Teamfight Tactics 9.14 Patch Notes: Twisted Fate, Ranked & More

Riot Games Ranked play is here.

The first major Teamfight Tactics patch has arrived. This League of Legends spin-off will now be receiving weekly updates according to Riot Games but there’s no telling if every update will be as major as this one.

This patch features both a new Champion in Twisted Fate and the introduction of the ranked mode. These have both been available as part of the PBE but now everybody is getting a chance to try it out.

There’s a ton to look forward to as a TFT fan with this patch as numerous Champions are receiving tweaks so the meta is shaking up a little. It’s important for a game like this to feel fresh and exciting which is why seeing these changes is exciting.

Riot felt that many of the 3-cost units were not as effective as they could be so a lot of them received buffs to potentially make them worth it at even 1-star.

Riot GamesTwisted Fate has arrived with ranked play.

Kennen, in particular, received a major buff, along with fellow Yordle Poppy, so they are now both much more effective and the Yordles get a much-needed buff.

Other units received small nerfs such as Draven and Gnar as it was pretty well agreed upon that they were a bit too powerful.

Of course, we can’t forget about guaranteed item and gold drops from monsters when they are defeated. At this point, it’s pretty hard to see the developers topping this in a future update.

There’s a lot to dig into here so you can take a look at the full list of changes from the 9.14 patch below.

Teamfight Tactics is available now on PC through the League of Legends client.

Twisted Fate

COST 2g

TRAITS Pirate, Sorcerer

ABILITY Pick a Card—Twisted Fate throws a card that randomly stuns (Gold), deals damage around his target (Red), or restores mana to himself and nearby allies (Blue)

Ranked

FROM IRON TO CHALLENGER Teamfight Tactics ranked Beta Season starts in patch 9.14. If you want to learn more about our ranked system check out the developer journal on the topic.

Systems

Attack Speed Changes

We’ve changed all champions’ attack speed ratios so that attack speed bonuses are now calculated based on a percent of the champion’s base attack speed. In short, champions with lower base attack speeds will receive less benefit from attack speed items. Certain champions and attack speed granting items have been adjusted in this patch to compensate.
Champion Attack Speed Ratios: 1.0 ⇒ champion base attack speed

PvE Rounds

In the event that you do not get an item during a PvE round, one of the minions, monsters, or epic monsters will now drop gold instead.
Dragon and Elder Dragon no longer benefit from the Dragon Trait bonuses. All sorcery comps rejoice.

Ranked Premade Restrictions

The ranked premade party size is now limited to three players at all ranks. Down from five below plat.

Level Breakpoints

XP to 9: 70 ⇒ 64

Ability Targeting

Abilities that target low health champions now determine “lowest health” by HP percentage instead of total HP

Shop

When you reroll your shop after leveling up from round XP, the shop is rolled at your new level instead of your old level

User Interface

Added “Streak” indicator next to gold total. It displays your current streak (win or loss) and the rewards for maintaining streaks of different lengths
Added a combat recap so you can see how much damage each champion deals each round.
Added champion stats (attack damage, armor, magic resist etc) on their pop up inspect panel when you right click

Traits

Demon

Mana burn chance: 40/60/80% ⇒ 25/50/85%

Elementalist

Golem health: 3000 ⇒ 2500
Golem Attack damage: 200 ⇒ 100

Guardian

Armor buff: Stacks up to 2 times ⇒ Stacks any number of times

Gunslinger

Improved visualization of Gunslinger AoE attacks
Fixed some bugs where Gunslinger extra attacks could fail to fire at high attack speeds
Extra Units Hit: 1/all ⇒ 1/2

Pirate

Average gold per chest: 2 ⇒ 1.6

Shapeshifter

Bugfix: Shapeshifters will now gain the correct amount of health when they transform, previously they would fail to take into account the health they gained from their star level.
Transform health gain: 100% ⇒ 60%

Wild

Attack speed per stack: 7% ⇒ 8%

Tier 1 Champions

Darius

No longer casts his ability at times when no enemies would be in range at start of cast

Elise

Cost: 2 ⇒ 1
Spiderlings now benefit from the Demon Origin effect
Mana cost: 75 ⇒ 100
Number of spiderlings: 2/3/4 ⇒ 1/2/4
Health: 500 ⇒ 450
Armor: 25 ⇒ 20

Fiora

Attack speed 0.7 ⇒ 1.0
Damage: 100-250 ⇒ 100-400

Graves

Health: 500 ⇒ 450

Vayne

Attack Speed: 0.6 ⇒ 0.65

Warwick

Ability now applies on-hit effects

Tier 2 Champions

Ahri

Fixed a bug where Ahri’s ability wouldn’t deal damage while she was dead
Now retargets her ability if the target dies during the cast time
Ability targeting: Random enemy ⇒ Current attack target

Blitzcrank

Fixed a bug where Blitz could hook a unit off the board if he died while casting
Nearby allies are now more likely to target the unit Blitzcrank pulls

Braum

Fixed Braum’s tooltip to properly reflect that his shield reduces a percentage of all incoming damage
Damage reduction: 60-90% ⇒ 70-90%
Mana cost: 75 ⇒ 50
Ability targeting: nearest enemy ⇒ furthest enemy

Lucian

Relentless Pursuit second shot damage: 65/150/235 ⇒ 150/250/350

Pyke

Mana cost: 100 ⇒ 125
Starting mana: 50 ⇒ 75

Rek’Sai

Burrow duration: 1.5 ⇒ 1
Knockup duration: 1.25 ⇒ 1.75
Damage: 150-250 ⇒ 150-350

Shen

Starting mana: 50 ⇒ 100

Tier 3 Champions

Aatrox

Mana cost: 100 ⇒ 75
Damage: 350-850 ⇒ 400-1000

Evelynn

Health: 550 ⇒ 600
Execute threshold: 50% HP ⇒ 65% HP
Execute damage multiplier: 300/400/500% ⇒ 300/500/700%
Eve’s ability now roots targets during the cast time (0.35s) to prevent them from moving out of the area of effect.

Gangplank

Ability now applies on-hit effects
Fixed a number of bugs with animations and barrel chains
Attack speed: 0.6 ⇒ 0.65
Health: 650 ⇒ 700

Katarina

Fixed a bug where her ability wasn’t properly preventing enemy healing

Kennen

Damage: 300-660 ⇒ 400-900
Attack damage: 60 ⇒ 70

Morgana

No longer casts her ability at times when no enemies would be in range at start of cast
Damage: 250-450 ⇒ 300-450

Poppy

Armor: 30 ⇒ 40
Stun duration: 1.5/2.5/3.5 ⇒ 2/3/4
Number of targets hit: 1 ⇒ 1/2/3

Rengar

Savagery’s attack speed buff is now multiplicative (it increases Rengar’s attack speed ratio)

Shyvana

Attack speed: 0.65 ⇒ 0.7
Health: 550 ⇒ 650
Bonus attack damage while dragon: 60-160 ⇒ 100-200

Veigar

Damage to lower star champions: 9999 ⇒ 19999
Mana cost: 85 ⇒ 75

Volibear

Health: 650 ⇒ 700
Attack speed: 0.55 ⇒ 0.65
Mana cost: 100 ⇒ 75
Lightning attack damage ratio: 60-100% ⇒ 80-100%

Tier 4 Champions

Akali

Fixed a number of bugs that would sometimes cause her ability to not deal damage
No longer casts her ability at times when no enemies would be in range at start of cast

Brand

Mana cost: 100 ⇒ 125

Cho’gath

Health: 1100 ⇒ 1000
Knockup duration: 2/2.25/2.5 ⇒ 1.5/2/2.5

Draven

Attack speed: 0.85 ⇒ 0.75

Gnar

Health: 850 ⇒ 750
Armor: 35 ⇒ 30

Leona

Mana cost: 150 ⇒ 100

Sejuani

Stun duration: 3/4/5 ⇒ 2/3.5/5

Tier 5 Champions

Anivia

Ability no longer cancels when Anivia dies

Miss Fortune

Ability targeting: random enemy ⇒ current attack target
Now retargets her ability if the target dies during the windup
Fixed a bug where Miss Fortune would sometimes move and change her ult’s trajectory while channeling
Mana cost: 75 ⇒ 100

Yasuo

Ability now applies on-hit effects
Knockup duration: 1.25 ⇒ 1.5
Damage: 150/250/350 ⇒ 150/350/550

Items

General

Items no longer benefit from Ability Power
Spatula now doubles the stat power of its sister component. For example: Youmuu’s Ghostblade grants 40 Attack Damage

Cursed Blade

Can now reduce targets to 0 stars.
Fixed a bug where Cursed Blade would reset an enemy champion’s level if it triggered a second time.

Frozen Heart

Effect now applies more consistently to any unit near the wearer

Guardian Angel

Revive delay: 4 sec ⇒ 2 sec
Health restored: 500 ⇒ 1000
Bugfix: Guardian Angel now properly clears Grievous Wounds

Guinsoo’s Rageblade

Attack Speed per stack: 3% ⇒ 4%

Hextech Gunblade

Fixed a bug where spell vamp was sometimes not properly granted
No longer benefits from item effects (looking at you Shyvana with Thornmail)

Ionic Spark

Now deals true damage instead of magic damage
Fixed a bug where Ionic Spark was applying 75 damage instead of 200

Locket of the Iron Solari

Now shields the wearer and the champions two spaces to the left and right of the wearer at the start of the round
Shield value: 200 ⇒ 300

Luden’s Echo

Fixed a bug where targets weren’t taking the correct amount of damage
Fixed a bug where Luden’s would proc on basic attack hits but not on ability hits
Primary target damage: 100 ⇒ 200
AoE Damage: 0 + 1.0 AP ⇒ 200

Morellonomicon

Max HP damage per second: 2.5% ⇒ 3%

Rapidfire Cannon

Now updates in response to range changes (RIP RFC Nidalee)

Recurve Bow

Attack Speed: 15% ⇒ 20%

Redemption

Now triggers at 25% health
No longer damages enemies

Runaan’s Hurricane

Bolts: 2 ⇒ 1
Bolt Damage: 50% ⇒ 25%
Now applies on-hit effects

Seraph’s Embrace

Fixed a bug where Seraph’s effect wouldn’t stack

Statikk Shiv

Now always hits 3 additional targets, rather than all champions in a frontal cone
Now only activates a maximum of one time per launch attack

Thornmail

Reflect damage: 35% of physical damage taken ⇒ 100% of physical damage mitigated
Damage type: Magic damage ⇒ True damage

Warmog’s

Regen: 3% max HP ⇒ 6% missing HP

Zeke’s Herald

Now only grants attack speed to champions two spaces to the left and right of the wearer
Attack Speed Aura: 10% ⇒ 15%

Bugfixes

Updated missile VFX on Enchanted Crystal Arrow
Enchanted Crystal Arrow now plays sounds
Fixed a bug where champions leveling upon combining from a shared draft selection sometimes duplicated the champion
Reconnecting to a TFT game will no longer prevent end of game stats from being displayed
Fixed a number of bugs that would cause melee champions to AFK and stop moving
A billion other bugfixes listed in the sections above