Teamfight Tactics K.O. Coliseum is out! 15.1 patch notes

Riot Games has revealed the new set for Teamfight Tactics (TFT), K.O. Coliseum with the 15.1 patch notes.

The update sees the release of Power Ups, unique to each champion, and the Role Revamp as well as some quality of life updates.

Here is everything coming to the game on Wednesday, July 30th, with the huge 15.1 TFT patch.

And remember, you can bet on the $500k (£375k) TFT tournament at the Esports World Cup next month on esports betting sites.

Rotating shop cadence adjustments update

Riot previously mentioned in Patch 14.8 that they would experiment with different rotation cadences for the Rotating Shop, but that’s being put on pause temporarily while they fix some things.

New TFT ranked season

As soon as the patch releases, ranked will be back online, though there’s still a 24-hour delay between mobile and PC going live.

Depending on a player’s rank in the previous set, they will start anywhere from Iron II to Silver IV. This is true for both Double Up and Standard ranked.

Players get five provisional matches after the reset, in which they won’t lose any LP for bottom 4 placements and will gain extra LP for finishing top 4.

Hyper Roll is gone for now

TFT’s first-ever game mode, Hyper Roll, is going to be removed with the release of K.O. Coliseum.

The popular mode will likely return at some point and Riot has teased that other modes are coming in the future.

Trait filtering on Team Planner is finally possible

The heavily requested feature of being able to filter by Traits on Team Planner is finally being added to the game. Riot says the feature will be available on PC and mobile “in the near future.”

New TFT mechanic: Power Ups

Twice per game, once at Round 1-3 and again at Round 3-6, players will be given Power Snax, which unlock hidden powers for a unit of their choice.

Using a Power Snax consumable on a champion will open an armoury with three Power Ups to choose from.

Each champion has their own pool of available Power Ups, which synergise well with them or enhance them uniquely.

There are various ways these can enhance champions, including Trait improvements, Team-Ups/Duos, Perma-stacking, Ability/Functionality changes etc.

Power Ups are only active while champions are fielded on the player’s board. They can also be removed by either selling the champion or using a Power Remover consumable, which is given once per stage.

Increased round timer

With the introduction of Power Ups and other changes, Riot is increasing the 2-1 planning phase duration so players have ample time to pick their Augment, read through their Power Ups and scout their opponents.

2-1 Planning Phase Duration: 50s >>> 60s

Mana regeneration changes

Champions no longer generate mana based on damage taken by default.

Instead, it now depends on what the character’s role is, like Tank, Caster, or even Special.

Riot says this will solve weird edge cases like a front-line fighter casting infinitely by soaking damage and healing it all back up with a Blood Thirster, or splash damage making the enemy backline cast faster. 

Riot recently revamped roles that every champion in TFT is one of six roles, which work as follows:

• Tank
  • 5 Mana per attack
  • Generates Mana from taking damage.
  • More likely to be targeted
• Fighter
  • 10 Mana per attack
  • Has 8-20% Omnivamp (based on Stage)
  • Less likely to be targeted
• Assassin
  • 10 Mana per attack
  • Less likely to be targeted
• Marksman
• Caster
  • 7 mana per attack
  • Generates 2 Mana each second
• Specialist
  • Generates resources in a unique way.

Champion targeting

Previously, if there were two units equal distance away, it was a 50/50 toss-up as to who would take aggro, but Roles Revamped has changed that.

For tiebreakers in the situation above, units will target based on the following priority from most likely to least likely: 

Tanks > Fighters/Makersman/Caster/Specialists > Assassins 

TFT K.O. Coliseum Class Emblems

• Bastion: Gain 15% of Armor as AD and 15% of MR as AP
• Battle Academia: Gain 10% Damage Amp per Potential
• Duelist: Attacks deal 12 True Damage, +6 true damage for each subsequent attack on the same target
• Executioner: Critical Strikes deal 20% bonus true damage as a bleed over 3 seconds
• Edgelord: Dealing damage reduces enemy armor by 2
• Heavyweight: Gain 150 health on takedown
• Juggernaut: Gain 30% AS when over 50% Health
• Prodigy: On cast, shield the lowest health ally for 250% of mana spend
• Protector: When a shield on the holder breaks, shield the nearest ally for 150% of the shield’s value.
• Strategist: Combat Start: The holder and allies within 1 hexes in the same row gain bonuses. Front 2 rows: 30 Armor and Magic Resist. Back 2 rows: 20% Attack Speed
• Sniper: +2 range
• Sorcerer: 15% more ability power from all sources

TFT K.O. Coliseum Opening Encounters

• 16.1% Yasuo: Go for the gold with three Gold augments! 
• 8.1% Gwen: It’s the ultimate showdown! All augments are Prismatic this game.
• 8.1% Zyra: Zyra swaps the last augment to prismatic this game.
• 9.7% Lee Sin: This battle begins with a Prismatic augment!
• 16.1% Twisted Fate: Choose your weapon! Get two component anvils.
• 6.5% Yone: Pick up a signature weapon from this Artifact Anvil.
• 12.1% Yuumi: The arena is filled with crabs carrying bonus loot.
• 4.0% Seraphine: The arena is filled with crabs carrying bonus loot. After Stage 5 they are DEADLY HAZARDS.
• 6.5% Akali: Get highly varied loot at the start of each stage!
• 6.5% Lulu: Train your Golem! It has three random emblems.
• 6.5% Braum: Receive a cash prize at the start of each Stage!

Three-star five costs

Three-star five costs are supposed to be extremely powerful, so Riot has ensured that these powerful units can actually do something and don’t get unfortunately locked out.

3* 5-costs are now immune to Crowd Control and gain 20 Mana Regen. 

How does bag size work for Lulu in TFT?

Lulu is a standard 3 cost, with 18 copies in the pool. However, once you pick a monster, you’re pulling from the bag size of that specific monster. You’re also taking a Lulu out of the pool for players who have not yet chosen a monster. 

For example, one player has 9 copies of Smolder, and another has 9 copies of Rammus. If you have never fielded a Lulu yet (and therefore haven’t chosen a monster), you won’t see Lulu in your shop anymore, because all 18 copies are gone.

However, those two players will continue to find Smolder and Rammus (9 copies of each left in the pool). 

Every Augment removed from TFT with the release of K.O. Coliseum

• Backup
• Bad Luck Protection
• Blistering Strikes
• Bulky Buddies I
• Health is Wealth I
• Manaflow I
• Mentorship I
• Bulky Buddies II
• Clockwork Accelerator
• Crownguarded
• Final Polish
• Forward Thinking
• Health is Wealth II
• Inspiring Epitaph
• Long Distance Pals
• Manaflow II
• Mentorship II
• Not Today
• Piercing Lotus I
• Shop Glitch
• Starry Night
• Support Cache
• Support Mining/+
• Teaming Up II
• Trait Tracker
• Prismatic
• Blinding Speed
• Bulky Buddies III
• Calculated Enhancement
• Dual Purpose
• Flurry of Blows
• Greater Moonlight
• Phreaky Friday/+
• Piercing Lotus II
• Subscription Service
• Void Swarm

Every returning Augment in TFT K.O. Coliseum

• At What Cost
• Beggars Can Be Choosers
• Best Friends I
• Keepers I
• Power Up – Renamed Augmented Power
• Reroll Transfer
• Second Wind I
• Underdogs
• Best Friends II
• Double Trouble
• Explosive Growth/+
• Fully Adapted
• Keepers II
• Know Your Enemy
• Stars are Born
• Sunfire Board
• Tons of Stats
• Starter Kit
• The Golden Egg

Every new Augment in TFT K.O. Coliseum

• Chaotic Evolution – Silver: Starring up a champion grants one of the following: Health, Durability, AP, AD, or AS. Bonuses stack.
• Efficient Shopper – Silver: For the next 3 carousels, gain a second copy of the champion selected.
• Exclusive Customization – Silver: Gain 5 gold and a Lucky Item consumable. Drag the anvil and release on a champion to open up an armory of 4 recommended items of this champion.
• Lit Fuse – Silver: After 6 seconds, units in your back 2 rows split 60 mana.
• Silver Destiny – Silver: Gain a random Silver Augment and 2 gold.
• Silver Destiny+ – Silver: Gain a random Silver Augment and 4 gold.
• Silver Destiny++ – Silver: Gain a random Silver Augment and 8 gold.
• Slice of Life – Silver: Twice per stage, gain a random champion. Its cost increases per stage. This effect ends after receiving 2 5-cost champions.
• Treasure Hunt – Silver: Earn a locked chest each Stage between now and Stage 6. You can unlock each chest when you spend 20 Gold on shop rerolls. These chests persist until opened.
• Aim For The Top! (2-1) – Gold: You are more likely to fight stronger players, and you know who you will fight.  When you lose, gain 2 XP. Every 2 wins, gain a component.
• Another One! – Gold: The next completed items you craft will grant you an additional copy. Gain a component and 3 gold.
• Another One!+ – Gold: The next completed items you craft will grant you an additional copy.
• Aura Farming (2-1) – Gold: Gain a random 2-star 5-cost Champion with 2 items. It cannot be sold or fielded until Stage 4-5.
• Backup Dancers – Gold: Start of Combat: Champions in the 3 rightmost bench slots grant your unit 6% Attack Speed + 3% Attack Speed per unit. These Champions cannot be sold or moved during combat.
• Blood Rage – Gold: Your allies gain bonus Damage Amp, increasing as they lose Health.
• Care Package – Gold: Now and twice a stage, get a care package with health, gold, or loot.
• Piercing Sight – Gold: Enemies take 5% damage as bonus true damage, increased by 1% up to 25% every time they take damage.
• Cry Me A River – Gold: Gain a Tear of the Goddess. Your team gains +2 Mana Regen.
• Deadlier  Blades – Gold: Gain a Deathblade. Deathblades gain 5 AD after every 3 takedowns their wielders get.
• Deadlier Caps – Gold: Gain a Rabadon’s Deathcap. Deathcaps gain 2 AP after every 3 takedowns their wielders get.
• Evil Beyond Measure – Gold: Damage your champions deal converts to True Damage at 5% per Star Level.
• Golden Destiny (2-1) – Gold: Gain a random Gold Augment and 4 gold.
• Golden Destiny+ (3-2) – Gold: Gain a random Gold Augment and 8 gold.
• Hard Bargain – Gold: You cannot pick anything from Carousels. Instead, gain the usual leftovers and an additional 4 player health and 6 gold.
• Heavy Is the Crown – Gold: Gain a Crown of Demacia, which provides significant bonuses to the wearer, but if they die, your team loses the round.
• Hefty Rolls – Gold: Your champions gain 7 Health and size for each time you reroll your shop this game.
• Howling Gale – Gold: For every 550 mana your team spends, summon a whirlwind that knocks up enemies.
• Last Second Save – Gold: When your units drop below 40% Health they heal for 30% maximum Health.
• Plot Armor – Gold: Your team gains 10 Armor and Magic Resist. After falling below 50% health, increase this to 50.
• Pocket Recombobulator – Gold: Gain a consumable that transforms a 1 or 2 cost unit into another one of a higher cost. They keep their star level. Also gain a Reforger.
• Psychic Forge – Gold: Completed Items left on benched champs change to one of their recommended items. Gain a random completed item.
• Solo Leveling – Gold: For this stage your team Size is 1. The champion you field has massively increased stats and their kill grant XP. Afterwards, gain 2 item components.
• Story of Seven (2-1) – Gold: Collect Golden Balls by defeating players in combat. Collect all 7 for a reward, then restart the quest with more powerful rewards. Gain a 2-star 1-cost champion to start your journey.
• Tesla Coil – Gold: Each of your allies with 3 items equipped emits arcs of lightning every X seconds, dealing Y-Z damage, scaling with stage (240-365)
• Time Skip (2-1) – Gold: Disable your shop for 3 turns. Then gain 28 XP.
• Water Lotus – Gold: Your team gains 5% Critical Strike chance, and their Abilities can critically strike. If an Ability critically strikes, restore 10% of your mana over 4 seconds.
• A Hero Arrives! (3-2+) – Prismatic: After 10 seconds, the left-most unit on your bench enters combat, stunning enemies in two hexes for 1.5 seconds. They gain 50% max Health.
• Hold the Line – Prismatic: Each combat, for every champion in the front row, champions in the back row gain 7% AD and 8 AP.
• Isekai – Prismatic: Get a 2-Star Special Champion from another Universe. This champion has a special trait for this game.
• Mess Hall – Prismatic: After 12 seconds of combat, your champions gain 20% Attack Speed and attacks also hurl delicious projectiles that deal 120% Attack Damage as magic damage.
• Nine Lives – Prismatic: You have 9 HP. Losses only deal 1 HP. Gain loot on each loss.
• Prismatic Destiny – Prismatic: Gain a random Prismatic Augment and 5 gold.
• Protagonist – Prismatic: Gain a random 1-cost Champion augment, a 2-star copy of the champion and 1 component. Gain another copy after every player combat.
• Quiet Quitting II – Prismatic: For next 5 PvP rounds, you cannot buy or sell units. Afterward, you gain 12 gold and 1 completed item anvil.
• Trickster’s Treat – Prismatic: Get a Trickster’s Glass. Your Trickster’s Glass summons an additional clone every 9 seconds, but each additional clone is weaker than before.
• Unlimited Power – Prismatic: “Gain a Morellonomicon, a Rabadon’s Deathcap, a Needlessly Large Rod and a Magnetic Remover. Useful for Magic Carries!”
• Water Lotus II – Prismatic: Your team gains 20% Critical Strike chance, and their Abilities can critically strike. If an Ability critically strikes, restore 20% of your mana over 4 seconds.

TFT item changes

Following Roles Revamped and the updates to how champions gain mana, Riot have updated more items.

Starting mana has been removed and mana regen, which is mana per second, has been brought into the system to accommodate Roles Revamped.

Riot are also adjusting more niche items, such as Edge of Night and Protector’s Vow, to situate them in more flexible situations. All items have also been changed to be non-unique. 

These are the item changes for Patch 15.1:

• Tear of the Goddess
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 1
• Archangel’s Staff
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 1
• Edge of Night
  • AS: 0 >>> 15%
  • AP: 0 >>> 10
  • Armor: 10 >>> 0
  • Lifeline: At 60% Health, briefly become untargetable and shed negative effects
• Spear of Shojin
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 1
  • Attack Damage: 15 >>> 18
  • Ability Power: 15 >>> 10
• Hand of Justice
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 1
• Hextech Gunblade
• Morellonomicon
  • Attack Speed: 10 >>> 0
  • Ability Power: 25 >>> 20
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 2
• Nashor’s Tooth 
  • AP: 10 >>> 25
  • Attack Speed on Proc: 60% >>> 30%
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 2
• Adaptive Helm
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 2
  • Magic Resistance: 20
  • Gain 15% additional mana from all sources. The wearer gains a bonus based on their role:
    • Tank/Fighter: Gain 35 Armor and Magic Resistance
    • All Others: Gain 15 Attack Damage and Ability Power.
• Blue Buff
  • Mana: 30 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 5
  • Attack Damage: 15
  • Ability Power: 15
  • No longer refunds 10 Mana on cast or grants Damage Amp on kill
• Giant Slayer
  • Attack Damage: 25 >>> 20
  • Ability Power: 25 >>> 20%
  • Attack Speed: 10 >>> 15%
  • Damage Amp: 5% >> 10%
  • Gain 15% additional Damage Amp against Tanks.
• Protector’s Vow
  • Mana: 30 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 1
  • Armor: 25
  • Magic Resistance: 25
  • Start of Combat: Gain 20 Mana.
  • Lifeline: At 40% Health, gain 15 mana and a shield equal to 20% max health.
• Titan’s Resolve
  • Bonus Resists at Cap: 20 >>> 15
  • Grants CC Immunity at Stack Cap for the rest of combat

Artifact item updates

Similarly, mana regen is also coming to Artifact items. 

There’s also a new Artifact item called Dawncore, which has a focus on turning anyone into a spam caster.

• Dawncore
  • Ability Power: 20
  • Attack Damage: 20
  • Reduce the holder’s max mana by 10. Subsequent spellcasts reduce max mana by 10%, to a minimum of 15.
• Blighting Jewel
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 2
• Deathfire Grasp
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 2
• Horizon Focus
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 2
• Innervating Locket
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 2
• Manazane
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 2
  • No longer Unique
• Silvermere Dawn
  • [NEW] Convert 2% of damage taken into mana.
  • Attack Damage: 120 >>> 110

Consumable items update

Lucky Item Chest is a new consumable you might start seeing in your games. Granted through certain cashouts or augments, using it on a unit opens an armory of items especially suited for them. 

Lucky Item Chest: Use on a champion to open an armory of items especially suited for them.

Radiant Lucky Item Chest: Use on a champion to open an armory of Radiant items especially suited for them.

Radiant items update

Mana regen is also coming to Radiant items.

• Radiant Spear of Shojin 
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 2
  • Ability Power: 35 >>> 30
• Radiant Archangel’s Staff
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 2
• Radiant Hand of Justice
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 2
• Radiant Morellonomicon
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 4
• Radiant Adaptive Helm
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 5
  • Gain 40% additional mana from all sources. The wearer gains a bonus based on their role:
    • Tank/Fighter: Gain 60 Armor and Magic Resistance.
    • All Others: Gain 30 Attack Damage and Ability Power.
• Radiant Protector’s Vow
  • Mana: 30 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 3
  • Armor: 50
  • Magic Resistance: 50
  • Start of Combat: Gain 30 Mana.
  • Lifeline: At 40% Health, gain 20 Mana and a Shield equal to 45% max Health.
• Radiant Blue Buff
  • No longer unique
  • Mana: 30 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 10
  • Attack Damage: 60
  • Ability Power: 60
• Radiant Spirit Visage
  • Mana: 15 >>> 0
  • Mana Regen: 0 >>> 2
• Radiant Giant Slayer
  • Attack Damage: 50
  • Ability Power: 50
  • Attack Speed: 20%
  • Damage Amp: 20
  • Bonus Damage Amp: 20%
  • Gain 25% additional Damage Amp against Tanks
• Radiant Nashor’s Tooth
  • Ability Power: 60
  • Base Attack Speed: 20
  • Attack Speed on Proc: 60
  • Mana Regen: 4
• Radiant Edge of Night
  • No longer unique
  • Attack Speed: 40%
  • Attack Damage: 25
  • Ability Power: 30
  • Armor: 10 >>> 0
  • Lifeline: At 60% health, briefly become untargetable and shed negative effects
• Radiant Titan’s Resolve
  • Bonus Resists at Cap: 50 >>> 40
  • Grants CC Immunity at Stack Cap for the rest of combat

Support items update

Finally, Support items have been removed with the K.O. Coliseum set.

Riot says that while these items were useful, they added a lot of complexity for a relatively low level of excitement for players.

Now, Riot are exploring other ways to provide them to players in less RNG-dependent and higher satisfaction avenues.

Augments that only grant Support items have been removed. Loot tables that include Support items have their rewards adjusted.

• Loot Subscription Opening Encounter: Support Anvil >>> Lucky Item Chest
• Golden Egg: Support item rewards removed
• Exalted Adventure: Support Anvils replaced with Completed Item Anvils and gold

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