General

• Fixed animation issue with out of combat forward-right walking.

General

• The Ricochet masters is receiving a major quality of life buff this patch to make his kit feel more fluid. Hou Yi will now longer be rooted while firing his ultimate, allowing him to keep moving and rotating while this ability deploys. This will give Hou Yi more ways to follow up his Ultimate.

Sunbreaker

• Hou Yi is no longer rooted and can move his camera freely while firing this ability.

General

• Hou Yi is seeing a very targeted adjustment to Ricochet this patch. While he often struggles at most levels of play, his ability to quickly clear the Jungle early has made him a top pick in the Smite Pro League. His power there is limiting Hunter diversity, stagnating the amount of potential strategies that can be used. Ricochet will no longer deal it's bonus damage per ricochet to minions, jungle monsters, or objectives. The bonus damage per ricochet will still apply to gods, but his ability to clear camps early and incredibly quickly will be lowered to give other Hunter and Support combinations a stronger opportunity to answer his level of early clear.

Ricochet

• Ricochet Bonus Damage now only applies to Gods.

Mark of the Golden Crow

• Updated the description of this ability with the correct range for this ability

General

• Hou Yi has been under-performing lately. While his Abilities can be quite strong, his base stats were outliers for most other Hunters. We are bringing these up to ease his build paths and provide a subtle bump in power.
• Increased Base Attack speed from .9 -> .95.
• Increased Base Power from 38 -> 40.

General

• Hou Yi is an ability Hunter that is heavily influenced by when and how he uses Mark of the Golden Crow. Our goal for Mark is to augment and synergize with his other abilities, rather than just being used for a single combination (notably his 1). To emphasize this, we are increasing the potency of interaction with Sunbreaker. This ability now has a base slowing effect that gets even stronger when Mark is applied.

Sunbreaker

• Now Slows all targets inside it by 20% for .5s on every hit.
• Increased Slow on target's marked by Mark of the Golden Crow from 20% -> 40% and increased duration from .25s -> .5s

General

• Hou Yu is seeing a power shift this patch to address his performance at the highest end of play while also maintaining his core strengths. Mark of the Golden Crow was often putting a timer on the game, that when reached, allowed Hou Yi to become very difficult to box. We have removed the 25% penetration and reduced the duration of the mark to reduce some of this power, while also opening up a window where Mark would be down allowing for counterplay.
• To adjust for this change, Ricochet is seeing an increase to its base damage and scaling, allowing it to be more potent when not paired with his Mark. We have also adjusted the bonus damage per Ricochet so that it should closely match its current strength across a variety of Physical Power.
• We will watch these changes closely to see how it affects both his pro level performance as well as his general usability.

Ricochet

• Base damage increased from 70/110/150/190/230 -> 75/120/165/210/255.
• Scaling increased from 60% -> 65%.
• Bonus damage per ricochet decreased from 50% -> 40%.

Mark of the Golden Crow

• Removed the bonus 25% penetration provided at Rank 5.
• This ability now reveals all marked targets at all Ranks.
• Duration reduced from 15s -> 10s.

Divebomb

• Fixed an issue with the tooltip for this ability still displaying 30% Physical Power scaling instead of the intended 60%.
• Fixed an issue where this ability was still contributing 30% Physical Power vs targets marked by Mark of the Golden Crow.

General

• Hou Yi is a Hunter who lacks a hard steroid to really allow him to box, instead focusing on landing powerful (and Stunning) Ricochets to make up for this. By lowering the Cooldown Hou Yi players should feel more impactful more often while also taking less of a risk when they go for those double bounce trick shots.

Ricochet

• Reduced Cooldown from 14 -> 10s.
• Fixed an issue with projectile accuracy from the sides.

Divebomb

• Increased Physical Damage Scaling from 30 -> 60%.

Ricochet

• Improved highlighting accuracy.

Ricochet

• Fixed not highlighting all targets on 2nd and 3rd trajectories.

General

• Correctly updated the Iron Crow skin from Exclusive to Limited.

Mark of the Golden Crow

• Fixed visual issue where Mark would not display on the target's client while using the Iron Crow skin.

Divebomb

• Fixed taunting Hou Yi stuck in air.
• Fixed description still showing old ability text.

Divebomb

• This ability has been reworked. When activated, Hou Yi will jump straight up into the air and pause, choosing a landing location.

Ricochet

• The build up on this ability has been removed.

Mark of the Golden Crow

• Fixed the tooltip incorrectly stating +15% instead of +25% penetration.

Divebomb

• Fixed Hou Yi getting debuffed when gliding over Janus Portal.

Divebomb

• Hou Yi can now glide over player deployables.
• Fixed Hou Yi still getting caught in Artemis Trap when descending.

General

• Base Attack Speed increased from 0.85 to 0.9.
• Attack Speed per level increased from 1% to 1.2%.

Ricochet

• Increased projectile speed.
• Fixed a tooltip typo on cooldown.

Divebomb

• Hou Yi no longer becomes immune to damage and healing while airborne.
• Increase the speed Hou Yi travels.
• Hou Yi is no longer rooted upon landing.

General

• Released.