General

• This little guy has been putting up big numbers. Cupid has quickly become the actual #1 hunter across the game, in both pick/ban% as well as win-rate. When looking at his numbers there is one that clearly stands out. Heart Bomb has an insane amount of Physical Scaling. His early lane clear is much better with recent buffs, and his team fight presence has always been top tier, so it seems fair to bring down his primary damaging ability.

Heart Bomb

• Decreased Power Scaling from 90% to 80% on both the hit and the explode
• (180% to 160% total, hits 2 times)

General

• Everyone’s favorite misshapen little buddy has really skyrocketed in the meta after direct buffs and favorable meta changes. Cupid is a top pick in ranked and pro play for the ADC role, bringing a stronger laning phase than his older days. There are going to be some Hunter item nerfs coming up, and this god has only recently come into the meta with relatively low community frustration, so we are keeping his nerfs light. We are focusing on decreasing the amount of sustain that Cupid can provide to himself or his team now that his lane clear is as strong as his team fights.

Share the Love

• Decreased Physical Power Scaling of the Heal from 25% to 20% per heart (75% to 60% total)

General

• This cute lil guy has always struggled in lane. We are pulling out a rarely used mechanic to make his heart bomb deal more damage to minions. His kit feels great in teamfights so this change allows us to target his early game specifically. Skilled Cupid players can also leverage this bonus damage to find clever stuns on enemy gods!

Heart Bomb

• Minions take an additional 50% damage from the explosion.
• Minions take an additional 50% damage from the initial hit.

General

• Fixed Dr Madlove t-posing on intro.

General

• Increased Camera Height from 36 to 64 to give Cupid players a more consistent camera angle compared to other gods.

General

• SMITE's little loverboy has been the subject of many debates. In this patch, we aim to improve Cupid's abilities to solidify his design intent: A mid-game hunter with strong zoning and utility. Changes to Heart Bomb and Fields of Love support his zoning ability, and the streamlining of Share the Love and Flutter should let him aid his team-mates more easily.

Lovestruck

• Lovestruck tooltip has been adjusted to accommodate for changes listed below.

Heart Bomb

• Increased Cooldown from 10s -> 12s.
• Increased radius of the Heart Bomb's explosion area from 20 -> 25 units.
• Added an FX to Heart Bomb to indicate the explosion area.

Share the Love

• No longer consumes Lovestruck Heart Stacks.

Flutter

• Flutter no longer provides Attack Speed when cast.
• Flutter now provides 4/8/12/16/20% passive Attack Speed.
• Reduced the Cooldown from 19/18/17/16/15s -> 16/15/14/13/12.

Fields of Love

• Changed how this ability functions with Lovestruck.
• Fields of Love now mesmerizes enemies for 1.5s when activated with less than 8 hearts. At max hearts, the mesmerize increases to 3s.

General

• Cupid's ultimate should now avoid being interrupted after the cast has occurred. This will help Cupid make sure Fields of Love happens exactly when he means for it to happen, while still keeping him casting for the same duration he currently does.

Fields of Love

• Reduced casting time from .3 to 0.
• Increased recovery time from .1 to .4.

Heart Bomb

• Fixed ability instantly exploding on the Titan.

Share the Love

• Fixed the description saying “Magical Power”.

General

• Added clap sound fx for Lil' Devil skin.

Share the Love

• Fixed the hearts bouncing into Towers and players not being able to pick them up.

Fields of Love

• Fixed player deployables blocking damage and crowd control.

General

• Base Attack Speed increased from 0.92 to 0.95
• Attack Speed per level increased from 1.5% to 1.8%
• Fixed super glossy eyes on the Forest Nymph skin in lobby.
• Fixed Standard skin defeat animations freezing.

Heart Bomb

• Fixed a rare cooldown issue where the first explosion wouldn't detonate.

Share the Love

• Mana cost reduced from 60/65/70/75/80 to 50 at all ranks.
• Fixed the description not mentioning extra healing gained from the passive.

Fields of Love

• This ability no longer causes diminishing returns on itself when it stuns and mesmerizes at the same time.

Fields of Love

• Casting time reduced from 0.5s to 0.3s.

Share the Love

• Fixed a bug which was making hearts heal for an additional 3% per stack of lovestruck rather than an additional 2% per stack.

Heartbomb

• Fixed an issue that would make it appear to explode early if the target came under the effect of a Stone Shield while the heart bomb was on them.

General

• Updated targeters on the Lil' Devil skin.

Lovestruck

• Maximum stacks changed from 10 to 8. 8 are now needed for the stun on Heart Bomb and Fields of Love.

Lovestruck

• Fixed an issue in which the buff icon tooltip was incorrect.

Lovestruck

• Reduced % damage increase per stack from 3% to 2%.

Heart Bomb

• Reduced scaling from 100% of your physical power to 90%.
• Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.5 to 0.1

Fields of Love

• Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.5 to 0.1.

General

• Improvements made to jump for the Lil’ Devil skin.

Share the Love

• Improved the visual treatment when the ground targeter is in an invalid location.

Heart Bomb

• Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10s.

Flutter

• Attack Speed increased from 5/10/15/20/25% to 10/15/20/25/30%.

Fields of Love

• This ability can now be placed inside of walls and other blocking geometry.

General

• Updated FX.

Heart Bomb

• This ability now slows the target by 20% on the initial hit.

General

• Cupid's passive now has an improved UI treatment.

Fields of Love

• Fixed a description problem where the damage values in the game lobby and on tooltips was incorrect.
• The base damage has been increased from 175/225/275/325/375 to 220/300/380/460/540.

General

• Attack speed increased slightly.

Fields of Love

• Movement abilities are no longer usable when players are in his fields.

Share the Love

• Physical power contribution has been added to this ability, increasing by 25% of your physical power per heart.

Lovestruck (Passive)

• At 10 stacks, Heart Bomb and Fields of Love stun for 1s at all ranks.

Share the Love

• Healing no longer scales with additional stats.

Flutter

• Allies movement speed is increased by 30% for all ranks.
• Attack speed is increased by 5/10/15/20/25% for 6s after fluttering.

Fields of Love

• Mesmerize for 2.5s at all ranks.

Heart Bomb

• Physical power contribution has been changed from 60% to 100%.
• Fixed an issue where the 2nd explosion was doing more base damage than intended.

Fields of Love

• This ability properly mesmerizes again.

General

• Cupid has been shifted back to physical scaling and physical damage on his abilities.
• Cupid’s attack speed has been reduced from 1 attacks/sec to .92 attacks/sec.

Lovestruck

• When an ability is used that consumes 10 stacks, Cupid no longer gains a 20% to his physical power for 6s.

Heart Bomb

• Damage type has been changed from magical to physical.
• Base damage has been decreased from 60/100/140/180/220 to 50/80/110/140/170.
• Damage contribution has been changed from 100% magical to 60% physical.

Share the Love

• Base healing has been decreased from 45/70/95/120/145 to 30/50/70/90/110.
• Damage contribution has been changed from 30% magical to +1.2 per Focus.

Flutter

• No longer consumes stacks again.
• This ability no longer gains an advantage based on the number of Lovestruck stacks at the time it is used.

Fields of Love

• Damage type has been changed from magical to physical.
• Base damage has been decreased from 225/290/355/420/485 to 175/225/275/325/375.
• Damage contribution has been changed from 120% to 100%.

General

• Cupid’s base attack speed has been increased from .92 attacks/sec to 1 attacks/sec.

Passive - Lovestruck

• When an ability is used that consumes 10 stacks, Cupid also gains a 20% buff to his physical power for 6s.

Heart Bomb

• Damage type has been changed from physical to magical.
• Base damage has been increased from 50/80/110/140/170 to 60/100/140/180/220.
• Damage contribution has been changed from 60% physical to 100% magical.

Share the Love

• Base healing has been increased from 30/50/70/90/110 to 45/70/95/120/145.
• Damage contribution has been changed from 40% physical to 30% magical.

Flutter

• Attack speed buff duration has been increased from 4s to 6s.
• All ranks now gain 2% attack speed per stack of Lovestruck.
• Lovestruck stacks now consumed by Flutter.

Fields of Love

• Damage type has been changed from physical to magical
• Base damage has been increased from 175/225/275/325/375 to 225/290/355/420/485.
• Damage contribution has been changed from 100% physical to 120% magical.

Heart Bomb

• This ability no longer slows the target.

Heart Bomb

• Full stack damage now properly damages enemies that are leaping.

Flutter

• Attack speed buff decreased from 15/20/25/30/35% to 4/8/12/16/20%.
• Cooldown increased from 17/16/15/14/13s. to 19/18/17/16/15s.

General

• Floating Cupid should no longer be visible in the air after he dies.

Heart Bomb

• Reduced the slow from 35% to 25%.

Share the Love

• Hearts can be picked up as soon as they spawn now.

Fields of Love

• Physical power contribution reduced from 120% to 100%
• Purification Beads and Hel’s Cleanse now properly remove the Mesmerize effect.