Bug Fixes

• Base
  • Ravage [Q]
    • Fixed an issue that caused Ravage to play its cast animation on the target when Kerrigan targets another Kerrigan at close range.

Bug Fixes

• Level 7
  • Boundless Fury
    • Fixed an issue that caused Boundless Fury to refund charges against a target already marked.

Bug Fixes

• Level 1
  • Fury of the Swarm
    • Fixed an issue that caused Fury of the Swarm's splash to not behave correctly while Blinded or against Evading enemies.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Sharpened Blades to stack off of Possessed minions.
• Included Infested to search text for Kerrigan.

Bug Fixes

• Difficulty updated from Hard to Very Hard.
• Fixed an issue that caused Assimilation to increase Kerrigan's Self Healing when Shields granted.
• Fixed an issue that caused Sharpened Blades to gain quest progress from Hallucination Heroes (Nova Holo Decoys, Samuro Mirror Images, Abathur Ultimate Evolutions).
• Ultralisk Basic Attacks will now reveal the effect area for 0.75 seconds.
• Fury of the Swarm empowered Basic Attacks will now reveal the effect area for 0.75 seconds.
• Fury of the Swarm will no longer reveal targets hit by the splash area.
• Impaling Blades will now reveal targets hit for 2 seconds.
• Primal Grasp's secondary explosion will now reveal targets hit for 2 seconds.
• Psionic Shift will now reveal targets hit for 2 seconds.

Updates

Talents

• Level 7
  • Queen of Blades [Q]
    • Damage bonus increased from 50% to 100%.
    • Ravage cooldown reduction increased from 2 to 3 seconds.

Developer Comment: We were too scared of Queen of Blades being too powerful when we redesigned the talent, so we're tuning it up to better match our original vision. This should enable her to clear waves much more efficiently while also allowing her Ravage to be up much more often.

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Siphoning Impact [Q]
    • Shield amount increased from 90 to 100.
  • Assimilation Mastery [Trait]
    • Shields granted increased from 45 to 50.
• Level 4
  • Psionic Pulse [E]
    • Second explosion time reduced from 2.5 to 2 seconds.
• Level 7
  • Queen of Blades [Q]
    • New functionality: Reduce the cooldown of Ravage by 2 seconds and increase its damage to Minions and Mercenaries by 50%.
• Level 10
  • Maelstrom [R1]
    • Mana cost reduced from 100 to 80.
    • Range increased from 4 to 4.5.
  • Summon Ultralisk [R2]
    • Mana cost reduced from 100 to 75.
• Level 20
  • Torrasque [R2]
    • Additional functionality: Increase the Health and Attack damage of Ultralisk by 20%.

Developer Comment: Kerrigan's talent tiers generally have one talent that most people are using, followed by the other two talents on the tier having decent parity. We're giving some buffs to her alternate talents to become more attractive choices, which should allow for more diverse ways to play her.

Updates

Talents

• Level 13
  • Psionic Barrier [E]
    • Additional functionality: Hitting an enemy Hero with Primal Grasp also grants Kerrigan 4% Movement Speed for 4 seconds, stacking up to 20%.
  • Chrysalis [Active]
    • Chrysalis is now able to be cancelled early.

Developer Comment: We've heard feedback from Kerrigan players for some time that they would like to have the ability to cancel Chrysalis early. We originally intended it to be this way to separate it a bit from other similar mechanics and to give opponents a reliable way to counter it, but found that it ended up being less fun and interesting overall. Because of this, we're adding the ability for Kerrigan to cancel the effect early.

Bug Fixes

• Ravage are now affected by cooldown reduction effects.

Bug Fixes

• Sharpened Blades now grants the correct amount of stacks on Minion kills.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing Sharpened Blades from granting kill credit against Heroes with post-death effects.

Updates

Talents

• Level 1
  • Assimilation Mastery (Trait)
    • Shield amount increased from 40 to 45
• Level 13
  • Psionic Barrier (E)
    • Spell Armor increased from 15 to 20

Updates

Stats

• Basic Attack damage reduced from 120 to 115

Abilities

• Impaling Blades (W)
  • Damage reduced from 180 to 165
  • Mana cost increased from 75 to 80
• Psionic Pulse (E)
  • Explosion damage increased from 180 to 195
  • Mana cost increased from 60 to 65

Talents

• Level 1
  • Assimilation Mastery (Trait)
    • Health and Mana regeneration increased from 100 to 150%
• Level 4
  • Sharpened Blades (Q)
    • Damage for killing Minions increased from .5 to 1
    • Maximum damage bonus increased from 50 to 75
• Level 13
  • Chrysalis (Active)
    • Health increased from 550 to 750
• Level 16
  • Mounting Potency (Q)
    • Spell Power duration increased from 4 to 5 seconds
  • Unbridled Energy (Heroic)
    • Spell Power increased from 30 to 35%
• Level 20
  • Omegastorm (R)
    • Bonus duration increased from .188 to .25 seconds per tick

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that disabled Health and Mana regeneration during Chrysalis.

Updates

Stats

• Health increased from 1680 to 1764
• Health Regeneration increased from 3.5 to 3.675

Abilities

• Assimilation (Trait)
  • Shield amount reduced from 15% to 10% of damage dealt

Talents

• Level 1
  • Fury of the Swarm (Passive)
    • Number of splash attacks after casting Ravage reduced from 2 to 1
• Level 4
  • Kinetic Fulmination (W)
    • Damage bonus decreased from 15% to 10% per stack
    • Maximum damage bonus decreased from 150% to 100%
• Level 7
  • Queen of Blades (Q)
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 4 to 6 second per enemy hit by Primal Grasp
• Level 13
  • Volatile Power (Trait)
    • Bonus shields reduced from 15% to 10%
• Level 16
  • Painful Spikes (W)
    • Damage reduced from 75 to 70
• Level 20
  • Omegastorm (R1)
  • Bonus duration per tick increased from .125 to .1875

Developer Comment: Kerrigan has one build that is particularly powerful at the moment, and these changes aim to bring her back in line with the rest of the cast. We've also made a change to her baseline Assimilation to revert it to it's previous levels, as her overall survivability is a little higher than desired from a melee assassin.

Updates

Developer Comment: Kerrigan is receiving an update to increase the tactical depth of using her abilities and increase the impact that her Talents have on her playstyle. We've reduced the range on Ravage but added a second charge so that smart Kerrigan players can use it to maneuver on the battlefield, as well as utilize a lot of her Talents to get the most out of the ability. We've added a secondary explosion to Primal Grasp so that Kerrigan will want to continue to worry about her positioning after her initial engagement occurs, as well as provide the opportunity for new Talent interactions. We've also added a skillshot component to Ultralisk so that the Heroic can feel like it has a big moment when it is first unleashed. Overall, Kerrigan should play mostly the same, but have increased room for mastery and playstyle specific builds.

Updates

Stats

• Health increased from 1680 to 1764
• Health Regeneration increased from 3.5 to 3.675

Abilities

• Assimilation (Trait)
  • Shield amount reduced from 15% to 10% of damage dealt

Talents

• Level 1
  • Fury of the Swarm (Passive)
    • Number of splash attacks after casting Ravage reduced from 2 to 1
• Level 4
  • Kinetic Fulmination (W)
    • Damage bonus decreased from 15% to 10% per stack
    • Maximum damage bonus decreased from 150% to 100%
• Level 7
  • Queen of Blades (Q)
    • Cooldown reduction increased from 4 to 6 second per enemy hit by Primal Grasp
    • Maximum damage bonus decreased from 150% to 100%
• Level 13
  • Volatile Power (Trait)
    • Bonus shields reduced from 15% to 10%
• Level 16
  • Painful Spikes (W)
    • Damage reduced from 75 to 70
• Level 20
  • Omegastorm (R1)
  • Bonus duration per tick increased from .125 to .1875

Developer Comment: Kerrigan has one build that is particularly powerful at the moment, and these changes aim to bring her back in line with the rest of the cast. We've also made a change to her baseline Assimilation to revert it to it's previous levels, as her overall survivability is a little higher than desired from a melee assassin.

Bug Fixes

• Triggering the Double Strike Talent after learning Fury of the Storm will no longer cause the next Basic Attack to deal more than the intended amount of cleave damage to secondary targets.

Updates

Abilities

• Ravage (Q)
  • Damage reduced from 228 to 210
• Impaling Blades (W)
  • Damage increased from 251 to 261
• Primal Grasp (E)
  • Damage increased from 110 to 114

Talents

• Level 1
  • Energizing Grasp (E)
    • Removed
• Level 7
  • Adaptation (Q)
    • Removed

Developer Comment: Kerrigan's win-rate has been at a steady 1-2% climb each patch for the last few months. While she is not demanding picks or bans at the moment, as of last week she was sitting on top of the Nexus. After closely analyzing her numbers, there was nothing standing out as a major reason for her climb upwards. So instead of doing anything massive, we felt it best to do a slight damage redistribution. Moving a small percentage of her Ravage damage into her other abilities will help with some talent pick/win rate issues while also bolstering her skill-shot abilities.

Updates

Talents

• Level 20
  • Bolt of the Storm (Active)
    • Removed
  • New Talent – Psionic Shift (Active)
    • Activate to teleport a short distance and deal 50 damage to enemies in the area. Enemy Heroes hit give Kerrigan 300% of the damage dealt as Assimilation Shields. 70-second cooldown.

Bug Fixes

• Bladed Momentum will no longer grant cooldown reduction for secondary targets hit by Basic Attacks after learning Fury of the Storm.

Bug Fixes

• Bladed Momentum will no longer grant cooldown reduction for secondary targets hit by Basic Attacks after learning Fury of the Storm.

Updates

Abilities

• Summon Ultralisk (R)
  • Cooldown increased from 70 to 80 seconds
  • Cooldown now also counts down while the Ultralisk is alive

Bug Fixes

• Using the Overdrive Talent will no longer remove the Energizing Grasp Talent's Mana cost reduction for Primal Grasp.

Updates

Abilities

• Maelstrom (R)
  • Damage per pulse decreased from 41 to 37

Talents

• Level 4
  • Psionic Pulse (E)
    • Damage per pulse decreased from 20 to 18

Developer Comment: We are trying to be very careful with changes to Kerrigan, as we are excited to see her return to the spotlight. She is not too far off, but we wanted to lower her area-of-effect damage just a tiny bit.

Bug Fixes

• Assimilation will now properly grant Shields for splash damage dealt by Kerrigan's Basic Attacks after learning Fury of the Swarm.

Updates

Stats

• Base Health decreased from 1848 to 1680
• Base Health Regeneration decreased from 3.95 to 3.64 per second

Talents

• Level 1
  • Sharpened Blades (W)
    • Damage reduced from 30 to 25%
• Level 4
  • Psionic Pulse (E)
    • Damage reduced from 24 to 20 per pulse

• Level 7
  • Bladed Momentum (Passive)
    • Cooldown reduction per Basic Attack reduced from .75 to .6

Developer Comment: Our recent changes to the Queen of Blades had a much larger impact than we were expecting. Since her damage directly fuels her survivability, we feel like the additional Health increase pushed her a bit too far. We love that she feels more aggressive now and are happy to see her back in the mix of contested Heroes. By reverting her Health buffs and targeting a few over-performing talents we expect to see her come back in line.

Updates

Stats

• Base Health increased from 1680 to 1848
• Health Regen increased from 3.5 to 3.8 per second
• Base Attack damage increased from 109 to 120

Abilities

• Ravage (Q)
  • Mana cost reduced from 50 to 40

Talents

• Level 1
  • Siphoning Impact (Q)
    • Now only applies if the target is killed by Ravage
  • Sharpened Blades (W)
    • Damage increased from 20% to 30%
• Level 4
  • Clean Kill (Q)
    • Mana refund reduced from 100% to 75%
    • Damage bonus increased from 20% to 25%
  • Fury of the Swarm (Passive)
    • Splash damage increased from 50% to 60%
  • Psionic Pulse (E)
    • Damage increased from 17 to 24

• Level 7
  • Impaling Swarm (W)
    • Removed
  • Adaptation (Q)
    • Mana refund increased from 50% to 100%
  • Assimilation Mastery (Trait)
    • Now increases the duration of Assimilation Shields by 100% in addition to its current functionality
• Level 13
  • Queen's Rush (Active)
    • Movement Speed increased from 25% to 30%
    • Cooldown reduced from 75 to 50 seconds
  • Lingering Essence (Trait)
    • Removed
• Level 16
  • Blade Torrent (W)
    • Moved to Level 7

Developer Comment: Kerrigan definitely has her place as a niche pick on a few Battlegrounds. While her win-rate is fairly healthy, she has become a bit of a one-trick-pony. We feel this is okay for some Heroes and makes for interesting draft implications, but we knew we wanted to make some tweaks to help even her out. We increased her base stats in order to offset the added restrictions we applied to her Ravage, and overall did a large number of tweaks to help level out her whole Talent Tree.

Updates

• Summon Ultralisk (R)
  • Cooldown reduced from 80 to 70 seconds.
• Maelstrom (R)
  • Cooldown reduced from 100 to 90 seconds.

Developer Comment: We are hearing your feedback about Kerrigan. Although the changes this patch are very minor, we are full aware of the community's support and enthusiasm for revitalizing the Queen of Blades. Although we don't currently have any extensive changes planned for her, she is definitely on our radar and you can expect to see some more tweaks coming soon™.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented Kerrigan from casting Ravage on Earthbind Totem and several other summoned units.

Updates

• Ultralisk (R)
  • Attack damage increased from 91 (+4% per level) to 100 (+4% per level)
  • Torrasque (Talent)
    • Egg timed life decreased from 8 to 4 seconds
    • Egg Health decreased from 1095 (+4% per level) to 594 (+4% per level)

Bug Fixes

• The cooldown for Kerrigan's Ravage will now be properly reset when it is used to destroy an enemy Structure.

Bug Fixes

• Kerrigan will no longer receive multiplicative bonuses to Shield generation after learning the Aggressive Defense and Omegastorm Talents.

Updates

Developer Comment: These changes are intended as a slight buff overall, and to provide Kerrigan with more options. Her level 1 range increase talent was almost always picked, so we made that baseline. Several new talents and mana alterations should allow Kerrigan players to try out some Ravage and Trait based builds.

• Seasoned Marksman (Talent) removed
• Focused Attack (Talent) removed
• Searing Attacks (Talent) removed
• Sprint (Talent) removed
• Blood for Blood (Talent) removed
• New Talent (Level 13): Queen's Rush
  • Activate to increase Movement Speed by 25% for 4 seconds. Hero Takedowns automatically activate this effect.
• New Talent (Level 16): Essence for Essence
  • Activate to steal 10% of an enemy Hero's Health, and gain twice that amount as Assimilation Shields
• Assimilation (Trait)
  • Lingering Essence (Talent)
    • Assimilation Shield duration increased from 12 to 20 seconds
  • New Talent (Level 7): Assimilation Mastery
    • Increases Health and Mana Regneration by 100% while Assimilation Shields are active
• Ravage (Q)
  • Damage increased from 50 (+20 per level) to 60 (+22 per level)
  • Mana cost decreased from 75 to 50
  • Clean Kill (Talent)
    • Now also increases the damage dealt by Kerrigan's next Ravage by 20%
  • Adaptation (Talent)
    • Half of Ravage's Mana cost is now refunded when jumping to an ally
  • Eviscerate (Talent)
    • Range bonus increased from 25% to 40%
• Impaling Blades (W)
  • Mana cost increased from 60 to 75
• Primal Grasp (E)
  • Range increased by 20%
  • Mana cost increased from 50 to 60
  • Cooldown increased from 8 to 10 seconds
  • Damage decreased from 50 (+13 per level) to 40 (+10 per level)
  • Sweeping Grasp (Talent) removed
  • Psionic Pulse (Talent)
    • Damage per second increased from 12 (+2.4 per level) to 15 (+3 per level)
  • New Talent (Level 1): Energizing Grasp
    • Refunds 10 Mana per enemy hit, up to a maximum of 60
• Maelstrom (R)
  • Damage per second increased from 25 (+2.5 per level) to 30 (+3 per level)
  • Cooldown reduced from 120 to 100 seconds
  • Duration reduced from 9 to 7 seconds
• Ultralisk (R)
  • Cooldown now begins once the Ultralisk is killed
  • Torrasque (Talent)
    • Ultralisk can now be reborn more than once, so long as the egg isn't destroyed within 8 seconds of the Ultralisk's death

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in which certain movement-based Abilities, such as Kerrigan's Ravage or Chen's Flying Kick, could not target the Doubloon Chests on Blackheart's Bay, or Plant Terror Overgrowths on Garden of Terror.
• Kerrigan's Aggressive Defense Talent now correctly increases the Assimilation Shield amount gained from Basic Attacks and Abilities by 100% when paired with her Fury of the Swarm Talent.

Updates

• Ultralisk (R)
  • Can now be re-targeted after Kerrigan is killed

Bug Fixes

• The Countess Kerrigan and Mecha Tassadar Skins will now default to their unique Mounts in regular games after they are purchased.