Balance Update 1.3.7 + Staff Official Tournament: N-A Draft

This skill now grants 10 points of unpierceable damage reduction, instead of 25% unpierceable damage reduction.

This skill now counters any skill class, instead of only non-mental skills

If successful, the countered enemy will have 'Air Cutter' applied on them.

This skill will now grant Zaku 1 random chakra when used.

This skill no longer grants Rin 50% damage reduction.

This skill no longer makes the target receive 10 additional damage from melee skills (when they use a new skill).

This skill now makes the target deal 20 less non-affliction damage for 1 turn.

This skill now heals 15 health for 3 turns, up 5 from 10 health.

This skill now grants the target 50% damage reduction.

This skill no longer increases 10 points of healing effects used by the target.

Note: The idea is to remove the offensiveness from Rin's skillset and add more defensiveness. This way, she becomes a character focused on slowing down enemies and healing her allies more (as a support should), instead of focusing on dealing more damage and bursting enemies faster (which might not even make much sense given Rin's overall concept as a character).

This skill now deals 30 piercing damage, instead of 25 regular damage.

This skill now lasts 1 turn, down 2 from 3.

This skill now has a cooldown of 1, down 2 from 3.

This skill now costs 1 random chakra, down 1 from 2 random chakra.

This skill no longer requires 'Puppet Preparation' to be used.

Kankuro prepares his puppets for combat, gaining 10 points of destructible defense for 4 turns. The following 3 turns, Kankuro's skills will deal 5 additional damage.

Energy: No cost.

Cooldown: 3

Classes: Chakra, Instant.

This skill now deals 20 regular damage, instead of 20 piercing damage

This skill now makes Temari fully invulnerable, instead of invulnerable to non-mental skills

Temari summons the wind weasel Kamatari in the battlefield, dealing 35 damage to one enemy and 25 to all others. If used after 'Cutting Whirlwind', this skill will cost 1 less random chakra instead.

Energy:

Cooldown: 2

Classes: Physical, Ranged, Instant, Unique.

Temari kicks up dust, making her team invulnerable for 1 turn. If targatable, all enemies will deal 10 less non-affliction damage for 1 turn. If used after 'Cutting Whirlwind', this skill will decrease damage for 2 turns instead.

Energy:

Cooldown: 4

Classes: Physical, Ranged, Instant.

Note: Adding stacks definitely wasn't the spot Temari was supposed to have. Instead, I decided to give her a more simpler, easier-to-execute, and definitely more satisfying design to play with.

This skill no longer marks the enemy and makes them receive 50% more damage if they use a new harmful skill

This skill now reduces the target's non-affliction damage to a maximum of 15.

Classes: Physical, Instant.

Kabuto custs one enemy throught their flesh like a scalpel, dealing 15 damage and removing 1 non-genjutsu chakra from them. This skill will remove 1 additional non-genjutsu chakra if used on an enemy stunned by 'Temple of Nirvana'.

Energy:

Cooldown: None

Classes: Chakra, Instant, Melee.

Kabuto creates a large scale genjutsu. For 1 turn, any enemy that uses a new skill will be stunned for 1 turn. This skill is invisible.

Energy:

Cooldown: 2

Classes: Mental, Instant, Ranged.

Note: I don't recall giving Kabuto any kind of rework in the previous Major Balance updates. So I decided to give him a rework on his main skill, Mystical Palm Technique, based on the 2008 version of Kabuto (I think? I was watching some old videos from 2008/2009 recently, don't remember the exact year).

This skill no longer makes all enemies receive 5 additional damage from 'Shadow-Neck Bind'.

This skill will now fully stun for 2 turns any enemy affected by 'Meditate'.

Shikamaru chokes all enemies, making them unable to reduce damage and becoming invulnerable* while dealing 15 damage to them for 1 turn. This skill will last 2 turns on enemies affected by 'Meditate'.

Energy:

Cooldown: 1

Classes: Chakra, Ranged, Action, Instant*.

Note: Are you tired of using Shadow Imitation after marking all your enemies with Meditate just to get Ino'ed right in your face? Then this change is perfect for you! … Shikamaru will lose his affliction damage and the possibility of dealing 20 AOE damage, but he'll gain more consistency at controling his targets.

This skill now deals regular damage, instead of piercing damage

This skill now deals 10 affliction damage, down 5 from 15.

This skill no longer has a cooldown, down 1 from 1.

This skill now fully stuns, instead of stunning harmful skills.

This skill will now heal 10 additional health, up 5 from 5. (If Ino used any of her other skills on the previous turn.)

This skill now delays skills by 2 turns, up 1 from 1.

This skill no longer reduces the target's non-affliction damage by 10 and makes their helpful skills cost 1 random chakra for 1 turn.

This skill will now stun the target for 1 turn.

This skill no longer ignores invulnerability.

This skill now is Instant classed, instead of Action classed.

During 'Sixth Gate Opening', this skill will deal 60 piercing damage ignoring invulnerability.

Classes: Chakra, Instant, Unique, Bloodline, Affliction*.