Disney Heroes: Battle Mode Update 7.3

Welcome to the Disney Heroes: Battle Mode 7.3 Update! This release features Hector Rivera, Simea, and Giselle plus a number of improvements and bug fixes.

Overview

  • New! Hector Rivera from Disney & Pixar’s Coco
  • New! Simea from Disney’s Moana
  • New! Giselle from Disney’s Enchanted

Hector Rivera

Hector Rivera is a Center “Control” Hero on the Yellow team. Hector Rivera will be available in the Battle Pass starting August 5th, 2025.

Skills

 

Skull Check

Passive: Héctor Rivera begins the battle by converting his Basic Damage and Skill Power into negative values. He scales inversely, the lower these stats become, the stronger he gets. Allies cannot Cleanse, apply Hardy stacks, Skill Power, or Basic Damage buffs to Héctor.

His Basic Attacks deal Normal Damage to all enemies, Scaring them and reducing their Basic Damage and Skill Power for a few seconds.

Active: Héctor removes his head, and taps a few times lowering his own Basic Damage and Skill Power, up to a maximum amount.

+Basic Damage +Skill Power

 

Memory Pose

Héctor Rivera pulls out a photo of himself, absorbing all Basic Damage and Skill Power debuffs from his allies to himself.

He then gains HP Shield, and bonus HP Shield for each Basic Damage or Skill Power debuff he has. This Shield lasts for a few seconds.

+HP Shield

 

Bone Arrow

Héctor Rivera uses his arm like an arrow whenever an enemy becomes “Most Wanted”, dealing Normal Damage to them, and giving a percent of Héctor’s Basic Damage and Skill Power for a few seconds.

This debuff cannot be Dodged, Blocked, or Cleansed.

+Normal Damage

 

Timeless Straw

When Héctor Rivera is KO’d, he transfers a percent of his Basic Damage and Skill Power to all enemies. He also removes Armor and Reality, and applies Scare and Drain to all enemies for a few seconds, during this time enemies cannot gain buffs.

+Armor and Reality Removed

 

Skull Scarf

Héctor Rivera and his allies are Immune to Scare. When an enemy attempts to Scare them, the targeted ally instead gains a percent of Increased Damage Dealt for a few seconds. Additionally, Héctor deals Fantastic Damage per second to all enemies that are Scared. 

Whenever his allies accumulate more than a certain amount of removable Basic Damage or Skill Power debuffs, Héctor instantly activates “Memory Pose”. This effect can only occur once every few seconds.

+Max HP +Skill Power +Basic Damage

Battle Badge

  • Charge Condition: Scare is applied to 5 enemies
  • Stat Buff: +Max HP
  • Lineup Buff: +Max HP per Control Ally
  • Effect Buff: Reflect

Friendships

  • Luisa Madrigal
  • Joe Gardner

 

Simea

 

Simea is a Backline “Support” Hero on the Yellow team. Simea will be available in the Prize Wall starting August 6th, 2025.

Skills

 

Brave Dance

Passive: At the start of combat Simea gains Evasion and it cannot be decreased.

Active: Simea demonstrates her strength with a short choreography that Moana taught her that deals a percent of her Max HP to her enemies as True Damage.

Additionally, for the next few seconds allies gain a percent of Conservation.

Every time an Ally uses an Active Skill, Simea gains Armor and Reality for the next few seconds. Additionally all enemies lose Armor and Reality Negation.

Allies can only benefit from these effects once every few seconds.

+Level

Shell Gift

Simea increases her team’s strength by gifting them a shell, for the next few seconds, every time one of Simea’s allies casts their green skill, they will have that Skill’s Cooldown reduced by a percent.

Additionally, upon this successful effect, that ally gains a Shield worth a certain amount of HP every second for a few seconds.

Allies can only benefit from this effect once every few seconds.

+HP Shield

 

Sea Token

Simea places her starfish in the palm of her hand, giving her team something good to remember, for the next few seconds, every time one of Simea’s allies casts their blue skill, they will have that skill’s cooldown reduced by a percent.

Additionally, upon this successful effect, that ally Heals HP every second for a few seconds.

Allies can only benefit from this effect once every few seconds.

+HP Healed

 

Treasure Shard

Simea Cleanses her allies whenever she casts “Shell Gift” and “Sea Token”. Additionally, Simea redirects disables from her allies to herself while these skill effects are active.

Every time Simea redirects a disable to herself, she gains Max HP.

+Max HP

Maui’s Gift

Simea is Immune to Hex.

During “Shell Gift” any time enemy heroes break allies’s Shields granted by Simea, the overflown damage is reduced by a percent.

During “Sea Token” any time an ally Heals past their Max HP they gain that extra amount as additional Max HP.

During “Shell Gift” and “Sea Token” Simea benefits from the same effects granted to allies who successfully activate their green and blue skills respectively.

+Max HP +Reality +Armor

Battle Badge

  • Charge Condition: 10 seconds of combat have elapsed
  • Stat Buff: +Max HP
  • Lineup Buff: +Max HP per Yellow Ally
  • Effect Buff: Reflect

Friendships

  • Moana
  • Isabella Shapiro

Giselle

 

Giselle is a Backline “Support” Hero on the Yellow team. Giselle will be available in the Prize Wall starting August 6th, 2025.

Skills

 

Gem Shine

Passive: Instead of dealing damage, Giselle’s basic attacks Heal allies with the lowest percentage HP, including Giselle, for some HP.

Active: Giselle picks up two blue gems and holds them at eye level, reflecting a shine toward all enemies, dealing Fantastic Damage per second for a few seconds, Confusing them during this time. Enemies who are Immune to Confuse or block it with Hardy, instead become Vulnerable and Receive a percent More Damage for a few seconds.

+Fantastic Damage

Sweet Routine

Giselle brushes her hair a few times, Cleansing herself and all allies, and granting a Shield worth a certain amount of HP. Additionally, for each debuff removed, Giselle applies a Heal over Time that Heals some HP per second for a few seconds.

+HP Shield

 

Clumsy Hello

Giselle adjusts her hair with one hand and waves, dealing Fantastic Damage to all enemies and Copying the higher Skill Power and Basic Damage buffs to herself. Additionally, Giselle Curses the "Most Wanted” enemy for a few seconds and reduces their Attack and Movement Speed by a percent.

+Fantastic Damage

 

Found Love

At the start of each wave, Giselle and all allies gain a Shield worth a certain amount of HP for a few seconds. After Giselle’s Shield is removed or expires, the Shielded hero becomes Immune to Charms for the rest of the wave. Additionally, enemies that attempt to Charm Giselle or her allies while they are Immune become Vulnerable for a few seconds. This Vulnerable debuff cannot be blocked by Hardy.

+HP Shield

Ribbon Bloom

Every time a Shield is removed from an ally, Giselle converts the total Shield amount into Max HP. This bonus Max HP given is not Healed on application and can provide up to a certain amount of Max HP. This buff cannot be Copied, Stolen, or Removed and resets between waves.

Giselle now Copies buffs from Vulnerable enemies every few seconds and applies them to the “Most Wanted” ally.

“Sweet Routine” now also increases all allies’ Skill Power and Basic Damage by a certain amount for a few seconds for each unremovable debuff.

+Skill Power +Max HP +HP Shield to “Sweet Routine”

Battle Badge

  • Charge Condition: Shield is applied to 2 enemies
  • Stat Buff: +Max HP
  • Lineup Buff: +Max HP per Yellow Ally
  • Effect Buff: Energy

Friendships

  • Elsa
  • Luz Noceda

XP Changes

Did someone ask for some much needed changes to the XP Rewards? Well, look no further!
In this update, we’ve made significant changes and improvements to the XP Economy. 

As part of our efforts in improving the game’s economies, we want to make sure that anytime we reward XP feels impactful and makes sense. We noticed that XP was rewarded in small amounts in too many places, which made gathering them a chore. With these changes, we hope to make gameplay more straightforward while overall increasing the amount of total XP drinks rewarded. 

Here is a list of the changes: 

  • Docks

    • Increase XP rewards for all stages following Super-Brutal difficulty

  • Main Campaign

    • Reworked Chapters 1-5 first clear rewards to include XP drinks.
    • Reworked XP formula in the Main Campaign to scale correctly with each increase in Chapter.

  • Markets

    • Removed XP Drinks from the Following Markets: 
      • Arena
      • Surge 
      • City Watch
      • Coliseum
      • Heist
      • War

  • Arena & Coliseum

    • Increased daily XP rewards for Arena
    • Decreased daily XP rewards from Coliseum

  • Daily Quests & Sign-In

    • Replaced XP rewards from daily quests with Gold and Mission Speed-Ups
    • Reworked the XP formula from Daily Sign-In to grant increased rewards

  • Invasion

    • Replaced XP rewards with Mod Fragments and Mod Upgrade Pieces.

  • Guild Check-In

    • Reworked the XP formula from Guild Check-In to grant increased rewards

  • Battle Pass

    • Reworked the XP formula in the Battle Pass to grant increased rewards

We’ll be closely monitoring the results over the next few months and will make further adjustments if needed. We have additional plans in the future to further improve this system, and will keep you posted as they come to life! 

Coming Soon: Guild War Update

We’re super excited to announce an upcoming major overhaul to the current Guild War game mode in DHBM!

We’re aiming to release these changes in the next update 7.4, but you may find below what these changes are so you can plan ahead! At the moment, we are undergoing testing of the following feature changes:

  • Ban & Protect System

    • Guilds will be able to strategically block enemy heroes from being used in War while safeguarding their own key heroes from being banned. (This system takes into account different tiers, where less heroes will be able to be banned and protected and additionally match-ups between guilds within different tiers as to balance things out)
    • The Off-Duty Hero system will be deprecated

  • War Spars

    • Guilds will be able to use a limited special type of  War Spars, where everything is taken into account, from sabotage values to war car bonuses. Guilds can increase the number of War Spars with a new Guild Perk.

  • Spars Combat Accuracy Improvements

    • Spars behaviour is improved to better match other combat modes in DH.

  • Decrease in War Car Bonuses

  • Reworked Sabotage and new Sabotage Features

    • Old Sabotage features were revised and reworked.
    • New Sabotage features are going to be introduced.

  • Ranks Permission Adjustments

    • We worked collaboratively with the community to introduce a revision to a standardized set of guild permissions for each rank.

  • The Guild War end time will change, wrapping up several hours earlier, at a time we will be announcing in the next update

Please keep in mind that because these changes are still undergoing testing, there may be revisions to these changes by 7.4, but please feel free to share feedback about our plans! 

Heist Game Mode

As previously mentioned in the State of the Game 2025 Post, we are planning to remove Heist as an ever present game mode.

Our goal is to streamline the gameplay experience one step at a time, focusing on game modes that are optimized, bring interesting rewards and overall engagement to DHBM.

Heist will be removed as an ever present game mode in client release 7.4

We will also be removing Heist Coins & Shop.

We’re giving this heads up so you can prepare and spend your Heist Coins ahead of time. All Heist related quests will be removed as well. To help make use of your leftover Heist Coins, there will be a limited-time Heist event crate throughout the rest of the month. The Heist Coins will be fully removed from your inventory in that following update, 7.4, so use them before they’re gone! 

We plan to compensate players for this removal over the next weeks, so stay tuned!

The long term goal is to bring Heist back later in the year/early 2026, as a limited-time event.

Challenger Season 72

New Challenger Season alert! Here are the Featured Franchises and Spotlight Heroes so you can plan ahead!

  • Featured Franchises

    • The Emperor's New Groove
    • Muppets
    • Toy Story
    • Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
    • Coco
    • The Princess and the Frog
    • Raya and the Last Dragon
    • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    • The Jungle Book
    • The Little Mermaid
    • Moana
    • A Goofy Movie

  • Spotlight Heroes

  • Reuben
  • Duchess
  • The Horned King
  • Giselle

Improvements & Changes

  • Disk Power Missions

    • Increased the upper limit of Disk Power Missions to 20 for Non-VIP users and 25 for VIP users.

  • Prize Wall Tokens

    • As mentioned in the 7.2 Patch Notes, Prize Wall Tokens carried over from the previous Prize Wall event will now expire at the end of each Prize Wall. 

  • Removed Credits from Gold Crates

    • After a few iterations of the recent crate changes, it didn’t make sense to reward credits from Gold Crates, so they have been removed. 

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where an important VFX was missing from Reuben’s White Skill
  • Fixed an issue where Duchess’ Green Skill was causing a crash
  • Fixed a bug where Phineas’ Luca and Alberto Friendship Disk was not working correctly
  • Fixed a bug where Phineas’ Max Goof Friendship Disk was not working correctly

New Hero Locations and Content Adjustments

Heroes will not appear in new locations until they refresh.

Content Adjustments:

  • From August 5th, 2025:

    • Hector Rivera is the new Battle Pass Hero!
    • Reuben and Carl the Robot are the next Challenger Heroes
    • Phineas is added to the VIP Crate
    • Edna Mode is added to the Arena Crate
    • Lilith Clawthorne enters the Diamond Crate
    • Chernabog enters the Elite Campaign

  • From August 6th, 2025:

    • Simea and Giselle enter the Prize Wall!
    • Envy and Reuben are the next Challenger Heroes
    • Candace Flynn enters the Coliseum Crate
    • Duchess becomes the Contest Rank Reward Hero
    • Yen Sid enters the Guild Crate
    • Isabella Shapiro enters the Diamond Crate
    • Carl the Robot enters the War Shop
    • Anxiety and Wade Ripple enter the Elite Campaign

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

This is a full app and server update that is currently planned for Tuesday, Aug 5, 2025