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Janus
SkinArt Janus Default
Summary
Title: God of Portals and Transitions
Pantheon: NewUI Pantheon Roman Roman
Type: Ranged,Magical
Class: NewUI Class Mage Mage
Pros: High Mobility, High Area Damage
Difficulty: Average
Release date: May 28, 2014
Favor: 5,500 Favor
Gems: 200 Gems
Voicelines: Janus voicelines
Voice actor: Sean Hennigan
Stats
Health: 560 (+74)
Mana: 350 (+58)
Speed: 360 (+0)
Range: 55 (+0)
Attack/Sec: 1 (+0.8%)
Basic Attack
Damage: 34 (+ 1.45)
+ 20% of Magical Power
Progression: None
Protection
Physical: 14 (+3)
Magical: 30 (+1.6)
Regen
HP5: 6 (+0.45)
MP5: 5 (+0.45)
*Numbers in parentheses are the amount gained at each level

"Wield the power of space and time, tear through the unstable fabric of reality."

Janus is one of the playable Gods in SMITE.

Lore[ | ]

Many fear change. Venturing into the unknown. Deviating from a path of safety and certainty into something unexpected. But life is change; a journey through doorways both physical and emotional, with every moment a passage to something new, and it is Janus, God of Portals and Transitions that governs this.

Bearing two faces, Janus is ever looking to the future and to the past, knowing both but controlling neither. He is only the in-between, found in the changing of seasons, at the birth of a child, at the entrances to the temple and the tavern. For this reason the Romans named the first month after him: January – a portal between the old year and the new.

Yet the Roman emperors also attribute a strange tradition to Janus. At each end of his temple stand massive doors. In times of peace, these doors are closed, but in times of war, flung open. As Rome rose to power, rarely were these doors shut, but almost four hundred years of peace have clothed Rome since then and the temple has grown dusty with absence. These days, however, the doors are open once more. It seems war has returned, and the greatest of changes are upon us.

Abilities[ | ]

Passive - Passages
Any time Janus transitions through a Portal or over a Threshold he becomes aged and wizened, gaining additional Magical scaling on his next ability cast. Notes:
 Bullet Damaging abilities are spent even if Janus misses.
 Bullet Magical Scaling: 15%  Bullet Ability Type: Buff

Ability Video

1st Ability - Portal
Janus creates a portal in the world. If placed on a wall, the portal will create a passage through to the other side of the wall that Janus or any ally may use. The portal may be entered from either side, but closes after 1 use.

If placed on the ground, enemies and Janus will fall into the portal, being teleported into the air above it. Enemies take damage upon landing, and are considered banished during the fall.

Notes:
 Bullet Phoenix pedestals count as walls.
 Bullet Wall portals can't be used by gods who are Stunned, Crippled or Rooted.
 Bullet Janus won't fall through his ground portals while immune to Crowd Control.
 Bullet Janus cannot place portals on walls that lead to outside the map.
 Bullet Damage: 80/130/180/230/280 (+60% of your Magical Power)  Bullet Banish Duration: 1.5s
 Bullet Wall Portal Duration: 5s  Bullet Wall Portal Range: 100
 Bullet Ability Type: Circle, Banish, Damage  Bullet Radius: 55/10
 Bullet Cost: 70 mana  Bullet Cooldown: 12 seconds

Ability Video

2nd Ability - Unstable Vortex
Janus creates two tethered unstable portals, far too small to fit into, and flings them forward dealing damage to enemies in their path. Enemies hit by both portals take 15% damage on the second hit. Notes:
 Bullet This ability also hits enemies in between the portals for the same damage.
 Bullet Deals 126/201/276/351/426 (+92% of your Magical Power) damage if hit by both portals.
 Bullet Damage: 110/175/240/305/370 (+80% of your Magical Power)  Bullet Ability Type: Area, Damage
 Bullet Range: 70  Bullet Cost: 70/75/80/85/90 mana
 Bullet Cooldown: 9 seconds

Ability Video

3rd Ability - Threshold
Passive: Janus increases the movement speed of himself and allies each time they go through a portal or over a Threshold (max. 2 Stacks).

Active: Janus opens a multi-dimensional rift. Enemies who pass over the rift are slowed, and marked with Phase. Targets in Phase take additional Magical scaling damage when hit by Janus' damaging abilities.

Notes:
 Bullet The Phase debuff lasts 3s.
 Bullet The buff/debuff is only applied once per cast.
 Bullet Grants up to 20/25/30/35/40% Movement Speed.
 Bullet The additional damage is dealt separately from the damage that triggered it.
 Bullet Phase Slow: 25%  Bullet Additional Scaling: 20/30/40/50/60
 Bullet Rift Duration: 3/3.5/4/4.5/5  Bullet Movement Speed: 10/12.5/15/17.5/20% per Portal.
 Bullet Passive Duration: 5s  Bullet Ability Type: Line, Buff
 Bullet Range: 55  Bullet Cost: 60/65/70/75/80 mana
 Bullet Cooldown: 13 seconds

Ability Video

Ultimate - Through Space and Time
Passive: Janus gains increased % Magical Penetration.
Active: Janus becomes CC Immune and blasts a ball of multi-dimensional energy across the battlefield, burning a portal into every surface it encounters within range 500. These portals last 10s, may be used by allies, and do not vanish after the first use.
Enemies hit take damage, increasing in Magical scaling the further the energy travels. Enemy gods cannot take more than 75% of their maximum Health as damage.
Notes:
 Bullet The portals have no range restriction, but can't be placed on walls that lead outside the map.
 Bullet While portals won't close on use, players can only go through each portal once.
 Bullet This ability does not damage enemies who are inside their team's fountain.
 Bullet Damage: 300/375/450/525/600 (+80% of your Magical Power)  Bullet Distance Scaling: 100% of your Magical Power at distance greater than 800.
 Bullet % Magical Penetration: 10/12.5/15/17.5/20%  Bullet Ability Type: Line, Damage
 Bullet Range: Global  Bullet Cost: 100 mana
 Bullet Cooldown: 110 seconds

Ability Video

Videos[ | ]

God Reveal[ | ]

Achievements[ | ]

Achievement Combat Janus NoScope
No Scope
As Janus hit at least two enemy Gods with your Ultimate at max distance.
Achievement Combat Janus WatchYourStep
Watch Your Step
As Janus make your opponents fall through fifteen different portals in one match.


Trivia[ | ]

General[ | ]

  • Janus doesn't have a greek counterpart.
  • Janus was originally meant to carry a key as his weapon, but the idea was scrapped during development. You can still find a smaller version of the key hanging from his belt, and you can see the full size key in his default skin card.
  • The key is still used in the animation for his Portal ability where he lifts the key and turns it to open them.
  • One of Janus' taunts, ▶️"You shall not pass!.. through my portals that is.", is a reference to a quote made by Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings series.
  • One of Janus' lines for when he is in low health, ▶️"Curse my body, I wasn't fast enough.", is a reference to a quote made by C-3P0 in the film Star Wars: A New Hope.
  • Janus' direct taunt to Athena ▶️"They named a whole month after me, you only got a city!" is a reference to how in the Roman Calendar the first month of the year is named after him.
  • Janus' Defeat Screen animation is a reference to the American animated cartoon Scooby-Doo.
  • Janus' dance emote is based on the final dance scene in the 1984 film Footloose.

God Skins[ | ]

  • T Janus Skin1 IconGatekeeper
  • The name of this skin is a reference to the 1984 film, Ghostbusters.
  • Curiously, this skin and Timelord Chronos share a similar color scheme.
  • T Janus Portal IconJandroid
  • T Janus Elemental IconRiftshaker
  • T Janus DannyPhantom IconDanny Phantom
  • T Janus Dubstep IconBA5S Drop
  • Being part of this set of skins means it has a [VXG] (Special Emote) command that will play along with other skins of the same set.
  • T Janus Mobile IconKeymaster
  • The name of this skin is a reference to the 1984 film, Ghostbusters.
  • T Janus Mystical IconWorldwalker
  • This skin is based on the movie Doctor Strange.
  • Both this skin and Danny Phantom Janus were voiced by Sean Chiplock.
  • T Janus WarpTech IconWarp Tech
  • T Janus BlinkyChibi IconBlinky Chibi
  • T Janus PresidentialPunisher IconPresidential Punisher
  • T Janus DeathsDoor IconDeath's Door
  • T Janus PortalPunk IconPortal Punk
  • T Janus CrashTest IconCrash Test
  • This was the first ranked reward to be obtainable during its season.
  • This skin shares its theme with Winner's Circle Apollo.
    • Winner's Circle Apollo also makes a cameo in the card art.
  • T Janus JT6000 IconJT-6000

Skins[ | ]

Default
Default Skin card Release Date May 28, 2014
Type Standard
Cost Free
Requirements
Voicelines Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information

Gatekeeper
Gatekeeper Skin card Release Date May 28, 2014
Type Standard
Cost 100 Gems or 9500 Favor
Requirements
Voicelines Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information

Jandroid
Jandroid Skin card Release Date February 11, 2015
Type Standard
Cost 400 Gems
Requirements
Voicelines Jandroid Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet This skin can also be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

Riftshaker
Riftshaker Skin card Release Date May 10, 2016
Type Standard
Cost 400 Gems
Requirements
Voicelines Riftshaker Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet This skin can also be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

Danny Phantom
Danny Phantom Skin card Release Date July 12, 2022
Type Crossover
Cost 2800 Gems
Requirements
Voicelines Danny Phantom Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet This skin could only be obtained by purchasing all 4 skins from the Nickelodeon Event or via direct purchase after the event ends.
 Bullet This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

BA5S Drop
BA5S Drop Skin card Release Date November 24, 2015
Type Exclusive
Cost 600 Gems
Requirements
Voicelines BA5S Drop Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet The skin, its ability targeters, and ability effects constantly rotate between several colors.
 Bullet This skin was part of the Odyssey 2016 event.
 Bullet This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

Keymaster
Keymaster Skin card Release Date June 2, 2016
Type Exclusive
Cost Requires Skin code
Requirements
Voicelines Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin is unlocked with a special code you get by going to the skin's promotional page in SMITE eSports and selecting your platform.

Worldwalker
Worldwalker Skin card Release Date April 25, 2017
Type Exclusive
Cost 200 Gems (Astral Assassin Chest)
Requirements
Voicelines Worldwalker Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

Warp Tech
Warp Tech Skin card Release Date August 20, 2018
Type Exclusive
Cost 400 Gems (Ultra Mech Chest)
Requirements
Voicelines Warp Tech Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

Blinky Chibi
Blinky Chibi Skin card Release Date May 21, 2019
Type Exclusive
Cost 400 Gems (Chibi Bonanza Chest)
Requirements
Voicelines Blinky Chibi Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

Presidential Punisher
Presidential Punisher Skin card Release Date June 16, 2020
Type Exclusive
Cost 400 Gems (Independence Chest (Original))
Requirements
Voicelines Presidential Punisher Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

Death's Door
Death's Door Skin card Release Date September 7, 2021
Type Exclusive
Cost 400 Gems (Death's Door Chest)
Requirements
Voicelines Death's Door Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

Portal Punk
Portal Punk Skin card Release Date November 28, 2023
Type Exclusive
Cost 400 Gems (Energy Punk Chest)
Requirements
Voicelines Portal Punk Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

JT-6000
JT-6000 Skin card Release Date January 4, 2017
Type Limited
Cost Requires Skin code
Requirements
Voicelines Jandroid Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin was unlocked with a special code you could get from Twitch Prime.

Crash Test
Crash Test Skin card Release Date January 26, 2021
Type Limited
Cost None
Requirements
Voicelines Crash Test Janus voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects
 Bullet This skin was given as a reward to any players that reached Gold 5 or higher during the Season 8 Ranked.

Golden
Golden Skin card Release Date July 15, 2014
Type Standard
Cost 200 Gems or 9500 Favor
Requirements God Rank 1
Voicelines [[]]
In Game Model
Extra Information

Legendary
Legendary Skin card Release Date July 15, 2014
Type Standard
Cost 300 Gems or 12500 Favor
Requirements God Rank 5
Voicelines [[]]
In Game Model
Extra Information

Diamond
Diamond Skin card Release Date October 29, 2014
Type Standard
Cost 400 Gems or 15000 Favor
Requirements God Rank 10
Voicelines [[]]
In Game Model
Extra Information

Changelog[ | ]

SMITE Version 10.8.7671 (August 8, 2023)

  • General
  • Removed Non-Conquest buff
  • +10% Damage Dealt to Gods

SMITE Version 10.6.7598.5 (June 13, 2023)

  • Icons Janus A04Through Space and Time
  • Increased % Magical Penetration from 8/10/12/14/16% to 10/12.5/15/17.5/20%

SMITE Version 10.4.7525.1 (April 18, 2023)

  • This ability now has a passive component – Janus Gains Additional % Magical Penetration per rank equal to 8/10/12/14/16%
  • This will count as Item Power and contribute toward the cap

SMITE Version 9.10.7292 (October 18, 2022)

  • Icons Janus A03 Threshold
  • Decreased Cooldown from 15s to 13s
  • Icons Janus A04 Through Space and Time
  • Increased Magical Power Scaling from 65% to 80% of your Magical Power

SMITE Version 9.8.7220.3 (August 23, 2022)

  • General
  • Increased Base Physical Protections from 11.2 to 14
  • Increased Physical Protections from 2.8 per level to 3 per level
  • Icons Janus A02 Unstable Vortex
  • Increased Base Damage from 100/165/230/295/360 to 110/175/240/305/370

SMITE Version 8.6.6618.8 (June 29, 2021)

  • Icons Janus A04 Through Space and Time
  • Decreased Base Damage from 300/400/500/600/700 to 300/375/450/525/600
  • Decreased Magical Power Scaling from 75% to 65%

SMITE Version 8.3.6455.11 (April 6, 2021)

  • Icons Janus A03 Threshold
  • Decreased Movement Speed Bonus from passive that triggers on portals and threshold from 10/15/20/25/30% to 10/12.5%/15%/17.5%/20%

SMITE Version 8.1.6381.5 (January 26, 2021)

  • Icons Janus A01 Portal
  • Players falling from a Janus portal can now be damaged before they hit the ground. (Previously they were untargetable until after they hit the ground completely, which was inconsistent with other banish effects.)
  • Going through Janus’ portals now has a unique sound to different it from the Blink Relic
  • Icons Janus A02 Unstable Vortex
  • Unstable Vortex now damages enemies who are in between the two Vortex projectiles.
  • A chain of energy connects the two orbs, showing this damage area.
  • Enemies can still be “double-hit” if they are hit where the orbs meet.
  • Icons Janus A04 Through Space and Time
  • This ability can now only ever deal up to 75% of a target’s max health.
  • This ability’s audio has been adjusted to be more audible as it travels.

SMITE Version 7.5.6039 (May 19, 2020)

  • Icons Janus A01 Portal
  • Fixed an issue where players could land in unintended places when falling out of Janus portals if they had certain knockbacks or immunity effects applied to them.

SMITE Version 6.9.5607.4 (August 20, 2019)

  • Icons Janus A02 Unstable Vortex
  • Decreased Cooldown from 10s to 9s.

SMITE Version 6.8.5557.1 (July 24, 2019)

  • Icons Janus A01 Portal
  • Fixed an issue where Janus could be perma-silenced if Xing Tian uses his Ultimate before entering Portal.
  • Fixed issues where this ability could be used to get out of bounds on the Joust map.

SMITE Version 6.4.5372.6 (April 2, 2019)

  • Icons Janus A04 Through Space and Time
  • Fixed an issue where Janus could use Ultimate to teleport outside of Joust map.

SMITE Version 5.19.5053.2 (October 15, 2018)

  • General
  • Raised volume fx for Basic Attack and ability #2 for Warp Tech skin.

SMITE Version 5.7.4730 (April 24, 2018)

  • Icons Janus A02 Unstable Vortex
  • Increased Cooldown from 8s to 10s.
  • Decreased Bonus damage from 20% to 15%.
  • Icons Janus A03 Threshold
  • Decreased Duration of the deployable from 3/4/5/6/7s to 3/3.5/4/4.5/5s.

SMITE Version 5.6.4707.1 (April 11, 2018)

  • Icons Janus A01 Portal
  • Changed the FX for the portal deploy to better match its actual deploy speed.

SMITE Version 5.3.4624.1 (February 27, 2018)

  • General
  • Adjusted the DJ Skins so that they all can move with their VXG emotes active.

SMITE Version 5.1.4571.1 (January 30, 2018)

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

SMITE Version 4.21.4415 (November 6, 2017)

  • Icons Janus A02 Unstable Vortex
  • Increased Base Damage from 90/150/210/270/330 to 100/165/230/295/360.
  • Increased Magic power Scaling from 70% to 80%.
  • Decreased double hit bonus from 30% to 20%.
  • Old Damage Total: 117/195/273/351/429 (+91%).
  • New Damage Total: 120/198/276/354/432 (+96%).
  • Icons Janus A04 Through Space and Time
  • Increase Base damage and Scaling from 200/300/400/500/600 (+50% of your magical power) to 300/400/500/600/700 (+75% of your magical power).
  • Decreased Scaling Damage per distance traveled to cap out at 100% additional Magical Power Scaling at 800 Units, down from 200% at 800 Units.

SMITE Version 4.1.3882 (February 1, 2017)

  • Icons Janus A04 Through Space and Time
  • Increased Cooldown from 90s → 110s.

SMITE Version 3.1.3217 (February 2, 2016)

  • Icons Janus Passive Passages
  • Reduced Magical Scaling bonus from 25% → 15%.

SMITE Version 2.18.3094 (November 17, 2015)

  • Icons Janus A01 Portal
  • Fixed players T-posing when having gone through portals multiple times.

SMITE Version 2.17.3071 (November 3, 2015)

  • Icons Janus A03 Threshold
  • Reduced Phase Slow from 20/25/30/35/40% → 25% at all ranks.

SMITE Version 2.13.2948.1 (September 1, 2015)

  • Icons Janus A02 Unstable Vortex
  • Improved highlighting accuracy.

SMITE Version 2.12.2920.4 (August 19, 2015)

  • Icons Janus A04 Through Space and Time
  • Fixed Janus ultimate not placing portals if used close to a wall.

SMITE Version 2.12.2920.2 (August 18, 2015)

  • Icons Janus A03 Threshold
  • Fixed debuff tooltip showing incorrect icon.

SMITE Version 2.10.2868 (July 21, 2015)

  • General
  • Fixed issue with Furious animation.
  • Icons Janus A04 Through Space and Time
  • Can now place portals on Phoenix pedestals.

SMITE Version 2.8.2808 (June 18, 2015)

  • General
  • Fixed Diamond skin showing partially invisible to other players.

SMITE Version 2.6.2740 (May 12, 2015)

  • Icons Janus A01 Portal
  • Fixed exploit getting gods on top of collisions.

SMITE Version 2.1.2598.1 (February 25, 2015)

  • Icons Janus A01 Portal
  • Corrected an issue where players falling through enemy portals could still use Aegis.

SMITE Version 2.0.2574 (February 2, 2015)

  • General
  • Fixed an issue where Janus would get stuck flying in the air if he portals into the Fire Giant chest.

SMITE Version 1.0.2379.3 (October 29, 2014)

  • Icons Janus A03 Threshold'
  • There is now a visual FX on Janus and Allies when they are affected by Threshold's speed buff.

SMITE Version 1.0.2247 (August 5, 2014)

  • General
  • Base health increased from 380 to 400.
  • Icons Janus A01 Portal
  • Cooldown reduced from 15s to 12s.

SMITE Version 1.0.2215.6 (July 15, 2014)

  • Icons Janus A01 Portal
  • CC Immune targets will no longer take damage from this ability after avoiding the banish.
  • Icons Janus A02 Unstable Vortex
  • Damage for hitting the second vortex reduced from +50% to +30%.
  • Magical Damage Scaling reduced from 80% to 70%.
  • Adjusted aiming on this ability to improve player accuracy.

SMITE Version 1.0.2173 (June 12, 2014)

  • Icons Janus A01 Portal
  • Fixed an issue where players who were knockup immune, and Loki while stealthed, would not be banished by falling into the portal.
  • Note: This means most gods who are dashing will also fall into the portal, and is a substantial buff to this ability.
  • Fixed an issue where players could use jump to avoid being banished and falling into the portal.
  • Icons Janus A02 Unstable Vortex
  • Reduced slightly the maximum distance the projectiles will pull away from each other during travel.
  • Icons Janus A03 Threshold
  • Fixed a tooltip error.
  • Icons Janus A04 Through Space and Time
  • Janus can now move and aim while channeling this ability.
  • Janus is now CC Immune while channeling this ability.
  • This ability now deals damage to everything but Titans.
  • This is a temporary fix as we explore improving Titan leashing logic in later patches.
  • This ability will no longer deal damage to players in fountains.

SMITE Version 1.0.2151.3 (May 28, 2014)

  • Janus has been added to the game.

Pre-release

  • Icons Janus A03 Threshold
  • Reduced additional scaling damage from 20/40/60/80/100% to 20/30/40/50/60%.
  • Icons Janus A04 Through Space and Time
  • Increased cast time from 1s to 1.5s.
  • Increased recovery time from 0.1s to 0.3s.
  • This ability now only damages gods.


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