While having unique Radiant item names can be fun and quirky, it can make it difficult to find the exact item you're looking for when there are no images around to help. We're changing all Radiant Items' names to be "Radiant [-craftable item name]-". We're all saying Radiant Thornmail, BT, etc. anyway.

Now you won't get punished as much for missing a Carousel pick, so go ahead and grab that glass of water.

Cypher is overperforming both in our high-skill and professional environments. With the highest of skill competitions about to start, we're coming in with a substantial nerf for its first breakpoint, and a lighter one for its second and third.

Exotech landed particularly strong after our 14.6 buffs, and it was more due more to the exo (the increased HP) than the tech, so we're lowering the HP value you get for slamming items onto Exotech units while sneaking in a bit of AD to make Holobow more flexible across Exotech units (previously primarily a Varus item).

Last patch, we took Vanguard (6) from 40% to 48% max Health shield, and while this certainly made an unplayed trait more playable, it did so too consistently, leaving these frontliners too guarded.

While we’ve enjoyed seeing a 1-cost reroll line focused around one giant and powerful Dr. Mundo—one could refer to him as a gorilla—we’re not convinced that even 100 smaller, less powerful units could take him on. We’re reducing his power ceiling by lowering his max HP heal ratio, while strengthening the weakest 1-cost in his go-to comp to even the odds.

While great in the early game, we see Vi levels out in the late game, so we've got a nerf just to her one-two punch—I mean one and two-star level.

As the go-to tank for Nitro-based reroll comps, Shyvana's been burning herself out more than her opponents. A better AP to HP ratio will help her come online, especially in Techie verticals that need her the most!

Graves' power ceiling with Artifacts that take advantage of his 5 auto-pellets is far too high for a 2-cost. We're removing this interaction so his go-to Artifacts only apply once, and ever -so -slightly reducing his projectile damage, as even his non-Artifact builds are overperforming. ever-so-slightly.

A.M.P. comps are one of our strongest level 9 boards, and much of that ceiling is due to Annie splashing backlines while Samira (whose A.M.P. variant is nerfed in the next section) finishes them off. While it would make sense to use Ziggs and Kobuko in these comps to activate Cyberboss and further Strategist breakpoints, the most powerful boards don't even use these units, opting instead for single-star 5-costs (coughs in Zac). Lowering Annie's damage allows us to spread the power of A.M.P. comps into units that aren't performing well across other comps like Neeko and Ziggs, in the hopes that Ffast 9 A.M.P. is still a viable comp, but now has more flexible variations. These buffs should also help the late- game boards that aren't able to compete with the dominant AP comp as is (Street Demon Strategist, Cyberboss).

Call it Blobageddon, the Blobpocalypse, whatever you want, Zac's been popping up at the top of damage and damage taken charts alike thanks to his blobware. We're lowering the AP he gets from each Blob, but increasing the AP ratio, so if you want to equip AP items on him, you can still play this tanky boy as a Trojan Carry.

With competition in full swing, we've made the hard decision to disable a favorite, but competitively overpowered (and underpowered) Black Market Augment. As our most reaction-time heavy moment in TFT (perhaps our only true APM checks), Think Fast is uniquely impacted by high and low ping (network connection) environments. Those microseconds of delay really matter when playing in our globally competitive environment, where some players may have lower or higher ping than others.

We're disabling Spare Parts (Nitro) due to a bug with the Turret, and Overclocked (A.M.P.) because, honestly, it's not our best work. Overclocked asks you to run A.M.P. but not play the comp as a pure vertical, which is a bit counterintuitive, and then gives you rerolls while asking you to equip items on your A.M.P. units, which also doesn't make a ton of sense.

While Miss Fortune can find success as a secondary carry alongside some more reliable single-target damage (Zeri), she's unable to achieve the solo-carry status that we expect of two-star 4-costs when fully itemized. We're giving her a smidge of AD and a better 7 Syndicate Kingpin bonus to give her a better shot at carrying in Syndicate/Dynamo heavy comps.

Memory Bank (Dynamo) is a great trait Augment when you can get it online early and spend enough Mana to gain its rewards. It's not so great when you get it offered late and fall substantially behind the curve.

We've got some significant Double Up Updates with the goal of reducing the frequency of three-star 4-costs, which have become an all-too-reliant win-condition in our mid to higher brackets of skill.

Our first adjustment is to Teamwork Cannon cooldowns. Cannons can now only send one-star units, and the cooldown now scales with the unit's cost. Since there's a fair amount of counter-play in Double Up around holding 3-costs, we're keeping the cooldown at three turns for them, as well as 1 and 2-costs. To a similar end, we're removing the Duplicator from the Gift Armory and removing ReinFourcement, the Augment, which allows your next 4-cost purchased to be two-stars. Since the Teamwork Cannon still exists, and since Double Up is a higher inflationary mode, we still expect to see three-star 4-costs more frequently here than in standard queues. We will continue to monitor their frequency and, as always, make adjustments as needed.

Aside from Miss Fortune, we're making sure all these carries have their moment to do so.

It's all buffs!