Hello White Spire! We have someone to introduce - but before we get to that, a couple words. As mentioned a few weeks ago, this will be our last major update before we come out of Early Access and ship Season 1. The team is now heads down adding features, creating content, and polishing UI. With Season 1, Underlords will introduce new content with City Crawl, new rewards with a full Battlepass, and a new meta with a Hero / Item rotation. Oh, and we have a date - Dota Underlords Season 1 is shipping February 25th. Also, keep an eye out for February's PC Gamer. They're running a cover story on the upcoming Underlords release and will have more information about Season 1 (as well as some behind the scenes info about the game's development).
Apart from that, things will be pretty quiet on the update front until we ship. We'll be sharing more about Season 1 in the coming weeks though, so stay tuned. And now, we'd like you to meet our little friend:

INTRODUCING ENNO

PATCH NOTES:

• A ranged menace, Enno leaps around the board poisoning enemies and generally wreaking havoc.
• Enno will be one of the four Underlord options available at the end of Round 1 in Knockout and at the end of Round 9 in Standard and Duos game modes. One of two Enno builds (detailed below) will be randomly presented.
• Passive Skill - Escape Artist
  • Once per combat, when dropping below 25/50/75% health, Enno escapes in a cloud of smoke, reappearing elsewhere on the board, stunning adjacent enemies for 1.5 seconds.
• Build 1 - Healin' n' Stealin'!
  • Dr. Enno's Soothing Balm: Enno leaps into the air and shoots a poison dart at up to 2-5 enemies that are within 3 cells, applying a stack of Poison and healing adjacent allies for 15-60 per stack.
  • Yoink!: Enno steals the lowest tier item from the enemy crew at the start of combat. Whenever an enemy dies in Enno's attack range, he loots them if they have a better item equipped. All items return to their original owners at the end of combat.
• Build 2 - Rabid Furball
  • Death Spin: Enno leaps into the air and shoots a poison dart at up to 2-5 enemies that are within 3 cells, applying a stack of Poison and dealing 20-55 physical damage per stack.
  • All Out Attack!: Enno lassos the enemy team and launches an All Out Attack! dealing 50-225 physical damage, applying 5 stacks of Poison and displacing them into a random cell.

• Improved lighting used by the Underlords.
• Fixed issues with low resolution textures on the Underlords on mobile.
• Further fixes to the map not loading when starting a match.
• Fixed an issue where a dead unit on a cell could prevent a live unit from being selected.
• Fixed wrong rank icon sometimes being displayed on the post-match screen.
• Fixed more places where an Underlord's base ability icon or name would be shown, rather than the version of that ability used by the Underlord build.
• Added more pizzazz to the Underlord picker.
• Target Buddy has begrudgingly put away his holiday hat, since it's apparently "not the season" anymore.

• Jull: fixed Barrels of Fun barrels hitting Spiderlings.
• Hobgen: fixed enemy Spiderlings causing other enemies to take decreased damage from Implosion and Shockwave.

• Venomous Gale:
  • Now applies poison to its targets.

• Fixed bonus armor error in description.

• Instead of applying damage, Orb of Venom now applies poison.

• Brute: Fixed an issue where Brutes could switch targets mid-swing.