Graves

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Jar of Dead

Passive: Collect death when anything dies nearby and store it in your Jar of Dead. Active: Throw a jar to summon Deadheads that repeatedly deal spirit damage to enemies. Deadheads follow you instead if there's no nearby enemies, and prioritize the target of your weapon.

Grasping Hands

Unearth a line of grasping hands, summoning a Ghoul and leaving behind a rift. Enemies who pass through take spirit damage and receive immobilize. Alt-Cast rotates the orientation of the wall.

Essence Theft

Your weapon steals weapon damage and spirit resist over time, up to a maximum amount per target.

Borrowed Decree

1. July 9th, 2026

   8 changes by IceFrog
   

   Jar of Dead

   • Jar of Dead T1 heal spirit scaling increased from 0.1 to 0.16
   • Jar of Dead now build up faster from neutral creeps

   

   Grasping Hands

   • Grasping Hands immobilize duration reduced from 1.25s to 1s
   • Grasping Hands T3 cooldown increased from -10s to -14s

   

   Essence Theft

   • Essence Theft now procs from melee hits
   • Essence Theft T3 now also increases Max Steal Targets from 3 to 4

   

   Borrowed Decree

   • Borrowed Decree T1 changed from "-15s Cooldown" to "-15s Cooldown and +25% Ghoul Speed"
   • Borrowed Decree T2 changed from "+25% Ghoul Speed and +10s Duration" to "-0.3s Time to Spawn and +10s Duration"
2. June 11th, 2026

   4 changes by IceFrog
   

   Jar of Dead

   • Jar of Dead collection rate reduced by 20% (takes longer to gain a charge)
   • Jar of Dead damage reduced from 17+0.27 to 16+0.25
   • Jar of Dead bounty increased from 5+0.25/boon to 7+0.5/boon

   

   Grasping Hands

   • Grasping Hands T3 Immobilize duration reduced from +1s to +0.75s
3. May 31st, 2026

   3 changes by IceFrog
   

   Jar of Dead

   • Jar of Dead damage reduced from 20 + 0.31/spirit to 17 + 0.27/spirit

   

   Ghouls

   • Ghouls damage reduced by 15%
   • Ghouls bounty increased from 25+1/min to 35+2/min
4. May 22nd, 2026

   14 changes by simonne
   • Sprint speed increased from 1.6 to 2.2

   

   Grasping Hands

   • Grasping Hands now spawns a ghoul in the base ability (T3 still increases it by 1)

   

   Jar of Dead

   • Updated dash ranges for Deadheads to be calculated from the center of Graves when they are following her
   • Fixed Fire Rate buffs for Deadheads not being applied to their next attack, but only on subsequent attacks
   • Fixed Deadheads being unable to dash through veils
   • Fixed Deadheads being unable to dash to targets at the very end of your attack range when they are in follow mode
   • Fixed Deadhead's damage taken from bullets being unaffected by fall-off
   • Added 0.1s buffer duration for Deadheads losing line-of-sight before they stop following an enemy
   • Fixed Deadheads becoming inactive if Graves dies while they are following her
   • Jar of Dead spirit scaling reduced from 0.35 to 0.31 (they are better at dealing damage now)
   • Increased speed & acceleration of Deadheads only when they are following Graves - doesn't affect in-combat
   • Fixed certain projectiles (i.e Gray Talon's Bird) colliding with Deadheads
   • Update Grave's melee to also set the dash target for Deadheads

   • Bullet damage and growth reduced by -10%
5. March 25th, 2026

   8 changes by Yoshi
   

   Grasping Hands

   • Grasping Hands spirit damage scaling reduced from 1.9 to 1.6
   • Grasping Hands T3 reduced from 2 Ghouls Summoned to 1
   • Grasping Hands T3 now also reduces cooldown by 10s

   

   Borrowed Decree Ghoul HP

   • Borrowed Decree Ghoul HP reduced from 200 + 12/boon to 180 + 8/boon

   

   Borrowed Decree Ghouls

   • Borrowed Decree Ghouls damage reduced from 150 to 135

   

   Jar of Dead

   • Jar of Dead T2 no longer grants +4s Duration
   • Jar of Dead T3 changed from "+2 Deadheads and Deadheads apply Essence Theft" to "+2 Deadheads and +4s Duration"

   

   Essence Theft

   • Essence Theft T3 changed from "+1 tether and improved targeting angle" to "Your summons now apply Essence Theft"
6. March 21st, 2026

   10 changes by Yoshi
   

   Jar of Dead

   • Jar of Dead spirit scaling increased from 0.25 to 0.35
   • Jar of Dead health per boon increased from 1 to 1.3
   • Jar of Dead fixed colliding with the world sometimes
   • Jar of Dead T2 now increases duration by +4s

   

   Grasping Hands

   • Grasping Hands deploy time reduced from 0.7s to 0.6s
   • Grasping Hands T3 changed from "+1s Immobilize and -12s Cooldown" to "+1s Immobilize and +2 Ghouls Summoned"

   

   Essence Theft

   • Essence Theft T3 fixed to latch onto targets nearby more readily

   

   Borrowed Decree

   • Borrowed Decree now summons 2 Ghouls on cast
   • Borrowed Decree T3 no longer summons 3 Ghouls on cast
   • Borrowed Decree T3 increased from +5% Current Health to +6%
7. March 6th, 2026

   15 changes by simonne
   

   Grasping Hands

   • Grasping Hands is now set up to work through proper alternate cast methods and be more responsive

   

   Grasping Hands Immobilize

   • Grasping Hands Immobilize duration reduced from 1.5s to 1.25s

   

   Grasping Hands

   • Grasping Hands cooldown reduced from 38s to 34s
   • Grasping Hands T2 changed from "+0.75s Immobilize Duration" to "+90 Damage and +10m Wall Length"
   • Grasping Hands T3 changed from "+15m Wall Length and -10s Cooldown" to "+1s Immobilize Duration and -12s Cooldown"

   

   Jar of Dead

   • Jar of Dead spirit scaling increased from 0.25 to 0.35
   • Jar of Dead health per boon increased from 1 to 1.3
   • Jar of Dead fixed colliding with the world sometimes
   • Jar of Dead T2 now increases duration by +4s

   

   Grasping Hands

   • Grasping Hands deploy time reduced from 0.7s to 0.6s
   • Grasping Hands T3 changed from "+1s Immobilize and -12s Cooldown" to "+1s Immobilize and +2 Ghouls Summoned"

   

   Essence Theft

   • Essence Theft T3 fixed to latch onto targets nearby more readily

   

   Borrowed Decree

   • Borrowed Decree now summons 2 Ghouls on cast
   • Borrowed Decree T3 no longer summons 3 Ghouls on cast
   • Borrowed Decree T3 increased from +5% Current Health to +6%
8. January 30th, 2026

   24 changes by Yoshi
   

   Borrowed Decree

   • Borrowed Decree duration reduced by 30%
   • Borrowed Decree ghoul damage reduced by 30%

   

   Jar of Dead

   • Jar of Dead overall damage reduced by 18%
   • Jar of Dead distances deadheads bounce off enemies is reduced
   • Jar of Dead deadheads now die a little faster to damage

   

   Borrowed Decree

   • Borrowed Decree T3 changed from 5% Max HP to 5% Current HP

   • Fixed her weapon not working with Close Quarters & Point Blank
   • Fixed Fire Rate bonuses sometimes increasing the fire rate by a lower amount than intended
   • Reduced gun range from 18m to 16m
   • Increase base move speed from 6.6 to 7.0m

   

   Jar of Dead

   • Jar of Dead initial charges from 1 to 2
   • Jar of Dead initial attacks more staggered, rather than all at once
   • Jar of Dead pickup range for death from 10m to 18m

   

   Borrowed Decree

   • Borrowed Decree ghouls are now slowed by 20% for 0.5s when taking bullet damage
   • Borrowed Decree cooldown increased from 110s to 120s

   • Base damage from 4.2 to 4.0
   • Max attack range increased from 16m to 17m

   

   Grasping Hands

   • Grasping Hands width reduced from 20m to 14m
   • Grasping Hands duration reduced from 7s to 5s
   • Grasping Hands damage spirit scaling 1.3 to 1.9

   

   Jar of Dead

   • Jar of Dead max duration reduced from 15s to 10s
   • Jar of Dead damage increased from 16 to 20

   

   Borrowed Decree

   • Borrowed Decree spawn interval improved from every 5s to every 4s (same total ghouls over the duration)
   • Borrowed Decree duration reduced from 20s to 16s (spirit scaling from 0.05 to 0.04)