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Pokémon Unite: August 16 patch nerfs Snorlax and buffs Garchomp

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Pokémon Unite: August 16 patch nerfs Snorlax and buffs Garchomp

Here's what balance changes are coming to Pokémon Unite in the latest patch.

Pokémon Unite: August 16 patch nerfs Snorlax and buffs Garchomp

The latest patch for Pokémon Unite comes tomorrow, and introduces more changes that could shake up your matches.

The changes to characters such as Crustle and Garchomp are striking, as they improve a lot with this new patch, while Snorlax suffers the most.

How they impact the metagame will only be known in the coming days, but one change that surely changes how you play is to the Eject Button.

Here's what's coming:

Changes to Playable Pokémon

Crustle

Stealth Rock:

Reduced cooldown

Increased damage

Rock Tomb: 

Increased damage

Garchomp

Movement speed changed

Bulldoze:

Increased damage

Dragon Rush:

Reduced cooldown

Slowbro

Surf:

Reduced effect duration

Scald:

Bug fixes.

Increased damage

Snorlax

Heavy Slam:

Reduced Damage

Block :

Reduced effect duration 

Flail:

Move upgrade

Unite Move: Power Nap

HP restoration decreased

Greninja

Smokescreen:

Move downgrade

Increased cooldown

Water Shuriken:

Reduced cooldown

Damage increased

Double Team:

Reduced cooldown

Wiggytuff, Cinderace, Alolan Ninetales, Gardevoir and Cramorant also get bugfixes.

Changes to Wild Pokémon

Avalugg

Stat decrease

Battle Items

Eject Button

Stat decreases

Goal-Getter

Stat increases

Fluffy Tail

Stat increases

X Attack

Stat increases

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