Teamfight Tactics patch 9.15B notes

Riot·Aug 7, 2019·2 votes·71,824 views

Hey Tacticians, welcome to the Teamfight Tactics patch 9.15B notes.

This week we're making light changes to some of the outlier champions and items. We want to see how the meta naturally changes over the course of two weeks with minimal input on our end. We're pretty happy with the state of the meta at the moment as we're seeing different compositions compete at all levels of the game. Some of the highlights: Karthus and Kayle are losing some power as they're just too strong. We're also upping the damage of Runaan's Hurricane and few other items to give you more choices in that department.

Now, let's get into it.

Blake "Riot Beernana" Edwards

Champions

Blitzcrank

Fixed a bug so that other allies properly prioritize the target of Blitzcrank's ability...again.

Elise

Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 45
Spiderling Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 50

Karthus

Ability Damage: 400/700/1000 ⇒ 350/600/850
Ability Targets: 5/9/13 ⇒ 5/7/9

Kayle

Mana required to activate ability: 100 ⇒ 125

Pyke

Stun Duration: 2/2.5/3 ⇒ 1.5/2/2.5

Rengar

Ability Attack Speed Bonus: 0.4/0.7/1.0 ⇒ 0.3/0.5/0.7

Veigar

Ability Damage: 300/500/700 ⇒ 300/550/800

Items

Guardian Angel

Health on restoration: 1000 ⇒ 800

Guinsoo's Rageblade

Attack Speed per stack: 4% ⇒ 5%

Morellonomicon

Burn Damage: 25% ⇒ 20%

Phantom Dancer

Now allows the holder to dodge critical strikes from abilities.

Runaan's Hurricane

Bonus Damage: 25% ⇒ 75%

Statikk Shiv

Fixed an issue where it would deal more damage than intended when less than four targets where available.

Sword of the Divine

Chance to activate: 5% ⇒ 7%

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug that delayed players loading in to game until after the first carousel round. This was fixed last week.

194 Comments

LilGiantAug 7, 201968 votes

So, about that match history...

TalkingbirdguyAug 7, 20197 votes

That would be a nice addition, I agree.

DamncatsAug 8, 20192 votes

I just use match history in Blitz.

UnityGameplayAug 7, 201959 votes

i was expecting a fix for that i can walk into the first carousel before everyone bug and the one where units just stand and do nothing

Cyber DiddleAug 7, 201922 votes

The units standing and doing nothing is definitely irritating. Seems to get worse as rounds go higher as well. I'm not referring to melee units getting stuck btw, referring to units refusing to path even when pathing is available.

eemeeAug 7, 201921 votes

is there a bug where you can see who's going to be in the carousel when you load in to the game? it happens to me every time

NoHugsHereAug 7, 20193 votes

Yep I get that exact same thing too I don’t know if it’s a bug or what?

TalkingbirdguyAug 7, 201914 votes

Yeah, they appear for about 3 seconds and then disappear and reappear slowly two at a time. Gives those of us who see it every game an unfair advantage tbh.

AoenstarAug 7, 20195 votes

I think its intended, cause it happens to me every game on multiple accounts and computers.

SaintshingAug 7, 201914 votes

Did you guys fix the bug with morello causing GA to not work? It has been in the game for almost a month.

ZexsesAug 7, 20197 votes

That isn't a bug tho, morello and red buff stop healing so you dont get the healing from G.A.

KingDanDaBestAug 7, 201922 votes

GA is suppose to cleanse you of debuffs on death not pop up at 1 hp and instadie

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEAug 7, 20195 votes

Does the GA tooltip say this, or are you just making it up?

cold doritoAug 7, 201911 votes

Remember that you aren't Leona stunned after GA pops.

KelmAug 8, 201911 votes

The tooltip says the wearer revives with 800 HP. It doesn't say the wearer revives and then heals to 800 HP.

Cpt Paul WatsonAug 7, 201914 votes

Cursed Blade is still a thing huh, pls just remove it.

Kansuke04Aug 7, 20193 votes

It has it's uses, but i would agree that most on hit's are too effective right now. And correct me if im wrong, it feels like cursed blade stacks... as in a 3 star can become a 1 star on a high chance on hit.

Dîo BrandoAug 7, 20193 votes

it does stack, 4 gunslinger, 6 Blademaster, Trist with cursed blade and Bork.

I watched as the man with five 3 stars get reduced to all 1 stars. Truly tragic...for him at least.

FatManSergAug 7, 201910 votes

Would love to see more new champs added more often

travisCCAug 7, 201930 votes

Honestly, I would be concerned that adding more raw options to the pool would just make it less likely to get t2 and t3 units, and make the people who luck into them so much harder to contest. Keeping the number of options lower reduces the number of edge cases of extremely high and low power due to RNG.

BlockAug 7, 20199 votes

To be fair, this is remedied by adding a 5-cost "Wild Card" unit that can upgrade whatever. At least that's what Auto Chess did.

Kansuke04Aug 7, 20193 votes

Not a bad idea, but it would be too effeicent for 5 star units, maybe make it a 6 cost only available at lvl 7 or 8 and above?

BlockAug 7, 20193 votes

nah just make it somewhat rare.

Dippin ChipsAug 7, 20194 votes

I was thinking about that, as much as i would love to see TFT version of almost every champ, it'd just make the game unplayable. They'd never do this but it'd be really cool to see a second TFT with a completely different champ pool.

Dîo BrandoAug 7, 20194 votes

They said as time goes by, they intend on removing and replacing, without ever settling. So its likely that we'll see origins, their rosters, or their abilities get changed entirely as time goes by. Hecarim replacing kindred or J4, Lux, Xin making an appearance as nobles. Not to mention the entire Ionia origin.

TheDaldoAug 7, 20199 votes

Can we pleae get a breakdown of how much damage of each type our characters do and how much damage they take at the end of fights? I'd like to know how much is an ionic spark or thornmail or red buff giving me and just how tanky that warmogs makes someone or the lifesteal kept them alive.

KshawayAug 7, 20195 votes

Agreed. Would love to see a break down between item damage, AA damage and Spell damage. And a separate tab for how much Tanked (Like DOTA 2 Underlords)

Name SuggestionsAug 7, 20196 votes

I feel like a cool feature for TFT would be if u get a champ level 3 it changes the look of the champion to one of there skins. Also like since its Riot maybe the skins could just be bought in shop for your champs.

ClearlyNotChloeAug 7, 20199 votes

No, no, no. I want to be able to tell what I’m up against, firstly, and for players who don’t main every champ in the game, we simply don’t have the time to memorise what all of their skins look like. This feature would make your opponents unrecognisable, and honestly doesn’t add anything to the gameplay experience. Your dead team with zero synergy was wearing cute skins, nice! No. Please, no. Knowing Riot, they’d make it another finicky gacha system. No. For the love of god, no.

Name SuggestionsAug 7, 20197 votes

Well if u just right click a champ it tells you what they are plus skins don't change the whole appearance of the champ its still the same champ but with outfits. Plus your the only one making your comp so if you are just putting 0 synergies on the board so you can try your skins then I promise everyone else in the game is gonna love that your being that dumb. I'm sure you'd also love to see your opponents do this cause its freelo. Adding cosmetics also makes the game fell more fresh and not so repetitive so in a way it does add gameplay experience. If you play league and you know what a champ looks like then you can probably make out there skin. It doesn't have to be a shop thing either if they just made it so when your champ hits level 3 they get a skin,I think that would encourage people to build up there champs and comps more. It doesn't have to be all their skins either it could be one or two per the champ.

Name SuggestionsAug 7, 20192 votes

They could also add something so you can turn it off if you aren't able to recognize a champ with a different outfit.

chr0me1Aug 7, 20192 votes

It's not going to happen due to the game being optimized for lower end pc's, skins add so much to the resource usage. Necrit went over it in one his videos.

Deep Terror NamiAug 7, 20194 votes

I was expecting something changed for Cho or Void.

JadekickAug 7, 20199 votes

There kind of was. Morello nerf was basically an indirect Cho nerf.

ExemplarDracoAug 7, 20192 votes

wasn't he reverted a bit after the last patch was released?

Swerdy765Aug 7, 20194 votes

not bad

squishydoomAug 7, 20194 votes

All I want is one second to look at the available options in the opening carousel before everyone is released.

Hyper RollAug 7, 20193 votes

Nice.

AlexDreyAug 7, 20193 votes

Looks like an indirect Draven buff with rageblade buffed. This seems like a miss. Yes other champs will benefit from it, but Draven is too strong as is.

Wilder MotivesAug 7, 201912 votes

Not really. There are plenty of ways to counter him.

Kansuke04Aug 7, 20192 votes

Well then, lets hear em, might make my climb easier

Cyber DiddleAug 7, 201915 votes

CC ...hope I didn't blow your mind with all that reading.

zypher20Aug 7, 20193 votes

Still no Glacial nerf? or Voli or Cho? 90% of builds have 2/3. Revert Sorc nerf pls. Sorc AoE is garbage except for luck and karthus now.

NoHugsHereAug 7, 20194 votes

I agree glacial needs a small nerf with the amount of time your until are stunned but the karthus nerf was really needed. Plus I wish shiv did a little less damage or triggered on the fourth attack instead of the third.

Poochie KittenAug 8, 20193 votes

I wonder if they'll fix that bug where units would flat out stop fighting until it's a draw lmao

RoxtiAug 7, 20192 votes

So are you guys ever gonna implement the Unique Passives to stuff or are you legit just gonna let people double to triple stack one item? Getting real tired of seeing 2 Guinsoo's on a Vayne, 3 RapidFires on a Voli, and 3 Shojins on Pyke. Fix it please.

AkineroAug 7, 201917 votes

It feels like it's just part of the game to me. I don't think it needs "fixing".

If items don't stack and RNG gives you nothing but BF swords and Tears, it screws you over because you can make a bunch of Spear of Shojin's, but oops they don't stack so you can't put them on a single strong unit.

Morello doesn't stack, Red Buff doesn't stack. I think that's fair. Cursed blade probably shouldn't stack. The others make sense (Rageblade, Runaan's, Rapidfire, Shojin, etc.)