ARMS Gets Another New Fighter, Stage, and Update

Remember ARMS for Nintendo Switch? Nintendo’s stretchy armed, motion control fighting game? Since its release earlier in the year, four new fighters have been added to the game. Today, Nintendo released a fifth contender named Dr. Coyle.

A seemingly reclusive mad scientist, Dr. Coyle sports cool green hair, a laboratory get-up, and shoulders that look similar to a certain orange armored bounty hunter of Nintendo acclaim. She hits the stage with new Arms, a new stage, and an update to version 5.0.

The featured new Arms include the Lockjaw, Parabola, and the Brrchuck seen in the announcement video.

She comes with a new stage, called [NAME REDACTED]. No, that’s not the FCC interference, that’s actually the name of the stage (but you should keep up to date on that stuff, too). The video above also shows off Dr. Coyle’s moves, so check out what she’s been working.

Check out the Patch Notes below or on the official site.

Version 5.0

• New fighter “Dr. Coyle” is now available. Play the Grand Prix at LV6 or higher as someone other than Dr. Coyle and see what happens…
• New ARM “Lokjaw” added.
• New ARM “Parabola” added.
• New ARM “Brrchuk” added.
• New stage [NAME REDACTED] added.
• For Grand Prix LV6 and lower, the computer will now get stronger as you get deeper into the Grand Prix.
• For Grand Prix LV7, the computer will start out strong right from the first match, as usual.
• You can now view stats from previous Party Crash events in “Stats.”
• Added new badges related to Dr. Coyle.
• Fixed issue in online play where the healing area created by HP Juice would sometimes shift position.
• Adjusted abilities of some fighters and ARMS as follows.
  

  Fighters / Arms	Adjustments
  Lola Pop	The holidays are a busy season for street performers, so Lola Pop is fired up! Her charges now persist longer.
  Whammer Kablammer Blorb	Lessened deceleration when knocking down mid-weight ARMS.
  Scorpio	Increased retraction speed. Shortened waiting time between flying off and retrieval. Fixed issue where time needed for retraction could be greatly protracted.
  Skully	Improved curving. Increased rush damage. Decreased speed of initial rush attack. Adjusted the number of attacks needed for rush range to reach a maximum.
  Glusher	Lessened deceleration when knocking down mid-weight ARMS. Increased expansion rate of charge attacks.
  Megaton Megawatt	Lessened deceleration when knocking down mid-weight ARMS. Increased speed of charge attacks. Decreased speed of normal attacks.
  Toaster Sparky Chilla Bubb Buff Roaster Nade	Decreased speed of initial rush attack. Adjusted the number of attacks needed for rush range to reach a maximum.
  Slapamander Slamamander	Increased the time interval between initial launch and extension. Increased extension speed.