Introduction

The latest Team Fight Tactics patch features a large number of balance changes as usual, coupled with the more notable change prevent draws from occurring by supercharging all champions after 30 seconds has passed. They've also changed player damage resulting in faster games. Check out the full scope of changes below!

Summary

Buffs: Ninja, Noble, Wild, Elise, Nidalee, Lissandra, Zed, Aatrox, Evelynn, Katarina, Kennen, Shyvana, Akali, Brand, Kayle, Miss Fortune, Infinity Edge, Locket of the Iron Solari, Red Buff, Redemption,

Nerfs: Brawler, Sorceror, Kha'Zix, Braum, Lulu, Cho'Gath, Karthus, Morellonomicon, Statikk Shiv, Warmog's Armor, Guardian Angel

Tweaks: Demons, Vayne, Hush, Ionic Spark,

Teamfight Tactics patch 9.16 notes

BY RIOT BEERNANA

Hey Tacticians, welcome to the Teamfight Tactics patch 9.16 notes.

The headliner for this patch is the introduction of the Hextech origin bringing Camille, Jayce, Vi, and Jinx to the Convergence. Building Hextechs into your team composition will provide answers to enemy teams relying on a single champion stacked with items. On the flip side, when playing against Hextechs be prepared to spread your items out between your champions to mitigate their disruption.

In addition to the fun new stuff, we're also making a few less flashy (but hopefully just as satisfying) improvements to a few systems in Teamfight Tactics. The randomized round-by-round matchmaking system will no longer pit you against the same player multiple times in a row. Additionally, we're limiting the number of round ties by adding the whole new URF Overtime buff that activates at the end of long battles. We've been pretty happy with the player damage changes from patch 9.15, but we've added some base player damage to keep close end games from going too long. Last but not least, three new Little Legends and the second beta pass round out the new stuff in this patch.

Take this portal if you're looking for League's patch notes!

Now, let's get into it.

Blake "Riot Beernana" Edwards

New Origin and Champions

The Hextechs

The Hextech champions are all strong and serve their own purpose, but together they give some counterplay to items. But the bomb itself can be played around. We hope this adds a new and interesting dynamic to play around.

Trait: Throw a bomb at an enemy unit with an item, and disables all items in a 1/2 hex radius for 8 seconds.

Camille

Ability: Camille's ability, The Hextech Ultimatum, roots an enemy and forces her in-range teammates to target whomever she's fighting.
Class: Blademaster
Cost: 1 Gold
Ability Damage: 200/325/450

Jayce

Ability: Disrupts the enemy frontline by knocking back an enemy unit with his Thundering Blow. He then switches to his Mercury Cannon bringing increased attack speed and ranged damage.
Class: Shapeshifter
Cost: 2 Gold
Ability Damage: 200/350/500

Vi

Ability: Targets the farthest enemy and charges towards them, knocking aside and damaging every enemy along the way. Once she gets there, she knocks her target up and damages them.
Class: Brawler
Cost: 3 Gold
Ability Damage: 250/450/650

Jinx

Ability: Gets Excited after her first takedown, gaining bonus attack speed. If she scores a second takedown she pulls out Fishbones, her rocket launcher, causing her attacks to deal AoE damage.
Class: Gunslinger
Cost: 4 Gold
Rocket Damage: 100/225/350 magic damage in an explosion that covers 3 hexes total.

Systems

Matchmaking

We've improved how the player matching works to prevent the streaky scenarios where you would face the same player (or ghost army) two or more times in a row. Now this should happen almost never.

URF Overtime Mode

We don’t like draws. They aren’t fun. So now, 30 seconds in to every battle, URF Overtime kicks in and speeds things up for 15 seconds. Draws are still possible but there should be a lot less of them.

30 seconds into every battle the URF Overtime bonus will activate.
300% Attack Speed
200% Ability Damage
66% reduced Crowd Control duration
66% Healing Reduction
30% increased affection towards maritime mammals.

Ranked Changes

Teamfight Tactics' ranked system is looking pretty good overall. Even so, we’re‌ ‌taking‌ ‌stock‌ ‌and‌ making ‌a‌ ‌few‌ ‌tuning‌ ‌adjustments.‌ Specifically, a couple bugs and ‌inconsistencies‌ ‌made‌ ‌it‌ ‌a‌ ‌little‌ ‌more‌ ‌forgiving‌ ‌than‌ ‌we‌ ‌intended. You'll now almost always be demoted if you lose LP in any game you start at 0 LP (this was always intended). Additionally, Grandmaster and Challenger players who demote will now skip Master and go directly to Diamond 1 (this is due to some funky situations at the top of the ladder making it impossible for GM and Challengers to demote). If you want to read more about these changes and why we made them, check out SapMagic's post here!

As intended, everyone will now be demoted if you lose LP in any game you start at 0LP.
For Grandmaster and Challenger players, if you're demoted you will now skip Master and go directly to Diamond 1. This is now true in League of Legends as well.
We've also made adjustments to LP gains and losses underneath the hood for extreme edge cases. For the most part, you will not see or feel any changes based on this optimization.

Player Damage

We made some changes to player damage in patch 9.15 and overall it worked well. But it led to games being longer than intended, especially when fights were close. So we’re making some more adjustments. Overall damage should still be less than at launch.

Base damage now scales with current stage.
Stages 1-2: 1 damage
Stage 3-4: 2 damage
Stage 5: 3 damage
Stage 6: 4 damage
Stage 7+: 5 damage

Traits

Brawler

Brawlers are quite strong and are getting a bit too much free health so we're toning that down a bit.

Bonus Health: 300/700/1200 ⇒ 300/600/1000

Demon

We’ve redesigned the Demon trait bonus to not be quite the shutdown of ability dependent units like it was before. Instead, Demons drain mana allowing them to cast their spells faster.

Demon basic attacks have a 40% chance to burn 20 mana from their target and return 15/30/45 mana to the attacker.

Ninja

Ninja should be strong single units that have a place on almost any team. Right now they're not getting there, so we're buffing their trait and some of the individual champions.

Bonus Attack Damage and Ability Power: 40/60 ⇒ 50/70

Noble

Nobles are still underperforming a bit as an end-game fantasy. We'll likely need to make bigger changes to address this, but for now we're giving them a small bump.

Bonus Armor and Magic Resist: 60 ⇒ 70

Sorcerer

Three piece Sorcerer is a just a little too strong due to its versatility.

Bonus Ability Power: 45%/100% ⇒ 40%/100%

Wild

Wild is still underperforming, we're giving it just a little bit more.

Attack Speed: 10% per stack ⇒ 12% per stack

Tier 1 Champions

Elise

Health: 450 ⇒ 500
Spiderling Attack Speed: 0.6 ⇒ 0.7

Khazix

Non-Isolated Damage: 150/300/450 ⇒ 150/250/350

Mordekaiser

No longer casts his ability if there are no enemies in range at the start of the cast time.

Nidalee

Now always heals two units when she transforms. Previously she would only heal herself if she had the lowest health on your team.

Vayne

Attack Speed: 0.75 ⇒ 0.7
Ability Damage (% of Max Health): 8%/10%/12% ⇒ 8%/12%/16%

Tier 2 Champions

Braum

Health: 750 ⇒ 650

Lissandra

Total Mana (the mana required to cast her ability): 150 ⇒ 125

Lulu

Ability Health: 300/475/650 ⇒ 300/400/500

Zed

Health: 500 ⇒ 550
Attack Speed: 0.65 ⇒ 0.7
Ability Damage: 200/300/400 ⇒ 200/350/500

Tier 3 Champions

Aatrox

No longer casts his ability if there are no enemies in range at the start of the cast time.

Evelynn

Now prioritizes her current target with her ability.
No longer casts her ability if there are no enemies in range at the start of the cast time.

Katarina

No longer casts her ability if there are no enemies in range at the start of the cast time.
Attack Damage: 50 ⇒ 65

Kennen

No longer casts his ability if there are no enemies in range at the start of the cast time.

Shyvana

Leap AI improved to better kite away from her target.

Tier 4 Champions

Akali

Attack Damage: 70 ⇒ 80

Brand

Ability Damage: 200/375/550 ⇒ 250/450/650
Starting and Total Mana: 0/125 ⇒ 50/150

Cho'gath

Ability Damage: 250/500/750 ⇒ 175/350/525

Tier 5 Champions

Karthus

Starting and Total Mana: 0/85 ⇒ 40/125

Kayle

Attack Speed: 1.1 ⇒ 1.0

Miss Fortune

Health: 650 ⇒ 700
Total Mana: 100 ⇒ 75

Items

Hush

Reworked: Now has a 33% chance on hit to prevent the enemy champion from gaining mana (we're calling it Mana Lock) for four seconds.

Infinity Edge

Critical Strike Damage: 150% ⇒ 200%

Ionic Spark

Damage: 150 ⇒ 125. Now properly stacks.

Locket of the Iron Solari

Shield Duration: 4 seconds ⇒ 6 seconds

Morellonomicon

Burn Damage: 20% max health over 5 seconds ⇒ 20% max health over 10 seconds

Red Buff

Burn Damage: 13% max health over 5 seconds ⇒ 20% max health over 10 seconds

Redemption

Heal: 1000 health ⇒ 1500 health

Statikk Shiv

Damage and Bounces: 4 bounces, 90 damage per bounce ⇒ 3 bounces, 100 damage per bounce

Warmog's Armor

Heal: Now heals a maximum of 400 health per tick. This mostly nerfs its effect on PVE dragons.

Guardian Angel

Tooltip updated to reflect functionality (does not interrupt abilities or remove positive buffs). It now properly removes Grievous Wounds and resurrects properly.
Health on resurrection: 800 ⇒ 500

New Drop Mechanic

In rare instances it's now possible to drop a full completed item instead of the two components separately.

Bugfixes

Spiderlings and Golem can now properly be the target of Frozen Heart, Kindred, Swain, Karthus, Shen, and Veigar.
Graves now properly gains range with Rapidfire Cannon.
Frozen Heart no longer applies too many slows when stacked.
Fixed some item slots not showing up or being in weird spots.
Fixed Win/Lose streak gold being granted after PvE Rounds instead of after the PvP Round that happened before (streak gold should be granted at the end of all PvP rounds and no PvE rounds).
Fixed Little Legends having collision after dying (and subsequently body blocking players in the shared roulette).
Fixed Blitzcrank attempting (and failing) at targeting untargetable enemies, and therefore not casting.

NERFPLZ.LOL

Aug 14, 2019

Official Patch 9.16 Team Fight Tactics Notes Released!