What changed for Stadium?

New Arcade Gamemode - Mystery Madness: Graveyard Games

• Mystery Madness is our new Halloween Event mode, combining elements of Mystery Heroes, Junkenstein's Lab, and Stadium. But there's an added twist: you gain Powers when you die. Mystery Madness is 5v5 Open Queue but with guaranteed 1-2-2 Role Composition and has the game format of Best-of-3 Control.

Healing reduction now applies on all Weapon Damage.

Healing reduction increased to 40% (Up from 35%).

Healing reduction duration reduced to 2s (Down from 3s).

Healing reduction increased to 40% (Up from 35%).

Ultimate E.M.P - Epic Ability General Item

• New
• 25 Health
• 5% Attack Speed
• 5% Cooldown Reduction
• After spending your Ultimate Charge, for 3s your damage applies 100% Healing Reduction for 5s.
• 9000 Cost

Biolight Overflow - Rare Survival General Item

• Removed.

Shields increased to 75 (Up from 50).

Health increased to 75 (Up from 50).

Overhealth reduction increased to 40% (Up from 35%).

Healing reduction increased to 40% (Up from 35%).

Fixed a gameplay issue with Mercy in Stadium. She has been re-enabled in all Stadium queues.

Ultimate Charge cost reduction increased to 60% (Up from 50%).

Return damage reduced to 30 (Down from 40).

Cooldown reduction per target increased to 2.5s (Up from 2s).

Lifesteal per stack reduced to 4% (Down from 5%).

Attack speed bonus increased to 50% (Up from 30%).

Ultimate Charge gain reduced to 10% (Down from 25%).

Damage reduced to 20% of healing (Down from 30%).

Fixed a bug where Battlepass XP was not granted for Stadium Quick Play Matches.

Fixed an issue where Mercy's Sympathetic Recovery passive wasn't properly working in Stadium.

Reworked from "[Defense Matrix] heals you for 30% of the damage it blocks" to "When you mitigate 150 damage with [Defense Matrix], heal yourself for 15% of that damage and all other allies within 6m for 25% of that damage".

Added "when dealing Weapon damage to enemies beyond 8m, [Defense Matrix] recovers 33% faster".

Damage reduced to 40 (Down from 60).

Duration reduced to 2s (Down from 3s).

MEKA Evac Shield - Power

• New
• "+50% [Call Mech] Radius. When ejecting or re-entering your [Mech], grant Overhealth equal to 20% of Max Life for 5s".

Reworked from Express Detonation.

Changed from "+50% [Call Mech] Radius. [Self-Destruct] explodes 15% faster" to "[Self-Destruct] explodes 25% faster and costs 50% less Ultimate Charge but deals 75% reduced damage and only grants 75% Ultimate Charge after detonation".

Changed from "During the first 2s of [Boosters], [Defense Matrix] recovers 125% faster" to "[Boosters] damage grants 0.5s [Booster] Duration and restores 5% [Defense Matrix] Resource and heals 5% Max Life".

Now scales from Max Life instead of Max Shields and Armor.

Scaling reduced to 15% (Down from 25%).

Now counts as [Boosters] damage.

Matrix Empowerment - Epic Weapon Hero Item

• New
• 10% Attack Speed
• "When you mitigate 150 damage with [Defense Matrix], deal 20% increased Weapon Damage for 3s".

Vesuvius Protocol - Rare Ability Hero Item

• Removed.

Reworked from Dae-Hyun's Detonator.

Changed from "If your [Mech] detonates while mid-air, increase [Self-Destruct] explosion damage and range by 100%" to "During [Self-Destruct], if your [Mech] detonates while mid-air or deals [Boosters] damage, [Self-Destruct] explodes 100% larger and causes enemies to take 50% more damage for 5s".

Robo-Bowling - Epic Ability Hero Item

• New
• 25 Armor.
• 15% Ability Power.
• During [Self-Destruct], [Boosters] move 50% faster, deal 300% bonus damage, and knock up enemies.

Solo Spec - Rare Survival Hero Item

• Removed.

Reworked from Busan Blaster.

Changed from "Ability: Use [Secondary Fire] while de-meched to fire an explosive piercing shot that deals 80 damage" to "While ejected from your [Mech], hold [Jump] to fly and hold [Secondary Fire] to fire an explosive shot that deals up to 80 damage and slows enemies by 30% for 3s".

Critical damage increased to 100% (Up from 75%).

Reworked to Power.

Now increases Weapon Damage instead of granting Weapon Power.

Max Damage reduced to 30% (Down from 40%).

Reworked to Item.

Added 15% Weapon Lifesteal.

Attack Speed during Fortify increased to 15% (Up from 10%).

Added 10000 Cost.

Added "[Energy Javelin] critical hits reduce an additional 1.5s".

Detonation bonus damage reduced to 25 (Down from 50).

Ravenous Vortex bonus damage reduced to 15% (Down from 30%).

Cost increased to 9000 (Up from 3750).

Ultimate Cost reduction increased to 60% (Up from 50%).

Bingo - Epic Weapon Hero Item.

• New
• 10% Weapon Power
• "[Frag Launcher] Direct Hits without bouncing reduce cooldown of all abilities by 20%".
• 11000 Cost.

Added "Landing a scoped [Sleep Dart] reduces its cooldown by 5s".

75 base damage now only applies to scoped [Sleep Dart].

Increased base damage now works with Comfy Cloud.

Max Life heal increased to 20% (Up from 15%).

Increased duration for each Purr target reduced to 10% (Down from 15%).

Max increased duration reduced to 50% (Down from 75%).

Now triggers off of any damage instead of just Ability damage.

Added 20% [Purr] Cooldown Reduction.

Cost increased to 11000 (Up from 10000).

Cost reduced to 5000 (Down from 10000).

Added "cooldown is reduced by 20% when used without a target".

Empowered shots increased to 5 (Up from 3).

Cooldown refund increased to 25% (Up from 20%).

Duration increased to 5s (Up from 4s).

Empowered shots increased to 3 (Up from 2).

Damage per extra Orb increased to 30% (Up from 20%).

Cost reduced to 10000 (Down from 12000).

Cost increased to 11000 (Up from 10000).

Added 10% Ability Power.

Cooldown reduction every 1s increased to 0.5s (Up from 0.3s).

Cost increased to 12000 (Up from 10000).

Weapon Power increased to 20% (Up from 10%).

Hydro Mender - Rare Survival Hero Item

• Removed.

Cost reduced to 3750 (Down from 4000).

Hydration Break - Epic Survival Hero Item

• New.
• 50 Shields.
• "When you use [Rushing Torrent], place Passive [Restorative Stream] on yourself with 25% reduced healing".
• 9000 Cost.

In a previous update, fixed an issue where Three Tap Tommygun didn't work properly on D.Va.

In a previous update, fixed an issue where Lucio's Nano Boop item combined with Reverb was dealing more damage than intended.

Fixed an issue where D.Va could reset her boosters cooldown by destroying barriers and deployable when using MEKA Punch.

Fixed an issue where Junkrat's Bango Power would override the burn from Lithium Alloy.

Fixed an issue where Junkrat's Refreshing Radiation item removed the cooldown reduction from Successful Heist.