We've got the Teamfight Tactics 9.16 Patch Notes! This update brings us the addition of the Hextech class/origin, and brings along four new champions into the game: Camille, Jayce, Vi, and Jinx! Brawler & Sorcerer have both been nerfed, while Demon, Ninja, Noble, and Wild have all been changed/buffed.
Khazix, Braum, Lulu, Cho'gath, Kayle, and Karthus have all had small nerfs. There's also been a bunch of item changes that you can find listed below!
Update: Nobles had their buff reverted in a hotfix!
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.
Take this portal if you're looking for League's patch notes!
Now, let's get into it.
Blake "Riot Beernana" Edwards
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.
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
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 ⇒ 70
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
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%
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
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.
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
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
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.
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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Teamfight Tactics (TFT) 9.16 Patch Notes – Hextech Champions, Brawler & Sorcerer Nerfs, Bruam, Lulu, & Cho’gath Changes!
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