General

• Fixed an issue where boss monsters could kill Ah Puch’s deployed corpses

Undead Surge

• Decreased Mana Cost from 70/75/80/85/90 to 60/65/70/75/80

Corpse Explosion

• Decreased Mana Cost from 70/75/80/85/90 to 60 at all ranks

Fleeting Breath

• Decreased Mana Cost from 70 at all ranks to 60/65/70/75/80

General

• The God of Decay is often seen as a niche pick against healers due to the way Last Breath (his 3rd ability) functions. For a god who has a specific counter-pick function, he wasn't actually doing much to counter. We are adding even more healing reduction to his kit to go alongside the amount in his Ultimate and Last Breath's stun. This should make Ah Puch a clear healing counter-pick regardless of meta shifts.

Undead Surge

• Now applies a 40% reduction in healing for 5s.

General

• When Mid Season hit Ah Puch rose from the dead, becoming a strong pick in Conquest while continuing his strong performance in other modes.
• The keys to his success were his new early game strength and the fact that Empty the Crypts had more staying power.
• With this patch we are looking to tone down aspects of his kit to increase counterplay options without changing what makes him a valuable pick: zone control and burst DPS.
• Undead Surge is seeing a decrease in its slow duration, both reducing his ability to chase or peel enemies off himself. Empty the Crypts is also seeing a duration reduction.
• The zone control and pressure this ultimate provides gave teams large openings to siege objectives or stall out engages. The reduced duration should give teams more openings in these situations.

Undead Surge

• Decreased Slow Duration from 3s to 2s.

Empty the Crypts

• Decreased Duration from 6s to 5s.

General

• Ah Puch has been performing especially well since his changes in 5.13, even though he had a nerf that we failed to broadcast. Ah Puch has been the subject of a passionate balance discussion as player's often feel very differently about him depending on the game mode or skill level. Our statistics overwhelmingly show that Ah Puch is a high performing god, even in Conquest. He does perform even more highly in Arena, Joust, and Clash, which is really what is prompting us to take action. Ah Puch will remain as a niche anti-healer solo laner in Conquest even with these nerfs, but hopefully players of other game modes will find him more manageable. We do think that this god has a healthy balance point between all modes. Although he might not be as popular in Conquest, we can see the proof that players can make him work if they put the time and effort into learning his playstyle.
• Fixed an issue where his ultimate projectiles were not going through player made walls.

Undead Surge

• Increased Cooldown from 12s to 14s.

Corpse Explosion

• Decreased initial damage from 90/110/130/150/170 to 60/70/80/90/100.
• This change was in update 5.13 but was not included in update notes.

Empty the Crypts

• Increased Cooldown from 90 to 100.

General

• Empty the Crypts
• Fixed an issue where his Ultimate was damaging structures.

General

• The focus for Ah Puch is to help his viability at competitive levels of play while keeping his overall strength in other modes in a reasonable place. One of the limiting factors for Ah Puch is his need to really dump his whole kit to kill early waves. Undead Surge will now always deploy 2 zombies, giving him more direct clear when combined with Corpse Explosion. It also gives him earlier access to two corpses to consume with his passive.

Undead Surge

• Increased Zombies Thrown from 1/1/2/2/2 to 2 at all ranks.
• Increased Cooldown from 10 to 12.

Empty the Crypts

• Enemies hit by this have a 20% healing reduction applied. This effect stacks up to 3 times and lasts 5s.
• The damaging spirits now pass through all walls, structures, and players.
• Empty the Crypts now persists after Ah Puch dies.

General

• Ah Puch has strong control and AoE damage potential, but often struggles at key parts of the early game in Conquest. We are making a targeted change to Corpse Explosion, allowing it to deal more damage on its own and slightly less with each corpse available to him. This should help his early clear rely less on minions, without overdoing his already extreme late game damage potential.

Corpse Explosion

• Increased Initial Damage from 60/70/80/90/100 to 90/100/110/120/130.
• Decreased Damage Per Corpse from 60/85/110/135/160 to 55/80/105/130/155.

General

• Fixed an issue where Ah Puch's Basic Attacks had a larger hitbox than intended.

General

• It's about time that Ah Puch himself rose from the dead. After a scary powerful release, this God was adjusted in many ways. These changes seemed to over-nerf the Horrific God, so he is seeing a series of buffs to bring him back as a premier self-sustain and zoning Mage. We will continue to keep a close eye on Ah Puch and consider possible Ability redesigns in the future if these changes fail to improve him. Our final goal is for Ah Puch to be more viable, yet not cause too much frustration to his enemies.
• Increased Base Health from 375 -> 400.
• Increased Health per Level from 70 -> 75.
• Increased Base Movement Speed from 355 -> 365.

Undead Surge

• Mana Cost reduced from 70/80/90/100/110 -> 70/75/80/85/90.

Corpse Explosion

• Mana Cost reduced from 60/70/80/90/100 -> 60/65/70/75/80.

Empty the Crypts

• Mana Cost adjusted from 100/110/120/130/140 -> 100 at all ranks.
• Reduced Casting Time from .5s -> 0s.
• Increased Recovery Time from .1s -> .6s.

General

• With this update we look to simplify Fleeting Breath. It now will damage and stun users who are healed during its effect for a flat amount, instead of trying to calculate the number of heals that happening. We are also letting the God of Decay summon a second Corpse a level earlier on Undead Surge, which should provide him additional sustain and burst power at a crucial stage in the game.

Undead Surge

• Increased number of corpses dropped from 1/1/1/2/2 to 1/1/2/2/2.

Fleeting Breath

• Decreased duration from 5s to 4s.
• Increased damage per second from 25/28/31/34/37 to 30/35/40/45/50.
• Increased magical power scaling from 15% to 20% per tick.
• This ability no longer scales off of number of times healed.
• Increased additional damage on targets that healed from 20/30/40/50/60 + 10% per stack to 50/100/150/200/250 + 50% flat.
• Increased stun on targets that healed from 1s + .5s per stack to 1.5s flat.

Hollow Ground

• Reduced restoration from 6% -> 5% of maximum Health.

Undead Surge

• Reduced Slow from 40% -> 20/25/30/35/40% per rank.

Fleeting Breath

• Now activates on all Abilities that have percent Health Regeneration.

General

• We removed the Slow on his Ultimate entirely. His Ultimate was too potent and offered little counterplay, especially when paired with the Slow on his Undead Surge. We like his burst playstyle and zone control, but we felt the Ultimate granted him too much safety, and removing the Slow takes away some of this safety.

Fleeting Breath

• Fixed this skill dealing unintended damage. The bonus damage was counting an extra heal stack.

Empty the Crypts

• No longer Slows enemies hit by Wraiths.

Undead Surge

• Updated tooltip to say at ranks 1-3 this ability only spawns one decaying corpse.

Undead Surge

• Updated targeter and FX radius to more closely match affected area.

Empty the Crypts

• Now disappears when Ah Puch dies.

General

• Fixed glowing fx persisting after death.

Undead Surge

• Addressed the ability not properly going on cooldown sometimes.
• Fixed heal not correctly being applied, but still played fx.

Fleeting Breath

• Damage reduced from 32/34/36/38/40 to 25/28/31/34/37 per tick.

Empty the Crypts

• Duration reduced from 8 to 6s.

General

• Fixed emote VVGG ending abruptly.

Undead Surge

• Updated accuracy on surging Corpses targeters.

General

• Released.