Fruit Battlegrounds just received it’s highly anticipated update 20 content drop, which introduces new Fruit to the mix, as well as a brand new Rebirth system. There’s also the obligatory new Fruit Battlegrounds codes to celebrate.
Alongside the new additions, there are a ton of balance changes, tweaks, and fixes to help make the experience a lot smoother. Let’s take a look at it in a lot more detail.
Leopard V2 is Finally Here
The headline feature of this update is Leopard V2, the evolved form of the original Leopard Fruit. It’s a Mythical, which means that the OG Leopard drops down to Legendary status.
We’ve already ranked it in our Fruit Battlegrounds tier list after testing it in beta. Spoiler alert: it’s powerful and a heck of a lot of fun to play.
Expect an awesome new transformation and abilities that focus on fast-paced attacks, stuns, and AoE chaos.
Snow Fruit Joins the Fray
The latest new Fruit in Fruit Battlegrounds is Snow Fruit, an Epic rarity Fruit with a 0.96% chance to drop when you reroll your Fruit.
Let’s take a quick look at Snow Fruits abilities.
| Skill | Details |
|---|---|
| Snow Angel | Summons wings that rapidly shoot snowballs |
| Winter Storm | Summon a snowstorm that prevents your enemy from taking actions while inside If opponents remain in it too long, it freezes |
| Frost Dome | Summon an igloo that provides you with 50% damage reduction and hyper armour Hold it to increase the size of the igloo |
| Snowball Catastrophe | Turn into a snowball and roll over enemies to trap them inside it, dealing damage at the end with a big explosion Hold it down to maintain the ability |
| Snow Drift | Turn into a snowstorm and fly around |
The Rebirth System Helps You Get a Mythical
If you’ve struggled to get a Mythical, the development team has finally put together a solution: Rebirth.
The Rebirth system allows you to evolve a Fruit to a higher tier. For example, if you have a Legendary Fruit you can evolve it into a random Mythical.
There are some caveats though: you can’t get a V2 Fruit via this method, so you will have to hope for the V1 variant so you can evolve it.
To evolve a fruit, visit the new NPC in Wano and pay them gems to swap to a higher Fruit rarity:
| Evolve To | Cost |
|---|---|
| Uncommon | 250 Gems |
| Rare | 500 Gems |
| Epic | 2,500 Gems |
| Legendary | 10,000 Gems |
| Mythic | 25,000 Gems |
What Else is New?
The rest of the updates aren’t quite so exciting, so we thought we’d round them up in a handful of bullets. This doesn’t include the balance changes though, as we’ll drop them in a separate section below.
- The bounty system has been fixed
- There are new titles to unlock
- Those on console will find flight and movement skills now work correctly
- The old map is back
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Balance Changes Abound
Lastly, this update features a number of balance changes that affect a vast number of Fruit. We’ll include the full patch notes direct from the source below:
Sand :
Barrier :
- Spada cooldown increased by 2.5 sec
- Swamp knockback nerfed slightly
- General EXP gain buffed
- Pesado damage buffed slightly
- Pesado projectile speed buffed by 20%
Chop :
- Crash cooldown increased slightly
- Bubble damage nerfed by 5%
Smoke :
- Car startup reduced
Falcon :
- Typhoon travel speed buffed
- Firework hitbox buffed
Ash :
- Falcon punch charge duration reduced by 1 sec
Gas :
- Crow Cascade damage buffed slightly
Ice :
- Combustive Gas projectile buffed
Light :
- Pheasant hitbox buffed by 50%
- Ice Age collisions removed
Darkness :
- Jewels of Light no longer glitches when cancelled
Paw :
- Dark Haul cooldown increased by 4 sec
- Black World buffed by 10%
- Black Hole buffed by 8%
Magma :
- Sonic Stomp knockback buffed by 90%
- Sumo Thrust Barrage cooldown increased by 3.5 sec
TSRubber :
- Hell Hound stun more accurate now
- Hell Hound knockback buffed
Dragon :
- You can now transform at 75% mode
- Light passive mode gain added
Light V2 :
- Draco Meteor hitbox is more accurate now
- Light passive mode gain added
Flame V2 :
- X-Flash stamina drain nerfed slightly
- Mirror Flight stamina drain nerfed slightly
Ice V2 :
- M1 stun nerfed by 0.1 sec
Magma V2 :
- Unable to use any skills for 0.9 sec after m1 string now
- Absolute Zero stun glitch patched
- M1s no longer combo extend
- Skating fixed on console
Phoenix :
- Crimson Howl duration reduced by 1 sec (damage is the same)
Venom :
- Fujiazami stun buffed by 0.3 sec
- Base Bluebird windup increased
- Mode movement speed buffed
- Mode gain buffed by 25%
- Light passive mode gain added
Dough :
- Hydra Cyclone hitbox more accurate now
- Light passive mode gain added
Leopard :
- Muddle windup increased slightly
Lightning :
- Spiral Kick nerfed by 8%
- Claw Barrage nerfed by 14%
- Rokuogan nerfed by 5.5%
- Mode duration nerfed by 20%
- Rising Claw Combo hitbox nerfed by 10%
- Light passive mode gain added
- Mode gain nerfed by 25%
Dough V2 :
- Projectile Burst beam hitbox behaviour changed similar to Absolute Zero
Dragon V2:
- Blazing storm damage nerfed by 4% (very little difference)
- Oblivion cannot directly be comboed after Buzzcut anymore
- M1 damage nerfed slightly
- M1s can no longer combo extend
Okuchi :
- Light passive mode gain added
- Endlag added when thunder bagua is missed
- Mode gain slightly buffed
DarkXQuake :
- Divine Serpent knockback readjusted slightly
- Divine Serpent movement speed buffed by 8.4%
- M1s fixed
Soul :
- Black Hole Path is now fully blockable
Nika :
- Movement speed reduced very slightly (neglible difference)
- Gigant Stamp stun nerfed by 0.4 sec
