PokéSurvivor Updates · 2026-10-23: October 23: Arceus damage ranking, Plates and move balance

Game update October 23, 2026 · Article updated October 24, 2026

October 23: Arceus damage ranking, Plates and move balance

Changes at a glance

All 97 original evolved moves now display their base localized name followed by “ +”. Requirements and evolution modifiers stay the same; previous names remain searchable aliases. Meteor Mash is now damage 24, radius 48 and knockback 70 (previously 34/54/80); cooldown 1.4 s and count 2 are unchanged. Every level and evolved output is calculated from this updated base.
Original rules at d567c6da: Judgment Arceus is invincible but takes damage credit. Its random Plate is one of 17 non-Normal types (1/17 each). Auto-targeting prefers living legendary bosses; area attacks can still hit Arceus. Credit multiplier = 0.05/(1+arena seconds/150), rounded per hit with a minimum of 1. It loses no HP and is immune to status; Hex receives no status bonus. Playable and ordinary-rift Arceus remain separate encounters.
Judgment legends grow HP ×1.25 and contact/projectile damage ×1.15 per spawn, starting at index 0. Burn ticks every 0.5 s for 3 s; poison every 0.6 s for 4 s. On these legends, either deals round(1.5 × stacks), minimum 1 per nonzero tick, rather than ordinary HP-based poison. They drop XP only, with no orbs. At game 35:00, item destruction waits for the current cast/next action, then warns for 1.6 s before unequipping. Select “already broken” only once that happens; collection ownership is retained.
The original leaderboard now has independent time and Arceus-damage top-50 lists; each best can come from a different run. Damage has no per-Pokémon board; friends are filtered within the global damage top 50. Boards were reset to all4 and period suffix a; older results remain historical. Cache is 2 hours. Runs outside both all-time lists retain the 6-hour time-upload deferral; damage-only improvements outside both may not upload. The 45-minute cap was removed, while backend validation still caps time at 86400 s. Co-op damage is host-aggregated for the team. This does not reset this Wiki’s separate Challenge leaderboards.
The original game’s YouTube button links to @jpter78. It checks the public live/live.json every five minutes while visible and on return; a valid 11-character video ID refreshed within 90 minutes opens the live stream, otherwise it opens the channel. This Wiki does not install that repository’s scheduled workflow.

Applicable version

The author’s changelog dates Orbs, Shiny Charms and ×100 gacha to October 22, and Arceus ranking/Plates/balance to October 23. This Wiki completed these source details on October 24 from d567c6da. The earlier co-op recovery notes retain their own source versions and historical dates.

Arceus Plates and Judgment damage scoring

Original rules at d567c6da: Judgment Arceus is invincible but takes damage credit. Its random Plate is one of 17 non-Normal types (1/17 each). Auto-targeting prefers living legendary bosses; area attacks can still hit Arceus. Credit multiplier = 0.05/(1+arena seconds/150), rounded per hit with a minimum of 1. It loses no HP and is immune to status; Hex receives no status bonus. Playable and ordinary-rift Arceus remain separate encounters.

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Arceus Plate / defensive type	Type	Probability
Flame Plate	Fire	1 / 17
Splash Plate	Water	1 / 17
Zap Plate	Electric	1 / 17
Meadow Plate	Grass	1 / 17
Icicle Plate	Ice	1 / 17
Fist Plate	Fighting	1 / 17
Toxic Plate	Poison	1 / 17
Earth Plate	Ground	1 / 17
Sky Plate	Flying	1 / 17
Mind Plate	Psychic	1 / 17
Insect Plate	Bug	1 / 17
Stone Plate	Rock	1 / 17
Spooky Plate	Ghost	1 / 17
Draco Plate	Dragon	1 / 17
Dread Plate	Dark	1 / 17
Iron Plate	Steel	1 / 17
Pixie Plate	Fairy	1 / 17

Original and embedded edition

These additions apply to the pinned original release 1a52cc838c. The embedded community game uses its separate published rules snapshot: its Meteor Mash and legacy evolution names are retained by the Community model, and the new original-only Orbs, Plate scoring and item-break assumptions are not applied to it.

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