Disney Heroes: Battle Mode Update 7.4

Welcome to the Disney Heroes: Battle Mode 7.4 Update! This release features Embarrassment, Scat Cat, and Abby Mallard plus a number of improvements and bug fixes.

Overview

  • New! Embarrassment from Disney & Pixar’s Inside Out
  • New! Scat Cat from Disney’s The Aristocats
  • New! Abby Mallard from Disney’s Chicken Little
  • Major rehaul of Guild Wars!
  • Changes to Hero Releases and App Updates
  • Improvements and Bug Fixes

Embarrassment

 

Embarrassment is a Center “Tank” Hero on the Yellow team. Embarrassment will be available in the Battle Pass starting September 2nd, 2025.

Skills

Embarrass Burst

Passive:

Embarrassment puts both hands on his hoodie, gaining “Awkward” stacks and Confusing the closest enemies for a few seconds. Each “Awkward” stack generated increases Embarrassment’s Reality and his Max HP by a percent until the end of the wave.

Active: 

Embarrassment is so self-conscious that he drops to the ground, sending a shockwave through the battlefield, dealing Normal Damage, Stunning and Hexing all enemies for a few seconds. This Stun cannot be Blocked, Dodged, or prevented by Hardy.

+Normal Damage

 

Shy Snap

When Embarrassment reaches a certain amount of “Awkward” stacks, he blushes and closes his hood to hide his face, converting “Awkward” stacks into Endurance stacks, Cleansing himself and becoming Immune to all debuffs. While the hood is closed, Embarrassment Distracts the closest enemies and deals Normal Damage every time a Distracted enemy attempts to damage him. Embarrassment will stay with his hood closed until he loses all Endurance stacks or uses ‘Embarrass Burst’, and during this time he can't gain Energy. This Distract cannot be prevented by Hardy.

+Normal Damage

Timid Peek

Embarrassment slowly parts his fingers to peek through after leaving “Shy Snap”, dealing Normal Damage to all enemies, gaining all energy he would have gained during “Shy Snap”, granting himself and all allies an HP Shield for a few seconds and increasing their Reality. This Reality Increase can go up to a max of Reality and lasts until the end of the wave.

+Normal Damage

 

Hood Cocoon

While "Shy Snap" is active, Embarrassment redirects a percent of all damage dealt to allies to himself. Embarrassment also has a percent chance to redirect each debuff that would be applied to backline allies to himself. Additionally, Embarrassment gains Reality for each debuff redirected up to a cap of Reality.

+Reality



Blushing Soles

Upon reaching 0 HP, Embarrassment gains “Awkward” stacks and becomes Berserk for a few seconds. This effect can only happen once every few seconds. While Berserk, Embarrassment gains “Awkward” stacks per second.

While “Shy Snap” is active, all enemies lose Reality Negation.

Every time an enemy attempts to Debuff Embarrassment, he gains HP Shield for a few seconds. This effect can only happen once every few seconds.

+Basic Damage +Reality +Armor

Battle Badge

  • Charge Condition: Shield is applied to 9 heroes
  • Stat Buff: +Max HP
  • Lineup Buff: +Max HP per Yellow Ally
  • Effect Buff: Reflect

Friendships

  • Meilin Lee
  • Maui

Scat Cat

Scat Cat is a Backline “Damage” Hero on the Red team. Scat Cat will be available in the Prize Wall starting September 9th, 2025.

Skills

 

Trumpet Fury

Passive: 

Scat Cat plays one note with his trumpet that resonates through all enemies, dealing bonus Fantastic Damage for each Movement Speed buff and debuff on them.

Active: 

Scat Cat plays his trumpet with explosive energy, dealing Fantastic Damage to all enemies while also applying Shatter and Silence for a few seconds. Additionally, Scat Cat grants all his allies a percent of Attack and Movement Speed Increase for a few seconds.

+Fantastic Damage

 

Splash Strike

Scat Cat throws a bucket of water at the enemy with the most buffs, applying a Damage Over Time to him and all nearby enemies, dealing Fantastic Damage per second and converting their Attack and Movement speed Buffs to Attack and Movement Speed Debuffs for a few seconds. During this time, all current and subsequent buffs received by these enemies have their duration reduced by a percent.

+Fantastic Damage

 

Scratch Whack

Scat Cat scratches the "Most Wanted" enemy a certain amount of times, dealing Fantastic Damage and an additional amount for every percent bonus Movement Speed they have and preventing them from gaining any further increases in Attack Speed for the next few seconds. During that time, any attempt at applying or receiving Attack or Movement Speed buffs Stuns the "Most Wanted" enemy for a few seconds.

+Fantastic Damage



Classy Cat Cap

Every time an enemy attempts to receive a Movement Speed buff, Scat Cat gains Skill Power for a few seconds and stacks of Momentum. Scat Cat can only receive up to a cap of Skill Power this way.

+Skill Power



Scat’s Red Tie

Scat Cat exploits each enemy's bonus Movement Speed, dealing additional damage equal to the percentage of Bonus Movement Speed they have.

Scat Cat now grants all allies Fantastic Damage on all their Skills and Basic Attacks while they have a Movement Speed Buff on them.

Scat Cat’s Basic Attacks extend the duration of all enemies Attack and Movement Speed debuffs by a few seconds. This effect can only happen once every few seconds.

+Reality +Skill Power +Armor

Battle Badge

  • Charge Condition: Heroes perform 12 or more Basic Attacks
  • Stat Buff: +Skill Power
  • Lineup Buff: +Skill Power per Support Ally
  • Effect Buff: Crit Damage

Friendships

  • Sadness
  • Thomas O’Malley

 

Abby Mallard

 

Abby Mallard is a Frontline “Tank” Hero on the Yellow team. Abby Mallard will be available in the Prize Wall starting September 18th, 2025.

Skills

 

Turbo Whirl Ball

Passive: 

Abby targets the “Most Wanted” enemy and her basic attacks Distract all nearby enemies for a few seconds, redirecting a percent of all incoming damage from the Distracted enemies to the “Most Wanted” enemy. This Distract cannot be Dodged.

Active:

Abby spins her arms and throws a dodge ball across the battlefield dealing Fantastic Damage and decreasing the Tenacity of all enemies hit for a few seconds. As the dodge ball reaches the edge of the battlefield it bounces back, dealing Fantastic Damage and Cursing them for a few seconds.

+Fantastic Damage

 

Slack Smirk

Abby flashes her famously awkward smile dealing Fantastic Damage and stealing Armor and Reality from all nearby enemies for a few seconds. Additionally, Abby grants all allies Empowered stacks.

+Fantastic Damage

 

Modern Mallard

When Abby is below a percent of HP she pulls out her celebrity magazine dealing Fantastic Damage, Stunning all nearby enemies for a few seconds and making them Vulnerable for a few seconds. This effect can only trigger once every few seconds and the Stun cannot be reduced by Tenacity or avoided by Evasion.

+Fantastic Damage


 

Bloom Shirt

All enemies near Abby are dealt a percent of their Max HP as True Damage per second. Additionally, this damage reduces the enemy’s Armor and Reality, up to a max amount, and Drains them for a certain amount of Energy per second. Enemies above Abby's Armor or Reality are Drained for some Energy instead.

+Armor +Reality

 

Fun Karaoke

Before the start of combat, Abby moves to the middle of the enemy's side of the battlefield. At the start of combat she then Knocks all enemies towards her and Snares them for a few seconds.

Abby Blocks all Energize applied to enemies for the first few seconds of each wave. Enemies that have Energize Blocked this way are Sapped for a few seconds instead.

Abby now gains Determination stacks every few seconds. Additionally, each Determination stack Increases Abby’s Armor and Reality until it's removed.

+Reality +Armor +Skill Power

Battle Badge

  • Charge Condition: Slow is applied to 1 enemy
  • Stat Buff: +Skill Power
  • Lineup Buff: +Max HP per Damage Ally
  • Effect Buff: Invisibility

Friendships

  • Chicken Little
  • Daisy Duck

Guild War Update

We are beyond excited to bring the brand new Guild War Update to DHBM! As mentioned in the previous Patch Notes, here are the changes we will be doing to this game mode:

  • 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)
    • Additionally, banning or protecting the same Hero in 2 consecutive wars triggers a cooldown: that Hero becomes ineligible to be banned and/or protected for the next 2 Wars.
    • 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
    • War Car Bonuses were reduced to about 50% of their initial values. (Costs were reworked accordingly).
  • Reworked Sabotage and new Sabotage Features
    • Old Sabotage features were revised and reworked.
      • Snail Sabotage was removed from the game.
      • All old values for sabotage were re-balanced to be more relevant.
    • New Sabotage Features:
      • Evasion Reduce
      • Tenacity Reduce
      • Patch Level Decrease
      • Battle Badge Disable
      • Red Skill Level Decrease
      • Red Skill Disable
      • Real Gear Disable
    • Sabotage now will only cost Guild Tokens and values have been adjusted.
  • Ranks Permission Adjustments
    • We worked collaboratively with the community to introduce a revision to a standardized set of guild permissions for each rank.
  • War Pause
    • We will be pausing War around the update, to avoid any issues. The following war will start on its regular schedule, once the update is complete. 
    • This means that we will be pausing for a full 2 day cycle. 
    • Your ranking at the time will carry over until the next war starts. 

We hope you enjoy these changes we’ve worked so hard on, and please feel free to share feedback with us! 

Heist Game Mode

Heist Removal is here - Heist is no longer available in DHBM 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.

The long term goal is to bring Heist back in 2026, as a limited-time event.

New Hero Release Changes

In an effort to address player concerns over hero releases, we’re making changes to the way we release heroes. With recent surveys and read-throughs of player feedback in the Official DHBM Discord, we wanted to address these main concerns:

  • Prize Wall running for 26 days felt too long/Nothing to look forward to after the update
  • Having 2 different heroes in the Prize Wall was frustrating
  • Not enough daily tokens for F2P to make meaningful progression 
  • All 3 heroes releasing at once felt too fast 

With this in mind, we’re now going with the following New Hero Release schedule:

  • Battle Pass heroes will continue to release alongside the client update
  • Prize Wall Hero A will release the following Tuesday, for 1 week
  • Prize Wall Hero B will release the following Thursday after Prize Wall Hero A has concluded, for 1 week

This new schedule will keep the game fresh, and have something new and exciting to look forward to, week to week, while giving each hero time to shine. In addition to these hero release changes, we’re also adding some additional new events and adjustments:

  • The Battle Pass will continue to have an Early Access Trial running for 8 days since the update
  • Prize Walls will also have a 7 day limited-time event trial running alongside it, to earn up to double the additional tokens daily 
  • Each hero release will be paired with a limited-time 3-day Super Charge event, so you can buff newly acquired heroes for 4 weeks of battle

Because the Battle Pass runs for much longer than the Prize Wall events, and everyone goes at a different pace, we have removed Prize Wall tokens from both tracks. Players will now be able to purchase additional tokens either through limited-time offers, or by burning stamina on additional chances for the Prize Wall Trial Events. “New Heroes Join the Battle” Hero Spotlights in chat sparring will still highlight all three heroes for a few days so everyone can test out maxed out versions of new heroes. 

As always, we’ll keep an eye out for feedback regarding these new changes to the New Hero release schedule! We hope these changes will keep the game fun and exciting, and we are so grateful for your continued support and feedback. 

Full App Update Release Changes

Moving forward, and in order to have a more structured new full app update release calendar, we will be launching new updates on the first Tuesday or Wednesday of the month, depending on when Guild War finishes.

This means that release 7.5 will go live 5 weeks from now instead of the usual 4 weeks. Release 7.4-A will still be 2 weeks from now, but then there will be 3 weeks between 7.4-A and 7.5.

Chapter releases will always be 2 weeks after the full app update, so expect one -A update every month. This means, some months may have 5 weeks between new chapters. 

The plan for the Battle Pass moving forward is to wrap up on the last day of the month. It will continue to release with the newest full app update, but may be shorter or longer some months. Based on progression speeds, it is possible to complete the whole Battle Pass well within this timeframe. 

As mentioned, some months may include an extra week that may result in an additional week of Arena and Coliseum. For this first extended season, we will have a gap week before the next season starts, but don’t worry, we’ll have other events to fill the time! In the future, we’re experimenting with a PvP limited-time event that we hope to share more info about as we get closer to the next gap week. 

Challenger Season 73

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

  • Featured Franchises
    • Moana
    • Inside Out
    • Princesses
    • Lilo and Stitch
    • Ducktales
    • Cinderella
    • Tron
    • Hocus Pocus
    • Monsters Inc.
    • Finding Nemo
    • Wreck It Ralph
    • The Emperor’s New Groove
    • Atlantis
    • Muppets
    • Chicken Little
    • The Proud Family
    • Soul
    • The Lion King
  • Spotlight Heroes
    • Giselle
    • Sisu
    • Kaa
    • King Louie
    • Quasimodo
    • Scat Cat
    • Bolt
    • Davy Jones
    • Tia Dalma

Last Days of Summer Events

The summer isn’t over yet, heroes! Last Days of Summer Events are in full force, so don’t miss out. From August 25th through September 16th, the City has been heating up with a sizzling lineup of events to send the season off in style. Here’s what we’ve got in store:

  • A brand new Community Showdown Trial, to vote for what you think the new Rarity should be named!
    • Will you vote for Sapphire, Opal, or Azurite? 
  • A limited-time Campaign Trial to celebrate the end of summer at an exciting beach party! But, what’s bubbling under the waves…?
    • This trial has ended, but a re-run may be in the near future, for another chance to earn the exclusive Tropical Flowers border!
  • A Back to School Special Invasion to fend off some uncool invaders!
    • Coming September 8th, earn an exclusive jazzy themed border!
  • Themed Contests, exclusive prizes, daily events, and a new cosmetic border!

Get ready and make a splash before this summer ends!

Improvements & Changes

  • Power Promote Rewards
    • Power Promote function was not granting or displaying the expected rewards for the farmed levels
    • Rewards for all farmed levels will now be correctly calculated and displayed upon using Power Promote
    • A similar issue was occurring with Power Craft, which has been fixed as well
  • XP Increases
    • The XP Drink formula has been revamped to improve the overall XP rewards granted across the game.
    • The Port received the largest increase, with some earlier difficulties also adjusted.
  • Filters
    • Moved the Featured Franchises filter to the very top, next to Favourite heroes and Arena Heroes
  • Main Campaign
    • Removed Violet from Main Campaign Chapters due to bugs involving her (replaced with Max Goof)
  • Elite Campaign
    • Removed Violet from Elite Campaign Chapters due to bugs involving her (replaced with Max Goof)
  • Rebalanced Characters
    • Some additional characters have been rebalanced:
      • Quasimodo
      • Kaa
      • King Louie
      • Sisu
      • Violet (Her shield’s damage reduction has been decreased)

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a visual bug with Chernabog/Mother Gothel’s Memory Disk, where it had the wrong color
  • Fixed a bug where Envy’s Memory Disk Cleanse effect was not triggering
  • Fixed a bug in the German version of the game causing crashes
  • Updated colors in texts in the How to Play, to improve visual clarity
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes unreleased characters were showing up in City Watch
  • Fixed a crash in Team Trials
  • Fixed a crash when using Rapunzel in Invasion
  • Fixed Red Skills and Memory Disks Skill Tags on 50+ heroes.

New Hero Locations and Content Adjustments

Heroes will not appear in new locations until they refresh.

Content Adjustments:

  • From September 2nd, 2025:
    • Embarrassment is the new Battle Pass Hero!
    • Hector Rivera becomes the next Arena Challenger Hero
    • Reuben is added to the VIP Crate
    • Phineas is added to the Arena Crate
    • Edna Mode enters the Diamond Crate
    • Lady Tremaine enters the Elite Campaign
  • From September 3rd, 2025:
    • Simea becomes the next Coliseum Challenger Hero
    • Giselle becomes the Contest Rank Reward
      • Scat Cat will replace Giselle as the Contest Rank Reward Hero on September 18th, 2025
    • Duchess enters the Guild Crate
    • Yen Sid enters the City Watch Crate
    • Gantu enters the Diamond Crate
    • Lilith Clawthorne and Thomas O'Malley enter the Elite Campaign
  • From September 9th, 2025:
    • Scat Cat enters the Prize Wall!
  • From September 18th, 2025:
    • Abby Mallard enters the Prize Wall!

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 next week. Due to some external issues, we’re currently unable to give a specific date, but we’ll keep you all updated as soon as possible! Thank you all for your patience.