General Updates

General Changes
  • NERFNeutral Creep Gold/XP penalty for stacked camps increased from 15% to 20%+33%
Team Abilities
Scan

Scan

  • DELNo longer triggers on creep heroes (with the exception of Lone Druid's Spirit Bear)

Neutral Creep Updates

Abilities

Packleader's Aura

Packleader's Aura

  • NERFDamage decreased from 30% to 20%-33%

Abilities

Raise Dead

Raise Dead

  • NERFSkeleton Warrior: Rally aura bonus attack damage decreased from 3 to 2-33%

Item Updates

  • NERFCombo Breaker now starts on a 6s cooldown after being assembled for the first time
  • DELGhost Form is no longer active while the wearer is Debuff Immune
  • DELEther Blast ethereal form is no longer applied while the target is Debuff Immune
Active: Dominate70045Takes control of one neutral, non-ancient target unit and sets its movement speed to 380 and max health to a minimum of 1000. Also provides the unit with +25 base attack damage, +12 health regen, +4 mana regen and +4 armor. Dominated units with a max health of greater than 1000 retain their original max health. Grants the caster the gold and experience bounty of the dominated creep. Dominated unit's bounty is set to 100 gold and it can no longer be killed by abilities that instantly kill creeps otherwise.
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Active: Dominate7005045Takes control of one neutral, non-ancient target unit and sets its movement speed to 370 and max health to a minimum of 1000. Also provides the unit with +25 base attack damage, +12 health regen, +4 mana regen and +4 armor. Dominated units with a max health of greater than 1000 retain their original max health. Grants the caster the gold and experience bounty of the dominated creep. Dominated unit's bounty is set to 100 gold and it can no longer be killed by abilities that instantly kill creeps otherwise. The Helm cannot be used for 3 seconds after the dominated creep takes damage from an enemy hero or Roshan.
  • NERFDominate now has a 50 mana cost+50
  • NERFDominate can no longer be used if the currently dominated creep took damage from hero-based sources in the last 3s
  • NERFDominated Creep movement speed decreased from 380 to 370-3%
Active: Dominate70045Takes control of one neutral target unit and sets its movement speed to 380 and max health to a minimum of 1800. Also provides the unit with +70 base attack damage, +12 health regen, +4 mana regen, +7 armor, and levels up some abilities of the target by 1 level. Dominated units with a max health of greater than 1800 retain their original max health. Grants the caster the gold and experience bounty of the dominated creep. Dominated unit's bounty is set to 250 gold and it can no longer be killed by abilities that instantly kill creeps otherwise.
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Active: Dominate7005045Takes control of one neutral target unit and sets its movement speed to 380 and max health to a minimum of 1800. Also provides the unit with +70 base attack damage, +12 health regen, +4 mana regen, +7 armor, and levels up some abilities of the target by 1 level. Dominated units with a max health of greater than 1800 retain their original max health. Grants the caster the gold and experience bounty of the dominated creep. Dominated unit's bounty is set to 250 gold and it can no longer be killed by abilities that instantly kill creeps otherwise. The Helm cannot be used for 3 seconds after the dominated creep takes damage from an enemy hero or Roshan.
  • NERFDominate now has a 50 mana cost+50
  • NERFDominate can no longer be used if the currently dominated creep took damage from hero-based sources in the last 3s
Active: Reset Cooldowns350180Resets the cooldowns of all your items and abilities. Shares a cooldown with Refresher Shard. This item's cooldown only progresses in your hero's main inventory.
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Active: Reset Cooldowns400180/190/200/210Resets the cooldowns of all your items and abilities. Shares a cooldown with Refresher Shard. This item's cooldown only progresses in your hero's main inventory.
  • NERFReset Cooldowns cooldown now increases by 10s with each subsequent use up to 210s?Maximum is reached after 4 uses: 180/190/200/210s0%+6%+11%+17%
  • NERFReset Cooldowns mana cost increased from 350 to 400+14%

Neutral Item Updates

Artifact Changes
Active: Self-Exile6530Removes the caster from the world for 0.7 seconds, making them invulnerable and disabled. When returning to the world, the caster takes 5% of their maximum health as damage.
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Active: Self-Exile6530Makes the caster completely invulnerable and disabled for 0.7 seconds. When returning to the world, the caster takes 5% of their maximum health as damage.
  • REWORKSelf-Exile now makes the user invulnerable and immobile for the duration, instead of hidden
Enchantment Changes
StatsTier 1Tier 2Tier 3Tier 4Tier 5Debuff Amplification+10%→+8%+15%Spell Amplification+8%→+6%+16%
  • NERFDebuff Duration bonus decreased from +10/15% to +8/15%-20%0%
  • NERFSpell Amplification bonus decreased from +8/16% to +6/16%-25%0%
StatsTier 1Tier 2Tier 3Tier 4Tier 5Attack Range (Melee & Ranged)+150Cast Range+350→+275
  • NERFCast Range bonus decreased from +350 to +275-21%

Hero Updates

Abilities

Borrowed Time

Borrowed Time

  • NERFCooldown increased from 90/80/70s to 90/85/80s0%+6%+14%

Abilities

Enfeeble

Enfeeble

  • NERFCast Range decreased from 800/900/1000/1100 to 700/800/900/1000-12%-11%-10%-9%

GENERAL

  • NERFBase damage decreased by 2?Now it's 23. Before this patch it was changed in 7.38b (1 year 8 months ago)Damage at level 1 decreased from 52–56 to 50–54-8%

Talents

  • NERFLevel 15 Talent: Movespeed to Beastmaster and his summons decreased from +20 to +15-25%
  • NERFLevel 25 Talent: Primal Roar Cooldown Reduction decreased from 30s to 25s-17%

GENERAL

  • BUFFBase armor increased by 1?Now it's 1. Before this patch it was changed in 7.34 (3 years 3 months ago)+1

Abilities

Work Horse

Work Horse

  • NERFHitch a Ride cast range decreased from 300 to 250-17%

Facets

Arcane Overflow

  • BUFFMana Granted increased from 15% to 20%+33%

Abilities

Solar Guardian

Solar Guardian

  • NERFAghanim's Scepter aura linger duration decreased from 3s to 2s-33%

Facets

Thunderstorm

  • NERFSlow duration bonus decreased from +100% to +75%?Total duration decreased from 0.6s to 0.525s-25%

Abilities

Static Storm

Static Storm

  • NERFCooldown increased from 90/80/70s to 100/85/70s+11%+6%0%

Abilities

Geomagnetic Grip

Geomagnetic Grip

  • BUFFRemnant Damage increased from 70/140/210/280 to 75/150/225/300+7%

Facets

Tectonic Buildup

  • NERFBonus AoE decreased from 40 to 30-25%

Abilities

Aftershock

Aftershock

  • NERFDamage decreased from 70/100/130/160 to 65/90/115/140-7%-10%-12%-12%

Talents

  • NERFLevel 10 Talent: Fissure Damage decreased from +90 to +75-17%

Abilities

Hunter's Boomerang

Hunter's Boomerang

  • NERFIncoming Spell Damage Amp decreased from 25% to 20%-20%

Abilities

Liquid Frost

Liquid Frost

  • BUFFImpact Damage increased from 10/15/20/25 to 15/20/25/30+50%+33%+25%+20%
  • BUFFDuration increased from 4s to 5s+25%
Kez
Kez

GENERAL

  • NEWAdded to Captain's Mode
  • BUFFBase Mana Regen increased from 0 to 0.25+0.25

Facets

Flutter

  • NERFThe first hit bonus is now consumed by the first attack of Echo Slash and Raptor Dance, rather than applying to the entire cast?Still applies bonus to all enemies in the area
  • MISCFixed the Katana bonus being lost if Echo Slash hit nothing

Abilities

Switch Discipline

Switch Discipline

  • MISCFixed a bug with Aghanim's Scepter that would allow extra Sai abilities to skip cooldown
Kazurai Katana

Kazurai Katana

  • REWORKImpale damage changed from post-critical strike bonus damage to a separate instance of physical spell damage
Raptor Dance

Raptor Dance

  • BUFFCan no longer be interrupted by casting Grappling Claw
  • NERFMax Health as Damage decreased from 3% to 2.5%-17%
Falcon Rush

Falcon Rush

  • BUFFAttack Speed Factor rescaled from 6/8/10/12% to 9%+50%+12%-10%-25%
  • NERFNow has an 825 break distance
Shodo Sai

Shodo Sai

  • NERFMark Critical Strike decreased from 140/160/180/200% to 125/150/175/200%-11%-6%-3%0%

Abilities

Nihilism

Nihilism

  • DELEthereal form is not applied if the target is Debuff Immune

GENERAL

  • BUFFBase Intelligence increased from 26 to 28?Damage at level 1 increased by 2 (from 50–59 to 52–61)+8%

Abilities

Feast

Feast

  • DELHero Creeps no longer count as heroes for Lifestealer's permanent Health bonus

Abilities

Light Strike Array

Light Strike Array

  • BUFFStun Duration increased from 1/1.4/1.8/2.2s to 1.2/1.6/2.0/2.4s+20%+14%+11%+9%

Abilities

Skewer

Skewer

  • NERFMovement is now cancelled if Magnus is interrupted?Stunned, hexed or out of world

Abilities

Unleash

Unleash

  • NERFBonus Attack Speed decreased from 700/975/1325 to 700/925/11500%-5%-13%

Abilities

Arena Of Blood

Arena Of Blood

  • NERFDuration rescaled from 5/6/7s to 5.5s+10%-8%-21%

Abilities

Mana Shield

Mana Shield

  • NERFBase Damage per Mana decreased from 2.2 to 2.0-9%

Abilities

Boundless Strike

Boundless Strike

  • NERFAghanim's Shard portion of Primal Spring's max power decreased from 40% to 35%-12%
Tree Dance

Tree Dance

  • NERFMovement is now cancelled if Monkey King is interrupted?Stunned, hexed or out of world

Talents

  • NERFLevel 10 Talent: Primal Spring Max Damage decreased from +100 to +85-15%

Facets

Deluge

  • NERFDamage decreased from 80/150/220/290 to 80/140/200/2600%-7%-9%-10%

Abilities

Song of the Siren

Song of the Siren

  • NERFAghanim's Shard Max HP Regen per Second decreased from 5/6/7% to 4/5/6%?Aghanim's Shard bonus decreased from +3% to +2% — -33%-20%-17%-14%

Abilities

Ghost Shroud

Ghost Shroud

  • DELEthereal form is not applied if the target is Debuff Immune

Abilities

Purification

Purification

  • BUFFCast Range increased from 600 to 700+17%

Abilities

Arcane Orb

Arcane Orb

  • BUFFCooldown decreased from 6/4/2/0s to 4.5/3/1.5/0s-25%-25%-25%0%

Abilities

Immaterial

Immaterial

  • BUFFBonus Evasion increased from 20/30/40/50% to 25/35/45/55%+25%+17%+12%+10%

Abilities

Supernova

Supernova

  • NERFAghanim's Scepter cast range decreased from 500 to 450-10%

Facets

Curveball

  • NERFBonus damage per tick decreased from 5% to 3%-40%

Facets

Siphoning Ward

  • NERFDamage to HP decreased from 30% to 25%-17%
  • NERFDamage to Mana decreased from 40% to 30%-25%

Abilities

Decrepify

Decrepify

  • DELEthereal form is not applied if the target is Debuff Immune

Abilities

Sonic Wave

Sonic Wave

  • NERFDamage decreased from 350/500/650 to 325/475/625-7%-5%-4%

Abilities

Static Link

Static Link

  • BUFFCooldown decreased from 50/40/30/20s to 44/36/28/20s-12%-10%-7%0%

Abilities

Blink Strike

Blink Strike

  • BUFFSlow Duration increased from 0.4s to 0.5s+25%

Abilities

Tame the Beasts

Tame the Beasts

  • BUFFMin Damage increased from 45/70/95/120 to 50/75/100/125+11%+7%+5%+4%

Talents

  • BUFFLevel 10 Talent: Telekinesis Landing damage increased from 150 to 165+10%

Facets

Sandblast

  • DELBlind debuff no longer affects buildings

Abilities

Arcane Curse

Arcane Curse

  • NERFCast Range decreased from 1000 to 850-15%

Facets

Full Bore

  • NERFMax range decreased from 1300 to 1200?Point-blank distance is not changed. It is still 650-8%

Abilities

Firesnap Cookie

Firesnap Cookie

  • NERFCast Range decreased from 700 to 650-7%

Abilities

Overload

Overload

  • BUFFAghanim's Shard active mana cost decreased from 150 to 100-33%

Abilities

Wrath of God

Wrath of God

  • NERFBonus Damage per STR decreased from 0/0.3/0.4/0.5 to 0/0.2/0.3/0.40%-33%-25%-20%

Abilities

Reactive Tazer

Reactive Tazer

  • BUFFCooldown decreased from 30/25/20/15s to 26/22/18/14s-13%-12%-10%-7%
Proximity Mines

Proximity Mines

  • BUFFMin damage at the edge increased from 50% to 60%+20%

Abilities

Reactive Armor

Reactive Armor

  • BUFFStacks gained from hero attacks increased from 3 to 4+33%

GENERAL

  • BUFFBase armor increased by 1?Now it's 0. Before this patch it was changed in 7.22c (7 years 5 months ago)+100%

Abilities

Living Armor

Living Armor

  • BUFFBonus Armor increased from 4/6/8/10 to 4/7/10/130%+17%+25%+30%

Talents

  • NERFLevel 10 Talent: Berserker's Rage Movement Speed decreased from +25 to +20-20%
  • NERFLevel 15 Talent: Fervor Attack Speed decreased from +5 to +4-20%

Abilities

Bitter Chill

Bitter Chill

  • BUFFAttack Speed Slow increased from 15/35/55/75 to 20/40/60/80+33%+14%+9%+7%

Abilities

Earthshock

Earthshock

  • NERFAghanim's Shard Enrage duration decreased from 1.3s to 1.2s-8%

Talents

  • NERFLevel 10 Talent: Fury Swipes Reset Time decreased from +12s to +9s-25%

GENERAL

  • BUFFBase agility increased from 24 to 25?Damage at level 1 increased by 1 (from 45–48 to 46–49)+4%

Abilities

Plague Ward

Plague Ward

  • BUFFWard damage increased from 14/22/30/38 to 16/24/32/40+14%+9%+7%+5%

Abilities

Corrosive Skin

Corrosive Skin

  • BUFFAttack Slow increased from 8/16/24/32 to 9/18/27/36+12%

Abilities

Grave Chill

Grave Chill

  • BUFFMana Cost decreased from 90 to 75-17%
Official notes
Released02.10.2025 22:23 UTC
Ran75 days
After 7.39d58 days