Updated: June 12, 2026

Ability Wars Update June 2026 — Blood God & Magnet Rework

By Earnaldo Team • June 12, 2026 • 8 min read

Ability Wars just pushed a balance update that reworks two of its abilities and retunes several more. The headliners are the Blood God rework and the Magnet rework, with follow-up changes to Time, Soda, and Gravity. The roster now sits at 104 abilities and 18 masteries, and the developers have already confirmed what's coming next.

What's New in the June 2026 Update

This is a balance patch, not a content dump, and that's the kind of update Ability Wars lives on. The game's whole appeal is its sprawling ability pool, so keeping that pool balanced is what determines whether the meta feels fresh or stale. This patch reworks two abilities outright and tweaks three others.

The two reworks are Blood God and Magnet. Both are abilities that needed attention to fit the modern roster, and the developers rebuilt how they function rather than just nudging numbers. Around them, Time, Soda, and Gravity each picked up targeted changes.

With these additions and adjustments, the game now offers 104 abilities across 18 masteries. That's a deep kit list for a fighting game, and it's the main reason Ability Wars keeps players experimenting instead of settling on one loadout.

Blood God Rework

Blood God is one of the more dramatic abilities in the roster, themed around blood-based attacks and sustain. The rework modernizes its kit so it competes with the abilities released more recently. If you've been running Blood God for a while, treat it as a new ability and re-learn its moves before you take it into a serious match.

Reworks in Ability Wars tend to change timing and move behavior, not just damage, which means your old muscle memory can work against you. Spend a few rounds feeling out the updated kit. The community is already rebuilding tier placements around it, so judge the reworked version on its own merits rather than its pre-patch reputation.

Magnet Rework

Magnet is a control ability built around pulling enemies toward you, and the rework targets how reliably that pull lands. Control tools live or die on consistency — a pull that whiffs half the time is dead weight in a fight. The rework reshapes the ability so its core function holds up against the current roster.

If you favor a disruptive, grab-and-punish playstyle, the reworked Magnet is worth a fresh look. Pulling an enemy out of position or into a hazard is the whole point, and the changes are aimed at making that payoff happen more often.

Time, Soda, and Gravity Changes

Three more abilities got retuned around the reworks. Time saw its E made bigger but shorter, and its Q now reverses health — a meaningful shift in how the ability is played, since the health reversal opens up new defensive plays. Soda gained +1 Speed and its E now pushes enemies harder, leaning further into its aggressive, knockback-heavy identity. Gravity now shows a visible gravity field, so both the user and opponents can read its area of effect instead of guessing where it reaches.

How This Affects Gameplay

Reworks reset the meta, and that's the biggest effect here. When two abilities get rebuilt, every tier list that included them is suddenly out of date. Players who learn the reworked Blood God and Magnet early get a window where most of the lobby is still playing them the old way or hasn't picked them back up at all.

The Time changes are the sleeper of the patch. A Q that reverses health is a genuinely different tool than a flat heal or damage move, and it rewards players who can read a fight and time the reversal for maximum swing. Expect Time to climb in usage once players work out the new combos.

Soda's +1 Speed and stronger E push it harder into the aggressor role. Speed is one of the most valuable stats in a fast fighting game like this, and a knockback that hits harder turns Soda into a strong tool for controlling space and shoving enemies off ledges or into hazards. The Gravity field indicator, meanwhile, is a clarity change more than a power change — it makes the ability easier to use well and easier to play around.

None of these changes touch how you earn or spend Wins, the currency that unlocks abilities. What they change is which abilities are worth your Wins right now. If you'd written off Blood God or Magnet before, the reworks are a reason to reconsider where you invest.

New Codes

Ability Wars isn't a code-based game, and this update didn't ship any redemption codes. Progress comes entirely from playing matches, earning Wins, and spending them on abilities and masteries — there's no code menu handing out currency. If the developers ever introduce codes, we'll track them on our Ability Wars codes page, which we keep current.

In the meantime, the fastest way to afford the reworked abilities is simply to rack up Wins. Focus on abilities that suit your playstyle rather than buying everything, and check our best abilities guide to spend those Wins wisely.

Updated Tips and Strategies

Relearn the Reworked Abilities First

Before anything else, take Blood God and Magnet into a few rounds and learn their new behavior. The early-meta window after a rework is short. The players who put in 20 minutes of practice while everyone else is still adjusting will dominate lobbies for the first week or two after the patch.

Build Around Time's Health Reversal

Time's reworked Q that reverses health is the most build-defining change in the patch. Pair it with abilities that let you bait damage or trade aggressively, since reversing a chunk of health at the right moment can flip a losing exchange. Practice reading when an opponent is about to commit, then reverse to punish the swing.

Use Soda and Gravity Together

Soda's stronger E knockback and Gravity's visible field make a natural pairing. Drop a Gravity zone to funnel opponents, then use Soda's E to shove them into it or off the map. Map awareness matters here — the best knockback plays happen near ledges and hazards, so position your fights where a single push ends the round.

What's Coming Next

The developers have already confirmed the next batch of content, which gives you something to plan around. Two new masteries, Buff and Pulse, are on the way to join the current 18. They've also confirmed a quality-of-life addition for the Alchemist mastery: a timer that shows exactly when potion effects end, removing the guesswork around tracking your own buff durations.

Knowing Buff and Pulse are coming is worth factoring into how you spend Wins now. If you've been saving up, it may be smart to hold some back for the new masteries rather than sinking everything into the current roster the week before they drop.

Community Reaction

The Ability Wars community has responded the way it usually does to a rework patch — lots of testing, lots of tier-list arguments. Reworks always spark debate because they upend established rankings, and Blood God and Magnet getting rebuilt at the same time gave players plenty to dig into.

The Time changes have drawn the most discussion. A Q that reverses health is the kind of mechanic that reads simple on paper but creates real depth in practice, and players are still working out the strongest ways to use it. Soda's buffs landed well with the aggressive crowd, while the Gravity field indicator got near-universal approval as a clarity improvement that should have existed all along.

Looking ahead, the confirmation of the Buff and Pulse masteries and the Alchemist timer kept anticipation high. The general read from the community is that this patch is healthy maintenance — it keeps the roster balanced and the meta moving without bloating the game, while the roadmap gives players a reason to keep grinding Wins.

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