On 23 May, Valve released the long-awaited patch 7.36 for Dota 2, which brought changes not only to the balance of the characters and items themselves, but also added new mechanics that will make the game more interesting.

Innate abilities

From now on, each Dota hero has a so-called ‘innate ability’ — an ability that the hero has from the beginning to the end of the game. For example, Dawnbreaker now completely clears the fog of war on the map at sunrise, allowing the allied team to see everything that is happening without obstacles for a short time. Although this mechanic cannot be called completely new, as it already existed to some extent before this patch. For example, the Mischief ability in Monkey King, which allows you to transform and disguise yourself as an object on the map, is an innate ability.

However, this mechanic doesn't necessarily add a new ability to the characters, it can also give an additional level to the ability. That is, now the hero will have an ability of five levels instead of four. An example is Kunkka with his Tidebringer, which is available from the very beginning of the game and can pump this asset 4 more times.

Facets

Each player has the opportunity to customise their character to their own playstyle, giving their abilities a special effect that enhances it. For example, Doom can choose a facet that replaces the 70-second recharge of Devour with two charges of the ability and a 90-second recovery time. Or you can choose a different facet — the hero can sell items for 90% of their value, but the redemption value will be increased by 15%.

Thanks to the facets, you can adapt to a specific situation related to the enemy's set of heroes or to your vision. You can change them only before the start of the game, as well as at the planning stage. You can view the facets on the hero's page, above his abilities, or above the icon of his innate ability. Enemy facets are not revealed to the opposing team until the start of the game.

The most interesting among the general changes in the update

• The planning stage has been increased by 15/10/5 seconds for the first/second/third week after the game update.
• Now, the glyph of fortifications is not updated after the first tower of the third category is destroyed. Instead, the glyph is updated after the first swordsman barracks falls.
• Spell radius increase now applies to all auras and peripheral damage sources.
• When finishing off an allied hero, the hero who cast the effect that allowed you to finish off your ally will receive additional experience.
• The enemy team now sees mana streaks over players.
• A new feature with permanent range indicators has been added to the Dota 2 labs, which allows you to activate only one indicator at a time: experience, attack range or ability, etc.
• The war fog of both sides correctly displays team members whose visibility is isolated.
• The rules for Ability Draft mode related to facets and innate abilities have been added.

Changes to items

Roshan's Banner

• The item now grants invulnerability to all allied creeps within the banner's range.
• The radius has been reduced from 750 to 600.
• The duration of the banner has been reduced to 2 minutes.
• Melee heroes deal double damage to Roshan's banner.
• Spell range reduced from global to 1000.

Dragon Lance

• Item cannot be disassembled

Eternal Shroud

• The cost of the recipe has been increased from 800 to 900, as well as the total cost of the item from 3600 to 3700.

Orchid Malevolence and Bloodthorn

• Fixed a bug that caused resistance to effects to cancel out the damage from Sould Burn and Sould Rend, respectively.

Maelstrom

• Chain Lighting's damage has been reduced from 120 to 110.

Octarine Core

• Health and mana bonus reduced from 625 to 550.

Sange

• The cost of the item's recipe has been increased from 550 to 650, the total cost of the item has also been increased by 100.
• No longer provides a +16% bonus to effect resistance.
• Gives +20% resistance to slow.

Yasha

• The cost of the recipe has been increased from 550 to 650, the total cost has also been increased by 100.

Kaya

• The cost of the recipe has been increased from 550 to 650, the total cost has also been increased by 100.

Heaven's Halberd

• The cost of the recipe has been reduced by 100 gold, but the total cost has not changed.

Manta Style

• The cost of the item has been increased by 100 gold.

Meteor Hammer

• The cost of the recipe has been reduced by 100 gold, but the total cost has not changed.

Sange and Yasha

• The cost of the item has been increased from 4000 to 4200.
• Now gives a +25% slow effect.

Yasha and Kaya

• The cost of the item has been increased from 4000 to 4200.
• Now gives a +25% resistance effect to the application speed.

Kaya and Sange 

• The cost of the item has been increased from 4000 to 4200.
• No longer grants a +25% bonus to effect resistance.
• Now grants +25% resistance to slow.
• Gives a +25% reduction in mana cost.

Wind Waker

• Cyclone cooldown increased from 13 to 16 seconds.

Changes to neutral items

Ogre Seal Totem

• Ogre Seal Flop now plays an animation when the hero jumps.

Interesting changes in the characters

Abaddon

Innate ability:

• Font of Avernus — the hero respawns 10% faster.

Facets:

• The Quickening — after the death of creatures within a radius of 900 from the hero, he receives a 0.2-second charge reduction. If the heroes die, the charge is reduced by 4 seconds.
• Aphotic Shield — the damage from the barrier explosion is increased by 50%, but does not deal instant damage. Instead, when enemies hit the barrier, all enemies within a radius of 675 receive 80% of the damage dealt in their direction.

Alchemist

Innate ability:

• Greevil's Greed — remains innate, and cannot be upgraded.

Edge:

• Seed Money — receives 250 extra gold at the beginning of the game
• Mixologist — Chemical Rage reduces the cooldown of Berserk Potion by 50% and Unstable Concoction by 30% during the ultimates.

Ancient Apparition

An innate ability:

• Death Rime — the hero's abilities impose a frost effect on enemies that reduces their speed by 1.5% and deals 10 damage per second.

Edge:

• Death Rime — each charge also reduces the target's strength by 0.5/0.75/1/1.25.
• Cold Feet — deals damage to enemies in a 400 radius around the target.

Anti-Mage

Innate ability:

• Mana Break has become an innate ability, the total mana burn at the last level is 4 units higher than before.

Facets:

• Counterspell (Counterspell Ally) — deflects spells during activation.
• Mana Thirst — gives a bonus to attack power when enemy heroes within a 2500 radius have less than 60% mana.

Arc Warden

Innate ability:

• Runic Snfusion — Gains a 4-second regeneration effect when activating any rune.

Facets:

• Order — Arc Warden and Tempest Double have corresponding abilities.
• Disorder — Arc Warden and Tempest Double exchange abilities.

Axe

Innate ability:

• Coat of Blood — After killing an enemy, Axe gains +1 to Armour bonus, and kills with Culling Blade give a double bonus.

Facets:

• One man army — increases the strength of the hero by 60% of his armour if there are no allied heroes within a radius of 600 around him. The effect lasts for another 5 seconds after the allies enter the area of effect.
• Call out — increases additional armour by 5. Provoked enemies gain +45 to their attack speed for the duration of the effect.

Bane

• Ichor pf Nyctashs — distributes attributes evenly during the duration of the boost.

Facets:

• Dream Stalker — Nightmare gains 40/50/60/70 to attack speed when attacking creatures while sleeping.
• Sleepwalk — makes the ability vectorial, under the influence of the ability move in the specified direction.

Batrider

An innate ability:

• Smoledering resin — attacks impose a debuff that deals 15% attack damage once per second for two.

Facets:

• Stoked — if the hero uses abilities on the enemy that make him move, the hero will receive +10 to movement speed and +8% to the power of abilities.
• Arsonist — Sticky Napalm can be used on a building for 25% damage.

Beastmaster

An innate ability:

• Inner beast — gives a bonus to attack speed, only works on the hero and units under his control.

Facets:

• Wild Hunt — increases bonuses from Inner Beast
• Beast Mode — Inner Beast becomes active, increasing the bonus of the ability, and attacks will have the effect of debuff from Wild Axes.

Bloodseeker

Innate ability:

• Sanguivore — after killing units, restores 25 + 1% health from the killed unit. Has the properties of vampirism.

Facets:

• Artetail stray — when attacking a target under the influence of Rupture, the hero pushes it in the direction he is looking at a distance of 50.
• Bloodrush — Thirst can be activated and gain an additional +50% movement speed for 5 seconds.

Bounty Hunter

Innate ability:

• BIG GAME HUNTER — Killing a hero with a series of kills will give BH extra gold.

Facets:

• THROUGH AND THROUGH — Shuriken Toss deals damage and slows down all enemies it touches.
• CUTPURSE — the hero gets gold by using abilities on the hero under Track.

Brewmaster

An innate ability:

• Drunken Brawler is now an innate ability.

Facets:

• ROLL OUT THE BARREL — the hero launches the barrel in a certain direction, dealing damage to enemies and applying the effect of Cinder Brew
• DRUNKEN MASTER — the movement speed under Drunken Brawler changes from 20% slowdown to +50% acceleration.

Bristleback

An innate ability:

• Warpath — became an innate ability, has improved skill characteristics.

Facets:

• BERSERK — Warpath increases attack speed per stack, damage remains at 5 at all levels.
• SNOT ROCKET — Viscous Nasal Goo can impose 6 effects, armour damage from the ability is increased. Instead of Quill Spray, the hero unleashes Viscous Nasal when the threshold of incoming damage is reached.

Broodmother

An innate ability:

• SPIDER'S MILK — For killing units, the spider and all her controlled creatures gain a healing effect of 4% of the victim's health every second for three.

Facets:

• NECROTIC WEBS — Spin Web reduces the health regeneration of enemies.
• FEEDING FRENZY — Insatiable Hunger bonuses apply to all spiders.

Centaur Warrunner

Innate ability: 

• RAWHIDE — the hero gains +40 to his maximum health every 2 minutes.

Edge:

• COUNTER-STRIKE — damage from Double Edge is increased by 25% of the damage taken in the last 6 seconds.
• HORSEPOWER — the hero gains a bonus to movement speed equal to 40% of his strength. 

Chaos Knight

An innate ability:

• REINS OF CHAOS — the hero has the ability to gain 50% additional illusion from various sources of illusion creation.

Facets:

• PHANTASMAGORIA — all illusions of the hero become strong illusions.
• IRRATIONALITY — Reality Rift has an equal chance of inflicting exhaustion, disarmament, or nothing on the enemy.

Chen

An innate ability:

• SUMMON CONVERT — summons a creep that gains bonuses from the hero's abilities.

Facets:

• CENTAUR CONVERT — summons a centaur.
• WOLF CONVERT — summons a wolf.
• HELLBEAR CONVERT — summons a bear.
• TROLL CONVERT — summons a troll.
• SATYR CONVERT — summons a satyr.

Clinkz

An innate ability:

• BONE AND ARROW — the hero's death, as well as some of his abilities, summon immobile archer skeletons.

Facets:

• SUPPRESSIVE FIRE — enemies under the Strafe effect receive a 5% miss debuff. In addition, it increases the attack range by 100.
• ENGULFING STEP — using Death Pact replaces the hero in the place of the absorbed creep, and leaves the archer skeleton in the previous place.

Clockwerk

An innate ability:

• ARMOR POWER — Increased damage output by 0.3% per unit of armour.

Edge:

• HOOKUP — if Hookshot hits an ally, the cooldown of the ability is reduced by 75%, and the damage and stun radius is increased to 300.
• EXPANDED ARMOUR — Power Cogs are created in a larger radius. Gears have a smaller radius, but they can be triggered inside the enemy.

Crystal Maiden

An innate ability:

• BLUEHEART FLOE — mana regeneration is 50% higher.

Facets:

• FROZEN EXPANSE — Arcane Aura increases the range of abilities as well as their radius 
• COLD COMFORT — Thanks to Arcane Aura, each time allies use abilities, they receive partial mana recovery.

Dark Seer

An innate ability:

• MENTAL FORTITUDE — the hero's intelligence cannot be lower than his other attributes. If this happens, the hero gains a bonus to Intelligence.

Facets:

• QUICK WIT — gains 0.5 attack speed per unit of intelligence.
• HEART OF BATTLE — base movement speed is reduced to 275, but gains 8% of the speed of all heroes within a radius of 900.

Dark Willow

An innate ability:

• PIXIE DUST — whenever the heroine is in a state where she cannot be targeted, she gains +100 to regeneration.

Facets:

• THROWING SHADE — under the influence of Shadow Realm, the heroine gives an aura of damage increase by 25%.
• THORNY THICKET — creates 4 additional bushes from Bramble Maze.

Dawnbreaker

An innate ability:

• BREAK OF DAWN — Dawnbreaker reveals a map at dawn for 4 seconds.

Facets:

• SOLAR CHARGED — Reduces the cooldown of abilities by 1 second when it hits a target with active Luminosity.
• GLEAMING HAMMER — When Celestial Hammer is on the ground, it releases a weak Solar Guardian effect.

Dazzle

An innate ability:

• WEAVE — became innate, increases/decreases armour depending on whether the target is allied or enemy.

Facets:

• NOTHL BOON — if the hero creates excessive healing, it imposes a physical barrier equal to the excessive healing for 5 seconds.
• POISON BLOOM — every fourth attack of the hero under the effect of Poison Touch deals additional damage.

Death Prophet

An innate ability:

• WITCHCRAFT — the ability has become innate, increases movement speed and reduces ability cooldowns by 0.5% per level.

Facets:

• SUPPRESS — slows down enemies under Silence.
• SPIRIT COLLECTOR — the heroine accumulates charges with enemy souls to replace standard spirits and increase the effectiveness of Exorcism.

Disruptor

An innate ability:

• ELECTROMAGNETIC REPULSE — whenever the hero takes more than 250 damage, units within 400 radius are repelled.

Facets:

• THUNDERSTORM — Thinderstrike deals damage to all enemies in the Kinetic Field area.
• KINETIC FENCE — replaces Kinetic Field with Kinetic Fence. The wall is created after a delay of 0.75 seconds.

Doom

An innate ability:

• LVL? PAIN — the hero deals 10% more damage with attacks on enemies whose level is lower than his.

Facets:

• GLUTTONY — replaces the 70-second recharge of Devour with two charges.
• DEVIL'S BARGAIN — items are sold for 90% of their value, but the redemption costs 15% more.

Dragon Knight

An innate ability:

• DRAGON BLOOD — Gains health and armour regeneration for each level.

Facets: 

• FIRE DRAGON — Gains additional slashing damage from Wyrm's Wrath and Elder Dragon Form.

CORROSIVE DRAGON — deals poisonous damage from Wyrm's Wrath and Elder Dragon Form.

• FROST DRAGON — deals freezing effect from Wyrm's Wrath and Elder Dragon Form.

Drow Ranger

An innate ability:

• PRECISION AURA — grants additional dexterity within a 1200 radius.

Facets:

• VANTAGE POINT — the heroine deals 20% more damage with attacks from a high place.
• SIDESTEP — the heroine can move during the Multishot action.

Earthshaker

An innate ability:

• Aftershock is now an innate ability.

Facets:

• TECTONIC BUILDUP — every 10 levels, the radius of Aftershock increases by 50.
• SLUGGER — killing an enemy with the Enchant Totem attack sends his body flying and deals damage to others in flight.

Elder Titan

An innate ability:

• Astral Spirit — has become an innate ability.

Facets:

• DECONSTRUCTION — every second an enemy hero is under the effect of Natural Order, he loses an additional 1 armour and 1% magic resistance. Summed up to 20.
• MOMENTUM — Elder Titan's attack speed is reduced by 75, but he gains a bonus to his attack speed equal to 20% of his movement speed.

Ember Spirit

Innate ability:

• Flame Guard — has become an innate ability.

Facets:

• DOUBLE IMPACT — Sleight of Fist strikes a second time at the nearest hero if there were two or more targets.
• CHAIN GANG — Searing Chains is triggered around each Fire Remnant.

Enchantress

An innate ability:

• FOREST FREEBIE — has a chance to get another neutral item if Enchantress has a token.

Facets:

• OVERPROTECTIVE WISPS — creates a firefly that heals the heroine if she takes more than 250 damage.
• SPELLBOUND — Gains extra attack range when attacking a target under Enchant.

Enigma

An innate ability:

• GRAVITY WELL — Allies gain a bonus to damage resistance.

Edge:

• EVENT HORIZON — Enemies within 600 radius gain slow when moving away from Enigma.
• SPLITTING IMAGE — Every 350 incoming damage creates an Eidolon, with less damage to the enemy.

Faceless Void

An innate ability:

• DISTORTION FIELD — projectiles from attacks near the hero are slowed down.

Facets:

• TEMPORARY IMPUNITY — the hero dodges any damage for 1 second after Time Walk.
• TIME ZONE — replaces Chronosphere with the new Time Zone ability, in which allies and their actions are faster and enemies are slower.

Grimstroke

An innate ability:

• INK TRAIL — adds a trail effect that allows you to see the enemy hero for a while.

Edge:

• INKSTIGATE — gives the ability Ink Explosion, which allows you to manually detonate Ink Swell.
• FINE ART — makes the Stroke of Fate ability vectorial.

Gyrocopter

An innate ability:

• CHOP SHOP — the hero can disassemble most items and sell recipes for full price.

Facets:

• SECONDARY STRIKES — improves the Call Down ability.
• AFTERBURNER — hits from Rocket Barrage increase the hero's speed.

Hoodwink

An innate ability:

• MISTWOODS WAYFARER — has a chance to redirect attacks to a nearby tree.

Edge:

• GO NUTS — the effect of Scurry in the form of an additional attack range.
• TREEBOUNCE TRICKSHOT — Acorn Shot will bounce off a tree if there are no enemy targets nearby.

Huskar

An innate ability:

• BLOOD MAGIC — the hero has no mana, all costs use health.

Edge:

• BLOODBATH — Life Break reduces the target's speed.
• NOTHL TRANSFUSION — Life Break heals allies.

Invoker

Innate ability:

• MASTERMIND — Gains 15% experience per allied crit.

Facets:

• AGNOSTIC — passively applies effects from spheres, ignoring active ones.
• ELITIST — active spheres give additional stats.

Io

Innate ability:

• SIGHT SEER — It takes 1 second less for an allied team to capture a Sightseer.

Facets:

• KRITZKRIEG — Overcharge increases attack speed and damage from abilities.
• MEDIGUN — Overcharge increases armour and magic resistance.

Jakiro

Innate ability:

• DOUBLE TROUBLE — The hero fires two projectiles with less damage, one of which ignores damage blocking.

Facets:

• Liquid Fire — improves the hero's fire abilities.
• Liquid Frost — improves the hero's frost abilities.

Juggernaut

An innate ability:

• DUELIST — deals more damage to enemies facing the hero.

Facets:

• BLADESTORM — Blade Fury deals critical damage from Blade Dance.
• BLADEFORM — Receives a Bladeform charge every 2 seconds for 10 seconds, which gives bonuses to agility and movement speed.

Keeper of the Light

An innate ability:

• MANA MAGNIFIER — Allies in the vicinity have 15% more mana.

Facets:

• Solar Bind — Imposes a reduction in magic resistance on enemies.
• Recall — improves the Recall ability.

Kunkka

Innate ability:

• Tidebringer — has become an innate ability.

Facets:

• HIGH TIDE — reduces the recharge of Tidebringer for each hit on the hero by 0.8 seconds.
• GROG BLOSSOM — the returned unit from X Marks the Spot has the effect of Ghostship's Rum around it.

Legion Commander

Innate ability:

• Moment of Courage is now an innate ability.

Facets:

• STONEHALL PLATE — Overwhelming Odds places a 100% barrier to all types of damage on Legion Commander.
• SPOILS OF WAR — creatures and players that dealt damage to the defeated player receive a little extra damage from the attack.

Leshrac

An innate ability:

• DEFILEMENT — increases the radius of spells by 0.5 per unit of intelligence.

Facets:

• CHRONOPTIC NOURISHMENT — the hero's attacks restore part of the mana.
• MISANTHROPY — Diabolic Edict contains 40 explosions for 7 seconds, but does not affect buildings.

Lich

An innate ability:

• DEATH CHARGE — the hero does not passively regenerate mana, but replenishes it only through the death of units or heroes in the vicinity.

Edge:

• FROSTBOUND — if a Chain Frost projectile cannot find a second target, it will circle around the first one for a while until the second one appears.
• GROWING COLD — increases the number of bounces and adds them for killing creeps or heroes.

Lifestealer

Innate ability:

• Feast is now an innate ability.

Facets:

• CORPSE EATER — Gains +2 health for each unit killed.
• UNFETTERED — Rage has been replaced with the new Unfettered ability, which gives 50% resistance to magic and effects, and also gives strong dispel.

Lina

Innate Ability:

• Fiery Soul is now an innate ability.

Facets:

• THERMAL RUNAWAY — Lina gets 12 stacks of Fiery Soul for 5 seconds from Laguna Blade.
• SLOW BURN — Instant damage from abilities has been reduced by 60%, but now enemies take damage for three seconds.

Lion

Innate ability:

• TO HELL AND BACK — the hero receives 20% bonuses to the duration of negative effects and damage from spells for 90 seconds after revival.

Facets:

• ESSENCE EATER — deals 100% damage of the stolen mana.
• FIST OF DEATH — improves the Finger of Death skill.

Lone Druid

Innate ability:

• Summon Spirit Bear is now an innate ability.

Facets:

• BEAR WITH ME — The hero gains armour and health recovery from attacks for himself and the bear from the Spirit Link and True Form abilities.
• UNBEARABLE — Spirit Bear attacks heal Lone Druid, but not vice versa. In bear form, he gains additional armour, losing his base attack time.

Luna

An innate ability:

• SELEMENE'S FAVOUR — Luna gains +20% to the range of spells cast at night

Edge:

• LUNAR ORBIT — Reduces incoming damage from Moon Glaives.
• MOONSTORM — gives Luna extra attack power when Lucent Beam hits a hero, lasts for 15 seconds.

Lycan

An innate ability:

• APEX PREDATOR — Lycan deals 2% more damage to neutral creeps for each level of the hero.

Facets:

• PACK LEADER — Grants a bonus to speed and critical hits from Shapeshift for all units under your control.
• SPIRIT WOLVES — changes the ability to summon wolves, making them passive, giving the hero a bonus of health and damage.

Magnus

An innate ability:

• SOLID CORE — Magnus is affected by enemy abilities and items that force the hero to move.

Facets:

• RUN THROUGH — deals damage for each tree and hill under Skewer's influence.
• REVERSE REVERSE POLARITY — Reverse Polarity pushes enemies and places them at a maximum distance of 700 units, dealing damage and stunning.

Marci

An innate ability:

• SPECIAL DELIVERY — Increases the level of the courier by three.

Facets:

Sidekick — damage bonus has been changed.

• BODYGUARD — the heroine gains a bonus to vampirism and damage from basic attacks, as well as armour.

Mars

An innate ability:

• DAUNTLESS — the hero and allies gain a bonus to healing from the ability.

Facets:

• VICTORY FEAST — the hero is healed by 20% if an enemy dies in the Arena Of Blood.
• BLOOD SPORT — enemies lose visibility outside the arena.

Medusa

Innate ability:

• Mana Shield is now an innate ability.

Edges:

• ENGORGED — Mystic Snake ability deals additional physical damage for the next three attacks.
• MANA PACT is an active ability that absorbs mana, giving Medusa a bonus to attack speed.

Meepo

An innate ability:

• STICKY FINGERS — the hero can have one more neutral artefact.

Facets:

• MORE MEEPO — increases the maximum level of the ability from 3 to 4.
• PACK RAT — the hero can place any item in a neutral slot, except for boots and items that drop after death.

Mirana

An innate ability:

• SELEMENE'S FAITHFUL — healing lotuses are 20% more effective for her and allies.

Facets:

• Moonlight Shadow — Mirana's ultimates.
• SOLAR FLARE — Mirana's new ultimates, improving some of the parameters of Marina and her allies.

Monkey King

Innate ability:

• Mischief — remained innate.

Facets:

• WUKONG'S FAITHFUL — soldiers from Wukong's Command disappear 3 seconds after the hero dies or leaves the circle.
• Tree Dance — does not require recharging if the hero's health level is 100%.

Morphling

An innate ability:

• ACCUMULATION — instead of the full increase in attributes per level, the hero receives 50% of the increase every half level.

Facets:

• EBB — the main attribute is agility, Adaptive Strike pushes the target away.
• FLOW — the main attribute is strength, the ratio of strength to agility speeds up the recharge of abilities.

Muerta

An innate ability:

• SUPERNATURAL — Muerta can always attack incorporeal creatures and attacks in incorporeal form.

Facets:

• DANCE OF THE DEAD — when the hero dies within 200 of The Calling, the duration is updated, and the circle expands by 100 units and gains an additional ghost.
• OFRENDA — the heroine creates an altar near which she is reborn and destroys it.

Naga Siren

An innate ability:

• EELSKIN — Naga Siren gains +6% to dodge for each copy.

Edge:

• Rip Tide — Every 6 attacks from Naga Siren and her illusions, she drenches enemies in water and reduces their armour for 4 seconds.
• DELUGE — Naga Siren and all her copies douse nearby enemies with water and reduce their resistance to effects.

Nature's Prophet

Innate ability:

• SPIRIT OF THE FOREST — the hero takes additional damage for each tree in his vicinity.

Facets:

• SOOTHING SAPLINGS — Sprout heals allies on the building.
• IRONWOOD TREANT — summons one trench with more damage and health.

Necrophos

An innate ability:

• SADIST — the ability is back as an innate ability.

Facets:

• PROFANE POTENCY — the hero gets +50 to AoE for SADIST.
• RAPID DECAY — increases movement speed by 25% of the damage lost by enemies.

Phantom Assassin

An innate ability:

• IMMATERIAL — Gains 1.5% dodge per level.

Facets:

• VEILED ONE — Blur does not dissipate from attacks.
• METHODICAL — increases critical damage and makes critical hits not random.

Pudge

Innate ability:

• FLESH HEAP is now an innate ability.

Edge:

• Dismember — increases the power of the hero if the target was a hero.
• Meat Hook — Hook damage is reduced by 50%, but enemies will take damage for the distance they have travelled under the Hook ability.

Rubick

Innate ability:

• MIGHT AND MAGUS — Amplification increases the hero's base damage by 100%.

Edge:

• FRUGAL FILCH — reduces the mana cost of Spell Steal.
• ARCANE ACCUMULATION — stolen spells will now use the facet of the hero they were stolen from.

Sniper

An innate ability:

• KEEN SCOPE — increases the attack range of the hero.

Facets:

• GHILLIE SUIT — the hero does not reveal himself from the fog of war when attacking enemies with Take Aim.
• SCATTERSHOT — reduces the duration to 1 second, but multiplies the damage by 4 times and slows it by 2 times.

Windranger

An innate ability:

• EASY BREEZY — Windranger's movement speed is always equal to the wind speed and cannot be lower than 240.

Facets:

• TAILWIND — allows you to attack one target faster, but with less damage from Focus Fire
• WHIRLWIND — the Focus Fire ability becomes undirected, the heroine shoots at random targets within the radius of the ability.

Wraith King

An innate ability:

• Vampiric Spirit — became an innate ability.

Facets:

• BONE GUARD — the ability allows you to summon skeletons.
• SPECTRAL BLADE — gives an ability that imposes an effect on enemies, after which they receive additional damage.

Zeus

An innate ability:

• Static Field — ability returned as an innate ability.

Facets:

• LIVEWIRE — damage from Static Field depends on the distance between the hero and his target.
• DIVINE RAMPAGE — hits enemies in order of increasing health with an interval of 0.2. After the enemy dies, the next hit will be stronger.