5/29/2025
Developer Comments: Ashe has been steadily climbing in overall competitiveness, but she’s still missing that extra oomph when the moment calls for it. These buffs target some of her underperforming powers and items, giving her more flexibility across different builds and helping her stay impactful in a wider range of scenarios.
Out with a Bang - Power
- Decreased Explosives damage reduction to 30% (Down from 66%).
Molten Munitions - Power
- Increased damage to 80 (Up from 50).
- This change will not be represented correctly on the tooltip but it will be functionally set to 80. This information in the tooltip will be fixed next season.
Reload Therapy - Power
- Increased heal to 10% (Up from 3%).
Sidewinder – Epic Weapon Hero Item
- Increased attack speed to 15% (Up from 10%).
- Increased damage to 25% (Up from 15%).
5/9/2025
Developer Comments: Ashe has strong potential in the hands of experienced players, but parts of her kit have been falling off in the later stages of the game compared to other heroes. We're making targeted adjustments to help her scale more effectively into the late game, while also smoothing out some of the sharp edges that make her less forgiving for newer players. These changes aim to make Ashe a more rewarding pick across all skill levels.
Head Honcho - Power
- Increased damage increase per unscoped shot landed to 5% (up from 3%).
B.O.B. Jr. - Power
- Reduced Attack Speed reduction to 20% (down from 50%).
Infrared Lenses – Epic Ability Hero Item
- Fixed an issue where the increased damage against Burning targets was only applying to The Viper and B.O.B. Now increases all damage dealt by Ashe to Burning targets.
- Reduced increased damage to Burning targets to 20% (down from 25%).
4/1/2025
Developer Comments: Bob's arm cannons are in the shop, but he's much more eager to jump into the fray.
Coach Gun
- Increased knockback on enemy heroes and briefly reduces their air control.
B.O.B.
- B.O.B. no longer shoots.
- B.O.B. now repeatedly dashes towards the nearest enemy hero and attempts to knock them into the air.
- Ultimate Cost reduced by 70%.
2/18/2025
Rapid Fire
- Unscoped shots gain 30% increased attack speed, but deal 15% less damage.
Sidewinder
- Coach Gun pushes Ashe and enemies 20% farther.
Viper's Sting
- Hitting 2 consecutive scoped shots on a target deals 25 extra damage and reloads 2 ammo.
Airburst
- Dynamite has a 40% increased detonation radius while airborne and refunds 3 ammo when thrown.
12/17/2024
B.O.B.
- B.O.B.'s health increased from 1000 to 1200.
12/10/2024
Developer Comment: There were some inconsistencies for when Coach Gun was disabled by mobility lock abilities. Now Ashe will be able to activate Coach Gun while mobility is locked out (such as Junkrat's Steel Trap) to knockback enemies but won't move herself.
Coach Gun
- Can now be activated while affected by mobility locking abilities but won't move Ashe.
10/28/2024
Trail by Fire
- Damage to burning targets now earns an additional 30% ultimate charge, previously 25%
Fire and Fury
- The Viper's shots on burning targets now reduces the cooldowns of Coach Gun and Dynamite by 7%, previously 5%.
Demon's Ward
- We have increased the health of the shield from the deployed Barrier Projector to 600 from 300.
9/3/2024
The Viper
- Reload per bullet increased from 0.2 to 0.25 seconds.
- Primary fire damage reduced from 40 to 35.
7/5/2024
Developer Comments: This Big Omnic Butler tanks a lot of incoming fire and will now be more resistant to knockbacks and critical damage.
B.O.B.
- B.O.B. now gains the Tank role passive ability.
4/1/2024
Developer Comments: B.O.B.’s upset from being called the wrong name, so F.R.E.D.’s picking up the slack.
F.R.E.D.
- New Ability on mouse scroll.
- Weapon Swap.
- Call in F.R.E.D. to charge for a short duration before leaving.
2/13/2024
- Health increased from 200 to 250.
B.O.B.
- B.O.B.’s weapon damage increased from 14 to 17.
9/1/2023
Developer Comment: Ashe has the longest total reload time of all heroes to balance out the advantage of being able to shoot after a partial reload. However, we are shortening it slightly to make the full reload from empty less punishing.
The Viper
- Reload time decreased from .25 to .2 seconds.
3/7/2023
Developer Comment: We want to enable Ashe and B.O.B. to easily assist one another more. B.O.B. now prioritizes targets damaged by Ashe's rifle, which may allow for more flexible Ultimate placement.
B.O.B.
- B.O.B. now prefers to shoot at enemy targets that Ashe damages with her rifle