Valve has shipped out a new update to Dota 2 on November 12th, and the patch aims to curb the dominance of Kez in pubs as his win rates were surging across all brackets in the game.
Despite having a unique kit filled with high burst damage and utility, Kez suffered from an extremely low win rate at the time of its release, prompting Valve to issue multiple buffs to the hero within a day of his introduction to the Dota 2 roster.
Shortly afterward, Kez became an extremely strong pick in pubs, with his win rate nearing 50% despite the hero still having no facets.
In the latest Dota 2 update, the devs have deployed some much-needed adjustments to Kez by nerfling his kit and reducing his overall damage output.
Dota 2 November 12 Patch Notes
Without further ado, let’s take a look at the detailed patch notes of the November 12 Dota 2 update, as confirmed by Valve:
Kez
- Kazurai Katana: Damage Per Second reduced from 7/8/9/10% to 6/7/8/9%
- Falcon Rush: Katana base attack rate increased from 1.3/1.2/1.1/1.0 to 1.4/1.3/1.2/1.1
- Falcon Rush: Duration decreased from 7 to 3/4/5/6
- Raptor Dance: Increased cooldown from 40/32/24 to 40/35/30
- Raven’s Veil: Increased cooldown from 40/32/24 to 40/35/30
- Grappling Claw: Fixed chain not being broken when linked to a target out of range
Shodo Sai: Fixed some Mark interactions dealing more damage than intended - Grappling Claw: Fixed it ignoring evasion
- Echo Slash: Fixed it ignoring evasion
- Echo Slash: Fixed it killing couriers
- Echo Slash: Fixed it allowing Kez to escape leashes and movement prevention abilities (i.e. Disruptor Kinetic Field )
Over the days since release of Crownfall Act IV and Kez, we’ve also fixed several issues:
- Fixed a client crash with Moon Shard
- Fixed a server crash involving Ogre Seal Totem and Lone Druid
- Fixed various issues with Quick Buy
- Fixed Shen and Dragonus arcana style unlocks not applying to respective cursor icon packs
- Fixed Juggernaut Primal Prowl style unlock
- Fixed various crashes with Act IV encounters
- When winning an Ability Draft game, instead of granting 3 tokens and 2 scrap, grant 2 tokens and 8 scrap.
- Spleen Sweeper: added a scoring section on the main menu to show scoring information. Fixed score summary not showing after beating all 5 stages.
- Spleen Sweeper: fixed last stage not granting a completion bonus of 4000 points
- Castle Carnage: fixed Tunneler particle missing model and issues with grenade bouncing
- Castle Carnage: fixed phantom terrain blocking some shots
- Spoon Man: fixed an issue where the mouse cursor would stay invisible after a popup
- Spoon Man: fixed a crash related to pressing a button before the game is loaded
- Spoon Man: fixed being able to get stuck inside a block
- Nest of Thorns: fixed an issue where rewards could fail to be granted
- Nest of Thorns: fixed an issue where gold amount could fail to be saved
- Fixed Blind Queensguard (strange vendor) encounter not working
- Fixed Act IV sprays not showing up in Chat Wheel
- Crownfall map: clicking on the tokens-received gift alert attached to the inventory now opens the associated encounter
- Fixed an issue where playing or replaying the Kez debut animation could result in a black screen
- Fixed new Crownfall trophies not showing up
