Month: January 2018

Pokkén Tournament DX is already widely considered a balanced game by its community. Even still, we live in an age of constant tweaking to fighting games post-release, and Pokkén is no exception to that.

To check out the patch notes, click here. These notes were graciously translated and provided by @EveryDamnDayyy_.

Upon first glance, it’s hard to believe there will be any major shifting in tiers — many of the changes are quality of life fixes, and a few acknowledgements of long-standing complaints in Pokkén: namely, Lucario losing his strangely “safe only in Burst” Up-Swing and Mewtwo’s Homing Attack losing at least some small amount of damage. Outside of these changes, Pokkén’s top tiers made it out of the patch largely unscathed.

Empoleon, Weavile, and Decidueye all received the largest amount of changes: Empoleon’s quality of life improved all-together with the polishing of his 5X and 6Y, Weavile finally isn’t completely locked into a hopeless gamble with jX in field, and Decidueye received a scattered list of damage nerfs and an improved lockdown tool with 4Y.

The biggest changes, by far, are to “Supports”, which is an important part of Pokkén’s meta. The overwhelmingly strong Jirachi has finally taken a hit, though to what extent its synergy gain reduction will have an impact on its selection by players will remain to be seen. Nearly every healing assist had its secondary buff reduced, and many offensive assists had their properties buffed in some way. This is almost certainly Namco’s way of saying “Please stop picking Jirachi and Eevee all the time.”

Let’s not forget that buffs to supports are also inadvertently buffs to the support-heavy Braixen. Time will tell if this list of changes accidentally gives the queen firefox Pokkén’s crown again.

Source: @EveryDamnDayyy_