ARMS Update Adds Dashboard Feature, Balance Changes

The update that’s now available for the Nintendo Switch game gives players a couple of nifty tools to access through the Dashboard feature. Worldwide rankings, a collection of videos containing tips and tricks, and more can all be found through the feature now.

In addition to the Dashboard feature and other changes, fighters such as Ribbon Girl, Skully, Coolerang, and more were also adjusted in Update 5.3. The official patch notes that were shared on Nintendo’s support site detailed everything that’s changing in the update that’s now available to download as of April 10 with all of those changes found below as well as through the official notes.

Version 5.3

• New “Dashboard” feature added.
• Check out the latest rankings, and tons of useful videos!
• From Dashboard you can see the following.
  • Latest Worldwide & Regional Rankings
  • Party Crash Ranking by time slot
  • ARMS “Tips & Techniques” video collection
  • “Fighter Focus” video collection with tips for each fighter
  • “Tournament Clips” to so you can learn from the best
• 15 Images added to Gallery.
• Korean language is now supported.
• Adjusted abilities of some fighters and ARMS as follows.

Fighters / Arms

• Ribbon Girl
  • Freshening up lightens your heart and your feet. Ah, Spring! Increased air dash movement speed.
  • But it feels like her feet don’t quite touch the ground properly… Decreased dash movement speed.
• Misango
  • Increased rush gauge fill rate when in red and blue spirit form to be equal to that of other characters.
• Coolerang
  • Increased extension speed.
  • Increased retraction speed.
• Lockjaw
  • Increased retraction speed.
  • Fixed issue where under certain conditions ARM would not recover for an extended time.
• Skully
  • Increased charge attack damage.
  • Decreased retraction speed.
• Glusher
  • Increased charge attack damage
• Parabola
  • Increased expansion rate while extending. No change to expansion during charge.
• Nade
  • Decreased retraction speed.
• Chakram
  • Decreased charge attack speed.