Patch 7.39c — balance hotfix

The gist in 30 seconds

• Snapfire — heavy nerf (-7 base armor, -0.5 magic resist). Pick rate expected to drop from 28% to 15%.
• Anti-Mage — buff (+12 INT, Mana Break now removes Medusa's Mana Shield). Counter-pick to the INT meta.
• Pudge — Hook +50 range (from 1200 to 1250). Return to the pro meta.
• Daedalus — damage nerf from 88 to 78. Crit carries weaken in the late game.
• Aghanim's Blessing — +200 HP. Late-game power through Roshan farm.

Hero buffs (top 5)

Anti-Mage +12 intelligence at level 25. Mana Break now works against Mana Shield (Medusa) — removes the energy shield together with mana.

BUFF

Pudge Hook range increased from 1200 to 1250. Base projectile speed +5%. Hooking across most of the lane is now possible.

BUFF

Invoker Sun Strike base damage +25 (from 300 to 325). Cataclysm with Aghanim — delay between strikes reduced from 1.2 to 1.0 seconds.

BUFF

Lina Light Strike Array — cast timer from 0.55 to 0.45. Laguna Blade — pure damage mode (Aghanim's Shard) is now the default for the ultimate.

BUFF

Lion Finger of Death damage +50 at each ultimate level. Hex (Earth Spike) cooldown from 12 to 10 seconds.

BUFF

Hero nerfs (top 5)

Snapfire Base armor -7 (from 1 to -6 at level 1). Magic resist -0.5 per level. Mortimer Kisses damage -15 per projectile.

NERF

Faceless Void Chronosphere duration -0.5 seconds at all levels. Time Walk cooldown +1 second.

NERF

Storm Spirit Ball Lightning mana cost +0.6 per unit of distance. Static Remnant damage -10.

NERF

Techies Sticky Bomb damage -25%. Proximity Mines mana cost +20.

NERF

Spectre Dispersion reflected damage -2% at all levels. Haunt duration -1 second.

NERF

Item changes

• Daedalus — damage 88 → 78. Crit chance remains 30%.
• Crystalis — damage 21 → 18.
• Aghanim's Blessing — +200 HP bonus.
• Bottle — cost 600 → 600 (unchanged), but water regen speed +20%.
• Black King Bar — starting duration 9 → 8 seconds.
• Linken's Sphere — sphere cooldown 14 → 13 seconds.
• Octarine Core — cooldown reduction 25% → 22%.
• Moon Shard — IAS bonus 100 → 90.

Meta impact

Key shifts:

• Pudge returns to the pro meta. +50 Hook range means initiating from the fog becomes reliable. Position 4/5 will pick Pudge in the ban phase.
• Anti-Mage versus Medusa. Mana Break now removes Mana Shield — AM becomes a direct counter-pick to INT carries.
• Crit carries weakened. Daedalus -10 damage = Phantom Assassin, Juggernaut, and Sven lose 80–120 damage at peak.
• Snapfire drops out of tier 1. A position 4 without armor gets ganked on the lane.
• Invoker solidifies. Cataclysm with a 1.0s delay — nearly impossible to dodge both strikes.

Umbrella update after 7.39c

The Umbrella loader updated 9 hours after the Valve release. What's in the update:

• Anti-Mage and Pudge scripts rebalanced for the new stats.
• Auto Cataclysm rewritten for the 1.0s delay.
• Item Auto-Use updated for the new BKB and Octarine stats.
• All hero mappings in Combo Builder verified — presets work without changes.

If you are an active Umbrella user, the Loader will automatically pull the update on next launch. No action needed.