V.35 The Monolith Update - Hero Release Notes

TWINBLAST

Now has the “Growth” affinity, in addition to “Fury”
“Rapid Fire” (Previously Nitro) RMB/R1
- Redesigned: Activatable ability that causes Twinblast to shoot three times in rapid succession, dealing 30/35/40/45% damage to Heroes and 45% damage to Non-Heroes.
- Key Remapped.
- Rapid Fire deals Basic Attack Damage, can crit and applies all normal on hit effects.
- Cooldown is 7 seconds.
Grenade! Q/Circle
- Redesigned: Now has 3 charges. Grenades now only deal damage and have no slow component.
- Key Remapped.
- Explosion time reduced from 1 second to .4 seconds
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Ammo recharge time is now 14/12/10/8 seconds.
Rocket Dash E/Square
- Key Remapped.
- Cooldown adjusted from 15/14/13/12 to 18/16/14/12
“Ventilate” (Previously Barrage)
- Redesigned: Twinblast now shoots 30 shots over 3 seconds.
- Key Remapped.
- Range is 2600 units.
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability".
- No longer pierces or deals AoE damage.
- No longer slows Twinblast while active.
- Cooldown is 90/70/50 seconds.

CRUNCH

Left Crunch
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown reduced from 15/13.5/12/10.5 to 6 seconds at all levels.
Right Crunch
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown reduced from 17/16/15/14 to 10 seconds at all levels.
Forward Crunch
- Dash speed increased from .7 to .5 seconds.
- Increased Range from 1000 to 1250 and 1250 to 1500 for Empowered.
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown reduced from 20/18.5/17/15.5 to 12 seconds at all levels.
ReCrunch
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown reduced from 40/30/20 to 20/15/10 seconds.

COUNTESS

Shadow Slip
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown reduced from 15 to 10 seconds.
- Range reduced from 1100 to 850.
Dark Tide
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown reduced from 17/16/15/14 to 8 seconds at all levels.
Blade Siphon
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown reduced from 12/11/10/9 to 8 seconds at all levels.
Feast
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown reduced from 100/90/80 to 100/70/40 seconds.

KWANG

Judgment of the Heavens
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Cooldown has been reduced from 19 to 21/18/15/12 seconds.
Gift of the Heavens
- Adjusted values to be in line with game rebalance.
Light of the Heavens
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown has been adjusted from 14 to 18/16/14/12 seconds.
Fury of the Heavens
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown has been reduced from 100/90/80 to 85/70/55 seconds.

LT. BELICA

Seismic Assault
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Range has been reduced from 2000 to 1600
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Cooldown reduced from 18/17/16/15 to 15 seconds at all levels.
- Stun Duration reduced from 1/1.4/1.8/2.2 to 0.7/1.1/1.5/1.9 seconds.
Void Drone
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Mana Drain increased from 2 to 10/18/26/34
- Cooldown reduced from 60/59/58/57 to 40 seconds at all levels.
Void Bomb
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Range has been reduced from 1500 to 900.
- Radius has been reduced from 750 to 625.
- Explosion delay has been reduced from 2.25 to 1 second
- Cooldown has been reduced from 15/14/13/12 to 6 seconds at all levels.
Neural Disruptor
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- No longer deals base damage.
- Mana to Damage multiplier adjusted to 0.8/1.0/1.2
- Cooldown reduced from 100/90/80 to 100/75/50 seconds.

NARBASH

March!
- Cooldown adjusted from 21/19/17/15 to 24/20/16/12 seconds.
Song of My People
- New Regen Values set at 10/20/30/40.
Thunk
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown adjusted from 18/17/16/15 to 12 seconds at all levels.
Crash Bang Boom!
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown reduced from 100/90/80 to 100/85/70 seconds.

THE FEY

Bramble Patch
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Casting Bramble Patch now prevents movement.
- Cooldown reduced from 18 to 18/16/14/12 seconds.
Harvest Nettles
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- No longer refunds Mana on hitting a Hero.
- Cooldown reduced from 12 to 6 seconds at all levels.
Untamed Growth
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Ability duration decreased from 3 to 2 seconds.
- Cooldown reduced from 17/16/15/14 to 10 seconds at all levels.
Fly Trap
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Casting Fly Trap now prevents movement.
- Cooldown reduced from 100/90/80 to 120/100/80 seconds.

GREYSTONE

Make Way
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability.”
- Cooldown reduced from 25/24/23/22 to 12 seconds at all levels.
Stoic
- Adjusted values to be in line with game rebalance.
Assault the Gates
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown reduced from 17/16/15/14 to 18/15/12/9 seconds.
Reforged
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Redesigned: Enemies damaged by Reforged are no longer knocked up and stunned.
- When Greystone dies, all enemies around him are slowed. This slow is more powerful closer to the center.
- Reforged no longer puts Make Way and Assault the Gates on an additional 5-second cooldown.
- Cooldown reduced from 240/180/120 to 180/130/80 seconds.

KHAIMERA

Unleash
- Cooldown has been reduced from 15 to 10 seconds at all levels.
- Damage reduction now affects total LMB/R2, not just Card scaling.
Spirit Regeneration
- Reduced max stacks to 25.
- Health Regen adjusted to 1.0/1.75/2.5/3.25 per stack.
- Stack duration reduced from 5 to 2.2 seconds.
- Ambush and Cull also apply a stack when they land.
- Attacking structures no longer applies stacks.
Ambush
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown has been reduced from 17/16/15/14 to 5 seconds at all levels.
- No longer applies a mini-stun.
- Targets will now be massively slowed when hit by Ambush.
Cull
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Animation speed has been increased.
- During Cull, affected enemy target is stunned.
- Cooldown has been reduced from 100/90/80 to 90/70/50 seconds.

RIKTOR

Riplash
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Cooldown reduced from 21/20/19/18 to 14 seconds at all levels.
Electrocute
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Cooldown reduced from 17/16/15/14 to 12 seconds at all levels.
Shock Therapy
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Cooldown reduced from 24/23/22/21 to 21/18/15/12 seconds.
Skewer
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Cooldown adjusted from 100/90/80 to 105/90/75 seconds.

GRIM.EXE

Displacement Blast
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Cooldown adjusted from 18/17.5/17/16.5 to 21/17/13/9 seconds.
Suppression Mode
- Slow adjusted to new balance values.
Deflector Shield
- Now refunds 25/40/55/70% of missing mana from flat 90/103/116/130
- Cooldown adjusted from 20/19.5/19/18.5 to 22/18/14/10 seconds.
G.T.F.O.
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- No longer able to move while targeting.
- Cooldown adjusted from 100/90/80 to 110/90/70 seconds.

IGGY & SCORCH

Flame Turret
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
Oil Spill
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Cooldown reduced from 17/16/15/14 to 8 seconds.
Oil Slick
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Cooldown decreased from 24/23/22/21 to 18/16/14/12 seconds.
Flame Belch
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Cooldown reduced from 100/90/80 to 90/75/60 seconds.

SEVAROG

Siphon
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Cooldown reduced from 10/8.8/7.6/6.4 to 5 seconds at all levels.
Soul Stack
- Soul Stacks are now generated whenever Sevarog kills a Hero or a minion with any of his abilities.
- Soul Stack growth points adjusted to 20/50/90/140 from 20/40/60/80.
- Soul Stacks now grant both damage and health.
- Soul Stack growth points give a bonus to damage and health
- Hero Kills grant 3 stacks, non hero kills grant 1 stack
Subjugate
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Enemy minions and Heroes killed by Subjugate now generate Soul Stacks.
- Cooldown reduced from 17/16/15/14 to 17/15/13/11 seconds.
Phantom Rush
- Adjusted ramp up to be more fluid.
- Reduced cooldown from 27/25.5/24/22.5 to 16/14/12/10 seconds.
Colossal Blow
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Animation speed has been increased.
- No longer instantly kills minions, deals full damage.
- Enemy minions and Heroes killed by Colossal Blow now generates Soul Stacks.
- Cooldown reduced from 70/60/50 to 30 seconds at all levels.

HOWITZER

R2000 Missile
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Cooldown adjusted from 12/11.5/11/10.5 to 8 seconds at all levels.
Land Mine
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Cooldown adjusted from 17/16/15/14 to 22/19/16/13 seconds.
Slow Grenade
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Cooldown reduced from 20 to 12 seconds at all levels.
Make it Rain
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Can no longer be cancelled by Howitzer.
- Cooldown reduced from 115/105/95 to 90/70/50 seconds.

STEEL

“Bull Rush” (Previously Charge)
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Range reduced from 2000 to 1600.
- Cooldown reduced from 15 to 12 at all levels.
Force Shield
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Cooldown reduced from 23.8/22.8/21.8/20.8 to 24/20/16/12 seconds.
“Bulwark” (Previously Shield Block)
- Redesigned: Now blocks 60/70/80/90% of all non-AoE damage that passes through the shield.
- Now lasts 3 seconds at all levels.
- While deployed, Steel cannot turn, but can move normally otherwise. Attacking or reactivating will allow normal movement again.
- Cooldown reduced from 18/17/16/15 to 12 seconds at all levels.
Shield Slam
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Cooldown reduced from 100/90/80 to 110/90/70 seconds.

GADGET

Sticky Mine
- Cooldown reduced from 15 to 8 seconds at all levels.
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Explosion time reduced from 4 to 2 seconds.
Speed Gate
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Cooldown adjusted from 20 to 22/19/16/13 seconds.
- Speed bonus has been rebalanced.
Seek and Destroy
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Cooldown adjusted from 18/17/16/15 to 10 seconds at all levels.
Tesla Dome
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Tick rate adjusted from 1.1 to .73 per second. Still deals 5 ticks of damage.
- Activation time reduced from 1 to .66 seconds.
- Total time of ultimate reduced from 6.5 to 4.3 seconds.
- Cooldown adjusted from 100/90/80 to 110/90/70 seconds.

RAMPAGE

Boulder Throw
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Cooldown reduced from 18/17/16/15 to 14 seconds at all levels.
King of the Jungle
- Health Regen reduced to 0.5/1/1.5/2 from 2.25/4.5/6.75/9 per second.
- In the Jungle Health Regen adjusted to 3/6/9/12 from 4.2 per second.
Pounce
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Cooldown reduced from 20 to 10 seconds at all levels.
Enraged
- Can now move while transforming.
- Cooldown reduced from 100/85/70 to 80/60/40 seconds.

DEKKER

Stasis Bomb
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Cooldown reduced from 19/18.5/18/17.5 to 20/18/16/14 seconds.
- Stun duration decreased from 1/1.4/1.8/2.2 to 0.7/1.1/1.5/1.9 seconds.
Slow Bubble
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Cooldown adjusted from 17/16/15/14 to 20/18/16/14 seconds.
- Projectile speed has been increased.
Rocket Boots
- Cooldown adjusted from 15/14/13/12 to 24/20/16/12 seconds.
Containment Fence
- Range reduced from 1200 to 1000
- Duration reduced from 5/6/7 seconds to 3/4/5 seconds.

KALLARI

Shadow Walk
- Basic Attacks from stealth now deal 250% normal damage.
- Basic Attacks from stealth can no longer crit.
- Basic Attacks from stealth no longer deal bonus ability damage.
- Basic Attacks, Crippling Dagger, Backflip and all other abilities other than Death Sentence will no longer prevent Shadow Walk from activating during the fade time.
- Reduced cooldown from 20/19/18/17 to 15 seconds at all levels.
Crippling Dagger
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown reduced from 15 to 6 seconds at all levels.
- Range of projectile has been increased from 2000 to 3000.
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Slow duration decreased from 3 to 1 second.
- Slow magnitude has been increased significantly.
Backflip
- Cooldown reduced from 18/17/16/15 to 18/15/12/9 seconds.
Death Sentence
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown reduced from 125/115/105 to 110 seconds at all levels.
- Now deals base damage + scaling rather than a multiplier of LMB/R2.

GIDEON

Cosmic Rift
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Cooldown adjusted from 13 to 8 seconds at all levels
Torn Space
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Cooldown adjusted from 15 to 12 seconds. at all levels.
Burden
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Cooldown adjusted from 20 to 10 seconds at all levels.
Black Hole
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Ability deals damage over 3.5 seconds, down from 5 seconds.
- Overall damage has not been reduced.
- Relative damage of the ability has not been modified.
- Cooldown adjusted from 100/90/80 to 110/90/70 seconds.

MURDOCK

Buck Shot
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Cooldown reduced from 14.4/13.4/12.4/11.4 to 8 seconds at all levels.
- Now shreds Basic Armor 5/7.5/10/12.5.
Static Trap
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Traps now root targets in place for 2 seconds.
- Now requires 3.25 seconds to arm.
- Now lasts for 90 seconds before expiring.
- Concurrent trap limit reduced from 4 to 1/1/2/3.
- Size of trap has been increased from 160 to 230.
- Traps can no longer be stacked on top of one another, traps underneath new traps will be destroyed.
Move Along
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- No longer damages Minions.
- Cooldown adjusted from 20/19/18/17 to 21/18/15/12 seconds.
Long Arm of the Law
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”.
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Cooldown adjusted from 100/90/80 to 90/80/70 seconds.

FENG MAO

Reaping Dash
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown reduced from 19 to 10 seconds at all levels.
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Projectile speed has been increased.
Hamstring
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Cooldown adjusted from 17/16/15/14 to 20/18/16/14 seconds.
Conversion Shield
- Cooldown reduced from 20 to 12 seconds at all levels.
- Shield Values adjusted to 125/225/325/425.
Earth Shatter
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Targeting range Increased from 667 to 800
- Cooldown reduced from 100/90/80 to 90/70/50 seconds.
- There is no longer a shield component to this ability.

MURIEL

Serenity
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- No longer pierces through minions.
- Cooldown reduced from 15 to 9 seconds at all levels.
Consecrated Ground
- Damage type adjusted from “Energy” to “Ability.”
- No longer does bonus damage to slowed targets.
- Cooldown reduced from 16/15/14/13 to 12 seconds at all levels.
- Shield values have been adjusted for new balance.
- Explosion time reduced from 1.5 to 1.05 seconds.
Alacrity
- Cooldown reduced from 15 to 10 seconds at all levels.
- Shield values have been adjusted for new balance.
Reversal of Fortune
- Shield values have been adjusted for new balance.

SPARROW

Hail of Arrows
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Cooldown adjusted from 12/11/10/9 to 12 seconds at all levels
Relentless
- Damage type adjusted from “Ability” to “Physical”
- Stack Limit reduced from 10 to 5.
- Each stack now adds a percentage of Sparrow’s basic attack damage 2%/3.5%/5%/6.5%
Piercing Shot
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Projectile speed has been increased.
- Cooldown has been reduced from 10 to 8 seconds at all levels.
Inner Fire
- Cooldown has been reduced from 100/90/80 to 90/70/50 seconds.

GRUX

Smash and Grab
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Animation speed has been increased significantly.
- Reduced range from 1250 to 700.
- Width has been increased into a wedge shape instead of a cone shape.
- Cooldown has been reduced from 19 to 14 seconds at all levels.
- VFX has been adjusted.
Charge
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Cooldown has been reduced from 16 to 12 seconds at all levels.
Double Pain
- Damage type adjusted from "Physical" to "Ability."
- Cooldown has been reduced from 10 to 5 seconds at all levels.
Warlord’s Challenge
- Animation speed has been increased.
- Cooldown has been reduced from 100/90/80 to 90/70/50 seconds.

CRUNCH

-Melee-

Initiator / Burst / Wild / Controller / Attacker

COUNTESS

-Melee-

Assassin / Burst / Sieger / Ganker / Durable

KWANG

-Melee-

Initiator / Wild / Durable / Attacker / Ganker

LT. BELICA

-Ranged-

Controller / Zoner / Burst / Sieger / Guardian

NARBASH

-Melee-

Guardian / Controller / Durable

THE FEY

-Ranged-

Controller / Guardian / Sieger / Burst

GREYSTONE

-Melee-

Durable / Initiator / Attacker / Elusive / Wild

KHAIMERA

-Melee-

Assassin / Ganker / Attacker / Wild

RIKTOR

-Melee-

Controller / Guardian / Ganker / Assassin

GRIM.EXE

-Ranged-

Marauder / Attacker / Burst

IGGY & SCORCH

-Ranged-

Zoner / Sieger / Elusive

SEVAROG

-Melee-

Attacker / Initiator / Durable / Controller / Sieger

HOWITZER

-Ranged-

Sieger / Elusive / Burst / Zoner

STEEL

-Melee-

Initiator / Guardian / Durable / Attacker / Zoner

GADGET

-Ranged-

Sieger / Zoner / Burst / Guardian / Elusive

TWINBLAST

-Ranged-

Marauder / Attacker / Elusive / Burst

RAMPAGE

-Melee-

Durable / Wild / Attacker / Initiator / Elusive / Ganker

DEKKER

-Ranged-

Guardian / Controller / Zoner / Elusive

KALLARI

-Melee-

Assassin / Elusive / Ganker / Attacker / Initiator

GIDEON

-Ranged-

Burst / Assassin / Elusive / Sieger

MURDOCK

-Ranged-

Marauder / Attacker / Burst / Zoner

FENG MAO

-Melee-

Attacker / Durable / Assassin / Elusive / Wild / Ganker

MURIEL

-Ranged-

Guardian / Durable / Zoner

SPARROW

-Ranged-

Marauder / Attacker / Sieger

GRUX

-Melee-

Attacker / Ganker / Initiator / Wild / Sieger / Controller

TWINBLAST

CRUNCH

COUNTESS

KWANG

LT. BELICA