Teamfight Tactics Update as of October 20, 2026: Aluna and Taric have been buffed

Ability Changes

Blackthorn

• Enhanced 6-Unit Bonus: Reduced from 60% to 50%.
• Base Ability Power cost: Damage increase reduced from 12% to 10%; mana regeneration remains at 2.

Elderwood

• Summoned creature’s health for 9 fighters: reduced from 140% to 125%.

Fae

• Healing for 2/4 fighters: increased from 2.5/4% to 3/5%.
• 4th Pixie Threshold: reduced from 30,000 to 25,000.
• 5th pixie threshold: reduced from 70,000 to 60,000.
• 6th Pixie threshold: reduced from 110,000 to 100,000.

Flora Fatalis

• Healing as a percentage of maximum health: reduced from 8% to 7%.

Rapidfire

• Attack speed per attack: reduced from 3/5/8/12% to 3/5/7/10%.

Riftbeast

Champion Changes

Tier 2 Champions

• Caitlyn: Enhanced auto-attack damage increased from 190/285/470 to 200/300/490 attack damage.

Tier 3 Champions

• Azir: Ability damage reduced from 46/69/110 to 43/65/105 ability power.
• Ka’Zix: Damage against non-isolated targets reduced from 255/360/515 to 250/345/500 ability power.
• Ka'Zix: Damage against isolated targets reduced from 285/410/605 ability power to 280/390/590 ability power.
• Sharpbeak Mama: The mana lock now ends when the small beaks begin to disappear, rather than after they have completely disappeared. The total duration of the mana lock has been reduced by approximately 1 second.
• Sharp-Beak Mama: Ability damage increased from 22/33/52 to 20/30/50 attack damage.
• Master Yi in Attack Damage Form: Base attack damage increased from 60 to 63.
• Master Yi in Ability Power Form: Ability damage increased from 125/190/285 to 135/200/320 ability power.
• Tristana: Mana pool changed from 0/60 to 0/50.
• Tristana: Ability damage per attack increased from 10/15/25 to 12/18/28 attack damage.

Tier 4 Fighters

• Firewood: Healing from the Alpha Mark increased from 4% to 5%.
• Firewood: Armor penetration increased from 20% + 25% ability power to 25% + 25% ability power.
• Malphite: Shield strength increased from 700/850 to 735/885 ability power.
• Morgana: Initial Curse damage increased from 60/90 to 70/105 ability power.
• Morgana: Curse’s bonus damage increased from 22/33 to 25/38 ability power.
• Sentinel: Stun duration reduced from 1 to 0.5 seconds.
• Sentinel: Shield strength increased from 350/450 to 375/475 ability power.
• Sett: Ability healing increased from 225/275 to 250/300 ability power.
• Sivir: Ability damage increased from 200/300 to 220/330 attack damage.
• Sivir: Bounce damage reduced from 20% to 18% of base damage.
• Soraka: Star’s base damage increased from 225/335 to 235/355 ability power.
• Soraka: Star’s bonus damage increased from 100/150 to 110/165 ability power.

Tier 5 Fighters

• Aluna: Moon Shard damage increased from 55/83 to 58/88 ability power.
• Aluna: Attack speed increased from 0.8 to 0.85.
• Aluna: Additional tenacity from Resonance reduced from 7% to 5%.
• Ash: Periodic damage increased from 9/14 to 11/16 of attack power.
• Tarik: Armor and magic resistance increased from 65 to 70.
• Tarik: Damage from the two enhanced skill attacks increased from 100/150 to 130/200 skill power.

Changes to Radiant Items

• Adaptive Helm: Mana regeneration reduced from 7 to 6.
• Adaptive Helm: Attack Damage and Ability Power for non-tank and non-fighter champions have been reduced from 40 to 35.
• Blue Buff: Base attack damage and ability power have been reduced from 30% to 25%.

Changes to Augments

• Augments that boost attack damage or ability power now appear less frequently if a player is building a composition with the opposite damage type.
• Bronze for Life II: Damage resistance per trait has been reduced from 3% to 2.5%.
• Build-A-Bud: Gold earned increased from 6 to 9.
• Challenger’s Grace: The attack speed bonus has been increased from 25% to 30%.
• Cooking Pot: The buff no longer stacks with “Coronation,” “Root Spread+,” and “Trait Tree+.”
• Cooking Pot: Health per emblem increased from 60 to 70.
• Consuming Flora: Additional effectiveness increased from 50% to 70%.
• Cry Me a River: Mana regeneration bonus reduced from 4 to 3.
• Dark Ritual: Ability Power gained reduced from 7/12/33/50/100/175/300/400 to 5/10/28/45/85/175/300/400.
• Electrocharge II: Fixed a bug that caused the buff to deal incorrect damage.
• Embiggen: The bonus to base attack damage and ability power has been increased from 10% to 18%.
• Expected Unexpectedness: Gold in Stage 3 has been reduced from 18 to 15, and in Stage 4 from 20 to 18.
• Expected Unexpectedness: The number of Tier 5 fighters in Stage 4 has been reduced from 3 to 2. The reward for transferring Tier 5 fighters now grants an additional 3 gold.
• Flowing Tears: The mana threshold for receiving the reward has been increased from 6,500 to 7,000.
• Heart of Steel: Disabled again due to a bug.
• Investment Strategy I: The starting amount of gold has been reduced from 6 to 3.
• Investment Strategy II: The starting amount of gold has been reduced from 10 to 6.
• Item Extraction: No longer grants Veigar.
• Malicious Monetization: The starting amount of gold earned has been increased from 4 to 6.
• Nesting Anvils: The amount of gold earned has been increased from 4 to 6.
• Omega Riftbeast: Health bonus reduced from 10% to 8%; attack speed bonus reduced from 10% to 8%.
• Pandora’s Bench: The amount of gold earned has been reduced from 4 to 1.
• Pandora’s Items II: The amount of gold earned has been reduced from 4 to 1.
• Pandora’s Items II+: New upgrade; appears in stage 3-2 and grants 4 gold.
• Pandora’s Items II++: A new upgrade that appears in stage 4-2 and grants 6 gold.
• Pandora’s Items upgrades can no longer appear simultaneously.
• Patience is a Virtue: The starting number of rerolls has been increased from 4 to 5.
• Prismatic Destiny: The amount of gold gained has been reduced from 4 to 2.
• Promised Protection: The amount of health gained has been reduced from 200 to 175.
• Seraphim’s Staff: Ability Power threshold increased from 90% to 110%.
• U.R.F.: The upgrade no longer appears alongside Coronation, Spreading Roots, Spreading Roots+, The Trait Tree, and The Trait Tree+.
• We Stick Together: The changes to buff selection from Patch 18.3 now apply correctly. The tooltip has been updated for clarity.

Wisp Changes

• Wisp Filtering: Wisps that select champions based on the number of equipped items now also take champions on the bench into account.
• Wisp Filtering: Wisp that select units based on specific roles now consider the composition at the time of the last battle, rather than the current composition.
• Abandon Ship: Cost increased from 0 to 2 gold.
• Beggar’s Wisp: The amount of gold received has been reduced from 3/5 to 2/3.
• Blood and Iron: The cost has been corrected from the erroneous 3 to 4 gold.
• Hand of Baron: Cost reduced from 6 to 4 gold.
• Hand of Baron: Stat bonuses reduced from 33/55 health and 3/5% damage resistance, attack damage, ability power, attack speed, all-around health regeneration, tenacity, and damage amplification to 22/33 health and 2/3% of the corresponding stats.
• Hand of Baron: Critical strike chance reduced from 10/15% to 6/8%.
• Heroic Sacrifice: The health bonus has been reduced from 1,200/1,500 to 1,000/1,250.
• Life Debt: Fixed a bug that prevented the missing health requirement from working.
• Returning Friend: Added to Phase 3.
• Grove Armor: Added to Phase 3.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused in-game chat to automatically send a message once it reached a certain length.
• Fixed a bug that caused Taric’s passive ability to sometimes not trigger in Ghost teams.
• Double Up: Fixed a bug that caused teammates to occupy different positions in the final standings.
• Cooking Pot: Now correctly grants health if the owner has emblems that cannot be crafted.
• The “It’s Me, Baby” curse is now correctly aligned with the rest of the curse grid.
• Fixed typos in the descriptions of the Health Potion and Potted Lifebloom spirits.
• Fixed a bug that caused an invisible fighter to appear if the Double Trouble upgrade was active when purchasing the Starting Town spirit.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Spatulas and Pans from dropping in Tocker’s Trial.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Tarik’s passive ability from triggering in the first round of combat if he was automatically paired with another fighter.
• Fixed a bug that caused Recombolator to trigger repeatedly at the start of a battle on boards with Ghost armies.
• The coin from Feeling Lucky no longer falls through the arena.
• Fixed a Team Planner bug that caused the window to behave incorrectly after saving a lineup.
• Fixed a bug that caused trait icons to briefly display the temporary Pentakill icon from Set 10.
• Fixed a bug where Taric’s passive ability sometimes failed to trigger when auto-assigned.
• Fixed a bug that caused a fighter’s maximum health to decrease when equipping three Forbidden Idols.
• Fixed a bug that caused the 3-star champion from “Forged a Friend” to appear as separate copies.
• During reconnaissance, players can now interact with arena elements.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Team Planner from closing during a Finisher.
• Fixed a bug related to the Field Champion and Return to Bench hotkeys.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the Top 4 Ceremony from starting.
• Fixed a bug that occurred when disconnecting and reconnecting after accepting a match.
• Fixed a bug that caused item icons to sometimes appear misaligned relative to the champion.
• Fixed various cosmetic item bugs on the PBE and live servers: Chibi Arcane Caitlyn, Chibi Faker Falio Boom, Prestige Dragon Fist Rage, Chibi T1 Yunara, Chibi Galio, Chibi Firelight Ekko, Warwick Unbound, Chibi Arcane Vi, Hextech Fenroar, Jhin Unbound, Chibi Teemo, Chibi Kai’Sa and her variants, Chibi Surprise Party Amumu, Lux’s Demacian Daydream Arena, Odyssey Jinx Arena, Chibi Heartsteel Sett, Heaven’s Celestial Court, Sanctuary of the Ancient Arena, Pengu’s 7th Anniversary Bash, Sentinel Vayne Unbound, and various finishing effects.

Performance and Stability Bug Fixes

Cosmetic Items Reintroduced in Patch 18.5

• This update reintroduces 52 cosmetic items.
• Prestige Mini-Legend (1): Prestige mini-version of Porcelain Ezreal.
• Mythic Mini-Legends (11): mini versions of Arcane Caitlyn, Arcane Vi, Bimo, Echo from “Fireflies,” Zeda—Galaxy Slayer, Heartsteel Setta, Lux—Star Guardian, Amumu with a Mini Surprise Party, Yubi, Galio from T1, and Yunara from T1.
• Mythic Unlocked Skins (3): Unlocked Vayne from PROJECT, Unlocked Warwick from PROJECT, and Unlocked Guardian Vayne.
• Standard Unlocked Skins (2): Unlocked Jin and Unlocked Yasuo.
• Little Legends (19): Cosmic Spirit, Astro-Cat, Battle Academy Spirit, Elder Dragon, Umbra “Fruit Whirlwind,” Dango with Ginger Cookies, Hearty Blepap, Jade Emperor Spirit, Happy Astrocat, Poro Cow, Prodigy Baron, Porcupine, Sweet Dreams Porcupine, Anniversary Crab, Nebula Astrovix.
• Legendary Finishing Effect (1): Perfect Execution.
• Legendary Portals (6): Irelia’s “Unfolding Stories,” K/DA ALL IN, Lux’s “Fountain of Rainbows,” “Banana Path,” Worlds 2026 High-Tier Portal, “Bryer’s Shackles.”
• Mythic Finishing Effects (9): Battle Rabbit’s “Golden Rain,” “Crimson Cobalt,” “God’s Fist Storm,” “God-King’s Noxian Guillotine,” “K/DA Charm,” “The Majestic Empress’s Soul Shackles,” “Vanguard’s Edge” from the Porcelain Guardian, “Super-Mega-Firecracker,” and Galio’s T1 finishing effect.

Known Cosmetic Item Bugs

• During the porting process, visual glitches were discovered in some of these cosmetic items. Since they do not affect gameplay and are barely noticeable in most cases, the developers have decided to leave the items available in this update. They plan to fix these bugs and improve the items’ appearance in future updates.
• Prestige Mini Porcelain Ezreal (Tactician).
• Liberated Vain from PROJECT (Tactician).
• Mini-version of Yuubi (Tactician).
• Baron Prodigy (Tactician).
• “Noxian Guillotine of the God-King” (finishing move effect).
• “K/DA Charm” (finishing effect).
• “God’s Fist Storm” (finishing effect).
• K/DA ALL IN (portal).
• Irelia’s “Unfolding Stories” (portal).