Live Update 1.2 Patch Notes

This will be mostly balance and QoL changes, along with minor UX improvements.

Balance Updates

AnG

General

Elemental Remnant

Damage buff removed until last-hit bug is fixed or mechanic is reworked

Up Special
Air uSp

Fixed bug with Afi incurring crit on normal uSp

DPs

Removed swap mechanic
Reworked to more in line with normal DPs
Potentially revisiting the swap mechanic later

Up Air

Afi

Projectile travels farther with charge
Added late hit sour spot to compensate

Down Air

Galu

Adjust Ground Only hit BKB to match the Air Only hit

Base Knockback: 35 → 60

Ezzie

General

Fixed an animation bug on spark jump cancel

Jab

Jab 1

added missing DIM/TDIM
Links between hits improved

Jab 2

Links between hits improved

Side Special

Messed with the physics during cast, should be a lot more solid for recovery and general movement

Tip: Try using it while rising from a double jump for recovery

Hits now ignore gravity to be consistent across the cast
Possibly fixed reflect bug
No longer can land cancel during the startup
No longer grants spark on the early hit.

Neutral Special

Normal

Startup: f15 → f10
Pushback force increased.
Increased drift control to compensate
Projectile now grants spark

Hexglade

Improved tracking logic. It should no longer target inactive players.
Projectile now grants spark
Ezzie can now drift after shooting the projectile
BKB: 15 → 35
Hitstun modifier: 1 → 0.5

Note: it still has 20f paralyzer

Up Special (Air)

Teleport reappear

Hitbox is slightly larger
Ledge grab: f8 → f18
Is now walljump cancellable after f27

Down Strike

Mine

Cut non-glade endlag in half

Forward Strike (Hexglade)

Added hitboxes to the staff

Forward Air (Hexglade)

Projectile now grants spark
No longer collides with other projectiles

Up Air (Hexglade)

Projectile now grants spark
No longer collides with other projectiles

Back Air (Hexglade)

Improvements have been made in the position tracking logic. It should no longer target inactive players, and can now track characters in front of or behind Ezzie. The projectile will still always face behind Ezzie.
Projectile startup: f70 → f39
Simplified hits. No longer has a sourspot.
DI modifier: 1.3 → 0.7
Angle: 130 → 145
KBG: 50 → 25

Kidd

Jetpack

Increased delay before fuel starts getting consumed: 3f→7f
Drain Rate: 1.5 → 3

Physics

Air Acceleration: 65 → 60

Seeing if there is noticeable difference

Up Special

New vfx
Kidd now bounces on the ground upon landing
Kidd can now drift 8f earlier at the end of his travel.
Walljump window is now moved 5f later.
[EXPERIMENTAL] Now has some gravity while traveling. This should make the arcs feel a little interesting compared to the standard 8-way spacie recovery.
Unfueled

Can now travel 8 ways instead of just 3
Normalized forces to be consistent. This is overall a buff as some directions didn’t have as much force as others.

Fueled uSp

Increased cost of charge from 1 to 2 pips

Side Special

Added small flash indicator to show when transition is available
Divekick

Shortened window for divekick
Disabled reverse hitboxes on divekick

Headbutt

Removed infinitely looping startup.
Limited to one reversal
Hitbox size increased slightly to better match animation

Down Special

Beta Shine

Now costs 1 pip of fuel

Gamma Shine

Not implemented yet but we plan to make this give 3 pips of fuel back on hit
Shield Push Mod: 4→3

Forward Air

Sour spot hit removed.
Knockback scaling increased slightly to compensate for easier hit with lower combability in later bands (although redhorns connects better on no DI)
Maintained sour for shield hits.

Overall worse on block

Sweet

Knockback Growth: 45→55
Shield Push Mod: 2→1.5
Shieldstun: 9→6

Sour

Knockback Growth: 45→55
Shield Push Mod: 2→1
Shieldstun: 9→3

Neutral Air

Shield pressure was slightly better than necessary because of old DP startups. Now compensated for current DPs.
Earliest Hit:

Shield Stun: 14→11

Latest Hit:

Increased in shield stun to be closer to middle hit for simplicity. (Still minus)

Shield Stun: 4→6

Secret

Changed something secret (slightly)

Reina

Neutral Special

Reina can no longer teleport to a kunai that has been kicked by an opponent. She will still own it, and thus can catch it from the air.
Min frames before pickup increased slightly to prevent awkward pickups.

Grabs and Throws

Landing a grab now swaps Reina’s stance.
All throws set to same staling channel across stances
All throws can Special Cancel into dSp

Chain Down Throw

Damage: 6 (+1) → 8
Base Knockback: 45 → 50
Knockback Scaling: 70 → 65

Blade Forward Throw

Base Knockback: 80 → 40
Knockback Scaling: 30 → 60

Blade Up Throw

Added missing RC window

Seth

General

Seth now spawns in with 3 battery charges!

Down Special EX

Lowered distance slightly, adjusted travel angle
Reworked the hit into a high-base kill move that can set up for blastzone carries at early bands.

BKB: 45 → 70
KBG: 40 → 50
Ang: 35 → 30
Paralyze: 10f → 15f
Hitstun modifier: 0.8x → 0.4x

Note that while this move will have limited true combos, its potential as a followup, surprise kill move, and setup for airtech traps will still make it extremely strong.

Side Special

Part 1

Increased force staling on multiple aerial sSps

Part 1 EX

Can no longer rekka cancel into other special moves
No longer has sparkless JC frames at the end
Shrunk hitbox size on the projectile while it is falling
Ground splash hitbox is now reflectable on parry
Splash hitbox

No longer has significant knockback on launch. Hitstun after paralyze is capped to 5f
Paralyze frames: 35 → 40
Fixed a bug where it would pass through platforms

Part 2

Slightly reworked animation timing and forces
Total active frames: 12f → 4f (During the lightning VFX)
Reworked the hit into a paralyzing combo hit, similar to Ashani aerial sSp2

BKB: 50 → 60
KBG: 60 → 20
Angle: 30 → 40
Paralyze added: 20f
Gravity override added

Jump cancel window moved to the end of the travel

Up Special (Air)

Pulled in final hitbox size
Made adjustments to improve linking
Added 0.5x TDIM to linking hits 1 + 2. This should allow the opponent to influence their position more while being hit.

Neutral Air

Fixed a bug where the final hit would hit twice while landing.

Down throw

Fixed a bug where opponents would clip through the stage.

Urdah

Jab 2:

BKB: 65 → 60
KBG: 60 → 30
Angle: 25 → 35
Added a gravity modifier to make all characters briefly fall faster after being hit. This should cause the move to force tech chases despite the angle change.

Neutral Air

Reduced KB multiplier on max charge

Up Air

Reduced KB multiplier on max charge

Back Air

Reduced KB multiplier on max charge

Up Special

Grab

Trimmed late activity to better match animation slowdown
Activity: 20f → 17f

Cargo Throws

Neutral Throw now causes HKD.
Directional throws now have delayed cancel windows.

Velora

Side Special

Adjusted the forces and animation to be more accurate to the hitbox
Total frames active during dash: 11f → 6f

Note: the hitbox frames cut off the end were previously active after the move had decelerated, which does not look or feel correct to get hit by in practice.

Lowered max fall speed while charging.

Note: This will functionally increase the recovery distance Velora can get, but lower the height mixup potential.

Automatically follows up into the Slash attack. “Empty” hit removed.
Keg

Input remapped to Special Tap or Hold
Removed damage on detonation hit to prevent double hits causing Lethals
Properly stales with other Side Specials
Knockback Growth: 70 → 75

Down Special

Removed plink alt fire. Always spawns behind Velora.
The cannonball can no longer hit twice when coming from the sky. It must be kicked by Velora to reactivate the hitbox.

Up Special

Increased effective endlag for movement options at the end of this move, but maintained the cancel window for attacks. WJC unchanged.
IASA Frames: f20>f27
Added cancel window into attacks on f20

Down Strike

Slightly adjusted the animation to look less like Velora is sliding backwards

Up Strike

Modified hits to have different KB on differently timed cancels
Hit 1

Knockback Growth: 40 → 20

Hit 2

Knockback Angle: 125 → 120

Forward Strike

Note: We wanted to target the use cases each version had in neutral and we felt that uncharged fSt covered too much of the same space with less of the risk. This caused it to overshadow the charged version as an overshoot neutral tool.
Uncharged

Now resets x momentum just before swing. This prevents momentum backwards from stopping her from travelling forward but also limits the speed she can carry into the swing.

Charged

We noticed this covered a ton of space, likely due to our animation refactor. Toned down distance slightly
Increased friction during charge

Neutral Air

Final 3 hits properly scale across bands.
Decreased DI mod to compensate for the L/R TDI mix that defenders have
Knockback Growth: 50 → 100
DI modifier: 1→ 0.7
Fixed bug on first hit causing crashes

Forward Air

Uncharged

Reduced hitstun on hit 1, but exploring some para+autolink mechanics on it.
- This should make this an easy link into fair 2, but allow some tricky (but mostly untrue) mixes into another move. Chump-checks the airtech.
Hit 1

Min/Max Frames: 6/15
Knockback Growth: 15 → 0
Para: 5 → 6
Hitstun Mutliplier: 1 → 0.6

Charged

Returning a little kill power at the cost of some combo potential
Hit 2

Angle: 20 → 15

Back Air (Charged)

Final hit properly scales across bands
First 2 hits link a little better
Hit 1 and 2

Damage: 4 → 4 (-1)
Angle: 90 → 60
Paralyzer: 2 → 3

Hit 3

Damage: 4 → 4 (+2)
Knockback Growth: 50 → 100

Weishan

Retuning some moves that felt a little underwhelming after the 1.0 changes.

Jab
- Jab 1 and 2 reworked to link better. Slightly higher angles, slightly lower scaling
- Jab 3
Up Strike
- Startup increased by 1f

Forward Strike

Pulled back a little bit of forward momentum from the startup.

Forward Air

Reverted Sour spot angle to previous stats
Sour

Angle: 40→55

Back Air

Reverted angle on both hits to previous stats
Sweet

Angle: 50→45

Sour

Angle: 60→55
Fixed issue where one hitbox did slightly more damage

Down Air

Reduced size of hitbox on downward swing to make hits read better

Neutral Special

DI Modifier: 1.3→1.15

Side Special

Reduced activity near the end of the move by 2 frames.

Zhurong

DP

Both versions now properly incur crit state when punished
Blue DP

Improved linking hits
TDIM: 1 → 0.5

Down Special

Blue

Ground Only (HKD)

Knockback Growth: 0 → 20
Hitstun Multiplier: 0.5 → 1
Added missing DI/TDI multipliers

Tentative change:

Trying something with Fair/Nair having swapped angles. Expecting slightly more decision making in difficulty to hit vs reward of the hit.

Forward Air

Angle: 50 → 30

Neutral Air

Knockback Growth: 40 → 50
Angle: 20 → 50

The Torment

Neutral Special (Evolved)

Feint is no longer reversible