WHAT’S NEW?

New Artifact: Latent Ascension
You gain 5% bonus energy for every kill/assist you’ve had this game
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug where Wylde couldn’t shoot E and SHIFT through walls
(Maybe) fixed bug where Ishir was getting hit during dash
Slapp’n Paddle should be fixed
Balance Changes
Small tweaks



















BALANCE CHANGES




BELROTH

Tanky engager with high CC
NOTE: Last week’s nerf was successful in pulling back his damage. He went from 4th highest damage dealer to 9th. Despite that his winrate is still one of the highest in the game with one of the highest pick rates as well. I think damage is still too high for how much damage he’s able to soak up so we’re going to be a little bit more drastic and try reducing his LMB power a bit.



LMB
60 >>> 55 Damage





WYLDE
Mid range shooter
NOTE: Last week’s buff wasn’t nearly enough to make him competitive. Right now most players just focus on LMB and SHIFT so I’m going to give RMB some power to make it a bit more viable. The increased range some give more incentive to have more reliable hits to attack groups, finish off low HP or poke safely from afar. Also going to give some power to some what I call “bait augments” which are augments that have really high pick rate but really low win rate (Ironmelt + Balthazar). Also going to give Shieldshatter some more power to make it less situationally good and more overall good.



RMB
1120 >>> 1220 Range
Ironmelt Holster
3% >>> 4% Armor Shred
Shieldshatter Hollows
100% >>> 200% Damage of current Shield
Balthazer’s Lasso
1 >>> 2 seconds of slow





ISHIR
Shadow assassin who backstabs for big damage
NOTE: Ishir is now leading the pack in kills but his win rate is still a touch too low. Giving some quality of life buffs to make him a bit more survivable. I heard the feedback to give +0.5s on his stealth because his paths are too predictable, but I think there needs to be a portion of his gameplay that is predictable, otherwise his stealth starts getting out of control with no counterplay.


SHIFT
Hitbox increased
SPACE
iFrame fixed (hopefully, if not then post videos of how it’s breaking)
Passive
1 >>> 1.3s Stealth




SOMNIA
Long range damage dealer
NOTE: Adjusting some what I call “best in slot” augments which are augments that have a super majority pick that also have the highest win rate.


Shielding Sash
70 >>> 65 Shield
Mindrender
15 >>> 12% bonus Range




ZOEY & BOO

Immobile healer with long range
NOTE: Zoey had a low winrate with high pickrate. I’ve always felt like her Ult is a little bit underwhelming on the heal side. For someone who’s main theme is healing, her ultimate didn’t heal for that much. This might be too much but let’s test and see.


Ultimate
150 >>> 225 Heal


FIORNE
High mobility, high survivability, low to mid threat nuisance
NOTE: Fiorne had a high winrate and starting to become a threat again. I don’t want to strip her of power too much because maybe it’s just a case of players have to get used to it. Just some small touching down some of her “best in slots”



Stabbers
1 >>> 0.9s duration
Bossblade
2 >>> 1.8x multiplier


ROSE
Piercing ranged DPS that specializes in pulling swords back for damage
NOTE: One of the highest winrate with one of the highest pick rates. Her damage and kills are mid for ranged so reducing that damage takes away what she’s supposed to be good at. Instead, I want to reduce her HP to make her a bit more risky to play (higher skill floor/ceiling)




Max HP
850 >>> 800



YANARI
Hybrid AOE brawler and healer
NOTE: Highest winrate, mid pickrate. Her augment diversity is really good, but two of her augments have an abnormally high win rate, both RMB augments. I’m nerfing one first to see where she lands after this patch.




Warding Incense
80% >>> 70% Shield

**SERVERS ARE UP**
Not much balance changes but some BIG NEW GAME changes in this one

NEW: HERO LEVELS
I want to try experimenting with a sense of scaling and in game progression for a few reasons.
1. It gives early/mid game more meaning when you have more permanent consequences. Previously the only real permanence was captain deaths which was never really a threat until 5 minutes into the round. Increasing death timers was impactful but it’s a little bit too indirect as you’re dead. Now with the addition of Hero Levels, there should be a little bit more meaningful decisions on what to do.
2. It will lead to more player agency and high high moments. If you’re on fire this round then you will be rewarded with more power and thus able to affect the game in a greater way than a player who isn’t doing so well. Chasing this power fantasy is also a way to create more game to game diversity. Even with the same map and team comps, a different person might be “fed” this round which makes the game play a little differently than the last.

HOW DO I GAIN LEVELS AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Right now gaining a level is dependent on using your ult. We started off with this iteration because it’s clean and intuitive. When you ult you gain a level. Simple as that. Ults are typically indicative to how well you’re doing no matter the role (soaking up damage as tank, healing as support or damaging as carry).

So what does gaining a level do? Thats kind of up to you. For most heros you can choose how you want to grow in power. Do you want to get more cooldown reduction to cast abilities more often or just go with more permanent damage?

This system isn’t quite perfect yet. There’s some tuning flaw where we can’t give too much power for each ult or it will be objectively better to just waste ults for the power (hopefully it’s not there yet). The UI and clarity is lacking at the moment on what level each character is (coming soon TM)

OTHER NON HERO LEVEL BUT IMPORTANT STUFF
-map layout changes to differentiate gameplay between maps more
-4 captain lives to 3 because many games weren’t feeling the pressure of captain victory

WHAT’S NEW?
Shards are more powerful but have a spawn time of 1 minute
Death timers have been adjusted to be more consistent
Aspect speed is faster in the beginning
Hitboxes to be more accurate to projectile/model/aiming UI
(e.g. Kiona SHIFT and E having a huge hitbox)

DESIGN

SHARDS
Last week the shards were too frequent but also didn’t give enough power to make it worth it. The Ult charge is strong, but the cost of returning a relic was too high. It wasn’t worth the risk/damage your team would take fighting a 3v4 to capture the shard.
We’ve now made shards spawn much less frequently, but give more power. This should move this objective more akin to Dragon/Baron in League, where it should be more of a powerful teamfight objective rather than a sneak behind enemies noses objectives.
15 >>> 60 second spawn timer
0 >>> 50% Heal
15% >>> 20% Bonus Damage
15% >>> 20% Bonus Armor
0% >>> 20% Bonus Healing

DEATH TIMERS
Death Timers were a little bit off, and as a result the pacing of the game would be drastically different depending on how many deaths you had. We’ve moved death timers to be more consistent. They increase based on the number of deaths you’ve had in the round AND increase based on the round time. Overall death timers have increased which should lead to shorter round times as you’re able to capture more objectives with more people dead on the field.

ASPECT SPEED
We’re looking to balance two parts of the game here. We want to make sure that games don’t end in 30 seconds from 1 or 2 team wipes, and we want to make sure that there’s a clear advantage to winning team fights. The solo push speed of Aspect has been increased while the team speed has been decreased. This should give an increased amount of threat/pressure to moving the Aspect, but also prevent super short games from happening if one team just deathballs the Aspect. This new curve should also feel much smoother instead of a sudden increase at 4 minutes.
There are some other game mechanics we want to try out to make early game feel more meaningful, but this is the first iteration of the changes.

HEALING AT SPAWN
There are two issues that we’re trying to solve here:
-Preventing players from getting spawn camped / stuck in staggered respawns
-Making sure the optimal move isn’t to die
For the first issue, staggered respawns can lead to a feeling of helplessness and snowballyness that makes a team feel unbeatable, even if the team isn’t that much better. Healing and turret damage was supposed to resolve this as it gives players an opportunity to coordinate their healths in a more controlled manner. Unfortunately, this lead to some other negative consequences like players wasting their time going back to base to heal. When we tuned this low, to reduce the benefit of it so it wouldn’t be worth it, but unfortunately it led to a lot of players inherently just going back to base to heal anyways, and stay in there for an even longer amount of time. When we tuned it high the pacing of the game felt a lot slower because fights that would normally end in a kill, would now allow players to retreat and heal up.
We want to try out a variation where there is no heal in base anymore. Instead, there is now one extra Health Relic near the South Shard. This should prevent any players from wandering back to base, and hopefully give players more chances to heal up that still engages with the rest of the map. This should also help out with the “it’s better to die than to live low” because it gives more chances for a player to heal back to full. The increased death timers should also help with that issue because the cost of dying is higher.

60 >>> 0 Health per second


BALANCE CHANGES




ASTRADA
Mobile control mage with mid level AOE threats






Flame Cage (Skill 2)
0.3 >>> 0.45s cast time




BRUTUS
Hybrid tank/damage bruiser that can set up engages
UPDATE: Brutus still felt too much of a poke/positioning hero than a jump and engage hero so we gave him some better engaging tools



Earthquake (SHIFT)
Removed the 0.25s stun
Mighty Leap (SPACE)
Added
55 Shield plus 55 for each enemy hit, lasting 2 seconds
Removed
50% slow for 1 second



ETHRYN
Tanky peeler and engager with high CC
NOTE: Her passive was mostly used to win duels rather than peeling and targeting damage threats so we removed it to simplify it.




Pummel (Passive)
Removed
9% reduced damage per Bash Stack on opponent
Talon Strike (Basic Attack)
50 >>> 45 Damage
Knightseeker (SPACE)
1.5 >>> 1s Root for pushing enemies into a wall



FIORNE
High mobility, high survivability, low to mid threat nuisance
NOTE: Added more damage on SPACE that should be for deciding between “lethal engages” and “surviving mobility”, and reduced some of her more consistent damage.





Swift Strike (Basic Attack)
35 >>> 32 damage
Nimble Thrust (SPACE)
25 >>> 55 damage
Retaliate (RMB)
1.5 >>> 1s counter
Grand Finale (Ultimate)
Removed
iframe during dash



ISHIR
High mobility, high threat killer






Ghostly Flicker (E)
1.5 >>> 1s counter
1.5 >>> 1s iframe







TUFTS
Tanky peel and engager with high CC




Nourshing Feathers (Passive)
7.5 >>> 10 armor
5 >>> 3 second armor duration
4 >>> 5 second cooldown
Sky Smack (RMB)
75% >>> 25% Movement Speed while casting
Wing Dive (SPACE)
0.25 >>> 0.5 second minimum cast




ZOEY & BOO

Immobile healer with long range





Cat Latch (Passive)
15 >>> 12 HP per second

WHAT’S NEW?
Old Shards are back! Try them out and see how you feel compared to New Shards
Focus on Combat Design and Balance for Base Heros

DESIGN

SHARDS
Use tomorrow’s Playtest to feel out how Shards feel. Old Shards have been reverted back except for the fact that the Shard just gives the benefits of the New Shard. Focus on the pacing and engagement of the macro strategy.


AUGMENTS (Tomorrow’s playtest won’t have Augments but I added this bit in here because someone requested it in Devstream)
We just finished up doing a design pass on the Augments and now we’re onto the implementation. So far, we’ve narrowed down the Weapons/Armor Augments to a total of 12 per Hero. We found that having MORE Augments didn’t lead to Augment diversity. Instead, unsurprisingly, it was the quality of the Augments that mattered more than quantity. But what does that mean exactly, “quality”? In our attempt to make Augment higher quality, we want to go through our framework with you: Playstyles, Choices and Synergy.

For Playstyles, we started off by giving each Hero 3 different playstyles they could do. This playstyle definition is a bit broad on purpose. For some Heros like Yanari that are more versatile, it meant breaking into Damage, Control, Heal. For others like Rose who have a more singular purpose, it meant breaking into categories like Damage: Attack Speed, Damage: Pull Back, Control. We want to find a balance where the playstyles were very different, but also intuitive enough so that a player could understand how to play differently in their first game. This means that we probably wouldn’t create a category like Tank Rayo because that’s the complete opposite of how any Rayo should be playing.

Once we got these playstyles, we looked at our Augments and made sure there were about 4 Augments that could fit into that playstyle. Since most rounds, a Hero has a choice of 1 Weapon, 1 Armor and 1 Flex, this means that even if players find the playstyle they want, they have to choose 3 of the 4 choices. This should add more play diversity since, if balanced properly, people should be choosing different Augment sets, even if they have the same playstyle preference on the same Heros.

Finally, let’s talk about Synergy. This is the harder design to talk about, and even harder to capture correctly. In essence, Augment synergy should have an ebb and flow of what benefits they provide. These are all levers that should affect the power and playstyle of a Hero. For example, Astrada Augments that synergize well with each other might play around with her Passive. Some Augments might make her Passive more powerful, like adding more damage or a heal to it. Some Augments might make her Passive more reliable, like adding a slow to other abilities. Some Augments might make her Passive more frequent, like making Passive trigger twice on an ability. These are all levers that should be pulled around with. Some might want a big impactful ability that’s harder to hit. Some might want to trade the power for frequency. But it’s this ebb and flow of benefits that make Augments feel like there’s limitless synergy to the different situations of a changing meta that we’re trying to capture.




BALANCE CHANGES




ASTRADA
Mobile control mage with mid level AOE threats






Flame Cage (Skill 2)
1.25 Root >>> 1.5 Incapacitation








BRUTUS
Hybrid tank/damage bruiser that can set up engages







Cleave (Basic Attack)
*NEW* 40 Heal per Enemy hit on LMB3




ETHRYN
Tanky peeler and engager with high CC






Shield Toss (Focus Attack)
65 >>> 55 damage


FIORNE
High mobility, high survivability, low to mid threat nuisance





Health
900 >>> 850
Swift Strike (Basic Attack)
30 >>> 35 damage
Grand Finale (Ultimate)
150 >>> 180 damage


ISHIR
High mobility, high threat killer





Health
900 >>> 850
Wraith Slash (Basic Attack)
55 >>> 45 Damage
1.5 >>> 2x Bonus Damage on Backstab





ROSE
High threat AOE damage




Summon Blades (Skill 2)
30/45 >>> 35/45 damage
Demonic Union (Ultimate)
75% >>> 65% Heal










SOMNIA
Immobile long range high damage high CC threat





Night Blast (Focus Attack)
65/105 >>> 70/110 damage
Delirium (Skill 2)
35 >>> 40 damage per second
50% >>> 40% slow on Empowered





ZOEY & BOO

Immobile healer with long range





Shield of Hope (Focus Attack)
45 >>> 55 shield
1.5 >>> 2 second shield duration
Duoblast (Skill 1)
5 >>> 6 second cooldown
Spirit Scratch (Skill3)
65 >>> 55 Damage
1.3 >>> 1 Root






BELROTH

Tanky engager with high CC



Ageless Aegis (Focus Attack)
75 >>> 55 shield
60 >>> 40 shield
5 >>> 5.5 second cooldown
2 >>> 0.5 second CDR per enemy hit

MOBA vs ARENA BRAWLER
Let’s start with the first big high level direction change. In the past, we heavily took inspiration from MOBAs to follow. This was true in almost every aspect of our development. From a design side, we took values from MOBAs and applied them to our game, including Health, Cooldown, Damage, Speed and more. This made it difficult to balance and design around because that’s simply not the kind of game we are. FANGS is not a traditional MOBA. Fangs is an Arena Brawler with a focus on macro objective gameplay.
What does this mean exactly? First, it means we are NOT a MOBA. We have no lanes, we have no minions, we have no towers, no gold, no levels, no ability skill leveling, no mid-game item progression, etc. Those are all features that make a MOBA fun and deep, which FANGS does not have. While a MOBA has characters with health, abilities, damage, cooldowns, speeds etc like FANGS, the values of those abilities were specifically tuned with all the macro depth and pacing of that game.
Instead the pacing of FANGS is much closer to an Arena Brawler. It’s a big focus on combat that is longer paced than MOBA combat. In MOBAs, you blow all your abilities and the fight is determined quickly in seconds while in Arena Brawlers, you’ll run through multiple rotations of your abilities and the fight lasts much longer. It was a mistake to use MOBA values for FANGS, instead we should be using values closer to Arena Brawler characters.

HERO CLASSES
We’ve structured our Hero Classes to have more guidelines. Prior we were setting the health, damage, range, speed, projectile speed and etc on too much of a case by case basis. This made it difficult to balance and identify exactly what might be off on a Hero when it comes to its power, or even simply its fun. For example, Ishir used to have a health pool of 650 and Belroth used to have 1500 (with augments). This made damage inconsistent; a few 55 damage LMBs might decimate Ishir but would barely tickle a Belroth. Bringing everyone closer in line will help bridge the gap from these extremes of feeling like “wtf killed me” and “I’m not doing anything at all”. Everybody will still have their strengths and weaknesses, but it won’t be as extreme as before.


Ranged Class will have high LMB damage but will tend to have low to mid HP. These LMBs typically hit harder at the cost of attacking slower than Melee LMBs. Melee Class will tend to have higher HP to make up for the fact that they can get kited and poked more easily. Support Class is the wild card; the tanks will have higher HP with lower damage so they can tank, but the healers will have the lowest HP as they have better sustaining tools on hand.

DAMAGE AND COOLDOWNS
The other rule we’re placing down is no more high cooldowns. In the past, we’ve had some abilities with 10-20 second cooldowns, and balanced it by putting more power and/or more reliability in them. While from a balance point of view this is fine, it didn’t lead to satisfying combat. First of all, it’s just more fun to have more options to choose from and be able to use your abilities more. That’s what playing the game is all about. Beyond that though, it led to a lot of design clarity issues or “what just happened” moments. Having such huge damage and swingy abilities caused more moments that made you wonder “how did I die” rather than “oh that person outplayed me”. You see a lot of high cooldown abilities in MOBAs because the kit was designed to revolve around ALL aspects of the game like minions, waves, towers, vision etc rather than just the combat. Since we ARE a combat focused we are striving to have most cooldowns under 10 seconds. You’ll have your LMB at a sub 1 second cooldown to spam, a secondary ability that usually resonates with the Hero’s core kit at 4-6 seconds (like Rose SHIFT) and the rest at about 8-10 seconds to use in the fast paced combat.
Speaking of LMBs, that’s another big change we’ll be making; we’re increasing the damage and threat. For most characters in MOBAs, the ability damage is the bulk of the damage in late game. We designed our Heros the same way, when in reality, for a fun and competitive Arena Brawler, the LMB should be very threatening. Skilled players should be rewarded for consistently aiming well, and not just rewarded for knowing which ability to use at what time.

OBJECTIVE GAMEPLAY
We’re not just an Arena Brawler though, we’re an Arena Brawler with Macro Objective Gameplay. While one CORE element of FANGS is Combat experience, the other CORE element of FANGS is the Macro Objective Gameplay. I won’t be touching on this too much for now (sorry). I just want to let you know that we know that Objectives is what separates FANGS from other Arena Brawlers and we will make sure that this Macro element is deep and rich to allow for big brain players to shine. We’ll be taking things one step at a time. First we’ll polish up the Base Hero combat experience. Then we’ll polish up the Augments. Then we’ll polish up the macro objectives. While we’ll be thinking about a lot of these things in parallel because they tie in to each other, the order of our primary focus will be Base Heros -> Augments -> Shards/Captain Lives/Aspect.

Since the start of development, our team has been committed to working alongside the community to make Fangs into the best action brawler experience. We are extremely grateful for the continuous feedback and support y’all have provided—it truly means the world to us.

We feel that the improvements to Fangs over the past couple of months have mostly been moves in the right direction. Our Hit VFX and SFX are stronger and more satisfying. The tutorial experience is more interactive and makes for a better onboarding experience. We are extremely proud of the work our team has done on the game, and want to ensure we continue down that path. To make sure we meet our goals of improving Fangs, we have decided to shut down the servers temporarily so we can funnel players to improve queue times. This also allows our team to focus on some large reworks to Heroes, Augments, and game objectives.

At this moment in time, we aim to open and relaunch sometime in Q4 2023.

To give you a small taste of what will be coming in Q4 2023

• More VFX & SFX Improvements
  
• Ability to build loadouts in client
  
• Reduce and rework Augments to have more cohesive design synergy and choices
  
• Rebalance Heroes to give more player agency in combat
  
• Switch Casual matches to best of 3 instead of best of 5 games
  
• Add Achievements (ie 5000 kills or 1000 Shards captured)
  
• Many many bug fixes and performance improvements
  
• And more!

We’ll elaborate further on what our exact development road map looks like in the near future, and we will also provide a more accurate ETA on when the relaunch is. We aim to be as transparent as possible, and do hope you continue to join us on this journey. Your feedback is invaluable to the team—thank you again for your patience and continuous support. We are 100% committed to Fangs, and we'll continue to do everything we can to ensure the best future for the game.

See you on Wednesday for playtests!

Hidden Leaf Games

Balance Update

Tufts
Nourshing Feathers (P) - 2.5s -> 4s CD

Zoey
Witch Ball (LMB)
16 -> 25 damage
40 -> 32 Heal (Tooltips are broken)

Augment
Lure Chime (SHIFT) - 2s -> 0.1s Unstoppable
Mischievous Tome (SPACE)
100% -> 40% Reduced Healing
5 -> 3s Duration

Fiorne
Swift Strike (LMB) - 550 -> 425 Range

Rayo
Augment
Cleansing Talisman
200 -> 100 Heal
0.5 -> 0.1s Unstoppable

Astrada
Emberburst (LMB)
40 -> 45 Damage
0.3 -> 0.25 Cooldown

Flame Cage (SHIFT)
25 -> 60 Damage
1.5 -> 1.75 Root
12 -> 10s CD

Kiona
Hail Wind - 60 -> 72 Damage

Belroth
Size: 20% Smaller

Yanari
Augment
Cleansing Shankha - 1.5s -> 0.1s Unstoppable

Artifacts
Purity
1.5 -> 0.1s Unstoppable
40 -> 50s CD

Another big set of gameplay changes! In addition to the typical balance updates, we wanted to address some big feedback points on SHARDS and CROWD CONTROL.

Let's talk about what the new Shards are doing better first. It's a more intuitive system and we see that it's easier for players to interact with this portion of the game. Not only is it easier for players to learn how to capture a Shard for their team, but it also allows for a far wider range of Heros to interact with the objective. There's also exciting moments on capturing the Shard on the last hit, whether it's getting that steal under the enemies noses or successfully outplaying a fight to secure the Shard.

Which brings us to what we are looking to improve. That last hitting mechanic can feel a bit too random. We're looking at ways to reduce that such as making the Shard being able to be affected by Pushes/Pulls or giving Heros more defensive capabilities to help prevent last minute steals. We think adding more areas for skill expression will help reduce the feeling of randomness that can come with capturing the Shard right now. We're also continuing to monitor the team revive. It's a good mechanic for comebacks, but it can also feel very snowbally.

What we want to try out this patch is to make the Shards a little bit more dangerous to take to prevent a single player from taking a shard too quickly without any risk. This way, to get the powerful benefits of the shard, every Hero has to have pay a cost that's a combination of time, health and cooldowns.

⬥Increased range on Shard damage so Ranged Heros will also take damage

⬥Increased HP to 600

⬥Coming up with ways to make the Shard more Skill Expression

Crowd Control (CC) is an ability that restricts control over your Hero including but not limited to: Slows, Roots, Stuns, Knock Ups, Pushes/Pulls. The severity of the CC varies; Slows are typically weaker since you can continue to do most things and Stuns/Knock Ups are typically the strongest because players lose complete control over the Hero.

When diving into an analysis of Fangs, we found that we had our Stun duration was on average too long. The stronger the CC the shorter the duration should be. The serves two purposes: One, to keep abilities fairly balanced and purposeful so that each type of CC is an answer to different scenarios and Two, it's just not fun gameplay to not be able to do anything. With long Stun durations, there were more moments of "I got hit by one Stun, and then I died because I couldn't do anything".

We also found that we leaned too heavily into Stuns and not enough into Roots. This lead to more gameplay moments of random ability interruption. By changing some the Stuns to Roots, we leave in the opportunity for combination attacks while still allowing more skill expression for the Rooted player to fight back.

⬥Lower durations on Stuns and Knock Ups

⬥Replaced some Stuns for Roots


Astrada's spiked in her win rate this past update. With a lot of the damage multipliers reduced in the game, her own damage output was relatively increased. A small nerf to her passive and some adjustments on her more powerful Augments should bring her back to 50%.

⬥ Marked for Destruction (Passive): 50 → 45 Damage
⬥ Flame Cage (SHIFT): 1s Stun → 1.5s Root


⬥ Life Burst Brooch (Passive): 45 → 50 Heal
⬥ Nailbomb (Passive): 50% → 40% Slow
⬥ Demolisher's Treasure (LMB): 1.2s → 1.1s CDR
⬥ Repulsor Sceptor (RMB):
⬦ Push Distance: 25% → 60%
⬦ 1s Stun → 1.5s Root
⬥ Elsywn's Triband (Ultimate): 225 → 200 Damage

Brutus is in a good place right now. We're giving some power to some of the weaker but commonly picked Augments and taking some power away from the strong commonly picked Augments. He's also getting the CC adjustments.

⬥ Head Splitter (RMB): 1.25s → 0.8s Stun


⬥ Drakefeather Dirk (Passive):
⬦ Movement Speed: 40% → 30%
⬦ Duration: 3s → 6s
⬥ Chilltooth Necklace (LMB): 0.4s → 0.5s CDR per Enemy hit
⬥ Lifesnatcher Pauldron (LMB): 0.65% → 0.75% Lifesteal per 1% missing HP
⬥ Quakebreak Talisman (Shift):
⬦ 1s Stun → 1.5s Root
⬦ Hitbox increased to match entire area of the Earthquake
⬥ Draining Thorngloves (E): 5 → 4 Shield per 1% missing HP
⬥ The Executioner (Ultimate): 14% → 12% HP Execution

Belroth is also in a good place. He's getting the CC adjustments; the Knock Up will be reduced while the Root will be increased. We also made his Boulder Toss a bit less punishing if you choose not to pick up the Boulder.

⬥ Vicious Lunge (Space): 0.8s → 0.4s Knock Up Duration
⬥ Boulder Toss (E):
⬦ Root: 0.75s → 1.25s
⬦ Cooldown: 17s → 11s
⬦ Cooldown Refund: 70% → 50%


⬥ Uprooters (Space): 0.4s → 0.3s Bonus Knock Up duration

Mostly just the CC adjustment here. Soulblast Greaves was over-nerfed last patch and since we haven't seen egregious interactions with Soulblast Greaves and the Fountain we'll give it a bit more love here.

⬥ Pummel (Passive): 0.7s → 0.4s Stun
⬥ Shield Toss (RMB): 4000 → 3750 Projectile Speed
⬥ Knightseeker (Space): 0.75s Stun → 1.5s Root

⬥ Titan's Effigy (Passive): 1.5s → 0.7s Stun
⬥ Soulblast Greaves (Space): 150% → 200% Bonus Range
⬥ Starfall (Ultimate): 1.75s → 1.5s Stun


⬥ Earthbreaker Pommel (Shift): 1s Stun → 1.5s Root
⬥ Deathly Carnival (Ultimate): 50 → 40 Bonus Damage

⬥ Wraith Slash (LMB): 47 → 55 Damage
⬥ Spectral Dash (Space): 0.75s → 2s Incapacitate


⬥ Spellstealer Artifact (E): 50 → 150 Energy Gained

Kiona's winrate is on the lower side, so a slight bump to her power in RMB to make her a bit more lethal in fights.

⬥ Hail Wind (RMB): 50 → 60 Damage


⬥ Serrated Daggers (RMB): 16 → 20 Bonus Damage
⬥ Lifefrost Brew (RMB): 48% → 52% Heal
⬥ Winterclaw Choker (Shift): 0.9s → 0.5s Stun

Sniper Rayo seems to dominate the battlefield. Some power into Storm Shardstring should hopefully promote some more LMB based builds and gameplay.

⬥ Flashbolt (RMB):
⬦ Stun: 0.8s → 0.5s
⬦ Projectile Speed: 4525 → 4125
⬥ Volt Dash (Space): 35 → 55 Damage
⬥ Thunder Blast (E): 45 → 60 Damage


⬥ Storm Shardstring (LMB): 6% → 8% Bonus Attack Speed
⬥ Twilight Sandles (RMB): 0.3s → 0.2s Stun
⬥ Harrah's Betrayal (E): 0.5s - 2.5s → 0.4s - 0.8s Stun

Rose is another Hero who is on the weaker side. We're giving a fair amount of power in her LMB so she's a better fighter, and a smaller amount of power in the additional hit so that she doesn't just randomly kill people she's not really aiming for.

⬥ Sword Sling (LMB):
⬦ First Enemy Hit Damage: 40 → 50
⬦ Additional Enemy Hit Damage: 35 → 40


⬥ Shred Polish (LMB):
⬦ Armor Shred: 2 → 3
⬦ Max Stacks: 8 → 10
⬥ Bloodlust Gauntlet (Passive): 20% → 30% Lifesteal

⬥ Dourling Dive (Space): 0.75s Stun → 1.4s Root


⬥ Heal Sprite (Passive): 70% → 80%s Bonus Heal
⬥ Everflower (LMB): 50% → 35% Reduced Effectiveness
⬥ Siegilblade (LMB):
⬦ Root: 0.6s → 1.25s
⬦ Root Cooldown: 5s → 10s

⬥ Allure (E): 1s → 0.5s Charm


⬥ Shielding Sash (Passive): 135 → 100 Shield
⬥ Inner Light (Passive):
⬦ Shield: 50 → 40
⬦ Max Shield: 100 → 160
⬥ Healing Sands (RMB): Heal 75 → 60
⬥ Speed Reader (Space): 35% → 25%

⬥ Nourishing Feathers (Passive): 1.25s → 2.5s CD
⬥ Wing Dive (Space): 1s → 0.7s Stun

⬥ Brim (LMB):
⬦ Damage: 45 → 40
⬦ Healing: 75 → 60

⬥ Hand of Acara (RMB): 0.75s → 0.5s Stun on Empowered

⬥ Peacemaker's Ring (Passive): 40% → 25% Reduced Damage
⬥ Paupers Prayer (LMB): 1s → 1.5s Duration
⬥ Tigerwind Gauntlet (LMB): 3% → 2% Bonus Attack Speed
⬥ Godtooth Charm (RMB): 15 → 10 Bonus Damage
⬥ War Beads (Shift): 10% → 30% Bonus Damage
⬥ Essence Trap (Space): 25% → 20% Bonus Range
⬥ Lionsworn Crown (Ultimate): 25% → 20% Heal

Zoey was a menace in the last update. She was getting a lot of utility from her new Passive, surviving a lot more engages than she previously did. We've toned that down a bit so she'll have a little less survivability from her Passive than before and more on hitting her skillshots.

⬥ Cat Latch (Passive): 20 → 15 Heal per Second
⬥ Spirit Scratch (E): 0.9s Stun → 1.3s Root


⬥ Therapeutic Totem (Passive): 15 → 12 Energy per Second
⬥ Binding Witch Hat (LMB): 100% → 75% of Damage as Bonus Max HP
⬥ Bloom's Brew (RMB): 75% → 65% Bonus Heal
⬥ Purr's Paw (Shift): 75 → 60 Damage


⬥ Rejuvenate: 200→ 150 Heal
⬥ Battleprism: 25%→ 30% Lifesteal
⬥ Greathelm: 1.5%→ 2% Heal
⬥ Vanquisher: 25→ 20 Armor Steal

Again, we would like to thank everyone who has played or is interested in playing Fangs during its early access period! Our community continues to surprise and inspire us with their knowledge, memes, and insightful comments about our game—if you have accompanied our development journey so far, you know how much of our players' input goes into each new update.

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The Hidden Leaf Games Team

Bugs Fixed
-Fixed a bug that caused presets to kick players back to Main Menu
-Fixed a bug that caused players not to see Augments during Augment Select
-Fixed a bug where Captain Voting wasn't working
-Fixed a bug where some bushes weren't working
-Fixed a bug where Bigboi could machine gun his Boulder
-Fixed a bug where chat wasn't working during Augment Select