1.3 Balance Changes

News / 5.28.2017

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Zordon is watching and in this round of balance changes, we’ve added some much needed buffs to Green Ranger, Lord Zedd, and Dino Thunder White while making a few adjustments to some other highly talked about warriors.

MMPR Blue Billy

With the changes to the timing of mid air hits, we needed to readjust the timing of Billy’s main combo to make sure it connected fully

Triceracombo

  • (+)Timing fixed to match new air interrupt properties

MMPR Green Tommy

Being a Strike heavy character in Combat: Super Charged is a buff itself. But we’ve heard the feedback that MMPR Green Tommy was over nerfed in 1.15. We observed his main weakness being his startup speeds being too high and his Dagger Quake being too easily dodgeable.

Dagger Quake

  • (+) Faster Startup
  • (+) Projectile Speed Increased (700 -> 1250) (1.78 X faster)

Kickin It

  • (+) Faster Startup

Wild Force Black Danny

Many people have a hard time dealing with the lightning quick startup of Bison Charge. With its low cost, it shouldn’t come out that quick. Now it has a bigger tell, giving opponents enough time to Block on reaction

Bison Charge

  • (-) Slower Startup

Snide

Snide was a hard hitting character with some high cost moves. Having so many high cost moves made him feel slow though. We’ve dropped the cost (and damage) on Personality Split while also reducing its startup time to make it come out faster. Also, Vortex Slash needed to have its damage increased. While it can land both hits and deal double damage, the projectile is so slow, it rarely works.

Personality Split

  • (+) EP Cost Reduced (6 -> 4)
  • (-) Damage Reduced from 87 to 70 (20%)
  • (+) Faster Startup

Vortex Slash

  • (+) Damage Increased (45 -> 70) (36%)

Dino Charge Purple Kendall

The key part of nerfing Plesio Slide was to make it less powerful without taking away its fun and utility. This is achieved by changing the first hit of it from a Stagger to a regular hit reaction. This makes it so the target can Block interrupt through it now.

Also, we fixed the branch canceling bug on Reverse Blast, so she will always use the second part of it.

Plesio Slide

  • (-) First hit damage reduced from 34 to 15 (44%)
  • (-) Second hit damage reduced from 34 to 27 (20%)
  • (-) First hit changed from Stagger to Interrupt

Reverse Blast

  • (bug) Branching fixed so she doesn’t cancel out of it too fast

Master Xandred

Nighlok Combo needed to have its startup time increased making it a little slower to come out but with that change, it also has to deal more damage.

Nighlok Combo

  • (-) Startup increased
  • (+) Third hit damage increased from 18 to 24 (25%)

Lord Zedd

Lord Zedd received some much needed buffs to his speed and damage. We also changed Double Trouble to a Breaker and increased the damage on it as well. Overall, this makes him more viable while still being fair. He’s also a ton more fun to play!

Shock Quake

  • (+) Second and Third hit damage increased (15 -> 27, 15 -> 45) (45%, 67%)
  • (+) Faster startup
  • (+) Faster throughout

Double Trouble

  • (+/-) Changed from Strike to Breaker
  • (+) Damage Increased (First hit 16 -> 18, Second hit 18 -> 24) (12%, 25%)
  • (-) Slower Startup

Dino Thunder White Trent

Trent’s Dashing Punch is the core of his playstyle, as it can come out unpredictably as a starter or follow up with hits. It turns out it was a little too weak. The other weakest spot for Trent was his Drago Assault coming out too slow, so we fixed that too, along with speeding up his Laser Arrows. With all these changes, he is quite a formidable opponent now.

Dashing Punch

  • (+) Damage increased from 45 to 56 (20%)

Super Speed Attack

  • (+) Damage of last hit increased from 15 to 27 (45%)

Drago Assault

  • (+) Faster Startup
  • (+) Branching made more lenient (Frame 115 -> 110)

Laser Arrows

  • (+) Faster Startup

Assists

With the big changes to Assist Hit reactions in Combat: Super Charged!, we’ve rebalanced the EP cost, damage and health contribution of all Assists to give more meaningful options when creating teams.

[Assist] MMPR Red

Blade Blaster

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 3)
  • (-) Damage of the second and third shots reduced from 27 -> 15 (45%)

[Assist] MMPR Black

Axe Splitter

  • (-) EP Cost (5 -> 6)
  • (+) Damage increased from 70 to 100 (43%)

[Assist] MMPR Blue

Staff Slam

  • (+) Damage increased from 70 to 100 (43%)

[Assist] MMPR Pink

Straight Shot

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 3)

[Assist] MMPR Yellow

Rushing Daggers

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 4)

[Assist] Goldar

Titan Charge

  • (-) EP Cost (5 -> 6)
  • (+) Damage increased from 34 to 70 (105%)

[Assist] MMPR Green

Flying Kick

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 3)

[Assist] Movie Black

Uppercut

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 4)
  • (+) Damage increased from 56 to 87 (55%)

[Assist] Movie Pink

Divekick

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 4)

[Assist] Move Yellow

Flurry

  • (+) Damage increased on first hit from 15 to 27 (80%)

[Assist] Blue Dino Charge 

Spinning Shield

  • (-) Bug fix, no more Stagger in the middle of it

[Assist] Yellow Super Mega Force

Hand Cannon Shot

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 4)

[Assist] Movie Rita

Soul Steal

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 3)
  • (-) Damage reduced on second hit from 34 to 27 (20%)

[Assist] Black Wild Force

Bison Kick

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 4)

[Assist] Red Samurai

Fire Sword Slash

  • (+) Damage increased from 87 to 100 (15%)
  • (bug) Activation of collider moved to line up visually

[Assist] Snide

Spinning Combo

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 4)

[Assist] Purple Dino Charge

Dino Morpher Blast

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 4)

[Assist[ Psycho Red

Power Grab

  • (+) Last hit damage increased from 34 to 45

[Assist] Xandred

Echo of Pain

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 4)

[Assist] Mesogog

Ripclaw Rush

  • (-) EP Cost (5 -> 6)
  • (+) Damage increased from 45 to 56

[Assist] Robo Knight

Target Practice

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 4)

[Assist] Zedd

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 3)
  • (-) Damage reduced from 45 to 34 (24%)

[Assist] Trakeena

Mandible Bites

  • (+) EP Cost (5 -> 3)
  • (-) Damage reduced from 34 to 27 and 56 to 27 (20%, 51%)