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Teamfight Tactics patch 9.16 notes

Riot·8/13/2019, 6:00:33 PM·4 votes·111,864 views

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.

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Now, let's get into it.
Blake "Riot Beernana" Edwards

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Mid-Patch Updates

8/16/19 Noble Balance Change

Noble

We're reverting their buff from this patch.
  • Bonus Armor and Magic Resist: 75 ⇒ 60

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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.

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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

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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 ⇒ 75

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

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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%

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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223 Comments

Dexy OwO8/13/2019, 6:56:24 PM151 votes

That new drop mechanic is unneeded and honestly terrible. It's going to get really frustrating if two components combine into an item I simply don't need

Deep Terror Nami8/13/2019, 6:47:03 PM81 votes

I don't like the full item drops off PVE rounds. If you need items because you didn't get any drops earlier, it feels horrible to get a random ass Redemption or Blademaster buff etc. when you need to build something useful for your comp.

Unreal Ed8/13/2019, 7:59:40 PM73 votes

We REALLY need a Tab menu that shows each player's composition and the champions they have on their bench, similar to regular LoL's Tab menu.

Currently, to get a sense of what we should build, we have to go through every player one by one and memorize, for each champion (!), who has how many of them, which is incredibly tedious. Strength of memory is NOT one of the core pillars of TFT and so having to check players one by one, as we currently have to, is a detriment to playing the game around its core pillars.

Visually, I would picture it similar to how the end-game screen looks, with the champion icon with stars above them all in a row, for each player. The only thing I would add is having a 2nd row that represents what you have on your bench. Having an icon we could hover that shows you which Trait bonuses that player has would also be very nice, but I could see counterarguments to having that as a feature.

NastyLemons8/13/2019, 7:00:00 PM63 votes

yo the new drop mechanic is whack, its feels like im losing control over what items i make.

Notorious Gnome8/13/2019, 8:02:16 PM42 votes

The autocombine is a step on the wrong direction imo. It takes power and decision making away from the player in one of the most meaningful tactical decisions in the game (item combination) considering items can win or lose you the game... The existing Item drop RNG is enough.

RiverSpiritNami8/13/2019, 9:47:58 PM23 votes

Is nobody gonna say anything about FIXING AFK CHAMPIONS in game??

Unreal Ed8/13/2019, 7:49:24 PM22 votes

PLEASE change the shape around the traits so that they're different between Origins and Classes. For example, Origins would have a hexagon, while classes would have a square, pentagon, or circle around them. It would make it so much faster to differentiate them on the left side of the screen when playing!

Also, it would be great if we could click or hover a Trait in-game and have it highlight the champions affected by the trait. it would let us quickly see which champs are getting the bonus or which ones you can't remove from your lineup when changing team comp.

Nicolas Cage8/13/2019, 6:32:53 PM21 votes

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

This seems worded weirdly. Does this mean that if, for example, Murk Wolves dropped Spatula/Recurve, it's possible that instead of dropping both, the game rolls another roll on top of that and decides to only drop the completed BotRK? Could see this being a potential Quality of Life nerf, as the player may need one of the decombined items to instead give themselves an item they actually want, although of course, maybe you high roll BotRK when you need your 9th blademaster.

Or does it mean that in the hypothetical Spat/RB situation you could get Spat/BotRK, or BotRK/RB?

Thank you for any clarification.

omg Cher8/14/2019, 2:00:38 AM18 votes

Players: "Not getting any items when others do feels really bad, please make everyone get the same number of items"

Riot: "We're now going to randomly drop fully completed items for even less choice"

halfbr33d8/13/2019, 7:53:16 PM16 votes

So items that were not fixed:

  1. characters simply vanishing at full health without anyone attacking
  2. using 2 gold to roll a new champion selection and finding only 4 characters available and not 5
  3. characters standing and not attacking although they are ranged and are within range of other characters
  4. random characters not appearing in rolls for anyone except once
  5. buying a character that never appears in your line up nor is the gold ever returned.

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

Divinepoop8/14/2019, 3:27:13 AM10 votes

Please remove this new "New Drop Mechanic" INSTANTLY Seems very unnecessary, its gonna be difficult af now to customize or adapt items to champs...

jeremywight8/14/2019, 6:29:25 AM10 votes

I just want my square in the bottom right highlighted so during carousel I don't have to click them all to find me. I know you all do the same thing!

EliFTW8/14/2019, 8:04:50 PM6 votes

Not complaining here, just noting that I don't care for how strong hextech is already. I lose early to get a better draft pick for items to build around, but now that's completely pointless if late game BOOM, no items for half the round? Completely broken in OP in my opinion.

Tommy Noble8/13/2019, 6:31:58 PM6 votes

Morellonomicon Burn Damage Duration: 5 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds Red Buff Burn Damage Duration: 5 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds

Cool patch, but this is pretty strange to me. Can anyone explain this? These are two of the strongest and most frequently built items in the game already, and they are straight up buffed to last TWICE as long? 200%?

MyGfHateLoL8/14/2019, 1:45:39 AM6 votes

can you guys fix where the game crashes at start and it says game still in progress when we try to reconnect???

shot0408/13/2019, 6:18:33 PM3 votes

I do not see the beta pass. It is still greyed out. Is this wrong?

RevFrenchie8/14/2019, 2:27:57 AM

Can someone explain to me why we can't move items off of champions or move them to other champions once they've been placed? I feel like we should be able to do that, but there might be a reason why that I'm just missing...