Official update released December 18, 2024. Key highlights: New Hero: Lukas , Beast of Light. A Fighter who can unleash his power to transform into a Sacred Beast and dominate the battlefield. Hero Adjustments Battlefield Adjustments System Adjustments.

15 Buffs

4 Nerfs

1 Adjusted

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20 Balance Adjustments

Lukas hero Buff

Hero Feature: A Fighter who can unleash his power to transform into a Sacred Beast and dominate the battlefield. This hero will be available on 12/21 (Server Time).

Hero's Resolve

Flash Combo

Flash Step

Unleash the Beast

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Designer Note

Hero Feature: A Fighter who can unleash his power to transform into a Sacred Beast and dominate the battlefield. This hero will be available on 12/21 (Server Time).

Hero's Resolve

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Lukas gains Resolve over time or by dealing damage to enemy heroes. When Resolve is full, he can cast his Ultimate to transform into Sacred Beast form.

Flash Combo

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Lukas can enhance Flash Combo with his Basic Attacks. When casting the Skill, Lukas unleashes Pulverize and consumes all Vigor to deliver additional attacks, stunning and damaging enemies in range. He recovers HP when hitting an enemy hero.

Flash Step

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Lukas quickly dashes in the target direction and enhances his next Basic Attack into Flash Strike When casting Flash Strike, Lukas blinks behind the enemy, gains Attack Speed and Movement Speed for a duration, and summons lightning storms with Basic Attacks to deal Extra Damage.

Unleash the Beast

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Lukas unleashes his full power and transforms into his Sacred Beast form, greatly enhancing his.attributes, empowering all skills, and gaining access to Shockwave Blast. While in Sacred Beast form, tap Ultimate again cast Shockwave Blast, firing a bomb in the target direction to deal high Damage in a large area.

Role: Fighter

Tier: C

Patch History: 6 Updates

Base HP: 2,600

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Sun hero Buff

Adjustments applied to Simian God, Endless Variety, Swift Exchange, Instantaneous Move.

Simian God

Endless Variety

Swift Exchange

Instantaneous Move

Clone Techniques

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Designer Note

We've enhanced Sun's burst damage and crowd control to improve his ganking potential as a Jungler. We've also increased his early-game sustainability to strengthen his ability to farm in the EXP Lane. However, we're reducing his sustained damage output to maintain balance.

Simian God

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Reduces target's Physical Defense by 496 per stack, up to 10 stacks → Reduces target's Physical Defense by 5% per stack, up to 6 stacks HP Recovered: 50% of the Doppelganger's Physical Attack → 75 + 25% of the Doppelganger's Physical Attack

Endless Variety

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Cooldown: 10s → 10-8s

Swift Exchange

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Cooldown: 10s → 10-8s This skill now no longer stops when hitting hero units.

Instantaneous Move

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Base Damage. 170-320 + 40% of Total Physical Attack → 250-320+ 40%-60% of Total Physical Attack New Effect: Applies a 20% Slow Effect for 1.5s to target hit. The Slow Effect can stack up to 3 times with Doppelgangers. Cooldown: 4s → 6s Optimized skill animations and visual effects to enhance the sense of power.

Clone Techniques

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Duration of Doppelganger: 12s → 8s

Role: Fighter

Tier: D

Patch History: 9 Updates

Base HP: 2,600

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Argus hero Buff

Adjustments applied to Warmonger, Meteoric Sword, Eternal Evil.

Warmonger

Meteoric Sword

Eternal Evil

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Designer Note

Argus has an exceptionally high win rate in high-rank matches, mainly due to his strong 1v1 potential and corresponding split-pushing and base-taking abilities after getting core items. However, his weak early-to-mid game laning phase and awkward positioning in teamfights contradict his theme as as a powerful Fallen Angel wielding the Meteoric Sword. Therefore, we've given Argus a new Ultimate that can turn the tide in teamfights, and strengthened his early-to-mid game laning phase, while reducing his skill damage and spit-pushing power accordingly.

Warmonger

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Demonic Slash Basic Regen: 200 HP → 150 HP Demonic Slash Damage: 150 + 100% of Total Physical Attack → 180 + 80% of Total Physical Attack Extra Malice Energy Gained with Crit: 5 → 10

Meteoric Sword

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Removed: Attacking Cursed targets grants 200% Malice Energy. New effect: Hitting an enemy grants 100 Malice Energy (excess Malice Energy will be kept for the next Basic Attack). Base Damage: 300-400 → 120-240

Eternal Evil

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Argus draws his Meteoric Sword, dealing Physical Damage to nearby enemies and becoming the Fallen Angel. If this attack hits a hero, it enhances the Meteoric Sword (and Argus gains massive Malice Energy after Demonic Slash). If he takes fatal damage during the transformation, the duration of the Fallen Angel state will be immediately reset. If he doesn't take fatal damage during the transformation, the cooldown will be reduced by 50% when the Skill ends.

Role: Fighter

Tier: D

Patch History: 16 Updates

Base HP: 2,600

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Aulus hero Buff

Adjustments applied to Fighting Spirit, The Power of Axe, Undying Fury.

Fighting Spirit

The Power of Axe

Cleaving Axe

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Designer Note

With these changes, we aim to improve Aulus's passive stacking mechanics and laning sustainability, while giving him more initiative in combat. Now Aulus's The Power of Axe is more powerful, able to actively slow enemies and deal more damage at full Fighting Spirit stacks.

Fighting Spirit

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Max Passive Stacks: 4 → 3 Attack Speed Granted per Stack: 9-12% → 15% Removed Effect: Each stack of [Fighting Spirit] increases Physical Penetration by 1-4. Removed Effect: At full stacks of [Fighting Spirit], gains 10% Movement Speed.

The Power of Axe

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New Effect: Slows the enemy on hit by 20% for 3s. New Effect: When cast with full stacks of Fighting Spirit, deals additional Physical Damage equal to 3.5-6% (scales with Skill Level) of the target's HP to enemies in range (capped at 200-900 Extra Damage against Creeps). Base Damage: 240-440 → 200-400 Enhanced Basic Attack's HP Recovery Trigger: Hitting enemy heroes or Creeps → Hitting enemy targets (now includes enemy Minions)

Undying Fury

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Blade Craft Effect: Basic Attacks deal 50 extra Physical Damage at full [Fighting Spirit] stacks → Basic Attacks always deal 50 extra Physical Damage (can be stacked with the effect of full [Fighting Spirit] stacks)

Role: Fighter

Tier: B

Patch History: 15 Updates

Base HP: 2,600

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Zilong hero Buff

We've improved Zilong's early and mid-game combat ability, making it easier to reset his Skill 2. We've also slightly reduced the Attack Speed of his Ultimate for balance.

Dragon Flurry

Supreme Warrior

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Designer Note

We've improved Zilong's early and mid-game combat ability, making it easier to reset his Skill 2. We've also slightly reduced the Attack Speed of his Ultimate for balance.

Dragon Flurry

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Base HP Regen: 30 → 50 New Effect: When the target's HP is below 50%, Zilong's skills and Basic Attacks deal 30 extra damage.

Supreme Warrior

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Attack Speed Boost: 45%-75% → 35%-55%

Role: Fighter, Assassin

Tier: D

Patch History: 5 Updates

Base HP: 2,500

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Badang hero Buff

Adjustments applied to Fist Wind, Fist Crack.

Fist Wind

Fist Crack

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Designer Note

Badang's Ultimate has a relatively short control duration but a long damage duration, making it difficult to maximize damage output. Therefore, we've increased its Control Duration and balanced this by increasing its cooldown. We've also shortened Skill 1's foreswing to improve the control experience.

Fist Wind

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Reduced the foreswing time by 25%.

Fist Crack

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Control Duration: 0.6s → 1s Cooldown: 30-26s → 45-35s

Role: Fighter

Tier: C

Patch History: 15 Updates

Base HP: 2,600

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Harith hero Buff

Adjustments applied to Chrono Dash.

Chrono Dash

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Designer Note

Optimized Skill 2 control experience: Greatly increased dashing speed while slightly reducing dash distance, significantly shortening the dash duration to enhance the combo experience. Also increased Basic Attack Range to maintain the distance for following up Skill 2 with a Basic Attack.

Chrono Dash

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Dashing Speed: 9 → 12 Dash Distance: 3.2 → 3 Enhanced Basic Attack Range: 4.1 → 4.3

Role: Mage

Tier: B

Patch History: 20 Updates

Base HP: 2,300

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Dyrroth hero Buff

Adjustments applied to Wrath of the Abyss, Spectre Step.

Wrath of the Abyss

Spectre Step

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Designer Note

The HP recovery from Wrath of the Abyss mostly helps Dyrroth build his advantage in the laning phase but becomes less impactful in the late game. We want Dyrroth to be able to engage in prolonged fights in the mid-to-late game! Additionally, we've improved his control experience by allowing his Skill 2 to target Minions (while still prioritizing Heroes). Now, Dyrroth synergizes better with equipment for Fighters like War Axe and Queen's Wings, enabling him to deal more damage.

Wrath of the Abyss

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Removed Effect: Circle Strike recovers equal to 80 + 50% of damage dealt (halved against minions). New Effect: Circle Strike recovers HP equal to 80 + 8% of Max HP (halved against Minions).

Spectre Step

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Fatal Strike (Skill 2 second phase) can now target all Units (previously not applicable to Minions and Summoned Units).

Role: Fighter

Tier: C

Patch History: 7 Updates

Base HP: 2,600

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Cici hero Buff

Cici's performance is relatively weak in the current Patch, so we're expanding her Basic Attack range to match her Skill 1 range, allowing her to better keep her Passive stacks while her skills are on cooldown.

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Role: Fighter

Tier: C

Patch History: 11 Updates

Base HP: 2,600

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Alucard hero Buff

Slightly increased the pause after Skill and adjusted the cooldown as compensation.

Groundsplitter

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Designer Note

Slightly increased the pause after Skill and adjusted the cooldown as compensation.

Groundsplitter

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Cooldown: 9.5s-7.5s → 8.5s-6.5s Added 1 frame to the Skill backswing to enhance hit feedback.

Role: Fighter, Assassin

Tier: D

Patch History: 11 Updates

Base HP: 2,500

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Lancelot hero Buff

Enhanced Lancelot's damage output in the early-to-mid game, aiming to make him a strong contender among Assassins.

Thorned Rose

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Designer Note

Enhanced Lancelot's damage output in the early-to-mid game, aiming to make him a strong contender among Assassins.

Thorned Rose

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Damage: 170-245 + 130%-155% of Extra Physical Attack → 220-370+ 130% of Extra Physical Attack

Role: Assassin

Tier: D

Patch History: 12 Updates

Base HP: 2,400

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Karrie hero Buff

As a buff-type skill, Karrie's Ultimate provides insufficient Damage Increase in the early-to-mid game.

Speedy Lightwheel

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Designer Note

As a buff-type skill, Karrie's Ultimate provides insufficient Damage Increase in the early-to-mid game.

Speedy Lightwheel

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When Ultimate is activated, the damage of each Basic Attack is increased by 40.

Role: Marksman

Tier: C

Patch History: 17 Updates

Base HP: 2,200

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Irithel hero Buff

We aim to enhance Irithe's damage output after activating her Ultimate in the mid-game.

Heavy Crossbow

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Designer Note

We aim to enhance Irithe's damage output after activating her Ultimate in the mid-game.

Heavy Crossbow

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Basic Attack Damage with Ultimate: 120 + 60%-80% of Total Physical Attack → 120-200 + 65% of Total Physical Attack

Role: Marksman

Tier: D

Patch History: 13 Updates

Base HP: 2,200

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Bruno hero Nerf

As a Marksman with long-range mobility, Bruno's Attack Range significantly exceeds that of other Marksmen with dashing skills. We aim to tone down this advantage.

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As a Marksman with long-range mobility, Bruno's Attack Range significantly exceeds that of other Marksmen with dashing skills. We aim to tone down this advantage.

Role: Marksman

Tier: C

Patch History: 18 Updates

Base HP: 2,200

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Fanny hero Nerf

Over time, Fanny's strength increase after the changes exceeded expectations, making her a bit too mobile. Therefore, we slightly adjusted her Energy Regen to achieve a more balanced experience.

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Over time, Fanny's strength increase after the changes exceeded expectations, making her a bit too mobile. Therefore, we slightly adjusted her Energy Regen to achieve a more balanced experience.

Role: Assassin

Tier: A

Patch History: 23 Updates

Base HP: 2,400

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Cecilion hero Nerf

After equipment adjustments, Cecilion has become a bit too dominant. We're slightly reducing his damage in the mid-to-late game.

Bat Impact

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Designer Note

After equipment adjustments, Cecilion has become a bit too dominant. We're slightly reducing his damage in the mid-to-late game.

Bat Impact

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Magic Power Bonus to Path Damage: 80% → 70% Magic Power Bonus to End Damage: 160% → 140%

Role: Mage

Tier: C

Patch History: 15 Updates

Base HP: 2,300

Hero Dossier Combat Lab

Malefic Gun equipment Nerf

Malefic Gun values and gameplay tuning.

Malefic Gun

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Designer Note

We're delighted to see the equipment adjustments revitalizing some classic Marksmen, with Layla even making an appearance at M6. However, certain Marksmen have gained benefits that slightly exceeded our expectations. We will slightly reduce the increase in Attack Range and shorten the duration of the Movement Speed boost from Basic Attacks, making this effect only achievable with sufficient Attack Sped in the mid-to-late game.

Type: Attack

Cost: 2,120 Gold

Patch History: 3 Updates

Equipment Database

Rose Gold Meteor equipment Buff

We aim to let certain Fighters that rely on Basic Attacks have durability not significantly lower than other semi-tank Fighters, even without purchasing defensive equipment.

Rose Gold Meteor

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Designer Note

We aim to let certain Fighters that rely on Basic Attacks have durability not significantly lower than other semi-tank Fighters, even without purchasing defensive equipment.

Type: Attack

Cost: 2,030 Gold

Patch History: 7 Updates

Equipment Database