Patch v1.17.2

Aurora

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENAurora’s wall has been suffering from 2 bugs. Firstly, it was not granting Movement Speed to Allies on the wall at all. And secondly, there was a rather destructive bug where Aurora could split off the lane to block Minions, which would then cause them to retreat back up the lane, and sometimes even all the way back to the Inhibitor. Naturally, this was rather OP. Alas, both have now been resolved.

• Fixed an issue where Aurora’s Wall would not grant herself or Allies Movement Speed while on the Wall.
• Fixed an issue where Aurora could force Minions to path back up the lane when blocking a lane with her wall. They will now walk into it and stop correctly.

Bayle

OFFLANEJUNGLE10 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENBayle is receiving a range of changes aimed at providing him the uptime, durability, and damage he needs to function as a Bruiser in late-game scenarios. Currently, he tends to fall off a little too hard in the mid-game and beyond unless he secures a large snowball, which results in Bayle players frequently opting for 1-shot Assassin builds to feel useful, rather than a more well-rounded Fighter build. We hope that these changes provide him with the tools he needs to feel functional when investing in more durable Fighter builds, as the additional durability should now provide his base kit strengths the time to shine across longer fights.

Drongo

CARRY4 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENThe previous round of changes to Drongo helped bring him back into the spotlight as a serious contender in the Carry role. However, we are currently not too happy with his ability to rip Rad Rounds and run at his opponent in early all-in scenarios, so we are reducing his level 1 durability and damage by a smidge to ensure he has to choose his engagements a little more wisely.

Gadget

MIDLANE2 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENTo help bring further utility and reinforce her unique elements, we’re bumping up the speed of Gadget’s Security Gate, and increasing the Shred on offer from her Ultimate. These changes will make catching opponents or speeding Allies a little more reliable, while also solidifying her strengths as a strong anti-tank Mage, compared to the rest of the roster.

Greystone

OFFLANEJUNGLE1 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENAfter investigating Greystone further, we continue to feel like he is providing too much value at higher levels of play when it comes to acting as a neutralizing force, that then transitions into a sticky diver in the end-game. As a targeted nerf to higher levels of play, we’re reducing the amount of refund he gains when leaping on an Enemy, as this is a skill-check high end players hit more consistently, and therefore benefit from more frequently.

Grux

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENWe’re making some smaller changes to Grux’s ability to take all-ins and repeat trades in the early game thanks to his Basic Attack strength, and Double Pain’s lower Mana Cost.

Ikra

MIDLANE9 zmian

+5−4Karta bohatera

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENIkra has gained a surge of popularity in high-end play, thanks to his offering of incredible safety, scaling, and late-game burst potential. Now that players are starting to master Ikra and utilize his mechanics to their fullest, we are looking to make some targeted changes to the strengths that the best Ikras take advantage of (Gold Scaling, Zoning with Stuns, Ultimate 1-shot combos), and offering him a little strength on his lesser used Eternal Passives and Cascade Augments to ensure there is still variety in playstyle for him while not hitting Ikra’s viability on the lower end as heavily, as he already struggles to make an impact when controlled by the average player.

Khaimera

JUNGLE5 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENWhile winrates alone might lead some of you to believe Khaimera is overly powerful, when you dig beyond the simple numbers, it is clear that Khaimera feels rather dysfunctional and weak right now, especially in mid/high tier play. As a simpler Hero with limited options to outplay an opponent, he needs a higher general level of strength to function and feel satisfying. While we are conscious of not inflating Khaimera's strengths too heavily in lower tiers of play where he thrives, we believe he has room for improvement due to his inability to stick to targets with his leap, or survive easily once the later stages of a match roll around. As a result, we are targeting some early game nerfs towards him to slow him down, as this is typically where he feels most oppressive for lower tiers of play due to isolated fights, and then reinforcing his ability to stick in ganks, and survive in the late game with Armor Growth improvements that will compound with the Regeneration he possesses.

Kwang

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENKwang is receiving a round of changes aimed at bringing greater consistency to his Tether + Ultimate combo, as oftentimes by the time the player has realised they hit a target and begin channeling their Ultimate, the target is already free from the tether. Alongside this, we are granting him some smaller damage and utility increases to make him feel appropriately spiky at level 6 (his Rank 1 Ultimate can feel underwhelming), and ensure he has adequate damage output in late-game scenarios when he is committing to bulkier builds.

Lt. Belica

MIDLANESUPPORT8 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENThe previous round of adjustments to Belica’s Seismic Assault and Combat Veteran Augment have provided her with new levels of consistency that have pushed her strength over the edge. While we are generally pleased with the result of making her more enjoyable to play, she now needs to lose some general strength to compensate for the new-found consistency. While most of this is coming from her Combat Veteran Augment when combined with other sources of XP stacking such as Orb or Lotus, there is still room to trim some burst damage and uptime away from her kit to ensure that there are more appropriate tradeoffs when building that style. Likewise, we have tuned Combat Veteran’s XP to be less powerful after roughly Level 8, meaning Support Belica can still feel good about choosing it to keep up in early levels, but Mid Belica will no longer accelerate up 2-3 Levels as easily in the late-game.

Murdock

CARRY3 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENMurdock continues to trail behind other Carries due to his weaker early game compared to the more aggressive Carries such as Revenant and Drongo. While they are receiving hits to their power which will naturally make Murdock’s strength more valuable, we are pushing 1 more set of smaller changes to give him the additional stats he needs to hold his own in the early lane, and transition into a more stable mid-game.

Renna

MIDLANE3 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENRenna has faltered ever since her last set of hits she received to her Ultimate. While we stand by those changes, she is currently struggling to keep up with the stronger Mages. To help provide her with more conditional pop-off moments, we’re granting her Mortal Coil some additional damage and execute capabilities, allowing her to better work down her opponents and threaten a satisfying kill with its use.

Revenant

CARRY6 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENRevenant has risen to the pinnacle of the Carry role, possessing incredible pressure in the early game and the ability to snowball out of control should his opponents make but 1 or 2 mistakes. While snowballing is a part of his identity we’d like to somewhat maintain, we are undoing some of the previous buffs to his 4th Shot Movement Speed and Ultimate Cooldown, while also dropping his general damage output and snowballing to more appropriate levels by trimming back his trading power, late-game scaling, and the dueling potential his Ultimate’s Stat Steal effect provides.

Scarlett

OFFLANEJUNGLE5 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENNow that Scarlett players have mastered her further, she can now receive some reductions to her general strength back closer to her initial release strength. Given her Energy economy and general combat loop’s cadence, she is a difficult balance case as there is a fine line between making her too weak in conventional scenarios, or overpowered with too many winning matchups. Given this, we’re making some smaller changes to her ability uptime and early durability, alongside reducing the Critical Damage present on her Minueta to reduce the strength of Terminus/Solaris builds in the early game. These changes should help normalize her matchups in Offlane further, and potentially open up more skill-matchups/soft-losing matchups for her to be concerned about navigating, but keep her feeling impactful to play.

Sevarog

OFFLANEJUNGLE5 zmian

+3−2Karta bohatera

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENSevarog is receiving a range of quality of life changes to his general hitboxes and ability feel. While these changes are certainly power-positive, we feel Sevarog can feel a little clunky at times, especially in the case of his Ultimate’s hitbox being too tight, and how his Siphon can feel awkward to weave in combination with his Basic Attacks, and is therefore deserving of the changes simply to make him feel more enjoyable and intuitive to play. Oh and there’s some Junglerog buffs, yay!

Shinbi

OFFLANEJUNGLE3 zmian

+1−2Karta bohatera

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENShinbi continues to be a menace with her high dash uptime and ability to rain sparkly havoc across late-game teamfights with her Ultimate. To combat this, we’re reducing her Allegro Augment’s Cooldown refund to ensure she’s a little bit easier to lock down and catch, while also reducing some of the late-game strength of her Ultimate, as it currently kills too many Heroes from excessively high health thresholds when she gets a few items online.

Terra

OFFLANEJUNGLE5 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENTerra continues to feel underwhelming for many. Once again we are increasing the power of her Highland Hurl, as this is the ability that can feel the most lackluster to use, both in terms of damage and utility. By shifting around the scaling from Slow Duration to Shred, we’re now granting her more agency in Skill Order based on matchups - as she typically struggles to deal with Tankier opponents as she is unable to access Penetration/Shred Items due to her Armor Scalings. Likewise, the utility of her Slow/Root is now more powerful, better allowing her to control fights and contribute to her team as a disruptive frontliner, even when behind.

The Fey

MIDLANE2 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENThe Fey has flown under the radar for a while now as an incredibly powerful pick, and avoided adjustments despite other Mages around her falling down in strength. To ensure that she doesn’t rise above everyone else, we’re dropping the safety offered by Bramble Patch’s Movement Speed slightly, while also reducing her mid-game harass from her Harvest Nettles (those things hurt).

TwinBlast

CARRY3 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENSimilar to Murdock, TwinBlast has largely been suppressed by the likes of Revenant and Drongo. While we are mindful not to push his strengths too high, there is slightly more room to give him some love in the ability department, better opening up some On-Hit and Assassin build paths and providing him with additional build variance.

Valmont

MIDLANE12 zmian

+2−10Karta bohatera

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENValmont has taken a while for players to get used to, but now that they better grasp his kit and mechanics, it has become apparent that he is simply too powerful and in need of a power cut in various areas. To provide a little more context and transparency on his strength, when we tested him internally prior to release, we saw many players heavily struggling to succeed with him in their initial 5-10 matches despite us believing he was powerful in the right hands (which was mirrored by players struggling in the first week of his release too). This is typically normal - especially with more unconventional Heroes. As a result, with many new Heroes we tend to give them slightly more power than necessary as a way of compensating for the mastery curve players must go through when learning to play as, with and against a new Hero over the initial release patch, with players becoming more competent with each match they play towards the next balance update. In Valmont’s case, we definitely overshot a bit too much. While there is no exact science to this as it's difficult to predict the speed players will become proficient with a new Hero in various skill brackets, hopefully that helps explain why some Heroes can release as seemingly “OP” - especially in Valmont’s case, as we already predict he will trend to being stronger in lower skill-brackets due to the healing/spacing checks he places on opponents that can lead to him feeling oppressive, similar to Khaimera. There is a fine line between us overshooting and the Hero being too strong, or undershooting and everyone giving up on it after a couple of matches, thus diminishing the impact of a new Hero’s release because players feel it's too underwhelming to stick with. Overall, it's an important (but challenging) aspect of nailing the Player Experience that we must consider for new Hero releases that will always have mixed results, but hopefully this insight is helpful in allowing you to understand the balance process a little further!

Wukong

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENArise my Wukong brethren! Hair stacks no longer fall off over time, meaning your Clones will be up more consistently, and you can feel less bound to his Masterful Mimicry Augment.

Yurei

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENYurei’s Skulls have been suffering from a bug where they were counting as Minions for the sake of various interactions, meaning effects that would boost damage against Minions would deal excessive damage when damaging them. This has now been resolved.

• Fixed an issue where Yurei’s Skulls counted as a Minion for the sake of damage calculations and item effects.

Zarus

OFFLANEJUNGLE3 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENSimilar to some other Heroes such as Grux, we’re slightly nudging down Zarus’ early strength, specifically targeting his clear speed and level-6 gank potency from his Ultimate in order to slightly drop his efficacy and reduce how oppressive and impactful he can feel throughout the early game.

Marksman Crest

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENMarksman Crest was taking longer to charge on average than the other Crests, so we’ve reduced the stack limit required to Evolve. With this change the Crest will come online at a similar pace to other options.

Marksman Crest

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• Fixed an issue where various automatic basic attacks (Legion, Eden) would only stack the Crest on the first shot.

Exodus

LegendaryCrests1 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENExodus has seen a surge in popularity in the North American region especially, with players now fully seeing the power it has at disrupting fights and catching opponents. As a result, we’re undoing one of the Cooldown buffs it received in the past to ensure its uptime and ability to interrupt key abilities as frequently is reduced.

Rift Walkers

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENRift Walkers has largely fallen out of favour ever since we reduced the range of its Pull. As it has been a rather long time since this occurred and the game has shifted dramatically since then, we are undoing that change, pushing it back closer to its old value (650) to bring it back into relevance. If it’s an overshot, we will adjust it as necessary in the following patches.

Onixian Quiver

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENQuiver is another item that has largely fallen out of favour compared to other options, and given the amount of beefy frontliners running around, we want to push its strength up to give Carries a stronger countermeasure when dealing with close range divers.

Mutilator

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• Fixed an issue where Mutilator was not being applied on AoE abilities when they dealt damage to multiple enemies.

Azure Core

EpicMage1 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENAzure Core is seeing too much popularity, even on Mages where its acquisition is questionable. To create a greater differentiation between it and other options, we’re dropping its Ability Haste, making the likes of Oathkeeper and Soulbinder more attractive first buys, alongside the staple of Combustion.

Oathkeeper

EpicMage1 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENA quick bump for Oathkeeper’s effect damage, helping it better compete as an early game pickup.

Soulbinder

EpicMage1 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENSoulbinder continues to be underbought by the Heroes best suited to it, and is in need of a small bump to help it compete with the other 1st buys in the class.

Luxforge Lantern

EpicSupport1 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENA quick bump for Luxforge’s Physical Power, as it has been left behind the other items that received a bump.

Flux Matrix

EpicTank1 zmian

+1

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENFlux Matrix is another item that sees minimal play. A bump to its Haste will make it more attractive relative to other Magical Armor items for the likes of Aurora, Shinbi and Kwang.

Vainglory

EpicTank2 zmian

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Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENVainglory can often feel a bit underwhelming to pick up, despite it signalling its use as a capstone. We’re granting it more strength to make it a more satisfying pickup for Armor stacks, and incentivise them to forgo a less durable damage item.

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENBottomless Vial suffered from an issue where it was granting more Magical Power than we intended in the 3v3 mode. This has now been resolved.

• Magical Power per River Buff decreased from 15 to 5.

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENRecall Speed is being reduced in Crucible to improve the overall pacing of the mode.

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENSevarog and Renna were not gaining stacks passively as they do in other game modes. This has now been implemented into Crucible.

• The following Heroes now correctly gain Passive Stacks: Sevarog, Renna.

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENItems such as Overlord or Azure Core were not receiving stacks passively as they do in other game modes. This has now been implemented into Crucible.

• Various Stacking Items now passively gain Stacks (E.g: Overlord), like they do in ARAM.
• Various Crests Stacking Items now gain multiple charges per use (E.g: Obelisk), like they do in ARAM

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENWe’re removing the custom damage modifiers from Crucible. These modifiers were originally designed around the 5v5 ARAM experience and did not translate well to the 3v3 environment, resulting in some Heroes having unintuitive power spikes, be that excessive damage or durability. Heroes will now be using their standard live values instead of having additional Damage Amps/Reduction Modifiers, and we hope this change provides a more consistent experience. We’ll be monitoring this change closely as the goal is to allow all Heroes to be playable and find success in Crucible, but this may cause some fallout. Naturally, we’re open to re-introducing custom values if it’s needed in future, but for now we’ll assess how the mode plays without them.

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENWe’re adding a small delay before Jungle Monsters spawn on match start. The goal of this change is to reduce the immediate rush at the start of the game and allow players more time to navigate the shop without the threat of the Enemy team taking Jungle Buffs before you’ve had time to even move.

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENSmall adjustments to Blue Buff that aim to decrease its damage potential in the early game whilst increasing the HP mid to late game to prevent the camp being cleared too quickly as the Heroes get stronger, and to be less punishing to kill solo.

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENSimilar to Blue, Red will be receiving changes to decrease its damage potential in the early game whilst increasing the durability across the match. With this change, Red Buff will be able to take a few hits and allow teams more time to contest it before it’s killed.

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENGiven how quickly they can be killed, River Buff spawning at the start of the match felt a bit disconnected from the intention of players fighting around the larger buffs. We’ve adjusted its initial spawn time to be slightly later than other Camps, meaning there is a better bridge in decision making between invading the Enemy River Buff, doubling back for your own, or going to the lane.

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENWe’re reducing the duration of the Orb Prime buff to prevent it from influencing the game for an excessive amount of time, and give the defending team higher odds of making a comeback.

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENThe Fangteeth are receiving large amounts of changes aimed at reducing their damage potential and increasing their mid/late-game durability. We’re also reducing the stats gained from defeating Fangtooth, as the current rewards provide too much power and make it difficult for teams to recover after falling behind. Additionally we’ve adjusted its initial spawn to spawn later into the match to ensure players are strong enough to fight the demonic dinos.

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENIt wouldn't be Shadow's Eve without a map makeover! Sanctuary has well and truly been petrified, complete with haunting new lighting, jack o' lanterns, candles and more!

Komentarz deweloperóworyginał ENShadow's Eve skins have returned for a limited time only, along with a whole bunch of brand new variants! It's time to crash the ball! 3 exclusive skin variants are being added to the Debutante Ball Bundle Core