ESTNN's Veselin Ignatov breaks down Dota Underlord's latest balance update.

Dota Underlords is Valve's latest title. The game is nearly the same as Dota 2 Auto Chess, which is a custom game made by Drodo Studios. Despite that, Dota Underlords is becoming more and more popular as each day passes by. What’s more, even the biggest Dota streamers are starting to put more time into this game.

Today, one of the biggest balance updates yet came to live servers. Here are all the changes that you need to know about!

Dota Underlords Balance Changes

Lightning and Shadow intensity tweaks

Sound from combat occurring on other player’s boards can now be heard from yours.

New opponent selection logic

Many new optimizations for PC

Fixed unit stats not reflecting all items and equipment when querying before combat started

Fixed friendly AI not casting spells after Pudge hooked an enemy

Coordinated Assault now stacks

AI will now cast spells on the ground under a target instead of on the target’s location.

Heroes & Spells

Dragon Alliance now requires two units. Additionally, it unlocks an additional ability for each member of the Alliance.

Dragon Knight: Breathe Fire is now his base ability.

Dragon Knight: Dragon Alliance also unlocks Dragon Form and his HP is increased to 1000/2000/4000

Dragon Knight: Gained +10 HP regeneration

Puck: Dragon Alliance now unlocks Phase Shift

Viper: Dragon Alliance now unlocks Corrosive Skin

Pocket Sand: Now also slows mana gained on receiving damage by 50%

Pocket Sand will debuff a random enemy unit within 2 cells if no units are within 1 cell of the Assassin landing

KOTL: Illuminate now costs 150 mana and his HP is increased to 550/1100/2200

Desperate Measure now also increases mana gained on receiving/dealing damage by the same amount as attack damage

Wicked intent now also blocks HP regen

Scrappy Alliance now provides 8 armor and 8 HP regen. It also provides double that amount if your starting army is smaller in size compared to your opponent’s.

Knight Alliance now gives a constant 15/25/35% damage reduction and an additional 20/25/30% when next to another knight.

Chaos Knight's damage is increased by a little bit

Items

Boots of Speed are now called Tranquil Boots. They provide 16 HP regen and 100% bonus move speed

NEW ITEM - Pipe of Insight - it provides +50 Magic Resistance. Once the first enemy has 100% mana, it applies a shield that blocks 400 magic damage to allies up to 1 cell away.

Dota Underlords Mobile Changes

Many new optimizations

Fixed storage pace calculation when downloading content

Fixed “Australia” mode where some android devices rendered the game upside down.

If this new genre of games continues to develop, we might see a new esports on the horizon. After all, some of the biggest esports game companies have their own version of the game.

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