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Patch 1.4.86
Season 16 Released June 16, 2020Patch 1.4.86 - Revamped Paenlong Legend - Yi Sun-shin
Official update released June 16, 2020. Key highlights: New Hero: Black Dragon - Yu Zhong, a powerful fighter who can transform into a Black Dragon and sweep across the battlefield. Revamped Hero: Paenlong Legend - Yi Sun-shin, the Admiral who can fight using different weapons..
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1
Nerfs
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Adjusted
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Revamps
23 Balance Adjustments
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A powerful fighter who can transform into a Black Dragon and sweep across the battlefield.
All Documented Modifications (6)
Designer Note
A powerful fighter who can transform into a Black Dragon and sweep across the battlefield.
Yu Zhong applies Sha Residue to the target every time he deals damage to enemy heroes, and gathers Sha Essence in the meantime. Sha Residue erupts upon reaching full stacks, consuming 1 stack every several seconds. Each stack consumption deals part of the target's HP lost as Physical Damage, restores part of his HP lost and gathers Sha Essence for Yu Zhong. When Sha Essence is fully charged, Yu Zhong gains Movement Speed and Spell Vamp.
Yu Zhong infuses his power into his cloak and turns it into a weapon, which starts to attack nearby enemies after a short delay. The sharpened edge deals more damage.
Yu Zhong unleashes the Dragon Soul, dealing damage to all enemies in front and slowing them. Upon a target hit, Yu Zhong's next Basic Attack will be enhanced, dealing increased damage and applying extra Sha Residue. The increased damage scales with the number of targets hit, capped at 5 targets hit.
Yu Zhong leaps towards the designated area with his full strength, dealing Physical Damage. He is able to dash one more time in the movement direction. After a short delay, enemies within the area of effect will be knocked airborne will take additional Physical Damage.
Yu Zhong transforms into the Black Dragon form and starts charging. He gains Control Immunity, ignores obstacles, and increases Max HP, dealing Physical Damage to enemy heroes on the path and knocking them.
Upon exiting the Black Dragon form, Yu Zhong deals the same amount of damage to enemies nearby, and enters Dragonoid form with the help of the remaining influence of the Black Dragon. The Dragonoid form improves the range of all his skills.
Role:
Fighter
Tier:
C
Patch History:
11 Updates
Base HP: 2,600
Adjustments applied to Heavenly Vow, Traceless, Blood Floods, Mountain Shocker.
All Documented Modifications (5)
Designer Note
One of the main feature of Yi Sun-shin is that he can switch his weapons flexibly according to his distance from the target. However, actually in most of the cases he was playing a ranged role instead of taking advantage of his glaive. Therefore, in this revamp, we have added powerful effects to his each weapon swap, which boosts his melee ability and provides him with more possibilities. As a result, Yi Sun-shin is given another new role: Assassin, apart from his original role Marksman.
The Admiral who can fight using different weapons.
Yi Sun-shin chooses his longbow or glaive to attack, according to his distance from the target. After each weapon swap, Weapon Mastery is triggered and his next two attacks will be enhanced. The first attack deals higher Critical Damage. The second attack deals lower Critical Damage and grants Yi Sun-shin Movement Speed. Each enhanced attack reduces the cooldown of Traceless. The allied base is transformed into a naval fleet. Every several seconds or after respawn, a Turtle Ship is spawned at the allied base. Yi Sun-shin can board, the Turtle Ship and gains Movement Speed and enhances Traceless.
Yi Sun-shin slashes forward with his glaive, dealing Physical Damage to enemies on the path. He becomes immune to CC gains Damage, Reduction for a period of time. After this skill is enhanced by the Turtle Ship: Yi Sun-shin orders the Turtle Ship to charge toward the target, dealing damage to the first enemy hit and nearby enemies and stunning them.
Without charging: Yi Sun-shin slashes swiftly with his glaive, dealing Physical Damage to enemies within a square area. With Charging: Yi Sun-shin shoots forward a powerful arrow, dealing damage to the target. Yi, Sun-shin gains [Weapon Mastery] right away upon skill cast.
Yi Sun-shin commands the naval fleet to launch 3 waves of precise cannon attacks to all enemy heroes. Each wave deals Physical Damage. Enemies hit by any wave will be slowed. Passive damage is increased, each time this skill levels up.
Role:
Assassin, Marksman
Tier:
B
Patch History:
15 Updates
Base HP: 2,500
Adjustments applied to Steel Bones, Blast Iron Fist, Unbreakable.
All Documented Modifications (3)
He converts 2% of his HP lost into Physical Defense instead of 2.5%, capped at 200 instead of 250.
Removed Effect: HP restoration from hitting high HP enemies.
New Effect: Each time he takes damage, he gains Rage. Upon reaching a certain amount of Rage, his next Basic Attack will be enhanced.
Optimized animation.
Base Damage adjusted to 200-300 (+150% of Total Magic Power).
Damage over time adjusted to 100-150 (+20% of Total Magic Power).
Dash distance only varies with charge duration now.
Taunt, duration adjusted to 1.5s.
Cooldown adjusted to 12-10s.
Role:
Tank, Fighter
Tier:
B
Patch History:
12 Updates
Base HP: 2,500
Adjustments applied to Bloodthirst, Soul Lock, Cyclone Sweep, Lethal Counter.
All Documented Modifications (4)
HP Regeneration on minion or creep kill adjusted to 5%.
HP Regeneration on hero elimination adjusted to 20%.
Charging radius increased by 50%.
Effect added: Each time an enemy takes damage from this skill, they take 25% increased damage next time, up to 100% increased damage.
Initial damage adjusted accordingly.
Base Damage adjusted to 300-500.
Physical Attack bonus adjusted to 100%.
Role:
Fighter
Tier:
D
Patch History:
15 Updates
Base HP: 2,600
Adjustments applied to Blessing of Wilderness, Combat Ritual, Art of Hunting, Power of Wildness.
All Documented Modifications (4)
Removed the HP restoration when her HP is low.
Max HP of the shield increased from 10% to 20% when entering the bush.
Slow adjusted to 40%.
The base damage on each cast at all levels increased by 15.
The skill range of the 2nd and 3rd casts greatly increased.
Effect upon reaching full stacks adjusted to 50%.
Increased total damage and 40% Physical Penetration gain.
Base Damage and stacked damage adjusted accordingly.
Role:
Fighter, Tank
Tier:
C
Patch History:
16 Updates
Base HP: 2,500
Adjustments applied to Deadly Pincers, Electromag Rays, Rapid Touchdown.
All Documented Modifications (3)
Base Damage reduced from 200-350 to 150-250.
Physical Defense gain increased from 150% to 200%.
Base Damage increased from 80-155 to 100-175.
Damage bonus adjusted from 20% Physical Defense to 40% of Total Magic Power.
The car's explosion damage is adjusted.
Minimum damage adjusted from 300-600 (+90% Total Magic Power) to 400-600 (+160% Total Magic Power).
Maximum damage adjusted from 750-1500 (+225% Total Magic Power) to 700-1050 (+280% Total Magic Power).
Shortened the cast animation so that Johnson can use Throttle shortly after transforming into a car.
Role:
Tank, Support
Tier:
D
Patch History:
12 Updates
Base HP: 2,500
Adjustments applied to Let's Dance!, Be Good!, Don't Run, Wolf King!, I'm Offended!.
All Documented Modifications (4)
Physical Defense gain after each jump adjusted from 17-40 to 23-40.
Physical Lifesteal increased from 5% to 10%.
Base Damage adjusted from 150-350 to 160-360.
Physical Attack bonus increased from 150% to 180%.
Shockwave now does the same amount of damage as the slash damage.
Removed outer ring damage bonus.
Base Damage adjusted from 205-475 to 200-480.
Physical damage bonus increased from 180% to 200%.
Role:
Fighter
Tier:
C
Patch History:
9 Updates
Base HP: 2,600
All Documented Modifications (1)
It's now activated in 3s after leaving combat instead of 5s.
Role:
Fighter, Tank
Tier:
B
Patch History:
21 Updates
Base HP: 2,500
All Documented Modifications (1)
Ultimate's HP restore adjusted from 3% to 2-3%.
Role:
Fighter
Tier:
D
Patch History:
9 Updates
Base HP: 2,600
Adjustments applied to Defiant Sword, Tempest of Blades.
All Documented Modifications (2)
Damage increased from 165-265 to 190-265.
Cooldown reduced from 50-40 to 42-36s.
Role:
Assassin
Tier:
C
Patch History:
28 Updates
Base HP: 2,400
All Documented Modifications (2)
The base damage of Yin-Yang Reaction increased from 420 to 450.
Damage growth increased from 14 to 15.
Magic Bonus increased from 140% to 150%.
Base damage increased by 20 at all levels.
Skill range increased by 20%.
Role:
Mage
Tier:
D
Patch History:
13 Updates
Base HP: 2,300
All Documented Modifications (1)
Base damage reduced from 300-600 to 300-500.
Physical Attack Bonus increased from 0.4 to 0.8.
Mana Cost reduced from 90-140 to 50-100.
Synchronized the charge bar progress and the actual damage.
Role:
Tank, Fighter
Tier:
C
Patch History:
16 Updates
Base HP: 2,500
All Documented Modifications (1)
Base Damage increased from 280-380 to 300-400.
Total Magic Power bonus increased from 55% to 60%.
Stun duration increased to 0.8s.
Damage and stun duration while leaping up increased by 1.25 times.
Leaping, Cooldown adjusted to 1.5s.
Role:
Tank
Tier:
C
Patch History:
18 Updates
Base HP: 2,800
Balance adjustments applied to Popol and Kupa.
All Documented Modifications (1)
Comprehensive balance adjustments applied to Popol and Kupa.
Role:
Marksman
Tier:
D
Patch History:
17 Updates
Base HP: 2,200
All Documented Modifications (1)
Base damage increased from 425-600 to 425-650.
Role:
Mage
Tier:
C
Patch History:
20 Updates
Base HP: 2,300
All Documented Modifications (1)
Cooldown adjusted from 11-7.5 to 12-9s.
Role:
Fighter
Tier:
D
Patch History:
22 Updates
Base HP: 2,600
Adjustments applied to Ninjutsu Demon Thorn, Kinjutsu Pinnacle Ninja.
All Documented Modifications (2)
Physical Attack Bonus adjusted from 100% to 60%.
Extra Movement Speed for Demon Pneuma reduced, from 50% to 35%.
Role:
Assassin
Tier:
D
Patch History:
12 Updates
Base HP: 2,400
All Documented Modifications (1)
The damage range decreased by 10%.
Synchronized the indicator size and the actual range.
Role:
Marksman, Mage
Tier:
C
Patch History:
21 Updates
Base HP: 2,500
All Documented Modifications (1)
The passive effect of Demon Hunter Sword inherited by Dexter adjusted from 50% to 35%.
Role:
Marksman
Tier:
B
Patch History:
21 Updates
Base HP: 2,200
All Documented Modifications (1)
Slow duration adjusted from 0.5 to 0.2s.
Role:
Marksman
Tier:
C
Patch History:
21 Updates
Base HP: 2,200
Balance adjustments applied to Karrie.
All Documented Modifications (1)
Comprehensive balance adjustments applied to Karrie.
Role:
Marksman
Tier:
C
Patch History:
17 Updates
Base HP: 2,200
All Documented Modifications (1)
Extra Attack Speed Ratio reduced from 80% to 50%.
Role:
Marksman
Tier:
C
Patch History:
18 Updates
Base HP: 2,200
Balance adjustments applied to Faramis.
All Documented Modifications (1)
Comprehensive balance adjustments applied to Faramis.
Role:
Support, Mage
Tier:
D
Patch History:
10 Updates
Base HP: 2,500