Gameplay
- New challenge: Active Passives
- Trainer Passives: All trainers and the final boss will have their passives active, boss or not
- All Passives: All Pokémon, including Wild Pokémon and player starters, will have their passives active for the whole run. This will disable achievements for other challenge modes just like Inverse and Flip Stat challenges do. (Flip stats and Inverse take priority)
- New achievement has been added for beating any of the Active Passive challenge mode
- Battle Bond's alternate effect that increases Attack, Special Attack and Speed by 1 stage is implemented and will occur if a Pokémon other than Greninja has Battle Bond. The effect will apply once per switch-in, unlike mainline.
- Aroma Lady, Bird Keeper, Bug Catcher, Camper, Collector, Dragon Tamer, Fairy Tale Girl, Interviewers, Mysterious Sisters, Ruin Maniac, Scuba Diver, Snow Ace Trainer, and Young Couple trainer types are added to the game.
- Teraform Zero and Embody Aspect, if given to a Pokemon that lacks a Terastallization-induced form change (such as from Fusions or a Passive), will trigger immediately upon entrance rather than doing nothing.
- Teraform Zero works more than once per battle
Balance
Egg Moves & Passives
- Passive Changes for 29 (21) Species and Forms;
- Charmeleon, Charizard, Tangela, Tangrowth, Tauros, Skarmory, Ho-Oh, Taillow, Swellow, Beldum, Metang, Metagross, Monferno, Infernape, Cherrim (All Forms), Mega Abomasnow, Heatran, Dragalge, Zygarde (All Forms), Magearna (All Forms), Eldegoss
- Egg Move Changes for 41 starters;
- Vulpix, Tangela, Tauros, Aerodactyl, Chikorita, Heracross, Skarmory, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Makuhita, Rayquaza, Starly, Cranidos, Cherubi, Stunky, Spiritomb, Scraggy, Furfrou, Hawlucha, Carbink, Diancie, Hoopa, Volcanion, Rowlet, Mudbray, Dhelmise, Tapu Bulu, Guzzlord, Magearna, Zeraora, Blipbug, Applin, Snom, Cufant, Glastrier, Capsakid, Tinkatink, Flamigo, Iron Thorns, Ting-Lu, Iron Valiant
Trainers
- Aroma Lady, Bird Keeper, Bug Catcher, Camper, Collector, Dragon Tamer, Fairy Tale Girl, Interviewers, Mysterious Sisters, Ruin Maniac, Scuba Diver, Snow Ace Trainer, and Young Couple trainer types are added to the game.
- Gym Leader Morty now has a Galarian Corsola instead of a Duskull, Gym Leader Falkner now has a Zubat instead of Hoothoot.
- Elite 4 should no longer generate duplicate Pokemon.
- Some Elite 4 members have also seen adjustments and Galar E4 now has Bede as a possible spawn.
- Most Elite 4 now have at least one variety slot to make teams slightly different across runs, some Pokemon also had their abilities hard coded on these fights to keep up with the level of power in late waves.
- Champion Kieran now leads with Incineroar / Grimmsnarl instead of Poliwrath / Politoed.
- Colress and Zinzolin received minor adjustments to their spawnable teams, other Evil Admins had some Pokemon listed as their evolved forms changed to their pre evolutions like the rest of the file.
- As always, the list of changes can be found on PokeRogue Trainers Spreadsheet
Moveset Generation
- Certain Trainer Boss Pokemon have had their movesets adjusted for flexibility / more variety, or to prevent specific moves from spawning.
- Circle Throw and Dragon Tail were added to the STAB blacklist as they are more supportive options rather than offensive.
- Some binding moves have also been added to STAB blacklist, so stuff like Fire Spin isn’t the Pokemon’s main way of attacking.
- Mustard's G-Max Urshifus and Penny's random Starmobile have received adjustments (Penny now has a hardcoded moveset for her Revavrooms to avoid them generating the wrong Torques)
- Mustard's G-Max Urshifu's adjusted moveset:
- (Surging Strikes or Wicked Blow) same
- (Brick Break) -> (Brick Break / Close Combat) new
- (Fire Punch, Thunder Punch, Ice Punch) same
- (Focus Energy) -> (Iron Head / Poison Jab / Stone Edge) new
- Penny's Starmobile new moveset:
- (Random Torque)
- (Iron Head / Spin Out)
- (High Horsepower)
- (Chooses a list between all forms of Revavroom)
- Mustard's G-Max Urshifu's adjusted moveset:
- Some Trainer Bosses will try to replace commonly generated moves that are detrimental to them, list is as follows:
- Blue's Ho-oh (If Sky Attack spawns, replace with Brave Bird)
- Blue's Pidgeot (Pidgeot will always spawn with Hurricane)
- Red's Blastoise (Blastoise will always spawn Water Pulse)
- Steven's Metagross (If Psychic spawns, replace with Psychic Fangs)
- Giovanni's Articuno / Zapdos / Moltres (Will try to prioritize Air Slash on Articuno / Moltres, Zapdos will try to prioritize Hurricane)
- Ghetsis' Hydreigon / Iron Jugulis (If Outrage spawns, replace with Dragon Pulse)
- Lusamine's Nihilego (If Head Smash spawns, replace with Power Gem)
Biomes
- Zapdos, Moltres, and Shaymin have had their rarities in biomes adjusted to match other Sub-Legendaries and Mythicals
- Entei and Raikou have both been moved to Tall Grass
- With the addition of the Scuba Diver trainer type, random trainers are now permitted in the Seabed biome again at a 1/16th chance.
Other
- Daily Run starters will use “Stronger” Evo Thresholds, allowing for Pokémon like Mime Jr. to be evolved when spawned as starters
- Starter candy can't be increased past 9999 via catching or friendship gain.
- Starmobiles will now have a stat increase that matches the Rotom appliance forms.
- BEFORE: 600 - 110/129/100/77/79/105
- AFTER: 580 - 80/129/120/69/97/85
Bug Fixes
Moves
- Magnitude will now have the correct move base power values and will output them with the correct frequency.
- Opposing trainers will now use the Pokémons friendship instead of the species base friendship when using moves like Return
- Certain inconsistencies in move calling move banlists have been fixed:
- Metronome cannot copy Nature Power
- Sleep Talk can no longer copy Nature Power or Snatch
- Copycat cannot copy Nature Power
- Mirror Move can no longer copy Assist, Sleep Talk, Mirror Move, Copycat, Nature Power or Snatch
- Instruct can copy King's Shield
- Sketch can now copy Mirror Move and Sleep Talk (which have been the case for several generations by now)
- Fixed multiple issues with Heal Block:
- Restricts a list of moves more in sync with mainline, including Wish, many draining moves, etc etc
- Has proper text
- Results in slightly smaller save files due to not saving a useless moveId parameter
- Restricts Pollen Puff target selection correctly
- Damaging moves applying Confusion no longer shows terrain block message for Misty Terrain
- Synchronoise now no longer cheats the AI and correctly interacts with Tera Stellar.
- Copycat will no longer incorrectly consider certain types of move failures for its "last move" tracker.
- Grudge will correctly deduct PP from move-calling moves if a called move KOs the Grudge user.
- Telekinesis now shows a message on being removed, and its 3 turn duration no longer double-counts Instructed/Dancer-induced actions.
Abilities
- Pixilate and similar abilities will apply their power boost before Terastallization sets the move's minimum base power to 60.
- Color Change will no longer incorrectly activate in the following scenarios:
- The defender's typing includes the move's type
- The move is typeless (Struggle)
- A multi-hit move hasn't finished (only the final hit of a multi-hit should cause the type change)
- The defender is Terastallized
- Costar will now copy the crit stages of the user's ally.
- Protean and Libero will not trigger now if some moves fail
- Steel Roller with no terrain
- Follow Me / Rage Powder failing due to being used in single battle
- Stockpile with >= 3 stacks already
- Spit up / swallow with 0 stockpiles
- Counter / Mirror Coat / Metal Burst with no damage taken from enemies this turn
- Last resort's bespoke failure conditions
- Snore while not asleep
- Sucker punch failing due to the target having already used their selected move or not having selected a damaging move
- Magic Coat failing due to being used as the last move in the turn
- Protect-like moves failing due to consecutive use or being the last move in the turn
- First turn moves (e.g. mat block, fake out) failing due to not being used on first turn
- Rest failing due to already being asleep
- Teleport failing when used by a wild Pokémon that can't use it to flee or used by a trainer Pokémon with no Pokémon to switch to
- Magnet rise failing while under the effect of ingrain, smack down
- Stuff cheeks with no berry
- Destiny bond failing on consecutive use
- Quick Guard / Wide Guard failing due to being used as the last move in the turn
- Poltergeist against a target with no item
- Shell Trap failing due to not being hit by a physical move
- Aurora veil failing due to no hail
- Clangorous soul and Fillet Away failing due to insufficient HP
- Upper hand failing due to the target not selecting a priority move
- Uneven multi hit damage thresholds no longer cause Anger Shell & Berserk to re-trigger.
Other
- MEs will be substantially more likely when one has not been encountered for a while, fixing a longstanding bug that didn’t correctly increase those chances
- If you want to learn more about ME chances, see the wiki
- Rewards given from the Part Timer Mystery Encounter are now affected by Amulet Coins.
- Trainers won't spawn 2 waves prior to gym leaders, as was intended
- Users will no longer see numbers that are impossible (ex. Bloodmoon Ursaluna should have a number of 0901)
- Spiky-Eared Pichu will now properly appear in the wild, in trainer parties, and in eggs at a 1/8 chance.
- Primal Groudon, Primal Kyogre, Rapid Strike Urshifu, Lowkey Toxtricity, Female Indeedee and Female Oinkologne play their intended cries.
- The enemy icons will no longer overlap with the defeated by text if it's long in some languages
- Dailies won't be able to have the same starter twice
- Daily starters won’t be male only anymore
- The option to release a fainted Pokémon with the "Hardcore" challenge enabled will no longer appear when viewing your party during a ME intro.
- It's no longer possible to deal infinite damage due to the enemy having 0 def. Instead it will always have a minimum of 1
- Nuzlocke achievement won’t be awarded with Flip Stats/Inverse enabled
Misc
- Save and quit won't be visible in the Main Menu
- In the battle info UI, the Pokémon's name will no longer be prepended with "Mega"/etc.
- When using Instruct and other moves in double battles, the move will now automatically select an ally as the default target instead of an enemy. The full list is as follows:
- Instruct
- After You
- Heal Pulse
- Decorate
- When reaching 9999 max candies the candy count will get a rainbow tint
- Ability descriptions have been updated to their last in game version and with all their hidden mechanics explained (Yes, Water Bubble doubles the power of Water type attacks, the info Game Freak doesn’t want you to know)
- Form change abilities can only trigger once per turn in battle, to avoid potential infinite loops
- Added a fallback for missing images in legacy ui theme
Art
- New Variants: Enamorus
- Enamorus Rare:
- Enamorus Epic:
- Enamorus Therian Rare:
- Enamorus Therian Epic:
- Enamorus Rare:
- Some Pokémon, including Pincurchin and Drampa, are now fully animated in the consistent sprite set!
Translation
- Added Swedish and Ukrainian translation
- Adds dialogue for the Roughneck and Veteran, and double battle dialogue for the Rich Couple.
- At the end of classic runs when unlocking endless, the word "Mode" will now be translated (e.g. in Korean, it'll say you unlocked "엔드리스 모드" instead of "엔드리스 Mode").