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Details:
- Revised skill text

- Fixed Skill bug
*Shark Shooter Terrafin
- Fixed bug where passive skill applys only on the first round
*Blast Zone
- Fixed bug where leader skill does not apply on the next round after Blast Zone is defeated

- Villain [Eye Scream] Skill Balancing
→ Endurance damage increased to 2 from 1.

- Revised Ka-Boom's Soul Stone drop stage text
Previous: The Rainbow Valley [Hard]
Changed to: The Rainbow Valley [Normal]

[Jan. 31st Data Patch Details]
Schedule:
Australia: Jan. 31st 4pm (GMT+11)
Canada: Jan. 31st 12am (GMT-5)
New Zealand: Jan. 31st 6pm (GMT+13)

Details:
1. Soul Stone drop rate, rewards balancing
2. Skylanders stat modification per natural grade
3. Wish stone reward balancing
4. The Realm of Souls improvement
5. Battle improvement
6. Skill balancing
7. Bug fixes and other patch content

The game may restart once the data patch is released.
We would like to apologize for any inconveniences may have caused due to this patch.

Thank you.***

[1월 31일 업데이트 안내]***


1. Soul Stone drop rate and rewards balancing
- Modified the drop rate of Soul Stones in normal stages.
- Increased the quantity of Soul Stones dropped in boss stages.
- Changed the type of Soul Stones dropped in boss stages.
- Modified the quantity of Soul Stones given from quests. (Hot Dog/ Blades)


2. Skylanders stat modification per natural grade
- Revised HP, Defense and Attack Power stats depending on the natural grade.
> Skylanders of higher natural grade gets increased MAX HP.
> Increased the Attack Power of Nat. 5★ Skylanders and decreased the Attack Power of 1/2/3★ Skylanders.
> Skylanders of higher grade will have better Defense efficiency (by level) than those of lower default grade.


3. Wish Stone reward balancing
- Decreased the amount of Wish Stones given from weekly mission.
> Previously (4 missions in total): 500 Wish Stones per mission
> Changed to (4 missions in total): 250 Wish Stones per mission
- Decreased the amount of Wish Stones given from adventures.
- Removed Wish Stones from the Realm of Souls and Distorted Dimensions.


4. The Realm of Souls improvement
- The Realm of Souls will now have 6 floors instead of 8 floors.
- Only 3 - 5★ Soul Stones will drop from the Realm of Souls.
- Changed the amount of Energy required to enter from 10 to 8.
- Changed the amount of Gems required to recover characters.
> Previously: 1:3:10:100:300:600:1,000 (Fee remains at 1,000 afterwards)
> Changed to: 5:10:50:100:200:400:600:800:1000 (Fee remains at 1,000 afterwards)


5. Battle Improvement
- New effect [Rejuvenate] has been added.
→ It's an exclusive effect for Villains. This effect continuously heals in proportion to target's max HP whenever the count goes down.
- Efficiency of following effects have been decreased: EVASION UP/ ACC UP/ EVASION DOWN/ ACC DOWN


6. "Create Your Dream Team - Summon 5★ Skylanders" Event Period Extension
- The event ending date will be modified as below.
> Previously: Feb. 5th 12am PST
> Changed to: Feb. 7th 12am PST


7. Skill balancing


[Wild Storm]
- Storm Strike: Increased the damage.
- When in Storm Beast form, all skills will deal greater damage as his Endurance is lower.
- When in Storm Beast form, gains [Evasion UP] for 1 turn.


[Wham-Shell]
- Crustacean Combo: Increased the skill cooldown time and decreased the [DEF UP] count.


[Zoo Lou]
- Bird Call: Increased the heal power.


[Tidepool]
- Squid Squabble: Increased the first attack damage.
- Squid Pistols: Increased the skill activation chance from 30% to 100%.
- Whale Tale: Increased the skill activation chance from 50% to 70% (100% when fully upgraded).


[Tuff Luck]
- Green Thumb: Decreased the skill activation chance and heal power.
- Garden of Pain: Decreased the [DIMINISH] count from 5 turns to 3 turns.


[Ka-Boom]
- Missile Rain: Decreased the [CRIT RATE].
- Traptanium Cannonballs: Decreased the [ATK DOWN] count from 2 turns to 1 turn.


[Smolderdash]
- Solar Flare: Decreased the [DEF DOWN] count from 2 turns to 1 turn.
- Sunrise: Decreased the [EXPLODE] count from 3 turns to 2 turns.


[Shark Shooter Terrafin]
- Shark Skin: Decreased the [ATK UP] count from 3 turns to 1 turn.


[Splat]
- Dye Hard: Decreased the [DEF DOWN] count from 2 turns to 1 turn.


[Pop Fizz]
- When in Beast Form, decreased the [EVASION UP] count from 2 turns to 1 turn.


[Roller Brawl]
- Deadly Clothesline: Decreased all allies' [ATK UP] count from 2 turns to 1 turn.


[Blast Zone]
- Flame Breath: Decreased all enemies' [DEF DOWN] count from 3 turns to 1 turn.


[Ninjini]
- Abra-Ca-Dabra & Juggling Act: Changed the skill cooldown time and the mana consumption amount.
> Previously: 5 sec / 5 Mana
> Changed to: 15 sec / 2 Mana
- Wish Blades: Increased the initial activation chance from 40% to 60%.
- Wish Blades: Decreased the skill level-up increasing ratio from 10% to 5%.


[Rattle Shake]
- Fistful of Shakes: Decreased the [CRIT RATE UP] count from 3 turns to 2 turns.


[Knight Light]
- Spinning Slash: Increased the [CRIT RATE UP] count from 1 turn to 2 turns.


[Shadow King Pen]
- Frost Combos: Increased the [ATK DOWN] count from 1 turn to 2 turns.


[Gusto]
- Traptanium Boomerang: Increased the [DEF UP] count from 1 turn to 2 turns.


[Crusher]
- Ground Grinder: Increased the [ATK DOWN] count from 2 turns to 3 turns.


[Deja Vu]
- Universal Time: Increased the activation chance of [HEAL] from 60% to 100%, and decreased the heal power.
- Universal Time: Changed the skill power-up Lv. 4 from [Heal] effect activation chance +10% to [Heal Power +15%].


[Wildfire]
- Chains of Fire: Changed the skill effect from having 50% chance to increase [BLOCK RATE] to having 50% chance to gain [FOCUS AGGRO] for 1 turn.
- Searing Slam: Changed the skill effect from having 50% chance to gain [FOCUS AGGRO] to having 50% chance to grant [BLOCK RATE UP] for 1 turn to all allies.


[Lightning Rod]
- Direct Current: Increased the skill activation chance from 80% to 100%. The skill will be used on the enemy with the lowest Endurance.


[Stormblade]
- Feather Barrage: Increased the [ACC DOWN] activation chance from 30% to 100%.


[Mysticat]
- Laser Painter: Decreased the damage and has a 50% chance to regain Mana additionally.


[Blackout]
- Wing Whip: Changed the skill effect from granting [remove debuff] on an ally to all allies.
- Under the Cover of Darkness: Increased the basic skill activation chance from 50% to 80%.
- Under the Cover of Darkness: Changed the skill power-up Lv. 5 from Effect count +1 to Effect activation chance +5%.


[Ambush]
- Splintering Punch: Changed the skill effect from having 50% chance to gain [ACC UP] to having 50% chance to attack the target additionally.


[Pit Boss]
- Double Snake Attack: Decreased the mana consumption amount by 1 and skill cooldown time by 5.
- Restless Reptiles: Changed the basic activation chance by 80%. This can be increased up to 100% with skill power-up.


[Blades]
- Wing Slice: Removed the [ACC DOWN] effect and increased the damage.
- Wing Slice: Changed the skill power-up Lv. 3 from [ACC DOWN] effect count +1 to [ATK +10%].


[Gearshift]
- Mode Toggle: Changed the [ACC DOWN] to [CRIT RATE DOWN].


[Dive-Clops]
- Zeroing In: Fixed an issue of having no effect when powering up the skill.


[Continuous Damage Modification]
- Diminish: Increased the factor based on Attack Power from 8% to 10%.
- Poison: Increased the damage in proportion to current HP by 5% to 7%.
- Explode: Decreased the basic turn count of the effect from 6 turns to 5 turns. (Villains excluded)
Affected Skylanders: Flare Wolf, Spitfire, Eruptor, Ignitor, Blast Zone, Smolderdash, Ka-Boom and Boomer


8. Bug Fixes
- Fixed issues with translations of multiple languages.
- [Spitfire - Flame Fury] Fixed an issue of skill activation chance decreasing with skill power-ups.
- [Gusto - Breath of Life] Fixed an issue of Gusto healing himself more than his skill description.


9. Others
- Additional game tips have been added in game data download loading screen.
- Explosion Immunity and DMG per Endurance have been added in collection filter.
- Enemy Villain’s secondary stats (Accuracy, Evasion etc) will increase depending on level, while initial secondary skill will be decreased.
- The cost of some items has been balanced.
- The amount of EXP the characters gain from boss stage in Adventures has been upgraded.

Weekly Missions and Monthly Login will be improved and reset via next update.

Please see below for more info.

*Weekly Mission Improvement
- Weekly missions will be modified and rewards will be changed.
- To implement the change, weekly mission progress of all Portal Masters will be reset.

*Monthly Login rewards Improvement
- Rewards you claim from the monthly Login will be modified.
- To implement the change, the Login progress of all Portal Masters will be reset.

We are preparing to give out rewards as compensations for inevitable progress reset. Further details will be notified via update notice.

1. 2 new Skylanders join the squad!
- Blastermind and Nightfall
- New characters can be acquired with summons and Swap Scrolls but cannot be acquired with Selection Scrolls and Points rewards.
- Blastermind or Nightfall won’t be available in the tutorial summons.


2. New Episode Dungeon: Story of Nightfall.
- Episode Dungeon is available for a limited time only.
-> The New Episode Dungeon will close on Apr. 11th at 00:00.
-> Episode Dungeons Exchange shop will open till Apr. 18th 00:00.
- You can earn a special currency by clearing stages and exchange them for awesome rewards!
- Since you won't be able to use the special currency after Apr. 18th 12:00am (server time), we recommend you to spend them as soon as possible.
※ Operating hours of the dungeon and the shop are based on the server time. (AU/CA & Global: PST/PDT, Europe: CET/CEST)


3. Energy on Sale!
- As per our previous notice on Energy, we have started 50% discount on Energy available in the shop which will continue until further notice.


4. Improved Ultra Premium Summoning system
- Ultra Premium Summon now has a chance to give a maximum of 180 Soul Stones of a Skylander.


5. Skill adjustments on 4★ and 5★ Skylanders.
- Improved Leader skills of various 4★ and 5★ Skylanders.


- Details on skill adjustments are below.

1) High Volt
- Alert Status/Full Alert Status
-> Mana consumption will decrease from 4 to 3. 1 [FOCUS AGGRO] will be added.

2) Food Fight
- Tomato Launcher / Bouncy Tomato Launcher
-> Revised to cast [TARGET] twice instead of once.

3) Crusher
- Ground Grinder
-> The attack’s cool down time decreases from 18 sec. to 15 sec.
- Crusher Spin/ Crusher Spin: Blaster
-> Revised to deal damage in proportion to the character’s maximum HP instead of HP
- Crusher Spin: Blaster
-> Added [WIDE RANGE DMG DOWN] for the caster and the ally with the highest ATK for 1 turn.
-> Deleted an effect of dealing damage in proportion to the character’s HP.

4) Sprocket
- Wrench Whack
-> The Mana consumption decreases from 3 to 2.

5) Pop Fizz
- Improved Potion Lob
-> Revised to cast [DEF DOWN] for 2 turns, when landing a critical hit instead of gaining [cool down time -2 sec].
- Beast Form
-> The Mana consumption decreases from 3 to 0.

6) Pop Fizz- Beast Form
- Fierce Jump/Fierce Jump Attack
-> Revised to decrease cool down time from 15 sec. to 12 sec.
- Fierce Jump Attack
-> Revised to cast [DEF DOWN] for 2 turns, when landing a critical hit, instead of cool down time decrease.
- Flame Breath
-> The Mana consumption decreases from 6 to 5.

7) Aurora
- Power of Eon
-> The Mana consumption decreases from 3 to 2.
-> Revised to increase the cool down time from 11 sec. to 13 sec.
- Super Power of Eon
-> Revised to decrease the Mana consumption from 3 to 0.
-> Revised to decrease the cool down time from 11 sec. to 10 sec.
- Sword Technique
-> Removed the effect of [CRIT RATE UP] on all allies for 1 turn, when the target is casted with [ELECTRIC SHOCK].
-> Revised to grant [CRIT RATE UP] for 1 turn to all allies, if the character has [buffs].
- Double Sword Attack
-> Revised to decrease the Mana consumption from 6 to 5.
-> Revised to decrease buff count of the attacked enemy instead of the enemy with the highest DEF.
-> Added an effect of decreasing the buff count of the enemy with the highest DEF when leveling up the skill.

8) Knight Light
- Prismatic Pounce
-> Revised to heal the ally with the lowest HP whenever using the skill instead of when having 2 buffs.
- Light Up
-> Revised to decrease the Mana consumption from 2 to 1.
- Destination
-> Revised to decrease the Mana consumption from 2 to 1.
- Knight of Light
-> Removed the effect of granting [HP REGEN] to an ally when the character is defeated
-> Removed increases in times of granting [HP REGEN] to an ally when the skill is leveled up. (This applies to Lv.2-4.)
-> Revised to grant [HP REGEN] to an ally when the character has HP of 20% or lower and is attacked.
-> When the skill is leveled up by 1, the standard of HP based on which the skill activates increases by 5%. (The standard increases from 20% to 35%.)

9) Tri-Tip
- Mace Smash/Mightier Mace/Dino Dash/ Posey Power Swing
-> Revised to increase the damage by 10%
- Dino rock
-> Revised to grant [ATK UP] to an ally when the ally is under attack and has 40% HP or lower instead of 30% HP or lower.
-> The HP condition for activating [ATK UP] increases by 10% whenever the skill is leveled up. (The range of the HP condition increased from 30-50% range to 40-60% range.)

10) Mysticat
- Laser Painter
-> Added an effect of casting [EVASION DOWN] to the attacked enemy for 2 turns.
- Pawsome Painter
-> Removed the effect of regaining Mana by 2 when attacking an enemy of Attack Type.
-> Revised to regain Mana by 3 at a 50% chance instead of 1.
-> Added an effect of casting [EVASION DOWN] to the attacked enemy for 2 turns.
- Cat's Familiar
-> Removed the condition of “Highest ATK” for removing buffs.
- Paw Print
-> Revised to decrease the cool down time from 24 sec. to 9 sec. and increase DMG by 5%.
- The Feline's Mutual
-> Revised to gain [Stealth] for 1 turn at a 70% chance when the character lands a critical hit instead of having [Effect RES UP] effect.
-> Adjusted Increase in standards for activating the effect of the skill. (The maximum value is 100%, which remains the same)

11) Astroblast
- Solar Powered
-> Effect activates when allies attack enemies of Dark element instead of activating limited to Astroblast's attack.


6. Guild Shop item renewal
- Added 8 new Soul Stone packs, while 4 Swap Scrolls will not be for sale anymore.
- New Soul Stones are limited to 10 purchases per week.


7. Currencies related changes
- Increased Gold for selling Runes. (Except for 1★ & 6★ Runes)
- Slightly raised chances of acquiring 5★ Runes at 6F of the Wailing Labyrinth and 7F of the Beast’s Labyrinth.
- Increased Gold for clearing a stage in Adventures (Hard).
- Increased Gold obtainable in 3-5F of Cave of Gold.
- Changed the reward for weekly mission from a Normal ticket to 300 Gems.
- Changed the reward for completing weekly missions for 7 times from 250 Gems to 1 Ultra Premium Ticket.
- Changed rewards in Mirage Tower as below.


8. New packs
- Blastermind and Nightfall packs are for sale!


9. Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue where Villains with [GUARANTEED REVIVAL] revive after being defeated due to explosion.
- Addressed the Skylander, Energy icon overlap issue when battle is lost.
- Fixed the issue of Invasion weekly rewards not tallying properly.
- Fixed the issue in Arena where skill info is not displayed as intended.
- Fixed the issue of score displayed incorrectly after invasion.
- Fixed a bug where [DEF UP] and [DEF DOWN] abnormally applies to an Invasion boss.
- Fixed an issue where a transformable Skylander (Pop Fizz/Wild Storm) is transformed, the HP bar of the character does not decrease.
- Fixed an issue where the stats of an opponent Skylander in Realm of Souls are displayed higher than actual.


10. Other changes.
- Improved multi-language translations and fixed mistranslations.
- Addressed a case where the lower end of the screen was abnormally displayed on tablet/pad resolutions.
- Revised to enable a user to summon continuously when using a Swap Scroll from Inventory.
- Fixed the issue where restarting the app stops music from playing.
- Target AI: Targeting is automated only when set to Focus: Mob in boss stages. In other cases, targeting will remain unchanged.
- Character limit of Guild names will be increased to 16 characters instead of 10.
- Revised to display time for Invasion to include tallying time.
- Revised to display Invasion period instead of ranking closing time.
- Revised to maintain Guild chats longer so that Portal Masters can see previous messages.
- Took out the event button to town.
- Revised to display battle information when pausing in Meditating Woodland.

1. Hall of Chaos opens!
- Fight against Kaos in Hall of Chaos!
- Hall of Chaos has two types, a Standard Dungeon, and an Extreme Dungeon.
-> A Standard Dungeon will open with a certain chance after battles in Adventures.
-> An Extreme Dungeon will open with a certain chance either after clearing Standard Dungeons or when you reach certain Chaos level.
-> Extreme Dungeon has a time limit, so you must clear it as soon as possible!
-> You are not alone! Portal Masters can participate in a friend’s Dungeon as well.
-> Earn the new item for Portal Master Talents called [Cubes] and 3★ Villain Soul Stones in Standard Dungeons.
-> Earn [Cubes] and Skylander Soul Stones in Extreme Dungeons!
-> 3★ Villains (Boss Villains, Doom Raiders) can be summoned and used as a companion villains just like any other companion Villains.
※ A Hall of Chaos discovered can be cleared once and will last for 3 hours until a new one can be found.
※ You can participate in a friends Hall of Chaos up to 5 times for Standard, and up to 3 times for Extreme. After the limit, you can spend [Chaos Coins] to enter more.
※ [Chaos Coins] can be claimed from Weekly Missions and can only be used for a Standard Dungeon only.***


2. Portal Master Talents
- The Talents will affect your battles in Adventures, Challenges, and Duels!
-> Talents can be upgraded with the Cubes you get from Hall of Chaos and gold.
-> The Cubes have corresponding elements which allow boost of ATK, DEF, and HP for Skylanders of those elements.
※ Talents will only affect the stats for specific contents only.
Example) Adventures and Challenges Talents will not affect stats in Duels. ***


3. Easter Event
- To celebrate the Easter holidays, there will be special items added for the duration of the event.
-> Duration: 18th of Apr. Update ~ 1st of May 20:00 (PDT)
- Gather 3 types of Easter eggs from the 7th stage of each Skyland.
- Make sure to claim your rewards from Daily mission after gathering enough Easter eggs!
- You can also sell excessive Easter eggs from Menu > Inventory for gold.***


4. Arena / Friendly match point shop event
- An event point shop and an additional Poll will open as below.
-> Duration: 18th of Apr. Update ~ 1st of May 23:59 (PDT)

Event 1. Earn points!
> Buy Skylander Soul Stones with points you get from Arena/Friendly Matches.
Event 2. Vote for the most popular Skylander in the Arena/Friendly Match!
> Take a guess on which Skylanders are used most frequently in Arena/Friendly Match!
Pick your top 3 Skylanders and earn rewards! We will give out rewards based on how many Skylanders you vote for are in the Top 10 rank.

Be sure to participate for rewards!***


5. Bug fixes and others changes
- Tutorial battles are excluded, and new users will go straight to the Portal Master creation menu after the video cut scene.
- Addressed the issue where Trigger Happy and Blastermind’s Leader skill didn’t activate after the 2nd round.
- Added favorite button for Villains as well.
- Boss Animations On/Off setting will affect Guild Raid bosses as well.
- You may now sell multiple runes at once by selecting grade and rarity.
- Facebook button has been replaced with Discord button for certain regions.***