General

• Bear or Druid: Which will you choose? Artio is designed with some buffs and debuffs that require hitting enemies with abilities from both stances. In order to maximize those you had to consider delaying your abilities to a slower flow that was rarely worth the payoff. We are increasing the durations of these effects so Artio can play normally and still reap the rewards.

Decompose

• Increased duration of debuff from 4s to 6s

Icons Artio A01B

• Decreased Mana Cost from 50/55/60/65/70 mana to 40/45/50/55/60

Icons Artio A04B

• Increased duration of buff from 4s to 6s

General

• This god is ever shapeshifting from meta to meta. With very few balance changes to the goddess directly, we have seen her rise and fall a few times. Certain pros have a preference for her, which certainly helps. We are reverting a nerf to her heal to empower her as a support, and make sure she feels like a viable duo lane choice.

Energy Surge

• Increase energy surge Heal from 40/60/80/100/120 to 60/80/100/120/140 per enemy god hit (revert)

General

• Fixed an issue where this god could crash games.
• Now can be played.

General

• Artio is coming roaring back. While she plays on the fringe of the competitive meta her overall performance elsewhere has struggled. Here we focused on a boost to her more aggressive ability to make it a competitive leveling choice while boosting utility through her abilities. Healing should be more reliable while Heavy Charge can deliver some crushing early slows.

Energy Surge

• Increased Druid Damage from 70/100/130/160/190 to 80/110/140/170/200.
• Heal range increased from 55 to 65.

Heavy Charge

• Increased Slow from 10/15/20/25/30% to 20/22.5/25/27.5/30%.

General

• Spirit Guide Skin
• Fox Form has had modeling, rigging, and animation adjustments made to fix its jaw and hind legs in many animations.
• Fixed an issue where the tail and ears weren't animating as intended on certain animations.

General

• Fixed an issue where spamming stance change could cause the bear to T pose.

Energy Surge

• Decreased energy surge Heal from 60/80/100/120/140 to 40/60/80/120 per enemy god hit.
• Decreased Magical Power Scaling on energy surge heal from 25% to 20%.

Life Tap

• Decreased Magical Power Scaling on Life Tap heal from 10% to 5% per tick.

General

• Even though recent nerfs have brought Artio much closer to a balanced state, she has still been slightly overperforming and will see a nerf this patch. HerPick/Ban rate in the SPL and Ranked has been incredibly high (even if her Win rate in has not matched), and her performance at most skill levels is higher than many guardians. This shows us she is still stagnating diversity among her class.
• With this in mind, we wanted to take a look at her overall tankiness. She has strong crowd control and self healing with a max health pool only outclasses by Ymir. We are reducing it from 2500 at Max level to 2400, lowering how much damage she can take during a fight and limiting how much self healing she can store as raw health. She should be more vulnerable in teamfights, especially if she goes with a bruiser item build.
• Decreased Base Health per Level from 100 to 95.

General

• Artio is in a much healthier spot than her initial launch, but she is still has some room for adjustment. Life Tap and Heavy Charge are seeing cooldown increases, reducing her long range control and mobility. Decompose is also seeing a decrease in its protection debuff, limiting how much shred Artio can provide for herself and her team. Both these changes should help enemies handle the utility and presence Artio has in a teamfight.

Decompose

• Decreased Protection debuff from 3% to 2%.

Life Tap (Heavy Charge)

• Increased Cooldown from 15s to 17s.

General

• Artio excels at getting into a fight and staying there, applying constant pressure to her opponents. Her overall damage, self sustain, and utility were offering little counterplay for her opponents.
• We are toning down her damage from Maul Prey and the sustain and utility from Life Tap, giving enemy players more room to survive Artio's onslaught and answer back.

Maul Prey

• Decreased Magical Power scaling from 35% -> 30% per swipe.
• Decreased Base Damage from 50/80/110/140/170 -> 40/70/100/130/160.

Life Tap

• Decreased slow per stack from 20% -> 10%.
• Decreased self healing from 15/20/25/30/35 -> 10/15/20/25/30 per hit.

General

• Since her release, Artio has not let up on her enemies. Her ability to consistently apply pressure and control while simultaneously keeping herself alive has limited the ability for players to fight against her.
• We are increasing the cooldown on her primary damage skill while also making an adjustment to how the cooldown for Entangling Vines is calculated.
• Additionally, Ferocious Roar will provide fewer protections in the later stages of the game allowing Artio to be a bit more vulnerable. These changes should create more opportunities to fight against Artio while also lowering her consistent pressure during teamfights.
• Fixed an issue where Artio could lose the ability to Basic Attack or cast Abilities.

Energy Surge (Maul Prey)

• Increased Cooldown from 10s -> 12s for both Energy Surge and Maul Prey.

Entangling Vines (Ferocious Roar)

• Entangling Vines will now only go on Cooldown once the Duration finishes, rather than immediately going on Cooldown.
• Decreased Ferocious Roar Protections Buff from 10/20/30/40/50 -> 10/15/20/25/30.

Entangling Vines

• Fixed an issue where this ability would play its audio for longer than intended.
• Fixed an issue where this ability would not consistently apply its cripple to enemies walking in the area.

Life Tap

• Fixed an issue where the slow on this ability would not stack properly.

General

• Released.