Starting on PBE this patch, you’ll be able to purchase levels for your battle pass, with this feature heading to Live on September 10th.

Previously, Power Ups would still show up occasionally despite the weight (probability of their appearance) being 0. We’re fixing that to make sure they won’t be showing their face when they are not supposed to. We’re also reintroducing two Power Ups whose weight was previously 0, meaning they weren’t showing up at all. Since this may be your first time seeing some of these, we have their descriptions below.

Getting all gold when your opponents are being showered in items can feel pretty bad. We’re changing the all gold drop to make it feel more even across the board.

There are more ways than ever before to get a four-star unit in TFT, and their consistency is also matched by their power. We’re removing their bonus HP for becoming four-stars to ensure that other units, regardless of their stars, are also able to be the protagonist for once.

The brief lockout timer when an Armory pops up to prevent misclicking has been slightly reduced so you can complete your actions faster and truly flex with your crazy-high APM—go get ’em.

Diamonds are forever, as Crystal Gambit (7) remains our best Gold tier trait for the second patch in a row. But just like diamonds, the values for Crystal Gambit are completely constructed, so we’re choosing to lower the overall Damage Amp for the trait, which helps us with our goal of slowing combat pacing as well.

With two 4-costs, Mighty Mech (3) is easily splashable to provide powerful late-game CC with Jarvan IV and a recently buffed Yone, and a damage with battle-top Karma. We’re lowering the late-game scaling for Mighty Mech (3) and reducing the healing it receives to cut back on the front-line power the trait provides.

Luchador is currently overperforming on the defensive end of things with both powerful heals and a cleanse that can remove damage-over-time effects (sorry Malzahar). We’re wrestling this trait down to a balanced state with these nerfs, but have plans in the future for bigger Luchador changes. Hopefully that can keep the trait strong enough to pin down their place in the meta without relying on a gimmick that’s quickly turning them into a heel (wrestling term for the bad guy).

Unless you get Lulu on 2-1, it can feel pretty bad to play Monster Trainer, struggling to hit the level 30 XP for the ramp up. With this buff you should, on average, hit Level 30 one to two rounds faster, making even a Stage 3-1 Lulu viable.

Whether you’re the charming leader of your school’s club, or part of the club they’d never let me start in school, we’re giving buffs to our underperforming traits for Star Guardian’s Ahri bonus and Wraith alike.

Naafiri and Syndra are the two best 1-cost item holders for their roles respectively. With a little less shield here and a bit less damage there, we should see other openers and item-holders fight their way to the top. Since we’re not seeing anyone play reroll Naafiri right now, we’re keeping her nerfs to her one and two-star forms.

Have you ever run full speed into a wall? No? Are you sure? I bet you have. You definitely have. Don’t be embarrassed, I’ve been completely wiped by a two-star Mundo with two items and a rogue Giant’s Belt too. Well, the results are in, and our best 2-cost (and maybe 3-cost if he was a 3-cost) tank is harder to take down than a brick wall with a toothbrush, so we’re taking the chisel to this brick wall to bring him down to 2-cost size.

You know, it kinda makes sense why Gangplank was so hard to balance this past patch. Of course, a pirate would need a Sea-Patch to get to the right spot. Great jokes aside, we’re moving Gangplank’s power from his snowbally gold farming to his ability damage to bring him back from the dead, but not nearly in the same way he was before, as his Attack Speed, AD, and Mana are all worse off than his 15.2 non-C-patched form.

Kobuko is exclusively itemized as a tank in Mentor (4) as he’s able to constantly damage the backline, chipping away at them while he absorbs a ton of abilities and focus. This change will ensure that when he is being built as a tank, he won’t also be topping damage charts with high value backline access.

Caitlyn is our best performing 3-cost, with her bullet bounces and backline headshots haunting my dreams. The slight tweak in numbers will ensure she’s still a capable sniper, just maybe not TenZ level.

Senna’s been little more than a holder for Last Whisper or Burn items. It’s time her Super Beam Cannon became canonically accurate, even if my positioning isn’t.

It’s “I want to be the very best,” not “I want to pick the very best.” Smolder’s been far and above the bestest boy in the Monster Trainer lineup. With the buff to trainer XP, we’re toning him down slightly to make sure he doesn’t ramp out of control.

Mentor Form Yasuo is very good, but his base form? Not so much. We’re reducing the gap between his forms.

Overall, we’re deflating damage across the meta 4-costs to allow other carries to shine and to continue working into our goal of slowing combat pacing.

Samira was previously not getting her double omnivamp during her ability. Now that this is fixed, she should be able to survive more instances of jumping into a clump of enemies. But with this quality (and extension of her) life buff, we’re lowering her damage as she’s already in a great spot as a carry.

Seraphine and Yone are two five-costs you never wanna Aura Farm for. With some nice buffs to their damage, we expect their Aura to be far more farmable.

Rageblade has been the default BIS (best in slot) for most of the Champion Augments. We’re moving their base Attack Speed buff into an additional Stat Mod, which’ll function more similarly to equipping an Attack Speed item or selecting an Attack Speed Augment like Pumping Up. This will make Rageblade less of a dominant item and should open up other build paths.

Last patch, we tried to remove the Hand of Justice that came alongside Isekai, but the change evaded our attempt—how on-brand for the Augment. We’re back once again to keep this world-jumping boy from jumping too consistently to the top of the lobby.

We’re further sharpening Blue Buff’s role as the premier Mana Regen item that needs no other stat to boost its Mana Regen (unlike Spear of Shojin). Speaking of, Shojin is our default BIS for most backline casters, so it’s getting a small nerf to account for its dominance.

With combat pacing slowing, the already dominant Guinsoo’s Rageblade will become even better. The item’s already enabling some of our best comps, so we’re giving it a medium-sized nerf.

As mentioned earlier, the power of our Radiant Items has also accelerated combat pacing. We’re shipping nerfs to our overperformers here, but adding two buffs for the two who’ve failed to shine this set.

Many of you may have been looking for an Ashe or Jayce nerf. We’ve found that while strong, these champions only perform over the line when enabled by our most powerful Artifacts. So, we’re adding a few nerfs to their go-tos, while buffing Seeker’s Armguard, which hasn’t been sought by anyone this set.

Over 9000 created an odd player behavior where you’d check for it before even clearing the first rounds of PvE. We’re removing its ability to stack on PvE rounds to incentivize more strategic uses of Power Ups, while also giving this already strong one a needed nerf.

Mighty Mech’s Prismatic has been an incredibly elusive chase that lacked in autonomy, as you could be offered one of the Augments needed to hit the trait, but none of the others. We’re changing this to give you more control in your Prismatic pursuits. Still, with this newfound reliability, we’re dramatically downshifting the power of the individual Augments, making it less of an RNG game and more of a “Can you survive to level 10 without econ or significant combat power Augments?”

Two other Prismatic quests have been just out of reach, but school’s back in session, so study up and you’ll be able to ace the Academy and save the world!

Ahri and Viego need a slight push to open up reroll comps with them as the centerpiece.

Some three-stars just aren’t making stars in our eyes.