Champion
Vatu, The Shadow
Lore
Behind every door of the mind is the fear of the darkness in the corner of a dimly-lit room. It is the unknown — the terror without a form, but with a name: the Shadow.
Vatu’s origins are shrouded in the same shadow he uses as a weapon. He is the knife in the night, ending an eternal conflict – he is the untimely death, never confirmed as accidental. He and the Thousand Hands guild have an understanding: they provide him with work and money, and he takes care of their problems. The only thing clear in his actions are his desire to protect his Ska’Drin people and his deadly capability to do so.
Wielding sharp Kunai and mysterious shadow magic, Vatu takes care of business with a ruthless efficiency matched only by his strict code of ethics. His are not the eyes you want to see staring back at you from the darkness, for by that time it is already too late.
Overview
- Role –
Flank - Health – 1900
Abilities
Talents
Cards
Weapon/Armor
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Final Sight Reset the Cooldown of Ambush after falling to or below {10|10}% Health. |
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Memento Vivere Increase your maximum Health by {40|40}. |
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Shadow Garrote Generate {5|5}% Ultimate charge after hitting an enemy with your Ultimate. |
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Tranquility Increase your base jump height by {30|30}%. |
Shadow Bombs
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Assassin's Tools Reduce the damage you take by {6|6}% for 2s after activating Shadow Bombs. |
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Outnumbered Generate {1|1} Ammo after hitting at least one enemy with Shadow Bombs. |
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Shadow's Gaze Heal for {40|40} for after activating Shadow Bombs. |
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Shattered Worlds Reduce the Cooldown of Shadow Bombs by {8|8} after earning a Killing Blow or Elimination. |
Ambush
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Gathering Shadow Reduce the damage you take by {5|5}% for 2s after Ambush ends. This applies to each Ambush in the chain. |
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Infiltration Heal for {70|70} after activating Ambush. This applies to each Ambush in the chain. |
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Retribution Increase the Radius and Effective Radius of the damage from Ambush by {15|15}%. |
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Shadow's Perch Increase the range of Ambush by {10|10}%. |
Dash
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Contemplation Heal for {100|-7.5} every 0.5s for {0.5|0.5}s after activating Dash. This effect stacks. |
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Deadly Dash Generate 7% Ultimate charge after activating Dash once every {60|-8}s. |
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Extraction Increase your Movement Speed by {5|5}% for 2s after Dash ends. |
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Nightwatcher Reduce the Cooldown of Dash by {0.5|0.5}s after hitting at least one enemy with Shadow Bombs. |
Skins
Duty
- Unlocked through Season Pass 2021
- This skin will become unobtainable after Season Pass 2021 has finished.
Sorrow
- Available for 200 Crystals or 60,000 Gold
Golden
- Obtained by Reaching Mastery level 50 with Vatu
Beach Bash Event Pass
Hit the waves with our latest Event Pass – Beach Bash! Instantly unlock Beachside Octavia for purchasing, and unlock 24 levels of rewards as you play and complete Trials of the Realm.
Players can also purchase a Buy All option to get all content in the Beach Bass Event Pass instantly!
Event Pass Content
Instant Unlocks
- Beachside Octavia
- 50% Experience and Gold Boost
Level 12 – Ripjaw Buck
Level 18 – Great Orange Buck
Level 24 – Freedom Fighter Octavia
Other Event Pass Exclusive Unlocks
Sprays
3D Sprays
Avatars
Death Card
Trials of the Realm
New Trials and rewards await you with the release of the Shadows patch! Complete these challenges each week to unlock a variety of cosmetics, currency, and XP rewards.
Trials Schedule
- Temple Isles – Unlocks May 26th
- Eastern Reaches – Unlocks June 2nd
- Trade Row – Unlocks June 9th
- Abyss – Unlocks June 16th
- Crosswind Hold – Unlocks June 23rd
- Warder’s Watch – Unlocks June 30th
- Aico Tundra – Unlocks July 17th
- Lunar Coast – Unlocks July 24th
Unlocks
General
- 300 Crystals
- 120,000 Gold
- 6x Event Pass Levels
- Event Pass Team Boosters
- Skin Boosters
Announcer Packs
Avatar
Sprays
Jaguar Falls - Visual Update
Limited Time Modes
Play Paladins in new and exciting ways with a variety of Limited Time Modes (LTMs)! The Shadows patch will feature 8 unique modes that rotate throughout the patch cycle. Each week there will be two limited time modes available, one on Tuesday & Wednesday, and another on Saturday & Sunday. Here’s a quick preview on what to expect:
Hide & Seek
- Who shot first? Everyone plays this Team Deathmatch as Strix with unlimited Stealth charge, increased damage & movement speed, and reduced cooldown.
Knockaround
- Try and stay grounded as Ash or Bomb King on Throne. Normal abilities and inhands deal reduced damage, but cooldowns are reduced and knockbacks have 50% increased effectiveness.
- Continued development of LTM resources (expect more than these initial 8!).
- Updating our Custom Game modes and exposing some of these features to players. We want to create a toolbox so you all can create your own custom games with friends, blending custom game modifiers and in-house rules.
- Larger investment LTMs that significantly change how you engage with Paladins (i.e. Dragon’s Call).
- Investigating old game modes such as Dragon’s Call and Payload as LTMs.
Customizations
Lifeguard Tiberius
- Available from the Summer Fun chest
Lady Liberty Inara
- Available from the Cookout chest
Wings of Liberty Mount
- Available from the Cookout chest
Golden Ying
- Available from Level 50 Mastery
Golden Talus
- Available from Level 50 Mastery
Chests
Summer Fun
- Available May 26
- Price
- 400 Crystals
- Contents:
- Lifeguard Tiberius
- Shore Patrol Lian
- Shore Patrol Fernando
- Mermaid Ying
- Sun Kissed Cassie
- Longboard Lex
- Buck Wild
- Cottontail Seris
Lost Treasures
- Available June 23
- Price
- 400 Crystals
- Contents:
- Crypt Guardian Raum
- Emerald Bandit Maeve
- Sphinx Soldier Tiberius
- Soul Briar Grover
- Gunslinger Tyra
- Bounty Hunter Lex
Cookout
- Available June 9
- Price
- 400 Crystals
- Contents:
- Lady Liberty Inara
- Wings of Liberty Mount
- Merican Mustang
- Ameri-Khan
- Freegle Drogoz
Ranked Updates
Matchmaking Updates
- Normal Wait 240s ➞ 480s
- This is the time the matchmaker takes to try and find an ideal match for players. It looks for players of similar ranks, and tries to find a balanced match between player MMRs.
- Overtime: 90s ➞ 300s
- After the normal wait time, the matchmaker extends its boundaries to allow players of a wider skill gap into a match. This helps ensure players at multiple standard deviations away from the top of the bell curve can still get matches depending on their server and time of day.
Ranked Map Rotation
We are making some updates to the Ranked map rotation. Previously, we had 10 Active maps in rotation with 4 reserved maps. Moving forward, there will be 12 Active Maps in rotation with 2 reserved.
Active Maps
- Splitstone Quarry
- Stone Keep
- Jaguar Falls
- Warder’s Gate
- Frozen Guard
- Ascension Peak
- Timber Mill
- Serpent Beach
- +Brightmarsh
- +Bazaar
- +Fish Market
- +Shattered Desert
Reserved Maps
- -Ice Mines
- -Frog Isle
Balance
Androxus
- Cards
- Quick Draw
- OLD: Increase your maximum Ammo by {1|1}.
- NEW: Hitting a player with Revolver Heals you for {scale=15|15}.
- Quick Draw
Furia
- Talents
- Exterminate
- Reduced additional Damage 100% ➞ 75%
Exterminate
Grohk
- Ultimate Charge Rate
- Reduced charge rate contribution from damage by 20%
- Abilities
- Healing Totem
- Cooldowns now occur simultaneously
- Cards
- Spirit's Grace
- Effect no longer stacks
- Reduced scaling {8|8} ➞ {6|6}
- Spirit's Grace
Healing Totem
Grover
- Talents
- Deep Roots
- Reduced maximum bounces 5 ➞ 3
- Reduced range 22 ➞ 19
- Abilities
- Whirlwind
- Activating Whirlwind will now expend 40% ultimate charge instantly, and then drain the remaining over its duration. Players will retain any remaining ultimate charge if they die, or cancel the ability before it finishes.
- 100% Ultimate charge is still required for activation.
- Cards
- Chopper
- Reduced scaling {100|100} ➞ {50|50}
- Chopper
Deep Roots 
Whirlwind
Kinessa
- Cards
- True Grit
- Hitting an enemy with a fully-charged Sniper Mode shot Heals you for {100|100} ➞ {50|50}.
- True Grit
Lex
- Cards
- The Hunted
- You gain {10|10}% ➞ {5|5}% Lifesteal against your Retribution target.
- The Hunted
Octavia
- Abilities
- Marksman Rifle
- Using Designated Sights
- Reduced Damage 500 ➞ 425
- Reduced bullet spread and recoil
- Reduced damage falloff at extended ranges
- Hipfire
- Increased Damage 200 ➞ 250
- Increased Accuracy 89% ➞ 94%
- Increased damage falloff
- Using Designated Sights
Marksman Rifle
Tiberius
- Abilities
- Heavy Blade
- Reduced Slow 50% ➞ 30%
- Reduced Slow duration 3s ➞ 2s
Heavy Blade Zhin
- Talents
- Guillotine
- Reduced Damage 25% ➞ 20%
- Removed Ultimate charge rate increase.
Guillotine
Bug Fixes
Champions
Grohk
- Fixed an issue where Shock Pulse would bounce to other enemies off of an Ethereal target.
Grover
- Fixed an issue where Crippling Throw with the Deep Roots talent would bounce to other enemies off of an Ethereal target.
Imani
- Fixed an issue where Imani dying while her Ultimate was active displayed bad information in the Kill Feed.
- Fixed an issue where Frost Bolts with the Splitting Ice talent would bounce to another enemy off of an Ethereal target.
Lex
- Fixed an issue where Lex could not reroll a target he killed in a 1v1 game properly after they respawned.
- Fixed an issue where The Law would not hit enemies in front of Lex if he was slightly obscured by cover.
Moji
- Fixed an issue where the Greater Good card would not activate on use of her Familiar Spit when the enemy had the maximum number of Magic Marks if it killed the enemy.
Octavia
- Fixed an issue where the reticle in all Marksman Rifle scopes was not completely centered on screen when using Designated Sights.
- Fixed an issue where the Golden Marksman Rifle would not play Golden VFX when Octavia killed an enemy with that weapon equipped.
- Fixed a typo in the Air Supremacy card text.
Yagorath
- Fixed an issue where Khan throwing an Overpowered enemy at a Planted Form Yagorath would incorrectly knock back Yagorath.
- Fixed an issue where Cooldown Reduction would not reduce the cooldown of Trail of Acid.
- Fixed an issue where Corvus and Talus could teleport out of Devour with their respective teleporting abilities in certain circumstances.
General
- Updated the Shooting Range Champion selection screen to allow for all 49 Champions to be selectable in the Shooting Range.
- Fixed an issue where players could not load into the Match Lobby when queuing for the Test Maps in the Custom screen.
- Fixed an issue where the Countdown time for region unlocks on the Trials screen did not display properly on Consoles.
- Fixed an issue where selecting the Event Pass Level reward in Trials linked to the incorrect page with bad UI.