Changelogs
Version History[]
Version
Description
- Increased base armor from -1 to 0.
- Reduced Berserker's Call armor bonus from 25 on each level to 16/19/22/25.
- Culling Blade
- No longer grants 20/30/40 kill attack speed bonus.
- Now grants 20/25/30 kill armor bonus. [?]
- Talents:
- LVL 10
- Increased Berserker's Call radius from 300 to 315.
- Culling Blade
- Increased damage from 250/350/450 to 275/375/475.
- UIncreased current health kill threshold from 250/350/450 to 275/375/475.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+8 Berserker's Call armor increased to +10.
- Reduced agility gain from 2 to 1.7.
- Increased Counter Helix damage from 80/110/140/170 to 95/120/145/170.
- Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
- Reduced Berserker's Call duration from 2/2.4/2.8/3.2 to 1.8/2.2/2.6/3.
- ReworkedCounter Helix.
- UNow uses the regular cooldown system, instead of an internal cooldown. [?]
- Changedfrom a 17%/18%/19%/20% proc chance to an ensured proc on every 7th/6th/5th/4th attack.
- Rescaled damage from 60/100/140/180 to 80/110/140/170.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Counter Helix
- No longer increases proc chance by 10%.
- Reduces cooldown from 0.3 to 0.
- Counter Helix
- Increased base movement speed from 310 to 315.
- Increased Counter Helix radius from 275 to 300.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+10% movement speed bonus per active Battle Hunger debuff increased to +12%.
- Increased base attack damage from 27‒31 to 30‒34.
- Talents:
- LVL 15+10% Battle Hunger movement speed slow increased to +12%.
- Reduced strength gain from 3.4 to 2.8.
- Reduced agility gain from 2.2 to 2.
- Reduced Berserker's Call cast point from 0.4 to 0.3.
- Increased Battle Hunger movement speed slow from 8%/17%/26%/35% to 11%/19%/27%/35%.
- Increased Culling Blade cast range from 150 to 175.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Counter Helix
- Increased max stacks from 5 to 6.
- Reduced incoming attack damage reduction from 20% to 15%.
- Counter Helix
- Talents:
- LVL 10+1.5 mana regeneration ➜ +8 Berserker's Call armor.LVL 10
- Reduced base health regeneration from 2.75 to 2.5.
- Reduced Berserker's Call armor bonus from 30 to 25.
- Battle Hunger
- No longer grants self 12%/13%/14%/15% movement speed bonus per debuffed enemy.
- Now only slows enemies when they are not facing Axe.
- Rescaled movement speed slow from 12%/13%/14%/15% to 8%/17%/26%/35%.
- Changeddamage type from Magical to Physical.
- Changeddamage per second from a fixed 16/24/32/40 to
10/15/20/25 + TotalArmor
.
- Culling Blade
- Changeddamage type from Magical to Pure.
- Damage now pierces spell immunity.
- Now grants 1/1.5/2 permanent armor bonus for successfully killing an enemy.
- UThe ability damage and the kill health threshold now use the same value, instead of being separate.
- UNow also counts as a successful kill if the target dies even if their current health is higher than the threshold. [?]
- Increased damage from 150/250/300 to 250/350/450. [?]
- Reduced movement speed bonus from 30% on each level to 20%/25%/30%.
- Rescaled attack speed bonus from 30 on each level to 20/30/40.
- Rescaled mana cost from 60/120/180 to 100/125/150.
- Increased cooldown from 75/65/55 to 100/85/70.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- ChangedCounter Helix ability debuff operations. [?]
- OldReduces the debuffed enemies' total outgoing attack damage reduction per debuff.
- NewGrants self incoming damage reduction against attacks of enemies debuffed.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+12% magic resistance ➜ +20 movement speed.LVL 10+25 movement speed ➜ +10% Battle Hunger movement speed slow.LVL 20LVL 20LVL 25
- Battle Hunger
- Increased enemy movement speed slow from 12% on each level to 12%/13%/14%/15%.
- Increased self movement speed bonus per affected enemy from 12% on each level to 12%/13%/14%/15%.
- ReworkedAghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Counter Helix
- Increases proc chance from 5% to 10%.
- Old
- The ability can now proc on normal attacks with the same proc chance while ignoring its internal cooldown.
- Grants 35 attack speed bonus.
- New
- Now applies a 6-second 20% enemy total outgoing attack damage reduction debuff on proc.
- Stacks additively up to 5 times.
- Counter Helix
- Talents:
- LVL 10LVL 15+300 health ➜ +30 Counter Helix damage.
- Increased Berserker's Call cooldown from 16/14/12/10 to 17/15/13/11.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Reduced Counter Helix proc chance bonus from 10% to 5%.
- Reduced attack point from 0.5 to 0.4.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Increased Berserker's Call cooldown reduction from 2 to 3.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Now also increases Counter Helix proc chance by 10%.
- AddedAttribute Bonus.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+1.75 mana regeneration ➜ +9 strength.LVL 10+25 attack speed ➜ +1.5 mana regeneration.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Increased Counter Helix passive attack speed bonus from 25 to 35.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Increased Counter Helix passive attack speed bonus from 20 to 25.
- Rescaled Battle Hunger cast range from 750 on each level to 700/775/850/925.
- ReworkedAghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- OldBattle Hunger
- Turns into a 400-radius area-targeting ability.
- Applies a 30% enemy outgoing damage manipulation debuff on affected units.
- New
- Berserker's Call
- Now applies Battle Hunger on affected enemies.
- Reduces cooldown by 2.
- Battle Hunger
- Now reduces affected enemy heroes' armor by 7.
- Grants self 7 armor bonus per affected enemy hero.
- Armor reduction and bonus values are halved for creeps.
- Berserker's Call
- AddedAghanim's Shard upgrade for Axe:
- Counter Helix
- The ability can now proc on normal attacks with the same proc chance while ignoring its internal cooldown.
- Grants 20 attack speed bonus.
- Counter Helix
- Talents:
- LVL 10+20 movement speed ➜ +1.75 mana regeneration.LVL 15LVL 15+2 mana regeneration ➜ ➜ +25 movement speed.
- Increased Culling Blade kill health threshold from 250/325/400 to 250/350/450.
- Talents:
- LVL 10LVL 15LVL 20LVL 20
- Reduced strength gain from 3.6 to 3.4.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+30 attack speed ➜ +20 movement speed.LVL 10+6 strength increased to +8.LVL 15+25 movement speed ➜ +35 attack speed.LVL 15+2.5 mana regeneration reduced to +2.LVL 25+80 Berserker's Call radius increased to +100.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+40 attack speed reduced to +30.LVL 10+8 strength reduced to +6.LVL 15+30 movement speed reduced to +25.LVL 15+3 mana regeneration reduced to +2.5.LVL 20+25 health regeneration reduced to +20.LVL 25+120 Battle Hunger damage per second reduced to +100.LVL 25+100 Berserker's Call radius reduced to +80.
- Increased strength gain from 3.4 to 3.6.
- Increased base movement speed from 305 to 310.
- Counter Helix
- Reduced cooldown from 0.45/0.4/0.35/0.3 to 0.3 on each level.
- Reduced proc chance from 20% on each level to 17%/18%/19%/20%.
- Increased base movement speed from 295 to 305.
- Increased base attack damage from 24‒28 to 27‒31.
- Increased base armor from -2 to -1.
- Battle Hunger now grants half the movement speed bonus when cast on non-hero units, instead of always granting the full value.
- ReworkedAghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Old
- Battle Hunger now applies a 30% enemy outgoing damage manipulation debuff.
- Culling Blade now applies Battle Hunger on enemies within a 700 radius upon successfully culling an enemy.
- NewBattle Hunger
- Turns into a 400-radius area-targeting ability.
- Applies a 30% enemy outgoing damage manipulation debuff on affected units.
- Increased base movement speed from 290 to 295.
- Reduced Counter Helix damage from 75/110/145/180 to 60/100/140/180.
- Talents:
- LVL 15+4 mana regeneration reduced to +3.
- Reduced base health regeneration from 4.25 to 2.75.
- Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
- Reduced Berserker's Call armor bonus from 40 to 30.
- Talents:
- LVL 15+40 movement speed reduced to +30.LVL 15+3 mana regeneration increased to +4.LVL 20+20 health regeneration increased to +25.
- Increased base movement speed from 285 to 290.
- Rescaled Battle Hunger mana cost from 75 on each level to 50/60/70/80.
- Reduced base armor from -1 to -2.
- Reduced base movement speed from 290 to 285.
- Increased Battle Hunger duration from 10 to 12.
- Talents:
- LVL 15+30 movement speed increased to +40.
- Increased base health regeneration from 2.75 to 4.25.
- Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+3 mana regeneration ➜ +40 attack speed.LVL 10+6 strength increased to +8.LVL 15+250 health ➜ +30 movement speed.LVL 15+75 attack damage ➜ +3 mana regeneration.LVL 20LVL 20+25 health regeneration reduced to +20.LVL 25+100 Battle Hunger damage per second increased to +120.LVL 25+15 armor ➜ +100 Berserker's Call radius.
- Increased strength gain from 2.5 to 2.8.
- Reduced base health regeneration from 3 to 2.75.
- Increased base mana from 50 to 75.
- ReworkedAghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- OldCulling Blade
- Increases kill health threshold to 300/425/550.
- Increases kill speed duration to 10.
- Reduces cooldown to 6.
- New
- Battle Hunger now applies a 30% enemy outgoing damage manipulation debuff.
- Culling Blade now applies Battle Hunger on enemies within a 700 radius upon successfully culling an enemy.
- Talents:
- LVL 20+30 movement speed increased to +35.
- RemovedAttribute Bonus.
- addedTalents:
- Reduced Counter Helix damage from 90/120/150/180 to 75/110/145/180.
- Increased base health from 180 to 200.
- Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
- Increased attack range from 128 to 150.
- Counter Helix
- Changeddamage type from Physical to Pure.
- Reduced damage from 100/135/170/205 to 90/120/150/180.
- Berserker's Call
- No longer ignores ancient creeps, Roshan and creep-heroes.
- Increased cast point from 0.3 to 0.4.
- Counter Helix
- Is no longer reduced by Damage Block.
- Now triggers when attacks land rather than attack start.
- Culling Blade
- Reduced movement speed bonus from 40% to 30%.
- Reduced attack speed bonus from 40 to 30.
- Berserker's Call
- No longer affects invulnerable units.
- Ability debuff on enemies is now removed when Axe dies.
- Reduced Culling Blade kill health threshold from 250/350/450 to 250/325/400.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Culling Blade kill health threshold from 300/450/625 to 300/425/550.
- Battle Hunger
- Reduced duration from 10/12/14/16 to 10 on each level.
- Increased damage from 15/20/25/30 to 16/24/32/40.
- Reduced cast range from 900 to 750.
- Increased enemy movement speed slow from 10% to 12%.
- Increased self movement speed bonus per affected enemy from 10% to 12%.
- Reduced mana cost from 75/85/95/105 to 75 on each level.
- Increased Counter Helix proc chance from 17% to 20%.
- Culling Blade is now blocked by Spellblock.
- Counter Helix now uses pseudo-random distribution.
- Increased base health regeneration from 2 to 3.
- Berserker's Call
- Increased duration from 1.5/2/2.5/3 to 2/2.4/2.8/3.2.
- Increased cooldown from 10 on each level to 16/14/12/10.
- Increased Berserker's Call radius from 275 to 300.
- Battle Hunger
- Reduced duration from 10/13/16/19 to 10/12/14/16.
- Reduced damage from 15/21/27/33 to 15/20/25/30.
- Increased enemy movement speed slow from 8% to 10%.
- Increased self movement speed bonus per affected enemy from 8% to 10%.
- Is now dispellable.
- Counter Helix
- Reduced cooldown from 0.55/0.5/0.45/0.4 to 0.45/0.4/0.35/0.3.
- Now affects Siege Creep.
- Culling Blade
- No longer goes on cooldown if it successfully kills a hero.
- Reduced mana cost from 120/160/200 to 60/120/180.
- Reduced kill health threshold from 300/450/625 to 250/350/450
- Increased kill speed bonus from 25% to 40%
- Increased kill speed bonus radius from 600 to 900.
- The 40% speed bonus now applies to attack speed as well.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Culling Blade
- Now also increases the kill speed bonus duration to 10.
- Now also increases the kill health threshold to 300/450/625.
- Culling Blade
- Reduced Counter Helix cooldown from 0.65/0.6/0.55/0.5 to 0.55/0.5/0.45/0.4.
- Increased Berserker's Call armor bonus from 30 to 40.
- Battle Hunger
- Reduced enemy movement speed slow from 10% to 8%.
- Increased self movement speed bonus per affected enemy from 4% to 8%.
- Increased Counter Helix damage from 100/130/160/190 to 100/135/170/205.
- Increased base intelligence from 14 to 18.
- Increased base health regeneration from 1.25 to 2.
- Battle Hunger now grants a 4% self movement speed bonus per affected enemy.
- Reduced Berserker's Call cooldown from 14 to 10.
- Counter Helix
- Increased damage from 100/125/150/175 to 100/130/160/190.
- Reduced cooldown from 0.7/0.65/0.6/0.55 to 0.65/0.6/0.55/0.5.
- Culling Blade now applies a 25% movement speed bonus for 6 seconds to all allied units within 600 radius centered around Axe if Culling Blade successfully kills an enemy below the kill health threshold.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Culling Blade cooldown from 10 to 6.
- Increased base health regeneration from 1 to 1.25.
- ChangedAxe hull type from
DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL
toDOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO
. [?]- Increased collision size from 18 to 27.
- Increased bound radius from 12 to 24.
- Fixed ability interactions between Culling Blade and Ethereal sources.
- ChangedAxe hull type from
DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO
toDOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL
.- Reduced collision size from 27 to 18.
- Reduced bound radius from 24 to 12.
- Increased base health regeneration from 0.25 to 1.
- Increased attack range from 125 to 128.
- Updated Berserker's Call ability tooltips.
- Increased Battle Hunger damage from 15/17/25/33 to 15/21/27/33.
- Reduced Battle Hunger cooldown from 25/20/15/10 to 20/15/10/5.
- Addednew Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
- Axe has the
DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO
hull size. [?] - This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.
- Axe has the
- Increased Berserker's Call armor bonus from 5/10/15/20 to 30 on each level.
- Increased Battle Hunger movement speed slow from 8% to 10%.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Culling Blade cooldown from 15 to 10.
- Battle Hunger now slows movement speed by 8% for its duration or until the target kills another unit.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Culling Blade cooldown from 20 to 15.
- AddedAghanim's Scepter upgrade for Axe:
- Reduces Culling Blade cooldown to 20.
- Battle Hunger
- Reduced duration from 10/15/20/25 to 10/13/16/19.
- Increased damage from 15/15/20/25 to 15/17/25/33. [?]
- Reduced base armor from 0 to -1.
- Battle Hunger is now properly blocked by Spellblock.
- Rescaled Counter Helix cooldown from 0.6 on each level to 0.7/0.65/0.60/0.55.
- Fixed being able to drop items while affected by Berserker's Call. [?]
- Fixed Battle Hunger ability tooltips.
- Fixed the following ability interactions with Berserker's Call:
- Fixed not affecting sleeping neutral creeps.
- Song of the Siren
- Nightmare
- Shackles
- Increased Counter Helix proc chance from 15% to 17%.
- Fixed Battle Hunger failing to detect when the affected unit killed a units with certain abilities.
- Fixed Battle Hunger malfunctioning when the target is affected by Gush.
- Updated Berserker's Call ability icon.
- Battle Hunger
- Reduced cooldown from 25 to 25/20/15/10.
- Reduced mana cost from 105/115/125/135 to 75/85/95/105.
- Updated Culling Blade ability animations and effects.
- Increased Berserker's Call radius from 275 to 300.
- Increased base armor from -1 to 0.
- Fixed Berserker's Call being able to get units out of Chronosphere.
- Fixed ability interaction between Culling Blade and Dispersion.
- Berserker's Call
- No longer affects ancient creeps and Roshan. [?]
- Fixed various interactions with the following abilities:
- Song of the Siren.
- Cyclone sources.
- Fixed ability interactions between Berserker's Call and Shackles.
- Berserker's Call
- Fixed ability memory leak issues.
- Increased radius from 100/150/200/250 275 on each level.
- Increased duration from 3.5 on each level to 1.5/2/2.5/3.
- Fixed Battle Hunger memory leak issues.
- Counter Helix
- Fixed ability memory leak issues.
- Changeddamage type from Universal to Physical.
- Reduced damage from 175 to 100/125/150/175.
- Rescaled proc chance from 5%/10%/15%/20% to 15% on each level.
- Culling Blade
- Reduced damage from 200/300/400 to 150/250/300.
- Increased kill health threshold from 290/400/550 to 300/450/625.
- Fixed ability interactions between Scattershot and Battle Hunger.
- Reduced Berserker's Call radius from 250/300/350/400 to 100/150/200/250.
- Counter Helix
- Increased cooldown from 0.25 to 0.6.
- No longer damages wards.
- Fixed Counter Helix bug.
- Fixed Berserker's Call memory leak issues.
- Counter Helix
- Fixed an issue where its chances to proc got worse if many units attacked Axe.
- Fixed permanently spinning until the hero is ordered to move. [?]
- Fixed some memory leak issues.
- Culling Blade
- Fixed ability interaction with Blade Mail.
- Fixed ability memory leak issues.
- Counter Helix no longer has a chance to trigger on attacks from wards.
- Changedprimary attribute from agility to strength.
- Increased Battle Hunger cast range from 650 to 900.
- Battle Hunger
- Increased damage from 10/15/20/25 to 15/15/20/25.
- Reduced duration from 20/25/30/35 to 10/15/20/25.
- Reduced cooldown from 30 to 25.
- Increased mana cost from 75/90/105/120 to 105/115/125/135.
- Counter Helix
- No longer whirls the triggering unit around Axe when it was in range.
- Increased damage from 150 to 175.
- Culling Blade
- Increased damage from 100/200/300 to 200/300/400.
- Increased kill health threshold from 175/290/400 to 290/400/550.
- Reduced cooldown from 75 on each level to 75/65/55.
- Increased mana cost from 95/135/175 to 120/160/200.
- Created
Patch History[]
Patch
Description
- Fixed ability interactions between the Spirit Bear and Culling Blade.
- Increased versus scale from 0.89 to 1.
- Increased loadout scale from 0.95 to 1.
- Addednew Adjectives attributes. [?]
- Axe has the following values: Bearded
1
, NicePecs1
, Red1
, Legs2
and Nose1
.
- Axe has the following values: Bearded
- RemovedJungler role from hero.
- Updated Counter Helix ability descriptions.
-
- Updated Battle Hunger ability damage type.
-
- Fixed Battle Hunger not granting its bonuses when learned.
- Updated Berserker's Call ability descriptions.
- Battle Hunger
- Updated ability modifiers.
- Updated ability descriptions.
- Fixed ability interaction between Pulverize and Taunt sources (e.g. Berserker's Call).
-
- Fixed the following abilities' interactions with taunt (i.e. Berserker's Call):
- Updated default hero model.
-
- Culling Blade
- Added new ability modifier.
- Fixed being able to cast on self and self-deny.
- Fixed ability interactions with Wraith Delay.
- Culling Blade
- Updated default loadout item icons.
- Updated subtitles.
- Updated default hero model and animations.
- Fixed typo in Berserker's Call description.
- Fixed Battle Hunger buff losing 2 stacks per creep upon the debuff expiring on them, instead of 1.
- Increased max polygon counts.
- Increased max polygon counts.
- Added a 1 second sound blocker to Battle Hunger cast sound, that prevents it from playing more than once within a 300 radius.
- Added a particle effect for Counter Helix in Ability Draft.
- Reduced the hero model scale of in the loadout and the versus screen.
- Added a morph animation set and associated compiled texture for the default model.
- Added more bones for the default model, including knee and bicep bones for the purposes of animation and attaching effects.
- Increased movement speed from 285 to 290.
- Reduced movement speed from 290 to 285.
- The first wave of side lane creeps are now immune to Berserker's Call until the waves meet.
- The textures of Axe have been updated so the metal parts look more metallic and less plastic. [?]
- Improved the normal maps on the default hero model overall.
- Fixed Culling Blade ability animations with Blood Chaser equipped.
-
- Updated default item build.
- Fixed a perma-speed bonus bug caused by refreshing Battle Hunger.
- Fixed Counter Helix being able to trigger when attacks land while Axe is dead.
- Fixed a perma-taunt bug caused by refreshing Berserker's Call.
- Added Arcane Rune responses.
- Fixed Echo Shell incorrectly applying Battle Hunger through spell immunity.
- UAdded a ▶️ shout sound to Berserker's Call which plays during the cast animation.
- Berserker's Call
- Fixed various bugs that allowed heroes to ignore the ability.
- Fixed ability not being applied to invulnerable targets within the effect radius.
- Fixed Counter Helix proccing when attacked by an ally unit.
- Culling Blade killing a target with Reaper's Scythe debuff will now correctly credit Necrophos with the kill.
-
- Fixed Berserker's Call not working when ◎ Auto-Attack After Spell option was turned off.
- Updated Dota2 workshop model and texture files.
- Updated ability icons.
- Fixed Berserker's Call bonus armor being dispellable.
- UAdded additional animations when using Force Staff.
- UAdded new voice responses.
-
- Fixed Undying Zombie being controllable after Berserker's Call ends.
- Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.
- UAdded a new teleport end animation.
- Fixed Culling Blade ending after death effects like Diabolic Edict and Epicenter.
- Added idle injured animations.
- UAdded injured and chase animations.
- Fixed Battle Hunger permanently buffing Axe if the ability was dodged by Phase Shift.
- Fixed Counter Helix doing the damage when the attack impacted rather than started.
- Fixed Berserker's Call to properly force affected invisible enemies to attack.
- Fixed Berserker's Call ability interactions with Repel/Purge.
- Fixed the following abilities' interaction with Roshan:
- Added bloody footprints to Culling Blade effect.
- Battle Hunger is no longer dispellable.
- Siege Creep does not proc and does not take damage from Counter Helix.
- Culling Blade is no longer blocked by Spellblock.
- Fixed Culling Blade to work on spell immune units.
- Fixed Counter Helix to proc on mechanical creeps (e.g. Siege Creep) correctly and deals damage based on the proficiency (i.e. Defense Classes) like it should (50%).
- Fixed Counter Helix proccing off of things it cannot hurt.
- Counter Helix will now hit spell immune targets.
- Temporarily disabled hero.
- Temporarily disabled hero.
- Berserker's Call now works properly with neutral creeps.
- Fixed Berserker's Call working on towers.
- Fixed Counter Helix triggering off of tower attacks.