I'm off the topic of Smite personally so I renamed the post.

Straight-up charge-to-melee is something I would like to see for both Paladins and Barbarians (maybe Charge and Leap, respectively). Ideally it would prevent retreat (outside of special abilities or spells) for something like 5-7 (or ~10 with high success) seconds, enough time to land a couple blows before they're able to teleport back to missile range by spamming retreat.

Conversely, maybe the retreat penalty could also apply a stat befuff? I would like to see closer engagements (pole/melee) made more significant in PvP but of course we don't want to adversely affect retreating during hunting too much.