Patch 09-16-2026

Minor Update — 16 September 2026. All advice on this site is written against this patch and was researched on 2026-09-21.

What changed

Comeback mechanics were reduced: Unstable Rift comeback resistance now scales from 10% +1%/min (cap 40% at 30 minutes) instead of a flat 35%, and the flat bonus-soul top-up for being slightly behind in net worth was removed from both hero kill bounties and Unstable Rift bounties.

What that means for matchups

Comeback resistance scaling means snowballed leads hold better than they did; punishing an early advantage is worth more this patch.
Hero-specific tuning this patch touched Abrams, Celeste, Lash, Paige, Paradox, Rem, Shiv, Silver, Venator, Viscous, Vyper, Warden, Wraith and Yamato. Those records were re-checked against the patch notes.
Suppressor sits at 4.5s (raised to 5s in March 2026, trimmed to 4.5s on 28 July 2026) — guides quoting 4s or 5s are stale.
Blood Tribute lost its healing reduction on 6 March 2026. Any guide still listing it as anti-heal is wrong.

What this data set covers

Heroes	38
Items	156
Matchup pages	1406
Measured matchup results	629 of 1406 ordered pairs
Data revision	1

Roughly 45% of the matchup matrix has measured results behind it. The rest is rated from a kit model, and every page says which one it used rather than presenting them as the same thing.

Verified against

Known stale advice elsewhere

Deadlock renamed a number of items across 2025 and 2026, which is why older guides frequently name things that are no longer in the shop. The item pages list every rename we verified, so you can translate an old guide rather than discard it.