Blood & Nectar Patch Notes
Patch 0.72The Relic Draft: One Relic Every Round
August 12–14, 2026
Champions draw a relic and a flask at the top of every round, and the draft that hands them out gets a stage of its own — lifted off the floor, squared, lit with embers, readable at a glance instead of at a sitting. Talent and artifact procs finally show up on the board with a sound each. And a sprung trap stops the whole board to pick its victim in the open.
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Detailed Changes
BBellerophonReworkYou could not read your own turn back afterwards: four hidden branches behind one button, all keyed on a flight state set two actions earlier. His own armour is the ammunition; he does not take their protection away, he spends his.
QLance
- Q and E swap names. The Lance hits the front and grants 30 Momentum. That is the ability. It no longer shatters enemy shields, and neither does anything else in his kit.
WAbove the Clouds
- Effect: a round untargetable, spear reset and bank, landing ward, wing badge⇒Pegasus GRANTS a ward: 25% of Max HP, Mana only, no HP toll, capped at half his current HP
- It re-opens the Lance, so the round is Lance, ward, Lance, Skypiercer: four presses, both Lances real casts. Once it has gone off, the whole kit hunts the healthiest enemy.
ESkypiercer
- Requirement: must be airborne⇒fires flat-footed
- LOADED (W this turn): —⇒takes the healthiest enemy and sacrifices his whole ward; it bursts at double value across every other fighter, never him
- DRY (no W): —⇒the front enemy, damage only, ward untouched
- Gated on the W press, not on holding a shield, so a ward he merely happens to wear is never eaten. Card text 505 → 231 characters.
PPerseusReworkPerseus starts forgetting. The same counter that measures what he has shed measures how lost he is.
WHelm of Invisibility
- Cost: 10% Max HP +5% per Poison, cleansing at the door⇒flat 10% Max HP, cleanses nothing at the door
- The commit-lock is gone: he may lift the Helm at any depth, so dive-cut-lift-fire is a legal and expensive turn. The 2-presses-per-turn cap still holds him to one in-and-out.
QVeiled cut
- Every veiled cut sheds one stack instead, worst DoT first, then CC, then status. Cut 1 takes the front, cuts 2-3 a random enemy, and from the 4th each cut carries a stacking 33% chance that the pick opens to every body standing, his own line included: 14 / 26 / 40% ally-hit measured. He can never cut himself.
EMirror's Edge
- Renamed from the old E; the passive becomes Containment. Card text 589 → 284 characters.
SSphinxAdjustedSix rings turning at once was true and unreadable.
The spring
- The misdirection uses the targeting beam the player just drove: Sphinx for a riddle, Odysseus for a trap, out through the medallion and down onto whoever the rule picked, with her laugh over it. Only a real retarget interrupts; a transform never did lose a target. 5.7 s down to 4.4.
LLyssaAdjustedA generated sheet overwrote nine hand-authored W frames, and her E played two effects on one cast.
VFX
- Her own W art is back from the originals. Q and E spawn nothing of their own and let the bite fire where the hit actually lands; the flourish could land on a different card than the damage.
The swerve
- Two Lyssas are told apart: when the name is ambiguous the actor's team wins the tie, and the champion a blow was spared from is never the one it landed on.
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SYSTEMS
🎴 Draw and Draft
A relic and a flask at the top of every round, drafted on a stage that is readable at a glance — and Maelstrom takes one pick instead of two.
✨ Procs You Can See
Talent and artifact procs land on the board, each with the potion click, so the frequency can be heard as well as read.
🪤 The Spring
A sprung trap holds the whole board, picks its victim in the open, and freezes on the word "springs" — with a voice.
🌀 Vortex, Reachable
Vortex opens from the web arena instead of a URL you had to know, with one glyph for it in the log.
📱 Every Way You Hold It
Portrait is a layout now, not a nag, and the web client can walk itself into champion select.
🛡️ The Ward, Everywhere
The ward goes on every match, not just Vortex; everyone hits at 80%, the front line at half.
Full Patch Notes
- Gave champions a relic and a flask at the top of every round, and rebuilt the draft band to match.
- Put talent and artifact procs on the board with a click each, so the proc rate is audible.
- Made a sprung trap hold the board, name its victim, and land the blow where the rule pointed — holding the real blow back rather than throwing it away and faking one.
- Bellerophon stops flying and Perseus starts forgetting; both had card text longer than a card.
- Sphinx casts the misdirection herself, along the path you just used.
- Champion select remembers what you built, and you walk in with the champions you fought with last time.
- Bots stopped drinking their own HP.
- Stopped the beta client walking you back onto live.
- Refreshed the Codex — the statlines were three days behind.
- Stopped pinning health bars and cut the hold, so the fight can keep up.