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Let the same-hero shenanigans begin!

The latest Heroes of the Storm patch notes feature updates to its all-random-all-mid (ARAM) game mode. It’s now possible for Heroes of the Storm ARAM players to all become Leoric, Hogger, Artanis, and more.

Heroes of the Storm patch notes June 09, 2025

The latest Heroes of the Storm patch is now live. It features updates to ARAM, balance, playable characters, and bug fixes. Additionally, Varian is now classified as a tank hero.

Heroes of the Storm ARAM updates same-hero mode

It’s not quite the dream of having an ARAM match with everyone as Abathur, but the newest Heroes of the Storm patch features a bunch of same-hero additions. These include the aforementioned Leoric, Hogger, and Artanis for crowd control and movement shenanigans. Whitemane and Zarya are in this particular ARAM pool as well. Meanwhile,Novaand Probius are no longer available in the same-hero mode. Note that Leoric is still disabled for ARAM’s normal mode.

Balance and hero updates

In terms of balance changes, they involve heroes Hogger himself, Arthas, Junkrat, Rehgar, and Yrel. Meanwhile, hero updates pertain to Alarak, Ana, Auriel, Blaze, Chromie,Deathwing, D.Va, Garrosh, Gul’dan,Hanzo, Johanna, and so much more.

Below is a table that goes over the balance updates,as provided by Blizzard. Blizzard’s official post goes overthe slew of the hero updatesas well.

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ARAM’s same-hero mode featuring every player as Li-Ming (Image via esports.gg)

Garrosh in Heroes of the Storm (Image via esports.gg)

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