. It could feel the area of and “0” similar to Agni’s 2 to make the ability cover a zone to make some of the buffs more effectively acquired.

@@xVlProdigylVx I don't think it'd be implemented that way due to the fact that it's ground AOE would differ too much from the rest of her shapes. And having a wide ground AOE might make that shape outright better than the rest overall, instead of having a situational niche like the rest do.

that's the problem with her, you don't only live once you live on 15 different occasions throughout the game, because you died the other 14.

omg that sounds 100% like a Low-Rez move. I bet you're right :D

Agreed! Also I doubt it's worth waiting for the perfect potion that deals the most optimized dmg+slow and stuff. Just pop the potion on the anubis twice and watch his health fall by half. That's the fun of it lol

Duke sloth like a little girl lol yoga is bad but really that’s a problem for him 😂😂

*laughs in Chronos*

griffith did nothing wrong his meaning is you can have full attack items and still do no damage. I did book of Thoth, purple boots, divine ruin, warlocks, Charon coin, and soul reaver and was still hitting em with a wet pool noodle

Where as zhong can go for only 2 damage items and still hit harder

griffith did nothing wrong he’s saying that some gods you can put only defense items on and they will still hurt more then a god that goes a full damage build.

You have a sheep pfp therefore anything you say is invalid.

A fellow HxH fan I see

@@rozkie first comes rock

i think they should combine effects in two versions, it's can be like the field gives movement speed AND protections at the same time or slows enemies AND silences. Or maybe combining the buff and debuff into ones, like speed/slow and def/silence, idk

I like the oval one but I agree that the disarm would help but the speed buff has helped me alot but the protections don't feel like they do anything.

I would argue that the speed buff often works similar to a he bo scroll (UNLESS IT'S THE FKN OVAL) but I agree that the protection buff is really kinda pointless cause no one's ever fighting within that tiny strip

@@webuser-webloser I was thinking that too but it might just be too strong. You'd have the He Bo 2 in a damaging ability (for slow+speed), or an actual Terra ult in an area.

A disarm would be amazing on her, particularly if she’s getting dove on by an AA assassin

I mean, apart from Incon who praises her support, every streamer i follow has said she's the worst god release in a long time and basically worthless in conquest.

Zefo No I only watch duke and a few other creators. My friends are the main supporters who praise her arena ability. Guess I need new friends

Big jaws

He's biting more than he can chew

I was absolutely sure he was playing against bots, then I noticed the names, and now I'm confused. 7:05

Haven't heard of that bug before, but that might be related to lag, maybe

So. Idk if its just cuz I'm just better on console but I've played her both on console and pc I've never had any problem with her potions on console in fact I'm like a billion times better with her on console then I am on pc. I also have never encountered the ultimate bug either yet. Perhaps the RNG gods just love me idk

Theres a bug with her 3 but its rare you get stuck in your cauldron and cant yae abilities all game

@@MrMishaPanda that not a bug with the 2 that a bug do to lag

@@sixsam154 thats not lag... lag doesnt make you a cauldron the whole game

Nick I like her two but your right you ult and the entire Enemy team it like giant house fire all your ults at once and I’m like oh no

I completely agree I love her she's not broken but the ult needs some work honestly I'm a console player and I really don't understand why people don't like the oval and the twos hard to understand and learn at first but as you play more you realize what it to use it for

To go farther the oval isn't great it's not hard to hit you just have to put the time in to get use to it's timing I'm guessing a lot of the comments are people who have only played 1 or 2 games with her and didn't like it

And also I understand this video is mainly about playing on pc but on a controller her controls are very comfortable for me

Maybe make all her 1's projectiles a bit thicker and i agree the ults projectiles and fire rate need to be sped up but instead of a bigger shield maybe some mitigation aswell, on top of the current shield she already has

I completely agree. The 1 isn’t a big deal for me either. She’s fun and I’m a casual player, I’m satisfied with Baba Yaga. Plus the chaos of the RNG thematically makes a lot of sense, like her throwing together random stuff she has on hand to make a deadly potion. I like it.

I agree. A narrow rectangle with distinct angles (like her other shapes). Have the 2 projectiles converge out in the middle. []

I love this idea. The issue is it’s not really rng and hi Rez wants her to be more rng for some ungodly reason.

Yeah but its because its really more of a basic attack enhancer rather than an actual ability

you can simply press the ability twice i'm pretty sure

Sure but some people play on instacast, so they can't preview the ability and it would be awkward to ask them to change that. Other than that I completely agree that it's not hard at all to look at her passive and everyone should be able to do so quickly

Sure, but just because it was the best they could do in that time doesn't mean people have to like it.

@@blazeroblox56 works both ways tho. People need to take it in consideration when looking at how she turned out

What's complex about it

that's objectively false. The Morrigan is the most complex god they've ever made due to her literally braking games when she ults. She has to be constantly removed from use due to her ulting the game to death

@@fruitloopdingis That's not complex though in the way he means. That's mechanically difficult to keep bug-free. Her kit is extremely simple and barebones otherwise, she's just a magic based stun burst, a weaker version of pre-nerf Loki. Invisibility, ranged debuff, close range stun. Nothing special compared to other gods of her release time. Her ult is complex only because it requires you to know the kit of who you're turning into and knowing when to time that for maximum effect. It isn't that complex a gameplay mechanic to coop a double Ares ult or even a double Poseidon ult, for example. It's difficult for the first few times you play her, and then you very quickly pick up a short priority list of who you're going to be shifting into. Baba Yaga has complicated mechanics on 3/4 of her kit, and her passive is a mechanic all its own. Having to monitor what shape and effect your 1 will be, knowing the effect of each ingredient in her 2 and optimizing your usage of the mixes she makes, making sure you time the damage mitigation of her 3 to actually escape bad hits, and making the best use of her house's stacking passive. BY's problem rn is her damage and progression. That is complex mechanics. Morrigan is not mechanically complicated, not anymore compared to the gods we get these days, and she should have lost her "Hard" rating a long time ago. Her only saving grace was stealth, and stealth gods are no longer untouchable with mechanics like Heimdallr and Camazotz floating around.

Also, speeding up on her ult shots animation would make her (along with the range imcrease u suggested) have a decently good ult

I go into ult and just get shredded my crit doesn’t feel good against hunters I litterally just don’t use it

this would be great on her, that or just remove the oval and replace it with a t. which there is code for because it happened to me in the PTR but only once. idk if it glitched and made a t instead of a y, but the t was great.

Something like Kali 2 (even if it isn't moveable) would be cool :)

Yeah if it like went straight then diverged into two curves coming back or something similar that could be dope

All 5 of the pandavas are pretty cool tbh

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Exactly, If you turn like 15° to like the left or the right it basically just becomes a slightly curved line, the oval is fine people.

I feel like halving her already mediocre 1 is pretty extreme. Maybe have each projectile do 75% instead.

Ouch

Leasts someone gets what she is instead of the people who wanted another burst mage. All you need to do is build right and actually hit your abilities and know when to ult and not to ult. Her difficulty shouldn't be easy or average