The TFT 9.17 Patch Notes are now available! The patch is currently scheduled to go live on Wednesday, August 28, 2019. The big addition in this patch is the new Pantheon champion! He’s a 5-cost Dragon/Guardian unit with a pretty interesting looking ultimate ability.

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There’s also quite a few buffs and nerfs that should be coming to the game. We’ve got some sort of adjustment to Assassins happening, but it isn’t quite clear what that means just yet. In terms of buffs, we’ve got Jayce, Lissandra, Nidalee, Shyvana, Warwick, and Yordles as a whole. Nerfs are looking to target Leona, Swain, and Nobles. Bloodthirster and Hextech Gunblade are the items that will be likely touched, and Grievous Wounds is also looking at a nerf.

TFT Patch 9.17 Full Patch Notes

This week, Pantheon crashes into the Convergence as the newest champion to join the roster. We also have a series of changes that culminate in giving some consistency to a few traits: Assassins are getting a mini-rework that adds critical strike chance to their kit at the expense of some damage. Rangers have an increased chance to proc their Attack Speed bonus, Shapeshifters should transform faster, and Yordles will dodge more.

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Now, let’s get into it. Blake “Riot Beernana” Edwards

New Champion

Pantheon

  • Cost: 5 Gold Origin: Dragon Class: Guardian Grand Starfall: Pantheon leaps in the air, crashing down towards the farthest enemy, stunning them for 4/6/8 seconds. Enemies in Pantheon’s path take 15%/30%/45% of their Maximum Health as Magic Damage. They then burn for an additional 20% of their Maximum Health as True Damage over 10 seconds. Applies Grievous Wounds. Note: the in-game tooltip is lagging behind and will be updated to reflect this in patch 9.18.

Systems

  • The first carousel now has all 2 cost units. Ghost armies now benefit from Trait bonuses. They’re actually spooky now! Attack Speed cap has been increased from 2.5 to 5.0. So fast. Tooltips have been updated to be more clear, and numbers scale with Ability Power.

Traits

Assassin

  • Increased the delay before Assassins jump so they can access the backline more often. (3) Trait Bonus: 125% Crit Damage ⇒ 75% Crit Damage & 10% Crit Chance (6) Trait Bonus: 350% Crit Damage ⇒ 150% Crit Damage & 25% Crit Chance

Hextech

  • Item disable duration: 8 seconds ⇒ 7 seconds

Noble

  • Armor & Magic Resist: 60 ⇒ 50 Healing: 35 ⇒ 25

Ranger

  • Double Attack Speed chance: 25%/65% ⇒ 30% /70%

Shapeshifter

  • Nidalee Total Mana: 100 ⇒ 85 Jayce Armor: 30 ⇒ 35 Jayce will now transform at max mana, even if there is no one in range to knock away. Shyvana Total Mana: 100 ⇒ 85 Gnar Total Mana: 125 ⇒ 100

Yordle

  • Dodge chance: 30%/55% ⇒ 35%/60%

Champions

Graves

  • Adjusted his interaction with Rapidfire Cannon. He maintains the range bonus but it now narrows his bullet spread, like a shotgun choke.

Warwick

  • Health: 600 ⇒ 650

Lissandra

  • Health: 450 ⇒ 500 Starting Mana/Total Mana: 50/125 ⇒ 0/85 Ability Damage: 150/275/400 ⇒ 175/325/475

Lucian

  • Relentless Pursuit’s second shot now scales with Lucian’s attack speed.

Gangplank

  • Ability Damage: 200/325/450 ⇒ 150/250/350

Leona

  • Stun Duration: 5/8/11 seconds ⇒ 5/7/9 seconds

Healing Changes

  • Grievous Wounds Healing Reduction: 100% ⇒ 80% The Bloodthirster Healing: 50% of Damage ⇒ 40% of Damage Hextech Gunblade Healing: 33% of Damage ⇒ 25% of Damage Swain Demonflare Healing: 50/90/130 ⇒ 40/70/100 Redemption Healing: 1500 ⇒ 1200

Bugfixes

  • Hextech: Fixed a disabled Infinity Edge losing more crit damage than it should Hextech: Fixed a disabled Ionic Spark not re-enabling its effect. Hextech: Fixed a disabled Zeke Herald not re-enabling its effect. Hextech: Fixed disabled Locket of the Iron Solari not re-enabling its effect. Improved Shyvana’s ability logic. She now looks for spots to jump to that are far away from her target. Fixed Rek’Sai not properly knocking up her target at longer distances. Fixed Warwick spawning a new Warwick if he dies mid-leap. Fixed Warwick’s Ability Damage scaling with his bonus Attack Damage. Ahri will no longer cast her ability at an enemy not in range. Lucian now correctly triggers launch attack effects (Statikk Shiv, Runaan’s Hurricane) on his first auto after his dash. Fixed Luden’s not triggering if the target of the spell died. Fixed Vi ult sometimes chain hitting the same enemy. Little Legends that get inside the initial shared draft barrier before it comes down are now booted out.

Miscellaneous

  • Updated Dragon and Elder Dragon fireball VFX. You can now mute player emotes + pings through the scoreboard. Added new visual effects to show off your win streak on scoreboard.

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