Build 26346626

Ver 1.3 is now live!

New Event: Mystery Gates

• A "Mystery Gates Open!" banner now appears on the Home screen. There are 5 gates, each with its own timer; when time runs out, it is replaced by a new gate
• Never-before-seen monsters lurk inside. Gates are ranked D to S, and higher ranks hold stronger monsters
• Blue gates are normal, red gates are dangerous! Even at the same rank the enemy is much tougher, but winning doubles your rewards (2 stickers and double gold)
• If you lose, the gate closes (you don't lose any gold). Closed gates reopen 6 hours later with a new rank
• Added 2 gate-only battle stages (Inside the Blue Gate / Inside the Red Gate) with their own music, plus a gate-entering effect

Unique Monster Skills and Skill Stickers

• Every gate monster uses 3 unique skills. One of them is a signature move with brand-new motion, unlike any skill seen before
• Boulders rolling across the floor, tornadoes roaming the stage, shadow swords closing in from all sides... watch closely and dodge!
• Win a gate battle for a small chance to get that monster's skill as a skill sticker (only available from gates)

Companion Monsters

• Sometimes a monster you defeat in a gate gets back up and "looks at you as if it wants to join!" You choose whether to take it in
• Lower-rank monsters join more easily; higher ranks, and especially monsters from red gates, are very hard to recruit
• Companions go into your Storage Box (up to 8). From the Mega Monster event screen, use the "Party" button to pick up to 3 to bring along
• When you take on a Mega Monster solo, your companions fight beside you in place of CPU allies, each using its own unique skills
• Each companion keeps the rank (D to S) of the gate where you met it; higher ranks make for stronger companions. Companions recruited from red gates get a special mark
• Fighting together raises their Bond and makes them a little stronger. Win against the Mega Monster to watch their hearts fill up
• If your Storage Box is full, you can say farewell to one companion to make room for a new one. And if you say farewell to a companion at max Bond...?

New Stickers Found in Gates

• Element stickers: e.g. "Phoenix Feather" (more damage with fire moves) or "Lightning Rod" (less damage from thunder moves). Equip two stickers of the same element for an extra +5% to that element's moves
• Quirky stickers: big boosts with a catch (find out what they are inside the gates)
• Special stickers will appear as rewards in future events

Sticker Changes

• Each sticker can now be equipped on only one fighter. On the sticker screen, stickers used by another fighter show that fighter's drawing (select it to move the sticker)
• If you had the same sticker on several fighters, it stays on the fighter with the most battles and was removed from the others (no stickers were lost)
• Sticker capacity increased from 14 to 28. The sticker list now has pages

Balance

• Witches, gate monsters and CPU opponents now have a chance to teleport away from skills that lock you in place (Zero-G Stage, binding spells, etc.). Stronger opponents dodge more often

Other Changes

• Added 13 new achievements (Mystery Gates, stickers and companions)
• Redrew the night / dawn backgrounds of the VS Thirteen Witches select screen
• The Moves screen now shows each move's element icon
• Improved the layout of the merge confirmation and result screens
• Fixed a bug where discarding a sticker could also unequip a different sticker with a similar number
• Updated the online protocol version (Ver 1.3 players can play together)