Slightly increased her damage in the early game.
Passive - Shadow Combo BUFF
Base True Damage: 50 >> 100
Reduced the Mana Cost of some skills to match the purple Buff adjustment.
Skill 1 - Dance of Blades
Mana Cost: 70-120 →
50-75
Skill 2 - Dance of Death
Mana Cost: 60-100 →
60-85
Karina's been effortlessly slicing her way to victory with 3 skill casts or less. We're slashing her early-game damage to make sure she earns her way into late game, fair and square.
Skill 1 - Dance of Blades
Base Damage: 180-255 → 150-225
Ultimate - Shadow Assault
Base Initial Damage: 450-750 → 350-750
We're reducing Karina's early game damage, especially when she's taking the tankier route. Her late game damage with Magic Power builds is basically unchanged.
Passive - Shadow Combo
Lost HP-Based Damage: 7 (+2% Magic Power )% → 5 (+2.5% Magic Power)%
Tank-build Karina has been overperforming lately, so we're applying some restrictions.
Passive - Shadow Combo
Damage: 45 + 5 * Level + 11% of the Target's Lost HP → 50 + 80% Magic Power + 8% of the Target's Lost HP
We want to slightly increase Karina's appearance rate in higher-ranked matches while maintaining her current skill mechanics.
Passive - Shadow Combo
Cooldown Reduction for Skill 1 & 2: 1s → 1.5s
Skill 1 - Dance of Blades
Base Damage: 160-260 → 180-255
Ultimate - Shadow Assault
Cooldown: 42-34s → 34-26s
We noticed that Karina could be especially powerful on some rare occasions but was too weak most of the time. Therefore, we nerfed her ability to sustain damage (with Passive) and slightly strengthened her single burst ability (with Skill 2), hoping that these adjustments could make her more balanced in different matches. We'll continue to observe the effects of these adjustments.
Passive - Shadow Combo
Extra damage dealt based on enemy's HP lost: 13% → 11%
Skill 1 - Dance of Blades
Movement Speed Boost: 35-50% → 45% (for all levels)
Skill 2 - Dance of Death
Damage: 305-430 + 115% Magic Power → 375-600 + 125% Magic Power
As the most eagerly anticipated hero in the "Reforge Your Legend" event, Karina's revamp was certainly no small challenge for us. Her role focuses more on "agility and assassination", so we've decided that this revamp should retain 'assassin' as her main feature while her agility needs to be strengthened, too.
Passive - Shadow Combo
Extra damage will be dealt to a target when they are hit 3 times. Triggering Shadow Combo at hero targets reduces the cooldowns of Karina's Skill 1 and Skill 2.
Skill 1 - Dance of Blades
Karina keeps flourishing her twin blades to defend against all Basic Attacks as she increases her Movement Speed. She launches a spinning slash when hit by a close-range Basic Attack, or throws a shadowblade at the attacker when hit by a long-range Basic Attack.
During the "Dance of Blades" state, Karina's next Basic Attack will be enhanced, with which she can charge at the target and slow them down. This state ends when the enhanced Basic Attack or Shadow Assault is cast.
Ultimate - Shadow Assault
This skill still locks on to and charges at the target as before, but can now also summon a Shadowform that lingers behind it, too. Use the skill again to quickly return to the Shadowform's location.
In addition, Karina leaves a Shadow Mark on enemies hit by her Shadow Assault, and its cooldown is reset when a target with a Shadow Mark dies.
As a Reap Assassin, Karina's stay line is too low. Once she doesn't slay the enemy successfully with her Ultimate, it will be very difficult for her to find a chance to battle. Thus, we hope the following adjustments will increase her slay line and fault tolerance rate.
Passive - Shadow Combo
The target's HP lost: 10% → 13%
Ultimate - Shadow Assault
Cooldown: 36/30/24 → 28/24/20
Others
No Adjustment -> Damage Dealt+8%
Skill 1 - Elusiveness
Basic damage of enhanced basic attack reduced from 165 to 160.
Damage growth per level increased from 10 to 20
Magic Power bonus reduced from 0.75 to 0.55.
Skill 2 - Dance of Death
Basic Damage of enhanced basic attack increased from 260 to 280.
Damage Growth per level increased from 20 to 25
Magic Power bonus reduced from 1.3 to 1.15.
Skill 1 - Dance of Blades
Fixed an issue that Karina couldn't launch basic attack while she is silenced with skill 1 activated.