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

Bebop

Bebop counters →
  • 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

Calico

Calico counters →
  • 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%

Holliday

Holliday counters →
  • 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

Mirage

Mirage counters →

Fire Scarabs

  • Max Health Steal reduced from 75 to 50
  • Max Health Steal spirit scaling increased from 0.9 to 1.4

Shiv

Shiv counters →
  • 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

Sinclair

Sinclair counters →
  • 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

Vyper

Vyper counters →
  • 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%

Wraith

Wraith counters →

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

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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