Patches / 2026-10-16

Paint the Town

2026-10-16 · Original on Steam

What changed

0 buffed0 nerfed2 adjusted

Violet adjust

Brush in hand, Violet approaches the ritual with the same precision she does her art, wielding Living Ink that both empowers her bullets, and draws mere inspiration into reality. When entering Flow State, her ink glides

Nurse Harrow adjust

Violet is available in-game now! Which means that our final hero - Nurse Harrow - will be joining us Next Tuesday October 20th at 2pm PDT. We want to thank everyone for participating in voting once again, and we'll see y

Read automatically from the notes: a line counts as a buff or nerf from its numbers and the stat (a longer cooldown is a nerf). Spot something wrong? Tell us.

Measured impact

Stronger since this patch

Deadman Danny+6.4 pp · 43.1% → 49.6%
Violet+3.5 pp · 47.2% → 50.7%
Mo & Krill+2.0 pp · 48.9% → 50.9%
Abrams+1.9 pp · 50.1% → 52.0%
Billy+1.8 pp · 46.5% → 48.3%

Weaker since this patch

Baba−2.7 pp · 56.1% → 53.4%
Holliday−2.5 pp · 48.5% → 46.0%
Rem−2.1 pp · 47.4% → 45.3%
Haze−1.8 pp · 54.7% → 52.8%
Mina−1.6 pp · 46.4% → 44.8%

Items that got better

Express Shot+2.0 pp · 46.4% → 48.4%
Kinetic Dash+1.5 pp · 47.0% → 48.5%
Rusted Barrel+1.1 pp · 43.9% → 45.0%
Weapon Shielding+1.0 pp · 46.1% → 47.1%
Disarming Hex+0.9 pp · 40.8% → 41.7%

Items that got worse

Fury Trance−2.1 pp · 49.6% → 47.5%
Restorative Locket−1.8 pp · 51.2% → 49.4%
Alchemical Fire−1.4 pp · 52.2% → 50.8%
Heroic Aura−1.3 pp · 56.0% → 54.8%
Active Reload−1.2 pp · 53.3% → 52.0%

Win rate in the 7 days before 2026-10-16 vs the 7.0 days after, all ranks. Only changes larger than twice their standard error, on 1,000+ games each side, are listed. Meta shifts and new heroes also move numbers, so not every change is caused by the notes.

The notes

Brush in hand, Violet approaches the ritual with the same precision she does her art, wielding Living Ink that both empowers her bullets, and draws mere inspiration into reality. When entering Flow State, her ink glides easily, weaving towards danger to deal damage, or away from it to make a quick getaway. By creating a Still Life Violet can truly capture her enemies' likeness to stunning results. And with Abstract Landscape she surrounds herself and those nearby with her biggest and most ambitious piece yet, leaving onlookers completely speechless. - "I worked too hard to get here, I can't stop now."

Violet is available in-game now! Which means that our final hero - Nurse Harrow - will be joining us Next Tuesday October 20th at 2pm PDT. We want to thank everyone for participating in voting once again, and we'll see you next week for the culmination of our City Never Sleeps update. Have a good weekend!

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