Patch January 19, 2025
The January 19, 2025 patch changes 11 heroes, 4 items and 1 general change. Most changes: Holliday (10), Sinclair (8), Shiv (6), Wraith (6).
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Heroes
- Hook T1 reduced from 30% more weapon damage to 25%
Exploding Uppercut
- T2 reduced from +60% weapon damage to +50%
Sticky Bomb
- Damage reduced from 120 to 110
- T2 reduced from +80 Damage to +75
- Bullet Damage increased from 2 to 2.2
Leaping Slash
- Radius increased from 4m to 4.5m
- T2 damage increased from +50 to +75
Ava
- Now destroys breakables it runs through
- T2 increased from 25% movespeed to 35%
- Bullet damage growth increased from 1.5 to 1.7
- Fixed Crackshot applying Slowing Hex's anti-teleport debuff
- Fixed height on damage from Bounce Pad sometimes causing it to not hurt heroes on your lasso
Powder Keg
- T2 reduced from 140 to 120
Crackshot
- Now triggers on units. Uses half cooldown when triggered this way.
- Damage reduced from 75 to 60
- Spirit scaling increased from 1 to 1.2
- T2 increased from 75 to 85
- T3 now also has -2s on creeps
Spirit Lasso
- T2 duration increased from +0.5 to +0.75
- Health increased from 600 to 650
Fire Scarabs
- Max Health Steal reduced from 75 to 50
- Max Health Steal spirit scaling increased from 0.9 to 1.4
- Bullet Damage reduced from 5.7 to 5.5
Slice and Dice
- Damage reduced from 110 to 100
- T2 reduced from +70 to +60
- Spirit scaling increased from 1.3 to 1.55
Bloodletting
- Deferred damage duration reduced from 13s to 12s
- Cooldown increased from 50s to 60s
- Fixed Debuff Reducer not working on Rabbit
- Teleporting now drops the Urn
Rabbit Hex
- Movespeed increased from 25% to 35%
- Can no longer be applied to Unstoppable
- Now triggers Reactive Barrier
Vexing Bolt
- Base damage reduced from 120 to 110
Spectral Assistant
- Base cooldown increased from 30s to 40s
- Base duration decreased from 8s to 6s
- Movespeed reduced from 9 to 8
- Bullet Velocity reduced from 810 to 740
- Bullet Damage decreased from 9 to 7
- Move Speed reduced from 7.3 to 7.0
Lethal Venom
- Max Damage reduced from 200 to 180
Slither
- T3 spirit and bullet resist while sliding reduced from +30% to +25%
Card Trick
- Spirit scaling reduced from 1.1 to 0.9
- Cooldown increased from 0.65 to 0.75
- Summon rate from non-heroes reduced from 0.35 to 0.25
Telekinesis
- Silence and disarm duration increased from 2.5s to 3s
- Cast delay reduced from 0.4s to 0.3s
- Up/down motion now lasts 0.25s longer and moves a little bit higher
- Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.27 to 0.24
Items
Weapon 3

Alchemical Fire
3,200 souls- Reduced from -40% Effectiveness vs non-heroes to -50%
- Weapon Damage in radius reduced from +50% to +40%

Hunter's Aura
3,200 souls- Bullet Resist Reduction reduced from -9% to -8%
- Fire Rate Slow increased from -9% to -10%

Sharpshooter
3,200 souls- Weapon Damage reduced from 30% to 20%
- Movespeed penalty increased from -0.5 to -1
Vitality 1

Extra Stamina
800 souls- Fire Rate reduced from 5% to 4%
General changes
- All heroes base gun damage and growth reduced by 10% (numbers listed above are before this global reduction)
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