Dota 2 Update - August 8 2025

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Over the last few days we've addressed the following issues:

• Ctrl+Alt pinging enemy abilities or items will now display that the ability or item could be on cooldown

• Fixed an issue with quickbuy where, if a stackable item existed in inventory and another was marked for buy in quickbuy, the item would keep being bought as long as gold and stock were available

• Fixed an issue where Quartero rewards could not be claimed

• Fixed green range indicator appearing briefly when casting abilities with quickcast on press

• Fixed Mjollnir description stating that Chain Lightning deals bonus damage to illusions

• Fixed Alchemist losing bonus damage gained from granting scepter when dying

• Fixed a bug where Bristleback's Seeing Red facet caused enemies in vision to disappear when the buff expired

• Fixed Dark Willow's Cursed Crown and Silencer's Last Word debuffs sometimes expiring without triggering

• Fixed allies being able to target Dark Willow while she has Shadow Realm active

• Fixed Ember Spirit not getting remnant charges from allied hero kills when having the Aghanim's Shard

• Fixed Invoker's twister interval not matching twister radius

• Fixed Invoker's Tornado cast range being different than it's travel range

• Fixed crash with Kez Katana bleed

• Fixed Kazurai Katana overhead damage numbers not representing spell amplification

• Fixed Kazurai Katana impale causing its non-damage effects to debuff immune targets

• Fixed Kazurai Katana shard lifesteal applying to triggered attacks

• Fixed Grappling Claw attacking targets outside of the melee buffer range when landing

• Fixed Grappling Claw being able to escape Kinetic Field

• Fixed Raptor Dance giving inconsistent amounts of invulnerability with cast speed bonuses

• Fixed Falcon Rush gaining rush speed incorrectly in some scenarios

• Fixed Shodo Sai Cancel sub-ability granting magic stick charges

• Fixed a parry interaction that could cause Kez to Echo Slash into the 3rd dimension

• Fixed Lycan's Wolf Bite casting on allies that have disabled help

• Fixed Morphling being able to retain Necrophos Sadist stacks when morph ends

• Fixed Pugna being unable to use Magic Stick or Magic Wand while channeling

• Fixed Queen of Pain Bondage visual effects pointing towards enemies if they are invisible

• Fixed a crash in Shadow Demon Demonic Purge

• Fixed Snapfire being unable to target ethereal units during Mortimer Kisses

• Fixed Tusk shards disappearing for all players when Tusk goes into snowball

• Fixed Weaver's bug bug where Hivemind XP was granted when a Swarm beetle attacked an allied hero

• Fixed Zeus +1 Heavenly Jump Target talent giving +2 attack speed slow

• Fixed workshop tools not loading due to XML/CSS issues

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