Patch 5.20, "A Necessary Darkness" - Bran's Thoughts

Patch 5.20, AKA Buff Hera. Official patch notes are here: https://www.smitegame.com/news/a-necessary-darkness-5-20-update-notes

Not much to say. Skins, bug fixes, no item changes (#destroygoldenblade), and some major buffs to Hera's kit, with Argus seeing the biggest buff. Needed, but I'm a bit afraid of Argus now.

Heh, "Terrabyte". I was wondering when they'd do that. I'm a big fan of 8-bit music, but most "8-bit" music one hears in recent times is mislabeled as such (unless it was done by an independent artist, though even they tend to cheat and use more channels than should be allowed). I'll have to hear it for myself to see if it really is as advertised. I'm glad to hear that they were trying to avoid an overpowered release with Hera, since it's a nice subversion of their usual policy of intentionally making a god strong on release so that players will fork out the extra dough to play the god before it gets its first nerf. From what I hear, this buff was expected, and since it's the only change, barring bug fixes and cosmetics (this is the patch HRX will be on, after all), I agree that there is little to be said.