Do we have a patch for you! 12.9 brings a patchload (and then some) of buffs to chase traits, units, and Dragon Egg hatching! On the cosmetic side of things, I’m looking quite good today, but also looking good—err evil, is Ruined Pengu, who drops alongside a Chibi sale with patch 12.9, more details here. The last thing to cover in our intro are our huge changes to Jayce and Viktor. I lied—the real last thing to cover is our Dev Drop, which will has some VERY big Dragonlands news in it, so give it a watch and let us know what you think!
Rodger "MinionsRpeople2" Caudill
Patch Highlights
May Dev Drop
Our latest Dev Drop covers updates to Double Up, spoilers for Dragonlands gameplay and cosmetics, and a moment of reflection on TFT’s growth! Watch it by clicking here or any of the above links for it!
Ruined Pengu Bundle
Join Ruined Pengu in ruining the fun of your foes! Pick up the Ruined Pengu bundle which comes with the following:
Ruined Pengu
1 Magical Misfits Egg (Reckoning)
1 Fearless Fellowship Egg (Dawn of Heroes)
1 Ingenious Inventors Egg (Gizmos & Gadgets)
Gizmos & Gadgets Chibi Sale
Just for the duration of patch 12.9, you can pick up Chibi Ekko, Chibi Jinx, and Chibi Vi for 1380 RP/TC. They’ll still come equipped with their signature boom, so be sure to pick them up before the sale ends!
Chibi Ekko: 1900 RP ⇒ 1380 RP
Chibi Jinx: 1900 RP ⇒ 1380 RP
Chibi Vi: 1900 RP ⇒ 1380 RP
System Changes
Dragon Eggs
The streets of Neon Nights have been visited by the benevolent Treasure Dragon—just long enough for the dragon to drop a few Eggs and split. Legend has it that this dragon left the world of Dragonlands in search of distant lands in need of equally distributed treasure—could our world be next (please)?
At the start of the game, every player gets an egg.
There are 5 different sized eggs. The larger the egg, the more stuff inside but the longer it takes to hatch.
Every player gets the same size egg.
Every egg has the same value of contents (though items are different)
Every egg will contain a Tome of Traits, but bigger eggs will have Components, completed Items, Radiant Item(s), and more!
Augment Combinations
We’ve changed the odds of various Augment combinations to keep things fresh and fun towards the end of the set.
Reintroduced Gold/Silver/Silver
Lowered the odds of a Prismatic for the 3rd augment
Increased the odds of an all Prismatic game
Total odds of any Prismatic in game is unchanged
Large Changes
Large, like our changes to Jayce and Viktor.
Augments
Metabolic Accelerator provides more value the earlier you get it, especially if you are using it to lessen the pain of loss streaking with Mercs!
Electrocharge III Damage: 105/135/165/200 ⇒ 115/145/180/220
Metabolic Accelerator Now only available on 1-4
Traits
With everyone getting a Tome of Traits from the Treasure Dragon’s Egg, we’re making sure our chase traits feel worthy of actually chasing. So get out there and make that dream comp happen!
Orianna has gone the entire set just being that supportive unit you throw in to hit some complementary traits. With these buffs, we’re giving her the ball to score her own goals instead of just racking up assists, or input sportball reference—idk me gamer.
That Draven Attack Damage buff got me repeating this line out loud.
Damage over time spells (DOTS) have been able to turn Morellonomicon into a massive damage item and not just a counter to healing. We’re shipping a pretty big nerf to the burn book in hopes players will find other ways to itemize some of the mean girls (Renata Glasc, Ahri, etc.) using it. This is a change that we had originally planned for Dragonlands, but have gone early with it to see just how it will impact our DOT users.
Morellonomicon Max Health Burn: 20% ⇒ 10%
Small Changes
Small, like the error I made putting our Jayce and Viktor changes in this section—oops!
Thieving Rascals low roll (worst case scenario) improved
Traits
With the new Dragon Eggs, accessing some of these harder to reach chase traits is a bit easier, so we’re preemptively nerfing their power in response.
Clockwork base Attack Speed: 10/35/80% ⇒ 10/35/70%
Scholar Mana regen: 5/12/25 ⇒ 5/15/25
Innovator Hextech Dragon base Health: 1125 ⇒ 1025
Units: Tier 1
Let’s get flipping.
Singed Health: 650 ⇒ 700
Units: Tier 2
Warwick is very dependent on his traits for power. With the injection of an extra Tome of Traits we’ve unintentionally buffed Zaun’s cutest pup, which is why we’re shipping a preemptive nerf to keep him on the leash during the final nights of Neon Nights.
Zeri Lightning Crash passive on Hit magic damage: 10/20/40 ⇒ 12/20/40
Double Up
Systems
Previously players could purchase units while reinforcing, but could not manipulate their own bench. This resulted in cases where a player would want to buy champions but could not due to their bench being full and having no way to sell units to make room as you can in standard mode. While not a common occurrence, it was still a pain point we wanted to resolve.
You can now return to your own board to interact with your bench after reinforcing your partner.
As a result the unit shop UI is also turned off while you are watching your partner’s board, but it will reappear when you are looking at your own board.
Bug Fixes
Ashe Volley Tooltip now correctly states 20% Attack Speed slow