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Welcome to Year 8

Greetings Champions, and welcome to Year 8 of Paladins! We wanted to take a moment before we dive into our first update of the year, Wekono's Wake, to talk about where we are and our direction moving forward. Over the course of Year 7, we focused our small team's efforts more and more on improving the systems and features that make Paladins a standout in the genre: an emphasis on customization through Items, Talents and Cards, updating and deepening Champion kits, and bringing together older concepts and new features to enrich our Realm.

Headed into 2025, we plan to continue these types of efforts while also aiming to shift to smaller, more frequent updates and hotfixes to further improve our ability to adapt development to player feedback while ensuring our team can stay nimble. This will be most evident in our shift in cosmetic additions and a larger effort towards the aforementioned customization and gameplay focus. Without further ado, let's dive into our first update of Year 8: Wekono's Wake!

General Updates

Experimental Queue: Subclasses

Throughout the year, we want to test out various ideas we’ve had that are more drastic gameplay shifts than we usually release. These features are meant to be explorations of directions to take Paladins that could lead to new modes or enrichening existing experiences. The first of these we plan to tackle is Subclasses, a role within your class that provides a powerful effect to a specific aspect of your gameplay. You select these prior to selecting your Talent, and their effects stack with other customization options. We’ll be testing these in their own Siege queue for players to compare to normal Siege, as well as considering them for alternative modes like Arcade or Wave Defense. Here’s the list of Subclasses releasing this update:

Damage

Predator

On earning an Elimination, reduce the cooldown of your Movement ability by 40%. Imani, Saati, and Strix gain 20 of their resources.

Shock Trooper

While on the Objective, gain 10% Damage Reduction.

Triage

On earning an Elimination, drop a healing deployable at your current location.


Note: Octavia does not select a Subclass, instead opting for her own Commander options.

Flank

Duelist

Gain 10% Crowd Control resistance for 3s after dealing 1500 damage.

Rallyman

On earning an Elimination, regenerate involved allies ammo by 10%.

Skirmisher

Heal for 4% every second while on the Objective.

Frontline

Fireteam Leader

After using your Q ability, provide allies within 50 units 30% Slow resistance and 20% Movement Speed for 2s.

Dug In

While on the Objective, gain 15% Crowd Control resistance.

Wanderer

You exit combat 1.5s faster and have 15% Movement Speed while out of combat.

Support

Rabid

For every 2,000 damage you deal, gain 30% Reload Speed and 10% faster cooldowns for 3s.

Skulker

You exit combat 1.5s faster and your Cooldowns are 10% faster while out of combat.

Spotter

You can no longer apply Anti-Heal, but damaged enemies take 20% more Headshot damage for 1.5s.

Subclasses Example

Map Refresh: Serpent Beach

Wekono has reawakened as her temple sees growth! This version of the map shares almost identical sightlines and pathing as the version most players are used to, which will remain in game as Serpent Beach (Classic). However, various aspects have been visually updated or adjusted to bring Serpent Beach into the modern era. Decorations have been added to adorn the walls with effigies to Wekono as well as her Champion, Mal'Damba. Sand is more prevalent, with walking trails connecting the temple structures and washing ashore the beaches. Vegetation has been updated to bring out the beach, with palm trees lining the skybox. Looking out into the sea will let players bask in the greatness of a new Serpent, whose body coils around the map to create archways. You'll also catch glimpses of Jaguar Falls and Frog Ilse outside the bounds of play!

New SB1

New SB2

New SB3

New SB4

New SB5

New SB6

Map Restoration: Serpent Beach (Classic)

In addition to the new vision of this classic, we've also restored details to Serpent Beach (Classic) to truly represent the version a majority of players experienced during the Open Beta. Enjoy the added flora and flames as wind gusts throughout the map!

Newcomer Queue

We’ve slowly been working to improve various aspects of playing Paladins for the first time & to have a place to learn how the game works without frustration. The Newcomer queue is our latest addition to this process, a Siege queue that is available exclusively to accounts below Level 35. This provides those Champions starting out an option to play that gives them a space to discover their favorite characters and understand the game with lower pressure. This does not prevent them from queueing for normal Siege, it’s simply a choice we want to offer to allow people to learn at their own pace. The gameplay of the Newcomer queue is identical to casual Siege so it’s the perfect way to transition from new to dedicated!

New Customs Settings

We’ve added a few more settings to Custom Matches for those looking to play with a variety of LTM and Experimental features!

  • Enable/Disable Subclasses
  • Enable/Disable Beyond Store
  • Override Loadout Card Level
    • This allows people to play Cards to the Max in Customs at any Card level!
  • Talent Selection
    • This will allow players to use the Truly Talented selection in Customs. Note: Any Champion who is not in Truly Talented will use their normal Talents.

Ranked Season 8

Welcome to Season 8 of Ranked! Our goals with this Season are to make systemic changes that make the mode more enjoyable to grind as well as easier for players who have historically shied away from the queue to join. It’s some of the largest adjustments to the system we’ve made in recent years, and we’re excited for players to get their hands on it and give us feedback! NOTE: Season 7 Loading Frames will be distributed in our next major update.

Requirements

  • Increased the number of Champions required from 18 ➞ 24

Tier Points System

  • The base amount of Tier Points players can move has been increased from 11 ➞ 15
  • The maximum amount of points players can move has been increased from 16 ➞ 23
  • The maximum amount of points players can lose has been increased from 16 ➞ 23
  • The severity of which favored teams lose Tier Points on a loss is decreased by 33%.

Map Frequency

  • Serpent Beach (Classic) has the same frequency as Serpent Beach in Season 7.
  • Serpent Beach will have higher frequency during Split 1.

Draft Changes

We’ve heard a lot of complaints about the time spent in Ban Phase & its usage across skill levels, so we’re planning to implement a system that dynamically scales the amount of bans based on the skill of the lobby.

  • Gold & below lobbies will have 2 bans per side
  • Platinum will have 3 bans per side
  • Diamond+ will have 4 bans per side

Our goal is to finetune this system to allow players to slowly learn the priorities of banning as they climb the ranks as well as giving lower skill players faster matches and more Champions to pick from to encourage them to give Ranked a fair shot!

Rewards

We’ll continue to have expected rewards both for the Season and the Split, provided at the usual milestones.

  • Play 100 Matches - Avatar
  • Win 75 Matches - Subjugator Zhin, a recolor of Conqueror Zhin
  • Place in a Split - Golden Cache
  • Play 25 Matches in a Split - Avatar

In addition to the traditional rewards offered via Ranked, we’re now also offering new rewards in addition to what was done prior!

  • Reach Masters in Season 8 Ranked to receive a Limited Skin Token
    • We’ve converted the Anniversary Store into the Limited Skin Vault and will be rotating skins in and out of the Vault occasionally so stay tuned!
  • COMING SOON: Play 25 Games on a Class to receive their Class Chest
    • If you own all the contents of the Class Chest, you’ll instead receive 100 Crystals.

Wekono’s Wake Event Pass

This update, the Event Pass we're offering has some changes to accommodate our focus on gameplay as well as simplify how we handle Flashbacks.

This pass will be 30 levels of exclusive Titles, currency, and for the first time ever multiple Diamond Troves and several other chests containing cosmetics from across the game. While there aren't many new contents, the value offered in this eclipses Flashback Passes and allows us to focus our time on other aspects of the game.

We did want to offer something new for the players who own almost everything or those looking for a chase, so at the final level of the pass you can earn Loci-Buster Ash, a recolor of Xeno-Buster that sees the fight taken to a more Arctic aesthetic.

Mode Rotations

Arcade

  • Onslaught removed from the rotation of modes.
    • Moving forward, whenever we swap which mode is featured outside Arcade, that mode will no longer be featured in Arcade.
    • Next update, we plan to swap Team Deathmatch and Onslaught so TDM will be featured as the standalone queue.

Limited Time Modes

Truly Talented

Jenos

  • Illuminated Talent from Reality Warp added.

Maeve

  • Swapped Artful Dodger for Street Justice.
  • Increased execution threshold during Midnight from 40% ➞ 75%

Balance

General

Card Cauterize Anti-Healing

  • Decreased the starting value from 30% ➞ 25%


After watching our changes to Anti-Healing’s ramp speed from the latter half of Season 7, we saw the desired improvements in the late game distribution of healing. However, the effect on the early & middle game was a bit more heightened than we intended and led to some matches lacking proper pacing. To alleviate this, we’re shifting the starting value for Anti-Heal down a single interval to allow a bit more time in these earlier stages while still keeping the scaling fast.

Items

Card Blast Shields Blast Shields

  • Decreased cost from 300/600/900 ➞ 275/550/825

Card Bulldozer Bulldozer

  • Increased scaling from 30/60/90 ➞ 50/100/150

Card Deft Hands Deft Hands

  • Decreased cost from 225/450/675 ➞ 200/400/600

Card Develop Guardian

  • Increased scaling from 15/30/45 ➞ 20/40/60

Returning Item: Card Resilience Resilience

  • Reduce the duration or effectiveness of Crowd Control effects by {25|25}%.
  • Replaces Card Resilience Unbound

Card Illuminate Sentinel

  • Increased cost from 200/400/600 ➞ 225/450/675
  • Reworked to “Gain a 200|200 Health Shield for 5s after an Elimination.”

Card Wrecker Wrecker

  • Increased cost from 275/550/825 ➞ 300/600/900
  • Increased scaling from 30/60/90 ➞ 50/100/150


To kick off the Season, we’re bringing a whole host of Item changes with two goals in mind: making Items a more powerful part of our gameplay loop as well as merging together various eras of Items to curate the most diverse offering we could have. The headliner changes are those around Wrecker, Guardian, and Shields. Shields used to be a much more prevalent part of Paladins’ sandbox, with the health values higher and Wrecker more impactful than has been the past few Seasons (circa Season 3 onward). As part of Season 8, we’re returning closer to that style of defensive gameplay, with some new additions as well!


Wrecker is having its price increased slightly, but its scaling nearly doubled to make it the new standout item of the Offense category and a powerful counterplay to Shields. Guardian is also getting a minor bump to still allow it some room to either encourage a Wrecker purchase from your opponents or augment a Shield-heavy composition. Speaking of, Resilience is returning as the premiere CC counter Item! With that change, Sentinel has been adjusted to offer a bit more value on Shielding.


Alongside these larger changes, we’ve also finetuned the pricing of Blast Shields to accommodate its slightly more niche use and Bulldozer is being reverted to its S2 values to encourage its purchase when team composition leans heavy into Deployables.

Effects

NEW: Shock

On various Champions in the balance notes below, you’ll notice a callout to Shock damage. We’ve been working on various ways to expand the way Champions kits interact and ways for them to influence drafting beyond Items or Class. Shock is our first foray into these goals, with select Champions now having a VFX on targets they hit and Kinessa having a Talent that interacts with these jolts similar to Tribunal Upgrades on VII, but with no additional effect at base.

This is a limited implementation that is meant to allow players to test the effect and give feedback on if the direction is something worth expanding or moving away from. Paladins is already an Effect-heavy game on the CC side, but expanding our Effects into more unique damage types and applications could allow for more interesting nuance. As always, community feedback will be key!

Champions

Champion Androxus Icon Androxus

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Androxus Icon Revolver
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 1.3s ➞ 1.2s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .5s

Champion Ash Icon Ash

  • Abilities
    • Ability Siege Shield Siege Shield
      • Increase from 4500 ➞ 4750
  • Talents
    • Talent Ash FortressBreaker Fortress Breaker
      • Increase bonus from 2500 ➞ 2750


Due to the changes to Wrecker, we'll be adjusting most base Shield abilities slightly upward to compensate for the early game pressure Wrecker may cause. Our goal with the Shielding changes are not to make Shields irrelevant, so we'll be watching closely to make sure the push and pull still remains both with and without Items.

Champion Barik Icon Barik

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Barik Icon Blunderbuss
      • Increased accuracy from .8 ➞ .85
  • Abilities
    • Ability Barricade Barricade
      • Increase Shield amount from 4000 ➞ 4500
  • Ultimate
    • Ability Dome Shield Dome Shield
      • Increase Shield amount from 10,000 ➞ 14,000
      • Increase duration from 6s ➞ 8s
  • Cards
    • Card Accelerator Field Accelerator Field
      • Increased scaling from 10|10 ➞ 12|12
      • Duration increased from 4s ➞ 5s
    • Card Bowling Ball Bowling Ball
      • Scaling increased from 150|150 ➞ 175|175
    • Card Bunker Bunker
      • Scaling increased from 200|200 ➞ 250|250
    • Card Combat Repair Combat Repair
      • Scaling increased from 90|90 ➞ 100|100
    • Card Double Time Double Time
      • Scaling increased from 50|50 ➞ 65|65
    • Card Exhaust Failsafe
      • Reworked to "Reset the Cooldown of Rocket Boots when you are at or below 40% Health" ICD 30|-3
    • Card Field Deploy Field Deploy
      • Scaling increased from 20|20 ➞ 50|50
    • Card Forged Alloy Forged Alloy
      • Scaling increased from 140|140 ➞ 150|150
    • Card Healing Station Healing Station
      • Scaling increased from 25|25 ➞ 50|50
    • Card Palisade Palisade
      • Scaling increased from 0.4s|0.4s ➞ 0.6|0.6s


Barik has slowly slipped from his comfortable spot as a safe Frontline pick to struggle to stay competitive against most compositions. After assessing where the weaknesses in his kit reside, we've decided to amp up his Cards to be more impactful and provide him stronger build options. We also are increasing Dome Shield's efficacy substantially to make it a larger threat to handle for opponents.

Champion Betty La Bomba Icon Betty La Bomba

  • Abilities
    • Ability Cluster Grenade Cluster Grenade
      • Now also detonates on contact with enemies or Shields
      • Decreased secondary detonation timer from 3s ➞ 2s
      • Increased initial impact damage from 250 ➞ 350

Champion Buck Icon Buck

  • Abilities
    • Ability Net Shot Net Shot
      • Decreased cooldown from 10s ➞ 8s
    • Ability Recovery Recovery
      • Decreased cooldown from 10s ➞ 8s.
      • Decreased channel time from 1.5s ➞ 1.2s
  • Talents
    • Talent Buck BulkUp Bulk Up
      • Increased healing from 400 ➞ 600
    • Talent Buck Ensnare Ensnare
      • Increased bonus damage from 20% ➞ 25%
  • Cards
    • Card Concussion Concussion
      • Scaling decreased from 1s ➞ .6s
    • Card Giga Siphon Giga Siphon
      • Reworked to "Increase your Movement Speed by 8|8% for 3s after using Recovery."
    • Card Reconstruction Reconstruction
      • Scaling decreased from 1s ➞ .6s


Buck is a strong yet niche Flank, mostly owing to his heavy reliance on Cards and Talents to cover gaps in his base kit. While this design is enduring and we intend to preserve most aspects of it, it has also led to his popularity and play rate dropping over time. We're shifting some of his cooldown Cards effects slightly into base, giving him a bit more room to create builds that don't spend the majority of points on those options. We've also reverted Bulk Up back to one of its stronger states and partially given Ensnare some damage back to bring back the version of Buck that lives in many veterans memories.

Champion Caspian Icon Caspian

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Caspian Icon Ability War Love & War
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from .8s ➞ .7s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .3s ➞ .4s


After the changes we made to Vatu's animation canceling, we wanted to go across the roster and ensure the cancel timings made sense for both animation and gameplay balance. As a part of that investigation, we found several cases where we could make animation canceling better and more fluid for several Champions. Any change you see like this one on Caspian is meant to make timings consistent across the game!

Champion Cassie Icon Cassie

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Cassie Icon Crossbow
      • Decreased reload time from 1.4s ➞ 1.2s
      • Decreased time for reload pre-load from 1s ➞ .8s
  • Abilities
    • Ability Dodge Roll Dodge Roll
      • Reduced cooldown from 7s ➞ 6s
  • Talents
    • Talent Cassie BigGame Big Game
      • Increased Max Health damage percentage from 8% ➞ 9%
  • Cards
    • Card Drain Life Drain Life
      • Scaling increased from 75|75 ➞ 85|85
    • Card Onslaught Onslaught
      • Scaling increased from 75|75 ➞ 85|85
    • Card Intense Training Intense Training
      • Duration increased from 1.5s ➞ 2s
    • Card Incitement Incitement
      • Scaling reduced from 1s|1s ➞ 0.8|0.8


Cassie has been in a similar spot to Buck, however her popularity remains higher despite lower efficacy. These changes are meant to buff the playstyles on Cassie that haven't had as much room for success, specifically ones that focus on her sustaining herself and surviving duels. Big Game is also getting a slight increase to also have its value on lower-health targets a bit more competitive with Exaction.

Champion Corvus Icon Corvus

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Corvus Icon Officer’s Pistol
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from .85s ➞ .8s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .35s ➞ .4s

Champion Dredge Icon Dredge

  • General
    • Movement Speed Increased from 340 ➞ 350
  • Passive
    • Abyssal Reload
      • Increased damage from 850 ➞ 1000
  • Abilities
    • Ability Broadside Broadside
      • Decreased postfire from 1.2s ➞ 1s
  • Talents
    • Talent Dredge Scuttle Scuttle
      • Now also reduces Abyssal Reload’s damage to 700
    • Reworked: Talent Dredge Hurl Hurl
      • Hits with Harpoon refund its Cooldown and generates 50% more Ultimate Charge. Harpoon no longer Slows.
  • Cards
    • Card Mortal Skewer Mortal Skewer
      • Scaling increased from 70|70 ➞ 80|80
    • Card Abyss Cannon Abyss Cannon
      • Scaling increased from 1|1 ➞ 2|2
    • Card Gun Deck Gun Deck
      • No longer also increases maximum ammo
      • Scaling increased from 3%|3% ➞ 4%|4%
    • Card Plank Walker Plank Walker
      • Scaling increased from 100|100 ➞ 120|120
    • Card Haul on the Bowline Haul on the Bowline
      • Scaling increased from 7%|7% ➞ 8%|8%
      • Duration increased from 3s ➞ 4s
    • Card Heave Away Heave Away
      • Scaling increased from 0.2|0.2 ➞ 0.6|0.6


Dredge has been performing well for himself after the return of Blast Shields, however there have been some long-standing areas of tension between his design, his balance, and his fluidity. We want to make Dredge more dynamic to play and also more interesting to fight, as such we're adjusting his Talents to reduce some of the efficacy of Scuttle and turn Hurl into a skill shot reward as opposed to a spammable option. We also are buffing a variety of his Cards to give him alternative build choices and to play around with and potentially surprise opponents with new game plans.

Champion Drogoz Icon Drogoz

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Drogoz Icon Rocket Launcher
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 1.4s ➞1.2s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .6s
  • Abilites
    • Ability Salvo Salvo
      • Decreased cooldown from 20s ➞ 18s
  • Cards
    • Card Follow the Scent Follow the Scent
      • Reworked to “Generate 1|1 Ammo after using Fire Spit.”

Champion Fernando Icon Fernando

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Fernando Icon Flame Lance
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 1.8s ➞ 1.5s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .7s
  • Abilities
    • Ability Shield Chivalry
      • Increase from 3500 ➞ 4000

Champion Furia Icon Furia

  • Talents
    • Talent Furia Cherish Cherish
      • Now also heals Furia herself if in range
      • Cards that affect Kindle Soul targets also work with Cherish
  • Cards
    • Card Light Forge Light Forge
      • Increased duration from 1.5s ➞ 2.s

Champion Grohk Icon Grohk

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Grohk Icon Lightning Staff
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 2.5s ➞ 2s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .9s
  • Abilities
    • Ability Shock Pulse Shock Pulse
      • Now applies a Shock effect for 1.5s
  • Talents
    • Talent Grohk SpiritsDomain Spirit’s Domain
      • Healing now scales up to 30% increased healing if held on target.

Champion Imani Icon Imani

  • Talents
    • Talent Imani Pyromania Pyromania
      • Removed decrease to Pyre Ball’s damage
  • Cards
    • Card Affinity Affinity
      • Reduced ICD from 5s ➞ 3s
    • Card Arcane Ice Arcane Ice
      • Increased scaling from 15|15 to 25|25
    • Card Elemental Barrier Elemental Barrier
      • Reduced ICD from 5s ➞ 3s

Champion Inara Icon Inara

  • Cards
    • Card Crag Crag
      • Removed ICD

Champion Io Icon Io

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Io Icon Light Bow
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 1.2s ➞ 1.1s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .5s

Champion Jenos Icon Jenos

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Jenos Icon Star Splitter
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 1.2s ➞ 1.1s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .5s

Champion Kasumi Icon Kasumi

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Kasumi Icon Yokai Doll
      • Reverted damage falloff from previous update
      • Increase bonus damage on Deployables & deployed Shields from 250% ➞ 400%

Champion Khan Icon Khan

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Khan Icon Heavy Repeater
      • Decreased post-fire from .24s ➞ .22s
  • Abilities
    • Ability Bulwark Bulwark
      • Increased Shield health from 4400 ➞ 4500
  • Ultimate
    • Ability Overpower Overpower
      • Reduced pre-pull time from .5s ➞ .25s
  • Talents
    • Talent Khan StormofBullets Storm of Bullets
      • Reduced bonus firerate from 60% ➞ 40%
    • Talent Khan VortexGrip Vortex Grip
      • Now also Weakens the target to weapon attacks by 15% for 1.4s.
  • Cards
    • Card Shield Wall Shield Wall
      • Increased scaling from 200|200 ➞ 250|250


Khan has been a bit stagnant in his loadout useage with Storm of Bullets providing a significant DPS that outweighed his other benefits. To shift him away from this, we've partially put Storm of Bullets into base kit while reducing its effect to match the Live version. In essence, this is a buff to his other Talents. Vortex Grip is also seeing an additional change, allowing Khan to enable his team to burst a foe he grabs by Weakening them. We've also tightened up his Ultimate pull time to make it feel more consistent on both sides of the cast. P.S. We're keeping an eye on Lian's Shield and still considering directions to take it into the future

Champion Kinessa Icon Kinessa

  • Passive
    • Bag Em & Tag Em
      • Now applies a Shock to enemies instead of a Mark
  • Abilities
    • Ability Oppressor Mine Oppressor Mine
      • Now classified as Shock damage
  • Talents
    • NEW: Talent Kinessa Octoppressor High Voltage
      • Carbine Rifle now deals 25% increased damage against Shocked targets.
      • Replaces Talent Kinessa Octoppressor Crystalline Battery.


Here we go again. After Crystalline Battery's niche, fun but ultimately ineffective time in Live, we took a step back and considered all the change we've made to her the past few years as well as success we have had with designs elsewhere. This new Talent, High Voltage, gives her a flexible Carbine playstyle that synergizes both with her kit but select Champions across the roster to gain a potent damage buff.

Champion Lex Icon Lex

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Lex Icon Magnums
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 1s ➞ .9s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .5s

Champion Lian Icon Lian

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Lian Icon Heirloom Rifle
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 1.3s ➞ 1.1s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .6s

Champion Maeve Icon Maeve

  • Talents
    • Talent Maeve ArtfulDodger Artful Dodger
      • Activating Nine Lives interrupts and cleanses all Crowd Control effects. You have an additional midair jump.
      • Replaces Talent Maeve StreetJustice Street Justice

Champion Makoa Icon Makoa

  • Abilities
    • Ability Shell Shield Shell Shield
      • Increase from 4000 ➞ 4500
  • Ultimate
    • Ability Ancient Rage Ancient Rage
      • Reduced prefire from .15s ➞ .05s
      • Shifted mesh scaling to Leviathan
      • Removed headshot damage protection
  • Talents
    • Talent Makoa HalfShell Half Shell
      • Also provides 500 bonus Shield health
    • Talent Makoa Leviathan Leviathan
      • Now also has Makoa grow by 50% and resets Shell Shield’s cooldown as well
  • Cards
    • Card Barrier Reef Barrier Reef
      • Increase trigger threshold from 900 ➞ 1000

Champion Moji Icon Moji

  • Abilities
    • Ability Familiar Spray Sparkle
      • No longer Self Slows while firing
    • Ability Magic Barrier Magic Shield
      • Increase instant Shielding given to allies from 100 ➞ 200
      • Moji now will give a total of 600 Shielding to all allies in range
      • Increase Shields given duration from 4s ➞ 5s
  • Talents
    • Talent Moji BoomBoom Jubilation
      • Increased maximum stack damage from 350 ➞ 550 (800 ➞ 1000)
  • Cards
    • Card Morning Breath Morning Breath
      • Reworked to “Sparkle regenerates {scale=20|20}% Ammo spent when hitting an enemy."
    • Card Shimmering Shimmering
      • Increase duration from 4s ➞ 5s

Champion Nyx Icon Nyx

  • Abilities
    • Ability Abyssal Fortress Abyssal Fortress
      • Increase from 1500|3000|4500 to 2500|3750|5000
  • Cards
    • Card Unyielding Advance Unyielding Advance
      • Increase scaling from 200|200 ➞ 250|250

Champion Pip Icon Pip

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Pip Icon Potion Launcher
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 1.1s ➞ 1s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .5s
  • Abilities
    • Ability Healing Potion Healing Potion
      • Increased healing from 1000 ➞1200
    • Ability Weightless Weightless
      • Increased duration from 2.5s ➞ 3s.
      • Pip has an additional midair jump during the ability.
  • Talents
    • Talent Pip MegaPotion Mega Potion
      • Healing bonus changed from 100% ➞ flat 1000 bonus

Champion Raum Icon Raum

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Raum Icon Hellfire Gatling
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 3s ➞ 2.75s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from 1s ➞ 1.25s

Champion Ruckus Icon Ruckus

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Ruckus Icon Miniguns
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 1.1s ➞ 1s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .5s
  • Abilities
    • Ability Emitter Emitter
      • Increase Shield health from 2000 ➞ 2500

Champion VII Icon VII

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack VII Icon Heavy SMG
      • Standardized reload timing across fire modes
        • Mag Dump’s reload time is decreased from 1.4s ➞ 1.2s
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from .85s ➞ .8s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .25s ➞ .3s
  • Talents
    • Talent VII TribunalUpgrades Tribunal Upgrades
      • Burst Mode transitioned to Shock damage

Champion Sha Lin Icon Sha Lin

  • Passive
    • NEW: Hazy Vision
      • While Stealthed, Sha Lin has 20% increased Movement Speed.
  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Sha Lin Icon Longbow
      • No longer slows Sha Lin while charging
      • Increased minimum damage from 30 ➞ 100
  • Talents
    • NEW: Talent ShaLin DesertSilence Desert Shadow
      • Eliminations enter you into Stealth for 2s. Shots from Stealth deal 200 increased damage.
      • Replaces Talent ShaLin DesertSilence Desert Silence.
    • Talent ShaLin SandTrap Sand Trap
      • Removed 1s Cooldown penalty
      • Reduced effective blast radius from 20 ➞ 12
  • Cards
    • Card Poise Poise
      • Reworked to “While in Stealth, gain 40|40 increased Jump Height.”

Champion Skye Icon Skye

  • Cards
    • Card Tactical Reload Tactical Reload
      • Reworked to “Increase your maximum Ammo by 2|2.”
    • Card Preparation Twilight Armor
      • Reworked to “Increase your maximum health by 50|50.”

Champion Strix Icon Strix

  • Weapons
    • WeaponAttack Strix Icon Talon Rifle
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 2s ➞ 1.6s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .8s
    • WeaponAttack Strix Icon 2 Pistol
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 1s ➞ .9s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .5s

Champion Talus Icon Talus

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Talus Icon Veracharger
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 1s ➞ .9s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .5s

Champion Tiberius Icon Tiberius

  • Abilities
    • Ability Combat Trance Combat Trance
      • Reduced prefire from .2s ➞ .09s
  • Talents
    • NEW: Talent Tiberius PredatoryInstincts Borrowed Luck
      • Combat Trance now resets your other abilities' cooldowns when activated.
      • Replaces Talent Tiberius PredatoryInstincts Predatory Instincts.

Champion Torvald Icon Torvald

  • General
    • Health
      • Increase base Health from 2800 ➞ 3000
      • Decreased base Shield from 2700 ➞ 2500
  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Torvald Icon Gauntlet
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 1s ➞ .9s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .5s
  • Abilities
    • Ability Nullify Nullify
      • Now classified as Shock damage
    • Ability Protection Protection
      • Increase duration from 4s ➞ 5s
      • Decrease cooldown from 9s ➞ 8s
    • Ability Recharge Recharge
      • Increase from 2700 ➞ 2750
  • Ultimate
    • Ability Hyper Beam Hyper Beam
      • Torvald now goes CC immune during the windup animation

Champion Viktor Icon Viktor

  • Talents
    • Talent Viktor Cardio Cardio
      • Now also increases Jump Height by 150% during Hustle
    • Talent Viktor Shrapnel Shrapnel
      • Now also deals an additional 150 damage

Champion Vivian Icon Vivian

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Vivian Icon Light Machine Gun
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 2.6s ➞ 2s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ 1s
  • Abilities
    • Ability Deflector Shield Deflector Shield
      • Increase health from 1200 ➞ 1500
  • Ultimate
    • Ability Sentinels Sentinels
      • Now classified as Shock damage
  • Talents
    • Talent Vivian SuspectEveryone Suspect Everyone
      • Removed Shield health bonus
      • Removed ICD

Champion Willo Icon Willo

  • Weapon
    • WeaponAttack Willo Icon Wand of Overgrowth
      • Reduced time for reload pre-load from 1.3s ➞ 1.2s
      • Increased time for reload post-fire from .4s ➞ .5s
  • Cards
    • Card Fauna Fauna
      • Reworked to “Increase the Knockback you receive from Wand of Overgrowth by 40|40%”

Champion Yagorath Icon Yagorath

  • Abilities
    • Ability Piercing Quills Piercing Quills
      • Uses Ammo instead of Cooldown, reloads every .5s.
  • Ultimate
    • Ability Devour Devour
      • No longer refunds 30% energy if the target takes 1000 damage and is dropped due to collision
      • No longer has Critical Hit spots on her Tail
      • Modified how Yagorath checks for sight on targets to not allow her to Ultimate people through walls
  • Talents
    • Talent Yagorath Unnatural Persistence Unnatural Persistence
      • Reworked to "While in Hardening, receive 50% increased healing from others."
        • Card Out Of Time Out of Time Card considers this an effect of Hardening, reducing the effect to 25% but allows it to linger.
    • Talent Yagorath Sight Begets Strength Sight Begets Strength
      • Increase Shield health from 90 ➞ 100
      • Increase duration from 4s ➞ 5s

Champion Ying Icon Ying

  • Cards
    • Card Ephemeral Ephemeral
      • Reworked to “Reduce the cooldown of Dimensional Link by .5|.5% for each hit with your weapon.”

Bug Fixes

Cards

  • Fixed an issue where some Card decks were misnamed or poorly ordered after recent balance adjustments.

Effects

  • Fixed various instances of effects not being highlighted in our recent update to Status Effect indication.

Skins

  • Fixed an issue where Shikoa Makoa’s hook chain was not textured as intended. This skin has had its visual textures and colors updated slightly.
  • Fixed an issue where Street Style: World Tour and Ska’drin Celebration skins had temporary or blurry Loading Art

Champions

Champion Drogoz Icon Drogoz

  • Fixed an issue where Fire Spit erroneously stated that its Weaken was to all attacks, it is only to weapon attacks.

Champion Lillith Icon Lillith

  • Fixed an issue where Blood Hex’s damage was not scaling down properly after targets began to lose health.
    • We’ve heard some player feedback that enjoyed this accidental change to Lillith. We’ll be investigating ways to allow her Hex to be a more aggressive option in her kit in a future update

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