Official v6.0.0 Patch Notes

[shrooby]

Welcome to the official Patch Notes thread for v6.0.0 of Ultimate.

This thread is only for cataloguing confirmed changes. For reporting and discussing changes use the patch discussion thread:
https://smashboards.com/threads/v6-0-0-patch-discussion-thread.492135/

If there's anything that we might have missed and have evidence of, you can either post it in the Patch Discussion Thread and tag shrooby and/or Gunla , or PM us with direct reports and evidence of unconfirmed changes (that are not in this post or discussed).

All character numerical values are presented in the base format, without the 1-v-1 multiplier. For convenience, the value with the 1-v-1 multiplier applied is displayed next to it in parentheses (*).

Changes marked in italics are changes that were not mentioned in Nintendo's official patch notes in any capacity.

• Donkey Kong
  • Forward tilt: Increased KBG: 55 -> 78
  • Neutral Air
    • Early hit damage increased: 11.0% -> 12.0% (13.2% -> 14.4%)
    • Late hit damage increased: 8.0% -> 9.0% (9.6% -> 10.8%)
    • Increased hitbox size: 4.5/4.5/5 - > 5/5/5.7
    • Added new hitbox (size = 5): 10-11F
  • Neutral Special
    • Shortened charge time for max charge: 131F -> 121F (Counting +4 frames to exit charge state)
    • Adjusted knockback of fully charged variant
      • Grounded Variant
        • KBG: 78 -> 72
        • BKB: 20 -> 35
      • Aerial Variant
        • KBG: 78 -> 72
        • BKB: 25 -> 40
  • Up Special (Grounded Variant)
    • Super armor activates sooner: 8-17F -> 5-17F
    • Adjust knockback of final hit
      • KBG: 170 -> 157
      • BKB: 40 -> 60
    • Made hits link more reliably against airborne opponents
  • Down Special (Grounded Variant)
    • Decreased startup: 15F -> 12F
    • Decreased total frames: 30F -> 22F
    • Decreased startup between successive slaps by 1 frame
• Hero
  • Neutral Special (Kafrizz): Explosion is no longer effected by Gravitational Pull or Pocket
• Incineroar
  • Jab 3
    • Increased damage: 4.7% -> 6.7% (5.6% -> 8.0%)
    • Increased BKB: 75 -> 80
    • Increased KBG: 50 -> 60
  • Forward Air
    • Added new late hitbox
      • Active frames: 11-14F
      • Damage
        • Close hitbox: 9.6%
        • Far hitbox: 9.0%
    • Adjust autocancel window: 35F -> 31F
  • Down Air:
    • Early hit: Spike hitbox now has priority, making it easier to hit
    • Late hit: 9% hitbox now has priority over 8% hitbox
  • Neutral Special (Initial Hit)
    • Increased damage: 16.0/12.0/12.0% -> 17.0/13.0/13.0% (19.2/14.4/14.4% -> 20.4/15.6/15.6%)
    • Increased hitbox size
    • Increased active frames
  • Down Special
    • Increased active frames of counter window: 3-22F -> 3-27F
    • Decreased total frames when counter fails: 56F -> 53F
    • Decreased total frames when counter succeeds: 28F -> 25F
    • Increased knockback of counter hit
• Jigglypuff
  • Air dodge total frames decreased
    • Neutral air dodge: 74F -> 63F
    • Down air dodge: 102F -> 85F
    • Diagonally down airdodge: 113F -> 96F
    • Left/Right airdodge: 122F -> 106F
    • Diagonally up airdodge: 152F -> 132F
    • Up Airdodge: 174F -> 158F
  • Down Air
    • Decreased landing lag: 15F -> 12F
    • Adjusted auto cancel window: 45F -> 42F
      • Now autocancels from a shorthop
  • Neutral Special: Shortened charge time
    • Minimal charge: 33F -> 30
    • Full charge: 60F -> 51F
  • Side Special
    • Increased shieldstun: 10F -> 15F
    • Increased hitlag
  • Forward Throw: Adjusted knockback angle
• Joker
  • Fixed a glitch in Team Battle where, if Joker and Pokemon Trainer were on the same team, Joker could gain Rebellion Gauge when Pokemon Trainer switched Pokemon after taking damage
  • Forward Smash: Adjusted hurtbox while charging the move
• King K. Rool
  • Neutral Air: Decreased landing lag: 13F -> 9F
  • Forward Air
    • Early hit
      • Damage increased:
        • Sweetspot: 14.0% -> 15.5% (16.8% -> 18.6%)
        • Sourspot: 12.0% -> 13.5% (14.4% -> 16.2%)
      • Increased active frames: 12-13F -> 12-14F
      • Increased hitbox size of sweet spot
    • Decreased active frames of late hit: 14-17F -> 15-17F
  • Up Air
    • Early hit:
      • Decreased BKB: 85 -> 84
      • Increased KBG: 56 -> 60
    • Late hit active frames last longer: 16F -> 19F
  • Neutral Special
    • Initial shot
      • Decreased startup: 30F -> 25F
      • Decreased total frames: 69F -> 64F
      • Transitions into vacuum earlier: 50F -> 45F
    • Second shot forward
      • Startup decreased: 36F -> 27F
      • Total frames decreased: 55F -> 46F
    • Second shot upward
      • Startup decreased: 35F -> 27F
      • Total frames decreased: 61F -> 53F
    • Second shot backward
      • Startup decreased: 41F -> 33F
      • Total frames decreased: 67F -> 59F
    • Increased knockback of Kannonball
    • Increased range from which Kannonball can be sucked back up
  • Down Special
    • Decreased endlag when counter succeeds: 41F -> 37F
    • Increased reflect window: 5-28F -> 5-31F
      • Counter window for non-projectiles is unchanged
    • Increased hitbox size of sweet spot when counter succeeds
• Kirby
  • Jab 1
    • Decreased startup: 3F -> 2F
    • Decreased total frames: 15F -> 14F
  • Up Smash: Increased knockback of sour spot
  • Neutral Air
    • Decreased startup: 10F -> 8F
    • Decreased total frames: 54F -> 52F
    • Increased knockback of sweet spot
  • Up Air
    • Decreased startup: 10F -> 8F
    • Decreased total frames: 37F -> 35F
    • Increased damage: 9.0% -> 10.0% (10.8% -> 12.0%)
    • Increased knockback
  • Neutral Special
    • Decreased startup of Inhale: 14F -> 10F
    • Made it less likely for Kirby to lose his Copy Ability when hit
    • Increased initial window during which Kirby can't lose his Copy Ability by being hit: 600F -> 1200F (6 sec -> 12 sec)
• Pokemon Trainer
  • Charizard
    • Up Smash: Increased damage of back hit: 0% -> 5%
• Robin
  • Increased recharging effect smash attacks have on Levin Sword
  • Forward Tilt: Increased knockback
  • Neutral Air:
    • Decreased startup of both hits: 9/22F -> 7/20F
    • Decreased total frames: 49F -> 47F
  • Neutral Special: Shortened charge time for each stage
    • Elthunder: 38F -> 33F
    • Arcthunder: 78F -> 73F
    • Thoron: 152F -> 137F (Counting +4 frames to exit charging state)
  • Side Special: Extended the duration of the initial fireball: 62F -> 77F
• Snake
  • Down Special: Decreased active frames of explosion when C4 is in the air or attached to an opponent: 2F -> 1F
• Terry
  • "Did you think you could beat me! Go home!"
• Zero Suit Samus
  • Down Special: Bury-effect hitbox is no longer active after Zero Suit Samus lands