Dota 2 Heroes

1.1.1 — Pudge Aggression and Ability Effects

Visual identity

• Enlarged Pudge's base model and hitbox to approximately 1.5 times player scale, emphasizing its heavy body, broad silhouette, and large belly.

Rot

• Increased the density, brightness, radius coverage, and vertical spread of Rot's green dust and spore particles.
• Rot now damages every living target actually inside its configured radius, rather than relying only on an inflated bounding-box check.
• Rot remains active during Dismember, allowing both abilities to damage the captured target simultaneously.

Dismember

• Added the visible Dismembered harmful status effect with a dedicated inventory icon while a target is captured.
• Added dense blood-colored dust, dripping-blood particles, and damage bursts from the captured target on every channeling tick.
• Changed target positioning into a gradual pull toward Pudge's body.
• Applied continuous server-side movement locking during the channel.
• Pudge disables its AI while channeling, preventing movement, Meat Hook, another Dismember cast, and basic attacks; only a previously active Rot continues.
• The Dismembered effect and movement lock are removed when channeling ends or its target dies.

Meat Shield

• Reworked Flesh Heap into the unlimited Meat Shield passive.
• Every living entity killed by Pudge, including kills from Rot and Dismember, adds one Meat Shield stack.
• Each stack adds 100 maximum health and 0.005 armor by default.
• Removed the maximum stack limit.
• Each stack increases Pudge's rendered size and collision dimensions by 0.01×; five kills therefore add 0.05× to its current base size.
• Synchronized stacks between server and clients and stored them in entity save data.
• Meat Shield naturally resets to zero when that Pudge entity dies.

Aggression and balance

• Pudge now selects random nearby players and non-Pudge mobs as victims and can hunt hostile, passive, and neutral mobs.
• Reduced default Pudge movement speed from 0.23 to 0.18.

Loot and configuration

• Replaced the single configured drop with an array of string entries using item_id|chance_percent|min_count|max_count.
• Added default 5% Belt of Strength, 5% Circlet, and 80% Raw Beef drop entries.
• Optional dota2items entries are skipped safely when that mod is absent.
• Kept the level 1 experience reward at 300 with existing per-level growth.
• Replaced pudge_flesh_heap.toml with config/dota2/hero_skills/pudge_meat_shield.toml.