Change Bounce (Mantyke, Spoink): number of bounces no longer scale with AP; Damage: 10 → 10/20/40 ; bounce duration: 400ms → 500ms
Buff Chingling line: Def 4/6 → 7/10
Buff Stone Edge (Binacle): 50 → 100% of its Defense gained as physical damage on attack
Buff Solgaleo and Lunala Speed: 37 → 56
Fix Shell Trap (Turtonator): damage around the user instead of around the target
Changes to Synergies
Buff Monster 8 (Merciless): Monsters always target the lowest health unit and can target allies with less than 10% of their max HP
Buff Baby 5 (Breeder): Eggs hatch 1 stage earlier
Partially revert Dark 5.9 nerf: crit power +30/40/50% → +30/60/100%
Changes to Items
Many Gourmet dishes have been buffed:
Rage candy bar 5 → 10 attack
Tea 50 → 80 starting PP
Poffin 50 → 100 shield
Berry juice: 50 → 80 shield
Fruit Juice 30 → 50 speed
Sweet Herb 50 → 80 AP
Leek: 30% crit chance → 50% crit chance
Large Leek: 30% crit power → 100% crit power
Guzzlord: when holding Chef's Hat, gain 4 → 5 permanent AP and 10 permanent max HP for every KO
Clover Sweet: 5% luck → 10% luck
New artificial item: Cooking Pot: Gives Gourmet synergy. When burned, the Cooking Pot is heated little by little which gives 10 Speed per second.
New artificial item: Max elixir: Restores 100% of max PP 1 second after the first ability cast.
New special item: Picnic Set: Immediately consummed when given. Give a Sandwich to the holder and all adjacent allies. Sandwich gives stat boosts for the next fight based on the types of the Pokémon eating it.
New shiny item: Gold bow: the holder does not count for team size limit
Gameplay
New town encounter: Munchlax
UI
Antialias setting now only applies on board and not on portraits, and is now enabled by default
Added Zoom in/out and Drag-to-Pan with mouse wheel ingame
Game mode is now displayed in player game history
Added a connection status indicator on the top left corner in case of connection issues
Bugfix
Fossil Pokémon no longer regain their fossil resurrection effect after being revived with Sacred Ash
Fix Porygon getting the spotlight effect when holding Light ball outside of the spotlight
Permanent stats debuffs are now carried over evolution
Abilities triggering Paralysis or Locked now trigger the status before applying the damage so that flying Pokémon cannot fly away from it
Dragon Bug Pokémon clones no longer count in the Dragon total stars bonus, however the clone still receives the bonus
Misc
Elo decay rules have to be reinforced to prevent elo sitting: Elo decay now happens if not playing at least 3 games over the last 15 days. Starting from Ultra Ball rank, these games must be Ranked games to count.. This change will apply from May 5th.
Ranked games minimum and maximum ranks have been extended by 1 rank to allow more players to join and reduce the time it takes to form a ranked lobby
Inactivity timeout in lobby room increased to 30 minutes
In games with an odd number of players, elo losses for the player in the middle rank are now reduced by 50%. That is: 4th in a 7 players lobby, 3rd in a 5 players lobby, 2nd in a 3 players lobby. Elo gains are not reduced.
Stage 1, 2 and 3 preparation phase duration reduced to 20 seconds
Regions types changed to add some for Gourmet
New title: Chef: Max synergy with Gourmet type in a game
Do it all yourself scribble penalties balance adjusted for Hatch & Special avatars
Regional pokemons sold in a region other than their original region are not added back to the pool
All board actions are no longer possible after player is eliminated
Blood money scribble no longer gives 1 gold for eliminating a clone or a spawn