V1.4.4 Patch Notes

Everything you need to know about V1.4.4!

23. März 2025

Overview of Changes

• Death Timers increased between Levels 3-14.
• Minions tweaked to make Last-Hitting more consistent.
• General reductions in Hero and Item Sustain.
• Various Outlier Heroes adjusted.
• General Hero and Item balance
• And more!

Gameplay Balance Changes

Death Timers:

Lower Death Timers in the early game have resulted in the feeling of an inability to cleanly convert a won fight into Objectives such as Fangtooth or Tower Damage. While we continue to monitor and adjust Death Timers moving forward, for now they have seen a moderate increase pre-20m to allow for more breathing room between fights.

• Base Death Timers at Level 1-18 increased from 6/9/10/11/12/14/17/20/23/26/29/32/35/37/39/40/41/42 to 6/9/12/14/16/18/20/22/25/28/31/34/37/38/39/40/41/42.

Jungle:

Fangtooth:

Objectives such as Fangtooth are currently dying relatively quickly, leading to a strong sense of first-movers advantage where the objective falls before a Team has adequate time to react. The increase to Death Timers may further contribute to this feeling, so a small increase to Fangtooth’s durability is being given.

• Fangtooth Physical Armor increased from 25 to 30.

Mini Prime:

The Mini Prime Buff received a relative incidental increase in power seeing with the increase in Hero Armors offered in v1.4. A reduction to the Bonus Armors it offers is being levied to ensure that contesting and fighting a Mini-buffed Hero is not as steep of a challenge to overcome.

• Mini Prime Buff Bonus Armors decreased from 20% to 10%.

Minions:

Melee and Ranged Heroes are seeing a small increase to their Health, and a small reduction in the damage they deal to each other.

Melee Minion:

• Health increased from 650 (+40/50 per Level) to 650 (+46/58 per Level).

• Minion Damage Modifier decreased from 95% to 90%.

Ranged Minion:

• Health increased from 380 (+25 per Level) to 380 (+29 per Level).

• Minion Damage Modifier decreased from 115% to 110%.

Hero Balance Changes

Argus

While Argus’ damage potential is meaningful, his restricted Mana economy can be too difficult to manage, especially in the early game.

Dread Nova [Secondary]:

• Cooldown decreased from 17 to 16.

  Particle Shredder [Alternate]:

• Cost decreased from 14/16/18/20/22 to 10/12/14/16/18.

Boris

Boris’ arrival to the battlefield has left many Heroes cowering in fear. With his overall strong performance since his addition, some general hits are required.

Tesseract Device [Passive]:

• Canister Healing decreased from 1 (+0.35 per Level) to 0.8 (+0.3 per Level).
• Core Healing decreased from 3 (+0.75 per Level) to 2.5 (+0.7 per Level).

Countess

Countess is receiving adjustments to decrease her healing capabilities.

General:

• Physical Armor Growth decreased from 4.2 to 3.9.
• Mana decreased from 400 to 360.

  Blood Tithe [Passive]:

• Percent Health Damage decreased from 8% to 6%.

Crunch

Increase to his cooldown uptime and damage for balancing.

General:

• Mana increased from 290 to 320.

  Cross Crunch [Passive]:

• Total Physical Power Scaling increased from 20% to 25%.

Howitzer

Howiter’s Slow Grenades are receiving a hit to their base damage to make it less oppressive.

Slow Grenades [Alternate]:

• Subsequent hit damage decreased from 10/20/30/40/50 to 10/18/26/34/42.

Item Balance Changes

Miscellaneous:

• Gold on Hero Kill increased from 30 to 40.

Crests:

• Cooldown decreased from 20 to 15.

• Condemn Damage per stack decreased from 8 to 6.

Carry:

A small bump up to Ashbringer’s cooldown capabilities.

• Chrono Strikes Cooldown Reduction increased from 12% to 15%.

Assassin:

• Demonic Shield Bonus Damage increased from 30% to 35%.

Fighter:

• Magical Armor increased from 30 to 35.

Mage:

• Event Horizon Shield Bonus Damage increased from 30% to 35%.

Support:

• Cost decreased from 2500 to 2450.

• Ability Haste increased from 10 to 12.

As mentioned, this mini-patch focuses solely on the most pressing issues. You can expect a broader set of changes in our regular 1.4.X balancing patch, currently planned to arrive on April 8th.