GPO • Balance Patch — Mar 14, 2026

•BALANCE CHANGES

•Combat:
V2 Fighting Styles:
Fruit passives are now disabled when using a V2 fighting style. This includes:

Paw dashes

•Pika dashes

•Pika V2 dashes

•Goro dashes

•Tori M1s

•Mochi V2 M1s

•Mera boat speed on Striker

•Zushi boat speed on Hoverboard

•Hie ice skating (on ice made by other Hies or Candy Cane)

•Ope + Kikoku

•Soul + Soul Cleaver

•Mochi + Mochi Trident

•Smoke + Jitte

•Kage + Moria Scissors

•Zushi + Gravity Blade

•Suna + Golden Hook

•Gura + Bisento

•Mera + Vrael's Pipe

•Goro electrify on Golden Staff/Trident

•Goro/Goru trident form on Golden Staff

•Yomi Death Defied revive


•V2 Fruits:
Melee style is now disabled while using a V2 fruit.


•HP Regen:
Disabled during the following moves:

Soul: Nimbus Flight

•Mochi: Donut Roll

•Mochi V2: Spiked Donut Roll

•Yami: Abyssal Form

•Zushi: Gravity Fly

•Hie: Ice Bike

•Magu: Magma Swamp

•Goru: Gold Path

•Smoke: White Rocket

•Yomi: Skedaddle

•Spin: Spinning Flight


•Devil Fruits:

Buddha:
Half Form — Heaven Sent Impact Leap now properly drains stamina when held.

•Full Form — Heaven Sent Impact, Heaven Fall, and Divine Retribution now properly drain mode bar when held. Enlightenment excluded.


•Dragon:

Hybrid:
Draconic Tail Slam — Hyper armor removed, speed and range now scale off HP (less HP = less distance).

•Draconic Thunderfall — Hitbox of the first 6 lightning strikes increased by 20%.


•Full Form:
Draconic Thundercry (Regular) — Lightning damage nerfed by 20%.

•Draconic Thundercry (Flame) — Size increased, base damage buffed by 10%.

•Draconic Tempest Spiral — Targets can now evasive out of it.

•Draconic Cyclone — Tornado stun increased from 0.26 to 0.4 seconds.


•Goru:
Golden Path — Can now jump during it like Ice Bike, stamina drain reduced by 50%.


•Gura:
Head Crusher — Animation time reduced from ~7 seconds to ~3.5 seconds (100% speed increase).


•Ope:
Shambles — Can no longer be used while drowning.


•Pteranodon:
Full Form — Mode bar requirement increased from 50% to 75%.

•Full Form Moves — Sonic Screech, Vermillion Blow, Imperial Storm, and Imperial Dive Bomb now properly drain mode bar when held.


•Soul:
Thunder Drop — Vertical hitbox now matches the VFX.


•Weapons:

Bisento:
Heavy Sweep — Windup decreased by 0.25 seconds, guard break removed, now cancels on perfect block.

•Shockwave Slash — Now useable in air, now vertically aimable.

•Shockwave Slash (Gura Passive) — Hold time required reduced from ~3 seconds to 1.5 seconds, damage per slash increased from 33% to 100%.


•Hollow Greatsword:
Spirit Pierce — First slash windup increased by 0.3 seconds.

•Ghost Barrage — Endlag increased by 0.2 seconds.


•Shusui:
Triple Ripple — Now directionally aimable.



•SYSTEMS / QOL

•Dash Type Setting — Added a custom dash type option in settings, allowing you to choose between Default Roll, Fruit Dash, and Fighting Style Dash.

•Hoverpod — Now spawns at ground/sea level when in combat.

•Private Servers — Can no longer turn off PvP pads while in combat.

•Tori Flight — Now unified with Pteranodon flight system (previously using legacy flight system). Tori now takes proper knockback while flying.



•BUG FIXES

•Lag — Applied a potential fix for a major lag issue. Results are still being monitored.

•Custom Tailor — Fixed some accessories falling.

•Pharaoh Akshan — Fixed incorrect HP value.

•Scarfs — Fixed new scarfs not appearing in the wearable section.

•Jester Scythe — Fixed Reaping Slash behaving inconsistently based on ping differences.

•Bari — Fixed Bari Cage lingering indefinitely.

•M1s — Fixed "T Fast" notification incorrectly appearing on M1s.

•+ many more