Dota 2 Patch 7.37 notes: Medusa rework, Facet and Innate changes headline surprise update

Medusa mains, prepare for a new exam.

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Valve has dropped Dota 2 patch 7.37 (right in the middle of a tournament, no less) on July 31 jam-packed with massive changes to Hero Facets, Innate abilities, and even a hero rework for a hypercarry who has been mediocre of late.

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Valve has continued to make huge changes to Dota 2 as Crownfall rolls on, but none have been quite as severe as today’s update which has seen items, Facets, and hero abilities get the chop entirely.

Here are the highlights and the full Dota 2 patch notes from 7.37, which is now live on the client.

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Dota 2 7.37 overview

Medusa rework adds new ability, Facet

Medusa, a snake-like Gorgon archer, stands ready for battle in Dota 2.
She might be back. Image via Valve

Everyone’s favorite Gorgon has received an unexpected rework with Dota 2 patch 7.37. Mana Shield is now entirely Innate, meaning it cannot be leveled, and instead boosts Mana Shield’s effectiveness per hero level.

Medusa’s new ability is Gorgon’s Grasp, which sees her fire a volley of arrows into the air that land in three groups in a line, Enemies hit take poison damage over time and are rooted, plus they cannot turn. Her new Facet Venomous Volley plays into this poison-root combination, with every fifth attack enhanced to slow movement speed, attack speed, and even cast speed.

She’s enjoyed a middle-of-the-park win rate these past few patches, according to Dotabuff, but with a new ability and a focus on building attack speed for the new Facet, expect this to fluctuate in the coming week. Here’s hoping she isn’t quite as scary as her previous few forms.

Numerous Hero Facets, Innates adjusted or removed entirely

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Void Spirit is one of nine heroes getting a new Hero Facet. Image via Valve

We wouldn’t call these next changes a rework like for Medusa, but a few heroes will have new choices pre-game for Hero Facets with 7.37. Nine other heroes apart from the Gorgon have had an old Facet removed and a new one added: Bristleback, Death Prophet, Doom, Earth Spirit, Huskar, Lone Druid, Lycan, Visage, and Void Spirit.

Patch 7.37 also brings 21 new Innate abilities and many Innate adjustments as Valve continues to tinker with the system. Time to hit the books and study up again, Dota players!

Teleport, Break, Block, and Reflect keywords refined

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Tinker’s Teleport has been reclassified slightly. Image via Valve

Patch 7.37 also refines a few important keywords and abilities in Dota, and clearly outlines what is affected by interacting with these keywords. Ability tooltips have been updated to reflect these changes, so it’ll be easier to know exactly which passives won’t work when someone applies Break to you, for example.

Abilities applied with attacks will no longer be reflected or blocked either. Valve is making it clear ability attacks shouldn’t be absorbed by Linken’s Sphere or bounced back to sender via a well-timed Lotus Orb, and that most of this interaction is limited to targeted spells instead. The full list of interaction changes can be found in the full official patch notes here.

Below you’ll find the full patch notes for Dota 2 patch 7.37.

All Dota 2 Patch 7.37 patch notes

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General updates

  • An Area of Effect icon has been added to all tooltip values that are affected by Bloodstone and other AoE increases.
  • The Mines map aura: Mighty Mines health regen aura decreased from seven to five.
  • The Well map aura: Well Wishes mana regen aura decreased from 1.5 to 1.2.
  • Starting from his second death, Roshan now always drops Roshan’s Banner.
  • Starting from his third death, Roshan now drops Refresher Shard and Cheese during daytime or Aghanim’s Blessing during night time.
  • Teleport time to Roshan’s outposts decreased from six to four seconds.
  • A full rework of the Teleport, Break, Block, and Reflect keywords and their effects can be found here.

Neutral creeps

Harpy Stormcrafter

  • No longer always cast Chain Lightning if attacked by lane creeps when pulled.

Giant Wolf

  • Intimidate: Total Attack Damage Reduction increased from 50 percent to 60 percent.

Hellbear Smasher

  • Death Throe: Power: Base Attack Damage Bonus increased from 50 percent to 60 percent.

Hellbear

  • Death Throe: Rush: Attack Speed increased from 100 to 120.

Ancient Granite Golem

  • Granite Aura: Bonus HP Percentage increased from 15/16/17/19 percent to 16/17/18/19 percent.

Ancient Rock Golem

  • Weakening Aura: Armor Reduction increased from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6.

Item updates

Roshan’s Banner

  • Effect radius increased from 600 to 650.

Bracer

  • No longer provides 3/6 damage.
  • Now provides 50/100 health.

Bloodstone

  • Spell Lifesteal bonus decreased from 30 percent to 20 percent.
  • Bloodpact spell lifesteal multiplier increased from 2.5 to four.
  • Bloodpact duration decreased from six to five seconds.

Blooodthorn

  • Soul Rend bonus damage on silenced targets from non-heroes attacks decreased from 50 to 25.

Crimson Guard

  • Guard cooldown increased from 35 to 40 seconds.
  • Guard additional damage block based on caster’s max health decreased from 2.5 percent to 2.2 percent.

Dagon

  • Spell Lifesteal bonus rescaled from 15 percent to 15/16/17/18/19 percent.

Eternal Shroud

  • Eternal Endurance magic resistance per stack decreased from four percent to 3.5 percent.

Ethereal Blade

  • Ether Blast projectile speed increased from 1,275 to 1,400.

Guardian Greaves

  • Mend cooldown increased from 40 to 45 seconds.

Heart of Tarrasque

  • Max Health Regen bonus decreased from 1.6 percent to 1.4 percent.

Heaven’s Halberd

  • Slow Resistance bonus increased from 20 percent to 25 percent.
  • Disarm mana cost decreased from 100 to 75.

Lotus Orb

  • Echo Shell duration decreased from six to five seconds.

Manta Style

  • Mirror Image illusion duration decreased from 20 to 18 seconds.

Pavise

  • Health bonus increased from 150 to 175.

Pipe of Insight

  • Barrier duration decreased from 12 to 10 seconds.
  • Insight Aura magic resistance decreased from 10 percent to eight percent.

Solar Crest

  • Recipe cost decreased from 600 to 500; total cost decreased from 2,700 to 2,600.

Shadow Amulet

  • Fade no longer requires the target to remain still.
  • Fade no longer refreshes its cooldown if cast on self.
  • Fade now slows the target by 35 percent while invisible.
  • Fade can now be dispelled.
  • Fade cooldown increased from seven to 18 seconds.
  • Fade duration decreased from 15 to 3.5 seconds.

Spirit Vessel

  • Recipe changed. Now requires Urn of Shadows, Vitality Booster, and a 900 gold recipe; total cost unchanged.
  • No longer provides six All Attributes. Now provides 375 Health.
  • Soul Release cooldown increased from seven to ten seconds.
  • Soul Release damage per second decreased from 35 to 25.
  • Soul Release health gain reduction increased from 45 percent to 50 percent.

Urn of Shadows

  • Recipe changed. Now requires Sage’s Mask, Ring of Protection, Fluffy Hat, and a 280 gold recipe; total cost unchanged.
  • No longer provides two All Attributes. Now provides 125 Health.
  • Soul Release cooldown increased from seven to 10 seconds.

Neutral item updates

Trusty Shovel

  • Dig cooldown no longer ticks down if the Shovel is not in the neutral slot.
  • Always digs up a Water Rune when used in the river.

Fairy’s Trinket

  • Removed from the game.

Ironwood Tree

  • Returning as a Tier One Neutral item.
  • Provides five to All Attributes. Use: Plant Tree. Plants a happy little tree that lasts for 20 seconds. Cooldown: 15 seconds.

Pig Pole

  • All Attributes bonus decreased from five to four.
  • Pig, Out! bonus movement speed increased from 10 percent to 15 percent.

Iron Talon

  • Returning as a Tier Two Neutral item
  • Provides 20 Attack Speed and four Armor. Active: Chop. Targets a non-player enemy unit to remove 80 percent of its current HP. If cast on a tree, instantly destroys it. Cooldown: 20 seconds. Tree Cooldown: Four seconds.

Philosopher’s Stone

  • Now has 750 charges, and depletes a charge every time it grants gold to the owner. When all charges are depleted, the item is destroyed and the owner receives an additional 375 gold.

Pupil’s Gift

  • Attribute bonus for Universal heroes increased from seven to eight.

Vambrace

  • Now is a Tier Three Neutral item.
  • Main Attribute bonus increased from eight to 10.
  • Other Attributes bonus increased from two to four.
  • Strength Magic Resistance bonus increased from eight percent to 10 percent.
  • Agility Attack Speed bonus increased from 10 to 15.
  • Intelligence Spell Amp bonus increased from six percent to eight percent.

Ogre Seal Totem

  • Now is a Tier Four Neutral item.
  • Strength bonus increased from 10 to 12.
  • Ogre Seal Flop cooldown decreased from 40 to 35 seconds.
  • Ogre Seal Flop damage increased from 150 to 250.
  • Ogre Seal Flop can now change direction while flopping with a reduced turn rate.

Martyr’s Plate

  • Removed from the game.

Hero updates

Abaddon

  • Font of Avernus Innate ability removed.
  • New Innate: Withering Mist
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up.
    • Damaging enemies applies the Withering Mist debuff for five seconds. Affected enemies have their HP regeneration, healing, lifesteal, and spell lifesteal reduced by 35 percent if they are below 40 percent HP.
  • Borrowed Time
    • Cooldown increased from 80/70/60 seconds to 90/80/70 seconds.
  • Talents
    • Level 20 Talent Aphotic Shield Barrier Amount decreased from 100 to 80.

Anti-Mage

  • Base health regen increased from 0.75 to one.
  • New Innate: Persecutor
    • Passive, scales with Mana Void.
    • Attacks slow enemies based on how much mana they are missing. 12.5/15/17.5/20 percent min slow at 50 percent mana, up to 25/30/35/40 percent maximum slow at 0 percent mana. Slow Duration: 0.75 seconds.
  • Mana Break
    • No longer an innate ability
    • Mana Burned per hit rescaled from 16/23/30/37/44 to 25/30/35/40.
    • Max Mana Burned per hit rescaled from 0.8/1.6/2.4/3.2/4 percent to 1.6/2.4/3.2/4 percent.
  • Blink
    • Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade reworked. Reduces cooldown by one second. After casting Blink, your next Mana Break within five seconds is empowered, burning an additional 20 percent max mana and preventing the target from regenerating or gaining mana for six seconds. This debuff is undispellable.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent 40 percent Slow on Fully Mana Drained targets replaced with 10 percent Persecutor Max Movement Slow
    • Level 20 Talent one second Blink Cooldown replaced with 0.7 second Mana Void Stun.

Arc Warden

  • Facet: Order
    • Flux
      • Movement Speed Slow increased from 14/21/28/35 percent to 15/22/30/39 percent.
    • Spark Wraith
      • Slow Duration increased from 0.4/0.5/0.6/0.7 seconds. to 0.6/0.8/1.0/1.2 seconds.
  • Facet: Disorder
    • Flux
      • Movement Speed Slow decreased from 6/10/14/18 percent to 5/8/11/14 percent.
    • Spark Wraith
      • Slow Duration decreased from 0.6/0.8/1.0/1.2 seconds to 0.4/0.5/0.6/0.7 seconds.
  • Talents
    • Level 25 Talent Magnetic Field Affects Creeps and Buildings replaced with Flux Silences when a target is alone.

Beastmaster

  • Facet: Wild Hunt
    • Inner Beast
      • Bonus Attack Speed per unit rescaled from 1/2/3/4/5 to 2/3/4/5.
  • Facet: Beast Mode
    • Inner Beast
      • Active Bonus Attack Speed rescaled from 10/20/30/40/50 to 20/30/40/50.
  • New Innate: Rugged
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up
    • Beastmaster’s melee hero damage block chance is increased from 50 percent to 100 percent versus non-hero units.
  • Wild Axes
    • Mana Cost increased from 50 to 50/55/60/65.
  • Inner Beast
    • No longer an innate ability.
    • Bonus Attack Speed rescaled from 5/10/25/40/55 to 15/30/45/60.
  • Drums of Slom
    • Shortest Drum Interval increased from 0.4 to 0.5 seconds.
    • Damage per strike decreased from 90 to 85.
    • No longer increases stacks when attacking buildings.

Bloodseeker

  • Sanguivore
    • Now provides full heal values when denying.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent Bloodrage Spell Amplification increased from 10 percent to 15 percent.
    • Level 15 Talent Blood Rite Damage increased from 120 to 135.

Bounty Hunter

  • Base Intelligence decreased from 22 to 20.
  • Big Game Hunter
    • Streak extra gold increased from 10 percent to 20 percent.
  • Shuriken Toss
    • Aghanim’s Scepter Cast Range decreased from 700 to 600.
  • Talents
    • Level 25 Talent Shuriken Toss Damage decreased from 275 to 250.

Brewmaster

  • New Innate: Belligerent
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up
    • Whenever Brewmaster respawns or comes out of Primal Split, he gains 20 percent attack damage bonus. Duration when respawning: 30 seconds. Duration after coming out of Primal Split: 15 seconds.
  • Thunder Clap
    • Cooldown increased from 13 seconds to 16/15/14/13 seconds.
    • Radius decreased from 400 to 325/350/375/400.
  • Drunken Brawler
    • No longer an innate ability.
    • Earth Brawler bonus armor rescaled from 1/3/5/7/9 to 1/3/5/7.
    • Earth Brawler bonus magic resistance rescaled from 4/8/12/16/20 percent to 5/10/15/20 percent.
    • Storm Brawler bonus evasion rescaled from 10/15/20/25/30 percent to 15/20/25/30 percent.
    • Storm Brawler bonus movement speed rescaled from 4/6/8/10/12 percent to 5/7/9/11 percent.
    • Fire Brawler crit multiplier rescaled from 120/135/150/165/180 percent to 120/140/160/180 percent.
    • Fire Brawler bonus attack speed rescaled from 10/15/20/25/30 to 10/15/20/25.
    • Void Brawler bonus status resistance now stacks with other sources of status resistance.
    • Void Brawler bonus status resistance rescaled from 4/8/12/16/20 percent to 5/10/15/20 percent.
    • Void Brawler slow on attack rescaled from 5/10/15/20/25 percent to 10/15/20/25 percent.

Bristleback

  • Base damage increased by six.
  • New Facet: Seeing Red
    • Warpath
      • Can be activated to grant Bristleback 50 percent bonus attack damage and 50 percent bonus movement speed per stack, but limits his vision to a 90 degree cone in front of him. Duration: 4/5/6 seconds. Mana Cost: 55/65/75. Cooldown: 45 seconds.
  • New Innate: Prickly
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up
    • Hero has 10 percent damage and debuff duration amplification against enemy heroes that are behind him.
  • Bristleback
    • Aghanim’s Scepter Quill Spray count decreased from six to five.
  • Warpath
    • No longer an innate ability,
    • Damage per stack rescaled from 5/15/20/25 to 15/20/25,
    • Movement per stack rescaled from 0/2/3/4 percent to 2/3/4 percent,
    • Stack Duration rescaled from 12/16/18/20 seconds to 16/18/20 seconds.
    • Max Stacks rescaled from 4/8/10/12 to 8/10/12.

Broodmother

  • Necrotic Webs
    • Spin Web
      • Debuff now only applies if Broodmother is in the same network of webs as the target.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent Spin Web Simultaneous Webs decreased from three to two.
    • Level 15 Talent Spin Web Charge Restore Time Reduction decreased from seven to five seconds.
    • Level 20 Talent Incapacitating Bite Attack Bonus increased from 10 to 12.

Chaos Knight

  • Irrationality
    • Reality Rift
      • Instead of a 33 percent chance to do nothing, now has a 33 percent chance to Silence.

Clockwerk

  • Expanded Armature
    • Power Cogs
      • Cog push duration decreased from 0.8 to 0.6 seconds.
  • Armor Power
    • Damage increase per armor decreased 0.3 percent to 0.25 percent.

Crystal Maiden

  • Cold Comfort
    • Blueheart Floe
      • Now increases mana regen amplification from 50 percent to 75 percent.

Dark Seer

  • Base Strength decreased from 22 to 20.
  • Mental Fortitude
    • Intelligence now cannot be lower than the average of Strength and Agility.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent Vacuum AoE decreased from 100 to 75.

Dazzle

  • Nothl Boon
    • Barrier duration increased from 10 to 12 seconds.
  • Poison Bloom
    • Poison Touch
      • Split Damage increased from 25/50/75/100 to 30/60/90/120.

Death Prophet

  • Spirit Collector
    • Now also gains spirits from Death Prophet’s own death and while she is dead.
  • New Facet: Mourning Ritual
    • Passive effect. Death Prophet delays 20/30/40/50 percent of incoming damage, taking the damage in one-second intervals over five seconds. Scales with Exorcism.
  • Crypt Swarm
    • Range increased from 810 to 900.
    • Cast Range is now equal to its wave range.
  • Spirit Siphon
    • Can now target Roshan and Tormentors.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent 250 Health replaced with 75 Silence AoE
    • Level 20 Talent 50 Crypt Swarm Damage replaced with 400 Health.

Disruptor

  • Kinetic Fence
    • Cast Range increased from 900 to 1,050.
  • Glimpse
    • Now deals 20/25/30/35 percent of the distance traveled as damage. Max damage remains 100/160/220/280.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent 275 Glimpse Max Damage replaced with 10 percent/280 Glimpse Distance To Damage/Max Damage.

Doom

  • New Facet: Impending Doom
    • Doom
      • Every 6.66 minutes, duration is increased by 0.66 seconds (doubled in Turbo).
      • Damage per second is decreased from 30/50/70 to 30/45/60.

Dragon Knight

  • Corrosive Dragon
    • Wyrm’s Wrath
      • Corrosive Breath Armor Reduction decreased from 1/2/3/4 to 0/1/2/3.

Drow Ranger

  • Sidestep
    • Multishot
      • Movement Speed Penalty decreased from 40 percent to 25 percent.

Earth Spirit

  • New Facet: Ready to Roll
    • Rolling Boulder
      • Rolling over an allied hero grants the allied hero 15/20/25/30 percent bonus movespeed for four seconds. Earth Spirit travels further and faster, and stuns enemies for longer. Speed: 1,900. Distance Multiplier: 2.5x. Bonus Stun Duration: 0.3/0.5/0.7/0.9 seconds.
  • Rolling Boulder
    • Damage increased from 60 to 60/70/80/90.
  • Magnetize
    • Damage per second increased from 40/80/120 to 45/85/125.

Earthshaker

  • Slugger
    • Knockback effect is now applied on any kill made by an Earthshaker’s ability, not just Enchant Totem.
  • New Innate: Spirit Cairn
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up
    • When Earthshaker dies, a 75-radius fissure is created where he died. This fissure blocks movement, provides vision, and allows Earthshaker to gain experience around it.
  • Aftershock
    • No longer an innate ability
    • Damage rescaled from 35/70/100/130/160 to 70/100/130/160.
    • Duration rescaled from 0.5/1/1.1/1.2/1.3 to 1/1.1/1.2/1.3 seconds.

Elder Titan

  • Momentum
    • Movement Speed as Attack Speed decreased from 30 percent to 25 percent.
  • New Innate: Tip The Scales
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up
    • Allied creeps and buildings affected by the Glyph of Fortification or Roshan’s Banner deal 100 percent bonus damage.
  • Astral Spirit
    • No longer an innate ability
    • Bonus Speed per hero rescaled from 4/5/6/7/8 percent to 5/6/7/8 percent.
    • Bonus Damage per creep rescaled from 3/3/7/11/15 to 3/7/11/15.
    • Bonus Damage per hero rescaled from 10/17/38/59/80 to 17/38/59/80.
    • Bonus Armor per hero rescaled from 1/1.5/3/4.5/6 to 1.5/3/4.5/6.
    • Mana Cost rescaled from 70/80/90/100/110 to 80/90/100/110.
    • Cooldown rescaled from 25/23/21/19/17 seconds to 23/21/19/17 seconds.

Ember Spirit

  • Double Impact
    • Slight of Fist
      • Second attack damage penalty increased from 40 percent to 50 percent.
  • New Innate: Immolation
    • Passive, scales with Fire Remnant.
    • Ember Spirit deals 10/20/30/40 damage per second in a 175 AoE around him at all times.
    • Can be upgraded with Aghanim’s Shard. Increases damage by 10, radius by 175, and grants Fire Remnants the current level of Immolation.
  • Searing Chains
    • Mana Cost increased from 80/90/100/110 to 95/100/105/110.
  • Flame Guard
    • No longer an innate ability nor has a passive component.
    • Duration rescaled from 10/12/14/16/18 to 12/14/16/18 seconds.
    • Damage per second rescaled from 15/25/35/45/55 to 20/30/40/50.
    • Magic damage barrier rescaled from 30/60/135/210/285 to 60/135/210/285.

Enchantress

  • Forest Freebie: Ability removed.
  • New Innate: Rabble Rouser
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up
    • All neutral camps deal more damage to enemy heroes. Damage increase is 10 percent + 3 percent per Enchantress’s hero level.
  • Enchant
    • No longer grants a guaranteed Neutral Token Drop.

Enigma

  • Event Horizon
    • Movement Slow rescaled from 15 percent to 9/11/13/15 percent. Now scales with Black Hole.
  • Gravity Well
    • Damage reduction rescaled from 15 percent to 9/11/13/15 percent. Now scales with Black Hole.

Faceless Void

  • Temporal Impunity
    • Now renamed to Chronosphere.
    • Time Walk
      • No longer prevents damage for a short duration after Time Walking.
  • Talents
    • Level 25 Talent Time Zone AoE increased from 140 to 200.

Grimstroke

  • Fine Art
    • Stroke of Fate
      • Bonus DMG per target increased from 20/35/50/65 to 20/40/60/80.

Gyrocopter

  • Call Down
    • Missile Damage increased from 250/400/550 to 250/425/600.

Hoodwink

  • Go Nuts
    • Scurry
      • Bonus Cast Range increased from 50/100/150/200 to 100/150/200/250.
      • Bonus Attack Range increased from 50/100/150/200 to 100/150/200/250.
  • Acorn Shot
    • Mana Cost increased from 70/75/80/85 to 85/90/95/100.
    • Bonus Damage decreased from 55/90/125/160 to 40/80/120/160.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent Acorn Shot bounces decreased from two to one.
    • Level 20 Talent Armor Corruption decreased from four to three.

Huskar

  • New Facet: Incendiary
    • Burning Spear
      • Spears also burn enemies for one percent of their max health each second. Costs four percent of max health instead of four percent of current health. Duration decreased from nine to six seconds.
    • Level 25 Talent is four seconds Burning Spears Duration instead of six seconds.

Jakiro

  • Level 10 Talent Attack Range decreased from 200 to 150.

Juggernaut

  • Level 10 Talent 150 Healing Ward Radius replaced with four percent Duelist Damage.
  • Level 10 Talent 10 percent Blade Dance Crit Damage replaced with 10 seconds Healing Ward Cooldown.
  • Level 15 Talent Movement Speed During Blade Fury increased from 30 to 40
  • Level 15 Talent 20 seconds Healing Ward Cooldown replaced with one percent Healing Ward Heal.

Kunkka

  • Min. damage increased by four.
  • New Innate: Admiral’s Rum
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up
    • Taking damage from a hero, building, or Roshan that would reduce Kunkka below 65 percent health automatically triggers Admiral’s Rum over 10 seconds, providing 10 percent bonus movement speed and delaying 20 percent of the damage taken. Delayed damage is dealt evenly over 10 seconds once the buff ends. Stacks additively with other sources of Admiral’s Rum. Cooldown: 60 seconds.
  • Torrent
    • Radius increased from 225 to 250
    • Mana Cost decreased from 100 to 90.
  • Tidebringer
    • No longer an innate ability.
    • Cleave Range rescaled from 500/650/800/950/1,100 to 650/800/950/1,100.
    • Damage Bonus rescaled from 10/30/60/90/120 to 30/60/90/120.
    • Cooldown rescaled from 16/13/10/7/4 to 13/10/7/4 seconds.
  • Ghostship
    • Allied heroes touched by the Ghostship receive a stronger Admiral’s Rum. Rum bonus speed: 15 percent. Damage delayed: 35 percent
    • Now upgraded with Aghanim’s Scepter. Creates a fleet of two ships at the target point on a 2.5-second interval. Each ship also fires three waves of four cannonballs from the port and starboard side that deal 40 percent of Ghostship’s damage as they pass through enemies. Each unit can only be hit by one cannonball per volley. Cannonball projectile radius: 100. Cannonball projectile speed: 1,400.
  • Torrent Storm
    • Ability removed.
  • Talents
    • Level 25 Talent Ghostship Fleet replaced with +100 Spell AoE.

Legion Commander

  • New Innate: Outfight Them!
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up
    • Attacking an enemy hero that has a higher level than Legion Commander increases her HP regeneration, lifesteal, and incoming heals by 50 percent for four seconds. Always applies when attacking a hero that is at max level.
  • Moment of Courage
    • No longer an innate ability.
    • Lifesteal rescaled from 40/60/70/80/90 percent to 55/65/75/85 percent
    • Cooldown rescaled from 2.3/1.9/1.5/1.1/0.7 to 1.9/1.5/1.1/0.7 seconds.

Leshrac

  • Misanthropy
    • Diabolic Edict
      • Duration decreased from 7s to 6s (total damage unchanged).
  • Split Earth
    • Damage decreased from 120/180/240/300 to 115/170/225/280.

Lifestealer

  • Corpse Eater
    • Facet renamed to Rage.
    • No longer gains permanent HP when killing a creep or hero (moved to Feast innate ability).
  • Feast
    • In addition, Lifestealer gains permanent max HP whenever he kills a creep or hero. Max HP per creep kill: One. Max HP per hero kill: 15.

Lina

  • New Innate: Combustion
    • Passive, scales with Laguna Blade
    • Every 150 damage Lina does to an enemy hero causes them to overheat, dealing 10/20/30/40 damage to their allies in a 400 radius. Deals 10 damage if the target is an illusion. Dealing over 150 damage can cause this effect to trigger multiple times.
  • Fiery Soul
    • No longer a levelable innate ability
    • Move Speed Bonus per stack rescaled from 1/1.5/2/2.5/3 percent to 1.5/2/2.5/3 percent
    • Attack Speed Bonus per stack rescaled from 4/8/16/24/32 to 8/16/24/32.

Lion

  • Mana Drain
    • When the enemy has no mana remaining, the slow from Mana Drain is increased by an additional 15 percent.

Lone Druid

  • Unbearable
    • Summon Spirit Bear
      • Now also increases the attack distance threshold between Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear by 500.
  • New Facet: Bear Necessities
    • Lone Druid can only use 3 slots of his inventory but he gets 50/60/70/80 percent bonus passive stats from them. Scales with True Form.
    • Bonuses apply to the following stats:
      • Strength, Agility and Intelligence.
      • Health, Mana and Evasion.
      • Attack Speed and Bonus Damage.
      • Health and Mana Regen.
  • New Innate: Gift Bearer
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up.
    • Lone Druid can re-roll his Neutral Token once per tier.
  • Summon Spirit Bear
    • Spirit Bear can no longer equip its own neutral items. Now copies and shares a cooldown with Lone Druid’s currently equipped neutral item.

Luna

  • Selemene’s Favor: Ability removed.
  • Lunar Orbit
    • Renamed facet to Moonshield.
  • Lunar Blessing
    • Moved to innate ability. Can no longer be leveled
    • Grants one attack damage per level to Luna and allied heroes, and 400 bonus night vision plus 20 per level to Luna only. Luna receives double the attack damage bonuses. At night, Lunar Blessing is global.
  • Lunar Orbit
    • New basic ability.
    • Creates four glaives that rotate in a 250 radius around Luna. Any enemy unit that collides with a glaive takes a percentage of Luna’s attack damage. Collision Radius: 150. Collision Damage: 20/25/30/35 percent. Duration: 5/6/7/8 seconds. Mana Cost: 65/70/75/80. Cooldown: 40/35/30/25 seconds.
    • Now upgraded with Aghanim’s Shard. Increases collision damage by 15 percent. Glaives also rotate 50 percent faster (160 to 240).
  • Moon Glaives
    • Can no longer be activated. Rotating glaives moved to Lunar Orbit ability.
    • Aghanim’s Shard upgrade removed.
    • Bounces increased from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6.
  • Talents
    • Level 25 Talent 20 Lunar Blessing Damage replaced with one Lunar Blessing Damage Per Level.

Lycan

  • New Facet: Alpha Wolves
    • Increases the max level of Summon Wolves by two but decreases the max level of Howl and Feral Impulse by one.
    • Summon Wolves
      • Damage and Health scale linearly for their fifth and sixth levels.
      • Starting at level five, wolves gain Hamstring, an attack modifier that applies a 0.5-second root, and the next four attacks from units under Lycan’s control deal an additional 50 physical damage. Cooldown: Eight seconds.
      • Starting at level six, wolves gain Hightail. When activated, wolves get a burst of energy, gaining hasted and phased movement, 100 percent evasion, and 20 attack speed for eight seconds. Cooldown: 50 seconds.
      • Wolves summoned with Aghanim’s Shard are improved when leveling Summon Wolves past level four.

Magnus

  • Run Through
    • Renamed to Reverse Polarity
    • Skewer
      • No longer deals additional damage when skewering enemies into trees or cliffs (moved to base ability).
  • Skewer
    • Now deals additional damage when skewering enemies into trees or cliffs.
    • Tree Hit Damage increased from 10/15/20/25 to 15/20/25/30.
    • Cliff Hit Damage increased from 40/60/80/100 to 50/75/100/125.

Marci

  • Bodyguard
    • Bodyguard
      • Health gained from lifesteal now also heals bodyguarded ally.
      • Bonus Armor increased from 4/7/10/13 to 4/8/12/16.

Medusa

  • Mana Pact facet removed.
  • New Facet: Venomous Volley
    • Medusa applies a poison to every fifth attack, slowing enemies’ movement speed by 35 percent, attack speed by 80, and cast speed by 50 percent for 1.5 seconds. The poisoned attack counts as an attack modifier for the purposes of Split Shot.
  • Mana Shield
    • No longer a levelable ability, now has a base 2.4 damage per mana and then gains 0.1 damage per mana per hero level.
  • Mystic Snake
    • No longer slows movement speed or turn rate
    • Cooldown increased from 13/12/11/10 to 15/14/13/12 seconds.
  • Gorgon’s Grasp
    • New basic ability.
    • Medusa fires a volley of arrows into the sky that land in three groups in a line, with each grouping larger than the previous. Enemies struck by a grouping of arrows take 30/70/110/150 physical damage and are rooted, can’t turn and take 100 physical damage per second for 0.8/1.2/1.6/2 seconds. Initial Radius: 150. Radius Growth: 50. Cast Range: 625. Mana Cost: 40/60/80/100. Cooldown: 30/27/24/21 seconds.
  • Stone Gaze
    • Mana Cost increased from 150 to 200.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent Stone Gaze Bonus Physical Damage increased from eight percent to 10 percent.
    • Level 25 Talent +1.9 Mana Shield Damage per Mana replaced with one Gorgon’s Grasp Volleys.

Mirana

  • Base damage increased by three.
  • Base Strength decreased from 20 to 18.
  • Strength gain increased from 1.7 to 1.9.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent Leap Attack Speed increased from 80 to 90.

Monkey King

  • Wukong’s Faithful
    • Wukong’s Command
      • Now also increases duration by three seconds.
  • Tree Dance
    • Jump speed decreased from 800 to 700.
    • Now goes on cooldown when taking any damage, not only from player-controlled units or Roshan.
  • Primal Spring
    • Damage decreased from 140/220/300/380 to 110/200/290/380.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent Boundless Strike Stun Duration decreased from 0.3 to 0.2 seconds.

Muerta

  • Ofrenda
    • Ofrenda
      • Now scales with Pierce the Veil.
      • Now increases Muerta’s attack speed by 15/25/35/45 when she is within 450 range of her Ofrenda.
      • Ofrenda is no longer destroyed or goes on an additional cooldown when Muerta respawns.

Naga Siren

  • Deluge
    • Deluge
      • Now also caps enemies’ max movement speed to 225.
      • Duration decreased from five to three seconds.
      • Status Resistance Reduction increased from 20 percent to 35 percent.

Nature’s Prophet

  • Ironwood Treant
    • Nature’s Call
      • Now also increases Treant vision. Daytime Vision from 500 to 1200. Nighttime Vision from 500 to 800.
      • Now requires a single target tree to be selected to cast.
      • Treant Movespeed increased from 300 to 350.
  • Wrath of Nature
    • Now hits all visible targets. Does not increase damage past the 16th bounce.
    • Aghanim’s Scepter min/max entangle duration decreased from 2/3.8 to 1.5/3 seconds.
  • Curse of the Oldgrowth
    • Now uses the same Treant multiplier as Spirit of the Forest when calculating damage from Treants.

Nyx Assassin

  • Mana Burn
    • No longer scales with Vendetta
    • No longer has a damage threshold
    • Now only triggers from Nyx’s ability damage
    • Percentage of Current Mana Burned rescaled from 15/20/25/30 percent to 15 percent.
  • Nixth Sense
    • Now also reveals enemy heroes in fog of war.
    • Radius decreased from 400 to 350.
  • Vendetta
    • Aghanim’s Shard upgrade reworked. Vendetta applies Break for four seconds.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent Vendetta Damage decreased from 50 to 40.
    • Level 20 Talent Impale Damage decreased from 120 to 100.
    • Level 25 Talent Vendetta Applies Break replaced with 80 Agility.

Ogre Magi

  • Dumb Luck
    • Mana Regen per Strength decreased from 0.03 to 0.02.

Omniknight

  • Degen Aura
    • Radius increased from 300 to 325.
  • Purification
    • Now upgraded with Aghanim’s Shard. After a three-second delay, the target is Purified again with 75 percent effectiveness.
  • Repel
    • Now provides 60 percent magic resistance.
    • Cooldown increased from 45/40/35/30 to 55/50/45/40 seconds.
    • Aghanim’s Shard upgrade removed.
  • Hammer of Purity
    • Has been properly converted to be an attack modifier (this removes the delay between the melee attack hit and the pure damage application).
    • No longer spell stealable.
    • No longer procs Magic Stick.
    • Mana Cost decreased from 30/40/50/60 to 30/35/40/45.
    • Cooldown decreased from 16/14/12/10 to 16/12/8/4 seconds.
    • Damage decreased from 55/80/105/130 to 50/70/90/110.
    • Bonus Base Damage decreased from 55/80/105/130 percent to 55/70/85/100 percent.
  • Guardian Angel
    • Changed from Unit Target ability to Point Target ability. Now applies Guardian Angel to all allied units in a 400 radius.
    • No longer has two charges.
    • Cast Range decreased from 900 to 600.
    • Cooldown increased from 70/60/50 to 110/100/90 seconds.
    • Mana Cost increased from 100/150/200 to 125/175/225.
    • Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade reworked. Now provides a global cast range, increased radius, and allows it to affects buildings. Also amplifies health regeneration and incoming heals by 100 percent for the duration. Scepter Radius: 700.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent Base Damage decreased from 50 to 35.
    • Level 10 Talent two seconds Purification Cooldown replaced with one Guardian Angel Duration.
    • Level 15 Talent 15 seconds Guardian Angel Charge Restore Time replaced with 20 seconds Guardian Angel Cooldown.
    • Level 20 Talent five seconds Hammer of Purity Cooldown replaced with three seconds Purification Cooldown.

Outworld Destroyer

  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent Astral Imprisonment Cast Range increased from 100 to 125.
    • Level 25 Talent Arcane Orb Damage decreased from two percent to 1.5 percent.

Pangolier

  • Rolling Thunder
    • Damage rescaled from 100/150/200 to 75/150/225.
  • Talents
    • Level 25 Talent Swashbuckle Cooldown Reduction increased from 2.5 to three seconds.

Phantom Assassin

  • Blur
    • Now disjoints projectiles.
    • Cast time decreased from 0.4 to 0.3 seconds.

Phantom Lancer

  • Divergence
    • Juxtapose
      • Bonus Illusion Damage decreased from four percent to two percent.
  • New Innate: Illusory Armaments
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up
    • Items that grant bonus damage instead grant base damage for 65 percent of the original bonus damage amount.
  • Spirit Lance
    • Illusion Damage decreased from 20 percent to 15 percent.
    • Aghanim’s Scepter Bonus Illusion Damage decreased from 30 percent to 20 percent.
  • Phantom Rush
    • No longer an innate ability.
    • Cooldown rescaled from 16/13/10/7/4 to 13/10/7/4 seconds.
    • Max Rush Distance rescaled from 525/600/675/750/825 to 600/675/750/825.
    • Bonus Agility rescaled from 5/10/20/30/40 to 10/20/30/40.
  • Juxtapose
    • Illusion Damage decreased from 18/20/22 percent to 13/15/17 percent.
  • Talents
    • Level 20 Talent Juxtapose Damage decreased from 10 percent to six percent.
    • Level 25 Talent 20 percent Critical Strike (200 percent) replaced with 15 percent Illusory Armaments Damage.

Phoenix

  • Dying Light
    • Radius decreased from 450 to 400.
  • Icarus Dive
    • Move Slow decreased from 16/19/22/25 percent to 10/15/20/25 percent.

Primal Beast

  • Romp n’ Stomp
    • Trample
      • Self Bonus Move Speed increased from four percent to five percent
      • Active Added Bonus Speed decreased from six percent to five percent.
  • Ferocity
    • Facet reworked.
    • Pulverize
      • Now provides 20 percent AoE increase for all items and abilities per hit. Buff Duration: 10 seconds.
  • Uproar
    • Slow per stack decreased from eight to 5/6/7/8 percent.

Puck

  • Curveball
    • Illusory Orb
      • Now shows a preview of the orb trajectory.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent Waning Rift Silence Duration increased from one second to 1.25 seconds.
    • Level 20 Talent Initial/Break Dream Coil Damage increased from 175 to 200.

Pugna

  • Rewards of Ruin
    • Now also gains spell amplification per destroyed allied towers.
    • Spell Amplification decreased from 1.5 percent to 1.25 percent.
  • Siphoning Ward
    • Nether Ward
      • Damage to Mana/Health increased from 25 percent to 30 percent.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent 200 Health replaced with two Nether Ward Health.
    • Level 10 Talent 10 percent Decrepify Movement Speed To Allies replaced with one second Nether Blast Cooldown.
    • Level 15 Talent three Nether Ward Health replaced with 350 Health.
    • Level 15 Talent one second Nether Blast Cooldown replaced with 30 percent Decrepify Movement Speed To Allies.
    • Level 20 Talent Decrepify Duration increased from one second to 1.5 seconds.

Queen of Pain

  • Base Strength increased from 18 to 20.
  • Bondage
    • Returned Damage increased from 10 percent to 15 percent.
  • Shadow Strike
    • Mana Cost decreased from 125/130/135/140 to 100/110/120/130.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent 20 Damage replaced with 35 Attack Speed against Shadow Striked units.
    • Level 15 Talent 40 Attack Speed against Shadow Striked units replaced with 30 Damage.

Razor

  • Thunderhead
    • Storm Surge
      • Now also lowers strike cooldown by 2.5 seconds during Eye of the Storm.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent one second Storm Surge Strike Cooldown replaced with 12 Strength.

Riki

  • Exterminator
    • Tricks of the Trade
      • Agility Bonus when attacking non-hero units increased from 4x to 4.5x.
    • Smoke Screen
      • Cooldown decreased from 20/17/14/11 to 17/15/13/11 seconds.

Rubick

  • Might and Magus
    • Bonus attack damage per spell amplification decreased from one percent to 0.75 percent.
  • Arcane Supremacy
    • Spell Amp decreased from 14/18/22/26 percent to 11/16/21/26 percent.

Sand King

  • Dust Devil
    • Sand Storm
      • Area of effect increased from 300/350/400/450 to 450/500/550/600.
  • Caustic Finale
    • Max Health Damage rescaled from 6/9/12/15 percent to 4/8/12/16 percent.
    • Duration rescaled from six to 4.5/5/5.5/6 seconds. 
  • Sand Storm
    • Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade removed.
  • Stinger
    • Now procs Magic Stick.
    • Mana Cost increased from 30 to 35/40/45/50.
    • Cooldown increased from 14/11/8/5 to 15/12/9/6 seconds.
    • Bonus Damage is now extra physical damage instead of bonus attack damage.
    • Bonus Attack Damage decreased from 40/80/120/160 to 35/70/105/140.
  • Epicenter
    • Now upgraded with Aghanim’s Scepter. Every 0.5 seconds, three Stinger attack areas are created at random locations, each measuring 15 percent of the Epicenter’s current radius, that apply 50 percent of Stinger damage to enemies hit. One enemy can only be hit by one Stinger per pulse.
    • While having both items, Aghanim’s Shard pulses apply one Stinger attack from Aghanim’s Scepter.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent 10 Sand Storm Damage Per Second replaced with eight percent Stinger Slow.
    • Level 15 Talent 50 Stinger Damage replaced with 150 Burrowstrike Cast Range.
    • Level 15 Talent 12 percent Stinger Slow replaced with 25 Sand Storm Damage Per Second.

Queen of Pain

  • Base Strength increased from 18 to 20.
  • Bondage
    • Returned Damage increased from 10 percent to 15 percent.
  • Shadow Strike
    • Mana Cost decreased from 125/130/135/140 to 100/110/120/130.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent 20 Damage replaced with 35 Attack Speed against Shadow Striked units.
    • Level 15 Talent 40 Attack Speed against Shadow Striked units replaced with 30 Damage.

Razor

  • Thunderhead
    • Storm Surge
      • Now also lowers strike cooldown by 2.5 seconds during Eye of the Storm.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent one second Storm Surge Strike Cooldown replaced with 12 Strength.

Riki

  • Exterminator
    • Tricks of the Trade
      • Agility Bonus when attacking non-hero units increased from 4x to 4.5x.
    • Smoke Screen
      • Cooldown decreased from 20/17/14/11 to 17/15/13/11 seconds.

Rubick

  • Might and Magus
    • Bonus attack damage per spell amplification decreased from one percent to 0.75 percent.
  • Arcane Supremacy
    • Spell Amp decreased from 14/18/22/26 percent to 11/16/21/26 percent.

Sand King

  • Dust Devil
    • Sand Storm
      • Area of effect increased from 300/350/400/450 to 450/500/550/600.
  • Caustic Finale
    • Max Health Damage rescaled from 6/9/12/15 percent to 4/8/12/16 percent.
    • Duration rescaled from six to 4.5/5/5.5/6 seconds. 
  • Sand Storm
    • Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade removed.
  • Stinger
    • Now procs Magic Stick.
    • Mana Cost increased from 30 to 35/40/45/50.
    • Cooldown increased from 14/11/8/5 to 15/12/9/6 seconds.
    • Bonus Damage is now extra physical damage instead of bonus attack damage.
    • Bonus Attack Damage decreased from 40/80/120/160 to 35/70/105/140.
  • Epicenter
    • Now upgraded with Aghanim’s Scepter. Every 0.5 seconds, three Stinger attack areas are created at random locations, each measuring 15 percent of the Epicenter’s current radius, that apply 50 percent of Stinger damage to enemies hit. One enemy can only be hit by one Stinger per pulse.
    • While having both items, Aghanim’s Shard pulses apply one Stinger attack from Aghanim’s Scepter.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent 10 Sand Storm Damage Per Second replaced with eight percent Stinger Slow.
    • Level 15 Talent 50 Stinger Damage replaced with 150 Burrowstrike Cast Range.
    • Level 15 Talent 12 percent Stinger Slow replaced with 25 Sand Storm Damage Per Second.

Shadow Demon

  • Promulgate
    • Disseminate
      • Current Health Lost increased from 15 percent to 20 percent.
  • Disseminate
    • Cooldown decreased from 30/25/20/15 to 26/22/18/14 seconds.

Shadow Fiend

  • Lasting Presence
    • Now also improves Necromastery.
    • Necromastery
      • Every hero kill increases max souls by one until Shadow Fiend dies.
  • Necromastery
    • Hero kills no longer increase max souls by one by default.
  • Shadowraze
    • Stack Duration decreased from eight to seven seconds.
    • Mana Cost increased from 75 to 80.
  • Requiem of Souls
    • Max Line Width decreased from 350 to 300.
    • Fear Duration per soul hit decreased from 0.7 to 0.6 seconds.
  • Talents
    • Level 20 Talent Requiem Fear per line decreased from +0.25 to +0.2 seconds.

Shadow Shaman

  • Massive Serpent Ward
    • Mass Serpent Ward
      • Health increased from 7.5x to 10x.
  • Shackles
    • Aghanim’s Shard Serpent Ward linger duration increased from 1.5 to 2.5 seconds.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent one second Shackles Duration replaced with Hex Breaks.
    • Level 15 Talent Serpent Wards Attack Range increased from 140 to 160.
    • Level 20 Talent Hex Breaks replaced with 1.5 seconds Shackles Duration.

Silencer

  • Brain Drain
    • Permanent Intelligence steal decreased from two to one (Aghanim’s Shard Intelligence steal decreased from four to three),
    • Now also steals Intelligence if the dying unit is debuffed by Silencer, even if he was out of range.
  • Glaives of Wisdom
    • Mana Cost decreased from 20 to 14/16/18/20.
  • Last Word
    • Damage per silence increased from 20/30/40/50 to 30/40/50/60.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent Arcane Curse Damage increased from 10 to 15.
    • Level 15 Talent +20/5 percent Last Word Damage/Slow replaced with 2/1 second Arcane Curse Base/Silence Duration.
    • Level 20 Talent Arcane Curse Undispellable replaced with 35/5 percent Last Word Damage/Slow.

Skywrath Mage

  • Shield of the Scion
    • Shield of the Scion
      • Barrier Duration decreased from 15 to 12 seconds.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent 15 percent Ruin and Restoration Spell Lifesteal replaced with 15 percent Concussive Shot Slow.

Slardar

  • Slithereen Crush
    • Aghanim’s Scepter Puddle Duration decreased from 15 to 12 seconds.
    • Aghanim’s Scepter Puddle Radius decreased from 600 to 550.
  • Talents
    • Level 20 Talent Corrosive Haze Armor increased from three to four.

Slark

  • Base damage increased by three.
  • Talents
    • Level 20 Talent Shadow Dance Attack Speed increased from 80 to 90.
    • Level 25 Talent Shadow Dance Duration increased from one second to 1.25 seconds.

Snapfire

  • Firesnap Cookie
    • Impact Damage increased from 70/140/210/280 to 70/145/220/295.
  • Lil’ Shredder
    • Attack count decreased from six to five.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent Lil’ Shredder attacks decreased from two to one.
    • Level 25 Talent Lil’ Shredder Attack Damage decreased from 70 percent to 60 percent.

Sniper

  • Keen Scope
    • Attack Range Bonus increased from 160/240/320/400 to 160/260/360/460.
  • Shrapnel
    • Damage increased from 25/40/55/70 to 30/45/60/75.
  • Talents
    • Level 20 Talent 100 Attack Range replaced with 30 percent Shrapnel Damage.

Spectre

  • Spectral Dagger
    • Mana Cost decreased from 130/140/150/160 to 120/130/140/150.
  • Dispersion
    • Damage Reflected increased from 8/12/16/20 percent to 11/14/17/20 percent.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent Health Regen increased from four to five.

Spirit Breaker

  • Bull Rush
    • Charge of Darkness
      • Lingering bonus movement speed is now determined by Spirit Breaker’s current bonus speed, instead of always the max.
  • Charge of Darkness
    • Now gradually ramps up to max movement speed, starting at 25 percent of the bonus speed.

Storm Spirit

  • Shock Collar
    • Electric Vortex
      • Debuff now grants that the next attack of the enemy is redirected onto themselves and triggers the Overload Charge.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent 150 Attack Range when Overloaded replaced with 20 Overload Damage.
    • Level 20 Talent Electric Vortex Duration decreased from 0.3 to 0.2 seconds.
    • Level 25 Talent Auto Remnant in Ball Lightning Distance decreased from 500 to 450.

Sven

  • Warcry
    • Bonus Armor decreased from 6/9/12/15 to 6/8/10/12.
    • Aghanim’s Shard no longer passively grants allies movement speed bonus.
    • Aghanim’s Shard now increases active movement speed bonus by additional three percent.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent God’s Strength Cooldown Reduction decreased from 15 to 12 seconds.
    • Level 20 Talent Warcry Armor decreased from 10 to eight.

Techies

  • Squee’s Scope
    • Each point of attack speed now also grants one attack projectile speed.

Templar Assasin

  • Voidblades
    • Facet reworked.
    • Meld
      • Attacking a target with Meld also applies the bonus damage and debuff to enemies hit by the Psi Blades spill.
  • New Innate: Third Eye
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up.
    • Templar Assassin and her teammates can see Roshan’s respawn timer.
  • Meld
    • Armor Reduction Duration decreased from 12 to six seconds.
    • Bonus damage and reductions are now applied when denying allies or traps.
  • Psi Blades
    • No longer an innate ability
    • Bonus Attack Range rescaled from 0/50/100/150/200 to 50/100/150/200
    • Psi Blade Range rescaled from 350/550/600/650/700 to 550/600/650/700
    • Split Amount rescaled 80/85/90/95/100 percent to 85/90/95/100 percent.
  • Psionic Trap
    • Traps no longer provide vision inside the Roshan’s pit
    • Traps now always take two hits to kill by ranged attackers, one by melee attackers, and four by creeps.

Terrorblade

  • Metamorphosis
    • Attack Range increased from 450/490/530/570 to 450/500/550/600.

Tidehunter

  • Base Intelligence increased from 18 to 20.
  • Ravage
    • Cooldown decreased from 150 to 150/145/140 seconds.

Timbersaw

  • Shredder
    • Timber Chain
      • Splinter Slow Duration increased from 0.75 to one second.
  • Exposure Therapy
    • Mana per tree destroyed increased from 3/4/5/6 to 4/5/6/7.

Tinker

  • Repair Bots
    • March of the Machines
      • Heal per second increased from 15/20/25/30 to 15/25/35/45.
  • Defense Matrix
    • Damage Barrier decreased from 100/180/240/320 to 80/160/240/320.
  • Warp Flare
    • Now always teleports the target enemy to the ability’s current cast range plus 100 from Tinker’s position when he threw the flare. Will not teleport units that are over 2,000 range from the desired position.

Tiny

  • Crash Landing
    • Toss
      • Radius decreased from 450 to 400
      • Bonus Landing Damage decreased from 25/30/35/40 percent to 20/25/30/35 percent.
  • Toss
    • Damage no longer pierces magic resistance granted by Debuff Immunity.
  • Grow
    • Toss Bonus Damage decreased from 100/250/400 to 50/175/300.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent Avalanche Damage decreased from 80 to 70.

Treant Protector

  • Nature’s Guise
    • Aghanim’s Shard total damage changed from 200 to 100 plus 75 percent of Treant’s base attack damage.

Troll Warlord

  • New Innate: Battle Stance
    • Toggle-able, can’t be leveled up
    • Allows Troll Warlord to swap between melee attacks with a 1.4 BAT or ranged attacks.
  • Berserker’s Rage
    • No longer an innate ability
    • When in melee form, Troll Warlord has a 15/25/35/45 bonus movement speed, 2/3/4/5 bonus armor and a 20 percent chance to ensnare an enemy for 0.8/1.2/1.6/2 seconds. When in ranged form, Troll Warlord has a 20 percent chance to maim his enemies, slowing their movement speed by 8/16/24/32 percent and attack speed by 8/16/24/32 for 0.8/1.2/1.6/2 seconds and dealing 5/10/15/20 bonus physical damage.
  • Whirling Axes (Ranged)
    • Axe Damage decreased from 80/100/120/140 to 60/80/100/120.
  • Fervor
    • Aghanim’s Shard base attack chance decreased from 18 percent to 16 percent.
    • Aghanim’s Shard attack chance per Fervor stack decreased from four to three percent.

Tusk

  • Drinking Buddies
    • Drinking Buddies
      • Can now be put on alt-cast to only pull Tusk towards his target ally.

Underlord

  • New Innate: Invading Force
    • Scales with Fiend’s Gate
    • After an allied hero teleports, they temporarily gain damage reduction and movement speed. Bonuses are doubled when teleporting via Fiend’s Gate. Damage Reduction: 4/6/8/10 percent. Bonus Move Speed: 5/10/15/20 percent. Buff Duration: Five seconds.
  • Atrophy Aura
    • No longer an innate ability.
    • Damage Reduction rescaled from 0/6/14/22/30 percent to 6/14/22/30 percent.
    • Bonus Damage per creep rescaled from 1/3/5/7/9 to 2/4/6/8.
    • Bonus Damage per hero rescaled from 25/30/35/40/45 to 30/35/40/45.
    • Duration rescaled from 25/35/45/55/65 to 35/45/55/65 seconds.
  • Fiend’s Gate
    • No longer provides a buff after passing through the portal by default (moved to Invading Force innate ability).
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent Firestorm Radius decreased from 75 to 60.
    • Level 10 Talent +10 percent Fiend’s Gate Movement Bonus/Damage Reduction replaced with +5 percent Invading Force Movement Bonus/Damage Reduction.
    • Level 15 Talent Pit of Malice Slow decreased from 30 percent to 25 percent.
    • Level 25 Talent Pit of Malice Root decreased from 0.65 seconds to 0.5 seconds.

Undying

  • Ceaseless Dirge
    • Can no longer be refreshed.
  • Tombstone
    • Cooldown rescaled from 90/85/80/75 to 80 seconds.
  • Flesh Golem
    • Slow decreased from 40/45/50 percent to 35/40/45 percent.
  • Talents
    • Level 25 Talent Flesh Golem Strength Bonus decreased from 60 percent to 50 percent.

Ursa

  • Bear Down
    • Bonus Duration decreased from 20 percent to 14/16/18/20 percent. Now scales with Enrage.

Venomancer

  • Base damage decreased by two.
  • Plague Carrier
    • When attached to a carrier, ward health is now also increased by 1/1.5/2/2.5 percent of the carrier’s max health.
  • New Innate: Septic Shock
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up.
    • Venomancer’s attacks deal extra magical damage based on how many debuffs the attack target has. Only counts debuffs from Venomancer and his Plague Wards. Base Damage per debuff: 10 percent.
    • Can be upgraded with Aghanim’s Scepter. Increases Septic Shock base damage per debuff from 10 percent to 20 percent. Plague Wards also deal Septic Shock damage based on their attack damage.
  • Poison Sting
    • No longer an innate ability
    • Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade removed
    • Duration rescaled from 3/6/9/12/15 to 6/9/12/15 seconds.
    • Damage per second rescaled from 2/6/14/22/30 to 8/16/24/32.
    • Slow rescaled from 3/6/9/12/15 percent to 8/10/12/14 percent.
  • Plague Ward
    • Mana Cost increased from 21/24/27/30 to 24/26/28/30.

Viper

  • New Innate: Predator
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up
    • Viper’s attacks deal an additional instance of physical damage per missing health percentage of his target, equal to 0.25 + 0.05 per Viper’s level. Only works on heroes.
  • Corrosive Skin
    • No longer an innate ability.
    • Attack Slow rescaled from 3/6/14/22/30 to 8/16/24/32.
    • Magic Resistance rescaled from 5/10/15/20/25 percent to 10/15/20/25 percent.
    • Damage per second rescaled from 3/6/14/22/30 to 8/16/24/32.

Visage

  • New Facet: Death Toll
    • Soul Assumption
      • Soul Assumption kills give 35 gold per soul charge, up to 105/140/175/210 gold. 15 percent gold from creeps. Enemy heroes killed within three seconds of being affected by Soul Assumption also give gold.
  • New Innate: Lurker
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up
    • Visage’s ability cooldown durations are reduced as long as he’s not taking damage. Grants a stack every two seconds that Visage does not take damage. Each stack grants two percent cooldown speed with a max of 10 stacks. Stacks fade after two seconds upon taking any damage.
  • Gravekeeper’s Cloak
    • No longer an innate ability.
    • Damage Reduction per layer rescaled from 4/8/12/16/20 percent to 8/12/16/20 percent.
    • Layer Recovery Time rescaled from 7/6/5/4/3s to 7/6/5/4s.
  • Silent as the Grave
    • Mana Cost increased from 100 to 115.
    • Duration decreased from 35 to 30 seconds.
    • Bonus Damage decreased from 25 percent to 20 percent.

Void Spirit

  • Symmetry
    • Facet removed.
  • Sanctuary
    • Resonant Pulse
      • Barrier Amount per hero hit increased from 40/60/80/100 to 50/70/90/110.
  • Call of the Void
    • Dissimilate
      • Upon exiting Dissimilate, Aether Remnants are created at the three portals furthest from Void Spirit that last four seconds. No effect if reassembling from the center portal. Remnants face towards the center portal and have reduced pull duration and damage. Remnant Effectiveness: 60 percent
      • Aether Remnant Watch Distance Endpoint is always fixed, meaning that increased Watch Distance will spawn the Remnants further away from the center portal.
  • Resonant Pulse
    • Now grants physical damage barrier. Base Damage Barrier: 25/50/75/100. Barrier Amount per hero hit: 35/50/65/80.

Warlock

  • Shadow Word
    • Heal/Damage rescaled from 16/24/32/40 to 15/25/35/45.
  • Talents
    • Level 15 Talent 15 Shadow Word Heal/Damage replaced with 150 Shadow Word AoE.

Weaver

  • New Innate: Rewoven
    • Passive, can’t be leveled up
    • Every time Weaver casts an ability, he gains 50 attack range for seven seconds. This effect stacks independently.
  • Geminate Attack
    • No longer an innate ability.
    • Cooldown rescaled from 10.5/8.5/6.5/4.5/2.5 to 9/7/5/3 seconds.
    • Geminate Attack Damage rescaled from 0/20/35/50/65 to 20/35/50/65.
  • Talents
    • Level 20 Talent Geminate Attack Damage decreased from 80 to 70.

Windranger

  • Tailwind
    • Facet renamed to Focus Fire
    • Windrun
      • No longer grants additional bonus movement speed to Windranger and nearby allies.
  • Whirlwind
    • Focus Fire
      • Duration increased from eight to nine seconds.
      • AoE now equals to Windranger’s attack range plus 150.

Witch Doctor

  • Voodoo Festeration
    • Voodoo Restoration
      • Self Heal increased from 25 percent to 25/30/35/40 percent.
  • Maledict
    • Base Damage increased from 15/20/25/30 to 18/22/26/30.

Wraith King

  • Vampiric Spirit
    • Lifesteal increased from 20/30/40/50 percent to 26/34/42/50 percent.
    • Now decreases respawn timer by Wraith duration.
    • Aghanim’s Scepter no longer reduces respawn time.
  • Talents
    • Level 10 Talent Wraithfire Blast Impact Damage/DPS increased from 20 percent to 25 percent.
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Nicholas Taifalos
Weekend editor for Dot Esports. Nick, better known as Taffy, began his esports career in commentary, switching to journalism with a focus on Oceanic esports, particularly Counter-Strike and Dota. Email: nicholas@dotesports.com
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