Banishing Smite
- Casting Time
- 1 Bonus Action
- Range
- Sel F
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Components
- V
- Class
- Paladin
Spell Description
The next time you hit a creature with a weapon attack before this spell ends, your weapon crackles with force, and the attack deals an extra 5d10 force damage to the target.
Additionally, if this attack reduces the target to 50 hit points of fewer, you banish it. If the target is native to a different plane of existence than the one you’re on, the target disappears, returning to its home plane. If the target is native to the plane you’re on, the creature vanishes into a harmless demiplane. While there, the target is incapacitated. It remains there until the spell ends, at which point the target reappears in the space it left or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied.
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | |
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| Damage Dice | 5d10 | ||||||||
| Min Damage | 5 | ||||||||
| Average Damage | 27.5 | ||||||||
| Max Damage | 50 |
| Lvl | Dice | Min | Avg | Max |
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| 5th | 5d10 | 5 | 27.5 | 50 |
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Is Banishing Smite Good?
Overall Rating: Sky Blue. This means that banishing smite is an amazing spell. If you do not take this spell your character would not be optimized.
Overall Notes: No save to the banishment (as long as their HP is low enough) and, on average, similar damage to a 5th-level smite. This is the best smite in the game.