Official Server — Five-Hero Adjustment: Paquito & Belerick Buffed, Chou Combo Smoothed, Aulus Reshaped, Harley Nerfed

Paquito — buffed back toward high-end relevance

• Basic-attack penalty removed — basics previously dealt only 85% of total physical attack; now full damage.
• Enhanced skills deal extra damage to minions (Kazuki: scaling 10% → 30%) — much better waveclear and rotation pressure.
• Using an enhanced skill grants 10%–30% damage reduction for 1.2s — more dive safety.
• Enhanced-skill movement-speed duration cut 1.8s → 1.2s (the trade-off).
• Skill 1 shield now triggers on hitting any enemy (minions included), not only heroes/creeps.

"Paquito gets better wave clear, better trading potential, and more room to outplay." — Elgin

Belerick — tankier early, faster taunt

• Skill 1 taunt delay 1.0s → 0.8s — the taunt lands faster and is much harder to walk out of.
• Base HP 2460 → 2600, base physical defense 15 → 20 — sturdier early, especially vs physical.

"People could literally go make coffee before the taunt landed. They reduced the taunt delay from 1 second down to 0.8 seconds." — Kazuki

Chou — combo smoothing

• Basic attack range 1.4 → 1.6.
• Skill 1 backswing animation removed — a basic attack can follow S1 immediately (cleaner, faster combos).
• Ultimate cooldown changed from flat 34s to a 36 → 30s level scaling; ultimate damage increased late (Kazuki: base reaches ~600, chase ~680 at max level).
• Second-phase knockback reduced slightly so the enhanced basic connects more consistently.

Aulus — faster ramp, less immunity

• Passive (Fighting Spirit) max stacks 6 → 4 — reaches full power much faster in fights.
• Trade-off: ultimate no longer grants control immunity during the wider slash — committing the full combo is riskier.

"His passive now reaches max fighting spirit faster — instead of needing 6 stacks, he only needs 4. But his ultimate no longer gives control immunity during the wider slash." — Elgin

Harley — burst nerf

• Skill 1 damage per card reduced (Kazuki: 130–210 → 120–180), aimed at mid-game burst and snowball/roam potential.

Still able to delete squishies, but needs better timing or more items to secure the pick.

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A targeted live-server tuning pass, not a meta-defining patch. Paquito is the headline — the basic-attack penalty removal plus minion damage and on-cast damage reduction make him a credible high-skill pick again. Belerick gets a clean durability/CC bump that helps him into physical lanes. Chou is smoother but not stronger early (longer ult CD at low levels). Aulus is a reshape — faster online, but the lost ult immunity makes his all-in riskier, so it's not a pure buff. Harley loses some of his mid-game one-combo terror.

None of this overturns the 2.1.61 priority reads, but Paquito and Belerick are worth a look if they fit your pool.