# Predecessor Balance Patch v1.14.4 LIVE! - Product: Predecessor (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/predecessor) - Vendor: Omeda Studios - Date: 2026-06-09 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/961200/view/679626346618422598 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/predecessor/releases/2026-06-09-balance-patch-v1.14.4-live What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **changed** — Increased Battlepass XP gained from playing ARAM by 60% - **added** — Introduced Bundle Cores, a new type of loot core containing exclusive variants with no duplicate drops and equal drop rates - **added** — Introduced Victorious Bundle Core containing all Victorious Skins and new Victorious Recall and Jumppad exclusive to the core - **added** — Introduced Luxury Donation Cosmetic, an Epic overhead emote with 100% of sales supporting competitive events - **changed** — Increased Tower Durability and Damage - **changed** — Increased Minion Durability - **changed** — Increased Hunt's Slay Damage to 600/1200 - **changed** — Increased Monster Durability slightly to compensate for the Hunt change - **changed** — Added new Magical Power and Physical Power hybrid scalings to various Hero Abilities - **changed** — Adjusted and reworked Eternal Blessings to address problem-cases and make lesser-picked options more viable - **changed** — Increased base damage of various abilities primarily for Mages and Bruisers at Level 3-9 thresholds - **changed** — Performed general Hero Balance adjustments to bring extreme outliers into parity - **changed** — Applied buffs to some Fighter and Anti-tank Items Hey Champions, It’s balance time! Eternals totally shook up the meta since their arrival in 1.14, it’s been awesome to see how you’ve all been building and adapting with them. This update is a larger balance pass to correct some issues we’ve seen with Eternals. We’re expecting a little more will be needed until we find that sweet spot though, so keep your feedback coming in! ##### Store News ##### **Iron Guard Riktor \** ##### **Deadzone Drongo \** ##### **Iron Guard Crunch \** ##### **Bundles** The Victorious skins are back for a limited time, with some new additions, to support the PCC Summer Summit. All profits from the skin sales go towards supporting competitive Predecessor events! ##### Victorious Summer Bundle - Victorious Fight Night Crunch [Skin Variant] - Victorious Prime Technician Gadget [Skin Variant] - Victorious Redeemer TwinBlast [Skin Variant] - Victorious Lotus Knight Greystone [Skin Variant] - Victorious Energized Dekker [Skin Variant] - Hold This [Overhead Emote] - Summer 2026 Victorious Icon [Profile Icon] - Summer 2026 Victorious Icon \ - Crunch \ - Gadget \ - TwinBlast \ - Greystone \ - Dekker \ ##### Iron Guard Riktor Bundle - Iron Guard Riktor \ - Voltaic Iron Guard Riktor [Skin Variant] - Earthen Iron Guard Riktor [Skin Variant] - Plasma Iron Guard Riktor [Skin Variant] - Royal Iron Guard Riktor [Skin Variant] - Taco Time [Overhead Emote] - Iron Guard Riktor \ - Iron Guard Riktor \ - Riktor \ ##### Deadzone Drongo Bundle - Deadzone Drongo \ - Crimson Deadzone Drongo [Skin Variant] - Onyx Deadzone Drongo [Skin Variant] - Azure Deadzone Drongo [Skin Variant] - Madness! [Overhead Emote] - Deadzone Drongo \ - Deadzone Drongo [Profile Icon] - Drongo \ ##### **Bundle Cores** We are introducing a new type of loot core in this patch called Bundle Cores. These cores will be available for limited time and contain a small collection of content, with no duplicate drops and every drop shares the same drop rate. Premium Bundle Core - Contains 2 exclusive variants for Iron Guard Riktor and Deadzone Drongo plus a selection of previously available bundle exclusive variants from last year. Victorious Bundle Core - Contains all victorious skins and a new Recall and Jumppad exclusive to this Bundle Core. Profits from this Core go directly to supporting Predecessor Competitive Events. ##### ARAM Battlepass XP changes Players shared feedback that with the introduction of quests too much XP was removed from ARAM as a lot of the quests are harder to complete when playing ARAM. We agreed so we are increasing the amount of Battlepass XP gained from playing ARAM by 60%. Thank you to everyone that shared feedback on the topic. ##### PCC Summer Summit The PCC Summer Summit is here and will be kicking off with a 3-weekend event, starting on the 13th and 14th of June at 10 AM EDT/ 2PM UTC on the Predecessor Twitch channel. We'll also be co-streaming with some of your favourite content creators too! Teams in EU and NA will be competing for a total prize pool of $14,000 and representation in Predecessor via 2d Cosmetics. More info on the event [here.](https://www.predecessorgame.com/en-US/news/events/PCCSummerSummit2026) We will be running Twitch drops during the event weekends, as well as Platinum giveaways, so tune in to pick up some new content! _New OHE available from Twitch drops._ ##### Victorious Cosmetics The prize pool and event costs for tournaments like this and other community events come from the profits made from the Victorious content. If you would like to support future events please consider picking up any of the Victorious skins, bundles and more! _New Victorious Skins coming in 1.14.4_ We have introduced a Victorious Bundle Core to further support competitive events, which contains all Victorious Skins and a new Victorious Recall and Jumppad exclusive to the Bundle Core. **Bundle Cores do not drop duplicate items.** Lastly it’s been requested for there to be more ways to donate towar _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/961200/view/679626346618422598]_