TFT 12.2 Patch Notes: Lunar Legends Festival Begins!

With patches every couple of weeks, TFT players need to make sure that they are keeping up with all of the changes. Some are extremely important and can change the Meta immensely, while others likely won’t. In this case, there’s a bunch of balance changes, new cosmetics, and a Lunar New Year celebration event! It is important for players to stay up to date on what changes are coming and how they could affect them. With that, here are the TFT Patch 12.2 Notes.

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Lunar Legend Festival: Gift of the Golden Lantern

Gifts of the Golden Lantern event begins in patch 12.1 to accompany the Lunar Legend Festival. During this event, Riot will help Tacticians from all over the Convergence by gathering gifts, solving riddles, and lighting lanterns. In addition, Riot is adding some extra great gifts from their favorite Tacticians at the event. No further details have been released, so be on the look out! From bundles, new tacticians, and the extravagant Golden Tiger Market, there are tons of ways to celebrate the Lunar Legend Festival!  

TFT 12.2 Patch Notes New Little Legends

Duckbill Variants

Catch the Lunar Legend Festival Duckbill variants below: Most Festive Duckbill, Jade Dragon Duckbill, Lunar Scholar Duckbill, Firecracker Duckbill, and Mischief Maker Duckbill.

These can be directly purchased from the shop (925 RP). That’s not too expensive of a bill. 

Dango Variants

Roll through the new Dango variants hitting the store below: Porcelain Dango, Lucky Lantern Dango, Firecracker Dango, Lion Dancer Dango, and Fiercest Dango!

Dango is available to roll down and around with by direct purchase (925 RP) or as a drop via a Festival Firecracker.

Dowsie’s Festive Variants

Check out the Dowsie’s festive variants below: Porcelain Dowsie, Fortune Dowsie, Lucky Noodle Dowsie, Extra Spicy Dowsie, and Sweet Petal Dowsie!

Players can collect these from the event or purchase their favorites directly from the store at the same price as before (925 RP)

Chibi Firecracker Jinx

Love them or hate them, the Chibi Legends are acquiring more support. Chibi Firecracker Jinx is the first Chibi Champion with a skin. She is a rare drop in any Festival Cracker (490 RP). It’s honestly really cool that they’re thinking of skins to implement into TFT, which means that Ekko and Vi are likely to receive support in the future as well. They also have two bundles full of Festival Firecrackers. To get her boom, the Super Mega Firecracker boom, players will have to opt for the Megabundle that’ll also give loads more content, including the Golden Tiger Market! But even for those who aren’t going to be buying Festival Firecrackers or bundles, they’ll have a chance at getting Chibi Firecracker Jinx just by participating in the Gifts of the Golden Lantern event, which offers a free Festival Firecracker in addition to quite a bit more content.

Year of the Tiger Protector

And now that the Festival’s trouble maker has been introduced, let’s talk about it’s protector, Year of the Tiger Protector. You can recognize Year of the Tiger Protector’s greatness only by obtaining them as a rare drop through the purchase of 2022 Year of the Tiger Eggs (390 RP), of which you can get 31 of in the Year of the Tiger Egg Bundle for the price of 25.

Golden Tiger Market

 Finally, the Golden Tiger Market! With its own music, entry animations, custom gold mine, and friendly dragons, Golden Tiger Market is the place to be during the Lunar Legend Festival. I’d say more, but I’d rather just show you.

With the most bells and whistles (Firecrackers and festivities?) in any arena to date, the Golden Tiger Market is available only through the Lunar Legend Festival 2022 Megabundle. To explore the loads of content to be found at the market and in the Megabundle just keep scrolling.

Bundles

Anyways, here’s the Bundle’s TL;DR. All Lunar Legend Festival content will be available for a limited time during patch 12.2 and 12.3.

TFT 12.2 Patch Notes System Changes

5-costs have been strong throughout Gizmos & Gadgets, and they should be, cause they’re Legendary units. But by hitting Level 8, players are able to get a game dominating 2-star 5-cost a bit too often. We’re making it slightly less consistent to hit a 5-cost at Level 8, but adjusting Level 9 to be slightly more consistent. As a general reminder, these percentages are for each individual unit card that appears in your shop, so the total chance of seeing a 5-cost in your shop at level 8 went down from 22.7% to 19.5%, and the total chance of seeing a 5-cost at level 9 went up from 55.7% to 58.2%.

 Level 8: 15/20/35/25/5% => 16/20/35/25/4%

 Level 9: 10/15/30/30/15% => 9/15/30/30/16%

TFT 12.2 Patch Notes Large Changes

Augments

We’re still working out the ends of the bell curve when it comes to balancing the recently upgraded trait-linked augments using our balance lever of additional units/income. More trait-linked rebalancing in the Small Changes section as well.

Our Ornn-inspired augment, Portable Forge has been one of our most exciting augments of the set, but much like Ornn in The Call, the augment has struggled to get the screen time it deserves. By bringing it from Prismatic to Gold, and rebalancing some of the high-performing options, you should be able call upon the Forge more often to leave your foes beat and broken, lost and forsaken, and about to surrender.

Thrill of the Hunt III’s (Prismatic) heal is often wasted due to how high the heal value is, making it one of our worst prismatic augments. It’s in a position where increasing the heal won’t actually help it as it just adds to the useless overhealing. We’re removing Thrill III entirely, but the lower values on Thrill I and II are in a good spot as generic augments that are especially useful in comps that like Assassins or Challengers that like their combat fast and brutal.

TFT 12.2 Patch Notes Traits

By moving some of Bodyguard’s power from armor into their shield, Bodyguards should be able to stand up a bit longer to magic damage comps and fall a bit quicker to physical damage comps. We are also taking this opportunity to slightly nerf Bodyguard 4, whose overperformance was also addressed with the Bodyguard Heart/Crest nerfs above.

 Bodyguard Heart now also grants a Leona ⇒ Blitzcrank

 Protector Heart now also grants a Blitzcrank

 Bodyguard Crest now also grants a Leona ⇒ Darius

 Clockwork Crest now also grants a Zilean

 Clockwork Crest will now be available in the Augment selection menu as intended

Metabolic Accelerator no longer gives 2 Health after PvE (monsters) rounds

Item Grab Bag II now also grants a Reforger

Portable Forge Prismatic ⇒ Gold

Portable Forge Armory option, Gold Collector chance to drop Gold: 75% ⇒ 50%

Portable Forge Armory option, Anima Visage Health regen: 8% ⇒ 6%

Portable Forge Armory option, Death’s Defiance Attack Damage: 30 ⇒ 25

Portable Forge Armory option, Death’s Defiance Attack Speed: 30% ⇒ 25%

Portable Forge Armory option, Death’s Defiance Armor: 50 ⇒ 40

Portable Forge Armory option, Eternal Winter Attack Speed Slow: 35% ⇒ 25%

 High Roller now also grants 4 gold

Shrug It Off Gold ⇒ Silver

Thrill of the Hunt III (Prismatic) has been removed. Thrill I and II are still in the game. See context for details.

Wise Spending now also grants 4 gold

 We’ve caught a rare, yet critical bug, impacting Imperial’s lack of success. We’ve noted that bug here, as well as in the Bug Fixes section because of its direct impact on the meta.

Bodyguard Armor: 100/200/350/500 ⇒ 75/150/250/450

Bodyguard Shield: 100/300/600/1000 ⇒ 150/350/700/1200

 Imperial bug fix: Imperial 5’s damage buff on all Imperial units is no longer removed during some combats in uncommon situations

Mercenary: removed Neeko’s Help as a 3 and 4 loss streak drop

Mercenary: 4 loss average value: 6.9g ⇒ 6.4g

Mercenary: 5 loss average value: 6.9g ⇒ 6.6g

Mercenary: 6 loss average value: 7.6g ⇒ 7.4g

Mercenary: 7 loss average value: 8.25g ⇒ 7.9g

Champions: Tier3

While 3-star Cho’Gath has been performing all right in the data, Cho at 1 and 2 stars continues to result in famine without Feast. With some early base number buffs, we expect stabilizing with Cho to be slightly easier. But don’t get on the Cho’ Cho’ train just yet—you’ll still want to take advantage of his Feast stacks as early as possible to get that health pool up, otherwise your Cho’Gath might have you feeling Cho’Goth.

 Despite Heimerdinger’s recent buffs in 12.1, he’s still not up to par. And while Yordle comps can be successful, especially with Tristana carry, Heimerdinger carry is struggling to be one of the premiere 3-cost carries of the Yordle comp, or any comp for that matter. Part of this is due to his reliance on Blue Buff, which requiring two tears can be hard to pull off. By increasing his Attack Speed we open up Spear of the Shojin for him as an alternative so you don’t have to stack Tears IRL if you don’t get enough of them in-game.

 Cho’Gath Armor & Magic Resist: 50 ⇒ 55

Cho’Gath Feast Damage: 800/900/1000 ⇒ 900/975/1050

Gangplank Parrrley Damage: 110/135/170 ⇒ 110/150/200

Heimerdinger Attack Speed: 0.6 ⇒ 0.65

Heimerdinger Rocket Swarm Damage: 70/95/140 ⇒ 70/100/150

Champions: Tier 4

Braum and Sion provide so much repeat CC that they’ve become staples in comps regardless of their deep synergies. We’re fine with the timing of their first cast, but if you value that second round of CC you may have to invest more in them.

While our Urgot buffs will help itemless Urgot, Ur gotta invest more in him with items, Augments, and Traits to really access his increased AD scaling. 3-star Urgot might actually feel like a 3-star 4-cost after this one.

 Braum max Mana nerf: 100/180 ⇒ 120/200

Seraphine Encore Heal: 275/450/1200 ⇒ 250/350/1000

Sion max Mana nerf: 100/175 ⇒ 125/200

Urgot Purge Attack Damage Ratio: 25% ⇒ 30%

Urgot Purge Duration: 5/5/5 ⇒ 5/5/10

Champions: Tier 5

 Rebench the Kench. Inhibit the Ribbit. Clog the pog Frog. Flat squish the catfish.

An early Tahm Kench can provide too much of a scaling threat in the late game for the price of a few Units fed mercilessly from your bench. Speaking of that, Tahm Kench has developed a finer taste for units unscathed by the woes of battle—the catfish demon king will now only dine on the more innocent-tasting benched units to avoid additional reddit clips of accidental feeding frenzies.

 Tahm Kench Devour Damage: 900/1450/30000 ⇒ 850/1350/30000

Tahm Kench Glutton stats gained from feeding Tahm Kench have been reduced by 10%

Tahm Kench Glutton User Experience change: To prevent unintentional loss of a champion in play, Tahm Kench will dine only upon champions from the bench.

Items

 Can’t wait to see who figures out the new Spirit Sharpshooters (a comp from Fates that used Locket stacking instead of running a frontline) of Gizmos & Gadgets.

Locket of the Iron Solari Shield Duration: 8 ⇒ 15 seconds

TFT 12.2 Patch Notes Small Changes

Small like the chance I don’t excessively ping my Golden Tiger Market arena as a big flex. 

Augments

 Continued trait-linked Augment balancing, a UX buff for Sniper’s Nest, and is that a Bodyguard 8 super buff!?!?

 Academy Crest now also grants a Garen

 Mutant Crest now also grants a Kassadin

 Protector Crest now also grants a Garen

 Mercenary Crest now also grants 3 Gold

 Mercenary Heart now also grants 1 Gold

 Socialite Heart now also grants 1 Gold

 Sniper’s Nest now has visual indicators for the amount of stacks a unit has

 Stand Behind Me now additionally increases the Bodyguard Armor bonus by 25% 

Traits

 Bringing Syndicate 3 and 5 down, but ensuring Syndicate 7 isn’t hit too hard.

Scrap Shield per Component: 20/35/60 ⇒ 20/40/60

Syndicate Armor/Magic Resist: 60 ⇒ 55

Syndicate (7) Bonus: 50% ⇒ 60%

Champions: Tier 2

 Zyra Grasping Spines Damage: 350/450/650 ⇒ 325/450/675

Katarina Health: 650 ⇒ 700

Champions: Tier 3

 1-star Vex is stabilizing comps a bit too early than we’d like for a unit tied to an econ trait.

 Miss Fortune Make It Rain Damage: 275/375/550 ⇒ 275/400/600

Shaco Attack Damage: 85 ⇒ 80

Vex Personal Space Shield: 550/675/850 ⇒ 525/675/850

Champions: Tier 4

 Lux will feel slightly better with Spear of Shojin after this one. While Jhin and Orianna are receiving quite small nerfs here, it’s worth pointing out that the comps they are finding their success in are reliant on other units who’ve also been nerfed this patch.

 Lux Attack Speed: 0.7 ⇒ 0.75

Jhin Curtain Call Damage: 150/200/344% ⇒ 150/200/300%

Orianna Command: Shockwave shield amount: 100/160/400 ⇒ 100/150/400

Yone Soul Unbound Duration: 4/5/20 ⇒ 4/5/15

Champions: Tier 5

 Some smaller buffs to our struggling 5-costs should be enough to level the playing field without any of them shooting through Sky.

 Jayce Melee form Shield: 350/500/3000 ⇒ 375/550/3000

Jinx Super Mega Death Rocket, rocket launcher Attack Damage scaling: 190/200/888% ⇒ 200/210/888%

Viktor Chaos Rays Damage: 325/425/1500 ⇒ 350/450/1500

Items

 It turns out everyone’s favorite ice cream cone (Chalice of Power) is really good for going for fast 9 with AP comps. So we’re reverting our buff to it in 12.1, especially now that Level 9 gives slightly more Legendary (5-cost) units.

 As our most versatile item, Hand of Justice should never be our strongest item, but its sheer underperformance made it worthy of a helping (and just) hand.

Chalice of Power Ability Power: 35 ⇒ 30

Hand of Justice one buff each round is increased to: 30(%) ⇒ 33(%)

TFT 12.2 Patch Notes Bug Fixes

Is the Clock Working: Clockwork Crest will now be available in the Augment selection menu as intended

 Imperial bug fix: Imperial 5’s damage buff on all Imperial units is no longer removed during some combats in uncommon situations

 More excellent shot: Caitlyn’s Ability can no longer hit invulnerable and untargetable objects (Hexcore, Guardian Angel stasis, etc.)

 Fiora’s Ability no longer fizzles if her target dies as she begins her cast

 1-Star Illaoi’s Harsh Lessons Magic Damage is now the intended 200 rather than 175

 Units that are sold with Sniper Emblem no longer retain their bonus +1 Attack Range

 Dragon’s Claw no longer triggers against some physical Abilities

 Runaan’s Hurricane no longer applies Viktor’s Armor shred

 Fixed an issue where Crown augments would still appear when players had previously taken the Built Different augment. Soul augments that benefit the entire team are still allowed to appear (e.g. Enforcer Soul, Arcanist Soul)

 Not exZactly as planned: Zac will no longer sometimes target the same enemy twice with his Ability

 Fixed a rare issue where Zac would deal double damage to one of the targets he was yoinking

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