14.17 was rather large (don’t tell 14.18), with a new game mode, many balance changes, and a few bugs that snuck through our testing. We’re correcting the most critical bugs here, including one that should help those Tocker’s Trails Chaos Mode runs.

TFT’s first-ever (and experimental) PvE mode challenges you to survive 30 rounds, and if that’s not tough enough, there’s always Chaos mode to add just that: more mode…I mean, CHAOS! Here are some quick facts that you can read while patching, but the best way to learn about our new experimental mode is to experiment with it yourself!

Arcana has a few adjustments to encourage different High Arcana readings. This, paired with some Hecarim buffs later on, should make for a Hecarim carry comp that’ll surely be a chariot to top fours.

Now that Karma’s power is in check, it’s time we let Chrono verticals tick up the LP.

Faerie 6 and 9 aren’t taking flight as major verticals, so we’re giving their magical trinkets more power while making the Monarch’s Crown (Faerie 9) provide massive damage amp if you can get to 25 stacks.

For Pyro, we’re shifting some of the power from the execute into the Attack Speed scaling with Cinders to make those games where you collect 100 Cinders feel more worthy than a meager 25% Attack Speed.

We’re seeing the final reward for Sugarcraft be a bit too powerful for when players are accessing it. We want to keep the sweet surprise just as saccharine, so instead of slicing a bit of its power off, we’re requiring you to leave it in the oven for longer!

“Forget not the trait bot.” — Anonymous TFT PlayerAs part of our greater goal for this patch, we’re making sure the champs that were only fielded to fill out useful trait breakpoints will also have a chance at being viable itemized units/item holders too!

Even with a 2-cost meta in our opening patches, these provided too little to be competitive. A seemingly small buff to Cassioepia’s base attack speed will slither into your damage charts with AS items and ramping those early Rageblade stacks faster.Speaking of 2-cost metas, we’re following up with another light nerf for Ahri after our B-patch last week which left her a bit too strong still.

Hecarim is getting a buff to his passive reset charges and cleave AD ratio, but it’ll be much more significant if you can saddle him up with AD items. The AP ratio is decreasing slightly here, so for High Arcana Ahri players, beware; this buff isn’t for you.We identified a bug with Jinx regarding the true damage from her ability, which currently doesn’t scale correctly with bonus AD. Fixing this is a big buff, so we’re shipping the fix alongside some compensation nerfs. This should leave her power neutral for the beginning to middle of the game and slightly stronger late game if she can get enough AD from her traits and items.Swain is getting harder to burst down and will get much tankier at early star levels after continual casts. His buff at three stars is a bit smaller, as he’s already finding success there. With increased defensive outputs on his ability, we can nudge his damage down slightly.Veigar and Vex’s go-to reroll Mage comp is quite good right now, but requires an exceptionally strong start to make up for how long it takes Veigar to ramp with Charms and stars. We’re giving the pair a significant buff at one star, but ever-so-slightly lowering Veigar’s output at 3-stars and reducing his Charm scaling to lower the power ceiling that this short bee-mage is brushing against.

Gwen is shifting a bit to be less bursty in her first few casts and more impactful as she gets snipping around the board. With this change, be sure to try out Blue Buff and more defensive items so she can keep stacking snips and collecting tips.

With Briar’s debut in TFT, we wanted to make the “aww cute” into an “AHH, RUN!” To bring the scare back into Briar we’re substantially buffing her in various ways, from Attack Speed to base damage, all the way to the power she gets when draining your Tactician of their lifeforce.Currently, Milio’s not worth itemizing much past a Spear of Shojin, so we’re making him slightly less reliant on that (he’ll still want it) by lowering his Max Mana, while greatly increasing the AP ratio of his ability (note that he throws 3 knick-knacks, so multiply the AP ratio by three).

With 14.17, we’re focused on lifting the power floor of our underperforming Augments to ensure that the strategies they open up are worth pursuing. That being said, we’ll still be nerfing our biggest overperformers, so Keepers enjoyers take note.

With how quickly fights are decided early game, Ascension was performing awfully when picked on 2-1, so we’re doing away with that literal click bait while giving the Augment a nice buff to boost its lackluster performance as your 2nd and 3rd Augment options.Even with our B-patch nerf to the Augment last week, Flexible continues to provide ample base value with an even more powerful ceiling. We’re lowering the Health your team gets from each Emblem to keep that high-roll, Emblem-packed ceiling in check.Previously, Dragon’s Spirit was confusing, requiring you to itemize specific units (Neeko, Swain) that could accommodate the massive healing required to grant additional item components. Instead of buffing the Augment to make this threshold easier to hit, we’re making it more intuitive. Before you try it, stacking Dragon’s Claws won’t give you more Durability or Health.Metabolic Accelerator has been in a tough spot with Magic n’ Mayhem’s high-stakes gameplay moving to the Augment space. Instead of giving it the buff it would need to be viable, we’re opting to vault it for future sets.

While Anger Issues feels great on backline carries that benefit from the stats it grants, not having dedicated tank items for your frontline to buy time to stack up your collection of cool and angry swords doesn’t feel too great. Adding a bit more Armor and MR should solve that.Like our change to Anger Issues, we’re buffing our worst-performing Augments as we often do.

Items are providing too much scaling power for champions than we’re currently comfortable with. We’re lowering the less visible base stats of our stronger items to lessen the impact of items (especially when you combine three strong ones), but we’re keeping the unique outputs of core items intact to preserve their identity and keep their use cases consistent. Our goal here is to move the state of items slightly closer to a point where those who have a full build aren’t as EXTREMELY far away in terms of power from those who have no items.

Lowering the power of our Radiant Items that have also been nerfed above, with a few exceptions for our three worst-performing ones.

Artifacts are a different story. Their specific power (not you Mogul’s Mail) has made them tough to utilize with our Magic n’ Mayhem roster. We’re adding a bit more power to our worst-performing ones. Do not miss out on Vampiric Scepter Warwick or Prowler’s Claw Nilah!

Support Items are overperforming across the board (and Augment prop), so we’re lowering the Health they grant by a lot. Knight’s Vow, which grants extra Health at the start of combat as a buff remains at 50 Health.

We’re adding a few new Charms to empower your reroll comps in the early game (Magic Mirror), make comebacks with our recently fielded 1-star frontline in the mid-game (Starless Shield), or just make a loss hurt a bit less (Comfort Food). Be sure to try those three and more out!With how many niche (but powerful) Artifacts we have, a Charm that randomly turns items into temporary Artifacts could be great, but it could also lose you the fight, and everything in between. Charms shouldn’t be this much of a gamble, and this one often was a losing gamble, so we’re opting to remove the Charm entirely, especially with some fun and new adds.We’ve also buffed almost all of our Trait-linked Charms that haven’t provided enough magic to be worth the gold.

I’m playing 6 Vanguard every game; idk why we put this in the Small section.

Is she back? Absolutely not like she was in our opening patch, but maybe, just maybe, she’ll have a viable return with the right set-up.

We’re buffing your ability to take a bathroom break, a quick stretch, or grab a glass of water. Please do so—and remember to wash your hands.Placebo’s been underperforming, and we’re not confident that adding more gold is the correct call, so we’re giving it a bit more placebo to make the combat buff ever-so-itsy-bitsy-teeny-tiny more noticeable. This is one buff that’s definitely not a placebo.

Flexible and Trait Tracker were supposed to be made mutually-exclusive in the last patch, but the fix didn’t get in properly. We have already disabled every Trait Augment when you pick Built Different, but Trait Tracker occasionally sneaks in via a bug.