v4.7 · New Pokemons

New Pokemons:

  • Smeargle
  • Toxel
  • Toxtricity
  • Bruxish
  • Cyclizar
  • Pawniard
  • Bisharp
  • Kingambit
  • Minior

Changes to Pokemon & Abilities

  • Ditto can now fight ! It's not very strong though...
  • Riolu is now rare additional pick. New ability: Aura sphere: Exudes an aura and projects energy in a line, dealing 25/50 special damage and Silence every enemy hit for 3 seconds
  • Rework Nightmare (Ghastly): Silence all enemy Pokémon for 1.5/3/8 seconds. Any opponent asleep, flinched or already silenced take 50 special damage.
  • Onix: removed Steel, buffed HP 150 200 ; Steelix still has Steel style
  • New ability for Smoochum and Jynx: Lovely kiss: make the target sleep for 2/4 seconds (scales with AP)
  • Buff Happiny line PP 130 120 Spe def 5/6/8 5/10/15
  • Confusion (Meditite) now also cause Silence in addition to Confusion
  • Nerf Charge (Zapdos): increase attack & attack speed by 30 25%
  • Nerf Nihilego preventively after rock/poison buff: Attack 30 25
  • Leaf Stone (Kartana) now deals true damage
  • Buff Rotom: gain Light synergy
  • Nerf Helioptile and Heliodisk: HP 90/220 75/170 Def/Spedef 3/4 2/3
  • Nerf Regieleki: PP 90 100
  • Nerf Lapras: Def 6 5
  • Buff Chatot; Chatter: 10 20 special damage, chance of confusion 30% 50%, no longer scales with AP
  • Buff Sudowoodo: Atk 16 20
  • Buff Alolan Geodude line: Def 3/5/7 5/7/10
  • Buff Starly line: PP 100 80, Attack 8/16/24 10/20/30
  • Nerf Cyndaquil line: HP 70/130/250/260 60/120/230/230
  • Buff Zorua line and Hisui Zorua lines: Attack 6/15 8/18
  • Nerf Dragon Darts (Dreepy line): 10/25/50 10/20/40 special damage
  • Nerf Dragon Tail (Trapinch line) 30/60/120 30/60/100 special damage
  • Nerf Flygon HP 220 200
  • Adapted Magic Bounce (Natu): fixed duration to 5 seconds, replace 40 flat damage by 50/100% of damage reflected, can now crit and reflect ability crits
  • Nerf Flareon PP 80 100
  • Buff Eevee, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Espeon, Umbreon, Glaceon, Sylveon: Def 3 Spedef 2
  • Buff Mime Jr line: PP 85 80
  • Buff Tinkatink line: PP 150 120
  • Genesect lock-on ability now deals additional true damage
  • New ability for Staryu/Starmie: Psybeam: Deal 30/60/100 special damage to all enemy Pokémon behind the target with 50% chance to make them confused for 4 seconds
  • Solosis ability is renamed Psychic and has a new visual effect
  • Duskull/Spiritomb ability is renamed Shadow ball and now lowers special defense instead of defense
  • Mist Ball & Luster Purge (Latios, Latias) now have a maximum range of 4 cells
  • Stun Spore now deals damage for cells adjacent to pokemon's target, and not the pokemon itself (Chikorita, Oddish)
  • Buff Uxie, Azelf, Mesprit: Attack 12 15
  • Small change to Clangorous Soul (Jangmo-O line): buff itself and adjacent allies by 1/2/4 Attack, Defense and Special Defense, PP 110→90, fixed ability description
  • Change Iron Bundle: ICE / FLYING / ARTIFICIAL ICE / WATER / ARTIFICIAL, Def 4 5
  • Buff Time Travel (Celebi): 20 25 heal
  • Nerf Sableye PP 80 100
  • Small change to Chimecho: now only doubles the cries of adjacent allies ; Revert PP nerf of 4.6 90 80
  • New passive for Mimikyu: When hit under 50% HP, Mimikyu changes into its Busted Form, gaining 30% attack speed and Protect for 2 seconds

Changes to Synergies

  • Ghost has been reworked, they now apply various curses on the opponent team at the start of the fight:

(2) Bad Dreams: The opponent unit with the highest HP + shield lose 30% of it and is flinch for 8 seconds (4) Phantom force: Also, the opponent unit with the highest attack lose 30% of it and is paralyzed for 8 seconds (6) Shadow tag: Also, the opponent unit with the highest AP lose 30% of it and is silenced for 8 seconds (8) Curse: Also, the strongest opponent unit is cursed and will be KO after 8 seconds

  • Steel gets the previous effects of Ghost synergy, to deal a percentage of their damage as true damage:

(2) Steel Surge: Deal 33% of Attack as true damage (4) Steel Spike: Deal 66% of Attack as true damage (6) Corkscrew Crash: Deal 100% of Attack as true damage (8) Max Meltdown: Deal 150% of Attack as true damage

  • Nerf Light 2 Shining ray 30 20% Attack and AP
  • Changed Light 4 Eternal light: increase Attack Speed by 30% Def & SpeDef by 50%
  • Buff Rock: 5/10/20 5/15/30 Defense
  • Buff Poison: 30/50/70 33/66/100% chance to poison on hit
  • Buff Fairy: 15/30/45/60 15/30/50/70
  • Changes to Ice: only Ice pokemons have a chance to freeze for 2 seconds after a hit, and give Special Defense to all your team

(2) Chilly: +2 Special Defense, 20% chance to freeze (4) Frosty: +6 Special Defense, 30% chance to Freeze (6) Freezing: +20 Special Defense, 40% chance to freeze (8) Sheer Cold: +30 Special Defense, 50% chance to Freeze

  • Portal symbol count per synergy trigger: Ice +2, Light -1

Changes to Items

Base components stats have been reviewed to be closer to each other:

  • Buff Black Glasses: crit chance 5 10% ; also reflects on dusk stone, razor fang, cleanse tag, wide lens, fluffy tail
  • Buff Charcoal: 1 3 attack ; also reflects on fire stone, shell bell, fire gem, razor claw, gracidea flower, amulet coin, max revive, mana scarf
  • Buff Never Melt Ice: 1 2 special def ; also reflects on ice stone, choice scarf, wide lens, shiny charm, amulet coin, poke doll, delta orb
  • Buff Heart Scale: 1 2 def ; also reflects on moon stone, lucky egg, defensive ribbon, flame orb, max revive, poke doll, smoke ball
  • Adjusted Razor Claw: 55% crit chance 1 attack 50% crit chance 3 attack
  • Ajusted Fluffy Tail: 5% crit chance 5 def 10% crit chance 2 def
  • Adjusted Gracidea flower: 1 attack 25% attack speed 3 attack 20% attack speed~~
  • Buff Big Nugget: def & special def 3 5
  • Buff Toxic Orb: spe def 1 2
  • Burn and poison from Flame Orb and Toxic Orb can now be healed with Rune Protect, but are reapplied at the end of Rune protect effect.
  • Nerf Reaper Cloth: crit chance & AP 20% 10%
  • New sprites for Heart scale, Miracle Seed, Big Nugget and Metal Coat

Gameplay

  • Added back the sleep duration reduction when taking damage: -0.5 seconds per hit received
  • Removed on-crit effects for abilities: scope lens PP gain, fairy splash and razor fang Armor Break no longer apply for abilities crit
  • Comfey floral heal and Leppa berry consumption are now done before casting the ability, so that they can be used with abilities giving Protect.

UI

  • Next ranked lobby is now shown with a countdown in lobby room menu. Removed ranked lobbies chat announcements.
  • Add color indicators from red to green for players ready state in browser tab title
  • Play a sound when game starts for players who tabbed out during loading
  • Item meta report is now organized in tabs
  • Added favorite synergies and units in player card based on game history
  • Add an animation when a pokemon evolves
  • Many attack and ability animations have been reworked
  • Display title tab with rarity percentage
  • Avatar emotes menu is fixed. Right click on your avatar to use the emotions you unlocked

Misc

  • Introducing Smeargle's Scribbles, a new game mode for fun open to anyone. These special lobbies have ELO disabled and would have a new random rule applied during the entire game, that significantly changes the gameplay. Scribble lobbies will happen every four hours, indicated in the home screen.
  • Added Ultraball Ranked lobby on a weekly basis, on Sunday at 9pm UTC. 5 boosters for the winner
  • Removed mythical category. Primal Groudon, Primal Kyogre and Mega Rayquaza are now Legendary tier 4
  • Assets have been further optimized to try to reduce game loading times
  • Stage 15: Mew joins the battle !

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