Updates

Talents

• Level 7
  • Slice and Dice
    • REWORK: Grants 400% Attack Speed which is lost after attacking 3 times or after 3 seconds. Cooldown for the next attack after the third will not be reduced.

Bug Fixes

• Level 16
  • Assassinate
    • Damage bonus is now additive.
    • Fixed an issue with duration extension.

Bug Fixes

• Level 16
  • Seal Fate
    • Fixed an issue that caused Sinister Strike to deal additional damage to non-Heroes.

Updates

Base

• Quickcast Settings
  • Removed Cancel Vanish.

Talents

• Level 10
  • Smoke Bomb [R1]
    • Button now has a duration indicator.

Bug Fixes

• Deep Shadows duration indicator will now fill, rather than empty.
• Level 4
  • Wound Poison [Active]
    • Fixed an issue that caused Wound Poison to display floating text multiple times.

Bug Fixes

• Ambush now reveals the target for 2 seconds.
• Blade Flurry now reveals targets for 2 seconds.
• Blade Flurry now reveals the area it affects.
• Cheap Shot now reveals the target for 2 seconds.
• Eviscerate now reveals the target for 2 seconds.
• Fixed an issue where Garrote's damage displayed incorrectly in the Death Recap.
• Garrote now reveals the target for 2 seconds.
• Sinister Strike now reveals the target for 2 seconds.

Bug Fixes

• Sinister Strike's targeting indicator now more closely matches the Ability's area of effect.

Bug Fixes

• Activating Crippling Poison, Wound Poison, or Thistle Tea will no longer clear queued orders or Abilities.

Bug Fixes

• After activating Crippling Poison and Wound Poison, visual effects on Valeera's blades will no longer flicker while she is riding certain mounts.

Bug Fixes

• The Cheap Shot tooltip appended to Blade Flurry after breaking Stealth now correctly states it will Blind the target.
• Thistle Tea activation is no longer audible to nearby enemies while Valeera is in Stealth.

Updates

• Abilities

  • Vanish (D)
    • Movement Speed increased from 10% to 20%
  • Ambush (Q)
    • If Valeera is Vanished for 3 seconds, this ability has 5 range and teleports Valeera behind her target.
    • Damage reduced from 180 to 130
    • Now also reduces enemy Armor by 10 for 4 seconds
  • Cheap Shot (W)
    • Stun duration reduced from 1.25 to .75 seconds
    • Now Blinds the target for 2 seconds after the stun effect ends
    • If Valeera is Vanished for 3 seconds, this ability has 5 range and teleports Valeera behind her target
  • Garrote (E)
    • Silence duration increased from 2.25 to 2.75 seconds
    • If Valeera is Vanished for 3 seconds, this ability has 5 range and teleports Valeera behind her target

  Talents

  • Level 1
    • Subtlety (D)
      • Adjusted functionality:
        • Now triggers when Valeera teleports to her target with Ambush, Cheap Shot, and Garrote.
      • Energy return reduced from 10 to 8 per second.
    • Crippling Poison (Active)
      • Slow duration reduced from 5 to 4 seconds.
      • Valeera's poison is no longer removed after the first damaging Ability, but instead is applied by all Valeera's Abilities for 4 seconds. This duration does not start until Valeera damages her first enemy.
    • Combat Readiness (Passive)
      • Physical Armor increased from 50 to 60
  • Level 4
    • Wound Poison (Active)
      • Healing reduction duration decreased from 5 to 4 seconds
      • Valeera's poison is no longer removed after the first damaging Ability, but instead is applied by all Valeera's Abilities for 4 seconds. This duration does not start until Valeera damages her first enemy
    • Hemorrhage (E)
      • Bonus damage to targets affected by Garrote increased from 25 to 50%
  • Level 7
    • Slice and Dice (E)
      • Valeera's Basic Attacks now restore 2 Energy.
  • Level 13
    • Death from Above (Q)
      • New functionality:
        • Ambush reduces the cooldown of Vanish by 4 seconds.
    • Blind (W)
      • Now increases the duration of Cheap Shot's Blind from 2 to 4 seconds.
    • Strangle (E)
      • Spell Power reduction increased from 25% to 40%
      • Duration reduced from 7 to 6 seconds
  • Level 16
    • Assassinate (Q)
      • Bonus damage reduced from 100% to 50%
      • Now also increases the Armor reduction of Ambush by 10 when the target is isolated.
      • Moved from level 7
    • Expose Armor (E)
      • Removed.
  • Level 20
    • Nightslayer (D)
      • Removed.
    • Rupture (E)
      • Damage bonus now stacks immediately to 100%, instead of stacking up to 30%.
      • Moved from level 16
    • Elusiveness (D)
      • Moved from Level 13
      • Movement Speed bonus increased from 10% to 20%

  LEVEL (TIER)	Valeera Talents
  1 (1)	(!) Vigor (Passive)	Subtlety (D)	Combat Readiness (Passive)	Crippling Poison (Active)
  4 (2)	Relentless Strikes (Q)	Hemorrhage (E)	Initiative (D)	Wound Poison (Active)
  7 (3)	Mutilate (Q)	(!) Fatal Finesse (W)	Slice and Dice (E)
  10 (4)	Smoke Bomb (R)	Cloak of Shadows (R)	—	—
  13 (5)	Death from Above (Q)	Blind (W)	Strangle (E)
  16 (6)	Seal Fate (Q)	Assassinate (Q)	Thistle Tea (Active)
  20 (7)	Adrenaline Rush (R)	Enveloping Shadows (R)	Rupture (E)	Elusiveness (D)

  • (!) indicates a Questing Talent.
  • Italic text indicates a NEW Talent.
  • Underlined text indicates a MOVED Talent.

• Abilities

  • Vanish (D)
    • Movement Speed increased from 10% to 20%
  • Ambush (Q)
    • If Valeera is Vanished for 3 seconds, this ability has 5 range and teleports Valeera behind her target.
    • Damage reduced from 180 to 130
    • Now also reduces enemy Armor by 10 for 4 seconds
  • Cheap Shot (W)
    • Stun duration reduced from 1.25 to .75 seconds
    • Now Blinds the target for 2 seconds after the stun effect ends
    • If Valeera is Vanished for 3 seconds, this ability has 5 range and teleports Valeera behind her target
  • Garrote (E)
    • Silence duration increased from 2.25 to 2.75 seconds
    • If Valeera is Vanished for 3 seconds, this ability has 5 range and teleports Valeera behind her target

  Talents

  • Level 1
    • Subtlety (D)
      • Adjusted functionality:
        • Now triggers when Valeera teleports to her target with Ambush, Cheap Shot, and Garrote.
      • Energy return reduced from 10 to 8 per second.
    • Crippling Poison (Active)
      • Slow duration reduced from 5 to 4 seconds.
      • Valeera's poison is no longer removed after the first damaging Ability, but instead is applied by all Valeera's Abilities for 4 seconds. This duration does not start until Valeera damages her first enemy.
    • Combat Readiness (Passive)
      • Physical Armor increased from 50 to 60
  • Level 4
    • Wound Poison (Active)
      • Healing reduction duration decreased from 5 to 4 seconds
      • Valeera's poison is no longer removed after the first damaging Ability, but instead is applied by all Valeera's Abilities for 4 seconds. This duration does not start until Valeera damages her first enemy
    • Hemorrhage (E)
      • Bonus damage to targets affected by Garrote increased from 25 to 50%
  • Level 7
    • Slice and Dice (E)
      • Valeera's Basic Attacks now restore 2 Energy.
  • Level 13
    • Death from Above (Q)
      • New functionality:
        • Ambush reduces the cooldown of Vanish by 4 seconds.
    • Blind (W)
      • Now increases the duration of Cheap Shot's Blind from 2 to 4 seconds.
    • Strangle (E)
      • Spell Power reduction increased from 25% to 40%
      • Duration reduced from 7 to 6 seconds
  • Level 16
    • Assassinate (Q)
      • Bonus damage reduced from 100% to 50%
      • Now also increases the Armor reduction of Ambush by 10 when the target is isolated.
      • Moved from level 7
    • Expose Armor (E)
      • Removed.
  • Level 20
    • Nightslayer (D)
      • Removed.
    • Rupture (E)
      • Damage bonus now stacks immediately to 100%, instead of stacking up to 30%.
      • Moved from level 16
    • Elusiveness (D)
      • Moved from Level 13
      • Movement Speed bonus increased from 10% to 20%

  LEVEL (TIER)	Valeera Talents
  1 (1)	(!) Vigor (Passive)	Subtlety (D)	Combat Readiness (Passive)	Crippling Poison (Active)
  4 (2)	Relentless Strikes (Q)	Hemorrhage (E)	Initiative (D)	Wound Poison (Active)
  7 (3)	Mutilate (Q)	(!) Fatal Finesse (W)	Slice and Dice (E)
  10 (4)	Smoke Bomb (R)	Cloak of Shadows (R)	—	—
  13 (5)	Death from Above (Q)	Blind (W)	Strangle (E)
  16 (6)	Seal Fate (Q)	Assassinate (Q)	Thistle Tea (Active)
  20 (7)	Adrenaline Rush (R)	Enveloping Shadows (R)	Rupture (E)	Elusiveness (D)

  • (!) indicates a Questing Talent.
  • Italic text indicates a NEW Talent.
  • Underlined text indicates a MOVED Talent.

Updates

Abilities

• Vanish (D)
  • Movement Speed increased from 10% to 20%
• Ambush (Q)
  • If Valeera is Vanished for 3 seconds, this ability has 5 range and teleports Valeera behind her target.
  • Damage reduced from 180 to 130
  • Now also reduces enemy Armor by 10 for 4 seconds
• Cheap Shot (W)
  • Stun duration reduced from 1.25 to .75 seconds
  • Now Blinds the target for 2 seconds after the stun effect ends
  • If Valeera is Vanished for 3 seconds, this ability has 5 range and teleports Valeera behind her target
• Garrote (E)
  • Silence duration increased from 2.25 to 2.75 seconds
  • If Valeera is Vanished for 3 seconds, this ability has 5 range and teleports Valeera behind her target

Talents

• Level 1
  • Subtlety (D)
    • Adjusted functionality:
      • Now triggers when Valeera teleports to her target with Ambush, Cheap Shot, and Garrote.
    • Energy return reduced from 10 to 8 per second.
  • Crippling Poison (Active)
    • Slow duration reduced from 5 to 4 seconds.
    • Valeera's poison is no longer removed after the first damaging Ability, but instead is applied by all Valeera's Abilities for 4 seconds. This duration does not start until Valeera damages her first enemy.
  • Combat Readiness (Passive)
    • Physical Armor increased from 50 to 60
• Level 4
  • Wound Poison (Active)
    • Healing reduction duration decreased from 5 to 4 seconds
    • Valeera's poison is no longer removed after the first damaging Ability, but instead is applied by all Valeera's Abilities for 4 seconds. This duration does not start until Valeera damages her first enemy
  • Hemorrhage (E)
    • Bonus damage to targets affected by Garrote increased from 25 to 50%
• Level 7
  • Slice and Dice (E)
    • Valeera's Basic Attacks now restore 2 Energy.
• Level 13
  • Death from Above (Q)
    • New functionality:
      • Ambush reduces the cooldown of Vanish by 4 seconds.
  • Blind (W)
    • Now increases the duration of Cheap Shot's Blind from 2 to 4 seconds.
  • Strangle (E)
    • Spell Power reduction increased from 25% to 40%
    • Duration reduced from 7 to 6 seconds
• Level 16
  • Assassinate (Q)
    • Bonus damage reduced from 100% to 50%
    • Now also increases the Armor reduction of Ambush by 10 when the target is isolated.
    • Moved from level 7
  • Expose Armor (E)
    • Removed.
• Level 20
  • Nightslayer (D)
    • Removed.
  • Rupture (E)
    • Damage bonus now stacks immediately to 100%, instead of stacking up to 30%.
    • Moved from level 16
  • Elusiveness (D)
    • Moved from Level 13
    • Movement Speed bonus increased from 10% to 20%

• (!) indicates a Questing Talent.
• Italic text indicates a NEW Talent.
• Underlined text indicates a MOVED Talent.

Bug Fixes

• Enemy Heroes will no longer hear when Valeera primes her activated Talents, like Crippling Poison, when she is Stealthed.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Valeera to break Stealth if Sinister Strike was cast immediately before attempting to Vanish.

Bug Fixes

• Wound Poison's reduced Healing debuff will now correctly display a red plus symbol next to the affected Hero's status bar rather than a purple plus overhead.
• Will no longer be revealed when entering the Haunted Mines or using the Tunnel on Towers of Doom.

Updates

Stats

• Basic Attack damage increased from 75 to 79
• Health increased from 1950 to 2047
• Health Regeneration reduced from 4.54 to 4.26

Abilities

• Ambush (Q)
  • Energy cost reduced from 20 to 10
• Garrote (E)
  • Silence duration increased from 2 to 2.25 seconds
  • Impact damage reduced from 75 to 20
  • Damage over time reduced from 175 to 140
• Cloak of Shadows (R)
  • Cooldown reduced from 18 to 15
  • Duration increased from 1 to 1.5 seconds

Talents

• Level 1
  • Crippling Poison (Active)
    • Duration increased from 3 to 5 seconds
• Level 4
  • Wound Poison (Active)
    • Duration increased from 4 to 5 seconds
• Level 7
  • Assassinate (Q)
    • Distance between enemy Heroes reduced from 5 to 4 range
• Level 13
  • Death From Above (Q)
    • Teleport range increased from 5 to 7
• Level 16
  • Rupture (E)
    • Added functionality: Basic Attacks against Garroted enemies also increases the damage over time effect by 5%, stacking up to 30%

Developer Comment: We feel that Valeera needs a small increase in power to help her overall win rate, but are hoping to do so without adding much more burst damage or disabling effects. The changes to her Health and Basic Attack damage should give her a boost, while the changes to Talents, Ambush, and Garrote should create harder decision making for the Rogue. While we were looking at her Health Regeneration, we noticed that it was actually higher than intended (most Heroes take 480 seconds to regenerate their entire Health pool), which is why we reduced it slightly. We've increased the duration on Cloak of Shadows so that predicting Abilities is easier to accomplish. We want it to be a rewarding, high skill-cap ability, but with the old tuning it struggled to compete with Smoke Bomb.

Bug Fixes

• Rupture and Hemorrhage no longer benefit from another Valeera's Garrote.

Releases

Valeera, Shadow of the Uncrowned, has been added to the Nexus and is now available for play! Read on for a brief overview of his Abilities.

Trait

• Vanish (D)
  • Valeera vanishes from sight, becoming Stealthed and increasing her Movement Speed by 10%. For the first second, she is Unrevealable and can pass through other units.
  • Using Vanish grants Valeera an alternate set of Abilities that she can use while Stealthed.

Basic Abilities

• Sinister Strike (Q)
  • Dash forward, dealing damage to all enemies in a line. If Sinister Strike hits an enemy Hero, she stops dashing immediately and the cooldown is reduced to 1 second.
  • Awards 1 Combo Point.
• Blade Flurry (W)
  • Deal damage in an area around Valeera.
  • Awards 1 Combo Point per enemy Hero hit.
• Eviscerate (E)
  • Consume all stored Combo Points to Eviscerate an enemy, dealing increased damage per Combo Point spent. Valeera can store a maximum of 3 Combo Points.

Vanish Abilities

• Ambush (Q)
  • Ambush a target, instantly dealing damage to them.
  • Awards 1 Combo Point.
• Cheap Shot (W)
  • Deal a small amount of damage to an enemy and stun them for 1.5 seconds.
  • Awards 1 Combo Point.
• Garrote (E)
  • Garrote an enemy, instantly dealing a small amount of damage to the target, as well as a larger amount of bonus damage over 7 seconds, and Silencing them for 2 seconds.
  • Awards 1 Combo Point.

Heroic Abilities

• Smoke Bomb (R)
  • Create a cloud of smoke. While in the smoke, Valeera is Unrevealable, can pass through other units, and gains 25 Armor, reducing damage taken by 25%. Valeera can continue to attack and use Abilities without being revealed. Lasts 5 seconds.
  • Using this Ability does not break Vanish.
• Cloak of Shadows (R)
  • Valeera is enveloped in a Cloak of Shadows, which immediately removes all damage over time effects from her. For 1 second, she becomes Unstoppable and gains 75 Spell Armor, reducing Ability damage taken by 75%.
  • Using this Ability does not break Vanish.