After another successful year at the Pokémon World Championships, Namco and the Pokémon Company are continuing their partnership with a new balance patch — and it’s dropping next week!
Serebii Update: Pokkén Tournament DX Version 1.3.3 to hit on September 26th 2018. Balances several characters. Details being added @ https://t.co/gDbXkIa6cr
— Serebii.net (@SerebiiNet) September 21, 2018
The majority of the currently-translated changes are bug fixes: for example, more than a few of the proposed changes involve fixing issues where Croagunk and Blastoise would get up earlier from various opponents’ grabs. The notes are currently being translated from the Japanese site by the good folks at Pokkén Arena, and you can read them here. (Or check out the Japanese site yourself here.)
As it stands right now, it’s looking like the patch is more for refinement than anything else. Considering the wild diversity of the current season of Pokkén (grand finals at Worlds featured Empoleon and Gengar, for god’s sake!), perhaps this is a good thing.
Sources: SerebiiNet; PokkénArena
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