Patch 7.40c has been released in Dota 2

On January 22, Valve released update 7.40c. The developers significantly nerfed Clinkz and carry Abaddon, while also adding Largo to Captain's Mode.

Clinkz's skeletons now deal significantly less damage to structures — the damage reduction to buildings has been increased from 25% to 75%. In addition, the level 25 talent for Searing Arrows two targets no longer affects skeletons, and Aghanim's Scepter no longer increases the number of attacks required to kill them.

Abaddon has undergone only one change, but it significantly weakens him as a carry character — Curse of Avernus no longer triggers on attacks by illusions.

Largo, in addition to being added to CM, also received several buffs: the intelligence gain and damage of Frogstomp have been increased, and Amphibian Rhapsody can now be toggled while hero under the silence.

Other changes include buffs to Batrider, Brewmaster, Lone Druid, Monkey King, Pangolier and nerfs to Axe, Broodmother, Jakiro, Meepo, Phantom Lancer, and Spectre.

The only items affected were Phylactery and Khanda: the first item's attribute and mana regeneration bonuses have been reduced, and the upgraded version can now be disassembled.

In addition, addressed the following issues:

• Fixed Blood Grenade bonus health not being updated when stack count changes
• Fixed Helm of the Dominator and Helm of the Overlord granting experience to Lone Druid's Spirit Bear, instead of Lone Druid
• Fixed Helm of the Overlord not granting bounty and experience for dominating creeps
• Fixed Illusion Rune not disjointing projectiles upon activating
• Fixed physical lifesteal working when attacking a unit with an all-damage barrier
• Fixed Quick Buy sometimes not removing queued items when recipes are combined
• Fixed Smoke of Deceit being castable from the stash
• Fixed Anti-Mage with Shard and Magebane's Mirror Facet instantly killing Spectre when using Counterspell while walking on a Spectral Dagger path targeted at another unit.
• Fixed Arc Warden's Tempest Double being able to pick talents
• Fixed Bounty Hunter unable to target Spirit Bear with Friendly Shadow
• Fixed Brewmaster's level 25 talent not applying to brewlings
• Fixed Clinkz's Infernal Shred ignoring more armor than intended
• Fixed Doom not getting Ancient Prowler Shaman's Petrify ability when devouring the neutral
• Fixed Largo's Encore sometimes not refreshing an existing buff on yourself or the target
• Fixed Morphling not losing the bonus damage from unused stones when replicating back from Earth Spirit
• Fixed Morphling perpetually spawning Monkey King's Wukong's Command soldiers when replicating Monkey King with Aghanim's Scepter
• Fixed Medusa being able to get infinite health when purchasing a heart while Lifestealer has infested medusa and then using Shadow Demon's Disseminate with the Promulgate Facet targeting Medusa
• Fixed Spectre Arcana's idle and idle rare animations

You can find detailed information about all the hero changes on the game's official website or in the Dota 2 client.

Earlier, Cyberscore presented a meta report with the best win rate characters for all roles in patch 7.40.