TFT Update: Powerful Punch-Ups

Riot·Aug 27, 2019·2 votes·73,545 views

(Edit: These items will now release with patch 9.19)

Sparring Gloves have magically appeared in the Convergence like mana from heaven (or RNG from minions) to provide you and your team with all of your critical strike and dodging needs. These gloves combine with all existing item components to make eight new items and a reworked Infinity Edge. Sword of the Divine has been removed; its recipe and Infinity Edge's one now create two more new items. They'll all join the roster with patch 9.18.

TL;DR:

1 new item component
8 new items made from that component + Infinity Edge
1 Sword of the Divine removed
2 new items created from old Infinity Edge and Sword of the Divine recipes

Here are the details:

Sparring Gloves

+10% Dodge chance - "Float like a butterfly"
+10% Crit chance - "Sting like a bee"
We didn't want to disrupt the balance of offensive and defensive options, so we made Sparring Gloves capable of either: If the finished item is offensive in nature, the statline shifts to +20% Crit, if it is defensive, it shifts to +20% Dodge.

Thief's Gloves

Recipe: Sparring Gloves + Sparring Gloves
A champion holding Thief's Gloves can't hold other items except temporary ones gained by this item. Thief's Gloves cannot be given to a champion that already holds an item. On round start, gain two temporary items. Their quality is based on your player level.
For those that like items with their items.

Hand of Justice

Recipe: Sparring Gloves + Tear of the Goddess
At the beginning of the planning phase, the wearer randomly gains either 40% increased damage or 40 life on hit until end of round.
For those that aren't great with decisions.

Infinity Edge

Recipe: Sparring Gloves + BF Sword
Crits deal 200% more damage.
When you want to crit, but like....even more so.

Arcane Gauntlet

Recipe: Sparring Gloves + Needlessly Large Rod
Your abilities can critically strike.
When your ASol dreams of being Draven.

Quicksilver

Recipe: Sparring Gloves + Negatron Cloak
Prevents the next crowd control effect applied to the wearer. Refreshes every 5 seconds.
Can’t touch this, ba na na na.

Iceborne Gauntlet

Recipe: Sparring Gloves + Chain Vest
On dodge, create an expandable 30% attack speed slow zone.
Just how expandable? No one knows.

Backhand

Recipe: Sparring Gloves + Giant's Belt
The wearer starts combat with a spell shield. Stun the enemy that breaks the shield for a long time.
An eye for an eye, in item form.

Repeating Crossbow

Recipe: Sparring Gloves + Recurve Bow
When the wearer dies, Repeating Crossbow passes to a new ally and they gain an additional 20% Crit chance and 20% Attack Speed. This stacks with each pass of the item.
YOU get a Repeating Crossbow, YOU get a Repeating Crossbow, YOU get a Repeating Crossbow!!!!!!!!!

Mittens

Recipe: Sparring Gloves + Golden Spatula
Extra 10% Crit chance and 10% Dodge chance. Wearer is also a Yordle
Tastes purple.

Since Infinity Edge has a new recipe and Sword of the Divine has been removed, we’ve added two more new items in their place:

Lord's Edge

Recipe: BF Sword + BF Sword
A champion holding Lord's Edge can't hold other items except temporary ones gained by this item. Lord's Edge cannot be given to a champion that already holds an item. On takedown, gain a BF Sword for the remainder of the round.
For those doing the math at home, yes a champion can hold three Lord’s Edges by the end of the round.

Last Whisper

Recipe: BF Sword + Recurve Bow
Attacks can't miss (removed from RFC btw) and deal True Damage equal to 5% of the target's maximum health
*Cries in Yordle*

Oh, and one other thing:

Another new item can drop, but this one's a little different. Neeko's Help is a consumable item that you can place on a champion. When you do, Neeko's Help is consumed and a 1 star copy of the champion is instantly made and added to your bench. If your bench is full, Neeko will just pop right back off, so no tricky business! Use Neeko to complete a 3 star champion, or to quickly clone a powerful Legendary champ. The choice is yours!

118 Comments

WaterBear22Aug 28, 201951 votes

Put a list of combination on the tab button. It's right there just do it already. summoner 3 [zombie-brand-clap]

Casual BoulderAug 28, 201913 votes

Opposite end of the spectrum, LET US USE ALL OUR SKINS ON THESE CHAMPS. Yes, that's a lot of work, but I'll be damned if the work didn't pay for itself and then some. (Maybe have the option to disable skins altogether for new players figuring things out.)[sg-lux]

earl flannelAug 28, 20199 votes

This wont work because they've stated plans for duplicate champions with different skins and abilities i.e. odyssey yasuo that uses windwall rather than ulti etc.

SoRayGeTONAug 29, 20195 votes

But Yasuo doesn't use ulti; he uses q.

NotaWeebishnameAug 28, 201916 votes

I think this should have been done asap, I think it would be nice if we could have a anvil or something to make items with. Example being, instead of buying a champ you dont want, making the item on them, then selling them, you instead can just do that with some anvil. Save a bit of time.

For when your Lucian already has a tear but damn it you want him to have gunblade too.

AlexDreySep 15, 20191 votes

This

OkainAug 27, 201930 votes

Well I for one,Welcome our new Yordle Overlords. Poppy Tristana Kennen

Razor FeatherAug 28, 20198 votes

They even added a level 9 version of the yordle buff on the pbe, which gives 100% dodge. It takes a bunch of mittens to get there, but it is rather goofy when it happens.

HyperiösAug 28, 20196 votes

I shudder at with that buff coming the possibility of Yordle/Ranger teemo...

AnimewolfladySep 11, 20192 votes

Annnnnd then the items got cancelled, and wilds are now direct counters to yordles...

Resourceful RatAug 28, 201919 votes

thing is the more they add to this game, the less consistent it gets. and it gets more rng based.

Razor FeatherAug 28, 201948 votes

It doesn't really work like that. The skill of this game is pulling consistency out of rng, by being able to make a workable team under a huge variety of conditions. Less consistency in items and the like actually increases the room for skill expression, as now there are more situations that must be dealt with to perform well most of the time. What may be a bad item hand for say noble gunslinger, could be great for sorc yordels or something, and being able to recognize that is where the skill is.

UpooOnMeAug 28, 20192 votes

Logged in just to upvote this.[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Christmas EVElynAug 28, 20199 votes

Yeah agreed. This game mode will only be fun with constant changes and more and more variety. Otherwise gets stale really fast as you memorize what are the best routes to go with each patch/path.

BeardedheathenAug 28, 20197 votes

Until you don't get any yordles in your store...

BloodTypeAug 28, 20199 votes

While you're completely correct the issue with some of these items is they're clearly niche to certain champs or comps. If I need to shift my composition to make it work better as part of pulling consistency out of the rng I'm given then my items could end of being useless. Being able to disassemble items would eliminate that and open up way more possibility to change comps when its needed and stop the feeling of being trapped or screwed over by rng.

HipsterDiglettAug 28, 201914 votes

Community: "We want less variance" Riot: "OH YOU WANT MORE VARIANCE?"

WickedRiftWitchAug 28, 201910 votes

I acually would like more variance. The more viable builds and item choices exist, the less the game will be about who can rush nobles or whoever is meta faster

Casual BoulderAug 28, 20193 votes

I agree to such an extent, I hope they reach a point, where they can rotate champions out. Twisted fate leaves Tahm Kench hops in, ETC. 4 Ninja's return to the shadows, Ionian's storm the field. (Rito if you reading they get 1>30% 4>70% bonus stats from items)

HyperiösAug 28, 20192 votes

While in concept this would be pretty cool, since all the comps have overlap if you were to make a certain comp leave it would pretty hard nerf other groups. For example, making the ninjas rotated out would make getting 6 assassins really damn hard.

Bløød ZerøAug 29, 20194 votes

They meant remove the category not necessarily the champs akali can be an ionian assassin

vraprenvamiAug 27, 201913 votes

I hear recurve bows are a hot commodity

nanogibbonAug 27, 201913 votes

Can’t touch this, ba na na na.

Soraka in TFT confirmed.

Sophia8catAug 28, 20194 votes

Omg now I want that!

StropeyVonLolAug 28, 20195 votes

I'd absolutely would want a healer class, even if it's exclusively for Soraka and/or Sona.

RohirrimRowanAug 28, 201913 votes

Please change the icon for Repeating crossbow. Otherwise everything looks awesome!

Having the LDR icon will cause a lot of confusion in game about what the item actually does compared to the original LDR, especially with Last Whisper already being in the game. Most of the items do the exact same thing as in summoner's rift (IE makes you hit harder and crit harder, Ludens has splash damage, Statick has splash every few attacks, etc). Right now PD is the only item that really breaks this convention, as it does something different from the SR version, but it's still close. LDR and repeating crossbow are vastly different, so a different icon would greatly help that clarity.

JamaiseAug 28, 20197 votes

For items like Thieves Glove and Lord's Edge I think you should consider implementing the Pop off mechanic in to it.

If a champ already has items and you add Lord's Edge or Thieves gloves to the champ the champs existing items pop off.

Or if a champ is equipped with Thieves Gloves or Lord's Edge and you add an item then Thieves Gloves or Lord's Edge will pop off.

Just a suggestion. Kind of a fun/cool mechanic to see in actions too btw.

TotallyAGuy Aug 28, 20197 votes

Can we fix the ring? If I'm in last place I shouldn't vs the person in first 2 times in a row. Or every other time vs the same person... It isn't fun even in vice versa. Too easy for wins or loses.

StropeyVonLolAug 28, 20193 votes

I'm probably with this person. It should honestly be, "Unless it's down to 4 people, the people in last place are exempt from facing off against the people in first and second place."

Razor FeatherAug 29, 20194 votes

My understanding is that riot is doing their best to make the in game matchmaking better. They haven’t succeeded just yet, but they are working on it.

PicklesThUnicornAug 29, 20197 votes

please look at titanic hydra, does it stack? also doesn't seem to be outputting the damage it should be. look at it item 3748

0w0 Bolgy WolgyAug 29, 20197 votes

Still gonna get singular coins off minions. Ranked game mode based off rng lol. Though not any different from the solo/duo coinflip rng.[sg-miss-fortune]

Morgana101Aug 27, 20196 votes

catch me building 3 hands of justice on anyone

LightningShadoAug 28, 20196 votes

Why not just name them Brawler's Gloves like they are on SR?

Razor FeatherAug 28, 201911 votes

Presumably to avoid creating confusion as to what it does. Brawlers gloves sounds like an item that makes a unit a brawler. Calling it sparring gloves avoids that, and also at least to me makes sense as the name of an item that gives both dodge and crit.

GahloAug 28, 20192 votes

I'd think this is a valid reason if "red buff" wasn't an item.

HolytheSaverAug 28, 20196 votes

the red buff is the same in both games

deathringer158Aug 28, 20194 votes

But there isn's a class/origin in the game called red buffs... [zombie-brand-mindblown]

SteelflameAug 28, 201918 votes

That purely comes down to the fact Brawler exist as a class in TFT.

AlexDreySep 15, 20191 votes

Makes me feel like this should make a Brawler and not a yordle.

KrutonAug 28, 20196 votes

Isn't this whole thing sort of a Sorcerer build killer?

I'm a little unclear on backhand: It says spell shield, stun whoever pops it, but then it says eye for an eye. Does this mean the ability will still do all it's damage and effects, but in return the attacker gets stunned? Or is it it blocks full effects of spell AND stuns? Seems a little broken in the second scenario since Sorcerer builds kind of rely on killing the enemy carry with an ASOL or Karthus ult. If a draven fully blocks the blast AND stuns them, I truly see no way Sorcerers winning any game as 1st place.

Additionally, there's an item that blocks CC every 5 seconds now. If the backline Draven (or whatever hyper carry) isn't able to get Vi ulted or cc'd by Sejuani Leona Chogath , then I really don't see Gunslingers/Blademasters losing if they get either of the items.

There's also some crazy ass items in here that only help Auto attackers and not Sorcerers, such as Glove + Recurve bow.

Casual BoulderAug 28, 20193 votes

Sorcs will rely on brand/ahri to pop these shields, before Asol/karthus go off. The new spell crit item with deathcap IE on karthus, could be one rng blue card from instakill.

IronGAug 28, 20194 votes

im guessing item 3025 's area of effect works the same as league

WickedRiftWitchAug 28, 20193 votes

I'm guessing that it increases each time you dodge

lando4040Aug 29, 20193 votes

neeko sems interesting

RSchmidt777Aug 28, 20192 votes

So if I have a 2 star warwick on the field and I use neeko's help, it clones the 2 star so now I have two 2 stars? Or do I only have a 2 star and a 1 star?