TFT Patch 12.1 Notes Champions, Traits, Items, & Augments Balance

TFT Patch 12.1 Notes Champions, Traits, Items, & Augments Balance

Find all information you need to know about Teamfight Tactics patch notes that have some changes on champions, traits, items, and hextech augments.

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Patch 12.1 Notes Overview

In this patch 12.1 notes will cover champions, traits, items, and hextech augments that are buffed, nerfed, adjusted, and reworked.

TFT Patch 12.1 Notes | Teamfight Tactics - zilliongamer

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Large Changes

Champions

Caitlyn

  • Ace in the Hole damage: 800/1400/2250 => 800/1400/2000

Swain

  • Max Mana buff: 40/80 => 40/75
  • Death's Hand Healing per enemy hit: 200/230/300 => 225/250/350

Heimerdinger

  • Attack Range: 3 => 4

Malzahar

  • Spell Damage: 700/850/1000 => 650/850/1100

Seraphine

  • Max Mana buff: 80/160 => 80/150
  • Encore Damage & Healing: 250/400/1000 => 275/450/12000

Urgot

  • Purge now counts as a basic attack every: 2nd shot => 3rd shot

Galio

  • Critical Strike Slam Bonus Damage: 80/125/1999 => 70/100/1999
  • Colossal Entrance base Stun Duration: 1.25/1.75/9.5 => 1.5/1.75/9.5 sec

Kai'Sa

  • Health: 900 => 850
  • Icathian Monsoon Damage per missile: 80/100/180 => 70/90/180
  • Starting Mana nerf: 90/150 => 75/150

Tahm Kench

  • Devour Damage Reduction: 40% => 30%
  • At 3-stars will now gain twenty times the usual stats when fed an allied unit.

Items

Guardian Angel

  • Health on revive: 400 => 250

Morellonomicon

  • True Damage burn: 2.5% a sec => 2% a sec

Rapid Firecannon

  • Total Attack Speed: 50% => 60%

Sunfire Cape

  • Proc Rate: 2.5 sec => 2 sec
  • True Damage Burn: 2.5% a sec => 2% a sec

Zz'Rot Portal

  • Health in stage 2: 1500 (unchanged)
  • Health in stage 3: 1700 => 1800
  • Health in stage 4: 1900 => 2100
  • Health in stage 5: 2250 => 2500

Traits

Chemtech

  • Damage Reduction percentage: 25 => 20
  • Max Health regen: 3/4/7/12 => 3/5/8/15%
  • Attack Speed: 20/50/80/125% => 15/50/90/135%

Imperial

  • Tyrant Bonus Damage: 75/125 => 50/150%
  • Units Bonus Damage: 0/75% => 0/80%

Innovator

  • Mechanical Bear base Health: 750 => 850
  • Mechanical Bear Armor & Magic Resist: 60 => 70

Socialite

  • (2) Mana regen per second: 5 => 3

Syndicate

  • (7) bonus amplification: 33% => 50%

Yordle

  • 1-cost spawn odds: 60% => 70%
  • 2-cost spawn odds: 25% => 20%
  • 3-cost spawn odds: 15% => 10%
  • (6) Mana reduction: 20% => 25%

Augments

  • Arcanist Heart now also grants a Swain
  • Challenger Heart now also grants a Warwick => Quinn
  • Protector Heart no longer grants a Blitzcrank
  • Scholar Heart now also grants a Lissandra => Zyra
  • Scarp Heart now also grants an Ekko => Blitzcrank
  • Twinshot Heart now also grants a Graves => kog'Maw
  • Assassin Crest now also grants an Ekko => Talon
  • Arcanist Crest now also grants Twisted Fate => Swain
  • Challenger Crest now also grants a Warwick => Quinn
  • Chemtech Crest now also grants a Zac => Warwick
  • Imperial Crest now also grants a Talon => Swain
  • Mutant Crest no longer grants a Kog'Maw
  • Scrap Crest now also grants an Ekko => Blitzcrank
  • Ardent Censer (Enchanter) bonus Attack Speed: 40% => 50%
  • Ascension Damage amplification after 15 seconds: 65% => 50%
  • Cybernetic Implants bonus Health for equipped units: 200/300/400 => 150/250/350
  • Duet bonus Health: 500 => 400
  • Lifelong Learning (Scholar) Reworked now guaranteed grants Scholar 2 Ability Power after each combat and an additional 2 Ability Power if they survive combat.
  • Makeshift Armor bonus Armor & Magic Resist: 30/45/60 => 35/55/75
  • Portable Forge Armory option, Death's Defiance now grants 20% Omnivamp
  • Spellblade empowered attack Ability Power scaling after casting: 200% => 225%
  • Stand United Attack Damage and Ability Power per active trait: 3/4/5 => 2/3/5
  • Sunfire Board max Health burn: 20% => 16%
  • Woodland Charm copy Health: 1500 => 1600

Small Changes

Champions

Garen

  • Attack Damage: 60 => 70

Graves

  • Max Mana buff: 80/120 => 50/100

Illaoi

  • Harsh Lesson Damage: 175/300/500 => 200/325/550
  • Harsh Lesson Healing: 25/30/35% => 25/30/40%

Kassadin

  • Null Sphere damage reduction: 30% => 25%
  • Null Sphere damage reduction duration: 4 seconds => 5 seconds

Twisted Fate

  • Wild Cards damage: 145/190/255 => 155/205/275

Kog'Maw

  • Barrage Damage: 7/8/9% => 8/8/8%

Talon

  • Attack Speed: 0.7 => 0.75

Zilean

  • Time Bomb Slow Duration: 3 => 4 sec

Ekko

  • Parallel Convergence Damage: 150/200/350 => 175/225/375

Lissandra

  • Iron Maiden Damage: 225/300/500 => 250/325/550

Samira

  • Health: 650 => 700

Vex

  • Health: 800 => 850

Orianna

  • Max Mana buff: 50/140 => 50/130

Sion

  • Decimating Smash Stun Duration: 2/3/6 => 2.5/3/6 sec
  • Decimating Smash Damage: 100/200/500 => 125/200/500

Yone

  • Health: 950 => 850

Viktor

  • Max Mana buff: 0/150 => 0/140

Traits

Metamorphosis

  • Attack Damage and Ability Power growth: 1/2 => 2/4

Items

Chalie of Power

  • Bonus Ability Power: 30% => 35%

Statikk Shiv

  • Bonus Attack Speed: 15% => 10%

Augments

  • Shug It Off max Health regen percentage: 2.5% => 3%
  • Smoke Bomb (Assassin) tooltip now properly reflects the damage reduction applied to the excess damage from the instance of damage that triggers the stealth
  • Smoke Bomb (Assassin) Damage Reduction: 1005% => 80%
  • Sunfire Board and Weakspot are no longer mutually exclusive

Hyper Roll

Zz'Rot Portal

  • Health in stage 1 through 4: 1500 (unchanged)
  • Health in stage 5 through 7: 1900 => 2100
  • Health in stage 8+: 2250 => 2500

Bug Fixes

  • Eternal Winter no longer applies a temporary VFX below the unit when frozen
  • Fixed an issue where Garen with Blue Buff would stop gaining mana in rare situations
  • Frozen Heart generated by Scrap will now properly remove its Attack Speed slow when its holder dies
  • Caitlyb's and Fiora's abilities will now properly cast when targeting an invulnerable unit (e.g., Colossus with Armor Plating)
  • Double Up: There will now always be a winning team visible during the victory sequence, even if all teams were reduced to 0 health in the final battle.
  • Double Up: Players no longer continually take massive damage after surrounding.
  • Seraphine's tooltip now specifies that she casts at the largest group of enemy units
  • Academy Heart's tooltip now states that it grants a Katarina
  • Jinx no longer incorrectly burns enemies for 2.5% of their max Health instead of 2% at 1-star
  • Jinx's tooltip now properly reflects that she burns 2/3/4% max health per second rather than 2/2.5/3%
  • In 11.24 we intended to nerf melee Jayce's bonus Armor & MR (40 => 30) but it never went through. However, we're happy with the power level of 40 Bonus Armor & MR so we're keeping this number.