Official v9.0.0 Patch Notes

[shrooby]

Welcome to the official Patch Notes thread for v9.0.0 of Ultimate.

This thread is only for cataloguing confirmed changes. For reporting and discussing changes use the patch discussion thread:

https://smashboards.com/threads/v9-0-0-patch-discussion.507840/

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 , or PM me 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.

• Banjo & Kazooie
  • Rapid Jab Multihit: Made it so the attack cannot clank
  • Rapid Jab Finisher: Made it so the attack cannot clank
• Bayonetta
  • Rapid Jab Finisher: Made it so the attack cannot clank
• Bowser Jr
  • Adjusted certain landing behaviors to no longer prevent passing through platforms
  • Forward Tilt: Increased BKB: 55 -> 72
  • Up Smash: Made hits link more reliably
  • Down Smash
    • Decreased startup frames: 15F -> 12F
    • Decreased total frames: 59F -> 56F
  • Forward Throw: Increased BKG: 70 -> 92
  • Side Special: Increased the Clowncar's super armor threshold: 8.0% -> 10.0%
  • Up Special: Decreased startup frames: 21/56F -> 17/47F
  • Ledge Attack: Increased damage when Jr. is outside of the Clowncar: 9.0F -> 10.0F
• Captain Falcon
  • Up Smash: Made hits link more reliably
• Donkey Kong
  • Side Special (Grounded Variant): Added an additional hitbox against grounded opponents, increasing the attack's vertical range
• Ice Climbers
  • Decreased the damage Nana receives
  • Decreased the knockback Nana receives
  • Adjusted Nana's AI behavior
  • Dash Attack: Made Popo and Nana's hits link more reliably
    • Hitlag modifier (Popo): x1.0 -> x1.2
  • Down Smash: Increased BKB: 45 -> 50
  • Side Special: Increased speed of ledge-grab timing: 61F -> 55F
  • Up Special
    • Made it so that Nana performing an up special automatically will not prevent the player from performing an up special
    • Increased the distance that it is possible for Popo and Nana to Belay together
• Link
  • Up Smash: Made hits link more reliably
  • First two hits:
    • Adjusted knockback angles against grounded opponents: 105° -> 107°
    • Lowered set knockback of first two hits against grounded opponents: 39 -> 28
    • Increased additional hitstun frames: +0f -> +3f
• Lucario
  • Increased damage multiplier when at maximum Aura: 1.60 -> 1.67
  • Jab 1
    • Decreased startup: 7F -> 5F
    • Decreased total frames: 26F -> 24F
  • Forward tilt: Made hits link more reliably
  • Down Smash
    • Decreased startup frames: 19F -> 16F
    • Decreased total frames: 54F -> 51F
  • Up Special
    • Fixed an issue where Lucario could infinitely re-grab the ledge by grabbing the ledge with up special
    • Decreased landing lag when landing during helpless state: 40F -> 35F
  • Side Special: Increased knockback of Aura hitbox
    • BKB: 45 -> 48
    • KBG: 48 -> 58
• Meta Knight
  • Rapid Jab Finisher: Made it so the attack cannot clank
• Mii Swordfighter
  • Up Special 3: Made hits link more reliably
• Min Min
  • Rapid Jab Finisher: Made it so the attack cannot clank
• Ness
  • Up Tilt
    • Increased damage
      • Strong hit: 7.0% -> 9.0%
      • Weak hit: 5.0% -> 7.0%
    • Adjusted knockback
      • Both hits
        • BKB: 42 -> 46
        • KBG: 140 -> 113
  • Dash Attack (third hit)
    • Increased damage: 4.0% -> 6.0%
    • Adjusted knockback
      • BKB: 80 -> 85
      • KBG: 133 -> 113
  • Down Air
    • Decreased startup: 20F -> 18F
    • Decreased total frames: 54F -> 52F
    • Adjusted autocancel window: 1-19F/41-54F -> 1-17F/39-52F
  • Neutral Special
    • Decreased startup frames: 44-121F -> 40-117F
    • Decreased total frames: 65-142F -> 61-138F
  • Up Throw: Increased damage: 10.0% -> 12.0%
• Pikachu
  • Forward Air: Made hits link more reliably
• Piranha Plant
  • Rapid Jab Multihit: Made it so the attack cannot clank
  • Rapid Jab Finisher: Made it so the attack cannot clank
• Pokemon Trainer
  • Ivysaur
    • Rapid Jab Finisher: Made it so the attack cannot clank
  • Charizard
    • Side Special: Made hits link more reliably
    • Up Special: Made hits link more reliably
• Ridley
  • Rapid Jab Multihit: Made it so the attack cannot clank
  • Rapid Jab Finisher: Made it so the attack cannot clank
  • Up Special (Downward): The landing hitbox will only affect grounded opponents
• Robin
  • Rapid Jab Finisher: Made it so the attack cannot clank
• Ken
  • Final Smash: Made hits link more reliably
• Sheik
  • Up Tilt: Made hits link more reliably
• Shulk
  • Up Smash: Made hits link more reliably
  • Neutral Special: Reduced Shulk's weight while using Monado Arts (Shield)
  • Down Special: Increased knockback
    • Fast variant
      • KBG: 80 -> 90
    • Slow variant
      • KBG: 70 -> 80
    • Aerial variant
      • KBG: 70 -> 80
• Simon
  • Rapid Jab Multihit: Made it so the attack cannot clank
  • Rapid Jab Finisher: Made it so the attack cannot clank
  • Dash Attack:
    • Increased damage
      • Multihit: 1.7% -> 2.0%
      • Total damage: 12.0% -> 13.5%
    • Adjusted knockback of final hit
      • BKB: 70 -> 80
      • KBG: 115 -> 105
  • Up Tilt: Adjusted knockback
    • Strong hit
      • BKB: 60 -> 80
      • KBG: 75 -> 57
    • Weak hit
      • BKB: 60 -> 88
      • KBG: 100 -> 82
  • Up Smash
    • Decreased startup frames: 18F -> 16F
    • Decreased total frames: 55F -> 53F
    • Increased knockback
      • Tipper hit
        • BKB: 61 -> 64
        • KBG: 88 -> 91
      • Non-tipper hit
        • BKB: 60 -> 63
        • KBG: 82 -> 85
  • Down Smash: Increased knockback
    • Front hit: KBG: 77 -> 82
    • Back hit: KBG: 82 -> 87
  • Up Special: Increased attack range vertically
• Richter
  • Rapid Jab Multihit: Made it so the attack cannot clank
  • Rapid Jab Finisher: Made it so the attack cannot clank
  • Dash Attack:
    • Increased damage
      • Multihit: 1.7% -> 2.0%
      • Total damage: 12.0% -> 13.5%
    • Increased BKB
  • Up Tilt: Increased BKB
  • Up Smash
    • Decreased startup frames: 18F -> 16F
    • Decreased total frames: 55F -> 53F
    • Increased knockback
  • Down Smash: Increased knockback
  • Up Special: Increased attack range
• Sonic
  • Dash Attack
    • Increased damage
      • Early hit: 6.0% -> 8.0%
      • Late hit: 4.0% -> 6.0%
    • Adjusted Knockback
      • Early hit:
        • BKB: 88 -> 91
        • KBG: 80 -> 63
      • Late hit:
        • BKB: 93 -> 96
        • KBG: 80 -> 60
    • Adjusted knockback to compensate
    • Reduced total frames: 49F -> 45F
  • Up Tilt: Reduced total frames 39F -> 35F
  • Up Smash
    • Made hits link more reliably
    • Decreased startup frames of all hits: 18/21/23/25/27/29/31/33F -> 14/17/19/21/23/25/27/29F
    • Adjusted invulnerability frames: 18-20F -> 14-18F
    • Decreased total frames: 65F -> 61F
    • Charge hold frame: 13F -> 9F
  • Up Air: Made hits link more reliably
• Steve
  • Herobrine removed
• Wario
  • Up Special: Made hits link more reliably
    • The changes to certain hitboxes now results in the move doing more damage on average (~0.9%) than before. Actual damage values of the hitboxes were unchanged, however.
• Young Link
  • Rapid Jab Finisher: Made it so the attack cannot clank