This is the Changelog for the test build of Evolution. The changes found in this build will not always make it to public build, or may be modified after further testing.
We are very thankful for the past play-testers who have helped us with Evolution by extensively testing all of the changes. We have since decided to make the test build publicly available.
Please validate your test build occasionally as there may be new updates!

Current version: Evolution 1.09 Test (Tuesday, March 18th, 2025)
INSTANT AWAKENING – Now available in Extra Tech & Singles!
New Characters:
- Kurenai
- Tsunade (Part One)
- Orochimaru (Part One)
- Jiraiya (Part One)
- Itachi (Part One)
- Kisame (Part One)
- Kakashi (Part One)
- Kabuto (Part One)
- Guy (Part One)
- Kankuro (Salamander [Awakening])
- Kakashi (Maskless)
- Naruto (Nine Tails Chakra Mode)
- Kawaki (Karma Progression)
- Boruto Uzumaki (Karma Progression)
- Mecha Naruto (3 Tail Mode [Instant Awakening])
Gameplay changes:
- Reverted Item format change, added compensatory items exclusively for higher round intervals
- Added Extra Tech option in vs mode
- Added Chakra dash cancel for puppets
- Added puppet return cancel with analog
- Disabled Counter on full analog tilt of a guarding puppet master allowing for gKunai (Extra Tech only)
- Removed puppet animation checks for gKunai
- Increased round count up to 9
- Storm 1 variants have items set similar to original item set from storm 1
- Fixed Leader Dash effect when hitting a support
- Removed Leader Dash camera shake when hitting a support
- Fixed switch resource transfer bug
- Universal ultimate cost reduced from 45 to 40
- Counter active frames is now 9 frames
- Made sleep player wake up when a ultimate jutsu /team ultimate jutsu is performed
- Disabled randomizer from picking already picked characters in character select screen
Character Specific changes:
Delta
- Added homing to her second jutsu (Ray of Destruction)
Guy
- Restored the classic side combo as neutral combo
Guy (Part one)
- increased delay of second jutsu(Leaf’s Severe Hurricane) cancel
- changed default jutsu to second jutsu (Leaf’s Severe Hurricane)
- Intro combo overhaul
- Adjusted jutsu and ultimate jutsu attack priority
Itachi
- Removed duplicate awakening actions. Now has two unique actions
- During Instant awakening he has the triple fireball from storm revolution
Itachi (Reanimation)
- During Instant awakening he has the triple fireball from storm revolution
Itachi (part one)
- Decreased ac1 air time
- Enabled priority on ultimate jutsu start up
- Slightly increased advancement during ic1
- Reduced tilt startup
- Fixed missing sfx on some animations
- During awakening opponent movement speed and reaction is slowed down to mimic a similar storm 1 version (may not be permanent needs to be tested)
Indra
- Increased chakra cost for “Amaterasu”
- Fixed body priority being assigned to the wrong jutsu
- Changed eye texture to original manga variant
Jiraiya (Part one)
- Adjusted the hit sphere of ultimate jutsu
Kabuto (Part one)
- Fixed combo being guardable
- Fixed neutral combo second to last hit frameskip to smooth ender transition
- Adjusted hitbox of jutsu (Chakra Dissection Blade) to change the placement and increased the size so it lands more consistently as support
- Changed the opponent reaction when getting hit but ic2
- Changed ultimate jutsu startup to hit guard break
Kakashi (Storm 3)
- Nerfed the damage of the “Kamui” ultimate doing unintended extra damage
- Multiple hit sphere adjustments
- Ac1 active frame adjusted
Kakashi (part one)
- Fixed up combo missing a hit on guard
Karin
- New jutsu: “Healing Technique”
Kurenai
- Increased tilt hitstop
- Adjusted the hitbox of ic1 and ic2 and their movement
- Adjusted backdash
Lars
- Jutsu (Zeus) nerfed
- Combo support hitbox adjustments
- Adjusted hit spheres to intro combo
- Added tracking to tilt
- Adjusted advancement during kunai to better reflect animation
Mei
- Reduced tracking and travel range of water bullets
Madara Uchiha (Reanimation Release)
- Tilt active frame adjustment + hitstop increase & intro combo advancement adjustment to match animation
Mecha Naruto
- Added 3 tail awakening from storm revolution as a instant awakening (extra tech/singles only)
- Removed hitstop from Mecha Naruto hits allowing for easier jump cancel
- Adjusted Mecha Naruto side ninja moves to cancel to fall later in the animation
Momoshiki (Movie & Anime)
- Increased hit sphere on grab
Naruto (Shippuden)
- Added “Shadow Clone Rasengan” as a Instant awakening jutsu
Naruto Uzumaki (Sage Art: Massive Rasengan Barrage)
- Added “Shadow Clone Rasengan” as a Instant awakening jutsu
Naruto Uzumaki (Tailed Beast Bomb)
- Added “Shadow Clone Rasengan” as a Instant awakening jutsu
Naruto (Sage mode)
- Nerfed the damage of “True Wind Style: Rasen Shuriken” ultimate doing unintended extra damage
- Added “Shadow Clone Rasengan Barrage” as a Instant awakening jutsu
Naruto Uzumaki (Kurama Link Mode)
- Reduced tilt startup
- Extended combo string on guard
Naruto Uzumaki (Sage of the Six Paths Mode)
- Removed guard hit gaps
Naruto Uzumaki (Road to Boruto)
- Slightly buffed tilt
Naruto Uzumaki (Baryon Mode)
- Slightly buffed tilt
Obito Uchiha (Ten Tails Jinchuriki)
- Added extra hit sphere on tilt
- Fixed awakening combo drop
- Fixed awakening air combo drop near a wall on certain angle
- Changed awakening grab to unblockable
Orochimaru (part one)
- Jutsu (Striking Shadow Snake) hitbox adjusted
Sakura Haruno (Great Ninja War, THE LAST, Road to Boruto)
- Down combo ender effect fix
- Extended tilt stagger
- Changed awakening ic3 to be unreboundable
- Added a hitbox to awakening tilt summon
- Increased awakening jutsu guard damage
Sasori
- Removed duplicate awakening actions. Now has two unique actions
Sasuke (Shippuden)
- New jutsu: (Chidori: Chakra Blade)
Sasuke Uchiha (Five Kage Summit)
- Nerfed the damage of the “Susano’o” ultimate doing unintended extra damage
Sasuke Uchiha (“Taka”)
- Fixed awakening air combo ender whiff
Sasuke (Supporting Kage)
- Reduced active frames on ultimate jutsu
- Increased chakra cost on “Inferno Style: Dragon Flame Loud Singing Jutsu”
- Now has “Inferno Style: Fire Ball Jutsu” as a selectable jutsu
Sarada (Road To Boruto)
- Nerfed the damage of the “Sudden Shower Crusher” ultimate doing unintended extra damage
Tsunade (part one)
- Now has better start up
- Added armor to charged jutsu (Heaven Kick of Pain)
- Reduced the charge time for jutsu (Heaven Kick of Pain)
- Buffed the tilt for better damage reaction
- Gave armor to second jutsu(Solid Gold Fist)
Tobirama
- Teleporting grab from connections only available in awakening
Tobi
- Restored sleep tag
Support type changes:
- Temari (PTS): Cover fire
- Temari: Break Guard
- Temari (Boruto): Charge Guard
- Tsunade (Part One): Charge Guard
- Orochimaru (Part One): Secret Sub
- Jiraiya (Part One): Combo Support
- Itachi (Part One): Strike Back
- Kisame (Part One): Charge Assist
- Kakashi (Part One): Break Guard
- Guy (Part One): Cover Fire
- Kabuto (Part One): Secret Sub
Added Costumes:
- Naruto Uzumaki (Ichiraku Ramen Costume)
- Hinata Hyuga (ROAD TO SAKURA)
- Konan (Swimsuit)
- Darui (Raikage)
- Killer bee (BORUTO)
- Kabuto (Possessed Mode)
- MaskMan (Akatsuki)
- Lars (Tekken 6)
- Shisui (Jonin)
- Sasuke (Anbu)
General Changes:
- Swapped DMS Kakashi Substitution effect to match Obito’s Substitution effect
- Updated icon for Hinata(Road to Ninja)
- Updated icon For Mei (With Hat)
- New icon for Kakuzu (Reanimation)
- Sasuke (Shippuden) white robed now has “Chidori True Spear” has default ultimate
- Adjust the awakening cinematic animation speeds for part one characters to mimic the speed of modern characters
- Added descriptors for Sasuke and Konan costume slots
- Adjusted voiced for Sasuke (Supporting Kage) IA bug
- Added missing animations for KCM Naruto during TUJ
Adjusted Spanish and Portuguese voice clips for multiple characters:
- Guy (part one)
- Kimimaro
- Naruto (pts)
- Asuma
- Minato (Reanimation)
- Sasuke Uchiha (Rinne Sharingan)
- Sasuke (The Last)
- Sakura (Road to Boruto)
- Rock Lee (pts)
- Sasuke (pts)
- Indra
Bug fixes:
- Fixed Konan hovering in IA
- Fixed RTB Sasuke failing to confirm in IA
- Fixed Shikamaru awakening actions in IA (Disabled them)
- Fixed Tsunade (Part 1) having English voice while in Japanese
- Fixed Naruto (Baryon Mode) saying “Leaf Hurricane” while in IA
- Fixed Sarada (RTB) eye glitching during awakening cinematic
- Fixed Sasuke (Supporting Kage) tilt effect in awakening
- Fixed duplicate voice for Uchiha Family TUJ
- Fixed a issue pts rock lee crashing the game when using second jutsu (primary lotus) then doing a team ult
- Fixed an issue where Delta could not kill with grab
- Fixed an issue where the game would crash if you picked 3rd jutsu(Amaterasu) with Itachi
- Fixed Sasuke (Supporting Kage) Ultimate Jutsu icon issue due to different cost
- Fixed an issue with Kimimaro having issues following up after jutsu hit
- Fixed Obito Uchiha (Berserk) hurtbox during taunt
- Fixed Hanabi not having byakugan when using her alternate costume(Shippuden)
- Fixed Momoshiki and Kinshishi not having proper glowing effects during awakening
- Fixed a issue with Sasuke (Supporting Kage) effects not working properly on 60fps
- Fixed Madara Uchiha (Six Paths) teleport ic1 reset bug on
- Fixed Jigen tilt hit velocity bugging out on dashing victim
- Fixed switch resource transfer bug
- Fixed Kaguya not having byakugan enabled during awakening
- Fixed missing voice lines during hagoromo indra ashura team ult
- Fixed Sasuke (Shippuden) Combo support
- Fix borushi playing the wrong voice line in Japanese, portuguese, and spanish when performing chakra dash.
- Fixed hello kitty sakura infinite load during team ult
- Fixed Sasuke (Five Kage Summit) finishing cut bug for Kirin ultimate
- Reverted original collision for the Hidden leaf village stage
- Added outer collision to practice stage to stop projectiles from being active indefinitely to despawn projectiles
- Fixed Indra’s neutral combo ender sub bug
- Fixed a issue were sometime Tsunade (part one) would mute the voices after round end
- Fixed Kurenai voice missing during certain interactions
- Fixed Naruto (Goku) missing texture when armor broke for shadow clones
- fixed Kidomaru not having a awakening projectile when pick second jutsu
- fixed Momoshiki (anime) have big awakening foot sound sfx when jumping and landing
- Kisame (part one) now has proper camera during team awakening cinematic
- Tsunade (part one) now has proper camera during team awakening cinematic
- Fixed Guy (part one) awakening jutsu having no interaction when it hits as a support call.
- Killer bee combo support has been fixed
- Mitsuki tilt has been fixed
- Sasuke (EMS Storm 3) Added sfx of Sharingan to his first ultimate jutsu
- Fixed an issue where Rock Lee (pts) would crash the game if you picked the second jutsu (Primary Lotus) then awaken during match
- Fixed an issue where Kimimaro would crash the game if you picked the second jutsu (Camellia Dance) then awaken during match
- Fixed Portuguese text
- Fixed Kisame (part one) not having proper water dragon on second jutsu
- Fixed Kirin ultimate effects during 60fps
- Fixed an issue where Kisame (part one) 3rd jutsu (Water Style: Shark Bomb: Chase) would sometimes not despawn when interrupted during cast
- Fixed Tsunade (part one) saying wrong support voice line in japanese
- Fixed Hinata sliding during “8 Trigrams Air Palm” jutsu
- Adjusted the animation for Kakashi (part one) lighting blade animation
- Fixed grab effect for Itachi (part one)
- Fixed grab effect for Jiraiya (part one)
- Fixed an issue where Kimimaru would have the ultimate sfx and voice play at the wrong time when hitting second ultimate(Genji Dance) during a finishing scene
- Fixed Choji (Shippuden) model size bug when losing a round during awakening
Known Bugs:
- Sasuke [pts] the Anbu outfit has weird eye movement during awakening cinematic
- During the Indra path team ultimate (Apocalypse) madara’s eye is missing
- During the family Uzumaki team ult (Uzumaki Double Palm Strike) there are some missing models and transitions at times.
- Disabled the Ashura path team ultimate(Six Paths: Shinsu Rasen Shuriken) due to random bugs
- Team Ultimate (Opposing Kamui) with Obito and Kakashi (Maskless) is disabled due to issues. The ultimate still works with regular kakashi variants