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Balance 2.16 - leaderfirestar - 09-23-2023 Buffs: Ayasegawa Yumichika: "Blooming Flower" heal increased to 15 If your enemy doesn't have destructible defense or damage reduction, there's almost no reason to use this skill over "Empower." Now there's more of a choice Hakuda Yamamoto: "Fierce Grab" cost lowered to 1 random "Double Bone" now stuns energy skills for 1 turn After some extensive play testing, the verdict on this guy is "he's alright, tiny changes and he'll see more play" Hisagomaru: "Fulfill" may now be used while active on himself or an ally to heal for 15 health Some long and thought out statement that sounds really cool that says how much he needs a built in heal for his kit to have any rhyme/reason Hozukimaru: "Awakening spirit" now grants Hozukimaru 5 permanent damage every 3 turns (instead of for just 1 turn). Ally effect unchanged "Empowered Slash" cooldown lowered to 2 turns "Tsuki-Tsuki Dance" now makes Hozukimaru invulnerable for 1 turn "Amp" progresses the counter on "Awakening Spirit" by 1 turn and lowers all of Hozukimaru's active cooldowns by 1 turn This is closer to the original vision of the character, but poorly worded explanation + frustration from trying to understand it lead to what we had before Hyorinmaru "Weather Manipulation" only swaps to "Sennen Hyoro" while active "Multi Headed Dragon" cooldown lowered to 1 "You Are My Master" may now be used to make Hyorinmaru invulnerable for 1 turn if there are no Hitsugayas present on his team "You didn't do anything to his alt kit" I know I only had the patience to deal with one form this patch. "Weather Manipulation" is a strong skill, only being able to use it once sucked. "Multi headed Dragon" is objectively okay/good, but 2 turn cooldown is rough. No invul skill sucked. Base form might actually be viable now. Also the damage reduction from [i]"Weather Manipulation" was acting like destructible defense, but that bug was never reported or noticed as far as I'm aware because literally nobody was using this form of him[/i] Ryujin Jakka: "Phoenix Fire" now ignores invulnerability "Infuse" will swap back to "Flame Tendrils" when the active "Flame Tendrils" ends There have been times where "Phoenix Fire" would not spread after killing because the last enemy(s) was/were invulnerable. Because of this, it would fail to apply. Making it ignore invulnerability gets around that, and getting flame tendrils back seems like a no brainer thing that should have been done a while back Sode No Shirayuki: While "Icy Wind" is active, any enemy that targets her with a new harmful skill will gain 1 freeze counter Yin and Yang: "Screaming Sky Fire" will now damage after 3 turns "Crackling Assault" damage increased to 15, will reduce the timer on "Screaming Sky Fire" by 1 turn if it's active on a target "Static Body" Now counters the first harmful skill used on her I left these effects out of her on release because I thought they'd be too strong. Her numbers suggest she needs help though, so why not Nerfs: Broly: "The Super Saiyan" passive effects may only trigger once per turn Damned if you focus him, damned if you don't. Now you don't have to worry about ramping the damage up by 15 points if you focus him Demon Sado: "Diablo Punch" cooldown increased to 2 turns He's "suffered" from the same problem yoruichi was facing, where they both have a very clear skill rotation. In Sado's case, ignoring non-affliction damage for 2 turns allows him to pull some pretty shady shit. Hopefully this slows him back down enough to play nice with the rest of the characters Hueco Mundo Kenpachi While "Enormous Reiatsu Release" is active, Hueco Mundo Kenpachi can no longer reduce damage or become invulnerable No more. Iba Tetsuzaemon "Sake" no longer grants energy when used while active For a character like Iba who targets randomly, he needs to be strong. If I lower the damage and kill his 3 hit potential, he dies. He has no real defense, which makes me hesitant to remove his ignore. All that leaves is the guarantee that he's useful Inner Ichigo "Reiatsu Wave" cooldown increased to 2 turns If you got good energy, you could use this skill twice in one ally takeover activation. Kinda nutty Kurotsuchi Mayuri "Ashisogi Poison Release" cooldown increased to 3 turns Several of you might remember a few patches ago where I lowered the cooldown of this skill and increased the destructible defense it granted. I stand by the destructible defense change, but the frequency at which people are getting it has elevated his numbers a bit. While he wasn't quite in my red zone numbers wise this time, I think with the other heads rolling this patch, he would have found his way to the top Resurreccion Yammy No longer increments his rage counter while enraged I wasn't quite sure what to make of this 2 years ago or however long ago we realized that he could gain stacks towards his next rage mode while raged. 2 years ago, he sucked ass, so it was ignored. However, at this point, I've had games where if I can get enraged, I'll get 1 or 2 more enrages pretty easy, because leaving rage mode I'd already have 5 or 6 stacks. This will slow down the rate at which he rages Random Tip: If an effect on your character was placed there by your character, it's considered a helpful effect. If your character places it on an enemy, it's a harmful effect! Noteworthy Bug Fixes: Fixed several issues with Yin and Yang not transforming, or transforming completely Yin's "Crackling Assault" No longer damages the main target twice Yang's "Forced Resurreccion" now does damage Changing your title on the website works no, instead of changing ra1nh4rd's Resurrecion Yammy's "Ultimate Cero" now properly stuns a character if they go invulnerable while taking damage Tessai's increased damage effect is no longer removed when someone removes his stuns (It's been like 2 years, but this is finally fixed)