Written by Shizumi
In the update of the Honor of Kings official server on April 25, a large number of heroes and equipment were planned and adjusted at the same time, and the content was comparable to a major version update.
ps: There are a lot of updates and the article is very long, please prepare in advance, if you are not interested in equipment adjustment, you can directly slide down to the second half to see the hero adjustment.
Adjustments to equipment
Let's talk about equipment first, which is the basis of hero tuning.
(1) Uchino sword
In order to balance the strength between the heroes, the mastermind unified the rules of all jungler knives:
- All subsequent hunting passives, including Hunting Broadblade, Pursuit Blade, Guerrilla Scimitar, Patrol Axe, Devouring of Greed, Rune Greatsword, and Giant's Grip, will have a ranged hero damage halved.
I still remember what a big guy said when he talked about jungler heroes - about jungler hero recommendations, I will recommend all mage junglers except Sima Yi, from this point of view, you can know the strength of mage jungler.
Focus: After the damage of ranged heroes is halved, the mage jungler is basically about to retire from the group.
(2) Shadow Tomahawk
From the point of view of universality, the Shadow Battle Ax should be the strongest equipment in the Glory of Kings, and every time it comes to its adjustment, the planning will be cautious:
- Cooldown reduction: 5% reduced from 15% → 10%.
- Cutting Passive: Increases physical penetration from 58~170 → 68~180 physical penetration.
For heroes who lack the support of the blue buff, the adjustment of the Shadow Battle Ax this time is a small nerf, but if it is blessed with the blue buff, then this adjustment is not a nerf (it may still be a small strengthening).
In addition, even with this adjustment, I personally still feel that the Shadow Tomahawk is over-specified, if you don't believe it, you can take a look at the data of its competitors (Dream Casting - Chasing the Wind).
(3) Haste Boots
Haste Boots are adjusted this time to quickly restore passive:
- Rapid Recovery: Restores 20~40 health per basic attack (halved for non-hero units) → 30/40 health for each melee/ranged basic attack.
For the shooter, the health restored from each basic attack → a fixed 40 points, which is a very, very obvious enhancement, and for melee, the health restored from each basic attack → a fixed 30 points, which is strengthened in the early and middle stages, but weakened in the late stage.
(4) Ruilin Fist Blade / Raging Dragon Sword and Shield
The effect of the revised version of the Ruilin Fist Blade and the Angry Dragon Sword and Shield is a bit unsatisfactory, and the plan is to be ruthless again.
Ruilin's Fist Blade is adjusted this time to hit the passive:
Removed the original passive effect, changed to a basic attack behavior, dealing 75~150+12% extra health physical damage to the lane and creeps, and restored 50% of the damage effect (half the health of ranged heroes), with a cooldown of 2.5 seconds.
The Raging Dragon Sword and Shield has adjusted the Heavy Damage Passive and the Divine Power Passive this time:
- Heavy Hit Passive: Removed the original passive effect, and changed it to a basic attack behavior that deals 100~200+12% extra health physical damage to lanes and creeps, and restores 50% of the damage effect (half the health of ranged heroes), with a cooldown of 2.5 seconds.
- Divine Power Passive: Removed the original passive effect, and changed it to a basic attack behavior that deals 50~100+6% extra health to enemy heroes with a physical damage (halved for ranged heroes) and a cooldown of 2.5 seconds.
While the damage of the Heavy Hit Passive has indeed been reduced, the proc chance has been increased from 15%~60% to 100%, and it is completely understandable that all the damage is appropriately reduced. The plan also added a recovery effect to the heavy damage passive of Ruilin's Fist Blade/Raging Dragon Sword and Shield, combined with the frequency of triggering once in 2.5 seconds, the tank hero will indeed be easier to use than before.
In addition, the Divine Power Passive of the Dragon Sword and Shield originally only took effect on heroes for 50% damage (100% for other units), but now it is only effective for heroes.
PS: This is the first good news for the tank hero.
(5) Smelted Heart/Red Lotus Cloak
There are two adjustments to the Smelting Heart:
- First, max health has been reduced by 200 points from 700 → 500.
- Second, the damage effect of Karmic Flame's passive varies from spell damage with a fixed 1% max health → spell damage with 35~70+3% extra health.
Considering that the Heart of Smelting was originally only available to tanks, the adjustment of Karmic Flame's passive must be strengthened (and it is a big strengthening).
The adjustment of the Red Lotus cloak is even more powerful:
- Not only has the passive damage of Karma been increased (from 28~56+3% bonus health spell damage → 35~70+3% bonus health spell damage), but even the effective range has changed significantly (from 300 yards → 400 yards).
This is the second piece of good news for the tank hero.
In addition, the planner also adjusted the duration of the Red Lotus Cloak, Blade of Sanctions, and Nightmare Fang's Critical Damage passives from 3 seconds → 2.5 seconds. Considering that almost all tank heroes have recovery skills (and some don't, the Dragon Sword and Shield can also provide them), this is the third piece of news that is good for tank heroes.
(6) 霸者重装
The last piece of equipment to be tweaked is the Overlord Reload:
- Destiny Passive: Increases extra health by 10% → provides 8% extra health.
- Revive Passive: The maximum health restored per second remains unchanged (still 0.5%), and the trigger condition is doubled from the original disengagement → doubled if no enemy hero or tower is attacked for three seconds.
The additional stats have been reduced, and the conditions for triggering the doubling have been reduced (you can continue to recover your HP when you are in the jungle or replenishing troops in the future), and I personally feel that this adjustment of the Overlord Reload is flat.
About the adjustment of heroes
After talking about the equipment, the next step is the adjustment of the heroes.
(1) Adjustments to the 5 major side heroes
The first player on the wing was Ma Chao, and his adjustments were:
- Enhanced basic attack damage increased from 100~200→ 110~220, health regeneration increased from 120~240+6% bonus health→ 130~260+6.5% bonus health.
- Enhanced basic attacks in the ultimate state no longer increase damage, recovery, and attack range by an additional 20%.
Ma Chao's enhanced basic attack is divided into two types, one is the enhanced basic attack after picking up the gun, and the other is the enhanced basic attack after opening the gun and closing the gun.
In this adjustment, the damage and recovery effects of the regular enhanced basic attack have been strengthened, and the additional damage, recovery, and attack range of the ultimate enhanced basic attack have been weakened.
If you only look at the conventional enhanced general attack, I personally think that this adjustment can even be said to be strengthened, but everyone knows that Ma Chao's strength is mainly reflected in the round of explosion after opening the big one, and now the damage, attack distance and recovery effect of this outbreak have been significantly weakened, so Ma Chao's strength will definitely be reduced a lot.
PS: Actually, it's like any damage and recovery is an addition, but the most hurtful thing about this adjustment is the attack range.
The second player to take the field was Sikong Zhen, and his adjustments were:
- Nerf: Basic attack damage types range from spell damage → physical damage.
- Strengthened: Strengthened basic attack added a new recovery effect (60~120+10% AP bonus).
In the early stage, the ability to clear the line and the jungle speed of spell damage far exceed the physical damage, and in the later stage, the physical resistance of most heroes is much higher than that of magic resistance, and under such a premise, the change in the damage type of Sikong Zhen is naturally a big weakening.
Although there is a recovery effect to compensate him, Sikong Zhen's skill mechanism is destined to make him unable to choose equipment with a high AP bonus, and how much can he increase the recovery effect by relying on the lightning dagger and the golden holy sword?
The third player on the court is Bodhidharma, after being beaten N times by Bodhidharma, I was really happy to see him weakened (the data of this thing in the pinnacle game is 52.9% win rate, 26.8% appearance rate), his adjustment is:
- Skill 1: Skill CD time from a fixed 1.5 seconds → 3~1.5 seconds, and additional damage damage from 20% →15%.
Originally, Dharma could use a skill twice in a row in 1.5 seconds in the early stage, but now the first level is 3 seconds, the second level is 2.7 seconds, the third level is 2.4 seconds, the fourth level is 2.1 seconds, the fifth level is 1.8 seconds, and the sixth level is 1.5 seconds, and the weakening is very obvious.
After the CD time is greatly increased, Dharma's mobility and damage ability will be significantly affected, and the reduction of slash damage is even worse.
The fourth player is Heinault, and his adjustments are:
- Heroes are positioned from melee → ranged.
As mentioned above, ranged heroes will have a discount on the effect when they use equipment such as the Ruilin Fist Blade, the Raging Dragon Sword and Shield, and all the Jungle Knives, so both Meat Haino and Jungler Haino will retire from the stage of history.
The fifth player is Zhu Bajie, who has also been doing well recently (17.2% in the pinnacle tournament), and this time his adjustments are:
- The damage dealt by a skill to non-hero units has been adjusted from an additional 50% damage → an additional 30% damage to creeps and an additional 15% damage to creeps.
Because of the adjustment of equipment such as the Red Lotus Cloak, the Angry Dragon Sword and Shield, and the Overlord Heavy Load, it is natural for Zhu Bajie, who is already very strong, to cut some damage a little, but there is a key problem that Zhu Bajie's residual blood conversion is linked to damage, which means that Zhu Bajie's ability to resist injuries in the melee will be reduced in the future.
ps: Based on this adjustment, Zhu Bajie's strength in pure team battles has actually been improved (because of the equipment).
(2) Changes brought about by the adjustment of the Shadow Tomahawk
Due to the change in the value of the Shadow Battle Axe, the plan has adjusted the skill CD time of 5 heroes, including Yao, Li Bai, Lan, Miyamoto Musashi, and Tachibana Youkyo:
- Yao: The cooldown of a skill has been increased from 6 seconds → 6~5 seconds.
- Li Bai: The cooldown time of a skill has been increased from 8~5 seconds → 7~5 seconds.
- Lan: The cooldown of the second skill has been increased from 7.5 seconds → 7 seconds.
- Miyamoto Musashi: The cooldown of a skill has been increased from 12 seconds → 12~11 seconds.
- Ukyo Tachibana: The cooldown of a skill has been increased from 7 seconds → 6 seconds.
The Shadow Battle Axe is a reduction in cooling, and the enhancement is worn, and compared to this adjustment, the above 5 heroes are equivalent to pure strengthening, which is really gratifying.
(3) The mutation of Ming Shiyin
Ming Shiyin's mutation is officially launched in this update, and its skill mechanics are:
- 1. Skill (Purple Chain) increases physical attack, magic strength and attack speed for teammates, and increases physical attack, magic attack and movement speed for yourself;
- The second skill (yellow chain) reduces the opponent's physical attack and legal resistance, and increases its own physical attack and legal resistance;
- Three new skills, if both chains are linked to a target, Ming Shiyin magnified without deducting his own health (deduct the opponent's health and add it to teammates).
Personally, I feel that the gameplay of the new version of Ming Shiyin is more simple and easy to understand, and I am looking forward to his performance in the ranking in the future.
(4) 3 mages adjusted
Because the effect of the first skill ignoring resilience was removed, the strength of Xi Shi was indeed affected to a certain extent, and as a way to make up for it, the plan made adjustments to its first and second skills:
- The cooldown of a skill has been increased from 11 seconds ~ 10 seconds → 11 seconds ~ 9 seconds;
- 二技能的技能伤害从150~300+27%ap加成→160~320+30%ap加成。
The cooldown time of the first skill pulls people has become shorter, and the damage of the second skill has increased, both of which are real strengthenings.
Both Chang'e and Zhuge Liang were victims of the adjustment of the jungler knife mechanism, and as a compensation, Chang'e's second skill was strengthened by planning:
- Bonus mana regen against creeps increased from 20% → 50%.
This adjustment is to improve Chang'e's ability on the line, and the strength of the middle lane should not be discussed for the time being, and the wing lane should be greatly improved.
As for Zhuge Liang, his adjustment is much more complicated:
- The maximum number of times a skill (primary damage skill) can be stored has been increased from 1→2;
- The maximum number of times the second skill (displacement skill) can be stored has been increased from 3→2 times, and the storage time has been increased from 10~8 seconds → 9~7 seconds.
After this adjustment, Zhuge Liang's ability to fight in line and team will be greatly improved, but the problem is that in addition to the soft control of the second skill, Zhuge Liang does not have any skills to retain people, and I personally think that this is the fundamental reason that prevents him from becoming a first-line mage (if the skill damage is adjusted in the future, I didn't say it).
(5) Adjusted the rest of the heroes
With the exception of Ao Yin, all the other shooters have increased their movement speed, specifically:
- Huang Zhong, Gongsun Li, Jia Luo, Goya, Sun Shangxiang, Marco Polo, Li Yuanfang, and Baili Shoujo moved from 350 → 355;
- Luban Seven, Erin, Houyi, Yu Ji, Meng Lu, Lesio, and Di Renjie's movement speed has increased from 360→365;
- Genghis Khan's movement speed increased from 370→375.
In addition, Yu Ji, Li Yuanfang, Baili Shoujo, Genghis Khan, and Lesio have also received a small increase in their base health.
Finally, due to the adjustment of the resilience mechanism, Yun Ying's strength has also been affected, and in this update, the planner has also optimized the feel of her first skill.
The above is all the content of this update.,I'm Jinghaijun who writes strategies seriously.,This is nearly 4000 words.,Don't you want to pay attention to and praise it?