This post has been updated in real time as the Vainglory official stream was revealing the news in 1.5

Note! Some things may be wrong or misinterpreted as I was writing while watching the stream.

Wolf hero –  Fortress

Perk – Runs faster when near allies.

Truth of the Tooth – Mark the target. Attacks became short-range lunge. Team mates can run towards the target.

Law of the Claw – Damages with crystal power and makes the enemy bleed. Bleeding heroes will take  extra crystal damage over time and will give life steal to the attacker.
It is also possible to apply stacks of bleeding with basic attacks from any allied hero, minions, wolfs from the pack or Fortress. After 5 number of stacks the target will get extra damage, will be slowed and will be inflicted with a mortal wound meaning that the target will get less healing and less hp barrier.

Attack of the Pack – Fortress gets extra health and attack speed and also summons pack wolfs that will chase and attack the enemy heroes. Each wolf will chase a different hero, even though they are not visible and apply bleeding upon attacking. The wolfs will die after 3 hits, regardless the damage.
The pack wolf will track Taka but will not be able to attack Taka until he becomes visible.

Bots

Bots are added in 1.5. The bots are very basic and don’t have a high AI and are meant mainly for really new players, the ones that have never played a moba before.
Also the new players will have to level up before playing in solo q.

Minion mines changes

The minion mines can now genuinely be used to push the turrets. Minions buffed by minion mines now deal way increased damage to Turrets and Turrets alone, no change to damage to other minions or heroes. The buffed minions will still be worth more gold.
The minions are upgraded instantly when the minion mines are taken and not over time like before.

Hero balances

Skaarf

• Removed piercing and reduced damage of Skaarf’s perk Fan the flames. It now has crystal ratio instead.
• Spitfire got nerfed and is more of a skill shot and riskier.
• Goup got buffed with increased crystal ratio.
• Ulti got nerfed a bit with reduce damage

As Captain Neato said: “The goal wasn’t to make tank Skaarf not viable, the goal was to make sure tank Skaarf wasn’t the carry.”

Vox

• Crystal ratio for the bounce reduced.
• The bounce distance decreased.
• Resonance doesn’t bounce off Kraken.
• Attack speed increased.

Joule

• Reduced piercing of Thunder strike
• Cool down will be reduced with levels

SAW

• Crystal rate increased for Roadie Run
• Ulti will be considered a basic attack so it will be able to crit.
• The crystal rates have increased for the Mad Cannon

Celeste

• Does less damage to minions.

Koska

Base armor reduce. Too tanky in early game.

Item changes

Brokenmyth – No more shield piercing but amplifies the crystal power.

Scout traps – Timer changed from 1.2 to 1.3 seconds

Boots –Tier 1 less movement speed
Tier 2 increased movement speed and health

2 new items

Minion’s foot – will start the crits build instead of the Swift Shooter

Contraption – Combination of flares and scout traps. Gives you cool down acceleration and charges over time with flares / scout traps.

Warhorn changed – It builds from Oak and Dragon heart instead of the Hourglass and Chronograph. The utility has also changed but it is not revealed yet.

Ironguard Contract – grants 50% gold bonus for the jungle minions instead of the 30% now. It still grants 30% bonus for the lane minions.

Skins and Cards

Tier 2 skins and Epic cards are out.

The Tier 2 Shogun Ringo and Kandi Twirl Koshka have been revealed in game.

A new Skaarf skin has been announced (leaked) but it will not make it into the 1.5 update.

Bug fixes

Crit on SAW
Fan the flames. Extra tick of damage removed.
Spitfire was applying 2 stacks cosmetically. Removed.
Gold times fixed.

New app for iPhone

Last but not least. The iPhone users will be downloading a new app instead of updating the old one. This is because before there were different apps for the iPhone and the iPad. There is only one app to rule them all now. So the old iPhone app should be deleted and a new app will be installed.

A new setting for iOS. You can turn it on to hide the non activable items anymore and instead make the other item icons bigger.

I’m going to go and give the new update a test run!

See u guys on the stream at twitch.tv/ahotiklive

Thanks Vanglorigame for the awesome update!