Teamfight Tactics patch 9.14B notes

Riot·Jul 24, 2019·3 votes·84,891 views

Hey Tacticians, welcome to the Teamfight Tactics patch 9.14B notes.

In these B-side patches we'll be making changes focused on balance and bugfixes. This week, the biggest change is to critical strike modifiers with the aim of toning down the damage Assassins bring to the table. Additional highlights include: Volibear and Cursed Blade getting nerfs, while Sorcerer and Wild get buffs.

Let's get into it.

Blake "Riot Beernana" Edwards

Systems

Critical Strike Damage

Critical strike damage now stacks additively rather than multiplicatively. Paired with changes to Assassins and Infinity Edge, also in this patch, Assassins will deal around 25% less damage and IE will come out net neutral.

Traits

Assassin

Critical Strike Damage: 150%/350% ⇒ 125%/350%

Sorcerer

Bonus Ability Power: 35/100 ⇒ 45/100

Wild

Attack Speed per Stack: 8% ⇒ 10%

Elementalist

Golem HP: 2500 ⇒ 2200

Champions

Ahri

Ability Damage: 100/175/250 ⇒ 100/200/300

Akali

Health: 700 ⇒ 650
Attack Speed: 0.75 ⇒ 0.7

Evelynn

Attack Damage: 50 ⇒ 60
Health: 600 ⇒ 550

Kennen

Attack Damage: 70 ⇒ 65

Mordekaiser

Health: 500 ⇒ 550

Poppy

Ability Damage: 300/400/500 ⇒ 300/500/700

Rengar

Attack Damage: 55 ⇒ 65

Tristana

Attack Speed: 0.7 ⇒ 0.65

Volibear

Armor: 35 ⇒ 30
Attack Speed: 0.65 ⇒ 0.55

Items

Cursed Blade

Trigger Effect Chance: 25% ⇒ 20%
For the curious, Swordbreaker has a 25% chance and Hush has a 50% chance.

Infinity Edge

Critical Strike Damage: 100% ⇒ 150%

Locket of the Iron Solari

Shield Amount: 300 ⇒ 200
This was micropatched last week.

Morellonomicon

Percent Max Health Damage: 3% ⇒ 5%

Bugfixes

Raptors will now always properly drop a loot box.

The Guardian trait no longer fades when a guardian dies.

Redemption will now properly heal 1000HP.

Guardian Angel will now trigger in all cases.

190 Comments

UndercoverCactusJul 24, 2019120 votes

Any chance we can get a quality of life fix on the "Play Again" button when coming out of a ranked game? Currently we are placed back into either a normal or a ranked game, seemingly randomly. It is causing confusion and frustration to a lot of summoners.

Yeet BearJul 24, 201911 votes

OMG actually this. Its a huge problem. Had this happen 4 times already!

Tasting FreedomJul 24, 20196 votes

Happened twice to me plz fix

TheLegend696969Jul 24, 20194 votes

Even just the ability to view if it's normal or ranked in game would suffice. I know I've accidentally queued for normals for my first game so seeing it in game would cover both those scenarios.

Blake TkysomyJul 24, 20193 votes

You can check on the league client (open while tft game runs) by hovering your mouse over your summoner name.

Blake TkysomyJul 24, 20194 votes

This happens way too often. I end up in normals ever 3 or 4 games...

Big Bad Top LaneJul 24, 201943 votes

Make it so we can return to the same lobby with our friends when we hit play again.

CoinsJul 24, 20197 votes

This is the only thing I want.

JµstinJul 25, 20194 votes

Wait, you guys are returning to lobby?

FuzzeeporoJul 24, 201946 votes

How about the champs that just stand there and dont attack? It happens quite a bit i have noticed.

EatmynameJul 24, 20197 votes

This causes me to rage so hard when 2 lvl 3s just sit there and let lvl 1 kill them

KeshaunJul 24, 201926 votes

Am I the only one who feels Glacial stuns for way too long and the chance for restun should go down over time? For example, rank 2 Ashe arrow stuns for 5 seconds and she also has the chance to stun on every auto attack for 2 seconds that stacks.

Summoner SpeIIJul 24, 20195 votes

the only thing broken about glacial is something getting a high roll silver anivia or a stacked volibear

The Plot In Y0UJul 25, 20198 votes

LOL okay, you are either biased of glacial or just have no clue. You do know the #1 ranked TFT player LITERALLY forces glacial every single game? Glacial is broke and people catching on fast.

TeemoCaitlyn Jul 24, 201917 votes

Graves this man needs buff

isiiJul 24, 201916 votes

no frozen heart bug fix :(

CoinsJul 24, 20192 votes

This has lost me some games.

Keyser Soz EhJul 24, 20192 votes

Maybe by 1 position? A frozen heart will never be the difference between 1st and 8th.

IS1a55b9bad91506da7bbdaJul 25, 20191 votes

It sucks ass when you stack 3 frozen hearts and get 2nd place because they did nothing.

IS1a55b9bad91506da7bbdaJul 25, 20192 votes

Try it. Then you'll know. Put your frozen heart on assassins. Extremely good on Pike and Rangar, because it applies the whole path when they dash/jump. Then you'll see the opponent team stop auto-attacking. No auto attacks = no spell cast 1 is good. 3 is God.

That is only if they do their jobs.

XennorzJul 24, 201912 votes

I don’t know if this is just me but everytime I’m in a game where redemption in play it triggers before death. Is that intentional or am I reading it incorrectly

Moon TsukiJul 24, 201929 votes

It started triggering at 25% health last patch.

MrOmegaJul 24, 201912 votes

Suggestions!

On the profile we have 2 empty slots for Clash which is not live nor will be soon but you rushed out tft and aren't using them to showcase our rank level !?! That would be awesome
Increase the animation speed on Varus and TF abilities because when you put some attack speed (esp. guinsoo) on them they 'lose' out on a bunch of autos (tf still autos but is not stacking mana while it chooses a card)

Best Lee Sin NAJul 25, 20195 votes

That is the nature of the champion. You have to make the decision to make them AP or AD this way and DMG vs ATT SPD. TF is not supposed to stack mana while choosing a card because he is still channeling an ability. What you're suggesting would be not only broken, but illogical according to the order of the game and champion. It doesn't make sense to how league is designed to work.

Grandpa of RageJul 24, 201910 votes

Nice patch, but guys... you REALLY need to buff knights. The poppy buff is a first step but the rest are still absolute garbage tier right now. 50hp to mord is useless, buff his atk spd or something pls. 5 ad off kennen seems like a slap on the wrist. Also morellos was already strong so I'm not sure it needed a buff. Sorc will still be weak, they need some champion tweaking.

KaynNAbelJul 24, 20198 votes

Two things that I hope you guys have for quality of life changes are: 1: Specator mode 2: Match History I don't know exactly how you would do Spectator mode since in regular league games they have 3 minute delay because you don't want to have someone sniping helping someone out, BUT maybe you have a 1 minute difference or 2? So then you can't see other people's rolls or maybe have NO delay but you can't see what's in the shop so then you can't look at others. Match History though is a given. It doesn't HAVE to be on the client but at least have a website that shows the "end game" screen. It doesn't HAVE to show items but that would be nice if you could add that as well.

SilverfoxTOAOJul 24, 20198 votes

Could you take a look at Kassidin's mana drain? Currently it drains so much mana that the other char NEVER can get an ult of. This is a tad harsh for just one char. For contrast, think of demons. It takes all six just to get an 85% chance to burn all mana. Kass effectively burns "all" mana every strike since mana can never reaches max. Suggested fix would be to give Kass only a 50% chance to mana drain, or (even better), make it Kass's ult.

Currently Kass is a tad OP IMO. At best the character should delay the arrival of an ult, not mitigate it completely. Whole comps don't even do that.

Thank you for your attention!

Best Lee Sin NAJul 25, 20193 votes

The idea is to prevent one unit from getting their ulti off...if you had sorcerer's or had a mana item, you wouldn't need to worry about it.

The Plot In Y0UJul 25, 20195 votes

Kass is not OP. Not in the least. And he also QUICKLY falls off.

Amuq the NativeJul 25, 20192 votes

Someone never tanked with a Phantom Dancer + Guinsoo's + Dragon's Claw Kassadin. :-D

SniperJul 24, 20196 votes

What happened to the void changes? :c edit: all in all, I like the rest of the changes, but was looking forward to void being useful

hermeneutistJul 24, 20194 votes

seems many of the PBE changes did not ship with the patch... was lowkey hyped about void too.

SniperJul 24, 20194 votes

They said on twitter that it's coming 9.15. So next patch. But yeah I thought it was coming this patch too

Jack ProsperJul 24, 20193 votes

So this is 9.14b. Are we getting this instead of 9.15 for our weekly update? Is 9.15 going to have a new champion? [sg-ezreal]

Albard EinsteinJul 24, 201920 votes

normal patches are every 2 weeks(sometimes 3 weeks) only tft is getting weekly patches rn

Sometimes FizzJul 24, 20193 votes

No Ionic Nerf? Great!

TacoComesJul 24, 20196 votes

Why would you need to nerf ionic

Amuq the NativeJul 25, 20194 votes

Ionic doesn't need a nerf, but it does need a bugfix. Currently, you can equip it on a champion on your bench and it will zap enemy spells. So it's an item that works without using an item slot on your active champions.

Anakin The WeirdJul 24, 20192 votes

WATCH OUT FOR IONIC SPARK!

only veteran players will get this reference...

mirth101Jul 25, 20193 votes

Please fix bug , when you chose a champ in carousel, it becaomes a diff champ when yr back at yr bench. Alos disappearing items. Seriously annoying. when you pick up 3 from golems and them they are gone

KinjishiJul 25, 20193 votes

Quite a few of the ults on champs need to have a smaller radius/zone. So many of them shouldn't be taking up 1/3 to 1/2 of the map/playing area.

Also, glacial stuns for way too long. It's like they just get to free hit on you for 3-5 seconds.

The health on shapeshifter/elemental pets are too large. Champs auto target them, which then gives enemy champs all the time they need to just blow away your comp. Either nerf their health a lot more or have allied champs target the enemy champ instead of the pet/familiar.

Nico Yazawa Jul 25, 20193 votes

give me a rotating game mode riot [sg-lux-2]

ZackycnJul 24, 20192 votes

So can someone explain to me the following does riot does not realize that ninjas are broken and they need a nerf , on top of that akali it so boosted that a unit with PD can still be crit by her abilities. Please riot used a little of logic and brain and make a nerf to ninjas

seiZeroJul 24, 201916 votes

Both Akali and Assassins got nerfed this patch. Did you not read it?

Amuq the NativeJul 24, 20194 votes

The 6 assassins comp is still as powerful as before, so it still dominates the endgame. So, I suppose the counter is now to kill the assassin player before they can get to 6. Better than nothing, but I was hoping for a slight damage reduction for the 6 assassins bonus as well.

Kei143Jul 24, 201910 votes

They did get a dmg reduction, crit dmg is now additive rather than multiplicative. Results in an overall 25% dmg reduction.

A Dead CarryJul 24, 20195 votes

I'm kinda stupid, can you please explain crit being additive vs multiplicative

Kei143Jul 24, 20195 votes

Base crit dmg is 1.5 Assassin bonus is 1.25 (previously 1.5) I.E crit does 2.5x dmg (previously 2x dmg)

When using old numbers, crit dmg in multiplication does 1.5x1.5x2-1 = 3.5x dmg

Using old numbers, crit using addition does 1+(0.5+0.5+1)= 3x dmg

By changing the formula, That assassin lost 0.5x in crit dmg.

If we used new numbers instead, then the assassin crit with IE would deal 1+(0.5+0.25+1.5) = 3.25x dmg

Amuq the NativeJul 25, 20192 votes

Yes, except the crit damage change also applies to other classes, so this isn't specifically an assassin nerf.

VelvetNyanJul 24, 20194 votes

lol they were very slightly nerfed yes, akali will be almost unaffected however, her AD nor AS is not the reason she is so dangerous, its that her ability literally murders anything it touches once she hits T2, and that doesnt seem to have changed. Also the buffs I see here are so minor that I dont think the meta is going to be changing at all, perhaps wild brawlers may be even more popular than they already are tbh, voli got nerfed in att speed but the wild buff will make up for it by a long shot. Also if morello has indeed been buffed, I'm expecting double shojin morello pyke to be a single handed carry at this point.