Blackthorn: Now that Blackthorn sacrifices have been optimized, we’re targeting Blackthorn (6) and the base AP sacrifice to lower the power of Blackthorn’s current strongest comp, which utilizes a super-charged Azir to rip through fights. This isn’t the only place we’re nerfing Azir, so if this reads as too small of a nerf for him here, that is intended. Elderwood: Elderwood (9) is almost an auto-win if you have the Emblems and two-stars. Fae: We were too conservative with our Fae buff last patch, so now we’re adding more magic fae dust, primarily in its heal, which will benefit Rakan and Lillia more. We’re also flattening some of the later Golden Pixie breakpoints to smooth that econ transition. Flora Fatalis: With consistent healing, the trait and Emblem can keep super tanks' health bars from moving. Nerfing the heal in the trait should be another smaller nerf to Rammus/Azir comps. Rapidfire: For a trait that only needs one Emblem to pop off, Rapidfire is just a bit too strong of a vertical Class. Riftbeast: Now that Riftbeast is an option to play from multiple angles, we still think the Riftbeast (7) trait is slightly too strong. A small nerf here will keep it in line with other late-game strategies.

Caitlyn: Caitlyn can find success in a few narrow comps, especially in the past when vertical Juggernauts were strong. We’re giving her a small buff here so she can lock in on more comps as a reroll Rageblade user.

Azir: We’ve nerfed a few things around Azir’s go-to comp, but now we have the main Azir nerf, which is simply a flat damage nerf. Mama Beak: We’re fixing a mana lock bug that was pretty big for the Convergence’s best Mama. As compensation, we’re bringing her damage down a tad, but this should still result in a small, chirp-sized buff overall. Tristana: Tristana is getting a pretty big buff that should have her becoming a major threat when her traits and items come online.

Malphite: Since we’re nerfing Flora Fatalis, Malphite’s power ceiling has come down, giving us room to buff him in a more general way via a stronger shield. Morgana: Morgana is typically used to spread utility items and chip damage backliners, but she can’t get through strong frontliners to save her life. Our buff here is focused on helping her get through that frontline with more initial and bonus curse damage for her primary three targets. Sentinel: Sentinel is seen on a lot of boards, itemized and unitemized. With our change here, Sentinel should be worse unitemized, but a better AP ratio makes Sentinel a bit better with Items. Overall, this is a slight nerf, unless you’ve been building Sentinel with tons of AP… in which case you keep doing you… Sett: This is a tiny AP ratio buff that gets bigger for our vertical Blossom players who get more AP as they commit to the trait. Soraka: With a decent-sized buff to her Ability, Soraka should open up as a viable primary carry in AP lines.

Alune: Alune is good, but itemizing her doesn’t really move the needle. We’re weakening her durability passive down to make room for her as a strong itemized carry. Ashe: Last patch we over-nerfed Ashe, who in patch 18.3 was often doing the most damage on the board with just utility items. Our buff here will incentivize you to give her AD items, while also allowing her to benefit more from the bonus Blossom AD in vertical Blossom boards. Taric: Taric doesn’t really have a 5-cost fantasy as a tank. We want him to sparkle like a Legendary unit that you can itemize, so we’re making him even tankier and buffing his AP ratio a lot on his and his partner’s empowered attacks.

We’ve done some behind-the-scenes tailoring for Augments, so you should see fewer AP Augments when you are leaning AD and fewer AD Augments when you are skewing AP. Consuming Flora: With Flora Fatalis Emblem coming down in power, we’re able to give this Emblem a nice buff—maybe Veigar will come back into the meta with this. Dark Ritual: Dark Ritual’s playstyle is quite fun, but the super-tank Elise strategy is a few legs above other super-tank strategies. Expected Unexpectedness: 4-costs are very strong in this set, as are our scaling 5-costs, so we’re nerfing this Augment a bit to stay on par with other, more expected Augments.

With optimization around the bench and board to filter Wisps is not super fun. It’s a heavy knowledge check and APM (actions per minute) check that we’re not comfortable with. If you do WANT to keep optimizing for Wisps, you still can, but we’re making it less optimal and required so you can focus on what’s truly core to TFT; missing your roll down. Past our changes to Wisps filtering, we’re adjusting a few Wisps for balance and ease of filtering. The biggest callouts here are Abandon Ship, which at 0 gold was too easy to force, and Hand of Baron, which was just too powerful.

While we’ll still be listing our bug fixes for the patch here, be sure to check out the Follow the Fix website for a full breakdown of bug fixes both for this patch, last patch, and beyond.

Late in the conversion process we found visual bugs with some of the cosmetics we introduced this patch. Since none of these impacted gameplay and few are exceptionally noticeable (barring niche interactions like the extra pair of eyes Yuubee gets after emoting immediately following a Finisher) we’ve opted to continue with shipping them to live this patch. These are still on our list to come back to, squash bugs, and polish, in addition to other cosmetics with similar issues. Our priority is currently converting as many cosmetics as possible to ensure players get a chance to use their favorites again and made the call to keep these enabled, but we’ll come back to them in a future patch. Here's the list: