As a vertical, Faerie has been overperforming fairly often thanks to the powerful synergy of the Queenguard’s Armor with the Healing from the Queen and the synergy between Rakan and fashionable attire. Trimming some power off the Armor's end should leave the trait in a better spot. We also see this as a direct nerf to Rakan, so we’ll hold off on another nerf for him.

Eldritch has struggled across all but its final chase trait. We’re shipping considerable buffs, mainly focused on how the trait scales into the late game, which should both help our vertical Eldritch enjoyers and open up potential to haunt your enemy’s end-game boards with an eerie tinge of Eldritch 3.

We’ve got a few changes to the Faerie/Warrior space. Currently, only one Warrior carry, Katarina, is as battle-hungry as the trait name implies. So we’re buffing the trait primarily at Warrior 4 while nerfing Katarina (later on) and updating Gwen’s dash logic to have her 1v200ing like a true pastry-powered Warrior, the likes of which would make even Pantheon jealous.

Every 1-cost should have a purpose, whether that’s to hold items for later carries or be your four-star superstar with Worth the Wait (Augment).

Even 2-starred on Stage 2, Akali fails to assassinate anyone. She somehow finds her way into the enemy backline, tickles them, granting them more Mana, and then dies. We’re buffing her AD ratio here so she’ll scale better with star levels, but also AD items.

Ezreal’s Blaster comp has blasted off (again?). With the extensive damage amp he gets from his trait, we’re hitting his AD with a slight bump, which should do more numbers to his power ceiling when he gets that 3-item, 4 Blaster build than you’d expect. Hecarim’s rework left him bucking around like a wild Mustang (or Brumby for my Australian readers). We’re happy with him being a viable carry with a unique reset and charge fantasy, but we’re taking him back into the stables until his power level…stable-izes. Sugarcraft Jinx isn’t in the sweetest spot right now. A buff to her AD ratio will have her ripping through tanks like they’re fluffy, perfectly proofed croissants.

Gwen’s getting her Diplôme de Pâtisserie (that’s French for a diploma from a fancy culinary institute), which in TFT will allow her to prioritize hitting way more enemies per snip… cause that’s what they teach you at culinary school, no? Anyway, she will be doing a lot more total damage after this update, so we’re preemptively shipping a nerf to prevent her from being too cooked, too crisp, too buttery smooth upon release.

Briar’s soared to the top of the 5-costs thanks to a new bug that makes her unstoppable (immune to CC). We’re fixing the bug in the hopes that she ends up in a perfectly vicious state of balance.

Flexible was released as a newly Prismatic and relatively balanced Augment, but it had a tricky buff on away boards where it wasn’t providing the bonus health as intended. We’re fixing that bug, but shipping a compensation nerf to prevent Flexible from making you too Flexible—hypermobility is a thing 8/. We’ve brought back Item Ladder after fixing a bug linked to the Augment that forced our hand on disabling it. Pillar of Flames sputtered out in a dimly lit place upon release. Our B-patch following up on 14.18 wasn’t enough to get it into a competitive place, but we erred on the side of caution. We’re now turning up the heat on Shen’s Champion Augment in the hopes it can find its place in reroll comps! Aside from the above, we’re focused on lifting the underperformers that were over-nerfed in our last patch, and nerfing some of our dominant Trait/Champion Augments.

Moonstone continues to be our best-performing Support Item both due to its power and flexible use.

We’re lowering the amount of emblems in the game overall, as their impact is exceptionally high. Instead of making Emblem-focused Charms more expensive, to the point where they are a dead slot 90% of the time, we’re opting to remove them. That said, we’re keeping Conjure Emblem because a random Emblem is fun… or funny. With three Charms leaving, we’re adding two new ones! Conjure Support grants a pricey Support Anvil (It’s like buying a Gold Augment no?), while Study Hard gives you a new way to power level if you can manage to hit a few in a row!

Sugarcraft is a bit weaker than we’d want it to be at Sugarcraft (4) and (6), but instead of buffing it at (4) we’re opting to help out its two carries (Gwen and Jinx) that aren’t finding much success. As for here, we’re giving Sugarcraft (6) a bit more HP in hopes that they’ll keep the bakery near my house open longer… or just survive a bit longer in fights.

So many light bumps you’d think we were playing volleyball.

You can almost taste that Deathblade tooltip.