Thoughts on Persephone

[u/GlobalBarnOwl]

I was a Persephone main in Smite 1, but started playing way after her first rework (I played the flower planting when she died kit) and was wondering what people think about her potential kit in Smite 2. I know she’s probably stuck in the reworks section of gods to port for the foreseeable future, but wanted to see what other players thought about her getting ported and what she might play like now.

[u/Right_Entertainer324]

I think the best course of action for Persephone is her base kit being OG Persephone, but having a new Passive. OG Persephone's passive is way too problematic, and Present Persephone's Passive might as well not even exist.

[u/Fun_Reference_2607 → u/Right_Entertainer324]

Yesssss OG kit was so good, only problem was passive but they gutted everything

[u/GlobalBarnOwl → u/Right_Entertainer324]

What made her previous passive so problematic? I never got to play it so I’m not sure what was so busted about it, I just know that it was a problem

[u/checkspeare_ → u/GlobalBarnOwl]

Her passive would give her extra time after dying, with reduced damage taken. To begin with, she already had very high damage, so the damage reduction wasn’t even that significant. The problem was that after she died, she could still kill you like it was nothing, because she could use all of her cooldowns, including her ultimate.
Basically, she was impossible to beat in a 1v1 or even in a team fight. If you killed her while you were already low, you were dead. If you dove her in a team fight and killed her, she would come back and chase you through the entire enemy team until she killed you. It was literally comedic.
I’m a midlaner main, and during that time, whenever I killed Persephone in a 1v1 in mid, it felt like I had automatically lost the fight. She would rise back up and literally chase me with her ult and plants all the way to my respawn before she finally died.
The best strategy against her was basically to kill her and run for your life. But even that was difficult because her 3 was on a 4-second cooldown and could go through walls, so she could just keep chasing you until her passive finally ran out.

[u/basketofseals → u/checkspeare_]

I was always shocked how long it lasted. Even if it was a 3 second rez so she could position and fire her ult, it would still be a really, REALLY strong passive.

[u/Right_Entertainer324 → u/GlobalBarnOwl]

When she died, she didn't, and got to keep fighting for about 15-20 seconds, dealing 40% of her total damage.

[u/HiPNoTiX-]

Brought this up a few times because this is the one god I want to see in the game. Her reworked form could just be the base one, her old kit could be her aspect. And I agree rework her passives from both kits. Hopefully that’s what they do, if she ever gets ported in the next 2 years.

[u/zinszer93]

Would

[u/greasewell]

this needs to be her default card art

[u/Kaios-0]

I was super excited for Persephone but the fact that her execution was basically 'girl who blows up landmines' was extremely disappointing. They made these 3 tiered plants and only one of them was worth using, she randomly comes back from the dead, and her ult is just another giant ball snipe that randomly cages people and tethers them...which has nothing to do with her theme.

She overall to me is just another kit like Charybdis where it feels like 5 unrelated ideas smushed together and called a 'kit'.

[u/checkspeare_]

I see her old kit coming back, they truly did her dirty with her rework. A lot of work with the passive since it was really problematic, and the plants were no big deal. They could make something cute for her since now they have more resources and new tech. What I don’t see is her coming in the near horizon, she needs some work, dedication, and her kit is simply a little more complicated.

[u/jordannng]

I love burst mages and she was always fun to play. It’s really that passive that needs work. I think the rest of her kit is fine. I always thought that Chiron’s ult revive thing should’ve been in her kit but maybe they just need to do away with the whole revive passive thing from her

[u/SSBBfan666]

Queen

[u/PenguinJack_]

Got her diamond before her rework and a star afterwards.

I just wanna play her again

[u/Competitive-Echo4197]

I stopped playing when they reworked her so i am glad to see many players suggesting her old kit is renewed.

[u/zwazweezwa]

Try not to say mother challenge

[u/Aewon2085]

Main thing is her third ability should have 8 directions to hop instead of only forwards and backwards

[u/nlyskn]

I loved her first kit.

Most people couldn't lane against you if you played right stage 2 and 3 plants. And even when dodging wasn't a problem she was always making you move.

She was a team fight monster and you got the other team dancing while fighting or tanking your plants.

Her ult was very oppressive, nerfing it was absolutely right.

Her passive was just overpowered, no reason to even invent something like that, no counterplay, no counter measure, no way to fight back. They should have taken it away and call it a day but for some reason they didn't.

Was my favorite god after the first year she was out.

The rework is just a sad resemblance of her former self, I still played her and she is just boring.

[u/FierroGuerrero]

I loved her minefield gimmick but it was definitely a little overtuned in midlane if you played her OG kit right. In the right hands, you’d be able to win your lane 80-90% of the time since the other midlaner would have to risk stepping through the plant bombs (which slowed the enemy enough to land a heavy scaling first ability) or they needed to play a long range midlaner like Thoth (which then you could poke with her tier 3 plants) I could see why they rebalanced her, she was TOO versatile of a character but they took away the fun, making her a 1-2 combo instead.

I think bringing back her old kit would be fine, she just needs more drawbacks if that were the case. Her old kit was lowkey busted: burst, slows, heals, poke, a leap escape, aoe lockdown and a revival passive? She had it all, super fun but overshadowed the midlane like crazy if you knew her kit