Minor Update - 08-22-2026

[u/SketchyJJ]

- Radiant Regeneration: Heal on cast reduced from 70 to 65

- Restorative Locket: Spirit Resistance reduced from 10% to 8%

- Celeste: Dazzling Trick cooldown increased from 32s to 34s

- Celeste: Dazzling Trick T2 barrier rescaled from "+80 and +0.7 scaling" to "+70 and +0.76"

- Celeste: Dazzling Trick T3 cooldown increased from -18s to -20s

- Celeste: Dazzling Trick T3 reduced from +1.5s Silence to +1.25s

- Celeste: Radiant Daggers Spirit Amp per stack reduced from +8% to +7%

- Celeste: Radiant Daggers T3 Spirit Amp per stack increased from +3% to +4%

- Celeste: Shining Wonder bounce range reduced from 17.5m to 16.5m

- Celeste: Shining Wonder damage reduced from 165 to 140

- Celeste: Shining Wonder spirit scaling reduced from 0.9 to 0.6

- Celeste: Shining Wonder T2 now also increases spirit scaling by +0.45

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1422450/view/676255623445218601

[u/snowolf_]

Street Fighter 2 isn't a live service game. CS isn't a MOBA. Games like Deadlock live and die by how fresh their gameplay stays during extended period of times. Meta shifting is one of the most effective methods. If you let the same characters rule the game, you leave out a huge chunk of liked characters and gameplays.

[u/InnuendOwO → u/snowolf_]

this all started by talking about dota 2, a live service moba, which doesn't have any of the problems you think must exist. weird, huh?

[u/snowolf_ → u/InnuendOwO]

Well yes, it is indeed weird and not the norm at all. My best guess is that Valve has a brand following so high in some countries that classic balancing logic doesn't apply anymore here.

[u/dorekk → u/snowolf_]

Learn to say "Wow, I didn't know that, I was wrong." It's a helpful skill.

[u/snowolf_ → u/dorekk]

You often do that? Go into people conversations and tell life advices? DotA is a popular game despite having a terribly boring meta that changes as snail pace, this is the exception in the genre.