Balance Notes: Beta v 1.15.0

✦AI summary1mo

Beta v 1.15.0 introduces a fundamental change to how Dexterity affects recovery, alongside weapon tuning for Axe, Katar, and Lance, and targeted adjustments for Legends Vraxx, Nai, and Sentinel.

▲Buffs18

DexterityLight attacks now receive a significantly higher recovery reduction from Dexterity.→Increased
Axe
- Recovery:Increased initial damage, though it now decreases over the duration of the spin.→Increased
- Recovery:Increased initial force, which now decreases over the duration of the spin.→Increased
- Neutral Air:Increased force, though it decreases after the initial frame.→Increased
- Down Air:Increased damage, which now decreases over the duration of the swing.→Increased
- Down Air:Increased force, which now decreases over the duration of the swing.→Increased
Lance
- Down Ground:Greatly increased power and added a backward slide for the user.→Increased
- Recovery:Slightly increased hitbox size.→Increased
- Recovery:Travels slightly farther on minimum charge.→Increased m
Combo Setups
- Hammer Down Ground:Slightly decreased time to hit and recovery time on miss.→Decreased s
- Lance Ground Side:Slightly decreased force and aimed force higher; decreased recovery time on miss.→Decreased
- Sword Ground Down:Decreased recovery time on miss and reduced the 'hard stop' effect.→Decreased s
- Spear Ground Side:Slightly increased damage and stun, while slightly decreasing force.→Increased
Lord Vraxx
- Down Lance:Slightly decreased time to hit and slightly increased hit window.→Decreased s
- Down Lance:Increased distance traveled.→Increased m
- Down Lance:Increased damage, though hitbox size was slightly reduced.→Increased
- Side Lance:Increased force on Side Lance.→Increased
BugfixesBlasters Ground Pound:Fixed a bug where the power could hit without dealing full damage or force.

▼Nerfs17

DexterityDexterity now provides less recovery reduction for signature moves to make them more punishable.→Decreased
Axe
- Recovery:Slightly reduced hitbox sizes and removed some hitboxes from the end of the swing.→Reduced
- Neutral Air:Slightly reduced overall hitbox size and greatly decreased size on the first frame of power.→Reduced
- Neutral Air:Decreased damage, with values decreasing further after the initial frame.→Decreased
- Down Air:Slightly reduced hitbox size.→Reduced
- Ground Side:Increased the cooldown time for the Ground Side attack.→Increased s
Katar
- Neutral Ground:Slightly reduced hitbox size.→Reduced
- Neutral Ground:Slightly reduced damage.→Reduced
- Recover:Slightly reduced hitbox size.→Reduced
- Air Down:Slightly reduced hitbox size.→Reduced
Lance
- Down Ground:Decreased hitbox size.→Decreased
- Down Ground:Decreased damage.→Decreased
Queen Nai
- Down Katar:Increased recovery time for the Down Katar signature.→Increased s
- Down Katar:Slightly decreased damage.→Decreased
Sentinel
- Neutral Hammer:Increased time to hit.→Increased s
- Neutral Hammer:Slightly decreased hit window, damage, and force.→Decreased
- Neutral Katar:Decreased force on Neutral Katar signature.→Decreased

✚Bug fixes5

AxeGround Pound:Fixed misplaced hitboxes on the Ground Pound.
KatarAir Down:Fixed a rare case where Air Down could deal more damage than intended.
Bugfixes
- Spear Ground Down:Fixed a case where targets could be dropped before the final hit.
- Hattori Side Sword:Fixed a case where the target could be dropped before the final hit.
- Lance Neutral Ground:Fixed some cases where a target could be dropped before the final hit.

◆Other changes3

DexterityIncreased the dexterity scaling factor, meaning high dex characters receive the largest benefits.→Increased
KatarAir Side:Hitboxes changed to better match the animation.
LanceDown Ground:Decreased initial force, but increased force towards the end of the power.→Mixed