Battlegrounds Season 7 Changelog

MCOC Team

Overview

A new season of battlegrounds approaches! We’ve made some more tweaks to early VT matchmaking, as well as a few changes in the back end to hopefully help with some persistent disconnect issues causing matches to fizzle.

Season 7 Dates

Start

• April 19th, 2023

End

• May 17th 2023

Victory Track
Entire Month
Brute Force	If the Attacker hasn't landed a hit in 6 seconds they take Direct Damage, losing 100% of their total Health over 30 seconds. Landing a hit removes the Damage and resets the timer. The strength of this Damage is affected by Class Relationships.
Fight or Flight	Every 12 seconds, the Defender gains an Unstoppable Buff for 4 seconds. If the Attacker is far away from the Defender when this triggers, the Attacker gains Unstoppable instead.
Daunt-Less	The Attacker starts with their Spirit Gauge at 50%.

Gladiators Circuit
Week 1
Brute Force	If the Attacker hasn't landed a hit in 6 seconds they take Direct Damage, losing 100% of their total Health over 30 seconds. Landing a hit removes the Damage and resets the timer. The strength of this Damage is affected by Class Relationships.
Spite	While opponents have active Buffs, this champion activates Power Flood out of Spite, granting 18% Power per second.
Fight or Flight	Every 12 seconds, the Defender gains an Unstoppable Buff for 4 seconds. If the Attacker is far away from the Defender when this triggers, the Attacker gains Unstoppable instead.
Daunt-Less	The Attacker starts with their Spirit Gauge at 50%.

Week 2
Energy Resistance - 90%	+90% Energy Resistance
Aggression - Prowess	Every 2 seconds on a timer, gain a Prowess Passive increasing Special Attack damage by 50% per stack. When struck, reset the timer and remove a Prowess passive stack.
Prowess Build Up - Unblockable	If the Defender has 3 Prowess Buffs or Passives, all their Specials are Passively Unblockable until the Prowesses are removed.
Daunt-Less	The Attacker starts with their Spirit Gauge at 50%.

Week 3
Empowered Immunity	Whenever this champion would receive an effect they are immune to, they generate 33% of a Bar of Power.
Fisticuffs - 2	Neither Champion can activate Buffs or Debuffs for the first 20 seconds of the fight.
Footloose	After activating a Special Attack, the Defender becomes Unstoppable and has a 25% chance to Evade incoming attacks for 7 seconds.
Daunt-Less	The Attacker starts with their Spirit Gauge at 50%.

Week 4
No retreat	When the Attacker dashes back, they gain a Degen Timer for 1.2 seconds. Dashing back again while the Degen Timer is active causes a Passive Degen, dealing 200% of the Defender's Attack as direct damage over 5 seconds.
Long Distance Relationship	While close to the Defender, the Attacker gains a Weakness Debuff every 3 seconds, reducing their attack by 10% permanently. Staying far away from the Defender causes these Weakness effects to gradually fall off.
Cold Turkey - III	Whenever the Attacker purifies a Debuff they receive a burst of Degeneration Damage dealing 40% Attack.
Daunt-Less	The Attacker starts with their Spirit Gauge at 50%.