Despot is about to go on a holiday break, so he decided to take a minute to say "Merry Christmas" to his punies. Don't get misled by the cute Santa hat, though: Horrifying experiments on humans are going nowhere next year. Now, let's see what we have in store for you today.

UPDATE 1.9

In this one, we've added some festive Christmas decor to cheer you all up while you miserably perish in Despot's dungeon. Xoxo. Also, we added new mutations and traditionally tweaked the balance.

New Mutations

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  Rat-ify: Transforms enemies into... rats. Only Mages can get this mutation. They can transform an enemy into an animal for 5s every 20s for 30 mana, but you need 3 mages to perform a cast.
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  Soul Gift: this is a more powerful version of Final Gift; it increases a random ally's health by 1000 when one of your teammates dies.

Reworked Mutations

Some mutations underwent significant overhauls. We compiled this list in collaboration with our community on Discord. Feel free to join us if you'd like to participate in discussions about future updates.

• Thunder Lance there is now a 50% filter for damage
• Magic Mirror chance to silence now, no longer stuns
• Fighters' Link cant kill, it stops working when a unit has 20% of health
• Magical Blood mana blocks damage until it hits 50% of total mana
• Mass Taunt all tanks use it simultaneously and cooldown is shared between all tanks (even if they were stunned or silenced). Cannot be multicasted.
• Curse of Variety items become more pricey, not newbies

Balance Changes

• Magical Blood damage block multiplayer: x2 x3
• Thunder Lance the chance of casting increased: 5 20
• Curse of Mutation item cost increased: 100% 150%
• Vampirism has been slightly nerfed in all modes except Brawl: 7% 5%

Shooters items' damage has been slightly nerfed:

• Tier 1: 35 30
• Tier 3: 85 80
• Tier 4: 120 105
• Tier 5: 135 120

Eggheads items' damage has been buffed:

• Tier 1: 35 40
• Tier 2: 53 60
• Tier 3: 74 85
• Tier 4: 110 125
• Tier 5: 170 185

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King of the Hill Season 20 Results

WINNERS:

[table] [tr] [th]1.Lectrice[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]2.Mirrari[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]3.The Wrinkled Dinkler[/td] [/tr] [/table]
Congrats! Your victory medal has been added to your name on the leaderboard.

Season 21 starts right now and ends on January 25th at 16:00 UTC.

[hr][/hr] Our team wants to wish you all Happy Holidays, folks. You are, as always, a rad community, and we're super blessed to have you by our side. We don't have a photo in Xmas gear, so we just photoshopped some Santa hats into this one:
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