PokéBonk Patch #4: Per-Pokémon leaderboards, clans of up to 100 and shiny legendaries

At a glance

• Per-Pokémon leaderboards
• Clans
• Research Notebook
• Shinies
• Balance
• Settings and interface

Official patch notes

The developer's announcement in its official English version, reproduced for reference with credit to the PokéBonk team. Original post on pokebonk.com, Oct 16, 2026.

Fourth beta update! Say hello to per-Pokémon leaderboards, clans of up to 100 members, a Research Notebook that finally gives rewards, shiny legendaries and an interface you can tune to your liking.

Per-Pokémon leaderboards

• Each of the 79 League Pokémon has its own leaderboard, for the season and all-time, in Classic and in Survival.
• It adds up your best run with that Pokémon on each region, on any difficulty (in Survival, your best time on each map). The run counts if it starts with it, whatever it evolves into.
• Season prizes: the top 3 win the Specialist frame, and #1 also gets the Pokémon Master frame and a title under your name: «Charmander Master» (in Survival, «Charmander Legend»). The board needs 5 trainers.
• The Leaderboard screen is now split in four: KOs, Per Pokémon, Survival and Time attack, with a Pokémon search and a «Play as…» button.
• After each run you see your place with that Pokémon, and your trainer card gets «Specialist in». Pick your title in Change → Titles. They are already filled with all your previous runs. Who will be the #1 Magikarp trainer?

Clans

• Expandable slots: from 30 to 100 members. Any member can add 10 slots with their own Stardust (from 500).
• Clan page with tabs: Members (with their last login, sorted by rank, season, all-time or last seen), Requests and Activity.
• Leader announcements: a message pinned for 7 days that reaches every member's mailbox with a «Let's play!» button.
• Clan texts that showed up in Spanish in other languages are now translated.

Research Notebook

• Research now pays off: complete a family and you can use its Pokémon as your avatar.
• 17 type frames, 4 researcher avatars (at 5, 15, 30 and 45 families) and the Pokédex Frame (at 60).
• New button in the Pokédex and a «NEW!» badge when you unlock something.

Shinies

• Legendaries can now be shiny! A 3% chance in their own appearances: the birds, Mewtwo and the Shrine legendary. Once beaten, it stays fainted waiting for your Poké Ball, which never misses.
• Rarity decides which species shows up shiny: the rarer the Pokémon, the harder.

Balance

• Normal: in zone 1, an Alpha's hits take at most 15% of your HP (it was the first big wall).
• Hard and Nightmare hit harder from zone 2 on (+12% and +25%).
• Bosses: tank builds are no longer untouchable. A telegraphed hit always deals a minimum after armor, and if a guardian goes 12 s without taking damage, it grows impatient and attacks more often.
• Diglett and the other Chargers crouch to warn you and charge in a straight line: no more homing in on you.
• Stardust from KOs is capped: farms of hundreds of thousands of KOs give less (at most 780 Stardust from KOs).

Settings and interface

• Settings with tabs (Sound, Graphics, Controls, Interface and Language) and a Reset button.
• New Interface tab: HUD size (60-130%) and opacity, and hide the minimap, the season card, notifications or the streak.
• Poké Balls: take the item with E (or Enter) and sell it with V.
• News are easier to read on small screens.
• Fixed: after the previous patch, some players couldn't see Poké Balls or altars.

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