General

• At one point AMC was the King Bee, but oh how the mighty have fallen. We are reverting a nerf that Ah Muzen Cab received when he was a top pick to bring him closer to the rest of the hunter meta in todays SMITE scene.

Stinger (Revert)

• Increased Base Damage from 255/335/415/495/575 to 275/355/435/515/595
• Increased Physical Power Scaling from 100% to 110%

General

• Ah Muzen Cab often buzzes around meta consideration, flying into the spotlight off small shifts. Since his last round of nerfs however he has struggled to find that type of opportunity. Hive placement is key to a lot of his strength. In highly mobile fights he can often find himself outside his network. A reduced cooldown on Hive and a boost to Swarms overall scaling will give him a stronger sting while teamfighting.
• NOTE: Bees! was nerfed to 5 base damage a few patches ago, but upon closer inspection it seems like that nerf was not implemented. Rather than implementing the change and nerfing him now, we plan to fix the text.

Bees!

• Fixed a text issue that listed Bees as doing 5 base damage. It is actually doing 9.

Hive

• Decreased Cooldown from 14s to 12s.

Swarm

• Increase Scaling from 70% to 80%.

General

• Ah Muzen Cab often cycles in and out of the Meta, but he has struggled to be relevant for some time. We are reverting a previous adjustment to his Hive to give his late game an extra buzz of attack speed.
• Honey now has the 4s duration properly listed in the ability description text

Hive

• Increased Attack Speed Buff from 10/17.5/25/32.5/40% to 10/20/30/40/50%

General

• Fixed an issue where his achievements were missing text.

General

• Ah Muzen Cab has continued his reign on the current meta boasting strong clear, burst, and late game scaling. His passive Bees and their item interactions combined with Stingers heavy burst make him flexible and difficult to shut down. Bees will no longer trigger items, lowering AMCs ability to flex into extra clear and harass potential with little cost. Stinger is seeing a base and scaling damage reduction, making ganking the bee or boxing against him less risky.

Bees!

• This ability no longer triggers any item effects.

Stinger

• Decreased Base Damage from 275/355/435/515/595 to 255/335/415/495/575.
• Decreased Physical Power Scaling from 110% to 100%.

General

• Ah Muzen Cab has been all the buzz recently. A Hunter who is flexible in both Ability damage and Basic Attack damage brings a strong force to any team. In this update we will be addressing his early game clear potential and some of his late game poke, causing him to focus more on using his Hives to boost his attacks at all stages of the game. Bees contributes a heavy amount of base damage early, while Swarm can scale to do a significant portion of damage. This should give him more windows to be countered or outplayed.

Bees!

• Decreased Base Damage from 9 to 5.

Swarm

• Decreased Base Damage from 60/115/170/225/280 to 60/110/160/210/260.
• Decreased Physical Power Scaling from 80% to 70%.

General

• Ah Muzen Cab was a powerhouse coming into Season 5, and took a large hit to his Hive functionality.
• After these changes he heavily fell out of favor, and even though most of the nerfs have been reverted he is still struggling to make his mark.
• We want to focus on how often he can utilize his kit by lowering the cooldown on Swarm and making Honey less of a mana drain when used frequently.

Swarm

• Decreased Cooldown from 16/15/14/13/12 to 15/14/13/12/11.

Honey

• Decreased Mana cost from 75/80/85/90/95 to 60 at all ranks.

General

• Bees!
• Updated the description to show how much damage Bees does.

General

• The god of bees has hardly been causing buzz in Season 5. After he dominated the meta in Season 4 he received some nerfs that appeared to be necessary. These nerfs combined with the many meta shifts of a new Season left AMC in a much lower than intended spot. We are reverting one of those nerfs completely, and halfway reverting the other.
• We are also making another adjustment to the god. Although it's a nerf we don't expect it to harm him very much. The component of the Bees! Passive that could Disarm enemies was inconsistent and confusing. We are removing this effect entirely along with the buffs he's getting.

Bees!

• This ability no longer disarms enemies.

Hive

• Increased Attack Speed Buff from 10/15/20/25/30% to 10/17.5/25/32.5/40%.
• Increased Movement Speed Buff from 5/10/15/20/25% to 10/15/20/25/30%.

General

• AMC has been a superstar in pro play as well as Ranked play. Early in Season 4 this god was thought of as completely unviable but some balance changes and meta shifts brought him to the absolute top of the charts by the end of the season. His ability to create a Hive network and boost his movement speed for long periods of time will mean he could be even stronger in S5. Because of these two factors we are making some specific nerfs to Hives to help bring him in line with other Hunters.

Bees!

• This damage dealt by this ability now triggers "on ability hit" effects.

Hive

• Decreased Attack Speed Buff from 10/20/30/40/50% to 10/15/20/25/30%.
• Decreased Movement Speed Buff from 10/15/20/25/30% to 5/10/15/20/25%.

General

• Fixed issues with Void Piercer Ah Muzen Cab's sound FX.

Stinger

• Changed Radius to Range for the description.

Bees!

• Updated the description of this ability with the correct radius for this ability.

General

• Ah Muzen Cab is actually a much stronger Hunter than most players give him credit for, putting him in a difficult situation for balance. As Season 3 finishes and we work toward Season 4, we want to make sure gods have a very specific identity. For us, AMC's identity lies in his Hives. This ability is seeing a wide variety of buffs and quality of life changes to reward players that create a clever network of Hives and to make it slightly harder to gank this Hunter with limited mobility.

Hive

• Reveals all enemy gods within 20 units to all allies and shows hive area at all times.
• Shows the area of a Hive being placed in targeting mode.
• Increased Radius from 80 -> 90.
• Reduce Mana Cost from 40/45/50/55/60 -> 40 at all ranks.

Honey

• Increased Bees flying to Honey from Hives range from 55 -> 90.

General

• AMC is seeing an increase to his early game clear to solidify his position as a Hunter with powerful lane clear but limited mobility.
• AMC's Basics Attacks offset distance has been reduced.

Honey

• Increased damage from 8/21/34/47/60 to 13/25/37/49/61.

General

• Ah Muzen Cab players have a lot of flexibility on when and where to place Hives, and this reduction should make that process more convenient.

Hive

• Cooldown Reduced from 16s to 14s.

General

• We've come a bit full circle with this change, but it helps our favorite bee excel earlier and should make enemies a bit more wary.

Honey

• Slow changed from 5/10/15/20/25 to 20% at all ranks.

Bees!

• Updated description to mention “10s Cooldown between Disarms.”.
• Fixed Passive description tooltip cutting off.

Bees!

• Fixed Disarm taking longer than 4s to re-apply if Bees! is extended with Basic Attacks.

Bees!

• Fixed Bees! causing client crashes.

Bees!

• Basic Attacks from Ah Muzen Cab will now extend the duration of Bees! on the target by 1s.
• Targets that suffer from Bees! for 4s are Disarmed for 1s.
• Reduced duration from 3s to 2s.
• Fixed issue where Vulcan's turrets would not take damage from Bees! if hit with Ah Muzen Cab's Honey.

Stinger

• Fixed Solid Hornet skin playing Standard voice when retrieving Stinger.

Hive

• Fixed targeting brackets not working on the hives.

General

• Base Attack Speed increased from 0.92 to 0.95.
• Attack Speed per level increased from 1.35% to 1.7%.

Stinger

• Casting time reduced from 0.6s to 0.35s.
• Physical damage scaling increased from 100% to 110%.

Hive

• Hives no longer provide lifesteal to enemies who attack them.

Honey

• Fixed an issue where sometimes all the honey wouldn't be deployed.

Honey

• Reduced honey duration from 6s to 4s.
• Reduced the speed debuff from 10/15/20/25/30% to 5/10/15/20/25%.

Stinger

• The cripple is now correctly treated as a cripple effect for the purposes of CC protection, immunity, and cleansing. Cleansing the cripple (ex: Purification Beads) will not affect the duration the stinger is attached to the target.

Honey

• Fixed an issue in which the damage was being overly applied to non-player characters (the previous nerf to damage was only being applied to gods and not NPC's).

Honey

• Damage reduced from 20/30/40/50/60 per tick to 8/21/34/47/60.
• Physical scaling reduced from 20% per tick to 15% per tick.

Hive

• Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.15 to 0.1

Swarm

• Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.3 to 0.1.

Stinger

• Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.3 to 0.1

Bees!

• Base damage per tick increased from 5 to 8.

Hive

• Increased the maximum number of hives out from 4 to 6.

Swarm

• Fixed an issue where the projectile could explode if it hit an enemy deployable.

Bees!

• Reduced damage from 10 per tick to 5 per tick.
• Reduced physical power scaling from 15% to 5%.
• Bees cannot spread from minions to gods.

Hive

• Reduced the maximum number of deployed hives from 8 to 4.
• Increased the cooldown from 8s to 16s.

Hive

• Reduced movement speed bonus from 20/25/30/35/40 to 10/15/20/25/30
• Removed physical power scaling on the healing effect
• Increased mana cost from 35/40/45/50/55 to 40/45/50/55/60

Swarm

• Fixed an issue in which victims towards the edges of the targeter were not highlighting.

Honey

• Increased mana cost from 65/70/75/80/85 to 75/80/85/90/95
• Added a 55-foot radius indicator on deployed hives when Ah Muzen Cab is targeting with Honey.
• Tooltip updated to indicate 55ft hive activation radius
• Fixed an issue in which victims would sometimes have honey persist on them until respawn and afterwards were no longer affected throughout the match.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes the ability would cost double the mana.
• Fixed an issue where players were not able to protect against the slow.

Stinger

• Over the past weekend, we fixed an issue where sometimes the cooldown would be drastically reduced when picking up the dropped stinger.