Season is over + Nerfs before Major Update 1.4.0


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Season is over + Nerfs before Major Update 1.4.0


Balance Changes
Nerfs
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Chakra Burst

No longer grants 50% unpierceable damage reduction.

Heat Seeker

Now deals 25 piercing damage, down 5 from 30.

Crown Shockwave

Now deals 5 affliction damage, down 5 from 10, to enemies on the following turn.

Nerfs
5265 (61.49%) Wins8562 (1.90%) Matches Played
Sanshouo Shield

This skill now grants 5 points of damage reduction, instead of 25% damage reduction.

Salamander Puppet

This skill now grants 20 points of unpierceable damage reduction, instead of 50% unpierceable damage reduction.

This skill is no longer invisible.

Nerfs
5548 (59.29%) Wins9357 (2.08%) Matches Played
Gai Nunchaku Style

The conditional damage dealt by this skill no longer scales with 'Gate Release'.

Nerfs
3305 (57.64%) Wins5734 (1.27%) Matches Played
Dragon Fire

This skill now deals 10 affliction damage to one enemy and 5 affliction damage to all others, instead of dealing 10 affliction damage to all enemies.

This skill now ends when Anko is killed.

Nerfs
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Melody Arm Tuning

Dosu fine-tunes his Melody Arm to produce debilitating sound vibrations. The following 4 turns, 'Resonating Echo Drill' will deal 20 additional damage and 'Sound Manipulation' will deal 10 additional damage.

Energy:

Cooldown: 4

Classes: Mental, Instant.

Sound Manipulation

No longer removes 1 ninjutsu or bloodline chakra if used one turn after 'Sound Manipulation'.

Nerfs
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Implanted Sharingan

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

Staff Notes: Young Kakashi has been performing very well alongside Asura Path, which also received nerfs in this patch. This change is intended to slightly reduce Young Kakashi’s power and see how he performs in the next patch. If he still remains as strong as he is now, he will receive nerfs to 'Amateur Raikiri' and 'White Fang Slash'.
Tweaks
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Cutting Whirlwind

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

Summoning Quick Beheading Dance

This skill now deals 35 damage to all enemies, instead of 35 damage to one enemy and 25 to all others.