Teamfight Tactics patch 13.5 notes (2025)

You can sometimes see what rewards you get before you pull with Treasure Tokens. That’s not hype at all, so we’re upgrading the ceremony so you’ll get the grand reveal during a more appropriate (and stylish) time.

We mentioned this in 13.4, but adding it here too. As we get closer to this gradual rollout you’ll continue to see these reminders. To maintain the stability and performance of our games, we need to deprecate support for older hardware or software that isn’t widely used by players anymore. Sometime in the next few patches, we will move macOS users from OpenGL graphics technology to Metal graphics. This will roll out gradually with the ability to revert back to OpenGL for a period of time until OpenGL is removed. If you’re still using OpenGL, the client will automatically use Metal when we remove the support, so no action is required from you. However, if you were running OpenGL due to your hardware not being compatible with Metal graphics, you will need to update your hardware so that you can continue playing after OpenGL support is removed.

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OPENING ENCOUNTERS

We’re adjusting the odds of our opening Encounters to make the more swingy ones less frequent as we approach the more competitive part of the set.

• Caitlyn (Gold Subscription): 4% ⇒ 8%
• Heimerdinger (Prismatic First): 6% ⇒ 8%
• Mel (Radiant Blessing): 8% ⇒ 4%
• Powder (Wind Up Monkey): 5% ⇒ 8%
• Sevika (Loot Subscription): 4% ⇒ 7%
• Viktor (6 Costs): 8% ⇒ 5%
• Warwick (Loot on Kill): 8% ⇒ 3%

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AUGMENT TAILORING

We’re making sure that when you’re offered an Emblem Augment, it’s relevant to what you’re playing.

• Augments that require a certain breakpoint of Traits to appear will require more units in that trait to appear on 4-2.

Large, like the beautiful Shimmer pile we created before our screen turned grey. Does this remind you of anything?

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TRAITS

Removing the Chem-Baron Emblem from Augments (see Augment section) allows us to balance the trait without needing to account for the extreme high rolls (Emblem start + 1-2 3 costs), which balancing around made the trait too hard to play in non-high roll situations. With that out of the way, we can allow the higher breakpoints to provide even more Shimmer.

We’re shipping a few small buffs to verticals that have been oh-so-close to meta, but have been just a bit weak. Dominator, Emissary (4), Pit Fighter, and Rebel are all getting buffs!

Experiment Emblem provides value similar to a Tactician’s Crown with half the cooking implements. Trimming back some power here, and with an Urgot nerf later on, should keep this lab experiment well regulated.

• Chem-Baron (7) has been removed
• Chem-Baron Emblem has been removed
• Chem-Baron (3): 15/35, 20 HP (No change)
• Chem-Baron (4): 20/45, 60 HP ⇒ 15/45, 60 HP
• Chem-Baron (5): 20/55, 110 HP ⇒ 20/60, 100 HP
• Chem-Baron (6): 25/70, 160 HP ⇒ 20/90, 150 HP
• Chem-Baron DOUBLE UP: now has separate Shimmer tuning values, all of which are approximately 25-33% lower than standard mode. (3): 15/35 ⇒ 10/25, (4): 15/45 ⇒ 10/35, (5): 20/60 ⇒ 15/50, (6): 25/90 ⇒ 20/70
• Chem-Baron, Perfected Piltoven Hexarmor Proc Cooldown: 4 ⇒ 3 seconds
• Chem-Baron, Perfected Unleashed Toxins no longer Stuns. Missiles Fired: 5 ⇒ 4
• Chem-Baron, Perfected Virulent Virus True Damage: 35% ⇒ 25%
• Dominator HP Shield: 350/500/700 ⇒ 350/550/800
• Enforcer HP Shield: 12/20/30/40 ⇒ 12/22/33/40
• Enforcer Damage Amp: 12/20/33/50 ⇒ 12/20/33/48
• Emissary (4) Bonus HP: 200 ⇒ 250
• Experiment Emblem Clone HP: 50% ⇒ 40%
• Pit Fighter Heal Amount: 10/25/40/80% ⇒ 10/25/45/80%
• Pit Fighter True Damage: 6/12/20/40% ⇒ 6/12/22/45%
• Rebel Baseline HP%: 12% ⇒ 15%
• Visionary Mana Gain: 25/50/80% ⇒ 25/50/75%

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1-COST UNITS

Re-roll Draven has seen better days, but a 10% AD ratio buff at three-stars (where units have a lot of AD) should help us remember just who our favorite axe bro is—it started with a ‘D’ right? Was it Darius?

• Draven Axe AD%: 140/140/140/140% ⇒ 140/140/150/150%
• Steb Ability Heal: 270/310/360/410 ⇒ 260/290/360/430

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2-COST UNITS

Even with nerfs last patch, Urgot’s chewing through full tanks like a boy on a yeti eating a big dragon (that’s a Dragonlands reference for the knowers, but for the non-knowers it’s a forbidden reference to a Nunu comp that reigned supreme for a patch).

• Urgot Ability AD%: 300/300/333% ⇒ 300/300/310%
• Urgot Secondary Damage: 150/150/165% ⇒ 150/150/155%

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3-COST UNITS

Cassiopeia has yet to find her moment this set. I guess there’s no better time than the Year of the Snake for her to slither into Sssssss-tier.

• Cassiopeia Primary Ability Damage: 230/345/550 ⇒ 240/360/580
• Cassiopeia Miasma Damage: 160/240/385 ⇒ 180/270/430

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4-COST UNITS

We’ve got a decent buff for Ambessa at one and two-stars, and a much larger one for her at three-stars.

We’re making some adjustments to the good (⇒) doctor to make him scale less with max HP (read Bruiser Mundo nerf) and make Mundo without Bruiser Emblem better (+6 Armor/MR)

With her three traits and AOE stun, Elise has her hands in just about every comp. It’s a good thing she has eight of them.

• Ambessa AD: 65 ⇒ 68
• Ambessa three-star Chain AD%: 350% ⇒ 400%
• Ambessa three-star Strike AD%: 500% ⇒ 600%
• Ambessa three-star Slam AD%: 1200% ⇒ 1500%
• Dr. Mundo Armor/MR: 60 ⇒ 66
• Dr. Mundo Ability Heal: 18% ⇒ 15%
• Ekko Ability Damage: 300/450/1200 ⇒ 285/430/1200
• Ekko Secondary Damage: 150/225/450 ⇒ 145/215/400
• Elise (Melee) Mana: 50/160 ⇒ 60/170
• Heimerdinger Missile Damage: 50/75/225 ⇒ 52/78/275

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5-COST UNITS

Caitlyn is receiving a small nerf after her bugfix in 13.4, and a much smaller (impact wise) one here.

LeBlanc is the capstone for the popular Sorcerer comps tearing up our lobbies with magic and mayhem—wait, wrong set, I mean tearing up our lobbies Into the Arcane—yeah, that totally works.

• Caitlyn AD: 82 ⇒ 80
• BUGFIX: Fixed several rare cases where Caitlyn could miss and/or fizzle parts of her Ability.
• LeBlanc Empowered Auto Damage: 160/240/900 ⇒ 150/225/900

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6-COST UNITS

• Viktor Laser Damage: 60/240/2400 ⇒ 75/300/2400
• Viktor Ability Damage: 150/500/9999 ⇒ 160/600/9999

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AUGMENTS

Chem-Baron Crest and Crown have been removed to make way for some trait rebalancing (see traits). There are now NO ways to get a Chem-Baron Emblem as it’s also excluded from things like Wandering Trainer.

We also have a new (kinda) Augment, in Table Scraps. We had Table Scraps during PBE for the set, but it was far too powerful to release to live, so we’ve added a few restraints for it to come to live now!

• Blade Dance (Irelia Carry Augment) Ability AD%: 335/335/345/345% ⇒ 350/350/350/350%
• Diversified Portfolio & Diversified Portfolio + Gold per Traits: 1 per 3 ⇒ 2 per 4
• Eye for an Eye+ Ally Deaths per component: 13 ⇒ 16
• Mad Chemist (Singed Carry Augment) Ability Omnivamp: 20% ⇒ 30%
• Mentorship I HP: 150 ⇒ 120
• Survivor Gold: 88 ⇒ 92
• NEW: Table Scraps: After the next 4 carousels, gian one unit that was not taken and their item
• Chem Baron Crest has been Removed
• Glass Cannon II Damage Amp: 20% ⇒ 25%
• BUGFIX: Item Collector II now correctly gives 20 base health rather than 10
• Moonlight AD/AP Bonus: 35% ⇒ 45%
• Team Up: Martial Law - Caitlyn Shot Damage: 225% ⇒ 200%
• Team Up: Reunion - Vi Damage: 120% ⇒ 110%
• Team Up: Sisters - Vi AD Buff: 60% ⇒ 80%
• Team Up: Sisters - Jinx AS Buff Duration: 5 ⇒ 7 sec
• Training Arc (Pitfighter) HP Per Win: 45 ⇒ 50
• Trifecta I AS: 18% ⇒ 23%
• Why Not Both (Shapeshifter) Bonus Stats: 24 ⇒ 30
• Anger Issues Armor/MR: 50 ⇒ 45
• Belt Overflow Belts Given: 4 ⇒ 5
• Belt Bonus HP: 90 ⇒ 60
• Chem Baron Crown has been Removed
• Exalted Adventure Duplicators: Next 3 stages ⇒ Next 2 stages
• Exalted Adventure Rewards reduced ~10%
• Glorious Evolution (Viktor) Upgrades Required: 9 ⇒ 6
• Immovable Object Power Increase: 60% ⇒ 50%
• Lucky Gloves turns before 3rd Glove: 5 ⇒ 7
• Pumping Up III Base AS: 12% ⇒ 16%
• Spoils of War III Loot Drop Chance 40% ⇒ 45%
• Team Up: Geniuses - Heimerdinger Missile Damage: 120% ⇒ 150%
• BUGFIX: Teamup: Geniuses Ekko images no longer do less damage than intended
• Trifecta II AS: 24% ⇒ 33%

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ITEMS AND ARTIFACTS

We’ve made a pass on our Radiant Items to polish up the ones that haven’t been glowing as brightly as we’d like.

• Blue Buff and Nashor’s Tooth can now be equipped on manaless champions. Not saying it’s a good idea, but they technically give you some usable stats, so go wild.
• Chem Baron Emblem has been removed
• Gold Collector Chance for Gold: 40% ⇒ 33%
• Mogul’s Mail Base HP: 50 ⇒ 100

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ANOMALIES

• Center of the Universe Star Damage: 85 ⇒ 80
• Diving In Omnivamp: 20% ⇒ 15%
• Infectious Anomaly Starting AD/AP: 15 ⇒ 12
• Last Chance Bonus Attack Speed: 50% ⇒ 33%
• Titan of Teamwork three-star count: 4 ⇒ 6
• Touch of Frost Stun Duration: 1 ⇒ 1.5 sec
• Vampiric Affinity Amped Omnivamp: 40% ⇒ 50%
• Voracious Appetite HP Per Stack: 150 ⇒ 100
• Voracious Appetite Damage Amp per stack: 3% ⇒ 2%

Small, like this section.

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TRAITS

• Conqueror (9) base AD/AP: 100% ⇒ 120%
• Scrap (9) Piece Shield per Item: 65 ⇒ 60

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CHAMPIONS

I see other players have also gotten third with Twitch 3.

• Garen three-star Spell AD%: 1500 ⇒ 1800%
• Garen three-star Secondary AD%: 750% ⇒ 1200%
• Twitch three-star Spell AD%: 300% ⇒ 400%
• Twitch three-star damage fall off: 20% ⇒ 10%

The Year of the Snake is (checks calendar) all year long, but the Festival of Beasts Revival (and event) only has until March 10th, so be sure to check it out.

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TRAITS

We’ve seen the combat pacing for the Revival be a bit faster than we’d like, and a lot of this is due to the damage our strongest traits/champs can pump out. So as with the rest of our Revival changes, we’ll be focusing on nerfs here with the occasional buff to make something like The Endbringer or a huge Fortune cashout feel better.

• Cultist (11) The Endbringer will no longer be kicked off the board by Lee Sin.
• Cultist (11) The Endbringer will no longer be a primary target of 1 or 2 star Sett’s ability
• Duelist Attack Speed stack: 8 ⇒ 10
• Duelist Attack Speed per stack: 12%/20%/35%/60% ⇒ 10%/15%/25%/35%
• Exile (2) Omnivamp: 80% ⇒ 60%
• Fortune 11 and 12 Loot table has been reworked with stronger options
• Sharpshooter Max Bounce: 2/3/4 ⇒ 1/2/3
• Sharpshooter Damage Falloff: 65%/45%/30% ⇒ 55%/50%/45%

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CHAMPIONS

In addition to focusing our nerfs on lowering damage to slow combat pacing, we’re also giving the set a bit more modern love with changes like a reduced Rakan and Pyke CC duration. And Yes, we have several nerfs directed at the S-tier comps: Assassins, Sharpshooters, and Kayles.

• Nidalee three-star Spell Damage: 350 ⇒ 270
• Tahm Kench damage block: 15/25/75 ⇒ 12/25/50
• Twisted Fate Ability Damage: 250/350/475 ⇒ 180/270/400
• Elise Health on Hit: 40/80/160 ⇒ 40/60/80
• Elise Bonus Health %: 25%/30%/45% ⇒ 40%/60%/80%
• Fiora Stun Duration: 2/2.5/3 ⇒ 1/1.5/2
• Annie Ability Damage: 250/350/450 ⇒ 180/270/360
• Annie Ability Shield: 500/700/900 ⇒ 400/600/900
• Braum Damage Reduction: 80%/85%/90% ⇒ 70%/75%/85%
• Janna Bonus AD: 20/30/60/90 ⇒ 15/20/25/50
• Jarvan IV Ability Damage: 175/250/750 ⇒ 200/300/500
• Nautilus Ability Damage: 300/450/1000 ⇒ 270/400/600
• Rakan Shield: 200/400/800 ⇒ 300/400/675
• Rakan Disarm Duration: 2.5/3/4 ⇒ 2/2.5/3
• Teemo Ability Blind Duration: 2.5/3/4.5 ⇒ 3/3/3
• Pyke is now a Magic Reaper (for itemization recommendation)
• Pyke Ability Damage: 100/175/275 ⇒ 150/225/325
• Pyke Ability Stun Duration: 2/2.5/4 ⇒ 1.5/2/2.75
• Vi Ability Damage: 250/425/850 ⇒ 225/375/575
• Vladimir Ability Damage: 400/600/1000 ⇒ 350/475/725
• Irelia Ability Damage: 200/300/700 ⇒ 150/200/250
• Sivir Ability AD: 100/200/350 ⇒ 100/150/200
• Sivir Ability AS Buff: 40%/50%/70% ⇒ 40%/55%/90%
• Yuumi Ability Healing: 30/45/90 ⇒ 30/40/50
• Aatrox Ability Damage: 400/600/2500 ⇒ 250/450/1500
• Cho’Gath three-star Ability Damage: 2000 ⇒ 1500
• Kayle Wave damage: 110/150/350 ⇒ 75/100/230
• Morgana Ability Damage: 250/400/1600 ⇒ 300/475/2000
• Sejuani Ability Damage: 100/200/1600 ⇒ 150/250/1600
• Sejuani Ability one-star Stun Duration: 2 ⇒ 2.5
• Talon Ability Percent AD: 240%/250%/300% ⇒ 200%/200%/350%
• Xayah Ability Percent AD: 250%/275%/350% ⇒ 150%/170%/225%
• Azir Ability Damage: 225/375/8888 ⇒ 250/400/8888
• Ornn Ability Stun Duration: 1.5/2/15 ⇒ 2/2.5/15
• Ornn Ability Damage: 175/275/9999 ⇒ 225/400/9999
• Sett Ability Primary % Max health Damage: 40%/60%/800% ⇒ 20%/30%/400%
• Sett Ability Secondary Damage: 20%/30%/400% ⇒ 10%/15%/200%
• Yone Ability Damage: 900/1300/20000 ⇒ 725/1050/150000
• Yone Unforgotten Damage: 400/750/9999 ⇒ 275/600/9999

• Still a dummy: Training Dummy’s inspect panel name is now “Training Dummy” instead of “Target Dummy”
• Gifting a unit to your partner in Double Up during the Anomaly round will no longer cause the unit to be returned to you at the end of the round
• One Thousand Cuts no longer gains two stacks on the first hit against each target
• One-thousand and one: One Thousand Cuts now works correctly with Another Anomaly
• Moonlight and Greater Moonlight can now correctly allow units to combine at the start of planning phase
• 9 Scrap no longer deletes Spatulas and Frying Pans
• Killing Dragon using Center of the Universe now correctly drops an item
• Center of the Universe can no longer kill units through revives
• Noxian Guillotine no longer kills units through revives
• Prismatic Flesh Ripper’s revive and Last Stand should now interact correctly
• Quality over Quantity no longer stops working in combination with Unstable Treasure Chest or NO SCOUT NO PIVOT
• Eeek: Viktor can no longer gain infinite AP with the Attack Expert anomaly
• Item Collector II now correctly gives 20 base health rather than 10
• Fixed a bug where Teamup: Geniuses Ekko images were doing less damage than intended
• Silver Rose: Sion knockup no longer goes through Quicksilver
• Sending a champion to your partner in Double Up while you have a Team Up Augment no longer lets your partner get the Team Up trait
• Fixed several cases where Caitlyn could miss and/or fizzle parts of her spell
• Mel now correctly procs in Double Up if your partner takes damage that would reduce you to 1 health
• Festival of Beasts Revival: Xayah’s Ability will now correctly scale according to her current Attack Range
• Festival of Beasts Revival: Zhonya’s Paradox will correctly protect a unit against Nunu’s Ability
• Festival of Beasts Revival: Slayer’s Resolve will correctly give a Zed
• Festival of Beasts Revival: Zed now correctly steals flat AD rather than base AD