Two modes sitting at opposite ends of the same dial. Extra Konpaku stretches a set out far enough that comeback mechanics and resource management actually matter across a long match, while Sudden Death compresses everything into a single decisive exchange. The per-character Konpaku counts in Extra Konpaku follow each character's existing balance rather than being flat across the roster.

Komamura's Signature was doing all of its work from a distance. The zoning version sat around 36 frames plus on block, which meant he could claim a screen's worth of space and never really be challenged for holding it, so its cancel timing has been roughly doubled and it now lands around 13 frames minus instead. The payoff stays on the Forward Heavy Ender, which hits considerably harder, so the move is still worth committing to when it actually leads somewhere. The rest of the pass is about making his armor and his weaker state honest. Tilt's Super Armor now runs through the move's active frames in both Initial Stage and Weakened, so committing to it is no longer beaten by a simple mash, while SP1 hits far harder in both states and keeps its identity as an armored wake-up and whiff punish that stays unsafe on block. Weakened picks up a much healthier pool of health along with a Dash Light that finally matches the Initial Stage version instead of sitting minus on block and short on hitstun.

Kyōka Suigetsu was the outstanding problem. Its cutscene runs 700 frames and carried neither an input lock nor invulnerability, so Aizen came out of his own kill denial actionable but completely exposed, and any input buffered before the denial would fire the moment he arrived. Both windows now cover the full cutscene and end exactly where his cancel timing opens, with the costume variant kept in line. On top of that the move no longer charges 2 Reverse bars alongside its flames, so an already expensive option costs what it actually should. Dash Light is the other change, with its forward travel cut by a quarter so it reads less as a telegraphed commitment and more as something he can genuinely open with, while still being steppable.

Ichibei's Heavy SP1 was not paying out enough for the commitment it asks for, so its damage has been brought up in both stages, and his Awakening Tilt now links into Light at any range rather than only up close. Light SP1 gaining a combo is deliberately capped at a single use, because the first pass let it loop, which was far more than intended. Paying for all of that, the counter loses its combo entirely, since rewarding a correct read with a full conversion on top of everything else was too much.

V1.0 spent most of its attention on cutting Starrk's guard-break potential, which left his Awakening feeling like it gave up a lot without offering much back. Raising the damage on his Wolf-powered Heavy, Grab and Hoho follow-up puts the reward back into the state he has to work to reach, and the adjusted Kikon rotation changes how the pace of a round shifts once he transforms.

The form-switching Awakening from V1.1 works, but Scattered State was paying for itself far too quickly, because sitting in petals generated Spiritual Power fast enough that the ranged half of the kit funded its own next turn. That gain is now a fifth of what vanilla gave, and Senkei's Light 2 and Light 3 pick up the Fighting Spirit that petals used to provide, so committing to the melee form is not a resource loss. The swap itself also has to be earned now, since Senkei's SP1 only sends him into Scattered State on hit, with its minimum damage raised to keep the move worth throwing out. Senka gets a little of its reach back after V1.1 cut it harder than intended, while the Heavy 2 recovery reduction from that same patch has been rolled back.

Known Issues:

1. Byakuya's Hoho follow-up in sword form sometimes drops before the final strike.
2. After a Hoho follow-up is used against Byakuya, he will sometimes perform an uncontrollable whiffed grab.

Gin's Awakening still moved a little too freely for how strong his buttons are there, so his Dash Light and backdash both pay more on recovery and Light 2 gives up another two frames of blockstun. The Signature nerf from V1.1 went further than intended, as Level 1 was never the problem, so its recovery is back to what it was while Levels 2 and 3 keep the increase. His Awakening-to-Sublimation cost is also back, since the V1.1 change never made it into the shipped build.

A true DP is supposed to beat what it is meant to beat and lose to everything else. Uryu's was reaching a little past that by punishing moves that are minus but still safe, with Ichibei's Tilt being the clearest example, so that window has been closed. The other half of the pass is resource economy, as his fully charged Signature and the SP2-install version were both paying out too much Fighting Spirit for how easily they come out, so both lose 40% of that gain.

Byakurai staying live through Kisuke's own movement options meant the beam covered his approach for him, so it now disengages first and the opponent gets a real window to side-step or raw Hoho through it. The bigger issue was economy: his SP2-enhanced Light was generating double the Spiritual Power of the base version, which let him rotate back into install almost immediately. Halving it puts him in line with the only comparable enhanced state in the game.

Soi Fon's jab was doing too much for how little it risked, so its recovery and blockstun now match Yoruichi's and whiffing it can actually be punished. Her raw Hoho gets the same treatment as Ulquiorra's this patch: the recovery timing is retuned so punishing it is consistent rather than a matter of guessing the right frame.

A small but overdue correction: Ulquiorra's raw Hoho recovery was inconsistent enough that punishing it came down to guesswork rather than reaction. The timing has been retuned so the punish window behaves the same way every time. Soi Fon received the identical treatment this patch.

V1.0 pulled Halibel's damage ceiling down hard and V1.1 only handed back execution leniency, which left her neutral noticeably harder to win without a matching payoff when she did. A flat 7% on her Aura Gauge damage puts some of that reward back where it belongs: on the hit-confirms she has to work for, rather than on the buttons that were the problem in the first place.

This is a consistency fix rather than a balance change. The V1.0 rework gave Nel a Signature-cancel loop off her SP1 extension, but the extension's first hit had a hitbox tight enough to simply miss certain body types such as Uryu, which meant the route she was rebuilt around would drop through no fault of the player. The larger radius makes it behave the same way across the roster.

The V1.1 hitstun increase that made Dash Light into Light 1 connect reliably shipped alongside a damage value that was badly wrong, with the button dealing 6000 instead of 125, which was enough to end rounds off a single stray poke. That has been corrected to its intended value, and nothing else about the move has changed.

Purely a stability fix: casting Sankt Zwinger in Awakening was running the entire game at nine times speed, which is about as broken as a bug gets and made the move unusable in any serious setting. Nothing about Yhwach's balance has moved in V1.1.2.

The Light 1 pushback increases from earlier patches were doing their job everywhere except Blood Mode, where the value simply wasn't applying, which meant the exact state Unohana most wants to be in was still running the old jail. This closes that hole, so the intended pushback is now consistent across her whole Awakening.

The vacuum added to Mayuri's Dash Light in V1.1 was the whole point of that change, since it is what turns a hard-to-punish button into a real mix-up, and it was not firing as intended. With it working properly, the V1.1 pass finally reads the way it was designed to.