General

• This change is a long time coming. It was discussed with Olympians at the Season 6 Summit, but Da Ji’s meta position was too high for a change. Currently, this ability has some very interesting per rank scaling that causes it to feel bad in the early game. We are increasing the rank 1 damage considerably, while decreasing the per rank increase and the late game base damage. This change is intended to be a buff so that base damage loss is being compensated with a Physical Scaling Buff.
• Fixed an issue where Da Ji would teleport high into the air when targeting an Ultimate State Cthulhu with her ability 3, trickster spirit

One Thousand Cuts

• Adjusted Damage from 15/40/65/90/115 to 25/45/65/85/105 per hit
• (60/160/260/360/460 to 100/180/260/340/420 total, hits 4 times)
• Increased Physical Power Scaling from 30% to 35% per hit
• (120% to 140% total, hits 4 times)

General

• Paolao
• Fixed if you take a running start and jump at Da Ji's Pillar then you can jump straight through it.

General

• Fixed an issue where Da Ji and Kumbhakarna ult interacted in a unintended way – This issue has been hotfixed in 5.14.

General

• Da Ji provides a large amount of burst on a relatively low cooldown, allowing her to regularly jump on the backline with a lot of success. We are reducing the burst provided by Trickster Spirit and increasing the cooldown of Horrible Burns, giving players more chance to react to the nine-tailed fox.

Horrible Burns

• Increased Cooldown from 7s to 9s.

Trickster Spirit

• Decreased Physical Power Scaling from 100% to 85%.

General

• This targeter is small but with long range and could often get lost in the midst of combat. We are tweaking this visual effect to help Da Ji players choose the targets they intend to.

Pao Lao

• Made adjustments to the targeter so it is more visible while on the Pao Lao.

General

• The Nine-Tailed Fox received some buffs recently that have put her over the top. The current meta and itemization especially favor her bursty style, so we are decreasing the power scaling on two key abilities. This should lead Da Ji to feel more counterable by decreasing her one shot potential.

Torture Blades

• Decreased Physical Power Scaling from 20% to 14% (10% to 7% per tick).

Horrible Burns

• Decreased Physical Power scaling on Burst Damage from 45% to 35%.

General

• Da Ji getting some improvements to both her stats and her overall playstyle this patch. Since her release Da Ji has struggled to make her mark as an Assassin in both casual and competitive games. We are focused on changes that better enable her to get into a fight and apply her burns and bleeds. First, Da Ji's Basic Attacks are seeing significant changes. They now are a standard Basic Attack with no unique timing or damage adjustments and have updated animations that better match when she is hitting an enemy. Horrible Burns is also receiving Haste, allowing her to Basic Attack without movement penalty while it is active. Weaving Basic Attacks and Horrible Burns should be smoother with these adjustments. Da Ji also has an interesting playstyle, looking to quickly get into a fight before using Paolao to get above the fight and pick off targets. We are increasing her Base Health to help he get into the thick of a fight while increasing the casting speed of the Paolao chains, allowing her to more consistently hit enemies.
• Base Health Increased from 425 to 440.
• Base Health Per Level Increased from 74 to 76.
• Da Ji's Basic Attack chain and animations have been updated.
• Basic Attack Hit Chain is now 1/1/1 timing and damage. Each hit has a unique animation.

Horrible Burns

• Da Ji now benefits from Haste (does not suffer Basic Attack movement penalty) while Horrible Burns is active.

Paolao

• Decreased chain travel time from .5 to .3 seconds.

Paolao

• Landing targeter should now immediately appear upon manually cancelling this Ability early.
• After firing all three chains, Daji will begin shifting to dismount the Pao Lao rather than waiting for her Ability to time out.

General

• Da Ji has not been torturing her opponents as much as she would like. While her burst potential could be high, it was difficult to confirm her Damage and effectively chase targets.
• We are increasing her overall Damage, giving Horrible Burns a scaling Slow, and giving One Thousand Cuts Knock-Up immunity to help her get in and effectively fight.
• We also made a few updates targeted at improving her overall flow, such as removing the post-fire time on Trickster Spirit and allowing players to cancel from the Paolao early.

Horrible Burns

• Applied a 10/15/20/25/30% Slow.

One Thousand Cuts

• Updated the description to state the increased Movement Speed.
• Increased Base Damage per rank from 15/35/55/75/95 -> 15/40/65/90/115 (60/140/220/300/380 to 60/160/260/360/460 Total).
• Increased Physical Power scaling per hit from 20% -> 30% (80% to 120% Total).
• Now Knock-Up immune while channeling.
• Fixed an issue where this Ability would gain invisible FX.

Trickster Spirit

• Reduced post-fire time from .2 -> 0.
• Fixed the description to state the correct Mana cost.

Paolao

• Paolao can now be canceled early. Right clicking or canceling will bring up the jump targeter, allowing Da Ji to jump from the Paolao early.
• Increased duration of shooting time from 3s -> 5s.
• Increased Paolao deployable duration from 7s -> 9s.
• Made the chains easier to see.

General

• Released.