PokeBonk Patch #2: Reworked bosses, Magic Guard and no-wait evolution

At a glance

• Reworked bosses
• No-wait evolution
• Abra: new passive, Magic Guard
• Quality of life
• Fixes

Official patch notes

The developer's announcement in its official English version, reproduced for reference with credit to the PokeBonk team. Original post on pokebonk.com, Oct 15, 2026.

Second beta update, with plenty of changes that come from your reports. Thank you!

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Reworked bosses

• Two-phase guardians: when their health drops they go into ==Fury== with a roar, attack faster and chain their signature moves.
• New attacks: Burst, Shockwave (jump over it!) and, in Fury, Whirlwind, Skyfall and Hostile Ground. An escort of elites comes along, and if you run far away they leap at you.
• Health based on your damage: each boss's health adapts to the damage you bring, so the fight lasts the right amount of time even if you arrive very strong.
• No one-shots: a boss attack takes at most a third of your health. When it hits you, you're Wounded: your healing is halved for 4 s.
• Minibosses: the Totem has more attacks and the Summoner hides and reappears far away.
• Mew and Moltres get new attacks in the sanctuary.
• Pokémon that heal or shield no longer make the guardian immortal.
• The Cross attack (Scyther's X-Scissor, among others) gives more warning and hits less hard.

The boss numbers are new: if a fight feels unfair or too easy, tell us with "Report".

No-wait evolution

Final forms (Charizard, Arcanine, Nidoqueen…) evolve as soon as they reach their level, in any zone. Before, they waited for zone 2 even if you already had the level.

Abra: new passive, Magic Guard

Goodbye Teleport, which threw you out of altars and wherever you wanted to stay. Magic Guard: +10% special damage, immune to ground damage (lava, fire pools, cracks, spore clouds) and −30% damage from projectiles and area attacks.

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Quality of life

• Cards tell you which moves they affect: on level-up, on items and in the shop you'll see "Affects: …" and the cap of each vitamin or item.
• Fullscreen on PC: a button in the main menu (next to the language) and in Settings.
• Mute in background (Settings > Sound): the game goes quiet when you switch tabs.
• Mobile: capture and evolution notices and banners are smaller and no longer cover the game.
• iPhone: the game fits the screen without scrolling.
• Replies to your reports: we can now answer you, and the reply arrives in your mailbox.

Fixes

• Banishing the last option of a level-up no longer softlocks the game.
• Moves taught by your League members are now of your type (Bulbasaur no longer learns Brine).
• The golden Meowth no longer climbs the walls at the map's edge.
• Diglett and Dugtrio are visible while moving (before, you only saw the dirt mound).
• Dying right after beating the final legendary now counts as a victory.
• Fewer runs sent to review by mistake (unstable connection, legendary then death, swarms with lots of items).

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Keep using the "Report" button (main menu and pause menu): every report reaches us, and now we can answer you.

See you in the tall grass!