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Aug 12, 2026

Powder Keg burns, Rising Ram bulks

Holliday's Powder Keg now splits its damage into an impact hit and a stacking 3s burn, while Billy's Rising Ram T3 trades max health damage for a +10% Max Health buff on hero hit. McGinnis, Drifter and Wraith take nerfs, and Apollo's Riposte picks up a longer lifesteal window.

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Holliday

Holliday

2 reworks
1Powder Keg

Powder Keg

Powder Keg

27.5s28s
6m

Throw a barrel that explodes after a delay, dealing spirit damage and applying knockup.

The barrel can be detonated early by being shot, melee'd, or detonated by another barrel.

Can be Alt-Cast to place the barrel infront of the hero.

0.1sArm Time
Scales with Spirit Power: 1.05 per point80Explosion Damage
1-10s Cooldown
2+1 Charges
5+0.5 Damage
-5 Charge Time
Improved Spirit Scaling

Powder Keg

27.5s28s
6m

Throw a barrel that explodes after a delay, dealing spirit damage, setting enemies on fire and applying knockup.

The barrel can be detonated early by being shot, melee'd, or detonated by another barrel.

The burn stacks, so overlapping barrels burn for their combined damage.
Can be Alt-Cast to place the barrel infront of the hero.

Scales with Spirit Power: 0.525 per point40Impact Damage
Scales with Spirit Power: 0.175 per point13.333Damage Per Second
3sBurn Duration
0.1sArm Time
1-10s Cooldown
2+1 Charges
5+0.25 Impact Damage
+0.083 Burn Damage per Second
-5 Charge Time
Improved Spirit Scaling
Aug 10, 2026Aug 12, 2026
Billy

Billy

2 nerfs1 rework
2Rising Ram
4Chain Gang

Rising Ram

Rising Ram

32s
0.3s

Charge head-first into an enemy and send them into the air along with Billy.

Cooldown reduced by 50% on impact.

On Impact:
Scales with Spirit Power: 1.9 per point40Damage
1On Impact: +25% weapon damage for 5s
20.4s Charge Duration
5-13s Cooldown
On Impact: Deal 0.03% max health as spirit damage

Rising Ram

32s
0.3s

Charge head-first into an enemy and send them into the air along with Billy.

Cooldown reduced by 50% on impact.

On Impact:
Scales with Spirit Power: 1.9 per point40Damage
1On Impact: +25% weapon damage for 5s
20.4s Charge Duration
5-13s Cooldown
On hero hit: +10% Max Health for 16s
Aug 10, 2026Aug 12, 2026
McGinnis

MISC

24 changes

Other file and data updates.

  • Powder Keg: properties data added.
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    ability_explosive_barrel · properties.TickRate (added)

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  • Powder Keg: burn modifier data added.
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    ability_explosive_barrel · gameplay.m_BurnModifier (added)

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    "m_eModifierDisplayLocaiton": "MODIFIER_DISPLAY_HEALTHBAR"
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  • Card Trick: properties data updated.
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    citadel_ability_card_toss · properties.ClubSlowPercent.value (changed)

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  • Card Trick: upgrades data added.
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    citadel_ability_card_toss · upgrades[3].changes[HeartHeal:scale].scaleStatFilter (added)

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  • Card Trick: upgrades data updated.
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    citadel_ability_card_toss · upgrades[3].changes[ClubSlowPercent].bonus.value (changed)

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  • Luggage Cart: modifier drag data added.
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    ability_doorman_luggage_cart · gameplay.m_ModifierDrag.m_StompIgnoreLingerModifier (added)

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  • Luggage Cart: modifier drag data added.
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    ability_doorman_luggage_cart · gameplay.m_ModifierDrag.m_flStompIgnoreLingerDuration (added)

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  • Rising Ram: max health buff data added.
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    ability_punkgoat_goatflip · gameplay.m_MaxHealthBuff (added)

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  • Itani Lo Sahn: bits interrupting states data updated.
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    ability_fencer_ultimate · gameplay.m_bitsInterruptingStates (changed)

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  • Game data structures: 1 definitions added.
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    DumpSource2/schemas/client/CAbilityExplosiveBarrelVData.h · declarations (changed)

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  • Game data structures: 1 definitions added.
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    DumpSource2/schemas/client/CAbilityPunkgoatGoatFlipVData.h · declarations (changed)

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    DumpSource2/schemas/client/CCitadel_Modifier_GoatFlipMaxHealthBuff.h · declarations (changed)

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  • Game data structures: 2 definitions added.
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    DumpSource2/schemas/client/CCitadel_Modifier_LuggageDragVData.h · declarations (changed)

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  • Game data structures: 1 definitions added.
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    DumpSource2/schemas/server/CAbilityExplosiveBarrelVData.h · declarations (changed)

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  • Game data structures: 1 definitions added.
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    DumpSource2/schemas/server/CAbilityPunkgoatGoatFlipVData.h · declarations (changed)

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  • Game data structures: 1 definitions added.
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    DumpSource2/schemas/server/CCitadel_Modifier_GoatFlipMaxHealthBuff.h · declarations (changed)

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  • Game data structures: 2 definitions added.
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    DumpSource2/schemas/server/CCitadel_Modifier_LuggageDragVData.h · declarations (changed)

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  • 3 tooltip records updated.
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    ability_explosive_barrel · tooltip.details.m_vecAbilityInfoSections[0].m_vecAbilityPropertiesBlock[0].m_vecAbilityProperties[1].m_strImportantProperty (changed)

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    ability_explosive_barrel · tooltip.details.m_vecAbilityInfoSections[0].m_vecAbilityPropertiesBlock[0].m_vecAbilityProperties[0].m_strImportantProperty (changed)

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    ability_punkgoat_goatflip · tooltip.details.m_vecAbilityInfoSections[0].m_vecAbilityPropertiesBlock[0].m_vecAbilityProperties[1].m_strImportantProperty (changed)

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  • 1 tooltip record added.
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    ability_explosive_barrel · tooltip.details.m_vecAbilityInfoSections[0].m_vecBasicProperties (added)

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  • 9 ability property raw records updated.
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    ability_doorman_doorway · properties.DoorwayDistance.raw (changed)

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    citadel_ability_shieldedsentry · properties.TurretBaseHealth.raw (changed)

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    citadel_ability_shieldedsentry · properties.DecayingResistDuration.raw (changed)

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    citadel_ability_shieldedsentry · properties.DecayingResist.raw (changed)

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    ability_viper_petrifybola · properties.PetrifyDuration.raw (changed)

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    drifter_shadow_mark · properties.AbilityCooldown.raw (changed)

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    ability_viper_petrifybola · properties.Radius.raw (changed)

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    ability_fencer_riposte · properties.MeleeResistReduction.raw (changed)

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    citadel_ability_card_toss · properties.ClubSlowPercent.raw (changed)

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  • 9 ability upgrade raw records updated.
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    drifter_shadow_mark · upgrades[2].changes[AbilityCooldown].bonus.raw (changed)

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    ability_fencer_riposte · upgrades[3].changes[TargetLifesteal].bonus.raw (changed)

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    citadel_ability_card_toss · upgrades[3].changes[ClubSlowPercent].bonus.raw (changed)

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    ability_fencer_riposte · upgrades[3].changes[TargetLifestealDuration].bonus.raw (changed)

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    citadel_ability_tengu_stone_form · upgrades[3].changes[StunDuration].bonus.raw (changed)

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    citadel_ability_lightning_ball · upgrades[3].changes[ShockRadius].bonus.raw (changed)

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}

    citadel_ability_wraith_rapidfire · upgrades[3].changes[MagicDamagePerBullet:scale].bonus.raw (changed)

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    citadel_ability_hornet_chain · upgrades[1].changes[Damage].bonus.raw (changed)

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    ability_fencer_riposte · upgrades[2].changes[MeleeResistReduction].bonus.raw (changed)

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  "after": -25
}
  • 2 script assets updated.
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    scripts/heroes.vdata_c · crc (changed)

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