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What's New
Hope y'all had a terrific release patch and were able to cook up some wild new comps with our magical traits, Charms mechanic, and the occasional High Stakes or Champion Augment. 14.16 marks our first big balance patch and we're going wide with pages of changes full of buffs and nerfs for Augments, champs, traits, and more!
With our B-patch which goes live on the 20th of August at noon PT, we'll be addressing the top-most end of our overperformers. Prioritizing damage nerfs here should also slow down combat pacing, the speed at which fights finish, ever-so-slightly.
As sort of a spoiler for our next patch, 14.17, expect to see a focus on buffs for champions/strategies that are making more Mayhem than Magic for your LP. More on that next week!
Traits
Portal (3) has proven to be a swift portal through the early game, with the trait's power providing high impact, especially in its base damage when one star low-cost units have smaller Health pools to begin with.
Vanguard has been somewhat of a secret backbone to a variety of comps. We're going lighter here, especially with our focus on nerfing damage to slow combat pacing, but the trait's prevalence was enough to merit a small nerf.
That power differential between Pyro 4 and 5 is very wide. This isn't great since Pyro 5 is pretty easy to hit: all you need is a Spatula, a bow, and a champion willing to commit arson. On TFT we're doing our part to prevent a wildfire in the meta, so we're turning down the heat for Pyro 5.
Champions
Ahri doesn't actually care if you're a tank. She's still going to 2-shot you – which might be okay, if she was a 5-cost, but alas, not even this trickster can charm her way out of a substantial nerf.
Nilah and Fiora have Warrior comps on the rise. While not as popular as Pyro or Ahri, we're tracking a steady rise in success for this comp and are proactively shipping damage nerfs to the two. For Fiora we're going a bit heavier as her kit brings a ton of synergistic value with Durability (damage reduction), Omnivamp (from Warrior), and correct itemization (Bloodthirster).
Complete release notes can be found here.
