General

• Reduced flicker present on some skins when Dragon form is about to end.

General

• Fixed an issue where allies and enemies could not see Fafnir's gold pouch glow FX.

General

• It's time to get greedy again! Although Fafnir makes appearances at the SPL level from time to time, he is rather unsuccessful in most applications. Fafnir's passive is being buffed to ensure he feels the power from his early game gold hoarding. We are also adding a large mana heal to his ultimate. In order to get the most out of his Dragon form, Fafnir must fire many abilities after transforming. Now he will have better capacity to do this.

Endless Greed

• Increased Maximum Bonus Protections from 20 to 25.
• Note that This passive was nerfed at some point in the past, but we could not find any proper documentation for this change. While initially released at 30 it was adjusted to 20 sometime after. We apologize for the lack of communication on this.

General

• In his greed, Fafnir has found himself in a top spot. High level teams looking to secure the gold furies and other objective heavily value Coerce. At all other levels of player he struggles both in popularity and performance. Cursed Strength is his primary setup ability and it isn't an easy one. Shifting these strengths should help him see more regular success without harming his core identity as an offensive Guardian with strong objective control.

Cursed Strength

• Increased width of this ability from 6 to 7.

Coerce

• Decreased Attack Speed Buff from 15/20/25/30/35% 10/15/20/25/30%.
• Decreased Bonus Damage from 5/10/15/20/25% to 4/8/12/16/20%.

General

• Fafnir continues to struggle in Season 6. This god has high potential to dominate the pro league, as we have seen in the past, so we take a careful approach toward buffing him.
• Fafnir has a lot of utility and lockdown, but he struggles heavily in the early laning phase. Over the years he was nerfed multiple times, and now we plan to revert one of those nerfs.
• With Fafnir's overall utility being much lower than at launch time, his base damage on his primary clear ability can be raised back to its original intended amount.

Cursed Strength

• Increased Base Damage from 80/125/170/215/260 to 100/140/180/220/260.

General

• The dwarf turned dragon will be even more terrifying in his dragon form in 6.1. Fafnir has strong evasion and lockdown, yet is still suffering in the meta.
• Fafnir is a god designed around big plays during his ultimate, so we will take this opportunity to make that feel even more impactful. His Dragon Breath basic attack will deal more damage, especially at later stages in the game, giving this aggressive Guardian's team more kill potential.

Draconic Corruption

• Increased Dragon Breath from 20/25/30/35/40 to 20/30/40/50/60.

General

• This grumpy dwarf is getting a few small buffs to help him play more smoothly. Fafnir's ultimate requires him to use all of his abilities to get the most out of the ability, which can cause big mana problems for him. We are decreasing the mana cost of two of his abilities to mitigate this. He also had slightly lower base HP5 than the rest of the guardian pool so that is being brought up to a more normal level.
• Increased Base HP5 from 5 to 7.

Underhanded Tactics

• Decreased Mana Cost from 70 to 60.

Draconic Corruption

• Decreased Mana Cost from 100 to 70.

General

• We are partially reverting a previous adjustment to Fafnir. In 5.1 we adjusted the amount of control he brought to the table, while leaving his ability to survive intact. From the pro feedback we received, it did not have the desired impact. The control nerf made him difficult to use in the early and mid game, while his survivability late was still an issue. We are bringing back some of the control from Cursed Strength as he ranks the ability up while reducing the healing Fafnir receives, especially in the later stages of the game.

[ Cursed Strength

• Increased stun from 1s to 1/1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4s.

Coerce

• Decreased Self Healing from 50/75/100/125/150 to 50/70/90/110/130.
• Decreased Self Healing Scaling from 40% to 30% of your magical power.

General

• Fafnir has proven himself to be a strong Guardian through multiple aspects. He can stim his team mates, he has multiple evasive abilities, and he can also lockdown enemies. Lockdown is often frustrating and happens to be a part of Fafnir's kit that is more scalable without making core design changes. Cursed Strength in both Dwarf and Dragon form are having their Stun duration reduced by .5, lowering the amount of time Fafnir can lock down a single player.

Cursed Strength

• Decreased Stun Duration from 1.5s to 1s in both Dwarf and Dragon form.

Coerce

• Increased Cooldown from 15s to 16s.
• Changed Attack Speed buff from 10/20/30/40/50% to 15/20/25/30/35%.

General

• Cursed Strength is Fafnir's golden ticket Ability, giving him strong Crowd Control, a powerful Slow and Protection Shred in Dragon-form.
• We are reducing the Slow from a maximum of 40% to 20% at all ranks. This should lessen his ability to control the enemy team during the later stages of the game, instead relying on his other late game team-oriented tools like Coerce to get the job done.

Cursed Strength

• Changed Slow from 20/25/30/35/40% -> 20% at all ranks.

Cursed Strength

• Decreased Damage from 100/140/180/220/260 -> 80/125/170/215/260.

Coerce

• Decreased Self Heal from 50/80/110/140/170 -> 50/75/100/125/150.
• Increased Mana Cost from 50 -> 50/55/60/65/70.

General

• Fixed an issue where Fafnir could recall during the transformation back to Dwarf form.

General

• Fixed Griffindwarf Fafnir in Griffin form not having his laugh audio.

General

• Fafnir has certainly grown into his role as a Guardian since his release. As we have seen more and more of what he is capable of, a few things stand out as being a bit too potent. Endless Greed was often providing too much gold and protections making Fafnir more difficult to defeat than most other Guardians. Additionally, Coerce is too powerful of an ability for objective clear, teamfight damage, and self healing for its cooldown time.
• By reducing the effectiveness of Endless Greed and Coerce, we expect Fafnir to be in a more reasonable spot.
• Fixed an issue where Fafnir's passive glow would persist after death.

Endless Greed

• Bonus gold per instance reduced from 4 -> 2s.

Coerce

• Increased cooldown from 13s -> 15s.

General

• Fafnir has excelled as a Guardian who can provide a lot of utility to his team through abilities like Cursed Strength and Coerce. We like this about him but felt that Cursed Strength was over performing at its job of shredding through tankier enemies.

Cursed Strength

• Decreased Dragon Protection Debuff from 20/25/30/35/40% -> 20% at all ranks.

Cursed Strength

• Fixed an issue where the rank 5 for this ability would not apply a slow.

General

• Fixed his Legendary and Diamond skins showing the incorrect card art.

Underhanded Tactics

• Fixed an issue where this ability would stun improperly.
• This ability should now properly only hit the closest god.

General

• Fafnir was slightly underpowered launch, and will be getting some buffs to improve his abilities. Cursed Strength is designed to be a high risk high reward skill shot, so the Stun duration is being increased to make this worth the effort. Additionally, Dragon Breath is receiving a damage increase to make it more intimidating and help Fafnir confirm kills. Also, all of Fafnir's DoTs in Dragon Form have had their timing changed to apply damage on the initial hit for better readability.

Cursed Strength

• Stun increased from 1s to 1.5s at all ranks.
• Damage over Time in Dragon Form now deals damage at 0s, 1.5s, and 3s, instead of 1s, 2s, 3s.

Underhanded Tactics

• Damage over Time in Dragon Form now deals damage at 0s, 1.5s, and 3s, instead of 1s, 2s, 3s.

Dragonic Corruption

• Damage over Time from dragon transformation now deals damage at 0s, 1.5s, and 3s, instead of 1s, 2s, 3s.
• Dragon Breath: Increased Damage from 10/15/20/25/30 to 20/25/30/35/40.

General

• Released.