General

• The time has come for the glory of Rome to be restored. Bellona is often a difficult character to buff, as she always seems one step away from taking over the solo meta. After some direct nerfs and losing many of her core items, its looking quite safe to buff her again. We are focusing heavily on QoL with these buffs, adding a lot more fluid functionality to her kit, and adding some power to the parts of her kit that feel clearly lacking, like the flag left behind on Eagle’s Rally.
• Fixed an issue where the Defiant skin would play default audio

Master of War

• Increased Passive duration from 4s to 7s.

Icons Bellona A02

• Increase weapon duration from 5s to 7s
• If Bellona is mid-swing when this timer expires, she will complete the swing with her Weapon. If this hits a target, she will reset the timer and not swap back to her Base weapon.

Eagle's Rally

• Now Provides Magical Power to allies as well as Physical Power
• Magical Power: 35/45/55/65/75
• Increased Physical Power from 10/20/30/40/50 to 20/30/40/50/60
• Increased Flag Duration from 6/7/8/9/10s to 8s at all ranks

General

• The goddess of war is notoriously tricky to buff, being able to quickly overtake a meta when even slightly too strong. With this in mind we looked to make changes to Bellona to improve her flexibility. Her mana costs often interfere with her ability to swap to the right weapon for the correct situation. This change will help her box without pushing her to be too intense.

Shield Bash

• Decreased Mana Cost from 75 to 60

Scourge

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

General

• Bellona has been the SPL match to Achilles, rising in popularity. She however hasn't seen as significant of a Ban Rate increase in the way Achilles has. We are reducing her early game self sustain slightly as a slight adjustment and will continue to watch her performance to see if further adjustments are necessary.

Scourge

• Decreased Healing from 30/35/40/45/50 to 25/30/35/40/45.

General

• Master of War gives Bellona an additional edge in combat when she is actively fighting. We want to increase its effectiveness, giving her a slight bump to her tankiness at all stages of the game.

Master of War

• Increased Protections from 4 Protections per Stack to 5 Protections per stack.

General

• Oh how the mighty have fallen. Bellona has had a long history of nerfs and it seems the goddess has finally fallen out of favor.
• She struggled through the entirely of Season 5. Many warriors did but some more than others. Even with the addition of Berserker's Shield we didn't see much of a resurgence from her.
• In addition to the Base Warrior stat buff, She is gaining a boost to her early game Ultimate damage. This will help Bellona make early aggressive rotations and plays more successfully.

Eagle's Rally

• Increased Base Damage from 100/200/300/400/500 to 140/230/320/410/500.

General

• Bellona has become a very popular pick this Season, with a win-rate in competitive to back up this popularity.
• We are focusing on bringing her early clear and fighting potential to a more counterable level.
• With a base power reduction, Bellona will need to invest more time into clearing a Minion wave. This change more drastically affects her Hammer Basic Attacks since the first and last hit increase Damage by 1.5x. In addition, we are reducing the frequency she can Bludgeon early on.
• Gods that can Silence or Disrupt this Ability will see a better reward for doing so as Bellona will not be able to get the Ability again before their interrupt comes off Cooldown for the first few waves.
• It is also worth noting that Osiris is not receiving an adjustment this patch. While he was THE popular pick in competitive alongside Bellona, he did not have the same record as Bellona did while also having poor performance across other levels of play.
• Osiris is often a pro-favorite, but even after his recent buffs he still struggles outside of the competitive scene. We will continue to watch him closely before making any specific adjustments.
• Reduce Base Power from 39 -> 36.

Bludgeon

• Increase Cooldown from 10s -> 14/13/12/11/10s.

Bludgeon

• Updated description to state Basic Attacks from Bludgeon only benefit from 33% Lifesteal.

General

• Bellona brings the weapon of her choice to the battlefield. In her early laning phase, she usually is using Bludgeon or Scourge, however, Bludgeon overshadowed Scourge even in unfavorable matchups. With this change, the two abilities should be closer to each other in strength, rewarding Bellona players who pick the right weapon for the right situation.

Scourge

• Cooldown changed from 18s -> 20/19/18/17/16.
• Increased Base Damage from 60/100/140/180/220 -> 80/115/150/185/220.

General

• Bellona has had a strong showing through most of Season 2, and felt that this was a good time to look at her more closely for an adjustment. It is important to remember that we will be monitoring these changes closely, especially since many items Bellona relied on have seen large scale changes. As with all gods affected by item changes, we will keep a close eye and adjust accordingly.

Bludgeon

• Reduced Slam Bonus Damage from 30% -> 25% per god hit.

Scourge

• Reduced Disarm from 2/2.25/2.5/2.75/3s -> 1.4/1.6/1.8/2/2.2s.

General

• Fixed her T-posing in certain situations.

Shield Bash

• Increased Mana cost from 60 -> 75.

Bludgeon

• Fixed Bellona T-Posing when switching to hammer while getting knocked up.

Eagle's Rally

• Improved accuracy of inner ground targeter.

General

• Bellona's kit has many strengths, and in this patch we wanted to hit key points where we felt this strength was too much. The Slow granted from Shield Bash was too potent for a single point investment, and late game Eagle's Rally was coming up too often. This should allow for more counterplay at both early and late game stages.

Shield Bash

• Reduced Slow from 30% to 15/20/25/30/35%.

Eagle's Rally

• Increased Cooldown from 75/70/65/60/55 to 75s at all ranks.

Shield Bash

• Now only provides block stacks from hitting gods on initial hit.

Eagle's Rally

• Reduced duration from 6/8/10/12/14s to 6/7/8/9/10s.

General

• Fixed missing Physical indicator on god icon.

Master of War

• Movement Speed reduced from 6% per stack to 3% per stack.
• Protections reduced from 5 per stack to 4 per stack.
• Duration reduced from 5s to 4s.

Bludgeon

• Basic Attacks using Hammer now do 33% lifesteal instead of 100%.

Scourge

• Healing reduced from 30/50/70/90/110 to 30/35/40/45/50.

General

• Released.