Paladins Strike

Paladins Strike
Summary
Developer:	Hi-Rez Studios / Goblin Network
Publisher:	Hi-Rez Studios
Release(s):	May 2nd, 2018
Platforms:	iOS / Android
Engine:	Unity
Genres:	MOBA
Category:	Action / Adventure
Setting:	Fantasy
Mode:	Multiplayer
Controls:	Touch Controls
Languages:	Multiple Languages
Age Rating:

Paladins Strike was a free-to-play MOBA and hero shooter hybrid game for mobile devices developed by Hi-Rez Studios and launched on May 2nd, 2018. It was taken down at some point from mid 2020 to mid 2021. In Paladins Strike, most of the characters from the original game were present, with all their abilities adapted to suit the canons of the MOBA genre. Here too, the game was based on 5 vs 5 battles. The fights were carried out in real-time with an isometric top view. Paladins Strike was free-to-play: the game relied on micro-transactions and in-app purchases.

The main game mode was Siege, where two teams of five attempt to push the payload into the opposing team's base. If neither team was able to do so within the time limit, a sudden death king of the hill round decides the victor. Matches were short, lasting between six and ten minutes. There were three other modes available as well. Summons was another objective-based mode, with a slightly longer duration at about 10 minutes. Deathmatch was the shortest game mode at just 5 minutes, and the final option was a practice mode.

“

Enter the Realm! Are you ready to play the world's best mobile hero shooter?
Become a legend and master more than 15 different Champions. Battle with your friends using high-powered guns and casting MOBA-like abilities in real-time, 5v5 combat. It's your favorite hero shooter, perfected for mobile.

”

Strikers

As stated on the official Strike website via the Wayback Machine, all champions (known as "Strikers" here) from the original game were meant to appear, though due to Strike's decline, ultimately, not every champion was added. Almost every character prior to and including Terminus was in the game at some point, with the exception of Torvald, Lian, Jenos, and Talus. Most champions who received visual reworks later on (aside from Ruckus) in the original game didn't receive them in Strike (and were not planned to), among other visual differences, such as Makoa lacking ears for an unknown reason.

Strike also featured one original character known as Kai. As stated here, Kai is exclusive to the world of Strike and there was and likely still is, no intention of ever bringing her into the main game or its lore (with the reason being mentioned as legal / copyright issues). As mentioned there as well, the world of Strike is an alternate universe to the original game.

Skins

Strike is most commonly remembered for the many unique skins it contained, most of which not being present in the original Paladins, even till this very day, largely due to the differences between Strike and the original game. All unique skins may be viewed below by clicking "Expand".

Unique Strike Skins

• Androxus
• Ash
• Barik
• Bomb King
• Buck
• Cassie
• Drogoz
• Evie
• Fernando
• Grohk
• Grover
• Inara
• Kai
• Kinessa
• Lex
• Maeve
• Makoa
• Mal'Damba
• Pip
• Ruckus
• Seris
• Sha Lin
• Skye
• Strix
• Terminus
• Tyra
• Viktor
• Willo
• Ying
• Zhin

Maroon

Fallen Lord

399  •  Mystery Box

Godsprayer

Mystery Box

Wraith

Halloween Chest / Halloween Exclusive Bundle  •  Mystery Box

Trivia

• The Maroon skin is incredibly similar to Androxus' removed Sanguine recolor from the original game.

• The Wraith skin shares its name with another of Androxus' recolors from the original game.

Ocean

Commander

699  •  Mystery Box

Firecracker

Spring Festival Bundle  •  Mystery Box

Aqua

Blacksmith

599  •  Mystery Box

Logan

Santa

Happy Holidays Bundle  •  Mystery Box

Trivia

• The Aqua skin is incredibly similar to Barik's Foreman skin from the original game.

Aurora

Goal King

Realm Cup Battle Pass Level 40

Pumpking

Fall Fright Bundle  •  Mystery Box

Steampunk

599

Trivia

• The Aurora skin is incredibly similar to Bomb King's removed Emerald recolor from the original game.

• The Pumpking skin shares its name with one of Bomb King's skins from the original game.

Jungle

Abomination

Fall Fright Bundle  •  Mystery Box

Cerulean Tech

Hazard Tech

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Hunter

Daily Login Reward Day 2

Lionheart

Mystery Box

Trivia

• Buck is tied with Terminus for having received the most skins in Strike.

• The Jungle skin is incredibly similar to Buck's Envy skin from the original game, as well as his removed Alpine recolor.

• The Hunter skin is reminiscent of Buck's Buckules skin from the original game.

Verdant

399

Headhunter

Mystery Box

Love's Arrow

Valetine's Bundle  •  Mystery Box

Ranger

399  •  Mystery Box

Trivia

• The Verdant skin is reminiscent of Cassie's removed Azure recolor from the original game.

Crimson

Bone King

Halloween Chest / Halloween Exclusive Bundle  •  Mystery Box

Bumblebee

599  •  Reach Level 8 of the Starter Exclusive event between February 12th, 2019 and March 14th, 2019

Trivia

• The Crimson skin is incredibly similar to Drogoz's removed Wrath recolor from the original game.

Blush

Misfit

599  •  Mystery Box

Witch

Halloween Chest / Halloween Exclusive Bundle  •  Mystery Box

Trivia

• The Blush skin is incredibly similar to Evie's removed Divination recolor from the original game.

• The Misfit skin is reminiscent of Evie's Troublemaker skin from the original game.

• The Witch skin, meanwhile, is reminiscent of her Bewitching skin from the original game.

Sapphire

Warhawk

599  •  Mystery Box

Desert

Poseidon

Summoner

899

Trivia

• The Poseidon skin is based on the Greek god of the same name; drawing some inspiration from Smite's interpretation of the character.
  • By extension, this also makes the skin, alongside Chaac Terminus and Neith Kinessa, the third overall set of crossover content the Paladins IP would receive.

Autumn

Voodoo

399

Trivia

• The Autumn skin shares its name with one of Grover's recolors from the original game.

Bluestone

Living Stone

599  •  Inara Bundle

Resonator

599

Shining Warrior

Punk

Neith

Sheriff

599  •  Mystery Box

Traveler

899

Trivia

• The Neith skin draws heavy inspiration from Smite's interpretation of Neith, an Egyptian goddess.
  • By extension, this also makes the skin, alongside Chaac Terminus and Poseidon Grohk, the third overall set of crossover content the Paladins IP would receive.

Red Vanguard

299  •  Mystery Box

Soldier

Covert Ops

599

Penalty Punisher

Realm Cup Battle Pass Level 60

Trivia

• The Red Vanguard skin is incredibly similar to Lex's Lawbringer recolor from the original game.

• The Soldier skin is also incredibly similar to Lex's removed Peacekeeper recolor from the original game.

• The Covert Ops skin is the only one to be available in both Strike and the original game. Though the skin lacks a unique voice pack in Strike, unlike the main game.

Skyline

Cyber Nina

899

Scarlet Blade

399

Lava

Armored

599

Lifeguard

Beach Party Battle Pass

Trivia

• The Lava skin is reminiscent of Makoa's Volcanic skin from the original game.

Shade

Apophis

699

Gray Fox

Moonlight

Arcanist

599

Summer

Prototype

399  •  Mystery Box

War Machine

899

Trivia

• The Summer skin is incredibly similar to Ruckus' removed Gizmo recolor from the original game.

• The Prototype skin is obviously based on Ruckus' original appearance, which became the B.E.T.A. skin in the original game.

Ethereal

Phantasm

599

Sunkissed

Beach Party Battle Pass

Thorn Maiden

899

Trivia

• The Ethereal skin is reminiscent of Seris' Expo 2018 skin from the original game.

• The Sunkissed skin used voice lines from the original game's Divine skin in a promotional video.

Aero

Desert Prince

599

Surf's Up

Beach Party Battle Pass Level 40

Trivia

• The Aero skin is incredibly similar to Sha Lin's Bravado recolor from the original game.

• Mermaid Ying briefly appears in the Surf's Up skin's selection animation, making it the only skin to feature another character.

Azure

Officer

599

Trivia

• The Azure skin is reminiscent of Skye's removed Aqua recolor from the original game.

Cardinal

Shrouded Sentinel

599

Emerald

Chaac

Master

299  •  Mystery Box

Shogun

599

Striker

Realm Cup Battle Pass Level 1  •  1190 Mystery Store

Trivia

• Terminus is tied with Buck for having received the most skins in Strike.

• The Chaac skin draws heavy inspiration from Smite's interpretation of Chaac, a Mayan god.
  • By extension, this also makes the skin, alongside Poseidon Grohk and Neith Kinessa, the third overall set of crossover content the Paladins IP would receive.

Snow

Admiral

299

Black Dragon

Light Dragon

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Navy

Defender

Realm Cup Battle Pass Level 15

Ghoulish

Pirate

Win 15 games between April 27th, 2018 and May 7th, 2018  •  Donate $100 during the Spring Fling charity event

Emerald Rose

Bewitching

Moonflower

599  •  Willo Bundle

Scarlet

Butterfly

599

Mermaid

Beach Party Battle Pass Level 1

Zodiac

Spring Festival Bundle  •  Mystery Box

Trivia

• The Scarlet skin had its artwork removed from the game for a time, before having it added back at a later date. This was seemingly due to the artwork featuring one of Ying's nipples clearly defined under her top. Oddly, this wasn't changed when it was re-added.
  • The artwork also notably lacks a veil, despite the skin having one in-game.

• The Mermaid skin shares its name and theme with a skin from the original game, alongside Ying's Siren recolor.
  • The skin used voice lines from the original game's Genie skin in a promotional video.
  • The skin also briefly appears in Surf's Up Sha Lin's selection animation, making it the only skin to appear in another skin's animation.

Jade Tyrant

Ice Lord

Mystery Box

Ronin

299

Connections to Original Game

This game featured two promotional skins available in the original Paladins game, as can be seen here. This included Strike Maeve, which was obtained when connecting a Hi-Rez account to Strike; as well as Covert Ops Lex, which was obtained the same way, though with the additional requirement of needing to collect 1500 in Strike (this Lex skin is also the only one featured in both the original game and Strike).

There was also a unique avatar available from winning 25 games in Strike, with the avatar in question being this. Two titles were also obtainable via Strike, with the first being "Striker" via special events, as well as "Heavenly Striker" by winning 25 matches in Strike.

Trivia

• Strike was planned to launch on PC alongside cross platform play with mobile, with early dev builds being playable at Hi-Rez Expo 2018, but this PC version ultimately never launched.
• While Lian and Talus never ended up being released for Strike, they were seemingly very close to being added prior to the game shutting down, based on artwork for a yellow recolor skin for Lian and artwork for a punk themed skin for Talus being created.
• Paladins Strike had a set of stickers released for Apple devices that could be used in texts.
• It was mentioned by the Strike team that a Tigron is hybrid cross between a male tiger and female lion, with Maeve being a cross between one of these tigrons and a human. However, it's unclear if the Strike team confused tigrons with the similar sounding real world animal, the tigon, which shares the description provided by the Strike team. The canonicity of this statement in general, even within the world of Strike, remains unclear due to this potential mix-up.