Arceus’s own row is on Arceus.
What the legendaries page says now
If you last until minute 30, the Judgment of Arceus begins. Arceus takes you to the Ruins of Judgment, it is invincible, it chases you faster and faster, and every 5 seconds a legendary stronger than the last one joins. In every run it holds a random Plate that gives it its type. The ranking has two halves: time survived and damage dealt to Arceus.
Official (pokesurvivor.com/en/legendaries/, 2026-10-29)
The join line on that page does not repeat the 25% HP and 15% damage figures. Those figures are the 2026-10-23 news, below. This page keeps both wordings with their dates.
2026-10-13: the mode starts
At minute 30, Arceus descends from the sky and takes you to the Ruins of Judgment. It is invincible, chases you faster and faster, and casts pillars of light, beams, and shockwaves. If it touches you, you lose almost half your HP. Every 5 seconds a legendary joins, each with twice the HP and damage of the previous one. Achievements that day: The Judgment (reach minute 30), Before the Creator (survive 1 minute against Arceus), and Divine challenge (defeat 3 legendaries against Arceus in a single run). The all-time leaderboard started from scratch. Rifts no longer open from minute 28 on. Records over 35 minutes were removed from the leaderboard.
Overtime removed the same day
News dated 2026-10-12 had added overtime: from minute 60, wild Pokémon keep getting stronger, faster and faster. News dated 2026-10-13 says overtime from minute 60 is removed, because runs no longer get that far. No later post on the news page fetched 2026-10-29 puts that overtime rule back.
2026-10-18: speed and the touch
Judgment speed has a soft cap: anything above a certain point counts much less, and legendaries run almost as fast as you. After 5 minutes of Judgment, Arceus keeps speeding up. After 7, its touch takes more and more HP, until it knocks you out in one hit around minute 40. Poison still takes a percentage of HP, but against enemies with huge HP (the Judgment legendaries) that percentage is smaller.
2026-10-23: Plates, the item break, and join modifiers
You can hit Arceus. It is invincible and only takes a small part of the damage, less and less over time, and your attacks aim at it when no legendary is left. In every run Arceus holds a random Plate, which gives it its type, and you are told when you enter the arena. At minute 35, Arceus breaks everyone’s item, Focus Sash included. The Judgment legendaries are no longer twice as strong as the previous one: each one has 25% more HP and 15% more damage. There is no 45-minute limit in the ranking anymore. Poison and burns deal a small, fixed amount to the Judgment legendaries.
2026-10-25: the arena holds you
Going very fast, you could leave the arena, where neither Arceus nor the legendaries could reach you. Now nobody leaves the arena.
Minute by minute
A walk of minute 28, minute 30, minute 35, and the touch around minute 40 is onJudgment of Arceus, explained. The circles and the saved orb before minute 28 are onwave survival. The dated posts on this page stay the source. The off switch stays Unknown.
The 2026-10-27 co-op update also fixes a Judgment desync: when a slow connection falls behind, the game waits briefly for it to catch up instead of piling up delayed updates. This changes the connection pause, not the Judgment timer or attack rules.
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