Teamfight Tactics patch 18.1

Patch 18.1 is our first foray into the Enchanted Wilds on live with our transition from Hextech to Unreal. With the new engine, it's taking time for us to get up to speed, reach parity, and eventually, accelerate into the full potential of our new engine. With that in mind, there are going to be some very noticeable differences between set 17 and 18 that we are actively working to close the gap on.

• Bugs: With a new set going live, there are always a few bugs to be found with the millions of games occurring in just the opening hours of a set. With a new engine, we expect that few to be more than usual, but as with PBE, we're actively working on fixing them, so as always please report any bugs you come across using community social spaces, support tickets, or the client.
• Loading Times: Upon launch, loading into Enchanted Wilds will take longer than normal. We thank you for your patience during these load screens, and we are working on the back-end to reduce them.
• Pings and Mini-map: You may notice that the mini-map is gone, and with it, pings are MIA. With the minimap gone, we still want to preserve the strategic (or humorous) communications from Pings, so we're taking Pings into the shop to rework them into a social tool that's not bound to the minimap. This will take some time and won't be ready on release, but we'll ping you when we've got a clearer understanding of their release timing.
• Friend spectate on Live is something that we know is important for community super-contributors, community events, and just hanging out with your pals. It’s something we will not have on launch, but is on the docket to release long-term with the intention of a better spectator experience overall.
• Patch Size: 18.1 is going to be big on the data size side of things, and the game side of things—it is a new set… Expect future patches to be smaller in size after our initial release.
• Finishers: As we port our entire catalogue of Tacticians, Arenas, Booms, and Emotes over to Unreal, the trickiest aspect of our transition has been bringing over Finishers. As a temporary solution to speed up this process, we’re displaying Finishers as a video rather than in engine. Until Finishers are rebuilt in engine, they’ll be performed on River Sprites.
• Cosmetics: Migrating all our cosmetics over from Hextech to Unreal is going to take some time. Each patch we plan on adding more and more cosmetics until we’ve achieved parity. For a detailed list of the Cosmetics available on release, please see the section at the end of these notes.

We're keeping our minimum specifications fairly similar on Mobile, with the exception of iOS 2GB & Android 2/3 GB devices, which make up a pretty small portion of global devices with TFT installed. As for PC, our minimum specifications are Windows 10 (Version 19041+), DirectX11 (Feature Level 4.3), and Shader Model 5.

For those of you who achieved Gold or higher in Space Gods Ranked or Double up, great job! There'll be a very excited Lumie to herald your victory!

SET MECHANIC: WISPS

For a detailed dive into Wisps mechanic make sure you check out the Enchanted Wilds Overview. For now, here are some highlights.

• Wisps are split into 7 Categories (Champion, Combat, Misc, Shop, Gold/XP, Risky, Item). These categories have distinct coloring and icons to make rolling down and scouting as their icon will appear by a player's Tactician HP bar upon purchase.
• Wisps can only be purchased during the planning phase. After the planning phase, the Wisp will be whisked away, revealing the unit that was hiding behind it.
• Wisps appear in every other shop.
• After stage 5, every other Wisp is guaranteed to be a Combat Wisp.

CAROUSEL

• The Carousel has returned!
• Carousel now has a chance to contain more champions and/or champions with a higher costs than normal.

TARGETING

In hextech, units were hardcoded to retarget after being CC'd (stunned, knocked-up), targeting the closest enemy to them. This meant if a backliner was hit by an AOE stun, they'd retarget whoever is closest to them'bad luck if you're an assassin that's snuck into the backline. With Set 18, we're able to do away with this awkward retargeting as CC will no longer be accompanied by target amnesia.

• Units will no longer retarget after returning from Crowd Control.

PVE LOOT

Pro-tip: You still shouldn't miss loot at Stage 4-7.

• Missed loot from Stage 4-7, or later PVE rounds, can now overflow to the next PVE round.

OPENING ENCOUNTERS

We're removing a few Opening Encounters that were too warping, while adding some more standard-style Encounters to keep lower impact variance varied. We've played with high and low impact Opening Encounters for a while now, and, especially in a set like 18, there doesn't need to be such extreme highs in variance with this system, as much of the game to game variance comes instead from Wisps, Augments, Item distribution, and what units you see in the shop.

• New Encounters:
  • Completed Item Anvil Start: All players start with a Completed Item Anvil.
  • Reroll Subscription: Gain rerolls at the start of each stage.
  • Item Forge: All players start with 2 Completed Item Anvils.
• Removed Encounters:
  • Loot Subscription
  • Artifact Anvil
  • Reroll Start

3RD PARTY FRIENDS

There's always so much to cover with a new set! Good thing we have plenty of friends who're more than willing to lend a helping hand with things like comp guides, pretty cheat sheets, and more!

• TFTAcademy
• TFTips.app
• LoL Chess
• Mobalytics
• Blitz.gg
• MetaTFT
• OPGG
• Tacter
• Tactics.tools
• TFTactics
• TRACKER.GG

AUGMENT CYCLING: REMOVED

The following Augments are lost in space.

• AFK
• At What Cost
• Aura Farming
• Blood Offering
• Calculated Loss
• Charge Transfer I
• Charge Transfer II
• Climb The Ladder I
• Climb The Ladder II
• Construct-A-Companion
• Cosmic Restart
• Crash Test Dummies
• Exiles I
• Exiles II
• Feed the Flames
• Forward Thinking
• Heavy Is the Crown
• Kahunahuna
• Know Your Enemy
• Little Buddies
• Lunch Money
• On a Roll
• ReinFOURcement
• Restart Mission
• Risky Moves
• Savings Account
• Second Wind
• Second Wind II
• Side Effects
• Subscription Service
• Sunfire Board
• Tiniest Titan
• Tiny Titans
• Tiny, but Deadly
• Trifecta I
• Trifecta II
• Two Tanky
• Two Much Value
• Vampiric Vitality I
• Warlord's Honor
• Win Out
• Wise Spending
• You Have My Bow

RETURNING AUGMENTS

The following Augments have been reclaimed by the Wilds.

• Called Shot
• Caretaker's Favor
• Celestial Blessing
• Cooking Pot
• Coronation
• Silver Destiny
• Silver Destiny Plus
• Silver Destiny Plus Plus
• Gold Destiny
• Gold Destiny Plus
• Prismatic Destiny
• Prismatic Destiny Plus
• Hard Bargain
• Investment Strategy
• Kingslayer
• Know Your Enemy
• Max Build
• Mess Hall
• Pandora's Bench
• Precision and Grace
• Promised Protection
• Time Skip
• Young and Wild and Free

AUGMENTS ADJUSTED

Adjusting a few Augments to be ready for the new set.

For Augments Backline Blueprint / Frontline Foundation, we've made a tooltip adjustment to allow for easier use for champions like Diana in Backline Blueprint, whose last-listed trait is a tank trait, and Kog'Maw and Azir whose last-listed traits have no Emblems, but who have Invoker and Executioner respectively, which are valid Emblems.

We've renamed Challenger's Grace Renamed from Precision and Grace to prevent player confusion due to 'Precision' also being a keyword for ability crit.

Pandora's Bench now better reflects the actual likelihood of a champion getting rolled rather than independently rolling a champion without context of their available copies in the pool.

• Band of Thieves II Delay: 6 Player Combats ⇒ 5 Player Combats
• Backline Blueprint / Frontline Foundation: Tooltip updated to say 'class' instead of 'last-listed trait'.
• Birthday Reunion Rework: Gain a random 2-star 2-cost champion. When you reach Level 6, random component. When you reach Level 9, gain a random 2-star 5-cost champion.
• Bronze for Life I/II Damage Amp %: 2 ⇒ 2.5%
• Build-a-Bud Initial Gold: 10 ⇒ 6
• Buried Treasures II Num Rounds: 5 ⇒ 6
• Challenger's Grace Renamed from Precision and Grace
• Comeback Story Attack Speed Per Missing Player Health: 0.4% ⇒ 0.3%
• Healing Orbs Heal is now instant. Now looks at the allies within 3 hexes of the target and heals the lowest % health ally (rather than just nearest). Defaults to nearest if no one is within 3 hexes
• Forged in Strength Health Threshold: 30 ⇒ 35. Reward: 3 random Artifacts ⇒ 1 Artifact, 1 random completed item, 2 random components
• Going Long Immediate Gold: 16g ⇒ 10g
• Living Forge Rounds: 9 ⇒ 10
• Luxury Subscription Gold: 7 ⇒ 3
• Max Build Rework: Gain 10 free shop rerolls. When you reach level 9, gain 3 free shop rerolls and a Champion Duplicator.
• Money Hungry+ Initial Gold: 10 ⇒ 13
• Pandora's Bench Now is less likely to reroll 2-star copies of champions with few copies left in the pool.
• Slightly Magical Roll 6 Cashout: Spatula ⇒ random Emblem

RADIANT ITEMS

• Radiant Gargoyle Stoneplate Health: 300 ⇒ 400
• Radiant Hand of Justice AD/AP: 30 ⇒ 35
• Radiant Steadfast Heart Health: 600 ⇒ 500

RETURNING ARTIFACTS

Bringing back two forbidden Artifacts for some powerful combos.

• Forbidden Idol:
  • Health: 400
  • Mana Regen: 2
  • Shields have 40% of their value converted to max Health instead.
• Manazane:
  • Attack Damage: 15%
  • Ability Power: 15%
  • Mana Regen: 1

ADJUSTED ARTIFACTS

With a new set and roster, we're tuning our existing Artifacts to better match the kits of existing champions, while also making them more exciting through sharper power fantasies.

• Aegis of Dusk: MR Damage Percent: 15% ⇒ 18%
• Blighting Jewel:
  • Base AP: 60% ⇒ 30%
  • Mana gained at 0 MR: 2 ⇒ 4
• Dawncore:
  • AD/AP: 15 ⇒ 20
  • Mana Reduction Per Cast: 4% ⇒ 5%
  • Minimum Mana: 10 ⇒ 15
  • Mana Regen: 2 ⇒ 1
  • Mana Reduction Per Cast: 10% ⇒ 5%
• Fishbones:
  • Now grants +2 Range
  • AD/AP: 50% ⇒ 25%
• Eternal Pact: Base AP: 40 ⇒ 35
• Hellfire's Hatchet:
  • Base HP: 150 ⇒ 400
  • Base AD: Removed
  • AS gained from missing health: 1% ⇒ 1.5%
• Rapid Firecannon: Attack Speed: 65% ⇒ 55%
• Silvermere Dawn:
  • Now Grants 30% Omnivamp
  • AD: 140% ⇒ 125%
  • Resists: 80 ⇒ 30
• Statikk Shiv:
  • Lightning bounces: 4 ⇒ 6
  • Base Damage: 30 ⇒ 15
  • AP Lighting Damage: 50% ⇒ 35%
  • Attack Speed: 50% ⇒ 40%
• Talisman of Ascension:   NEW   When Ascended gain 12 Mana Regen
• Titanic Hydra: % basic Attack Damage as Bonus Damage: 6% ⇒ 2%
• Wits End:
  • Health: 400 ⇒ 300
  • Bonus healing: 30% ⇒ 25%
  • Bonus magic damage: 30/30/45/65/86/100 ⇒ 30/30/55/75/95/115

REMOVED ARTIFACTS

• Death's Defiance
• Hullcrusher
• Sniper's Focus

With Set 17, Space Gods, being playable alongside Enchanted Wilds, we've got a small balance update for the dominant Milio and the less dominant Twisted Fate, who currently has a 1 in 81 chance to lose to PvE'

• Twisted Fate: On Round 1-2 only, minimum roll is set to 5.
• Milio Mana: 0/30 ⇒ 0/40

On launch, the following Cosmetics will be available. We will be adding more with subsequent patches.

ARENAS

• Stellar Planetarium
• Twilight Forest (Enchanted Forest)
• A Purrfect Plan
• Ao Shin's Summit Spa
• Arrowhead Arena
• Blackcliff Gorge
• Celebration of Tomorrow
• Chemtech Plaza
• Claw and Order
• Cloud Arena
• Court of Chaos Arena
• Crash Site Arena
• Dankest Dungeon
• Dawn of Progress
• Desert Path
• Destination
• Draconic Arena
• Dreadnova Arena
• Drifting Park Arena
• Fields of Justice
• Hiss-story in the Making
• Impressions of Water
• Innovation Avenue
• Jadebloom Oasis
• Journey's Beginning
• K/DA Practice Room
• Lunar Revel Balcony
• Lunar Revel Club Square
• Lunar Revel Docks
• Mountain Arena
• Ocean Arena
• Outset
• Path
• Pentakill: Backstage
• Pit Stop Arena
• Prancie's Retreat
• Realm of Harmony Arena
• Rift Arena
• Runic Arena
• Sanctum of Order Arena
• Sands of Shurima
• Shades of Sky
• Shimmerstone Fields
• Ship of Discovery
• Ship of Innovation
• Ship of Shadows
• Shisa's Study
• Sky-High Station
• Spaceship Arena
• Storm Rift Arena
• Summoners' Arena
• Threat Level: Nom
• Threat Level: Ok
• Threat Level: Tentacle
• Touch of the Void
• True Damage Sound Studio
• Whispers of Cave
• Zaun City Rooftop
• Default Arena
• Infernal Arena
• Black Hole Arena
• Cyber City Heights
• Dreams of Earth
• K.O. Coliseum
• Odyssey Yasuo Arena
• Supernova Arena

BOOMS

• CTRL-ALT-DELETE
• First Star Flurry
• Spice Ain't Nice
• Vine Whip
• Arcana Coil
• Bamboo Shoots
• Boba Blast
• Broom Boom
• Brush It Off
• Burn Bright Starlight
• Buzz Off!
• Chemtech Surprise
• Code Break
• Coin Rush
• Colorful Cannon
• Cosmeows Beam
• Cosmic Tracer
• Curtain Call
• Demolition Donut
• Dragon Float Splash
• Dragon Geyser
• Dragon Tempest
• Fans of a Feather
• Fireworks - Catseye
• Fireworks - Citrine
• Fireworks - Mint
• Fireworks - Obsidian
• Fireworks - Rainbow
• Fireworks - Rose Quartz
• Fireworks - Sapphire
• Fireworks - Tanzanite
• Golden Koi
• Guitar Smash
• Jackpot Chomper
• Judgement of Durand
• Justice Beam
• Kanmei Burst
• Localized Borealis
• Love Love Beam
• Matcha Blast
• Mighty Roar
• Mushroom Madness
• Neon Bike Slide
• Nimbus Cloud
• Nova Bomb
• Paper Pursuit
• Powder's Monkey Boom
• Rocket Punch
• Scritches
• Shadow Scrawl
• Soul Static
• Stamped Out
• Tidal Leaves
• Toxic Cloud
• Void Gate
• Your Ride is Here
• Zap Bolt
• Default Boom
• Ace in the Hole
• Arc of Ruin
• Beat Drop
• Blade of the Exile
• Buster Shot
• Cease and Desist
• Certain Death
• Command: Shockwave
• Crescendo
• Get Jinxed
• Jhin's Curtain Call
• Raging Ox
• Seismic Shard
• Smiteback!
• Soul Shackles
• Staff Drop
• Tangerine Burst
• Watch Out! Eep!
• Office The Darkin Blade
• Arcane Ace in the Hole
• Arcane Cease and Desist
• Battle Academia Death Lotus
• Cafe Cuties Shadow Surge
• Charm
• High Noon Enchanted Crystal Arrow
• K/DA ALL OUT Beat Drop
• Nightbringer Last Breath
• Pengu Cosplay Buster Shot
• Porcelain Final Spark
• PsyOps Thrill of the Hunt
• Spirit Blossom Fate Sealed
• Spirit Blossom Springs Aphelios
• T1 Command: Shockwave
• Prestige Dawnbringer Fate Sealed

TACTICIANS

• Akana Melisma
• Artiste Choncc
• Blepup
• Bounty Hunter Fenroar
• Choncc the Wise
• Cosmic Abyssia
• Doughcat
• Duckbill
• Lunar Beast Shisa
• Pompayena
• Pop Queen Melisma
• Prodigy Melisma
• Pulsefire Fenroar
• Rock'n'Roll Pompayena
• Shork
• Skyborn Fenroar
• Space Groove Bun Bun
• Star Guardian Astrovix
• Victorious Flutterbug
• Void Scuttle Crab
• Beatmaker Melisma
• Divine Brilliance Pengu
• Flutterbug
• Melisma
• Mushroom Sprite
• Ossia
• Pengu on the Terrace
• Pop Queen Ossia
• Prodigy Ossia
• Pumped Up Ossia
• Ruined Petalpy
• Soft-nosed Molediver
• Soloist Ossia
• True Ice Flutterbug
• Victorious Lumie
• Victorious Melisma
• Abyssia
• Apprentice Sprite
• Arcade QiQi
• Arcane Sprite
• Astrovix
• Azure Inktales Featherknight
• Bass Queen QiQi
• Beatmaker Ossia
• Beatmaker QiQi
• Bee Sprite
• Beevil Flutterbug
• Birthday Surprise Fuwa
• Blazebattle Molediver
• Boba Sprite
• Bunana Bun Bun
• Burno
• Cauldron Sprite
• Chaos Fuwa
• Chaos Sprite
• Chemtank Sprite
• Clumsy Molediver
• Corrupted Shisa
• Cuppy
• Darkspark Inktales Featherknight
• Dawnglow Silverwing
• Daystar Fuwa
• Demacian Silverwing
• Dowsie
• Dr. Shisa
• Eclipse Fuwa
• Egg Sprite
• Ember Inktales Featherknight
• Esports Pengu
• Eternal Hushtail
• Explorer Sprite
• Fae Hushtail
• Fenroar
• Firecracker Fuwa
• Firecracker Shisa
• Fresh-water Molediver
• Fuwa
• Galactic Destiny Shisa
• Galeborn Inktales Featherknight
• Gloop
• Gnarly Burno
• Golden Fenroar
• Grizzle
• Groovy QiQi
• Hardhitter Melisma
• Hardhitter QiQi
• Heroic Shisa
• Hextech QiQi
• High Noon Fenroar
• Ink Sprite
• iSprite
• Ixtali Flutterbug
• Jeweled Protector
• Kanmei Fenroar
• Kanmei Hushtail
• Last Wish Fuwa
• Legionnaire Flutterbug
• Littlest Shisa
• Lost Silverwing
• Lovestruck Fuwa
• Lucky Fuwa
• Lunar Revel Shisa
• Mech Pilot Shisa
• Mega Fan Sprite
• Mistberry Hushtail
• Monarch Hushtail
• Moontipped Hushtail
• Nightbringer Fenroar
• Nimblefoot
• Nixie
• Order Fuwa
• Order Sprite
• Pantomime Choncc
• Patissier Choncc
• Petalpy
• Piximander
• Plant Buddy Sprite
• Poggles
• Poro
• Potion Sprite
• Prodigy QiQi
• Pufflet
• Pulsefire QiQi
• QiQi
• Red Riding Bun Bun
• Reigning Protector
• River Sprite
• Ruined Pengu
• Sandbringer Flutterbug
• Sauna Sprite
• Scuba Sprite
• Scuttle
• Sentinel Flutterbug
• Serenity Sprite
• Shadow Beat Melisma
• Shadowgem Protector
• Skydance Molediver
• Skygem Protector
• Snow Cherry Silverwing
• Soloist QiQi
• Space Groove Sprite
• Sugarcone Gloop
• Sunborn Protector
• Sundrop Shisa
• Super Evil Sprite
• Super Scuttle
• Super Squad Sprite
• Superfan Sprite
• Supreme Emperor Shisa
• Sweet Treat Kapi
• Toxic Molediver
• Triumphant Protector
• Tropical Silverwing
• Tundra Furyhorn
• UFO Sprite
• URF Dowsie
• Verdant Fuwa
• Victorious Nixie
• Victorious Protector
• Victorious Raptors
• Watermelon Pufferfin
• Willowbark Abyssia
• Year of the Tiger Protector
• Chibi Lee Sin
• Chibi Sett
• Chibi Ekko
• Chibi Gwen
• Chibi Irelia
• Chibi Katarina
• Chibi Malphite
• Chibi Orianna
• Chibi Seraphine
• Chibi Soraka
• Chibi Vi
• Chibi Xayah
• Chibi Yone
• Chibi Zed
• Chibi Arcade Caitlyn
• Chibi Banana Soraka
• Chibi Battle Bunny Miss Fortune
• Chibi Blood Moon Aatrox
• Chibi Blood Moon Briar
• Chibi Crystal Rose Seraphine
• Chibi Dark Cosmic Lux
• Chibi Dragonmancer Ashe
• Chibi Dragonmancer Yasuo
• Chibi iBlitzcrank
• Chibi K/DA Superfan Neeko
• Chibi Office Aatrox
• Chibi PROJECT: Zed
• Chibi Space Groove Blitzcrank
• Chibi Star Guardian Akali
• Chibi Star Guardian Jinx
• Chibi Star Guardian Kai'Sa
• Chibi Star Guardian Syndra
• Fluft of Poros
• Chibi Dragon Trainer Tristana
• Chibi Firecracker Jinx
• Chibi Aether Wing Kayle
• Chibi Battle Academia Ezreal
• Chibi Battle Academia Katarina
• Chibi Battle Bat Xayah
• Chibi Cafe Cuties Annie
• Chibi Cafe Cuties Vex
• Chibi Cosmic Queen Ashe
• Chibi Dawnbringer Riven
• Chibi Guqin Sona
• Chibi High Noon Ashe
• Chibi K/DA ALL OUT Seraphine
• Chibi Mecha Malphite
• Chibi Mythmaker Zoe
• Chibi Porcelain Lux
• Chibi Spirit Blossom Orianna
• Chibi T1 Orianna
• Chibi T1 Yone
• Prestige Chibi Immortal Journey Shyvana
• Chibi Prestige Dragonmancer Yasuo
• Prestige Chibi Star Nemesis Morgana
• Prestige Chibi Blood Moon Miss Fortune
• Ahri Unbound
• Warwick Unbound
• Garen Unbound
• Vayne Unbound
• Chosen of the Wolf Katarina Unbound
• God-King Darius Unbound
• High Noon Lucian Unbound
• PsyOps Rengar Unbound
• Spirit Blossom Springs Aphelios Unbound
• Dark Star Mordekaiser Unbound
• High Noon Senna Unbound
• Blue Buff Emote (Blue Hearts You)
• Chibi Salary Man Aatrox Emote (Up and to the right)
• Chibi Soul Fighter Jinx Emote (What I'd do now?!)
• Coven Leblanc Emote (Scheming Sorceress)
• River Sprite (Mushroom Sprite) Emote (Make Room for Mush)
• Spirit Blossoms Springs Aphelios Emote (Sweat It Out)
• Verdant Wonder