Butcher Rework by Murraythehuman

Talents that are all designed to help Butcher gather and maintain his meat, as well as providing new rewards for gathering it. Right from level 1 Butcher can go into 3 specific styles of play. Little Slices encourages Butcher to contend with his enemies as often as possible, and is much less focused on death and kills in general, making it a good choice against bulky teams who easily shrug The Butcher off. Voraciousness resembles the current Butcher gameplan, albeit making death more punishing the further ahead The Butcher gets. Prep Work lends itself to a style of play where butcher is encouraged to play safely for long stretches, then making hard-engages whenever his quest is complete, looking for a trade against an important foe (usually a healer), and not being punished too much should he fail.

Across all three talents, the overall idea is to reward Butcher in very different ways for acquiring meat, while making the baseline meat quest slightly less impactful overall.


Trait (D): Little Slices - Basic attacks against heroes grant Butcher 1 meat, doubled against branded foes. This meat is not lost on death. Quest: Earn 100 meat using Little Slices. Reward: Butcher's basic attack speed is increased by 15%.

Trait (D): Voraciousness - Butcher only loses 25% of his meat upon death. Quest: Reach 200 total meat. Reward: Butcher's first 200 meat becomes permanent and he gains an additional 100 basic attack damage.

Trait (D): Prep Work - Dealing ability damage grants 2 meat per hero hit, with Ruthless Onslaught granting an additional 8 meat. Loan: Butcher loses no meat on his next death and his death timer is reduced by 50%. Quest: Collect 80 meat in a single life. Reward: Restore Prep Work's Loan effect.

General improvements to abilities. Bursting at the Seams is great for poking, while Meat Shield is an old name used for a brand new talent that greatly improves Butcher's ability to survive after a charge. Unrelenting Pursuit can help him stick to foes, or reposition after landing a charge.


Q/W: Bursting at the Seams - Increase the range of Hamstring and Furnace Blast by 20%.

W: Meat Shield - Butcher gains a shield that lasts 2 seconds equal to 50% of the damage dealt to heroes with Furnace Blast.

E: Unrelenting Pursuit - Reduces the cooldown of Ruthless Onslaught by 33% upon impact and grants 25% increased move speed for 1 second after hitting a hero.

An entire tier of sustain talents. Savage Charge is now here, and grants Butcher healing, but in trade it's his most all-in talent of the bunch, and the healing it provides is now competing with safer forms of health regain. Additionally, Savagery is very mana intensive compared to the other two abilities.


Q: Invigoration - Reduce Hamstring's Mana cost by 10. Hitting heroes with Hamstring reduces its cooldown by 1 second and marks all enemy heroes hit for 4 seconds. Damaging marked heroes restores 2% of Butcher's maximum health.

Passive: Savagery - Landing all three of Butcher's basic abilities on a single enemy within 5 seconds deals an additional 10% of that hero's health as damage, healing Butcher for the same amount.

Passive: Victuals - Nearby enemy minion deaths restore 5% of Butcher's maximum health and 1% of his maximum mana.

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Largely unchanged from level 13's current form, though with a more costly version of Savage Charge being at 7, Butcher now has the option to take Fumes, which can let him really punish enemies who clump up. Next, Cleaver has been replaced with Sparks Fly, a somewhat arbitrarily conceived attempt to make Cleaver a better option.


Trait (D): Sparks Fly - Basic attacks to branded targets splash for 50% of the damage dealt. Passive: Lower the Cooldown of Butcher's Brand by 2 seconds.

Q: Brutal Strike - Unchanged.

W: Fumes - Butcher gains an addition 5 armor per hero hit with Furnace Blast and the armor lasts an additional second.

Mostly an unchanged tier, but the new Stomach It gives Butcher a chance to take on foes who like to chain-CC him after using Charge. It's not a great solution to that problem, but with Butcher being punished a lot more on death, it should be alright.


Q: Crippling Slam: Largely unchanged.

Passive: Enraged - Largely unchanged.

E: Stomach It - Ruthless Onslaught maintains Unstoppable for 1 second after damaging an enemy hero. Passive: Hero takedowns instantly grant Butcher 10 additional meat that is not lost on death.

Some general Go Big or Go Home talents. Bolt of the Storm has effectively been replaced with Jump Scare at 10, harming Butcher's ability to escape during the lategame, but his ability to engage has been increased dramatically. Additionally, Nexus Blades has been replaced with Severed Tendons, which lets Butcher lock down and destroy a branded target with repeated attacks.


R1: Slasher Killer - Jump Scare's blink range and Fear duration gradually increase by up to 100% the longer Jump Scare is channelled, reaching maximum bonuses after 3 seconds. Additionally, Jump Scare can Fear structures to prevent them from attacking.

R2: Unchanged.

Trait (D): Severed Tendons - Basic attacks against Branded Heroes apply a 20% slow that stacks up to 5 times. At 5 stacks, the target is Rooted and takes 60% increased damage from The Butcher's basic attacks. The effects of Severed Tendons wear off once the Brand Expires.

Active: Reckless Demon - Activate to make The Butcher's next Ruthless Onslaught have 200% increased range and reveal its target while charging. The charge will last up to 12 seconds and cannot be cancelled. 60 Second Cooldown.