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Thanatos
SkinArt Thanatos Default
Summary
Title: Hand of Death
Pantheon: NewUI Pantheon Greek Greek
Type: Melee,Physical
Class: NewUI Class Assassin Assassin
Pros: High Sustain
Difficulty: Average
Release date: September 18, 2013
Favor: 5,500 Favor
Gems: 200 Gems
Voicelines: Thanatos voicelines
Voice actor: Scott Freeman
Stats
Health: 390 (+75)
Mana: 240 (+38)
Speed: 370 (+0)
Range: 12 (+0)
Attack/Sec: 1 (+1.7%)
Basic Attack
Damage: 39 (+ 2.3)
+ 100% of Physical Power
Progression: 1/.75/1.5x damage and swing time, hitting in an AoE on the final blow
Protection
Physical: 14 (+2.9)
Magical: 30 (+0.9)
Regen
HP5: 8 (+0.67)
MP5: 4.4 (+0.38)
*Numbers in parentheses are the amount gained at each level

"Reap souls and gain life force. The scent of death draws you to the next victim."

Thanatos is one of the playable Gods in SMITE.

Lore

Inevitably, all mortals must die. They cling to life with fevered desperation, for death is a cold unknown, filled with uncertainty and bleak, everlasting finality. Some accept fate with grace, others are dragged, kicking and screaming, though in truth, no mortal would go to Hades willingly. They are reaped by the nightmarish God of Death, whose grim visage strikes strange against the gleeful satisfaction he feels at performing his work. Thanatos is the very face of death.

Yet, to Thanatos, Mortals are easy prey. Their end is preordained, harvesting them but a game to pass the eons, but a God, a being beyond the mortal coil, now there is a creature Thanatos eyes with greedy longing. He despises the immortality other Gods covet. To him, it is a perversion and defiance of his very purpose.

But can a God truly die? As the Heavens clash and immortal blood spills on the Earth, Thanatos hungers to find out. War is but the preamble to death, a battlefield of souls rent from their bodies, listlessly waiting to be taken by the God of Death. A war between Gods, a war of this magnitude can mean only one thing. Thanatos is about to be very, very busy.

Abilities

Passive - Harvester of Souls
Enemy gods within his ultimate's execute Health threshold are revealed to Thanatos. Dealing the killing blow to enemies also empowers Thanatos, healing him based on the max HP of his target and reducing his active cooldowns. Additionally, all of Thanatos' abilities cost Health and Mana to use. Notes:
 Bullet Doesn't reveal stealthed gods.
 Bullet HP Restore (Gods): 20% of target's max HP  Bullet HP Restore (Minions): 10% of target's max HP
 Bullet Cooldown Reduction (Gods): 5s  Bullet Ability Type: Buff

Ability Video

1st Ability - Death Scythe
Thanatos flings his scythe at an enemy, dealing damage and an additional 10% of the target's maximum Health against enemy gods. Enemies hit are slowed for 3s and heal Thanatos based on damage dealt. Consumes 5% of Thanatos' current HP when used. Notes:
 Bullet Damage: 100/170/240/310/380 (+60% of your physical power)  Bullet Bonus Damage (Gods): 10% of max HP
 Bullet Healing: 75% of damage dealt  Bullet Slow: 20%
 Bullet Ability Type: Projectile  Bullet Cooldown: 13 seconds
 Bullet Cost: 25/35/45/55/65 mana

Ability Video

2nd Ability - Scent of Death
Thanatos senses death, gaining immunity to Slow effects and additional move speed and Physical Penetration for 6s. His speed bonus increases up to double when moving toward an enemy god within the instant kill Health threshold of his Ultimate. Consumes 5% of Thanatos' current HP when used. Notes:
 Bullet Grants 20/30/40/50/60% move speed while moving towards low health targets.
 Bullet Penetration: 15/20/25/30/35  Bullet Move Speed: 10/15/20/25/30%
 Bullet Bonus Speed (Low Health): 10/15/20/25/30%  Bullet Ability Type: Buff
 Bullet Cooldown: 13 seconds  Bullet Cost: 20/25/30/35/40 mana

Ability Video

3rd Ability - Soul Reap
Thanatos swings his scythe, dealing Physical damage and Silencing enemies he hits. Thanatos moves at a reduced rate while swinging. Consumes 5% of Thanatos' current HP when used. Notes:
 Bullet Its hitbox sweeps right to left in a cone in front of Thanatos.
 Bullet Damage: 100/150/200/250/300 (+70% of your physical power)  Bullet Silence Duration: 1s
 Bullet Ability Type: Cone  Bullet Cooldown: 15 seconds
 Bullet Cost: 25/30/35/40/45 mana

Ability Video

Ultimate - Hovering Death
Thanatos flaps his wings and ascends for 5s, unable to be hit. While airborne, he moves unimpeded at an increased speed before diving to his target location, dealing damage. Enemies below a Health threshold are instantly killed. All others are Stunned. Consumes 10% of Thanatos' current HP when used. Notes:
 Bullet Scent of Death's low health boost will affect the bonus move speed.
 Bullet Damage: 90/125/160/195/230 (+80% of your physical power)  Bullet Kill HP Threshold: 24/28/32/36/40%
 Bullet Stun Duration: 1s  Bullet Bonus Move Speed: 150%
 Bullet Ability Type: Ground Target  Bullet Radius: 15
 Bullet Cooldown: 90 seconds  Bullet Cost: 40/50/60/70/80 mana

Ability Video

Videos

God Reveal

Achievements

Achievement Combat Thanatos ReaperofSouls
Reaper Of Souls
As Thanatos silence fifteen enemies out of their abilities.
Achievement Combat Thanatos DeathFromAbove
Wrecking Ball
As Thanatos execute three or more enemies in a single match using hovering death.


Trivia

General

  • Thanatos is Nox's son and is Discordia and Nemesis' brother.
  • The actor who voiced Thanatos, Scott Freeman also voiced Agni and Poolseidon Poseidon.
  • One of Thanatos' jokes, "Don't look into the deadlights!" is a reference to the horror novel It by Stephen King.
  • One of Thanatos' death quotes, "Death is but a door, time is but a window, I'll be back..", is a reference to Vigo the Carpathian from the movie Ghostbusters II.

God Skins

  • Every Thanatos skin above Tier 2 changes his ultimate ability targeter.
  • T Thanatos Mech IconReaper Tech
  • T Thanatos DarkAngel IconFinal Boss
  • This skin is based on the character Sephiroth from the game Final Fantasy VII.
  • On the SMITE official twitter page, a special art work made by Karulox based on the art of the artist Yoshitaka Amano was posted to promote this skin.
  • T Thanatos JacktheReaperJack the Reaper
  • T Thanatos GrimReaper IconGrim Reaper
  • T Thanatos CyberScythe IconCyber Scythe
  • T Thanatos ValkyriesRage IconValkyrie's Rage
  • This skin is based on a Valkyrie.
  • This is the second gender-bent skin introduced into Smite, the first one being Ladybug Khepri.
  • T Thanatos Thanatoast IconThanatoast
  • This skin is based on an old community joke where people would misspell his name due to it sounding like Toast.
  • T Thanatos T3Rose Icon T Thanatos T2Rose IconRuby Rose/Classic Ruby Rose
  • T Thanatos Archon IconArchon
  • T Thanatos DemonicRecolor IconDemonic

Skins

Default
Default Skin card Release Date September 18, 2013
Type Standard
Cost Free
Requirements
Voicelines Thanatos voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information

Soul Harvester
Soul Harvester Skin card Release Date September 18, 2013
Type Standard
Cost 100 Gems or 9500 Favor
Requirements
Voicelines Thanatos voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information

Reaper Tech
Reaper Tech Skin card Release Date March 1, 2016
Type Standard
Cost 400 Gems
Requirements
Voicelines Reaper Tech Thanatos voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.

Final Boss
Final Boss Skin card Release Date March 1, 2017
Type Standard
Cost 400 Gems
Requirements
Voicelines Final Boss Thanatos voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.

Jack the Reaper
Jack the Reaper Skin card Release Date October 16, 2013
Type Exclusive
Cost 400 Gems (Halloween Chest)
Requirements
Voicelines Thanatos 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.

Obey
Obey Skin card Release Date May 9, 2017
Type Exclusive
Cost 400 Gems (Obey Bundle)
Requirements
Voicelines Final Boss Thanatos voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.

Grim Reaper
Grim Reaper Skin card Release Date October 10, 2017
Type Exclusive
Cost 400 Gems (Halloween Chest)
Requirements
Voicelines Grim Reaper Thanatos 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.

Cyber Scythe
Cyber Scythe Skin card Release Date September 17, 2018
Type Exclusive
Cost 600 Gems
Requirements
Voicelines Cyber Scythe Thanatos voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet This skin was part of the Hera's Odyssey event.

Valkyrie's Rage
Valkyrie's Rage Skin card Release Date April 9,2019
Type Exclusive
Cost 750 Gems (Council of the Gods)
Requirements
Voicelines Valkyrie's Rage Thanatos voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet This skin is part of the Council of the Gods event.

Thanatoast
Thanatoast Skin card Release Date September 17, 2019
Type Exclusive
Cost None
Requirements
Voicelines Thanatoast 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 achieving level 6 in the Odyssey Underworld event.

Ruby Rose
Ruby Rose Skin card Release Date November 12, 2019
Type Exclusive
Cost None
Requirements
Voicelines Ruby Rose Thanatos 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 and achieving enough levels in the RWBY Battle Pass.

Classic Ruby Rose
Classic Ruby Rose Skin card Release Date November 12, 2019
Type Exclusive
Cost None
Requirements
Voicelines Ruby Rose Thanatos 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 and achieving enough levels in the Prestige Pass of the RWBY Battle Pass.

Archon
Archon Skin card Release Date December 17, 2014
Type Limited
Cost None
Requirements
Voicelines Archon Thanatos voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet This skin has an animated loading screen card.
 Bullet This skin changes appearance when Thanatos levels up to 5, 10 and 15.
 Bullet This skin could only be obtained by unlocking all the items from the Odyssey 2015 before January 9, 2015.

Demonic
Demonic Skin card Release Date January 30, 2018
Type Unlimited
Cost 8000 Gems
Requirements
Voicelines Demonic Thanatos voicelines
In Game Model
Extra Information
 Bullet This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.
 Bullet This skin can only be obtained by reaching level 32 in the Season Ticket 2018.

Golden
Golden Skin card Release Date December 5, 2013
Type Standard
Cost 200 Gems or 9500 Favor
Requirements God Rank 1
Voicelines [[]]
In Game Model
Extra Information

Legendary
Legendary Skin card Release Date December 5, 2013
Type Standard
Cost 300 Gems or 12500 Favor
Requirements God Rank 5
Voicelines [[]]
In Game Model
Extra Information

Diamond
Diamond Skin card Release Date August 19, 2014
Type Standard
Cost 400 Gems or 15000 Favor
Requirements God Rank 10
Voicelines [[]]
In Game Model
Extra Information

Changelog

SMITE Version 6.12.5745.1 (November 12, 2019)

  • Icons Thanatos A04 Hovering Death
  • Fixed an issue where Thanatos was not properly executing Kumbhakarna and Persephone through their passive abilities.

SMITE Version 5.9.4788.8 (June 1, 2018)

  • General
  • Fixed a few crash issues with this god.

SMITE Version 5.7.4730 (April 24, 2018)

  • General
  • Fixed an issue where Thanatos could get into a state where he can't attack Jungle Camps.

SMITE Version 3.20.3702.3 (October 25, 2016)

  • General
  • Abilities now cost % of current Health, not % of total Health.
  • Icons Thanatos A03 Soul Reap
  • Adjusted Silence duration from .5/.75/1/1.25/1.5s → 1s at all ranks.

SMITE Version 3.11.3462 (June 21, 2016)

  • Icons Thanatos A03 Soul Reap
  • Scaling increased from 60% → 70%.

SMITE Version 3.4.3299 (March 15, 2016)

  • General
  • Increased base physical protection from 11 → 14.
  • Increased base attack power from 37 → 39.

SMITE Version 2.7.2766 (June 2, 2015)

  • Icons Thanatos Passive Harvester of Souls
  • Fixed an issue where the heal was granted for the previously killed target instead of the last.

SMITE Version 2.4.2684.1 (April 15, 2015)

  • Icons Thanatos A04 Hovering Death
  • Added timer on the ground targeter indicating when the ability will expire and Thanatos will be forced to land.

SMITE Version 2.2.2636 (March 18, 2015)

  • General
  • Fixed description cutoff at Progression.

SMITE Version 2.0.2574 (February 2, 2015)

  • General
  • Fixed an issue where Thanatos’ passive was not granting minimap vision on the new Conquest.

SMITE Version 1.0.2529.2 (January 14, 2015)

  • link Scent of Death
  • Fixed the bonus speed not applying when facing an executable target.
  • Icons Thanatos A04 Hovering Death
  • Fixed the default skin playing Archon voice over on execution.
  • Fixed basic attack animations not properly syncing after landing.

SMITE Version 1.0.2247 (August 5, 2014)

  • Icons Thanatos A04 Hovering Death
  • Changed “pounce” to “dive” in his tooltip. Boom.

SMITE Version 1.0.2135.1 (May 14, 2014)

  • Icons Thanatos A04 'Hovering Death
  • Fixed an issue with getting stuck after firing Aegis before ascending.

SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1988.3 (February 19, 2014)

  • Icons Thanatos A04 Hovering Death
  • Increased casting time from 1.2 to 1.5s.
  • Fixed an issue where Thanatos did not ignore slows while flying.

SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1968 (February 6, 2014)

  • Icons Thanatos A01 Death Scythe
  • Recovery time reduced from 0.8 to 0.1.
  • Icons Thanatos A03 Soul Reap
  • Recovery time reduced from 0.5 to 0.1.
  • Cast time increased from 0.4 to 0.6. (original timing)
  • Damage scaling reduced from 80% to 60%.

SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1949 (January 31, 2014)

  • General
  • Temporarily reverted the last patch’s post-hit delay reduction. In a future patch, we will re-instate the post-hit delay but were working on new pre-hit delay animations to better balance out his timings.
  • Icons Thanatos A01 Death Scythe
  • Post-Hit delay returned to 0.8 from 0.1.
  • Icons Thanatos A03 Soul Reap
  • Post-Hit delay returned to 0.5 from 0.1.

SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1948 (January 29, 2014)

  • Icons Thanatos A01 Death Scythe
  • Reduced the width of the ground targeter to better match that of the projectile.
  • Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.8 to 0.1.
  • Icons Thanatos A03 Soul Reap
  • Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.5 to 0.1.
  • Icons Thanatos A04 Hovering Death
  • Fixed an issue where gods could sometimes survive the instant kill with enough damage reduction %.

SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1918.2 (January 8, 2014)

  • Icons Thanatos A01 Death Scythe
  • Angled the preview mesh in the targeter fx for the standard and Jack the Ripper skins to match that of the projectile.
  • Minor projectile fx cleanups.

SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1868.3 (December 5, 2013)

  • Icons Thanatos A01 Death Scythe
  • Increased healing on successful hit from 50% of damage dealt to 75%.
  • Icons Thanatos A04 Hovering Death
  • Bonus move speed while flying increased from 100% to 150%.
  • Fixed an issue with his landing animation playing twice.

SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1850 (November 20, 2013)

  • Icons Thanatos Passive Harvester of Souls
  • Now correctly indicates that this also grants 5s Cooldown Reduction when delivering the killing blow to enemy gods.
  • Icons Thanatos A01 Death Scythe
  • Adjusted the projectile FX to better fit the collision radius of the projectile.

SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1838.1 (November 13, 2013)

  • General
  • Fixed an issue where his basic attack progression animations could sometimes get out of sync with the hits

SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1774 (October 9, 2013)

  • Icons Thanatos A01 Death Scythe
  • The health cost for using this ability has been reduced from 10% to 5%.
  • Icons Thanatos A04 Hovering Death
  • The health cost for using this ability has been reduced from 15% to 10%

SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1764.2 (October 2, 2013)

  • linkl= Soul Reap
  • The amount of time between firing this ability and the damage occurring has been reduced from 0.6s to 0.4s.
  • Icons Thanatos A04 Hovering Death
  • The amount of time between firing this ability and flying into the air has been reduced from 1.5s to 1.2s.
  • Thanatos can now see through the fog of war when he is flying during his ultimate.

SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1740 (September 25, 2013)

  • General
  • Fixed an issue in which Thanatos could go invisible.
  • Fixed an issue in which the heartbeat sound could persist after a player restores his health.
  • Icons Thanatos A01 Death Scythe
  • Tooltip corrected to reflect that it deals dmg based on max hp instead of current hp.
  • Icons Thanatos A04 Hovering Death
  • Fixed an issue in which Thanatos could get stuck in his ultimate.

SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1739.1 (September 19, 2013)

  • General
  • Fixed an issue in which Thanatos could go invisible.
  • Fixed an issue in which the heartbeat sound could persist after a player restores his health.
  • Icons Thanatos A01 Death Scythe
  • Tooltip corrected to reflect that it deals dmg based on max hp instead of current hp.
  • Icons Thanatos A04 Hovering Death
  • Fixed an issue in which Thanatos could get stuck in his ultimate.

SMITE Beta Version 0.1.1738 (September 18, 2013)

  • Thanatos has been added to the game.


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