2026-10-18 / 164

October 18–19: new roles and follow-up balance changes

The rebalance changes stats, moves and status behavior; the follow-up restores Rock-area Tyranitar and adjusts Blissey and income limits for new runs.

October 18 reorganizes damage styles, baby-line roots, type-aware crowd control, debuffs, pools and signature options. October 19 restores Larvitar's line as Rock area attackers, with Crunch as its Dark option. Blissey's upgraded support becomes 23% more hit damage and roughly 23% faster attacks. Money limits apply collectively to a line and survive selling or replacing. Older saved runs may retain earlier rules. Use current records and interpret aura as interval reduction instead of carrying a launch-era damage ranking into the new balance.