Teamfight Tactics 9.16 Patch Notes – Hextech Champions, Nerfs, and More

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

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

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%

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

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.

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

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

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.

• 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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