Board Thread:News and Announcements in game/@comment-5741122-20170301151620/@comment-5741122-20170301155315

Nikitas10 wrote: I wonder why did they buff him? There are a few theories going around.

One is that due to the incoming Super Gods, LR Gohan, etc. Cards like Black are very... underwhelming. It's possible that they buffed him just so more players would be willing to try to pull him rather than just save their stones. It's not out of the realm of possibility that they may do this to other cards as well until SS4 makes it to Global.

Another is that Japanese players are basically the "guinea pigs" of Dokkan and Global players are the "cash cows". They test things with the guinea pigs (which is why JPN get so much free stuff) and then they make final decisions for Global based on how well recieved certain things are. Could be that Black just wasn't that popular so they decided to make him better. Doesn't help that the Super Dub is nowhere near the Future Trunks arc, thus limiting Goku Black's popularity outside of Japan.