TFT 13.12 patch notes: Runeterra Reforged, Legends, Augments & more

TFT Set 9 is finally here, and Runeterra Reforged is introducing all kinds of new content to the game. There are lots of new changes in the 13.12 patch notes for TFT, and we've got everything you need to know here. Keep reading for a full rundown of everything that's changing.

• TFT patch 13.11 notes

TFT 13.12 patch notes: The short version

TFT 13.12 is introducing a new set, Runeterra Reforged, and with it comes a whole host of new champions, traits, augments and more. These patch notes won't list every new champion coming to the game, only the changes happening inside the patch.

With that said, there is a huge amount to talk about. TFT 13.12 patch notes are introducing new Legends, UI and XP changes, Region Portals, item updates and even a change to TFT's third-party site policy.

• League of Legends patch 13.11 notes

TFT 13.12 patch notes: The full rundown

TFT patch 13.12 is introducing a lot of new cosmetics and updates to the game. Here's a full rundown of everything in the patch.

Runeterra Reforged Cosmetics

Patch 13.12 is introducing another new Pass to the game. This pass has arenas based on mashed-up Runeterra regions, Star Shards, the Reckoner Arena, and a bunch of other stuff. It will cost 1295 RP.

The pass also has new tacticians, including Potion Sprite and Tower Defense Runespirit.

A new Mythic Arena is being added to the game called Shrine of the First Lands, which is loosely based on Ionia. It will be available through Treasure Realms.

A new Birthday Surprise Fuwa Little Legend will be released later in the patch to celebrate TFT's birthday.

Ranked Rewards

For placing Gold or higher in Glitched Out!!, the previous set, you will receive a celebratory emote. Placing Gold or higher will also net you the Victorious Flutterbug Little Legend. If you were Gold in both halves of the set, you get the Triumphant Flutterbug.

If you placed Gold or higher in Double Up, you also get special emotes. If you finished Blue, Purple or Hyper in Hyper Roll, you'll get another fancy emote too.

New Ranked Season

• When Runeterra Reforged goes live in your region, you'll be able to start climbing the ladder in this set's first ranked stage.
• Depending on your rank in the previous season, you will start anywhere from Iron II to Bronze IV. This is true for both Double Up and Standard ranked.
• You will get 5 provisional matches after the reset, meaning you will not lose any LP for sub-top 4 placements in your first 5 ranked games of the new stage. You'll also gain extra LP for finishing top 4.
• Your Hyper rating will be reset to 500.

TFT Patch 13.12 gameplay changes

Region Portals

• Vote for one of three Region Portals that alter the game’s rules
• There are 30 Region Portals in total, but some may appear more frequently than others
• Voting for a Region Portal isn’t a winner-takes-all situation. Instead, all votes will be weighted equally, and a Portal will be selected from amongst them at random, with your votes influencing the probability for each Portal.

Click here for a full mechanics rundown.

Legends

• Pick from amongst 15 unique Legends, each representing a different playstyle, before the game starts (similar to how you would swap out your Tactician).
• Legends will influence the leftmost of your three Augment offerings.
• The first (Stage 2-1) Legend Augment will be of equal power to Augments of the same tier (Silver, Gold, Prismatic), the second and third (Stage 3-2 and 4-2) Augment offerings will be slightly weaker than Augments of their same tier. Each Augment can be rerolled individually!

XP Changes

• Level 6: 20 ⇒ 24 XP
• Level 7: 36 ⇒ 40 XP
• Level 8: 56 ⇒ 60 XP
• Level 9: 80 ⇒ 84 XP

Player Damage

• Base Stage 4 Damage: 4 ⇒ 5

Overtime

• Units now gain movement speed in overtime.
• Units gain 1.5x Attack Damage in overtime.

3-star Four Costs

• 3-Star Four Costs now all gain 500 Health

UI Changes

Inspect Panel

Any time you inspect a champion, a new menu will appear on the right with the following information:

• New Inspect Panel shows Ability, Recommended Positioning, Range, Current Items, Item Role Tags (what items make sense on similar champions), Stats, and a Quick Sell button

Inspect on Carousel

• You can now click an icon above units on the Carousel to open up the inspect panel.

Trait Inspect

• You can now inspect individual champions in a trait to see their traits.
• You can also use this to inspect recipes for buildable trait Emblems

Simplified Tooltips

• Tooltips now show symbols to annotate scaling. These symbols are also color coded!
• This applies to abilities, traits, and more
• Champion abilities will have a simple description of the ability, and a line with all the detailed math

3rd Party Friends

The team is introducing an update to the TFT 3rd party site policy. With the release of Runeterra Reforged, third-party sites will no longer be able to share any data around Legend win rates, with the hopes that it will encourage players to focus less on picking Legends based on win rates but on their own choices and personal enjoyment.

Third-party sites will also no longer be allowed to expose win rates for specific Augments at each stage. The team feels that relying on win rates to make decisions is unhealthy for the game overall, as it may cause players to lose out on interesting new paths to victory by picking the highest win rate option each time.

Sites will still be able to share popular comps, positioning guides, item or Augment recommendations and more. 

Augments

Most Augments are being retired from TFT and replaced with new ones, but some are sticking around. Here's every Augment that survived in Runeterra Reforged.

• Salvage Bin (and Salvage Bin+)
• March of Progress
• Portable Forge
• Binary Airdrop
• Recombobulator
• Jeweled Lotus
• Double Trouble II
• Double Trouble III
• Think Fast
• Cruel Pact
• Pandora’s Bench
• Three’s Company
• Living Forge
• AFK
• Last Stand
• Rich Get Richer
• Rich Get Richer +
• Lucky Gloves
• Scoped Weapons
• Birthday Presents
• Ancient Archives
• Ancient Archives II
• Built Different II
• Built Different III
• Golden Ticket
• Metabolic Accelerator
• Pandora’s Items
• Level Up!
• Consistency
• Late Game Specialist
• Hustler
• Tiny Titans
• Radiant Relics
• Cursed Crown
• The Golden Egg

Augment Changes

• Ancient Archives I Gold 4 ⇒ 2
• Built Different II Health: 190-355 ⇒ 175-340
• Built Different II AS: 40-70 ⇒ 35-65
• Jeweled Lotus Critical strike chance: 15% ⇒ 10%
• Rich Get Richer initial Gold: 12 ⇒ 11
• Rich get Richer + initial Gold: 20 ⇒ 18
• Ancient Archives II Gold 8 ⇒ 3
• Built Different III Health: 250-600 ⇒ 240-570
• Built Different III AS: 45-80 ⇒ 40-75
• Cruel Pact Health to buy XP 6 ⇒ 5
• Cruel Pact Heal per round 3 ⇒ 2
• Level Up! initial XP: 11 ⇒ 4
• March of Progress Grants XP immediately: 4 ⇒ 8

Items

• Guardbreaker Damage amp: 30 ⇒ 25
• Spear of Shojin: every 3rd attack restores 20 additional Mana ⇒ Attacks restore 5 additional Mana
• Elder Dragon now grants an Item Anvil instead of a random item

With Shimmerscale items returning, the team has done a balance pass on these econ items. Rocket Propelled Hook is gone, and 5 new Ornn items have been added.

• Radiant Spear of Shojin: Every 3rd attack restores 40 additional Mana ⇒ Attacks restore 8 additional Mana
• NEW: Ornn, Blacksmith’s Gloves: Each round, equip 2 random temporary Ornn Artifacts.
• NEW: Ornn, Hullcrusher: Grants 30 Armor, 30 Magic Resist, 30% Attack Speed
• NEW: Ornn, Hullcrusher at combat start: If there are no adjacent allies, gain an additional 600 Health.
• NEW: Ornn, Deathfire Grasp: Grants 50 Ability Power, 30 Mana
• NEW: Ornn, Deathfire Grasp at combat Start: Fire a blast of energy at the current target, marking them and dealing 20% of their maximum Health as magic damage. For the next 6 seconds, the holder deals 50% increased damage to the marked enemy and 25% increased damage to other enemies.
• NEW: Ornn, Sniper’s Focus: Grants 15% Attack Damage, 15 Ability Power, 40% Attack Speed
• NEW: Ornn, Sniper’s Focus: Attacks and Abilities deal 10% increased damage for each hex between the holder and their target.
• NEW: Ornn, Trickster’s Glass: Grants 15 Armor, 15 Magic Resist, 15% Attack Speed, 15% Critical Strike Chance
• NEW: Ornn, Trickster’s Glass: Summon a clone with 70% maximum Health and 20% increased maximum Mana. You cannot equip items to the clone.
• Ornn, Eternal Winter now properly slows by 30% instead of 20%.
• Ornn, Obsidian Cleaver now applies Sunder & Shred before damage is applied (matches Last Whisper)
• Ornn, Rocket-Propelled Fist has been removed.
• Shimmerscale items now display how much gold they’ve generated
• Shimmerscale, Determined Investor Gold Granted at Cashout: 15 ⇒ 10
• Shimmerscale, Diamond Hands HP: 200 ⇒ 400
• Shimmerscale, Diamond Hands AP: 20 ⇒ 30
• Shimmerscale, Diamond Hands Gold Per Proc: 1 ⇒ 2
• Shimmerscale, Diamond Hands Immunity Time: 1 ⇒ 1.5 sec
• Shimmerscale, Diamond Hands HP Thresholds for immunity: 66/33% ⇒ 50%
• Shimmerscale, Draven’s Axe Base AD: 5% ⇒ 10%
• Shimmerscale, Draven’s Axe Base AS: 5% ⇒ 10%
• Shimmerscale, Draven’s Axe Gold per cashout: 5g ⇒ 10g
• Shimmerscale, Draven’s Axe Component cashout: 1 ⇒ 0
• Shimmerscale, Draven’s Axe Gold Limit: 80 ⇒ 60
• Shimmerscale, Gambler’s Blade Base AS: 10% ⇒ 20%
• Shimmerscale, Gambler’s Blade Base AP: 10 ⇒ 20
• Shimmerscale, Gambler’s Blade Gold Limit: 80 ⇒ 60
• Shimmerscale, Goldmancer’s Staff Gold Limit: 80 ⇒ 60
• Shimmerscale, Heart of Gold HP 750 ⇒ 500
• Shimmerscale, Heart of Gold Gold Limit: 80 ⇒ 60
• Shimmerscale, Mogul’s Mail HP 500 ⇒ 350
• Shimmerscale items have had their Hyperroll versions adjusted to match base stats. They still use their old 15 gold cap values from Dragonlands

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