[Completed] All news coming from GungHo Festival 2018, in one post! This contains the new evolutions, card buffs, some game play from today!

Huge thanks to Cate, Paulo, and Kennori for all the help behind the scenes for translations, screen capping, and making sure I don’t collapse!

Update 5/28: Sorted into chronological order from top to bottom (Before it was just easier for me to update). Whee! Also fixed pics that got deleted.

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About GungHo Festival 2018

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News & Updates from Stream

News posted in reverse order, OLDEST at top.

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9:59am – Post began, PAD Challenge Cup, Semifinals start.

(I just woke up.)

10:10am – Dacho didn’t win, Player A (Konatan) won.

This is PAD Challenge Cup – Score Attack Category, using PAD Challenge app! Players play fast and combo lots to get higher score. Really high level of game play!

A: Konatan
B: Dacho
C: I forgot to check, sorry (too busy waking up)
D: Kaito

10:16am – Score Attack Semifinal #2 done, Player A (Akki~) won.

Player C (Daks) actually finished first, but scored second! At 12:45pm during the finals, it’ll be Konatan vs. Akki.

A: Akki
B: Nishioka
C: Daks
D: Yumura

10:32am – New Evolutions #1!

[4582] G/B Awoken Ma Chao

Dragon / Attacker

Active Skill: Remove lock status on all orbs. Change all orbs to Water, Wood, and Light orbs. (9 max CD)

Leader Skill: 7×6 board. 2x ATK, 1.5x RCV when 8+ combos are matched. 4x ATK, slightly reduce damage taken when Water, Wood, and Light attack at once.

L/R Awoken Diao Chan

Dragon / Devil

Active Skill: 2 turn Awoken bind recovery. Increase orb movement time by 2 seconds. (2 max CD)

Leader Skill: 7×6 board. 2x ATK, 1.5x RCV when 8+ combos are matched. 4x ATK, slightly reduce damage taken when 5+ connected Light orbs are matched.

[4448] R/R Inahime (Split Uvo)

God / Physical

Active Skill: No change

Leader Skill: 7×6 board. Can no longer erase 3 orb matches. 3x ATK for all cards. 4x ATK, slightly reduce damage taken when 2+ combos of Fire orbs are matched.

[4256] D/D Awoken Vajrabhairava

Devil / Dragon

Active Skill: 2x ATK for Dark attributes for 3 turns. Randomly spawn 6 Dark orbs. (10 max CD)

Leader Skill: 6x ATK, slightly reduce damage taken when 2 combos of Dark orbs are matched. Deal ATK x100 damage to all enemies after every orbs elimination.

[4255] D/L Vajrabhairava (Uvo)
God / Attacker

Active Skill: No change.

Leader Skill: ATK increase when 4 colors (3 + Hearts) are matched, up to 12x ATK. Deal ATK x30 damage to all enemies after every orbs elimination.

[4254] L/L Awoken Vajrayaksa

Attacker / Dragon

Active Skill: 2x ATK for Light attributes for 3 turns. Randomly spawn 6 Light orbs. (10 max CD)

Leader Skill: 6x ATK, slightly reduce damage taken when 2 combos of Light orbs are matched. Deal ATK x100 damage to all enemies after every orbs elimination.

[4256] L/B Vajrayaksa (Uvo)
God / Attacker

Active Skill: No change.

Leader Skill: ATK increase when 4 colors (3 + Hearts) are matched, up to 12x ATK. Deal ATK x30 damage to all enemies after every orbs elimination.

10:25am – PAD News #1! New Systems (that were mostly leaked)

Images from Oga:

New Monster Enhance System that we know of already from the leak, now with official announcements (See here for details).

Separated by purposes now: Skill Lv. up, Plus eggs, Awakenings, Latent Awakenings, Level Limit Break, Super Awakening.

For instance, if you’re skilling up Fujin, only Fujin skill ups will be shown.

Quickly awaken cards!

Choose how many awakenings needed.

Will of course depend on how many Tamadras you have in bank.

Allocate +eggs as needed (depending on plus egg amount in Plus bank)

Plus eggs received from dungeons go directly into Plus bank.

Highlighted in Plus Points.

Selling Plus eggs gives… Pluses in Plus bank as expected.

Changes in evolution materials for monsters!

For example, Sonia Gran now needs the new Rare Stones to evolve, instead of evolved dungeon drops.

Different types available, these are the big ones (small/medium/large).

Annnd also the Rare Stones of Elemental Kings (which wasn’t leaked!!)!!

Materials needed to trade in: just one of descended boss, evolved.

THESE CAN BE STACKED OMG YAY – All Awakening type materials will be stacked!

Before and after stacking, comparison.

11:02am – PAD Challenge Cup (PvP Division) – Semifinal

Daks vs. Fearless. Fearless actually made 16 combos on PADR!

Daks won anyhow.

11:40am – PAD Challenge Cup (PvP Division) Semifinal, still.

Akki~ vs. sakurai. They just naturally pull out 14 combos like that…

sakurai won.

12:07pm – PAD Challenge Cup (PvP) – 3rd place battle

3rd place battle: Fearless vs. Akki.

12:33pm – PAD Challenge Cup (PvP) – Final

Daks vs. Sakurai! Daks won! (lol Makoto Yuki vs. Makoto Yuki!)

They all look so serious. Daks’ prize was a Panasonic wireless headphone, aside from the Pro License, trophy, and others.

Kennori @ PDX: their faces read “get me the fuck out”

1:09pm – PAD Challenge Cup (Score Attack): Final!

Contestants are Keepa, Hikarin (Shynee in Japanese), Konatan, Akki~.

Akki~ won by total score! He also got a Panasonic wireless headset aside from trophy and such.

1:53pm – PAD Open Cup 2018 Starts! Quarter Final.

20 minutes late (actually not surprising, JP events always run longer than it should). Cup Noodle sponsored, PAD Open Cup! This is again, PADR battle.

Expect Panera Descended Challenge in about 2 – 2.5 hours.

4:29pm – Panera Challenge! (Finally)

If they clear Annihilation difficulty on co-op with no Magic Stones used, will reward all JP players 6 each of Magic Stone, Rainbowpy, Diamond Draogn Fruit, Jewel of Creation, Ancient Tri-God Mask, and Super Snow Globe Dragon!

Every continue will remove one from reward. D:

4:35pm – Panera Descended, 3P?

I thought they’re doing 2P co-op based on the image below? Oh well.

Left to right: Hajime Shacho, Max Murai, Natti.

4:48pm – Attempt #1: They failed (Hajime Shacho died)

Negotiated and YamaP made it not count! Whew saved. Round 2 begin!

4:49pm – Attempt #2… and died again.

They switched teams! Hajime Shacho now uses Edward, Max Murai using Yusuke, and Natti… still Artemis of course. Go team!

Annnnd never mind, died at Fuu again. This time on Max Murai’s turn.

YamaP let them stone this, saved!! The battle continues!

5:14pm – Attempt #2: Max Murai & Natti died at Panera

With new mechanics such as changing your HP a lot (your HP of course), the team struggled. Well lots of flubs later, Max Murai failed to combo a Yusuke board (thanks to the roulettes)! Another death!

Shortly after, Natti also died. They’re all spectators now…

5:23pm – Attempt #2: All died, continued, still nope.

Even Hajime Shacho couldn’t clear it with full activation! They weren’t really aware of the new mechanics, so another continue it is!

…Still died anyhow. The challenge ended there.

Unfortunately they didn’t manage to clear. 🙁

Hajime Shacho (left) goes noooooo. (Max Murai rofl’d)

5:36pm – Panera Challenge Rewards – We got it all!!

pad_sexy just tweeted, since Hajime Shacho, Max Murai, and Natti “virtually no-continue cleared” Panera Descended, all JP players will get the full prizes soon (date not announced).

• 6 Magic Stones
• 6 Rainbowpys
• 6 Diamond Draogn Fruits
• 6 Jewels of Creation
• 6 Ancient Tri-God Masks
• 6 Super Snow Globe Dragons
• PLUS A FREE SUPER GODFEST ROLL!!

5:46pm – PAD Open Cup continues.

7:20pm – PAD Open Cup: Winner is Refresh!

2nd place is Myuara. Refresh won 1,000,000 yen and a year’s worth of cup noodles…

7:25pm – Magic: The Gathering Collab Announced!!!

7:26pm – Duel Masters Collab also returning!

7:28pm – New Collab: Power Pros Baseball!

7:29pm – More Magazine Collab cards revealed!!

[4440] Gash Bell and Kiyo Takamine
Balanced / Devil

Active Skill: Change bottom row to Light orbs. Lock all Light orbs. (5 max CD)
Leader Skill: 1.5x HP, ATK, RCV for Light attributes. 2x ATK when using a skill is used. 4x ATK and slight damage reduction when matching 6+ connected Light orbs.

[4441] Brago and Sherry
Attacker / Devil

Active Skill: Increase skyfall of Dark orbs for one turn. Delay enemies for 2 turns. (12 max CD)
Leader Skill: No Skyfall orbs. 2x HP and ATK for Dark attributes. 2.5x ATK when matching 2+ combos of Dark orbs.

[4443] Zeon and Dufort
Balanced / Devil

Active Skill: Change left-most column to Light orbs, right-most column to Jammer orbs. Increase skyfall of Light and Jammer orbs for 3 turns. (12 max CD)
Leader Skill: 1.5x HP and ATK for Light attributes. 3.5x ATK when attacking with 5+ Light or Jammer orbs.

7:30pm – Buffs for 10 Cards!

10 selected cards received buff for this festival!! Active Skill buffed, awakenings changed.

1. Revo Lakshmi: Active skill: Now recovers HP by the amount of damage (previously 50%). Now spawns 5 Heart orbs instead of 4.

2. Revo Venus: Active now unlocks orbs.

3. Revo Horus: Active now unlocks orbs.

4. Revo Sakuya: 5 turn bind recovery added.

5. Revo Hino Kagutsuchi: Awakening buff.

6. Red Sonia (Assist): Awakening buff

7. Sumire (Assist): Awakening buff.

8. Odin (Assist)

9. Light Metatron (Assist)

10. Zuoh (Assist)

The 5 buffed Assists are getting a stat buff!

• Ronia +1647 HP / +725 ATK / +165 RCV
• Sumire +2803 HP / +435 ATK
• Green Odin +2949 HP / +210 RCV
• Light Metatron +2354 HP / +180 ATK / +363 RCV
• Zuoh +3745 HP / +321 ATK

7:40pm – New Evolutions!! Some we knew, some we didn’t!

[4261] Reincarnated Uriel
Attacker / Healer / God

Active Skill: No change.
Leader Skill: 4x ATK for Fire attributes and slightly reduce damage taken when HP is above 80%. 3.5x ATK when 2+ combos of Heart orbs are matched.

[4262] Reincarnated Gabriel
Physical / Attacker / God

Active Skill: No change.
Leader Skill: 4x ATK for Water attributes and slightly reduce damage taken when HP is above 80%. 3.5x ATK when 2+ combos of Heart orbs are matched.

[4263] Reincarnated Michael
Dragon / Balanced / God

Active Skill: No change.
Leader Skill: 4x ATK for Woodr attributes and slightly reduce damage taken when HP is above 80%. 3.5x ATK when 2+ combos of Heart orbs are matched.

[4264] Reincarnated Raphael
Attacker / Machine / God

Active Skill: No change.
Leader Skill: No skyfall orbs. 4x ATK when attacking with 4+ attributes. 8x ATK when there’s less than or equal to 5 orbs remain on board after matching.

[4266] Reincarnated Belial
Devil / Attacker / Physical

Super Awakening:

Active Skill: Unchanged.
Leader Skill:2x HP and ATK for Devil and Attacker types. 4x ATK and 2x RCV when Fire and Dark orbs are matched at once.

[4267] Reincarnated Amon
Devil / Dragon / Balanced

Super Awakening:

Active Skill: Unchanged
Leader Skill: 1.5x all parameter for Devil and Dragon types; 6x ATK when attacking with Water and Dark orbs.

[4268] Reincarnated Baal
Devil / Machine / Attacker

Super Awakening:

Active Skill: Unchanged
Leader Skill: 2.5x ATK and RCV for Devil and Machine types. 4x ATK when Wood and Light orbs are matched.

[3508] Reincarnated Archdemon Lucifer
Devil / God / Balanced

Super Awakening:

Active Skill: Unchanged
Leader Skill: 1.5x All parameter for Devil and God type. Increase orb movement time by 2 seconds. ATK 5x when 6+ connected Dark orbs are matched.

[4270] Reincarnated Sarasvati
Dragon / Attacker / God

Active Skill: Unchanged
Leader Skill: 2x HP and ATK for Dragon and Attacker types. Increase ATK when 2+ combos of Water orbs are matched, up to 7.5x ATK.

[4585] Yog Sothoth
Devil / Dragon

Active Skill: Unchanged
Leader Skill: 6x ATK when HP is 80% or higher, 3x ATK and RCV when HP is 79% or lower. 3x ATK, 25% damage reduction when 2+ combos of Light orbs are matched.

[4586] Yog Sothoth
Devil / God

Active Skill: Unchanged
Leader Skill: Unchanged

 ALL OF BELOW ARE ANIMATED!!!! THAT’S ALL 5 OF THEM!! 

[4425] King Tyrannos (Uvo)
Dragon

Super Awakening:

Active Skill: Unchanged.
Leader Skill: 2x ATK and RCV for Fire attributes. Increase orb movement time by 3 seconds. ATK increase when attacking with 3 or more attributes, up to 7x ATK.

[4426] King Plesios (Uvo)
Dragon

Super Awakening:

Active Skill: Unchanged.
Leader Skill: 2x ATK and RCV for Water attribute. Increase orb movement time by 3 seconds. 5x ATK for matched attributes when erasing 5 orbs containing an enhanced orb.

[4427] King Brachys (Uvo)
Dragon

Super Awakening:

Active Skill: Unchanged.
Leader Skill: 2x ATK and RCV for Wood attribute. Increase orb movement time by 3 seconds. ATK increase when 5+ combo are matched, up to 6x ATK.

[4296] Athena (Uvo)
God / Devil / Attacker

Super Awakening:

Active Skill: Unchanged
Leader Skill:1.5x HP, 4x ATK for God, Devil, and Attacker types. 2x ATK and RCV when Dark and Water orbs are matched at once.

[4428] Myr (Miru) (Uvo)
Dragon / Machine / God

Active Skill: No change.
Leader Skill: 7x ATK and halves damage received when matching a cross of Heart orbs; 2x ATK and RCV for Light attribute. Extend orb movement time by 2 seconds.

• Same Super Awakenings as before.
  

Her animation is just amazing. She moves everywhere!! (Can you tell I’m in love already?)

7:44pm – Stream is done!!

I can finally go collapse… that was a crazy 10 hour marathon!

11:52pm – Evolution Materials for all the evolutions shown today!

The following 5 requires Elemental King’s Rare Stone, which is obtained by trading the Elemental Kings at Monster Exchange (Rare Evolution tab).

11:56pm – Latent Tamadras will get Light sub-attribute after update!

But why.

Super Awakenings for Archdemon (Announced shortly after Stream that I missed, added on 5/29)

Sneaky of GungHo, I missed this when I checked news. Super awakenings for Archdemons!

Belial  

Amon 

Baal 

Astaroth