January 2025 Balance Update — Details & Release Notes ⚖️

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Note: This balance change is planned go live on 2025-01-20T12:00:00Z

Full details of the changes are as follows:

Hero Family and/or individual Hero buffs

Gooldron

  • Slime Fiend
    • HP absorbed increased: 15% → 35% of target’s max health

Ito

  • Direct damage increased
    • x1 Mana Charge: 400% → 430%
    • x2 Mana Charge: 425% → 440%

Shadowfang

  • Stats increased
    • Attack: 1128 → 1139
    • Defense: 1124 → 1135
    • Health: 2163 → 2193
  • Direct damage increased: 350% → 390%
  • Bone Toss damage increased: 200% → 230%
  • Skeleton Fox Fiend
    • HP absorbed increased: 25% → 30% of target’s max health

Sun Quan (Costume)

  • Wu Soldier Minion
    • Inherited HP increased: 15% → 22%
    • Burn damage increased: 441 → 543 damage over 3 turns

Lu Bu (Costume)

  • Mercenary Fiend
    • Damage increased: 65% → 70%
    • HP absorbed increased: 45% → 50% of target’s max health

Salniss

  • Direct damage increased: 425% → 460%

Andvari

  • Stats increased (power → 1148)
    • Attack: 1091 → 1124
    • Defense: 1122 → 1157
    • Health: 2084 → 2189

Charmione

  • Devouring Goo buffed
    • Duration increased: 4 → 5 turns
    • Base damage increased: 200 → 300 damage per turns

January HOTMs

Natalya

  • Burn damage increased: 1076 → 1228 damage over 4 turns

Natalya (Costume)

  • Burn damage increased: 1280 → 1432 damage over 4 turns

Onatel

  • Direct damage increased: 300% → 330%

Vela

  • Direct damage increased: 200% → 230%
  • Water damage increased: 252 → 318 damage over 3 turns

Bertila

  • Direct damage increased: 340% → 370%

Viscaro

  • Direct damage increased: 250% → 280%
  • Cursed Sapling Fiend
    • Attack increased: 70% → 75%
    • HP absorbed increased: 55% → 60% of target’s max health

Roughian & Nurgib

  • Direct damage increased
    • Base damage: 420% → 450%
    • Max damage: 570% → 600%

Zora

  • Direct damage increased: 300% → 330%

Special Skill fix

Skittleskull (Toon Costume)

  • Duration of attack ailment increased: 3 → 6 turns

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We hope the adjustments above will help you field these Heroes in a wider range of situations. If you feel that your favorite Hero could really use a buff, please remember to let us know here on our Community Forum.

As always, we will continue to keep an eye on all Heroes affected by this update in case further adjustments become necessary. Please refer to our Hero Balancing FAQ for why we occasionally make post-release balance adjustments. If you wish to share your feedback and discuss this update with fellow players, please feel free to join the discussion here.

Thank you for your continued interest and support. Best of luck in the battles!

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