JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R receives a new update, and here’s the complete list of changes and fixes that will be added with this patch. The latest version is as extensive as the previous ones and brings many changes to the game. The developer thanks fans for their interest in the game and recommends installing the latest patch. The patch notes of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R 1.6 version are below.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

General Changes

Backstepping

• Standardized the hurtbox area around feet.
  • Eliminates differences in ability to avoid certain deployed projectiles (e.g. Ghiaccio’s “Any form of attack stops cold when it hits my ultracold temperatures!” skill) by stepping backwards. *The purpose of this is to remove imbalances in different characters’ ability to escape deployed projectiles while getting up from being downed.

Direction of Counter HHA Flying

• Adjusted the force that sends opponents flying to the direction the initiating character is facing.
  • Under certain situations, when performing a successful counter, the target would go flying in the opposite direction from that suggested by the attack animation.

Guardbreak

• Added damage reduction to combos that start out of guardbreak.
  • Reduces the reward for performing a guardbreak while maintaining the ability to pursue that guardbreak.

Damage Received During Skills that Don’t Cause the Victim to Recoil.
e.g. Jonathan Joestar’s “Tackle” Special

• Allowed damage taken during rebound protection to receive damage reduction.
• Changed counterstrikes to not occur while taking damage from attacks that do not cause rebound.
  • Improves usability in neutral.

Damage Received During Attacks that do not Cause Recoil While in Resolve Mode

• Allowed damage taken during rebound protection to receive damage reduction.
• Changed counterstrikes to not occur while taking damage from attacks that do not cause rebound.
  • Improves usability in neutral.

Recoil Caused by Leg Sweep Attacks

• Shortened animation lead-in and sped up transition to downed state.
  • This was changed due to certain attacks that allow additional attacks on downed opponents to fail due to recoil invincibility.

The Pivot Line When Characters Swap Positions in the Air – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

• Resolved inconsistencies between characters’ positional pivot lines and the center of their collision detection.
  • Under certain circumstances, when jumping attacks hit the opponent in the back, they were less likely to fall frontward. *This prevents confusion from guard direction working opposite to what is expected.

Collision Detection (Determines when Characters Push Against Each Other)

• Removed Stand collision detection during standing and crouching recoil animations.
  • Under certain circumstances, when jumping attacks hit the opponent in the back, they were less likely to fall frontward. *This prevents confusion from guard direction working opposite to what is expected.

Crouching Recoil Animation

• Fixed a rare issue where being hit during the Stylish Guard’s recovery would cause the crouching recoil animation to trigger.
  • Ensures that recoil animations are appropriate to the situation.

Character Specific Changes – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

Jonathan Joestar

Dash Forward

• Increased dash speed.
  • Improves usability in neutral

“Sendo Overdrive” Skill – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

• Decreased projectile speed.
• Shortened recovery period.
• Extended pushback on hit.
  • Improves usability in neutral.
    *Combined with the anti-air capability of “Scarlet Overdrive”, this improves the ability to bait and counter the opponent.

“Overdrive Barrage” Skill

• Increased forward motion.
• Shortened recovery period.
• Improves usability in neutral and in combos.

Dio Brando – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

Dash Forward

• Increased dash speed.
  • Improves usability in neutral

Crouching Strong Normal Attack – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

• Increased forward motion.
  • Improves usability in neutral and in combos.

“Useless, useless, useless, useless!” Skill – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

• Reduced the number of button presses required to receive the damage increase.
  • Reduces difficulty of control.

“I’ll Suck You dry!” Skill – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

• Reduced the number of button presses required to receive the damage increase.
  • Reduces difficulty of control.

“That Must be Five or Six Ribs Broken!” Skill

• Shortened recovery period.
• Increased launch power when hitting an airborne opponent.
  • Improves usability in neutral by reducing recovery. The launch power increase is to prevent infinite combos possibly resulting from the recovery reduction.

Robert E. O. Speedwagon – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

“Martial Arts, the Eastern mystery!” Skill

• Removed ability to continue the attack if it’s guarded.
• Shortened attack activation time.
• Changed recoil from medium attack. (Now triggers when dropping to the ground.)
  • Reduces The Asian’s ability to sustain a safe position while preserving his combo-centric strengths.

“Don’t Try to Bluff, You Rich Little Snot!” Skill

• Changed so that if Robert E. O. Speedwagon is sent into recoil while the hat is flying, it will have no hitbox while returning.
  • Removed the attack’s function of insurance against counterattacks while preserving its strength as pressure out of Flash Cancel.

“Aren’t you Acting Tough!” skill

• Removed The Asian’s collision detection when landing.
  • Prevents the opponent from getting stuck and unable to advance.

Joseph Joestar

Backstepping

• Shortened recovery period.
  • Improves usability in neutral

“Clacker Boomerang” skill (Hamon version)

• Adjusted so the recovery animation when touching a returning clacker while standing still could be canceled.
  • Improves usability in neutral and in combos. *On hit with “I’ll smash you good!” and following up with “Clacker Boomerang” (Hamon version), if the HH Gauge is built up, can now follow up further with attacks such as “Clacker Boomerang” skill (Hamon version).

Lisa Lisa (Elizabeth) – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

Standing Strong Normal Attack

• Increased duration of attack hitbox.
  • Improves usability in neutral and in combos.

Jumping Strong Normal Attack – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

• Shortened attack activation time.
  • Improves usability in neutral and in combos.

“Blasphemy is prohibited!” skill – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

• Altered number of knives thrown.
  • Medium attack throws 2 knives.
  • Strong attack throws 3 knives.
    *This change will affect total damage of the attack.
  • Weak: 30 damage x 1 knife
  • Medium: 18 damage x 2 knives
  • Strong: 14 damage x 3 knives
• Altered the speed of throwing the projectiles.
  • Delayed for medium attack.
  • Massively delayed for strong attack.
• Altered the flying speed of the knives.
  • Sped up weak version.
  • Slowed down strong version.
  • Sped up Hamon version.
• Changed recoil animation of non-Hamon versions.
• Altered landing recovery times.
  • Increased for medium attack.
  • Increased greatly for strong attack.
    • Improves usability in neutral and in combos. *For non-Hamon versions, the change to the slam recoil animation enables following up into specials from this attack at close range.

“Hamon Master” skill

• Increased movement range for medium, strong, and Hamon versions.
  • Improves usability in neutral and in combos.

“All I need is this scarf!” skill – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

• Increased horizontal launch force.
  • Prevents the opponent from flying in the opposite direction in some situations.

“You picked a bad time to test me!” skill

• Enlarged hitbox.
• Decreased speed of attack activation.*Will combo if “Hamon Master” hits.
• Increased forward motion.
  • Improves usability in neutral.
    *Attack now hits if the opponent guards against Hamon Chain’s secondary skill and then backsteps.

“Die with regret” skill – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

• Shortened attack activation time.
• Increased number of hits.
• Made the attack turn to face the enemy on activation.
• Changed recoil animation. *Now triggers slam animation even against airborne opponents.
• Improves usability in neutral.
  *Attack now hits if the opponent guards against Hamon Chain’s initial skill and then dodges or jumps.

“Snake Muffler” skill – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

• Shortened attack activation time.
• Made the attack turn to face the enemy on activation.
• Changed recoil animation.
  *Now triggers slam animation even against airborne opponents.
  • Improves usability in neutral. *Attack now hits if the opponent guards against Hamon Chain’s initial skill and then dodges or jumps.

“Settle this with style” skill – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

• Shrank hurtbox during activation.
• Shortened recovery period.
  • Improves usability in neutral. *If the opponent guards against Hamon Chain’s initial skill and then counters with an attack that doesn’t have a low hitbox, such as a leg sweep, that attack will miss, and this attack will hit.

“Prepare to die!” skill

• Shortened attack activation time.
• If the opponent is inputting back during activation, they will be in guarding position.
• Increased forward motion.
• Shortened recovery period.
  • Improves usability in neutral. *Attack now hits if the opponent guards against Hamon Chain’s secondary skill and was still guarding.

“Smooth as silk” Skill

• This skill is now able to cancel into specials.
  • Improves usability in neutral.

“Futile!” skill

• This skill is now able to cancel into specials.
  • Improves usability in neutral.

Cancel Hamon Chain Recovery Into GHA

• Allowed canceling recovery into GHA, but only after the attack’s hitbox has spawned. *Doesn’t apply when airborne.
  • Standardizes when cancels are and aren’t possible.

Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

“Seated Jump” Special

• Removed ability to use “Bubble Launcher” when performing backwards.
  • Too effective against specific characters.

“Bubble Launcher” Skill (aerial)

• Reduced duration of projectiles.
• Extended landing recovery period.
  • Too effective against specific characters.

“Hamon Kick” Skill

• Decreased speed of attack activation.
• Increased landing recovery time when guarded.
• Increases the difficulty of hitting with the skill and the punish window for missing with it.
• Increased number of hits.
• Increased damage.
  • Makes it easier to cancel into HHA when hitting. The damage increase improves the reward for landing the skill.(Despite the damage increase, it takes place over 2 hits, so the damage from counterstrikes is limited.)

“Gliding Bubble Cutter” Skill – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

• Increased projectile spawn speed.
• Shortened recovery period.
  • Improves usability in neutral.

Esidisi

“Think Fast!” HHA

• Increased health drained on hit.
  • Improves reward for hitting.

Wamuu – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

“He Bent Backwards!” skill

• Increased the size of the follow-up kick’s hitbox.
  • Improves ability for the attack to combo.

Rudol von Stroheim

Reversal Assist

• Added ability for hitstop to apply to the attack’s hits.
  • Applies universal rules that other characters follow.

“Farewell, You Annoying Englishman!” Skill

• Fixed issue where being KOed while being sent flying from the explosion would disable assists in the following round.
  • This was a bug and has been fixed.

Mariah

“If you’re not allowed to touch something, it makes you want to touch it more…” style

• Extended time until a deployed power socket vanishes.
  • Improves usability in neutral.

“Sorry, but you’ll have to die now.” skill

• Aerial normal attacks can now be performed after activating skill during forward and straight jump.
  • Improves usability in neutral.

Iggy – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

“Ha ha, sucker!” skill

• Can now be Flash Canceled from a successful counter.
• Made it so a successful counter turns Stand Mode ON.
  • Improves usability in combos.

“A nasty habit” skill

• Reduced invincibility period.
• Increased time the attack is active.
• Made attack rebound away if guarded.
  *Can be canceled into Aerial Dash special during this rebound.
  • Comboing an attack with invincible activation to an HHA or other follow-up allowed for racking up massive damage. To make up for the reduced invincibility, other changes improve usability in neutral.

Old Joseph Joestar – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

Assault Assist

• Adjusted so activation speed was not sped up in certain situations.
  • Applies universal rules that other characters follow.

Reversal Assist – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

• Adjusted so activation speed was not slowed in certain situations.
  • Applies universal rules that other characters follow.

“Hamon Overdrive!” skill

• Removed Hamon damage property from weak, medium, and strong attack versions.
  • Applies universal rules that other characters follow. *This change makes it so that the weak, medium, and strong attack versions no longer deal extra damage to Vampire and Pillar Man characters. In exchange, the attacks now build the HH Gauge.

Jean Pierre Polnareff – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

“Reap as you sow!” skill

• Speeds up attack activation, standardizing weak, medium, and strong attack versions.
• Reduced all animation lead-ins. *No change in the increase in attack duration that applies to weak/medium/strong versions.
  • Improves usability in neutral.

“My secret weapon!” skill

• Changed recoil animation. (Now sends the opponent flying.)
• Increased damage.
  • Improves usability in neutral.

“Off comes the armor!” HHA

• Fixed so that the follow-up skill can no longer be activated repeatedly in some situations.
  • This was unintended and has been fixed.

Hol Horse – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Update 1.6 Patch Notes

“Come get us!” skill

• Fixed so that the follow-up skill can no longer be activated repeatedly in some situations.
  • This was unintended and has been fixed.

Josuke Higashikata 4

“Break through, beat you up!” skill (weak version)

• Reduced the forward launch force when hitting an airborne enemy.
  *Shared with all attacks that make the opponent drop to the ground.
  • Narrows viable combo routes, as there were too many varied ways to open into high-damage combos.

“Meet my homing missile!” HHA
*HHA secondary skill

• Increased damage.
  • Improves usability in neutral and in combos.

“You’re already fixed!” GHA

• Increased damage.
  • Improves usability in neutral and in combos.

Koichi Hirose

Stand Mode crouching strong normal attack

• Increased recovery time.
  • Increases punishment for missing.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R is available on PC, Xbox One, and PS4. For more information about JJBA ASBR and its patch notes, visit the Bandai Namco website.