Disney Heroes: Battle Mode Update 6.9

Welcome to the Disney Heroes: Battle Mode 6.9 Update! This release features Ember Lumen, Luisa Madrigal, and Chernabog plus a number of improvements and bug fixes.

Overview

  • New! Ember Lumen from Disney & Pixar’s Elemental
  • New! Luisa Madrigal from Disney’s Encanto
  • New! Chernabog from Disney’s Fantasia

Ember Lumen

 

Ember Lumen is a Backline “Damage” Hero on the Yellow team. Ember Lumen will be available in the Battle Pass starting January 21st, 2025.

Skills

Explosive Temper

Passive: 

Ember Lumen’s Basic Attacks apply stacks of "Temper" to enemies.

Active:

Ember's temper gets the best of her, causing her to explode dealing Normal Damage and Knocking Back all enemies away from her. Enemies hit take an additional Normal Damage for each stack of “Temper” on them.

Enemy heroes can have a certain maximum of stacks of "Temper".

+Normal Damage

 

Dazzling Light

Ember shines incredibly bright, dealing Normal Damage to all enemies, Blinding and Distracting them for a few seconds. During this time, Ember takes a percent of Reduced Damage and applies stacks of "Temper" to any enemy that attempts to damage her.

+Normal Damage

 

Colors of Joy

Ember pulls out some minerals to shift her hues, buffing herself and all allies Basic Attacks granting them Bonus Normal Damage for a few seconds. Additionally, during this time, Ember and all allies are Immune to Disables and apply additional stacks of "Temper" each time they deal damage. 

Ember and all allies can only apply stacks of "Temper" this way once every few seconds.

+Bonus Normal Damage

 

Biker Goggles

Once per wave, when Ember reaches 0 HP, she applies stacks of "Temper" to all enemies and Revives herself, gaining Energy. Additionally, Ember becomes Invincible for a few seconds, Healing herself for some HP per second for a few seconds.

+HP Healed

 

Pour-ful Protection

“Explosive Temper” now Stuns all enemies hit for a few seconds.

Enemies are now dealt Normal Damage per stack of “Temper” every few seconds. Additionally, enemies lose buff everytime they take damage this way.

For every few stacks of "Temper" applied to enemies by any source grants Ember Skill Power up to a cap of Skill Power. This effect cannot be Removed, Copied, or Stolen and lasts between waves.

Enemies KO'd with stacks of "Temper" deal Normal Damage to all nearby enemies per stack of “Temper."

+Armor +Reality +Bonus Normal Damage to “Dazzling Light”

Battle Badge

  • Charge Condition: 10 seconds of combat have elapsed.
  • Stat Buff: +Skill Power
  • Lineup Buff: +Skill Power per Damage Role Ally
  • Effect Buff: Skill Power

Friendships

  • Kuzco
  • Pocahontas

Luisa Madrigal

Luisa Madrigal is a Frontline “Tank” Hero on the Blue team. Luisa Madrigal will be available in the Prize Wall starting January 28th, 2025. Please note this date may change according to the planned Server Merge for the end of January.

Skills

Devastating Debris

Luisa Madrigal effortlessly hurls a chunk of land up in the air, raining down debris on the enemies, dealing Normal Damage and Knocking Back all the Frontline enemy heroes. Knocked Back enemies get Stunned for a few seconds and when the Stun ends they get Snared for a few seconds.

If there are no Frontline enemy heroes, Luisa Knocks Back the 3 closest enemy heroes instead.

+Normal Damage

 

Come at Me

Luisa flexes and strikes a pose Distracting all the Frontline enemies and gaining Max HP for every enemy Distracted for a few seconds. 

During this time when she is attacked by a Distracted enemy, that enemy gets Knocked Back and has its Movement and Attack Speed decreased by a percent for a few seconds.

If there are no Frontline enemy heroes, Luisa Distracts the 3 closest enemy heroes instead.

+Max HP

 

Brace Yourselves

Luisa braces her body defending and guarding allies granting them a Shield worth a certain amount of HP for a few seconds. Luisa also Reduces incoming Damage. 

Every time an enemy attacks Luisa or her allies while this skill effect is active, that enemy gets Knocked Back and Snared for a few seconds.

+Shield to Allies

 

Weight Training

After Luisa Knocks Back an enemy, every other enemy Hero hit along the way takes Normal Damage, while the original target takes Normal Damage for every enemy Hero that it hit while being Knocked Back.

+Normal Damage



Mighty Strength

Luisa’s Knock Backs and Snares cannot be Blocked, Dodged, or Prevented by Hardy Stacks.

Everytime a Snare ends, the target enemy Hero gets its Movement Speed reduced by a percent for a few seconds.

Every few Basic Attacks Luisa Knocks Back and Snares the target enemy.

Frontline enemy Heroes deal a percent less damage to Luisa.

+Max HP +Armor +Reality

Battle Badge

  • Charge Condition: 3 enemies are knocked back
  • Stat Buff: +Max HP
  • Lineup Buff: +Max HP per Blue Ally
  • Effect Buff: Invincibility

Friendships

  • Maui
  • Fear

Chernabog

Chernabog is a Backline “Control” Hero on the Red team. Chernabog will be introduced in the Contest Rank Rewards starting February 14th, 2025. However, players will only be able to earn it after the contest concludes on February 20th, 2025.

Skills

Fist Full of Hate

Passive: 

Chernabog is Immune to all displacement effects and at the start of combat Links himself to the ally with most Skill Power or Basic Damage, whichever is the highest. While Linked, Chernabog becomes Invincible and Immune to all debuffs. Additionally, Chernabog grants a percent of his own Base Max HP as Bonus Max HP to his linked ally. When the linked ally reaches 0 HP, Chernabog’s Max HP is reduced by a percent, and Links himself again to the Ally with the highest Skill Power or Basic Damage. Chernabog can only Link to each ally once per wave.

Chernabog is KO’d after linking to all available allies or if he is the last remaining hero on his team.

Chernabog can't be revived.

Active:

Chernabog slams his hand on all enemies, dealing Fantastic Damage, reducing their Damage Dealt by a percent and have their Damage Taken Increased by a percent for a few seconds. Additionally, all enemies become Vulnerable for a few seconds.

+Fantastic Damage

 

Hidden Hands

Chernabog creates a shadow underneath all enemies, applying a Damage over Time that deals Fantastic Damage per second for a few seconds and reducing their Attack and Movement Speed by a percent for a few seconds.

Linked Ally: Whenever the Linked ally deals damage to an enemy affected by Chernabog’s Damage over Time, they become Immune to Fantastic Damage and have their Attack and Movement Speed increased by a percent for a few seconds.

+Fantastic Damage

 

Energy Siphon

Passive: 

Chernabog gains a percent of the energy denied by all ally and enemy Saps. Chernabog can gain up to a cap of energy this way for every few seconds he is in combat.

Active:

Chernabog Steals a percent of energy from all enemies, dealing Fantastic Damage and applying a Sap for a few seconds. 

Linked Ally: The Linked ally becomes Energized, gaining extra energy with their Basic Attacks for a few seconds. Additionally, while under Chernabog's Energized effect, the Linked ally Basic Attacks and Skills apply Scare, Shatter and Pierce for a few seconds.

+Fantastic Damage

 

Unlimited Power

At the beginning of each wave, all enemies are Confused for a few seconds.

Each time an enemy is KO’d, Chernabog and his Linked Ally grow stronger, adding an additional Bonus Fantastic Damage to “Fist Full of Hate” and increasing his Linked Ally’s Damage Dealt by a percent until the end of the wave. This effect can only trigger once per enemy Hero.

+Bonus Fantastic Damage

 

Eternal Flame

Chernabog will now cast “Hidden Hands” whenever he Links to a new Ally. This effect can only trigger once every few seconds.

While Chernabog is Linked with an ally, he Copies all Attack and Movement Speed buffs applied to them and deals an additional bonus Fantastic Damage to nearby enemies with his Basic Attacks. 

Whenever Chernabog Links to an ally they have all their Attack and Movement Speed debuffs Removed and become Invincible for a few seconds. Additionally the Linked ally becomes Immune to Movement and Attack Speed Reductions while Linked.

Linked Ally: Linked ally’s Basic Attacks and Skills reduce their target’s Reality for a few seconds. Each enemy can only have one instance of this Reality Reduction effect active at a time.

+Bonus Fantastic Damage to “Energy Siphon” +Max HP +Skill Power

Battle Badge

  • Charge Condition: Shatter is applied to 1 Hero
  • Stat Buff: +Skill Power
  • Lineup Buff: +Max HP per Damage Role Ally
  • Effect Buff: Fantastic Crit

Friendships

  • Mother Gothel
  • Little John

Mass Hero Level Up

A long awaited feature is here!

You’ll now be able to Level Up 10 Heroes with only one tap of your finger!

Tap the Mass Level Up button on the Heroes List screen, and your top 10 highest leveled Heroes (who aren’t max level) will be selected for level up! Drag the slider at the bottom of the screen to pick which level you would like your Heroes to level up to, and then see how many XP drinks that will consume before confirming!

10 is the current maximum number of Heroes you’ll be able to level up at once, as we aim to monitor our server performance before increasing that amount to higher numbers. This is a relatively resource intensive feature for our servers, so we’re playing it safe.

We hope this feature will save you from lots of nonsense tapping and be extremely useful to your playing experience!

Note: This feature is still under testing by our QA team so there’s a low probability that it won’t make it in time for 6.9, but we’re confident it will! We will let you know.

Server Merge

As mentioned in our previous State of the Game post, we are moving forward with our Server Merge, where we’ll be merging Servers 21 and 25 into Server 1!

We can now confidently say that the Server Merge will occur in the week of January 26th, 2025!

All Servers will be down for some hours while we do the Server Merge, likely to happen on Wednesday, January 29th (time TBC).

Starting from today, players can’t create new accounts on the retiring servers (21 and 25). Newly installed players will be automatically allocated to Server 1.

This will also cause some features to be limited days prior to the merge (this includes Server 13):

  • Luisa Madrigal’s Prize Wall, planned for January 28th, will likely be delayed a few days, and will begin whenever the Server Merge has fully finalized
  • Weekly Challenges will be put on hold, and new Weekly Challenges might need to be adjusted
  • The Invasion before the Server Merge will not occur
  • All events  (double drops, franchise Trials, event Crates, etc.) will not run between the day before the merge up until the day after

After the Server Merge concludes, it will bring an improved playing experience to players. Why?

  • More Competition: More players in the Server will mean there will be more competition in PvP modes! More higher level players, but also more mid and low level players, ensuring more excitement overall for all tiers of players.
  • More Action: Chats will be more active, more Guilds in the same server and more Guild activity!

We appreciate your understanding throughout the whole Server Merge process, as it’s very complicated. If you have any questions please let us know on Discord!

Badge Recipe Optimizations

We are so excited to share some news on the optimization of Badge Recipes in Yellow Ranks!

As mentioned previously, this brings a lot of advantages, but the biggest one is an improved game performance which will reduce lag overall and ensure that game servers are in a much more stable and efficient state.

The Badge crafting system is being simplified to follow the shard-based system already in use for Emerald Ranks. This update will streamline the process and unify the way Badges are crafted across all Yellow Ranks:

  • Similar to what was already done for Emerald+0 to Emerald+5, certain Badges will be removed from the game, and Heroes will receive new and updated Badges from Yellow+0 to Yellow+30.
  • Additionally, the crafting costs for Badges in these rarities will increase, and Badges in these rarities will also have their Gold and Diamond Market costs adjusted, along with an increase in their sell value.
  • The Main Campaign Chapters 41 to 71 will also see adjustments.
  • Stamina costs for these chapters will increase (since the total number of raids or battles needed to farm badges will greatly decrease), and loot tables will be revised to ensure players will only need to raid one chapter for one rank of Emerald Badges. However these increases were reduced by a lot to make sure that players spend less than the total Stamina gained per day to upgrade one hero through all of Yellow.
  • Additionally, Gold rewards for clearing Main Campaign stages will increase to align with the improved rewards seen in Emerald.
  • Stamina gains and thresholds for the reworked Emerald Chapters will increase to reflect the new increase on Chapters 41-71 Stamina Costs.
  • Team Trials loot has been updated to reflect the changes made to Badge Recipes.
  • With the introduction of Yellow Badges, we’ve made a significant change to how Level Scaling Stats are handled. Previously, these stats were assigned randomly within Badges. While this randomness was streamlined with the introduction of Emerald to ensure balanced progression, some heroes still ended up with extreme combinations of stats that caused their damage to be disproportionately high.
  • To address this, Level Scaling Stats have now been removed from badges entirely and are instead tied exclusively to Emerald Ranks and Skills. This change ensures a more balanced gameplay experience, where players have greater control over how they develop these stats. Additionally, it enhances the relevance of hero kits that provide or depend on these stats, promoting more strategic play.

We plan to keep optimizing Badge Recipes for more Ranks down the road, which will bring improved game performance along the next few months!

Improvements

  • New Guild Perks
    • Added 5 levels to Car Bonuses 1-6
    • Added 1 level for the Guild Influence Storage perk
    • We will be stopping these increases after 6.10!
  • Patch Talents
    • We noticed some Patch Talents had unintended behaviors:
    • Armor/Reality/Power Benevolence
    • Power/Speed/Damage Debilitation
    • Freeze Fracture
    • These were causing some more OP Heroes to be even more overpowered. The fixes to their behaviors should tune things down in a few Heroes.
  • Eda’s Blue Skill
    • Added a Cooldown to Eda’s Blue Skill
  • Arena/Coliseum Lineups
    • Players now need 5 Heroes on their Defence lineup to successfully attack other Players in Arena/Coliseum
    • This ensures that players can’t exploit certain Bonus Rules by only using 1 Hero on their Lineup
  • Daily Video Additional Perks
    • Players can now Raid without the need to use Raid Tickets, as long as they watch 3 Daily Video Ads

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where players were reporting some market slots being empty
  • Fixed some UI/UX issues with the new Wish Crates opening system, where players were opening a lot of Wish Crates without wanting to
  • Fixed some mistranslations in new Hero names like Penny Proud
  • Added missing damage icons to some of Mufasa’s skills
  • Fixed a bug where one of Mufasa’s Friendship Campaign titles was too long and thus was preventing buttons to appear

New Hero Locations and Content Adjustments

Heroes will not appear in new locations until they refresh.

Content Adjustments:

  • From January 21st, 2025:
    • Ember Lumen is the next Battle Pass hero!
    • Mufasa is the next Contest Progress Reward hero
    • Ratigan enters the City Watch crate
    • Penny Proud enters the VIP crate
    • Franny Robinson replaces Bruno Madrigal in the War Shop
  • From January 28th, 2025:
    • Luisa Madrigal is the next Prize Wall hero!
    • Mama Odie enters the Arena Crate
    • Elizabeth Swann enters the Guild Crate
    • Ferb is the next Challenger Season hero
    • Isabela Madrigal replaces Heimlich in the War Shop
  • From February 14th, 2025:
    • Chernabog is the next Contest Rank Reward hero!
    • Anne Boonchuy is the next Contest Progress Reward hero
    • Mufasa enters the Coliseum Crate
    • Joe Gardner replaces Chicken Little in the War Shop
    • Chicken Little enters the Diamond Crate

Please note the heroes in the Elite Campaign have been slightly adjusted. 

Existing Heroes

  • Yzma replaces Gizmoduck in the Heist Shop
  • Pleakley replaces Maximus in the City Watch Shop
  • Kim Possible replaces Quorra in the Surge Shop
  • Tron replaces Quackerjack in the Arena Shop
  • Baloo replaces Disgust in the Coliseum Shop

Shop rotations will refresh after January 31st, 2025, at your usual refresh time. 

This is a full app and server update that is currently planned for Thursday, Jan 23, 2025