Ling buffed — basic attack speed up (faster jungle clear) and Skill 2 cooldown shortened + energy cost reduced. Aimed squarely at his slow/clunky early game. (This is the change people are asking about — it is advance-server only, not live.)
Revamped Kaja gets another pass — smoother Skill 2, faster ult-lasso follow-up, extended flight when he hits an ally. The change Elgin himself flags as most interesting.
Aurora, Ruby, Zhuxin, Cici buffed; Cecilion buffed in the Mythical Honor battlefield only.
Suyou, Leomord, Claude, Odette nerfed; Masha, Kalea, Aulus reshaped (mixed).
Sourcing & caveats
⚠️ Advanced Server only — not live. Now two-source: Elgin (2026-05-30, translated from Filipino) walked the pass first; Kazuki (2026-05-31) corroborates the same changes and names the patch — 2.1.86. (Updated 2026-06-07: this digest originally went out single-source and unnumbered; Kazuki's video confirmed both the number and the directions.) Numbers are still creator-stated, pending in-client confirmation. The follow-up pass a week later is 2.1.88 — note it reverses several of these changes (Ling, Kaja, Masha), the usual advance-server churn.
Status
This advance-server balance pass is patch 2.1.86 — named by Kazuki (2026-05-31); Elgin (2026-05-30) walked the same changes a day earlier without a number. It lands a week after 2.1.84 (2026-05-23) and iterates several of the same heroes again (Zhuxin, Ruby, Odette, Masha) — the weekly advance-server cadence. Several heroes move the opposite direction from 2.1.84 (Zhuxin buffed here, nerfed there), and the following pass 2.1.88 reverses several of these again (Ling's buff undone, Kaja/Masha experiments rolled back) — the usual advance-server churn, and exactly why these numbers stay out of our live tiers. None of it is live.
Ling — the buff in question
| Hero | Dir. | Change (Elgin-stated) |
|---|---|---|
| Ling | ⬆️ | Basic attack speed increased → faster jungle clear. Skill 2 cooldown shortened + energy cost reduced → more active early-game rotations and plays. |
"Ling is getting a useful early game buff. His basic attack speed is increased, which helps his jungle clear. And his skill 2 also gets a shorter cooldown with lower energy cost. This is a really good change for Ling because his early game depends a lot on how fast he can farm and how smoothly he can move." — Elgin
Read: Ling's historical weakness is a slow, energy-starved early game — he scales hard but is exploitable before his items come online. An attack-speed bump (faster clears, faster energy generation off the ult-mark basics) plus a cheaper, lower-CD S2 directly targets that window. If it ships near as-is, it nudges Ling up from his current B-tier soloQ-ban-pressure spot. But it is advance-server only — and the follow-up 2.1.88 pass reversed it — so our live tiers keep Ling at B until the in-game client confirms it.
Other buffs
| Hero | Dir. | Change (Elgin-stated) |
|---|---|---|
| Kaja | ⬆️ | Revamped-Kaja gets another pass: Skill 2 CD shortened + animations smoothed for tighter control; post-soar turn-speed limit reduced; cooldown scales down at higher levels; hitting an ally extends flight duration; ult lasso follows Kaja faster for more responsive catches. |
| Aurora | ⬆️ | Early-to-mid cooldowns cut — Skill 1 6s → 5s, Skill 2 12s → 10s — for more frequent poke and wave-clear. |
| Zhuxin | ⬆️ | Passive mana restore per Crimson Butterfly 4% → 5% — better mana sustain / rotation uptime. (Opposite direction to the 2.1.84 S2-mana nerf.) |
| Ruby | ⬆️ | Skill 1 physical-attack scaling up on both slice and shockwave — better poke, wave-clear and trading. |
| Cici | ⬆️ | Passive stacks decay slower — loss interval every 0.3s → every 0.5s — easier to hold stacks in extended fights. |
| Cecilion | ⬆️ | (Mythical Honor battlefield only) passive max-mana increase and mana-regen-per-skill-hit 10 → 12 — stronger late-game scaling. |
"Suyou, Leomord, Claude, Odette, and Masha are getting toned down. Meanwhile, Zhuxin, Ruby, Kaja, Aurora, Ling, Cici, and Aulus are getting improvements. For me, the most interesting one here is revamped Kaja." — Elgin
Nerfs & reshapes
| Hero | Dir. | Change (Elgin-stated) |
|---|---|---|
| Suyou | ⬇️ | Skill 2 base damage reduced on both tap and hold versions — weaker early-to-mid burst and snowball pressure. |
| Leomord | ⬇️ | Skill 1 bonus damage to creeps 60% → 40% (slower jungle clear); ultimate's hybrid-defense bonus lowered mid-to-late (less tanky on dive). |
| Claude | ⬇️ | Skill 2 (Battle Mirror Image) cooldown increased — less repositioning, poke, escape and ult setup. |
| Odette | ⬇️ | Movement during ult (Swan Song) slowed more (stronger self-slow → easier to catch). QoL: two-ult-cast timing optimised to prevent accidental cancellation. |
| Masha | 🔀 | Feral HP recovery reduced; Skill 2 CD increased + crit bug fixed; HP-over-recovery bug fixed; extra-damage scaling shifted from target max-HP → extra physical attack. |
| Kalea | 🔀 | Enhanced basic-attack early base damage reduced, but now gains extra damage scaling with hero level — power shifted from early aggression to late game. |
| Aulus | 🔀 | Enhanced basic shifted from target-max-HP scaling to a flat component scaling with hero level (better at finishing low-HP targets); Skill 2 dash distance increased for better chase. |
Also in 2.1.86 (Kazuki second source)
Kazuki's 2026-05-31 walk-through (the source that named the patch) adds two changes Elgin didn't cover:
| Hero | Dir. | Change (Kazuki-stated) |
|---|---|---|
| Hirara | 🔀 | Combo-flow pass: passive energy-recovery delay removed; Skill 2 animation sped up but its damage nerfed slightly; the 1st→2nd combo bonus jumps from 1× → 2.5× Crimson Maple damage, while the 2nd→1st combo is nerfed — pushing players toward a specific combo order instead of spamming inputs. |
| Vale | ↩️ | (Mythical Honor battlefield) Vale's experimental rank-specific changes from 2.1.84 are removed entirely — reverted. |
Kazuki also confirms the Cecilion Mythical-Honor mana buff (passive max-mana / mana-per-skill-hit 10 → 12) listed above, and independently corroborates the Suyou / Kalea / Leomord / Claude / Zhuxin / Ruby / Odette / Masha / Kaja / Aurora / Ling / Cici / Aulus directions.
Aggregate read
A broad re-tune, no new content. The headline for our purposes is Ling — a genuine early-game buff (attack speed + cheaper, faster S2) that addresses his single biggest weakness, which is why it's being talked about. Kaja's continued revamp polish is the change Elgin himself rates highest. The nerf list (Suyou / Leomord / Claude / Odette) reads as trimming early-game burst and dive sustain.
Because this is advance-server only — and because several heroes (notably Zhuxin) move the opposite way from the 2.1.84 pass a week earlier, while the later 2.1.88 pass reverses several of these again — none of it is committed to our live tier tables. Re-check after the live patch ships and the in-game client confirms the numbers.
TaggedLingKajaAuroraZhuxinRubyCiciCecilionSuyouLeomordClaudeOdetteMashaKaleaAulusVale
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More updates
- Advanced Server 2.1.88 — Ling's Buff Reversed A Week Later, Claude's Spike Delayed, Argus Becomes A Turret-Charger; Hilda & Aulus Buffedjun 7
- Advanced Server 2.1.84 — The Crit-True-Damage Passive Jumps To Berserker's Fury, Rank-Specific Balancing Arrives, Chaos Brawl Landsmay 23
- Official Server — Five-Hero Adjustment: Paquito & Belerick Buffed, Chou Combo Smoothed, Aulus Reshaped, Harley Nerfedmay 17
- Advanced Server 2.1.82 — Argus & Ruby Reworked *Again*, Great Dragon Spear Becomes A Crit Item, Yin's Slow Comes Backmay 16