Pokémon Survivor Burst Pokémon Hub

This hub is the roster map for Pokémon Survivor Burst, ClessioTV’s free Vampire Survivors-style fangame. You do not assemble a party. You pick one Pokémon, then survive waves by stacking passives, extra attacks, Burst ultimates, and mid-run evolutions. The public build as of late August 2026 is version 4.5, with 31+ playable Pokémon, Generation 4 additions, and regional forms where they apply. New fighters are not bought with codes and they are not sitting in a gacha. They unlock when you finish in-run challenges on specific Pokémon.

The choose-a-Pokémon screen is a grid, not a Pokédex essay. Locked slots sit beside unlocked ones. Star-piece markers show which challenge tracks you have already punched. That grid is the fastest way to see what you still owe the roster before you start another Classic, Rush, Tower, or Endless attempt. If you only want a first pick, jump to the starter Pokémon guide. If you want the unlock loop without a fake numbered table, use unlock challenges and the unlock Pokémon walkthrough.

How the roster actually grows

Pokémon Survivor Burst launched on 23 August 2026 on Eevee Expo as a single-player bullet heaven with an online leaderboard. Version 2.0 added the Star Piece system and achievements per Pokémon. Version 2.5 fixed Sableye’s unlock. Version 3.0 reworked Dratini’s requirements and opened the Kecleon shop. Version 4.0 brought Generation 4 and new challenge Pokémon. Version 4.5 added Endless Mode, a specialized Endless shop with its own currency, regional forms, and three published regional evolution forks: Kirlia into Gallade, Quilava into Hisuian Typhlosion, and Pikachu into Alolan Raichu. The exact steps for those forks are not published in a complete public table. Treat Discord and the patch notes as the live source, not a guessed wiki grid.

That history matters because the roster is a chain, not a flat list. A starter teaches the loop. A finished challenge on that starter opens the next species. Each species then has its own mode chain: Classic clears unlock Rush for that Pokémon, and Rush clears unlock Tower for the same Pokémon. Endless arrived later with its own shop rules. Unlocking a fighter and unlocking that fighter’s harder modes are two different jobs. The game modes guide covers the mode chain; this hub covers who you take into those modes.

Reading a kit before you commit

The confirmation screen is the last honest look at a Pokémon before a run starts. It shows type, HP, Speed, the opening skill, and the passive. Mudkip’s published card is the template: Water type, 112 HP, 2.32 Speed, Water Pulse, and Damp Recovery. Water Pulse creates bouncing water shots. Damp Recovery restores 8% HP. Other species use the same card layout with different numbers and verbs. Do not assume every HP pool looks like Mudkip’s, and do not invent stats this wiki has not seen on an official screen.

Once the run begins, the kit is five moving parts:

• Passive skills that reshape the whole attempt (sustain, speed, utility).
• Multiple attacks that you stack from level-up offers.
• Burst ultimates unique to the Burst system.
• Evolutions that change the body and the pressure you can survive.
• Synergies between those pieces, plus Kecleon permanents after the run.

A pretty sprite is not a build. The Burst guide and the evolutions guide explain the mid-run spikes. The best builds page explains how Ban, Bonus Reroll, fragments, and the Kecleon Shop Core feed the same Pokémon across many attempts.

Starters, specialists, and score evidence

Mudkip is the published starter and the current Classic score specialist on the public board. Top Classic ranks are almost all Mudkip — Novoxy at level 331 with about 6.5 million points, Jordan at 262, and a string of similar Water Pulse runs beneath them. That is leaderboard evidence, not an official Nintendo ranking and not a promise that Mudkip is the most fun unlock hunter. If your goal is a first clear, Mudkip is the honest default. If your goal is filling the grid, you will leave Mudkip on purpose so challenge Pokémon can actually appear. The tier list hub separates those jobs.

Treat named species in patch notes as confirmed, not as a fake 31-row table. Sableye, Dratini, Jumpluff, Kirlia, Quilava, and Pikachu are in the game because the developer wrote them into changelogs. Generation 5 and 6 community polls are already running on the official thread, so the grid will grow. This hub will not pretend the unpublished half of the roster is documented.

How to use this hub this week

New save: read getting started and controls, then take Mudkip through Classic as described in starters. After the first clear, open the choose grid and note which slots still lack star pieces. Farm those with the unlock checklist instead of rerolling random Pokémon out of curiosity. Spend fragments in Kecleon’s Shop Core only after you know which kit you will actually replay. When a regional fork tempts you — Gallade, Hisuian Typhlosion, Alolan Raichu — read regional forms plus evolutions before you burn an evening on unpublished steps. Come back here when the grid changes, not when a rumor claims a new secret starter.