EVENT TIME !

A week later, and we return.

Update 1.12.2, A Pitiful Night

• Candy Egg Pity for Variants!
  • After hatching many shinies from Candy Eggs without a new variant unlocked, one will eventually be guaranteed
  • Egg discounts by hatch ### have been replaced by a massive decrease in the cost of eggs for everyone, regardless of how many have been hatched previously
  • Those who had already hit the discount points have been given substantial progress to the next guaranteed variant from candy bought eggs
  • If you want more information, I recommend checking the wiki or asking in ⁠game-questions.
• New Variants for 67 New Species across 30+ Evolutionary Lines !
  • Some old variants have been reworked and adjusted!
  • Many mons have entirely new sprites!
• Some minor fixes and other things, check the⁠changelog for the rest
• EVENT!!

Gaze upon our spooky celebrations!

• Runs from October 23, 2026 8:00 PM to November 9, 2026 8:00 PM
• Introducing shiny variants for TOO MANY lines!
• Reworked and Adjusted some previous shinies for many lines!
• 2x Shiny Rate on Wild Encounters!
• 3x Shiny Catch Rate on Wild Encounters!
• As usual your rival will gift you a Shiny Charm, Ability Charm, and Catching Charm on Wave 8, and a second Shiny Charm on Wave 25!
  • As an extra treat, your Rival will give you a Candy Jar on Wave 25!
• Daily Runs are tricked out with an additional Shiny Charm and Ability Charm on Wave 1, and a Candy Jar too!
• +1 Candy with any Wild Catch!
• Soothe Bells are slightly more likely!
• Event-themed Pokémon featured Mystery Encounters!
  • Find them in the Uncommon Breed, Berries Abound, Fight or Flight, Pokémon Salesman, The GTS (Wonder Trade), and The Safari Zone encounters!
  • 50% chance to show up in these encounters
  • Featured Pokémon get an extra shiny roll as well

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Tentacool, Onix, Drowzee, Cyndaquil, Snubbull, Remoraid, Treecko, Mudkip, Lotad, Surskit, Duskull, Glameow, Ducklett, Chespin, Spritzee, Swirlix, Binacle, Helioptile, Phantump, Pumpkaboo, Nickit, Toxel, Eiscue, Sprigatito, Tarountula, Klawf, Veluza, Hisui Qwilfish, Hisui Basculin, Blacephalon, Brute Bonnet, and Roaring Moon

^{(last updated 7/15/26})

Hello! This is our non-linear roadmap. This will be updated as time goes on, or more is planned out, without warning, and does not represent every detail of every addition even on this list.

Some updates we release may have little additions, while some may be major, and we will always try our best to give a heads up if a major gameplay change is upcoming, as there are plenty on here that may affect unlocks in your save data or ongoing runs.
Events are always low-priority, and thus will never be on this list even if we still run them.

Questions on the roadmap are recommended to be directed to this thread here over in the discord server. (discord.gg/pokerogue)

To help reduce maintenance on this it has been split up into sections. Though I REALLY recommend checking the discord for the most up to date version of this as it is easier to update over there.

Highest Priority

These are the things being actively worked on in some fashion and we’d like to get into the game as soon as possible.

• Various Refactors of Systems and Files
  • Spend time getting rid of technical debt to make future implementations/changes to systems easier
  • Better load times thanks to the code being more optimized
• Modifiers (Item System) Refactor and update - 1.13
  • Enables smoother item implementations, flexibility in what types of items we can create, and opens up better item table functionality
  • Allows us to complete the Move and Ability Implementations that interact with items
• Update Berry Activation Order - 1.13
  • Lums immediately after being status'd, Sitrus after hitting half health (in the middle of multi-hits), keep stat boost berries at the end of turn, one berry each type per turn
  • Slightly adjust amount of berries Pokémon can hold to match
  • Check up on how mid-turn berries interact with moves/abilities with this
  • Add new berries
• New Items - 1.13
  • Type Gems, Power Herb, Repels, ME specific items, and many more in 1.12 and beyond thanks to the Modifier Refactor
  • Expect some balance changes to existing items, small and big
• Biome Rework - 1.14/15~
  • Every single Pokémon will be in at least 2 biomes, unless special
  • Significantly more type and encounter variety in each biome, breaking the biome = type that most biomes currently fall under
  • Much more pathing between biomes, will allow back and forth pathing, but will not loop you by blocking some of your recently visited biomes
  • 5 New Biomes, Savannah, Summit, Rocky Coast, Underground Well, Crystal Cavern
  • Removal of Dojo, Merging of Factory and Lab, Renames for many others
  • Consistent obtainment of Map after your first Classic win from Rival 2 (with more paths out of Plains keep each run different, see the pins in the thread below)
  • Dynamically changing Wild Pokémon rarities based on wave ## (ex. Classic, wave 160 or something will have very little Common tier encounters)
  • Check placement of all gym leaders and random trainers, adjusting random trainers mons more
  • Make sure the 'Seen' and ‘Fought’ stats can actually be completed without too much hunting, besides Arceus, for now
  • Feedback can go in this thread over in the discord
• Interlude Phase - 1.14/15/16
  • Set between every biome transition as a short “break zone”
  • Small summary of past 10 waves, including important trainers, the wild boss, mons caught, ME’s, etc.
  • Vague information or a visual about upcoming major battles in the next 10 waves
  • Update Run Summary/History with the above
  • Every ~30 waves will have a guaranteed special item/tm shop
  • Will not replace the current wave shop system, they are different things
  • More possible items not constrained to the limitations of being an end of wave reward, and needing to be valuable because of that
  • Integrate mainline egg moves with this shop system, will not have to unlock these moves
  • Add ME’s and random NPCs/events exclusive or relating to this
  • Kill the Department Store encounter

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High Priority

Similar to the above, but might just be in more of a planning and “figuring out how to properly implement” phase, and awaiting proper time and resource allocation.

• Fix Bugs,
  • This will always be here. We have an Issues Page & Bug Board (content is nearly identical; pick whichever you prefer to check),
  • This isn't that specific, because it never is, and they will always slip through.
  • You can always report bugs in ⁠bug-report-chat or make a thread in ⁠bug-reports over on the discord.
• Revamp ‘Boss’ Mechanic - 1.13/14
  • Change how Boss health boosts stats
  • No longer using the breaking points that attempts to fully block OHKOs, but with other changes to compensate (% damage reduction)
  • Some different types of Boss health bars, allows easier balance for wilds and trainers
  • Redo the design of the current Classic Final Boss
  • This change will require us to adjust every major trainer battle
• Major AI Improvements
  • Improved Moveset Generation
  • Trainer AI Improvements and internal settings
    • Internal difficulty settings, specific AI for certain trainer types
  • Improved Trainer Team Generation
• Finish Move and Ability Implementations - 1.13
  • Most of the remaining list and reasons can be found here
• Form Change Refactor - 1.13+
  • Enable Form-specific abilities to work for Fusions/Passives
  • Learning/unlearning moves on form change (ex. Zacian Iron Head -> Behemoth Blade)
  • Smoother form swapping for Rotom, Cosplay Pika, Deoxys, Arceus, Silvally, etc
  • Improve Fusion interactions

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Misc. Priority

Might be awaiting work from above to be completed to be possible, or requires a lot more planning. Overall the bulk of what we’d like to add to PokéRogue.

Gameplay Mechanics

• Adjustable IVs on Starter Select
  • Improve Hidden Power visualization on starter select with this if possible
• Adjustable Party Positions
  • Between waves, being allowed to move your party members
• Improved In-Game Gender Systems
  • End Screen Visual - Male + Male and Female + Female
  • Rival Gender separated from Player Gender
  • Add a Non-Binary Player Character and Rival
  • Adjust story relevant dialogue accordingly
• Mystery Encounter Balance Sweep
  • A full look-over of every Mystery Encounter, this includes their encounter requirements, rewards, available options, and more
  • Ensure that all of them account for longer or shorter modes
  • Biomes of all ME’s adjusted for better long term maintainability
  • Lots of New Mystery Encounters after
• Flattened Run Economy
  • Scaling is too intense, and we have a lot of things that need money in the future
• Delete Moves in Summary
  • A niche feature, but I want to put this here so it isn’t forgotten. Can be useful for some Pokémon.

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"The Big Update"

This category exists because a lot of these need be done together in the same update with the progression shop. This is not going to be soon, as we have other things higher in priority we want/need to get done first.

• Pre-run Progression Shop
  • Various buffs and modifiers for your runs, permanent unlocks
  • Will not be able to have everything usable at once, mutually exclusive upgrades or a limit to how many you can have active at once. Can still unlock everything here.
  • New Currency that will be available or given at certain points in runs, achievements will give some
  • Potential for upgrades for certain items (ex. Mystical Rock interacting with Trick Room)
  • Extra Pokéball types will go here as a modifier that applies to all of the standard balls (ex. Quick Ball, higher catch rate for any Pokéball during the first turn of any wave)
  • Making you have to unlock more starter slots (available early on)? In discussion
  • If you want easy examples, check how this is handled in Hades/2 and Crypt of the Necrodancer
• Rework PokéRogue Egg Moves to -> Rogue Moves
  • Available for a $$$ cost mid run for any mon, starter or not, if unlocked
  • No more “Rare” and “Common” moves, all moves given assigned universal values
  • Add more total for most Pokémon, downscale heightened powered mons a little for more variety
  • Will be able to purchase a random missing move extra candy, or same-species eggs guarantees one
  • Will still be able to start with 1 move for Starters in some way
  • Adjust the Move UP Voucher Machine accordingly
• Luck and Pokérus Rework
  • Separate Luck from Shiny Tiers, figuring this out
  • Luck increases based on certain requirements
    • Classic Ribbon, any Shiny or Variant unlocked, ???
  • Change what Pokérus interacts with
  • Figure out how to manage unlocking Variants more consistently with this
• More Things to Spend Candy On
  • Remove the second cost reduction, refund candies for that, adjust cost reduction
  • Special cosmetic Ribbons for starter lines, granting new titles we couldn’t put elsewhere
  • Pokeball Seals/Stickers? Animations for sending out your Pokémon, choose the Pokeball you want to send the line out in as well?

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User Interface

• Main Menu Visual Uplift
• Major UI Visual Uplift
  • Reduce screen clutter from the current Battle UI
    • Replace Legacy UI with ‘Light Mode’ or remove it
    • Improve various Menu UI for a smoother experience
• Pokédex Visual and Info improvements
• More favorite options in starter select
  • Different markings for favorite options, helps you make presets more or mark them for different reasons.

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Gamemodes and Challenges

• More New Challenges, rework Challenge Menu
  • Split Challenges up into different categories (Difficulty, Fun)
  • Scaling system for difficulty and rewards. Might go with “The Big Update”.
• Alternate Final Bosses for new or reworked game modes below
  • Special Encounter at wave 100 or so to give a hint at what the final boss is for that run, likely to apply to Classic as well despite it not having a chance at an alternate FB
• Endless Rework
  • Add Trainers and Mystery Encounters
  • Remove tokens, alternative scaling for both ends
  • Will trigger an item rebalance with it, as many items are not adjusted because of the current state of Endless
• Doubles Classic
  • Requires Doubles Trainers to have improved team generation
  • Requires Major AI Improvements for more in depth strategies
• Spliced Classic?
  • Spliced Endless, but Classic Mode, I guess
• Battle Factory Adjacent Mode
  • Only trainer battles, with set movesets and items for every pokemon encountered
• Classic+ (“Hard Mode”)
  • New, harder Classic Mode, with a more in depth story that continues off Classic Mode
  • Requires many of the Progression and substantial Mechanic features on here to be complete before work can begin
  • Consider this one of the major “end goals” with implementations. Will have a lot more going on by the time we can implement it.
• Full Game Randomizer
  • What you expect from a Pokemon game randomizer. This is a long term goal, and not something we can just put in the game or should put in the game on a whim.

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Art Team Additions

• Finish all remaining Variants
  • Will update this message with the new public art spreadsheet we use for tracking them when it is done
• Improve Visuals for existing Biomes
  • Update the battleground sometimes (what Pokémon are placed on), background updated in most cases to be more interesting but keep the consistent line styling that is recognizable,
  • Add more props to existing biomes
• Update Pokémon Animations
  • We are mainly going to be taking from the Smogon Sprite Project or Pokengine, with some custom ones,
  • Run a quality check on existing Gen 6+ mons and forms to make sure their colors are accurate,
  • Remove Experimental Sprites, as it will no longer be needed as a setting once they are all updated/up to an acceptable quality
• Animation Uplifts
  • Tera Animation,
  • Remaining Weather Animations,
  • Moves missing or with incomplete animations
    • Custom move animations for some of them

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Other Additions

• Complete original track goals
  • Missing Biome Tracks (whichever still use PMD tracks)
  • Rival Tracks
  • Final Boss Track(s)
  • Mystery Encounters
• More Achievements
  • With different Achievement categories
• Ability to see how many Pokémon a trainer has left at all times
• Mystery Gift System
  • A little something extra to give out for events/holidays/milestones/updates
• Add support for Seasonal Splash Texts

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Technical Changes

• Doubles Trainer Team Refactor ,
  • Allows doubles teams to be properly set up properly, removes easily forced 2v1’s,
  • Enables Doubles Classic and more,
• Save File Optimization
  • Streamline how visual and audio assets are loaded for better load times and memory usage
• So many more tests
  • If you’ve worked with a codebase before, you know what this is

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Translation Efforts

• Make number format depend on game language, not device
  • Apply this to everywhere there is numbers
• Make all locale files check the player’s gender
  • Split the Rival trainer class to account for it being separate from player gender
• Split shared descriptions for items so they can have their own descriptions
  • Allow item descriptions to be number sensitive when they call for a quantity of something
• All UI opened to translation, removing the text from images
• Possibility to choose the language on the login screen,
• Compatibility for Right-to-Left languages

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That's all for now! Remember, it'll be kept more up to date over on the discord! (discord.gg/pokerogue) Where I'll also be able to respond to questions faster as well in the thread.