Shiv/Update history

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This page documents the full update history for Shiv.

Update Changes

July 9, 2026

July 1, 2026

  • Alt Fire ammo cost reduced from 5 to 4
  • Weapon now has fixed pellet spread
  • Slice and Dice is now back to doing spirit damage and reducing Spirit Resistance from enemies
  • Slice and Dice damage increased from 60 to 75
  • Killing Blow T3 reduced from +10% Enemy Health Threshold to +8%

June 30, 2026

  • Alt Fire damage now has a custom value per boon (+0.2).
  • Alt Fire ammo consumed per shot increased from 3 to 5.
  • Alt Fire knockback movement is now disabled by slowing hex state.
  • Serrated Knives cooldown reduced from 18s to 16s.
  • Slice and Dice now deals +25 light melee damage (75 total) instead of 60 spirit damage.
  • Slice and Dice changed from -6% Spirit Resist to +4% Damage Amp.
  • Bloodletting T2 changed from "+15% Incoming Damage Deferred" to "+35% Deferred Damage Cleared".
  • Bloodletting T3 changed from "+50% Deferred Damage Cleared" to "+15% Incoming Damage Deferred".
  • Killing Blow now deals damage to troopers and neutrals along the way.
  • Killing Blow executing a hero now instantly fills the rage bar.
  • Killing Blow now has the T3 "recast within 20s on a hero kill" as part of the base ability.
  • Killing Blow Full Rage Damage Bonus reduced from +12% to +8%.
  • Killing Blow range reduced from 18m to 12m.
  • Killing Blow T1 now also increases range by +6m.
  • Killing Blow T2 increased from +10% Full Rage Bonus Damage to +16%.
  • Killing Blow T3 increased from +5% Enemy Health Threshold to +10%.
  • Killing Blow cooldown increased from 125s to 145s. (Global ult change)
  • Killing Blow T3 reduced from -30s Cooldown to -25s. (Global ult change)

June 12, 2026

  • Killing Blow cooldown is not increased if it hits any enemies, even if it doesn't execute.
  • Improved visuals on Killing Blow execute threshold.
  • Fixed bugged interactions with Killing Blow missing enemies.
  • Fixed Killing Blow incorrectly getting increased cooldown on execute.

June 11, 2026

  • Killing Blow now has +30% more cooldown whenever it does not execute a player.

May 22, 2026

April 30, 2026

  • Alt fire knockback reduced by 10%.
  • Serrated Knives spirit scaling reduced from 0.15 to 0.13.
  • Serrated Knives T3 spirit scaling reduced from +0.1 to +0.09.

April 10, 2026

  • Fixed Rage not building up against Barriers.

March 21, 2026

  • Stamina increased from 2 to 3.
  • Stamina cooldown increased from 4.5s to 5.5s.
  • Bloodletting no longer interrupts sliding when cast.
  • Bloodletting is now affected by healing modifiers.
  • Fixed a bug with Killing Blow T3 causing the cooldown to be delayed if you failed to execute during the allowed window.
  • Killing Blow now continues forward (and dealing damage) until it reaches a target it can kill or runs out of range.

March 10, 2026

March 6, 2026

  • Stamina reduced from 3 to 2.
  • Stamina movement speed reduced from 6.7 to 6.5.
  • Bullet damage growth increased from 0.154 to 0.165.
  • Serrated Knives no longer has impact damage.
  • Serrated Knives Bleed DPS per knife increased from 4 to 10.
  • Serrated Knives Bleed DPS spirit scaling increased from 0.13 to 0.15.
  • Serrated Knives T1 changed from "+1 Charge" to "+2s Duration".
  • Serrated Knives T2 changed from "+2s Duration" to "+2 Charges".
  • Serrated Knives T3 no longer has +30 Impact Damage.
  • Serrated Knives T3 DPS increased from +5.5 to +12.
  • Serrated Knives T3 increases spirit scaling by +0.10.
  • Slice and Dice cooldown increased from 15s to 16s.
  • Slice and Dice Impact damage reduced from 75 to 60.
  • Slice and Dice reduces Spirit Resistance by 6% for 16s. Multiple instances stack.
  • Slice and Dice T1 increased from -3s Cooldown to -6s Cooldown.
  • Slice and Dice T2 changed from "+50 Impact Damage" to "-8% Spirit Resistance and +2m Dash Range".
  • Slice and Dice T3 now also grants +50 Impact Damage.
  • Killing Blow is no longer unit targeted, you jump in the direction forward with some small control.
  • Killing Blow Damage Amp reduced from 15% to 14%.
  • Killing Blow T2 changed from "+5% Enemy Health Threshold and +6% Damage Amp" to "+8% Damage Amp".
  • Killing Blow T3 now grants you 20s to recast the ultimate, rather than removing the cooldown.
  • Killing Blow T3 now also increases enemy health threshold by +5%.

February 2, 2026

  • Health growth per boon reduced from 48 to 45.
  • Serrated Knives overall damage reduced by 12%.

January 30, 2026

December 16, 2025

  • Bloodletting deferred damage reduced from 30% to 25%.
  • Bloodletting T2 deferred damage increased from 10% to 15%.
  • Rage buildup rate reduced by 6%.
  • Killing Blow cast range reduced from 15m to 13m.

December 3, 2025

  • Rage now builds 8% slower

November 21, 2025

  • Alt fire knockback reduced by 10%.
  • Alt fire ammo cost increased from 2 to 3.
  • Killing Blow Rage Damage Bonus reduced from 17% to 15%.
  • Killing Blow T2 Rage Damage bonus reduced from 8% to 6%.
  • Killing Blow Rage state now causes your alt fire knockback to push you a little further.
  • Fixed some bugs with Barriers and Spirit Damage Scaling (fixes other cases as well)

October 24, 2025

  • Alt fire knockback reduced by 10%.

September 4, 2025

August 18, 2025

  • (Undocumented) Bloodletting duration now scales with Ability Duration stat.

August 8, 2025

July 29, 2025

  • Rage now only builds up from damaging players.
  • Rage buildup for all damage types increased by 20% (easier to build up).
  • Rage decay duration increased from 9s to 12s.
  • Bloodletting duration reduced from 12s to 6s.
  • Bloodletting cooldown reduced from 60s to 45s.
  • Bloodletting damage clear increased from 30% to 40%.
  • Bloodletting T1 and T2 swapped.
  • Bloodletting T3 increased from +20% to +35%.

May 27, 2025

  • Alt Fire base damage reduced by 15%.
  • Rage per weapon damage reduced by 10%.

May 19, 2025

  • Move Speed reduced from 7 to 6.8.
  • Health per boon reduced from 81 to 77.
  • Base gun damage reduced from 4.95 to 4.6.

May 11, 2025

  • Slice and Dice damage reduced from 100 to 80.
  • Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.246 to 0.22.

May 8, 2025

  • Killing Blow: Threshold reduced from 22% to 20%.
  • Killing Blow: T2 threshold reduced from +6% to +5%.
  • VO remastering pass as well as updated ping lines.
  • (Undocumented) Bloodletting Deferred Damage Cleared reduced from 40% to 30%.
  • (Undocumented) Bloodletting T3 reduced from +25% to +20%.

February 25, 2025

  • Added Suggested AP path for Haze, Paradox, Shiv, and Yamato.
  • Slice and Dice is no longer cancellable.
  • Updated vo - remastering pass, no new content.
  • Killing Blow debuff indicator effect revisions to remove arrow and add a brief debuff effect on the victim.

January 27, 2025

January 19, 2025

December 31, 2024

  • Bullet growth reduced from +0.31 to +0.27.
  • Serrated Knives T3 increased from +5 Bleed DPS to +7.

December 6, 2024

  • Reverted recent updates to Shiv run animations.
  • Fixed some targeting issues with Killing Blow.

November 21, 2024

October 27, 2024

October 24, 2024

  • Shiv's Killing Blow now stops tracking targets that teleport.
  • Shiv Dagger: reduced size of stuck dagger in victim.
  • Shiv Slice and Dice: reduced vfx noise for players close to it.
  • Base speed reduced from 7.3 to 7.0.
  • Serrated Knives collision radius reduced by 20%.
  • Bloodletting cooldown increased from 21s to 50s.
  • Bloodletting T2 cd increased from -4.75s to -25s (final cd changed from 16.25s to 25s).
  • Bloodletting duration increased from 10s to 13s.
  • Bloodletting Incoming Damage Deferred reduced from 30% to 22%.
  • Bloodletting T1 changed to +8% Incoming Damage Deferred (was +5s duration).
  • Killing Blow range reduced from 20m to 13m.
  • Killing Blow Rage buildup per heavy melee reduced from 3.5 to 2.75.
  • Killing Blow Rage buffer duration reduced from 10s to 9s.
  • Killing Blow Rage buildup vs creeps reduced by 50%.

October 15, 2024

  • Rage decay rate increased from 0.25 to 0.3.
  • Rage buffer duration reduced from 12s to 10s.

October 10, 2024

  • Fixed Shiv's Killing Blow sometimes sending him into orbit.
  • Fixed Shiv's Killing Blow continuing to do damage while being teleported by Quantum Entanglement.
  • Slice and Dice Spirit damage scaling increased from 1.2 to 1.3.
  • Slice and Dice T1 improved from -3.75s to -4s.
  • Rage decay rate reduced from 0.35 to 0.25.
  • Rage buffer duration increased from 7s to 12s (how long it stays before starting to decay).

September 29, 2024

  • Fixed Wraith Cards, Shiv Rage and lifesteal from increasing by shooting the shop.

September 26, 2024

September 12, 2024

August 29, 2024

  • Fixed parts of Shiv's coat being considered a headshot.
  • Bullet damage growth per boon reduced from 0.5 to 0.4.
  • Gun falloff range reduced by 10%.
  • Health growth per boon reduced from +41 to +35.
  • Slice and Dice T2 reduced from +100 to +85.
  • Slice and Dice T3 now considers creeps for only half value.
  • Bloodletting deferred damage reduced from 35% to 30%.
  • The targeting UI for Shiv's Killing Blow is now more clear about when the target will be killed.

August 22, 2024

  • Bloodletting incoming damage deferred reduced from 40% to 35%.

August 16, 2024

August 15, 2024

  • Added a new hero, Shiv.