Yu Zhong's Passive Sha Residue recovery efficiency was low, so we've optimized the mark's fight speed to improve HP recovery efficiency. Additionally, we've significantly increased his Max in both Black Dragon and Dragonoid Forms.
[Passive]
Improved the efficiency of lost HP recovery.
[Ultimate]
HP Boost: 600-1000 >> 1000-2000
Reduced the airborne duration.
Skill 3 - Furious Dive NERF
Airborne Duration: 1s >> 0.8s
Yu Zhong is a bit weak against popular Exp laners, so we're optimizing his combo damage and skill cooldown to make him more competitive against those heroes in battle.
Passive - Cursing Touch
Improved the description so that it now matches the actual effects.
Sha Eruption's Extra Damage based on Target's Lost HP: 2% → 2.5%
Skill 1 - Dragon Tail
Sharpened Edge's Damage: 250% → 275%
Skill 2 - Soul Grip
Improved the description to make it easier to understand.
Cooldown: 14-11s → 12s at all levels
We want to make Yu Zhong's passive simpler while also somewhat buffing his laning potential.
Passive - Cursing Touch
Optimized Sha Residue's flying path as it returns to Yu Zhong after it erupts and slightly raised its flight speed (HP Regen speed is now faster).
New Effect: Yu Zhong gains 30% extra Movement Speed when Sha Residue erupts.
Removed Effect: Removed Sha Essence.
Skill 1 - Dragon Tail
Cooldown: 7-5.5s → 6-4.5s
Spell Vamp Ratio to Minions: 50% → 100%
Skill 2 - Soul Grip
Slightly increased the range of his Enhanced Basic Attacks.
Ultimate - Black Dragon Form
He no longer deals damage to nearby enemies when he enters Dragonoid form.
We want to give opposing players more room for reaction when against Yu Zhong in the Black Dragon form, so we adjusted his charge ability. As compensation, we increased Yu Zhong's damage.
Skill 1 - Dragon Tail
Base Damage: 200-380 → 220-400
Ultimate - Black Dragon Form
Black Dragon form's knockback effect now only takes effect once on the same target.
Adjusted Yu Zhong to further separate his role from acting like a Tank.
Attributes
Base HP: 2898 → 2698
HP Growth: 215 → 195
Skill 3 - Furious Dive
Cooldown: 12.10.5s → 14-11s
We have increased the cooldowns in order to increase his downtime between teamfights and nerf his durability.
Skill 1 - Dragon Tail
Cooldown: 5.5-4s → 7-5.5s
Skill 2 - Soul Grip
Cooldown: 10.6-8.5s → 12-10.5s
Ultimate - Black Dragon Form
Cooldown 65s → 85-65s
Though being nerfed last time, Yu Zhong still shows his strong ability in high-rank matched. By reducing his mobility, durability, and damage, we hope the opponents can find a way to deal with him.
Passive - Cursing Touch
Eruption Duration of Sha Residue: 1s → 2s
When Sha Essence is fully charged:
Movement Speed gain: 30% → 45% (can only be triggered once and will decay, rapidly in 2s)
Spell Vamp: 20% → 10%
Ultimate - Black Dragon Form
Base Damage dealt in Black Dragon form: 200-360 → 180-310
Yu Zhong's performance on the Advanced Server shows that it is quite difficult for players to trigger the Sha Residue eruption, thus we have set high benefits for this effect. However, we have found that about twice as many players as before are able to utilize this mechanism. To deal with the balance problem caused by the frequent high HP restoration, we have adjusted the HP restoration amount. Meanwhile, we have slightly reduced the Movement Speed gain from the fully-charged Sha Essence to ease the problem.
Passive - Cursing Touch
HP Restoration from each stack consumption reduced from 8% of lost HP → 6%
Movement Speed gain reduced from 40% → 30%
A powerful fighter who can transform into a Black Dragon and sweep across the battlefield.
Passive - Cursing Touch
Yu Zhong applies Sha Residue to the target every time he deals damage to enemy heroes, and gathers Sha Essence in the meantime. Sha Residue erupts upon reaching full stacks, consuming 1 stack every several seconds. Each stack consumption deals part of the target's HP lost as Physical Damage, restores part of his HP lost and gathers Sha Essence for Yu Zhong. When Sha Essence is fully charged, Yu Zhong gains Movement Speed and Spell Vamp.
Skill 1 - Dragon Tail
Yu Zhong infuses his power into his cloak and turns it into a weapon, which starts to attack nearby enemies after a short delay. The sharpened edge deals more damage.
Skill 2 - Soul Grip
Yu Zhong unleashes the Dragon Soul, dealing damage to all enemies in front and slowing them. Upon a target hit, Yu Zhong's next Basic Attack will be enhanced, dealing increased damage and applying extra Sha Residue. The increased damage scales with the number of targets hit, capped at 5 targets hit.
Skill 3 - Furious Dive
Yu Zhong leaps towards the designated area with his full strength, dealing Physical Damage. He is able to dash one more time in the movement direction. After a short delay, enemies within the area of effect will be knocked airborne will take additional Physical Damage.
Ultimate - Black Dragon Form
Yu Zhong transforms into the Black Dragon form and starts charging. He gains Control Immunity, ignores obstacles, and increases Max HP, dealing Physical Damage to enemy heroes on the path and knocking them.
Upon exiting the Black Dragon form, Yu Zhong deals the same amount of damage to enemies nearby, and enters Dragonoid form with the help of the remaining influence of the Black Dragon. The Dragonoid form improves the range of all his skills.