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Sequential balance adjustments from the first international championship (M1 World Championship) through to today.
Championship & Seasonal Version History
116 Archived Milestones
Patch 1.7.68
Season 27 Released March 22, 2023Patch 1.7.68 - Revamp Milestone
Official update released March 22, 2023. Key highlights: Revamped Hero: Minsitthar , Courageous Warrior New Event: ALLSTAR New Map: Harmonia Equipment Adjustment.
7
Buffs
1
Nerfs
15
Adjusted
2
Revamps
11 Balance Adjustments
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Adjustments applied to Mark of the King, Spear of Glory, Shield Assault, King's Calling.
All Documented Modifications (5)
Designer Note
Spear of Glory and King's Calling are Minsitthar's core skills, so we've kept their gameplay the same (with some optimizations) in this revamp.
In addition, we've redesigned his Skill 2 and Passive to provide more damage and control to his kit. This redesign focuses on maintaining his roaming role while exploring the possibility of taking the Exp Lane.
We've also given Minsitthar a complete makeover. With this revamp, the courageous warrior shall reclaim his rightful glory!
A courageous warrior who excels in battle with spear and shield.
Minsitthar's Basic Attacks and skills apply a stack of Mark of the King. Upon reaching 5 stacks, the next attack will detonate all Marks to deal a large amount of damage and stun the target, and restore HP to Minsitthar.
When pulling back his spear, Minsitthar will pull all enemy heroes in its path to him.
Minsitthar holds up his shield, reducing incoming damage from the front for a period of time.
While in this stance, Minsitthar's Basic Attacks will hit all enemies in a rectangular area and have increased Attack Speed.
Minsitthar's Ultimate now prevents all enemies in its area from using all movement abilities.
Summoned Royal Guards can also trigger Minsitthar's equipment effects with their attacks.
Slightly increased the cast range.
Reduced the effect's duration.
Role:
Fighter
Tier:
D
Patch History:
9 Updates
Base HP: 2,600
All Documented Modifications (4)
Designer Note
Joy has impressive durability, but her burst potential is a bit lacking in the mid-to-late game. As such, we're making it harder for her to gain durability while increasing her damage to fit her role as an Assassin.
Removed the shield effect.
New Effect: Joy's skills now deal an additional instance of damage each time they hit a non-Minion unit.
Max Uses: 5 → 4
New Effect: Gain a shield when hitting on beat.
Number of Skill 2 casts required to unlock: 5 → 4
New Effect: Gain Physical & Magic Defense during Ultimate.
Damage increase after hitting on beat: 30% → 40% (max damage when hitting all beats is the same)
Role:
Assassin
Tier:
D
Patch History:
11 Updates
Base HP: 2,400
All Documented Modifications (3)
Designer Note
While Freya has great sustainability, she plays more or less the same as other heroes that rely on Basic Attacks. So, we're making it easier for her to chain her skill combos, and in some circumstances, indefinitely. We're also improving the feel of Spirit Combo and Leap of Faith, and that of Freya's combos as a whole. Her shield and damage in the early-mid game have been adjusted to keep things balanced.
Skill 1 is no longer enhanced by Sacred Orb nor does it cost any Sacred Orbs.
Can move through obstacles more easily.
Skill casts needed to trigger leaping strike: 3 → 2
Reworked how the cooldown works: Cooldown is no longer triggered after the leaping strike, instead it triggers after not continuing to cast the skill within a certain period.
Slightly reduced the foreswing time of the leaping strike.
Airborne Duration: 0.5s → 0.4s
Base Damage: 130-230 (+90% Total Physical Attack) → 20-230 (+90% Total Physical Attack)
Final Damage: 156-276 (+108% Total Physical Attack) → 26-276 (+108% Total Physical Attack)
Shield: 160-260 (+70% Extra Physical Attack) → 60-260 (+70% Extra Physical Attack)
Role:
Fighter
Tier:
S
Patch History:
14 Updates
Base HP: 2,600
All Documented Modifications (3)
Designer Note
As a Marksman without Blink, Layla has trouble with survivability. We hope the following changes will allow her to kite enemies more efficiently and increase her skill cap. We've reduced a bit of her damage to balance these buffs.
Maximum Damage Increase: 135% → 130%
Changed the slow effect from mark detonations to a 0.25s AOE stun.
Only marks the first target hit.
Role:
Marksman
Tier:
D
Patch History:
10 Updates
Base HP: 2,200
All Documented Modifications (3)
Designer Note
With fewer Weaknesses to hit, more players have been enjoying Wanwan, but it also made it harder for her opponents to counter her Ultimate. Therefore, we want to make it easier to escape her Ultimate while not affecting her power. After the changes, the locked target can more easily get out of lock range, and frontline heroes can move to block Wanwan's crossbow attacks to tank the damage. To compensate, we buffed Wanwan's damage, and how much she gains from Movement Speed bonuses in the early and mid game (Wanwan should get extra Movement Speed to take advantage of this).
All Weaknesses Hit Damage: 55-97 → 70-112
Lock Range: 8.5 → 6
Speed Boost while in the air: 10% Total Movement Speed → 100% Extra Movement Speed
Role:
Marksman
Tier:
D
Patch History:
25 Updates
Base HP: 2,200
All Documented Modifications (3)
Designer Note
Badang has become too dominant in this version with the buff to Knockback effects. We've moderately reduced his damage in the early and mid game for balance.
Base Damage: 160-260 → 125-225
Explosion Damage: 120-195 → 100-175
Base Damage: 80-140 → 60-120
Explosion Damage: 40-70 → 30-60
Role:
Fighter
Tier:
C
Patch History:
15 Updates
Base HP: 2,600
All Documented Modifications (2)
Designer Note
We've slightly increased Esmeralda's damage to make her more competitive compared to other Exp Laners.
Cooldown: 5.5-3.5s → 4.5-3.5s
Role:
Tank, Mage
Tier:
A
Patch History:
19 Updates
Base HP: 2,500
All Documented Modifications (2)
Designer Note
We want players to be able to use Eudora's skills based on the situation, instead of always starting with Skill 2.
Orb of Lightning bounce's Stun Duration: 0.6s → 0.9s
Role:
Mage
Tier:
A
Patch History:
8 Updates
Base HP: 2,300
All Documented Modifications (3)
Designer Note
We've slightly buffed Lesley's damage because the meta has been favouring Attack Speed Marksmen.
Base Damage:50 → 75
Cooldown: 5-3s → 4-2.5s
Role:
Marksman, Assassin
Tier:
D
Patch History:
15 Updates
Base HP: 2,500
All Documented Modifications (2)
Designer Note
We've slightly buffed Paquito's durability in the mid and late game to fit his role as a fighter.
Shield: 150-500 +110% Physical Attack → 150-650 +135% Physical Attack
Role:
Fighter, Assassin
Tier:
S
Patch History:
20 Updates
Base HP: 2,500
All Documented Modifications (3)
Designer Note
Slightly reduced the damage of Fredrinn's Ultimate when not enhanced.
Base Damage: 200-300 → 140-215
Base Damage: 300-500 → 210-330
Role:
Fighter, Tank
Tier:
D
Patch History:
12 Updates
Base HP: 2,500