Volleyball Legends styles are not fixed. The wiki logs dated buffs and nerfs for individual styles, and the site database holds 81 of them for 19 styles, from March 22, 2025 to September 12, 2026. This guide shows which styles changed most, what the changes were, and which ones were later reverted. It reads the log as data: 45 buffs and 36 nerfs, and only styles that carry a special ability have entries.
Which Volleyball Legends styles have been buffed or nerfed the most?
| Style | Rarity | Buffs | Nerfs | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Encho | Evo | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| Timeskip Hinto | Secret | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| Kazana | Secret | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| Yogan | Secret | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| Sanju | Secret | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Akari | Ultra | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Kisuki | Secret | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Ronin | Ultra | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| The Twins | Secret | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Shiro | Secret | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Hidari | Secret | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Hakka | Ultra | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Timeskip Kyamo | Secret | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Ibara | Secret | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jinko | Secret | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Riku | Secret | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Roketto | Secret | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Taichou | Secret | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mikage | Secret | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Encho and Timeskip Hinto each have ten logged changes, six nerfs and four buffs. Kazana is the most buffed with seven buffs against two nerfs, and Yogan follows with six buffs and three nerfs. Sanju is the most nerfed after those two with five nerfs against one buff, all of them between March and May 2025. The Timeskip Kyamo entries are nerfs only: three, all in 2025.
Styles with no logged change in the data, including every non-special style, are not necessarily untouched. They simply have no entries in the stored per-style balance notes.
What changed in 2025?
The log opens with Sanju. On March 22, 2025 Super Tilt was buffed to greatly increase the spiking direction. A week later, on March 29, Sanju lost 2% speed and 10% set. The same day, Timeskip Hinto got a 25% faster Spike Meter charge but lost 11% of its max spike, 10% set and 10% bump. Follow-up entries on April 12 and April 26 raised Timeskip Hinto's Spike Meter speed again and gave it 10% more base spike and 10% more max spike, while Sanju lost block on April 12.
May 10, 2025 hit Sanju again, cutting serve by 5% and Super Tilt by 15%. The same patch nerfed Timeskip Kyamo's Super Set: it now drops the ball 0.2 seconds faster and no longer pulls the ball upward. Kisuki got the opposite treatment that day, with Super Dive made cancelable and a higher set stat.
Kazana's big buff came on July 5, 2025: dive and serve up, speed greatly up and bump maxed out. On August 29 its Super Jump charge time dropped 30% and gravity on back-tilts was reworked to help hit backrows, only while using Super Jump. Other 2025 entries:
- July 26: Mikage's Ghost Arms charge rate was changed to 6 touches.
- August 30: Jinko's Curveball spins drastically less with Advanced Controls.
- September 20: Yogan's Rage Mode duration went from 6 to 8 spikes, non-spike touches stopped reducing Rage Mode, and its spike got Sanju's old back-tilt.
- October 25: Kazana's Super Jump spike got Sanju's old back-tilt, Kisuki's spike stat rose 11%, and Hidari's Left Side serve and spike gravity decreased.
- November 22: Hakka's Clone lost the teammate-steals-serve behavior, and its end-of-rally passive charge dropped from 20 to 10.
What changed in 2026?
January 17, 2026 gave Yogan three Rage Mode additions: Hidari's Left Side spike without needing the left side, Kazana's Super Jump with no charge, and a Kisuki-type dive. Two weeks later, on January 31, the pendulum swung back. Rage Mode's duration was nerfed by 25%, Timeskip Hinto lost 14% serve and 14% Spike Meter gravity, and Akari and Kisuki were buffed (Double Dash cooldown greatly reduced, air direction control after dashing, dive charge speed up 50%). On February 21 Rage Mode went from 6 to 5 spikes and its charge time rose to 6 dives. The wiki's current special notes list 7 sets, 7 bumps or 5 dives, so the sources do not line up on that last figure.
The rest of the year:
- March 28: The Twins' Float Serve changes were reverted to their original state, undoing the October 25, 2025 edit.
- April 11: Kisuki's Super Dive hitbox was increased.
- May 2: Akari could no longer jump after dashing on the ground, and low-power Dash traveled farther.
- June 6: Ibara's Vine Walls charge rate rose 25% in 1v1 and MINI 1v1 and 50% in 2v2, CHAOS 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 and 6v6.
- June 27: Taichou's Boosted Set gained slightly more gravity, and Hidari's Left Side spike gravity was slightly increased, reversing part of the 2025 nerf.
- August 15: Roketto's spike gravity increased when back-tilting.
- August 29: Shiro got set physics identical to Feiko and a 50% spike stat, but Boosted Block now sends the ball much higher.
- September 12: Ronin's Charged Spike charges faster when defending, and Mastery 3 lets the player hide a full Charged Spike.
July 2026: the Evo and Ultra adjustments
July 18 and July 25 were the largest entries. Encho, the Evo style, lost speed and spike by default (speed to 35%, spike by 5%), then lost another 15% speed and 25% set on July 25. Its skill tree was reworked in parallel: the Speed Path increases speed by 1% on the 1st and 4th upgrades, 4% on the 2nd and 8% on the 3rd, the Range Path buffs set by 20% on the 2nd and 3rd upgrades, and the Strength Path's max upgrade shrinks the spike hitbox by 5%.
Other July 18 entries: Riku's Hologram Walls slow the ricochet by 25%, Ronin's Mastery 2 and 4 were rolled into base Ronin, Akari lost mid-air Dash after blocking or jump-setting but regained the jump after ground dashing, Kazana lost 10% spike and some max-Super-Jump spike gravity, and Hakka's Clone jump-sets received Advanced Controls.
Which changes were reversed?
| Reversal | Original change | Reversal date |
|---|---|---|
| The Twins Float Serve | Edited October 25, 2025 | Reverted March 28, 2026 |
| Akari jump after ground dash | Removed May 2, 2026 | Restored July 18, 2026 |
| Hidari Left Side spike gravity | Decreased October 25, 2025 | Slightly increased June 27, 2026 |
| Yogan Rage Mode duration | 6 to 8 spikes, September 20, 2025 | Cut 25% January 31, 2026, then to 5 spikes February 21, 2026 |
How to use this log
- 1Check the date. A style that looks strong in an older guide may have lost stats since then; Timeskip Hinto lost 14% serve in January 2026.
- 2Weigh the direction. Kisuki, Kazana and Yogan have received far more buffs than nerfs, while Timeskip Kyamo has only nerfs.
- 3Remember that the log tracks numbers, not rankings. The Volleyball Legends styles tier list ranks the styles by stats, and the special moves guide explains what each ability does. For the wider update history, see the update log.
Common mistakes
- Treating a percentage as a final value. Entries such as "spike stat decreased by 10%" describe a change, not the new stat.
- Reading the order of entries as the patch order for one update. Several entries share a date.
- Assuming a nerf is permanent. The Twins' Float Serve change was undone five months later.
- Comparing styles by number of changes alone. A style with many entries may simply be a style with a complex special.
FAQ
Which Volleyball Legends styles have been nerfed?
Encho and Timeskip Hinto have six logged nerfs each, Sanju has five, and Timeskip Kyamo has three nerfs and no buffs in the data. Akari, Yogan, Hidari and others also have smaller nerfs.
Was Yogan nerfed in Volleyball Legends?
Yes. Rage Mode was buffed from 6 to 8 spikes in September 2025, then nerfed by 25% on January 31, 2026 and cut from 6 to 5 spikes with a longer charge on February 21, 2026. It still received a buff on January 17, 2026 that added Left Side, Super Jump and a Kisuki-type dive in Rage Mode.
Which style was buffed the most?
Kazana, with seven buffs in the data, followed by Yogan with six and Kisuki with five.
Was Sanju nerfed?
Five times: speed and set on March 29, 2025, block on April 12, serve and Super Tilt on May 10, 2025. It also got one buff on March 22, 2025.
When was the last balance change logged?
September 12, 2026, when Ronin's Charged Spike charge speed was tied to the Blade Meter filled by defending and Mastery 3 gained the ability to hide a full Charged Spike.
Sources
Balance entries come from the Volleyball Legends Fandom wiki (volleyball-legends.fandom.com), as stored in the site database on 2026-10-25.
