Teamfight Tactics Patch 11.15 Notes!

Welcome to the Dawn of Heroes!

Welcome everyone to the new Teamfight Tactics 11.15 Notes! Today we’ll be covering the changes to the various existing traits and champions, covering new ones, and diving into new mechanics and items! Buckle up because it’s going to be a long one!

Teamfight Tactics 11.15 Patch notes

Teamfight Tactics 11.15 Mid-patch Updates

July 22nd, Balance Changes

Abomination and Draconic have proven to be early risers in the Dawn of Heroes, so we’re hitting the snooze button on them to make for a more balanced first weekend of the mid-set.

Abomination, The Monstrosity’s Enrage Duration: 5 ⇒ 4 seconds
Abomination, The Monstrosity’s Enrage Attack Speed: 200% ⇒ 100%
Draconic 3 Average Gold Value: 3.1 ⇒ 2.9g
Draconic 5 Average Gold Value: 7g ⇒ 6.75g

Updated Reference sheets for roster and new Radiant Items

Click on them to view in full resolution! New cheat sheets for Teamfight Tactics 11.15.

Little Legends: The Fearless Fellowship

The Fearless Fellowship has arrived!

“The Fellowship assembles! No longer hiding in the ground, Ironclad Molediver joined the Fellowship to put their melee skills to the test. Whether it’s protecting their loot, their lute, or their friends, Draconic Umbra’s in it to declare what is theirs! With this team of adventurers assembling, Verdant Fuwa knew they’d be safer with the healthful skills of… Fuwa!”

“Order prevails! Order Molediver knows that they can dig themself out of any situation, but if they stumble, Order Fuwa is sure to have the best oinkment for their remedy. But some things can’t be remedied, like Order Umbra’s obsession with gold. It’s okay though, Order Umbra insists they will donate it all to poros in need… one day. “

“Maybe Chaos is more your style? Chaos Molediver once tried to go undercover to sabotage the Fellowship. Too bad the Fellowship saw them for the Mole they are. Chaos Umbra claims they only harm those who attempt to steal what’s theirs, but what isn’t theirs? Speaking of harm… I wouldn’t talk about bacon around Chaos Fuwa.”

High Noon Squink Variants

“While the Fearless Fellowship are out on adventures and quests, High Noon Squink’s out takin’ bounties. “

“You wanna know more about these particular Squinks? Well, to start, it’s hard not gettin’ on High Noon Squink’s bad side… cause every side is bad-to-the-tentacle. Order Squink’s a kind soul, but there’s a reason they have so many boots and spurs. Cactus Squink, well, they’re the sharpest shooter in town. And if you thought that was corny, just wait till ya meet Kernel Squink, cause surely they’ll butter you up before they make ya go POP! Finally, there’s Outlaw Squink, you better stay clear o’ them when the clock tolls, but you should stay clear when it doesn’t too.”

Teamfight Tactics 11.15 Arenas

Dawn of Heroes has two interactive arenas available in bundles and on their own. See what’s cooking at the Golden Bakery, or kick your feet up at the High Noon Saloon. See them in action by clicking on the link below to the Riot’s Top Secret Channel!

Golden Bakery

High Noon Saloon

New Reckoning Pass II and Reckoning Pass+ II for Teamfight Tactics 11.15

The Reckoning Pass II works like prior passes; accumulate XP for free rewards. But, for even MORE rewards, you can purchase the Pass+ II for 1295RP. With the Reckoning Pass+ II, you can gain access to personalization features that are only available in this set. This includes: Little Legends, booms, arenas, and more.

And here’s what the Reckoning Pass+ II adventurers can achieve:

Emotes: The Kindest Cut, Surprise!!!, Amused and Confused, and more!
Booms to celebrate your victories: Jagged Path, Abyssal Chasm, Soul Siphon, Shattered Heart
Star Shards to star-up your favorite Little Legends
LL Eggs: Fearless Fellowship eggs and more!
Arenas: Journey’s Beginning, Desert Path, and Dankest Dungeon
Exclusive Little Legends: Order Pengu at one and two stars, and Order Sprite!

All new bundles

Rise of the Sentinels

The Sentinels are struggling in their fight against Viego. Those LoL players can’t handle the Black Mist without us, so it’s time to recruit players with a pension for tactics…Teamfight Tactics.

Starting this patch there’ll be an infinitely repeating mission that awards Sentinels points for playing games, including games of TFT. And you don’t even have to run the Sentinel trait.

Note: Since we’re doing this mid-event, the missions are hidden, but the faster rate of progress should be immediately noticeable.

NEW MISSION: Play 1 PVP matchmade game of Summoner’s Rift, ARAM, Ultimate Spellbook, or Teamfight Tactics (excluding Hyper Roll) to earn 600 Rise of the Sentinels points. This mission can be repeated infinitely. It won’t appear in your Missions log.
ACTIVATES: With Chapter III of Rise of the Sentinels this week

Ranked

Grandmaster and Challenger Ranked: Let the Race of Heroes Begin!

Just like Festival of Beasts, Grandmaster and Challenger are unlocked immediately, allowing for the true zero-to-hero competition. Challenger and Grandmaster are still limited to the top accounts on each server, but players must have at least 200 LP in Master to reach Grandmaster, and at least 500 LP in Grandmaster to reach Challenger. Good luck gettin’ your name placed right under mine!

Reckoning Ranked Stage II begins this patch!

Your rank has been “soft” reset down one tier below your current standings. For example, if you are currently in Gold II you will now be in Silver II.
If you are very good at this game and currently placed in Master or above, you will be reset to Diamond 4.
You will get five provisional matches after the reset, meaning you will not lose any LP for sub-top-four placements in your first five ranked games of the new stage. You’ll also gain some extra LP for finishing top four, so best of luck!
Ranked rewards for the first half of Reckoning will be distributed in patch 11.16 for those Shadow Item enthusiasts who made it to Gold or higher.

Hyper Roll Tiers

Emote rewards will be earned for players that reach Blue, Purple, and Hyper tier before patch 11.15.
Hyper Roll tiers will not be hard reset. Instead, anyone at Blue or higher will go to the bottom of Blue.
The rewards for Hyper Roll will come in patch 11.16 alongside the rest of the ranked rewards for the first half of Reckoning.

New Mechanics

Radiant Items

With Shadow Items gone, we have an all-new set of extremely powerful items, Radiant Items!

Radiant Items are more powerful versions of regular items that should alter your win condition based on the one you choose.
Choose one Radiant Item from five choices at the 3-6 Armory. You’ll only get one, so choose wisely!

Divine Blessing

It’s time to bless this mess.

The Divine Blessing drops when your Little Legend dips below 40 health.
The Divine Blessing grants a high amount of immediate value, offering a combination of the following: items (components), gold (moves everything around me), consumables, Spatula, champions
All players will get the same essential content in their Blessing. We are all equally blessed in the eyes of URF.

Tome of Traits

The newest consumable to hit the books, I mean orbs, can allow you to make Viego into a Sentinel or Lucian into a Forgotten. Just imagine where reading can take you? At least to the end of this sentence.

The Tome has a chance of dropping from the Divine Blessing, but you may also find some books to “borrow” from PvE encounters. Who knew those Krugs were so literate?
The Tome of Traits can be sold to bring up a shop of four emblems to choose from. These emblems can be for any trait, including ones that can’t be built by Spatulas. That’s just the magic of a good book!

Systems

Loot Orbs

Removing the 4 gold low roll start. Adding more variety to high rolls with the addition of the Tome of Traits.

Lowered the average number of bonus orbs slightly
Increased Small Orbs Average Value: 2.54 ⇒ 3gold
Small Orbs containing two 1-cost champs ⇒ three 1-cost champs
Small Orbs containing one 2-cost champ ⇒ one 2-cost champ + 1 Gold
Small Orbs containing 2 Gold ⇒ 3 Gold
Medium Orbs Average Value: 5.72 ⇒ 5.6 gold
Medium Orbs now have a chance to contain 3-cost + 2-cost drop
Medium Orbs containing Neeko + 2-cost champ ⇒ Neeko + 2-cost champ + 1g
Gold Orbs can now drop the Tome of Traits
Gold Orbs containing Spatula and Neeko’s Help drop rate lowered slightly
Minimum items received is now 10 components + 1 Radiant Item after the 4-7 Raptor Round.

The Armory

We increased the odds of the 4-2 Armory to 100% but pulled back from 5-2 to compensate. The removal of components from 5-2 is our way of saying, “Raptors will be the last place to get components.”

2-2 Armory is now 2 standard components
3-2 is moved to 3-6 and is now 5 Radiant Items
4-2 Armory is now guaranteed, as either 2 components, 3 components, or 3 components + 1 special item.
5-2 Armory is slightly less likely, and will never contain components.
6-2 and 7-2 Armories are unchanged.

Carousel Changes

Stage 5 Carousel can now sometimes contain Componentless (unbuildable) Emblems
Stage 6+ Carousels can now sometimes be all full items
Stage 6+ Carousels can now sometimes contain Componentless (unbuildable) Emblems

Champion Count

It’s an odd change. There’s one less 3-cost in the set.

58 total Champions ⇒ 57 total Champions

Hyper Roll

5 sec added to planning timers in the following Stages: 3-1, 5-2, 6-2, 6-3
Gold income in Stage 7: 6 gold ⇒ 8 gold
Gold income in Stage 8 and onward: 6 gold ⇒ 9 gold
4-1 Armory is likely but not guaranteed and offers either 3 components or 3 components + 1 special item
5-2 Armory is now 5 Radiant Items
6-3 Armory is likely if there is no Armory on 4-1 and has the same offer structure as 4-1
Other armories are unchanged

New Champions and Traits

Cannoneers (2/4/6)

Locked and loaded on every fifth shot, Cannoneer champions deal a percent of that shot’s damage in an explosion around the target as physical damage. Here’s who’s packing the heat:

Senna: Tier 1 Sentinel
Tristana: Tier 2 Hellion
Miss Fortune: Tier 3 Forgotten
Lucian: Tier 4 Sentinel

Sentinel (3/6/9)

At the start of combat, the Sentinel with the highest Health gains a shield that grants Attack Speed each time it is applied. When the shield is destroyed or expires, it will pass to the ally with the lowest percent Health. Both the shield and the Attack Speed bonus will increase as you recruit more Sentinels.

Olaf: Tier 1 Skirmisher
Senna: Tier 1 Cannoneer
Irelia: Tier 2 Legionnaire, Skirmisher
Pyke: Tier 2 Assassin
Rakan: Tier 3 Renewer
Galio: Tier 4 Draconic, Knight
Lucian: Tier 4 Cannoneer
Akshan: Tier 5 Ranger

Inanimate

At the start of combat, Inanimate champions summon Hallowed Mist that seeps through their surrounding 1 hexes for a few seconds, granting all allies within damage reduction from enemies outside of the mist.

Gwen: Tier 5 Mystic

Victorious

When a Victorious champion scores a kill, their next attack is empowered to deal 40% of the target’s missing Health as bonus magic damage.

Garen: Tier 5 Dawnbringer, Knight

Fiddlesticks

Debuting for the first time in TFT, Fiddlesticks replaces Ryze as an Abomination/Mystic, but also extends the Revenant trait tree!

Fiddlesticks: Tier 4 Abomination, Mystic, Revenant

Removed

Removed Traits

No witchcraft can rejuvenate these slayed traits.

Verdant
Dragonslayer
God-King
Coven

Removed Champions

These champs are so last set. Wish I could say they’d be mist.

Warwick
Viktor
Katarina
Trundle
Pantheon
Mordekaiser
Lissandra
LeBlanc
Morgana
Kindred
Ryze
Taric
Darius

Trait Changes

Reworked Traits

The Monstrosity is now less of an Assassin and more of a beefcake. With Shadow Items gone, Forgotten champions are more likely to remember victorious combats than old set mechanics.

Abomination REWORKED: The Monstrosity’s Health and AD increases by 20% each Stage, starting from: Abomination 3: Stage 3, Abomination 4: Stage 4, Abomination 5: Stage 5
Ally Deaths Required for the Monstrosity to emerge: 3 ⇒ 2
The Monstrosity now deals 150/200/250 magic damage in the area where it stops charging
The Monstrosity Enrage Lifesteal: 40% ⇒ 60%
The Monstrosity Enrage Lifesteal no longer scales off of AP
The Monstrosity EnrageDuration: 3 ⇒ 5 seconds
The Monstrosity Armor & MR: 40/65/75 ⇒ 40/50/60
The Monstrosity Health: 1000/1600/2200 ⇒ 1000/1400/1800
The Monstrosity Attack Damage: 100/140/180 ⇒ 70/80/90
The Monstrosity Health Per Star Level: 100/160/220 ⇒ 100/140/180
The Monstrosity Attack Damage Per Star Level: 10/14/18 ⇒ 7/8/9
Forgotten REWORKED: (2/4/6/8) Forgotten champions gain bonus Attack Damage & Ability Power. Each victorious combat they participate in increases the bonus by 10%, stacking up to 5 times.

Adjusted Traits

With traits becoming more difficult (or easier) to hit at different breaking points, we have to make sure that each trait tier feels as powerful as it is difficult to achieve. For example, Nightbringer 8 is now incredibly hard to hit, requiring what are now componentless emblems, while also losing out on Darius. To match the difficulty of achieving Nightbringer 8, we’re making it feel like a true high-roll moment by almost doubling its power! TLDR, Nightbringer 8 should feel like a first, but trying to hit it might end up too hard to achieve.

Assassin Critical Strike Chance: 10/30/60 ⇒ 20/40/75%
Assassin Critical Strike Damage: 25/55/90 ⇒ 30/50/70%
Brawler 6 added, Health: 400/1000/1600
Dawnbringer Max Health Heal: 30/60/90/130% ⇒ 30/55/80/120%
Dawnbringer Healing Ticks: 10/20/25/30 ⇒ 10/15/20/25
Dawnbringer damage amp per proc: 12% ⇒ 10%
Draconic Average Value of 3 trait eggs: 3.25g ⇒ 3.14g
Draconic Average Value of 5 trait golden eggs: 9.25g ⇒ 7g
Hellion is now (2/4/6/8), Attack Speed changed to: 5/30/75/150%
Ironclad Armor: 35/85/170 ⇒ 30/70/125
Mystic 5 added, Magic Resist: 40/100/200 ⇒ 40/80/150/250
Nightbringer Shield max Health scaling: 30/60/90/140 ⇒ 30/60/100/250
Nightbringer Bonus Damage: 20/30/40/50% ⇒> 20/30/40/80%
Ranger 6 added, Attack Speed: 75/180/400
Redeemed AP/Armor/MR: 30/55/95 ⇒ 20/35/75
Revenant 5 added, Revive with 10/25/45/70% Health, taking and dealing 25% more damage upon revival
Skirmisher Shield Max Health Scaling: 25/45/75% ⇒ 20/40/100%
Skirmisher bonus Attack Damage each second: 3/6/12 ⇒ 3/5/15
Spellweaver Starting Ability Power: 25/55/85% ⇒ 25/55/100%
Spellweaver Ability Power per Stack: 2/5/8 ⇒ 2/5/10

Champion Changes

Tier 1

Radiant Items and the multiplicative tankiness they provide make super tanks (Garen, Hecarim, Leona, etc.) impossible to kill. This hurts the viability of front-to-back comps and takes too much time out of URF’s day. Expect to see nerfs for many of our tanks below.

Aatrox Armor and Magic Resist: 30 ⇒ 35
Leona Mana nerf: 0/60 ⇒ 0/80
Leona Solar Barrier Damage Reduction: 30/60/250 ⇒ 30/50/200

Tier 2

Beat it like a dead horse, or a pop song. Same diff. Alright MinionsRpeople2, simmer down.

Hecarim Max Mana nerf: 40/90 ⇒ 75/125
Hecarim Spirit of Dread Damage: 250/350/500 ⇒ 200/400/600
Hecarim Spirit of Dread Healing: 250/350/500 ⇒ 350/350/350
Sejuani is now a Brawler in addition to her other traits (Nightbringer, Brawler, Cavalier). \
Sejuani Fury of the North bonus Armor and Magic Resistance: 100/150/300 ⇒ 80/125/250
Syndra Health: 550 ⇒ 600
Syndra’s grabbed units with Force of Will are now untargetable
Syndra Force of Will Damage: 300/400/600 ⇒ 250/350/600
Varus Health: 550 ⇒ 600

Tier 3

With Draconic 5 being easier to hit (thanks Galio!), we’re shipping nerfs to champions that were already strong before the trait was this easy to play.

Ashe Attack Damage: 65 ⇒ 60
Ashe Mana nerf: 50/90 ⇒ 50/100
Ashe Enchanted Arrow Damage: 300/450/750 ⇒ 300/450/650
Ashe is no longer Verdant
Lulu Attack Speed: 0.6 ⇒ 0.7
Nunu Mana Adjustment: 0/75 ⇒ 30/90
Zyra Grasping Roots Damage: 200/350/650 ⇒ 200/300/575
Zyra Grasping Roots Stun Duration: 2/2.5/3 ⇒ 1.5/2/2.5 sec

Tier 4

Aphelios Attack Damage: 75 ⇒ 65
Aphelios Max Mana nerf: 0/90 ⇒ 0/150
Aphelios Dark Vigil Attack Damage Scaling: 140/150/180% ⇒ 350/375/475%
Aphelios Dark Vigil Base Damage: 125/150/300 ⇒ 150/200/400
Aphelios Dark Vigil Number of Targets: 4/4/8 ⇒ 5/5/10
Diana Health: 650 ⇒ 750
Diana Attack Damage: 55 ⇒ 75
Diana Attack Speed: 0.65 ⇒ 0.7
Diana Mana buff: 80/160 ⇒ 70/140
Diana Moonfall Damage: 250/350/1500 ⇒ 300/450/2000
Diana is no longer a Dragonslayer (*looks at buffs above* she still slayin’ tho)
Jax Health: 900 ⇒ 1000
Karma Soulflare Damage: 225/280/700 ⇒ 210/260/700
Vel’koz Health: 650 ⇒ 700

Tier 5

Garen God-King ⇒ Victorious
Garen Mana nerf: 40/100 ⇒ 100/180
Garen God-Lion’s Justice max Health percentage Damage: 20/25/200% ⇒ 25/30/200%
Garen God-Lion’s Justice Shield Max Health Percent: 35/45/200% ⇒ 40/55/200%
Garen God-Lion’s Justice Shield Duration: 4 ⇒ 5 seconds
Heimerdinger Upgrade!!! Damage: 500/650/7777 ⇒ 450/600/3333
Kayle Ascension 1 True Damage: 90/100/1000% ⇒ 80/90/1000%
Kayle is no longer Verdant
Teemo Starting Mana buff: 0/60 ⇒ 30/60
Teemo’s doppelhellion can now trigger Cruel’s passive. It’s a cruel, cruel, world.

Items

With Shadow items gone we swapped around some of the Emblems because it was more fun. Cause who doesn’t want to see Olaf as a Hellion/Cavalier?

Hellion Emblem can now be made with a Bow and Spatula (previously Legionnaire Emblem)
Cavalier Emblem can now be made with a Vest and Spatula (previously Ironclad Emblem)
Chalice of Power Ability Power: 25 ⇒ 30
Dragon’s Claw REWORKED: Grants 200 bonus Magic Resist (including components). On being hit by magic or true damage from an Ability, launch a fireball at the Ability’s caster that deals magic damage equal to 30% of their max Health (1 second cooldown).
Hand of Justice REWORKED: The holder gains both of the following: +10 AD and +10 AP and Attacks/Abilities heal for 10% of the damage dealt. At the start of each planning phase, one of these buffs is increased to 40(%).
Infinity Edge ADDED EFFECT: Now also grants +10% Critical Strike Damage
Titan’s Resolve REWORKED: Stacks are now granted on attack rather than on crit. Attack Damage and Ability Power per Stack: 3 ⇒ 2
Trap Claw renamed to Banshee’s Claw
Banshee’s Claw REWORKED: When combat begins, the holder and all allies within 1 hex(es) in the same row gain a shield that blocks the first enemy Ability. No longer Unique
Zeke’s Herald Attack Speed: 25% ⇒ 30%

Bugfixes

They got the jump on me: Assassins will now properly jump slightly before other units move
Tastes like fear: Teemo’s doppelhellion can now trigger the Cruel trait
Not quite resolute: Fixed an issue where Titan’s Resolve could lose its stacks or stop stacking mid combat
Sobriety test: Gragas’s Drunken Rage no longer ignores Banshee’s Claw
Now I’m angry: Sejuani’s Fury of the North now properly deals damage to targets that are CC immune

Holy-moly that was a lot to take in! Stay with us when we review the Radiant Items next.