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"Once per Battle" Abilities Broken

UPDATE, August 3rd: As of this morning, all of the issues mentioned below have been resolved.




Today, it was discovered that once per battle abilities—like Positive Thinking, Shroud, and Lens Flare—are broken. Instead of being available only once per battle, the ability you used becomes reactivated if you use a different once per battle ability. This affects both battles against NPCs and against other Neopians.

For example, if you use Lens Flare on turn one, it will not be available to use for turn two. But if you use Positive Thinking in turn two, then Lens Flare will be unlocked and available again in turn three. (And Lens Flare should be unavailable for the remainder of the battle.)

It's unknown exactly when this broke in the last few days, but it's likely TNT will fix this soon, as it's rather detrimental to battling.




UPDATE: Thanks to a number of users who reported this, there are also a couple other bugs today:

  • Battledome records are not being created, meaning when you fight a 1-Player challenger, your record will not show the win/loss/draw or score
  • Faerie blessings are not being applied when a weak bottled faerie is used

There are 29 comments below. Add yours!

This was fun to test out when I noticed. I'm super tempted to pick up a plot replay cookie and use this glitch to grind out the Malevolent Being for a chance at her wand, but I feel like TNT is going to be very unhappy about this.
by awkrem on July 30, 2026 3:44 PM NST
Also, blessing with faeries doesn't seem to work? I tested with two different ones, one from SDB and one from inventory, and neither showed up in the academy.
by amethyst43217 on July 30, 2026 4:34 PM NST
My BD score isn't going up either. I did 10 battles against The Green Knight, and it stays at 565 battles.
by jessalynn on July 30, 2026 4:58 PM NST
I've been able to use Summon Monoceraptor beyond the once per day limit
by action_jackson3000 on July 30, 2026 5:02 PM NST
Hmm, could I be able to beat Snowager freely on mighty difficulty?
by maninshi on July 30, 2026 5:15 PM NST
I just did, In 39 turns of spamming them with 2 AliAPs along
by maninshi on July 30, 2026 5:21 PM NST
Took out the Snowager on hard as I think that's the most difficult non-premium opponent... and all I got was 13K and a 75np Ice Cream... I don't know why I did that
by clanfever13 on July 30, 2026 5:25 PM NST
(Welp, while I was at It also went for the drenched, chiazilla, space faerie, qasalan mummy, hungry malevolent chomby and kastraliss. I became a dishonest battledomer )

Sadly, only Sid Is missing but doubt he will be available while glitch Is still up
by maninshi on July 30, 2026 5:43 PM NST
Hey TNT, while you're fixing this can you do the following "fixes" for some other Abilities:

1. Make the Level 500 Abilities once per battle instead of once per day (who thought that was a good idea?).
2. To make it more useful,. have Rally Cry also unfreezes you.
3. Have Rejuvenate just be a 100% heal, why does it need to have that off 5% heal at 5% max HP stipulation? If that's considered too powerful lower it to 50% though have it also be a full blocker.
4. Another idea to make an Ability more useful, have Healing Fire's healing equal to the amount of damage you do against your opponent that turn.
5. Drain Life's cap is equal to 10% of your Neopets max HP.
6. Snowager's Breath no longer blocks weapons and is Once Per Battle.
7. Tempest no longer blocks weapons, is Once Per Battle, and has the new effect of disabling one of the BD equipment your opponent uses that turn for the rest of battle.
8. Make the 3 icons that Float & Shroud's defend against 100% (and fix Shroud's Dark to being the normal version).
9. Throw Pillows is Once Per Battle, also blocks Faerie Abilities, but has a 12.5% chance of freezing the user.
10. Bandage is Multiuse but heals between 1-6 HP.
by pikachu315111 on July 30, 2026 7:16 PM NST
During the plot I noticed that my Once Per Battle abilities would sometimes reactivate during the battle against Drakara. Could never figure out what the cause was, but I'm guessing this new bug was an attempt to fix it lol.
by rawbeee on July 30, 2026 7:27 PM NST
copium copium, it broke because they're planning a huge battledome update and DoN return, I'm huffing the copium so hard right now. Please, TNT.
by duskshadowbrony on July 30, 2026 8:47 PM NST
Quick, let's all get those plot replay NC devices so we can exploit this bug to beat the Malevolent One!! XD
by apophis324 on July 30, 2026 11:48 PM NST
Maybe these bugs are cropping up because TNT is peering into the Battledome code and readying to update it? 🤞🤞

@duskshadowbrony - Good idea! 👍
by 1jediboy on July 31, 2026 2:10 AM NST
I guess TNT were thoughtful about Replay Cookies. Since they are used for Malevolent Being for getting the Wand that doesn't drop, they just made her easy for everybody, or at least for anybody with a level 200 pet.

TNT cooks; P2Winners P2W; Everybody Is satisfied (and nobody should complain about ludicrous drop rate ) nicely played TNT, though probably not even the Intention
by maninshi on July 31, 2026 4:00 AM NST
So this bug literally just lets you alternate between Lens Flare and Warlock Rage indefinitely?
Most current BD opponents don't survive long enough to have fun with that but that sounds like a fun glitch.
by biediep on July 31, 2026 6:25 AM NST
Don't know about the other things, but for the Battledome records, the battles I did yesterday didn't add to the total, but the ones for the day before yesterday did.
by daemonschile on July 31, 2026 10:43 AM NST
I was in the middle of battling the Malevolent Being when this broke yesterday. Not sure when the time was exactly but it was somewhere around 11AM-1PM NST.
by superpbj25 on July 31, 2026 1:28 PM NST
You actually has some information wrong here.

"For example, if you use Lens Flare on turn one, it will not be available to use for turn two."

If you refresh the page after using an ability (like lens flare), that same ability (lens flare) will be available for use again immediately rather than having to wait an additional turn.
by araelynn on July 31, 2026 1:31 PM NST
*have

Proofreading is not my favourite hobby
by araelynn on July 31, 2026 1:33 PM NST
Are the issues still going on?
by jessalynn on July 31, 2026 2:40 PM NST
I lost so many weak faeries before I realized they weren't working
by angela_roze on July 31, 2026 2:43 PM NST
I battle every day n never noticed any issues...
by oceanblueh2o_7 on July 31, 2026 4:36 PM NST
The one week I used the plot replay cookie for chapter one to get the stamps. I was using them to mostly lose to the Malevolent Being the whole time before.
by sithra on July 31, 2026 4:44 PM NST
Wait Lens Flare isnt only once per battle??
I have had this experience for so long.
You can use it more than once? Or am i reading this wrong?
by imaginationodd13 on July 31, 2026 11:17 PM NST
Oh I reread it. I just wasnt sure how it was detrimental to battling (for me) but I dont battle anything other than NPCs.
I thought Ive been battling wrong for years lol
by imaginationodd13 on July 31, 2026 11:20 PM NST
i just got a warning on neopets for talking about this glitch T_T because i discovered another glitch alongside it.

if JN staff doesnt want it here feel free to delete this but if you leave mid battle and go to the challenge page and then go back to a battle you can use all abilities again, so you can even freeze over and over if you just have lens flare
by mooseydoom101 on August 1, 2026 10:05 PM NST
Opened enough faeries to get Warlock's Rage, went to train and nil. Have logged out and back in, refreshed the page...save your faeries until this is cleared up, people!
by lunarennui on August 3, 2026 12:39 AM NST
The OPB abilities have been put back to normal. It is 3:46am NST on Monday, August 3rd. They were not fixed yesterday morning, so it happened sometime between 10am Sunday and now.
by dkeeperr1983 on August 3, 2026 3:46 AM NST
Also tested faerie blessings and they are working again as well - had 119 fire available, used a weak bottled fire faerie and was told in pop up that it was +2 to fire, checked abilities page and now have 121 fire available.
by dkeeperr1983 on August 3, 2026 3:49 AM NST

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