Updated for 7.38. Removed Dazzle until I can fix him later.

General

• Bots will now try to deny non-base towers when they can without the need to be in Defend mode
  
• Improved and/or reworked item usage for the following items: Force Staff, Hurricane Pike, Enchanted Mango, Faerie Fire, Bottle, Pipe, Drums of Endurance, Crimson Guard, Phase Boots, Ghost Scepter, and Eul's Scepter of Divinity
  
• Most MidLane Core heroes now buy Bottle
  
• Supports no longer buy Aghanim's Shard (in hopes to get it from Tormentor)
  
• Lycan and Dragon Knight are now also available in the SafeLane Carry pool
  
• Jakiro and Lion are now also available in the Soft Support pool
  
• Switched Earthshaker from Soft Support pool to MidLane Core and OffLane Core pool; now also knows how to use Aghanim's Scepter
  
• Restructured starting items for all roles
  
• Restructured OffLane Core bot item builds to build core items before Pipe/Crimson Guard
  
• Restructured Support bot item builds to be dynamic and conditionally buy the following items: Ghost Scepter, Solar Crest (Soft Support), Lotus Orb (Soft Support), Spirit Vessel (Hard Support), Vladmir's Offering (Hard Support). Support bots will build their core items (if any) while still building Force Staff (Soft Support) and Glimmer Cape (Hard Support), then will start buying their conditional items. If they still have room in their inventory after conditional items, they will continue to buy "Luxury/Late Game" items for their hero.
  
• Minor fixes within some heroes and their ability usage

• Fixed spamming Track on the same enemy because Valve changed the modifier name ))

General

• Added Drow Ranger to SafeLane Carry pool
  
• Added Tinker to both Support pools
  
• Minor fixes with new illusion logic

General

• Fix for last update where improvements to Defend Desire logic actually made bots not want to defend at all

General

• Added Vengeful Spirit to both Support pools (with functioning Aghanim's Scepter)
  
• Slightly improved Defend Desire logic
  
• Reworked Armlet of Mordiggian usage
  
• Slightly improved Soul Ring usage
  
• Reworked logic for illusions and most summoned units
  
• Added a check for nearby enemy buildings when warding

• Fixed not casting Tame the Beasts on channeling enemies

• Improved Phantasm usage in conjunction with Armlet of Mordiggian

• Slightly improved ability usage

General

• Added Clockwerk to both Support pools
  
• Increased the search range at which bots will go to attack wards
  
• Bots may now attack Clockwerk's Power Cogs if they feel it is necessary

• No longer casts Escape Act on on Muerta when she is affected by Pierce the Veil

• Reworked Grimstroke
  
• Now detonates Ink Swell once it has reached the maximum stun timer and if the unit affected by it is within range of Grimstroke's target
  
• Now is more decisive in casting his Unit-Target abilities on enemies affected by Soul Bind

• Now uses Breathe Fire to Last Hit & Harass, similarly to Lina's Dragon Slave and Death Prophet's Crypt Swarm

General

• Simplified the bot names
  
• Added Dark Seer to OffLane Core pool
  
• Added Dazzle to both Support pools
  
• Hard Support bots no longer have the ward location cooldown applied to their sentries
  
• Human players can now normal ping buildings to force all allied bots to defend (lasts 30 seconds or until you ping somewhere else/use danger ping)
  
• Human players can now danger ping non-Wisdom runes to force allied bots to ignore that rune (lasts 30 seconds or until you ping somewhere else/use normal ping). Bots may still pick up the rune if they walk directly over it.
  
• Human players can now normal ping themselves to force all allied bots to stay close to them (lasts until that human pings somewhere else, uses a danger ping, or if another human player pings themselves)
  
• Fixed some leveling issues with Timbersaw and Bane

• Disruptor now waits 2 seconds before casting Glimpse on enemies he perceives to be "retreating" to avoid prematurely casting the ability when it wasn't necessary

General

• Rewrote warding logic; this comes with more ward locations as well as a feature that prevents bots from re-warding the same location for 13 minutes to avoid Sentry Wards.
  
• Switched Gyrocopter to SafeLane Carry from support pools
  
• Various minor fixes in code and heroes

Happy New Years!

General

• Bots are now more likely to group up to push lanes as their levels get higher (this should reduce cases where 1 or 2 bots would be farming lanes while the rest are pushing later in the game)
  
• Added Ringmaster to Soft Support and Hard Support pools

• Fixed not casting Double Edge when farming creeps

Hey everyone, happy holidays (if you celebrate!) It's been a while. If you haven't been caught up to speed in Discord, I've been away focusing on other projects as well as just taking a break from Dota 2 to avoid burnout. I've found some time to work on some issues that have been reported recently as well as tidying up some heroes. Rest assured, I still pay attention and give love to PhalanxBot! Here's the changelog:

General

• Fixed an issue where Kunkka would revert to Valve's default AI logic (not very good at Dota) due to him still thinking Torrent Storm exists
  
• Fixed Pugna casting Nether Blast on friendly towers when trying to deny them
  
• Reworked Outworld Destroyer/Shadow Demon to treat their Banish abilities (Astral Imprisonment/Disruption) as utility instead of a stun

• Now calculates how much damage his Shadow Poison will do to an enemy based on their stacks, and will release the poison if it will kill them
  
• Now casts Shadow Poison in attempt to interrupt Clarity/Salve restoration
  
• Fixed trying to cast Demonic Cleanse before getting his Shard