Advanced Server 2.1.80 — Yin's Ult Stops Getting Interrupted, Argus & Ruby Get Reined Back In

Status & how this relates to 2.1.78

Kazuki explicitly tags this pass 2.1.80 on the advanced server. Elgin covers the same set of changes without naming the number; the two transcripts line up cleanly, so the patch identity is solid.

This is a strictly later iteration than 2.1.78. The discriminator: 2.1.80 nerfs the very revamps 2.1.78 introduced — it takes the post-revamp Argus passive (which 2.1.78 had already moved 180 → 100) down further to 65, and pulls Ruby's ult bonus scaling 300 → 200. There is no Masha, Hirara, or support mana-economy content in 2.1.80 — those 2.1.78 changes are untouched and still tracked in the 2.1.78 digest. Read the two together: 2.1.78 is the big-rework pass, 2.1.80 is the tuning + new-tank-content pass layered on top.

None of this is live. Expect at least one more iteration before global ship.

Yin — the headline change

Both sources lead with Yin. The intent is an identity shift: from burst assassin toward a sustained-swinging fighter.

"His ultimate can no longer be interrupted by crowd control effects while casting, except for suppression. But if Yin was already controlled before entering the domain, he will still be controlled after entering." — Elgin

Read: the un-interruptible ult is the big one. Yin's whole weakness was getting CC'd out of the domain pull — that's mostly gone now (suppression from Franco/Khufra/Martis still works). The shorter S1 cooldown plus the lost auto-lock and weaker slow point at a more mechanically demanding, sustained-fighter Yin rather than a one-combo deleter.

Argus & Ruby — reined back in

Both heroes were the big winners of 2.1.78. 2.1.80 walks them back.

Argus (nerf)

• Passive (Demonic Slay) base damage 100 → 65, and passive regen heavily reduced — far weaker early-mid sustain and trading.
• S2 attack-speed ramp slowed + base damage reduced.
• S1 slow moved from the second cast to the first cast (better initial catch — Elgin's detail).
• Ult upside: actively casting it immediately reduces its cooldown by 30%.
• Ult nerf: only damage dealt to heroes during the ult converts to HP — minion/jungle damage no longer heals.

"Only damage dealt to heroes during the ultimate will be converted into HP. So you can't just slap minions or creeps and heal like nothing happened." — Elgin

Ruby (nerf)

• Spell vamp ratio reduced, and the maximum spell-vamp ratio at low HP is also lower than before.
• Ult bonus scaling 300 → 200 (Kazuki) — reverts the 2.1.78 damage rebuild.
• Still strong low-HP sustain; just no longer near-immortal in team fights.

Read: Moonton saw the 2.1.78 numbers were over-tuned and pulled them back before live. Argus is still playable — the active-ult -30% CD is a real upside and good ult timing is still rewarded — but the free farm-sustain is gone. Ruby stays a low-HP brawler, just not the unkillable version from 2.1.78. The 2.1.78 digest's "ban-priority candidate" read on both should be downgraded pending live numbers.

Roaming-tank durability sweep

The new content in this patch: a broad early-game durability pass across roaming tanks. Sources mostly agree on direction; exact stat splits aren't given on screen.

Source note: Elgin frames Akai as an adjust (HP up, growth down); Kazuki frames it as a straight buff. Net effect is an early-game durability gain either way.

Other hero changes

Controls & system

• Skill-wheel size option: the skill cast wheel size is now adjustable in settings.
• Release dead-zone: a new dead-zone setting — release the joystick inside it = auto-cast; release outside = manual cast. Aimed at reducing accidental misfires on skillshot heroes.

Kazuki's video also runs through 2.1.80-window cosmetics (S41 first-purchase Angela, Zhask S41, Johnson Starlight "Midnight Pursuit", Joy Street Fighter skin, Kimmy Sacred Statue). Those are tracked in the skin-reveals roundup and the collab digest, not here.

Aggregate read

2.1.80 is a correction-and-content pass on top of 2.1.78:

• The big read: Argus and Ruby — the two heroes everyone flagged as ban-priority candidates off 2.1.78 — get pulled back. Argus loses free farm sustain (ult heals off heroes only) and ~35% of his passive base damage; Ruby loses ~33% of her ult bonus scaling. Re-evaluate both at live numbers; the 2.1.78 ban-priority read no longer holds as written.
• Yin is the new thing to watch. An un-interruptible ult (suppression aside) is a categorical buff to a hero whose entire counterplay was CC'ing the pull. If this ships near as-is, Yin is a real ladder/draft factor.
• Tank durability sweep quietly raises the floor on the entire roaming-tank pool — good for front-to-back comps, mildly bad for early-game bully tanks (Hilda/Khaleed).
• Masha, Hirara, and the support mana-economy pass from 2.1.78 are unchanged — see that digest.

Anti-heal stays mandatory (Argus and Ruby are weaker but still sustain heroes).