TFT Set 7 Patch 12.12: Full notes and updates

The first balance update following the release of Teamfight Tactics Set Seven Dragonlands is packed with big and small changes that target gameplay systems, champions, traits, items, bug fixes, and Draconic Augments.

Patch 12.12 June 23 hotfix

Following the release of Patch 12.12, the TFT pushed through a hotfix that reverted buffs to Volibear and made critical adjustments to Daeja.

Daeja: Attack damage reduced from 40 to 20
Daeja: Windblast passive on-hit bolt damage nerfed from 55/85/300 to 30/45/200
Volibear: Relentless Storm bonus health reverted from 550/1000/1800 back to 375/650/1200
Volibear: Relentless Storm third auto bonus magic damage nerfed from 170/180/190 to 160/175/190
Legend trait: Ability power steal buff reverted from 50 to 40 percent
Shen: Maximum mana nerf from 60/90 to 60/105

Patch 12.12 system and mode changes

The inclusion of the Treasure Dragon has been one of the many highlights within TFT Set Seven, despite the awkwardness of when the shop refreshes and the time between Stages. Several system changes getting implemented within Patch 12.12 to the Treasure Dragon should smooth out the transition between Stages.

Following the Treasure Dragon, round gold and an automatic shop refresh will no longer trigger at the start of Stage 5-1.
A three-second transition phase between Stage 4-7 and Stage 5-1 has been removed.
Players will no longer have Treasure Dragon content automatically selected two seconds before the 60-seconds runs out on Stage 4-7.

A UI icon for Double Up players was added to the round tracker, providing information as to when Runes of Allegiance will appear during a game upon mousing-over or tapping the icon. And several adjustments were made to the Hyper Roll mode, targeting Nomsy and Shimmerscale items.

Hyper Roll: Draven’s Axe gold per cash out reduced from eight to seven
Hyper Roll: Heart of Gold units per gold increased from one to two
Hyper Roll: Mogul’s Mail gold at full stacks reduced from four to three
Hyper Roll: Trainers have a chance to feed one extra Snax instead of always throwing two Snax treats to Nomsy
Hyper Roll: Built Different rework has stats scale with Stage number between Stages four and eight

Patch 12.12 item changes

Only three total items were targeted within Patch 12.12, specifically Deathblade.

Deathblade: Attack damage nerfed from 40/70/100 to 40/60/80
Radiant Deathblade: Attack damage nerfed from 60/100/140 to 60/90/120
Radiant Sunlight Cape: Health reduced from 800 to 600

Patch 12.12 Draconic Augment balance changes

Ascension was one of the strongest Draconic Augments at the release of TFT Set Seven due to combat taking longer to resolve. And Built Different One was one of the least played Augments during the PBE testing period. Stage scaling was added to Built Different, True Twos was buffed, and items granted from Crown and Soul Augments have been adjusted.

Ascension: Moved from Silver to Gold tier
Astral Heart: Moved from Gold to Silver tier
Binary Airdrop: Grants a random item component in addition to a completed item at the start of combat
Built Different: Rework—Stats will scale with Stage number between Stages two and five
Built Different One: Health and attack speed adjusted to 250/300/350/400 health and 40/50/60/70 percent attack speed
Built Different Two: Health and attack speed adjusted to 300/400/500/600 health and 50/60/70/80 percent attack speed

Built Different Three: Health and attack speed adjusted to 400/500/600700 health and 60/70/80/90 percent attack speed
Cannoneer Crown: Item granted changed from Giant Slayer to Runaan’s Hurricane
Cruel Pact: Only appears at Stage 2-1
Double Trouble Three: Attack damage, ability power, armor, and magic resistance reduced from 55 to 50
Inspire: Attack speed increased from 60 to 70 percent
Jade Soul: Item granted changed from Ionic Spark to Titan’s Resolve
Living Forge: Orb VFX updated to the Ornn item Orb
Party Time!: Attack speed on Revel units scoring a takedown increased from 75 to 80 percent
Preparation: No longer appears at Stage 4-2
Radiant Relics: Armory choices increased from four to five
Reckless Spending: Damage amplification increased from 40 to 50 percent
Ricochet: Cannoneer bounce damage reduced from 66 to 50 percent

Shapeshifter Soul: Item granted changed from Hand of Justice to Sunfire Cape
Titanic Strength: Health percentage to attack damage reduced from two to 1.5 percent
Trade Sector: Grants a free shop refresh every round and five gold upon choosing the Draconic Augment
Trade Sector: Only appears at Stage 3-2
True Twos: Rework—Gain one random two-star tier-one champion and one random two-star tier-two champion
Essence Theft: Evoker mana steal increased from four to five
Meditation: Mana for unequipped units reduced from 5/7/10 to 4/6/8
Scorch: The fifth instance of Ragewing damage amplification reduced from 40 to 33 percent
The Golden Egg: Turns to hatch increased from 10 to 11
Second Wind: Missing health heal reduced from 50/75 to 40/60 percent
Luden’s Echo One: Damage reduced from 70/90/110/130 to 60/80/100/120
Luden’s Echo Two: Damage reduced from 100/125/150/175 to 85/110/135/160

Luden’s Echo Three: Damage reduced from 140/180/220/260 to 120/160/200/240

Patch 12.12 trait balance changes

The launch of Set Seven had several traits like Bruiser and Guardian slowing down the pace of combat. Adjustments were made to lower health and shields in an effort to speed up the overall combat pace at all stages. Vertical traits that were overperforming, like Ragewing, were nerfed, while multiple Shimmerscale items were adjusted.

Assassin: Bonus crit damage nerfed from 20/40/60 to 15/30/50 percent
Astral: Ability power increased at nine units from 60 to 70
Astral: Emblem re-enabled but will not appear on Carousels
Bruiser: Health nerfed from 200/350/500/800 to 200/325/450/700
Cannoneer: Attack damage scaling of the fifth shot buffed from 150/175/225/275 to 150/200/250/300 percent
Dragon: Health reduced from 750 to 700

Guardian: Maximum health percentage shield adjusted from 35/50/65 to 30/45/65 percent
Jade: Tooltip updated to clarify that the buff persists as long as units start combat adjacent to a statue
Legend: Ability power steal increased from 40 to 50 percent
Mirage: Dawnbringers Determination—Maximum health heal percentage reduced to 40/70/70 and the heal twice is now 125
Ragewing: Attack speed adjusted from 50/150/250 to 50/125/225 percent
Ragewing: Omnivamp adjusted from 30/50/80 to 30/50/70 percent
Scalescorn: Bonus magic damage adjusted from 25/50/80 to 20/50/80 percent
Shapeshifter: Health percentage increase reduced from 50/100/150 to 45/90/135 percent
Shimmerscale: Exclusive items granted adjusted from 1/2/3/5 to 1/2/4/5
Shimmerscale: Draven’s Axe—Gold cash out reduced from 10 to eight
Shimmerscale: Gambler’s Blade—Chance to proc on attack increased from five to six percent
Shimmerscale: Heart of Gold—Units per gold increased from two to three

Swiftshot: Attack speed per Hex reduced from 12/25/40 to 10/20/40 percent
Warrior: Attack damage scaling on empowered attack adjusted from 120/200/300 to 120/200/350 percent

Patch 12.12 champion balance changes

Patch 12.12 targeted almost every TFT Set Seven champion with some type of balance change, from nerfs and buffs to reworks and minor lever tweaks. A total of four Dragonlands champions were revoked. Underperformers like Volibear were buffed and overperformers like Sett were nerfed.

One-cost

Ezreal: Mystic shot damage nerfed from 175/250/350 to 150/225/300
Heimerdinger: Mana nerfed form 40/80 to 50/100
Heimerdinger: Egg Toss damage adjusted from 225/300/400 to 225/325/450
Heimerdinger: Stun duration from spell changed from 1.5/1.75/2 to 1.5 seconds across the board
Karma: Targeting fixed so that her spell explodes on the center of the missile’s target as opposed to slightly in front of the target
Karma: Inner Flame damage is now 225/275/350

Leona: Health reduced from 700 to 650
Nidalee: Attack speed nerfed across the board from 50/55/60 to 45/45/45 percent
Sett: Knuckle Down attack damage ratio nerfed from 170 to 150 percent
Tahm Kench: Rework—Deals damage based on the next three attacks that strike him instead of via an internal cooldown and bonus damage only occurs while the shield holds
Tahm Kench: Tooltip now states “The next three enemy attacks Tahm Kench receives during this duration deal magic damage to the attacker.”
Tahm Kench: Thick Skin shield adjusted from 250/300/425 to 250/300/350

Two-cost

Nami: Maximum mana nerfed from 40/80 to 50/90
Jinx: Mana buffed from 60/120 to 50/100
Shen: Maximum mana nerf from 60/90 to 75/105
Shen: Attack speed increased from 0.65 to 0.7
Thresh: Targeting adjusted so that he always selects his hook target before enemy movement begins, allowing Thresh to hook Cavalier units that started combat as the farthest unit from him

Three-cost

Anivia: Prismatic Storm damage buffed from 300/400/600 to 325/450/700
Diana: Bug fix no longer has Diana’s shield stacking on itself once all the Orbs burst and it will refresh as intended while her Orbs will properly scale with ability power now
Diana: Pale Cascade orb damage reduced from 100/110/120 to 80/90/100
Illaoi: cosmic Smash armor and magic resistance steal reduced from 40 to 33 percent
Lee Sin: Dragon’s Rage damage buffed from 275/325/425 to 300/375/500
Lee Sin: Mana nerfed form 0/70 to 40/100
Lulu: Mana adjusted from 70/140 to 75/150
Nunu: consume damage adjusted from 350/500/900 to 350/500/800
Olaf: Attack damage reduced from 60 to 50
Swain: Draconic Ascension damage adjusted from 70/110/165 to 75/115/175
Sylas: Rework—Sylas no longer Mana-Reaves on the first spell cast nor shields when casting Petricite Burst on Mana-Reaved targets and will now shield on the first cast
Sylas: If Sylas has already shielded himself the spell will hit two Hexes and Mana-Reaves any enemy hit

Sylas: Shield will now stack
Sylas: Petricite Burst shield amount reduced from 700/750/800 to 300/350/400
Sylas: Petricite Burst damage reduced from 150/225/350 to 125/200/300
Sylas: Mana nerfed from 50/100 to 60/120
Ryze: Bug fix for Ryze has the champion change targets when the primary target is eliminated or becomes untargetable through effects like Edge of Night stealth and Zhonya’s Paradox stasis.
Ryze: Health reduced from 650 to 600
Volibear: Attack speed increased from 0.7 to 0.75
Volibear: Relentless Storm bonus health on activation buffed from 375/650/1200 to 550/1000/1800
Volibear: Relentless Storm third auto bonus magic damage increased from 160/175/190 to 170/180/190

Four-cost

Corki: Missile Barrage final missile reworked to always explode at the target location as opposed to flying off the battlefield without hitting anything
Daeja: Rework—Daeja’s triple missile barrage is now an always-on part of her passive, rather than a temporary buff for 10 seconds after she casts, and impact timing was adjusted to better match visuals
Daeja: Maximum mana buffed from 90/120 to 0/100

Daeja: Attack speed nerfed from 0.8 to 0.6
Daeja: Windblast passive on-hit magic damage buffed from 35/55/200 to 55/85/300
Daeja: Windblast passive magic resistance reduction on attack increased from three to five
Daeja: Windblast Wave damage buffed from 100/175/1000 to 225/350/1500
Talon: Bug fix—Talon recalling his Shadow Assault blades will correctly get applied to secondary targets they pass through instead of dealing no damage
Talon: Talon will no longer cast his spell if no units are within the range of his blade ring
Talon: Shadow Assault Blade Ring attack damage scaling adjusted from 00/100/200 to 75/75/200 percent
Talon: Total damage with the bug fix is now 150/150/400 percent
Xayah: Feathers Fly spell feathers fired reduced from 2/2/5 to 2/2/4
Xayah: Feather damage adjusted from 15/25/75 to 15/20/50

Five-cost

Ao Shin: Health reduced from 950 to 900
Aurelion Sol: Health reduced from 950 to 900

Shyvana: Rework—Shyvana will immediately cast Flame Breath upon transformation and her Flame Breath will follow her with movement while finding new targets if there are no current targets
Shyvana: Crash damage reduced from 250/400/750 to 100/175/500
Shyvana: Flame Breath health percentage damage buffed from 30/40/200 to 45/65/300 percent
Shyvana: Flame Breath duration increased from one to 3.5 seconds
Shyvana: Flame Breath damage tick rate increased from 0.25 to 0.5 seconds
Shyvana: Flame Breath damage lingers for at least three ticks, up to the maximum damage amount
Shyvana: Mana adjusted from 0/30 to 45/75
Yasuo: Third cast attack damage scaling reduced from 300 to 250 percent
Zoe: Daisy will now spawn at the target’s location instead of Zoe’s location
Zoe: Janna Tornado stun reduced from 1.5 to 1.25 seconds

Patch 12.12 bug fixes

Sy’fen tooltip updated regarding paraphrasing around scaling and pronouns
Ao Shin’s tooltip was updated to reflect that he “reduces” the enemy’s mana rather than “draining” it

Aatrox will no longer have his weapon disappear upon casting his spell
Eye of the Storm will no longer grant post-lightning bonus AP even after the Tempest trait is deactivated
The Shields and Healing chart will now show Idas’ shields
Astral units that are not three-star will continue to appear in the Astral shop, not including Aurelion Sol
The Astral shop counter will persist through trait deactivation
Astral Orb values improved for three-star units in play to prevent a bug that occurred if a player had a Heart or Soul Astral Draconic Augment
The icon colors for six and nine Astral have been fixed
Radiant Zeke’s Herald will now have the intended 10 percent omnivamp instead of 0.1 percent
The Neeko tether has been fixed and she will always transform into her tethered target instead of another nearby target
The Mirage Electric Overload tooltip was adjusted to clarify that it deals a percentage of the Mirage unit’s maximum health and not the enemy’s
Mages can no longer gain mana during a bonus cast and are mana locked with their standard cast time
Nami and Qiyana hitboxes are now more accurate for selecting and giving items

Nunu can no longer eat a unit that has pending damage immunity effects from items like Zhonya’s or Diamond Hands but will try to consume them and spit them back out instead
A bug having the Draconic Augment Big Friend Two appear frequently at Stage 2-1 has been resolved
Icons will now appear for Cursed Crown and Ancient Archives One
Qiyana will no longer cast their spell twice
Corki will no longer get locked out of attacking after firing the Big One
Neeko will no longer add copied allies’ ability power to her own rather than copying their ability power
Sylas and Sejuani can now cast properly with Rapidfire Cannon
Nami will now target the lowest percent health ally with her heal instead of the lowest health ally
Hecarim will now face his target before casting
Base critical strike damage from Braum is now 130 instead of 150 percent
Neeko will no longer have doubled benefits when equipped with Infinity Edge
Loot Orb colors were fixed from Ancient Archives, Band of Thieves, and Salvage Bin

Bugs affecting the Set Seven item Banshee’s Claw have been resolved
Banshee’s Claw will now block a Sy’fen knock up
Banshee’s Claw will now block a Gnar ability stun
Banshee’s Claw will now block Swain Fireballs
Banshee’s Claw will now block ability damage from Tahm Kench
Illaoi can no longer gain stolen resistances if her ability is blocked by Banshee’s Claw
Bard will no longer create a Doot if his ability doesn’t affect anyone due to Banshee’s Claw

Update June 23 3:30pm CT: A TFT Patch 12.12 hotfix was applied.