Teamfight Tactics 9.23 patch notes: the return of Ranked Queue

Teamfight Tactics patch 9.23 brings a grip of additions to the game, including the return of the Ranked Queue. There are also new balancing changes that empower Tier 2 and Tier 3 champions while pulling back on the power of Tier 1s. 

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Traits

• Glacial stun chance: 20%/40%/60% ⇒ 20%/35%/50%
• Light: The total heal amount is now based on the dying Champion's health rather than those receiving the heal.
• Ocean mana per second: 15/30/50 ⇒ 15/35/60
• Shadow bonus damage: 50%/100% ⇒ 45%/85%
• Warden bonus armor: 125%/275%/450% ⇒ 150%/300%/450%

Three-Star Ability Scaling

Tier 2

• Jax Damage: 150/250/350 ⇒ 150/250/450
• Leblanc Damage: 200/450/700 ⇒ 200/450/800
• Neeko Damage: 100/200/300 ⇒ 100/200/350
• Syndra Damage: 175/350/525 ⇒ 175/350/600
• Thresh Shield (note balance change below): 250/400/550 ⇒ 250/400/600
• Volibear Damage: 200/450/700 ⇒ 200/450/850

Tier 3

• Aatrox Damage: 250/500/750 ⇒ 250/500/1000
• Ezreal Damage: 200/400/600 ⇒ 200/400/800
• Kindred Damage: 150/325/500 ⇒ 150/325/650
• Nautilus Stun Duration: 3/4/5 ⇒3/4/6
• Nautilus Damage: 100/200/300 ⇒ 100/200/400
• Sion Damage: 200/400/600 ⇒ 200/400/800

General Champion Balance

Tier 1

• Ivern Shield: 200/400/600 ⇒ 200/350/500
• Maokai Passive Heal: 100/200/300 ⇒ 100/175/250
• Nasus Ability Damage: 35/70/105 ⇒ 50/70/90
• Nasus Ability Bonus Health: 200/400/600 ⇒ 250/400/550
• Taliyah Mana: 50/85 ⇒ 50/80
• Taliyah Ability Stun Duration: 1.5 ⇒ 2
• Vayne Ability Damage: 8%/12%/16% ⇒ 9%/12%/15%
• Vladimir Ability Damage and Heal Amount: 200/350/500 ⇒ 200/325/450

Tier 2

• Malzahar Minion Health: 300 ⇒ 250
• Rek’Sai Ability Damage: 200/550/900 ⇒ 250/550/850
• Skarner Mana: 0/75 ⇒ 0/65
• Skarner Armor: 30 ⇒ 35
• Thresh Ability Shield: 200/300/400 ⇒ 250/400/600
• Yasuo Ability Hits: 3/5/7 ⇒ 4/5/6

Tier 3

• Ezreal Mana: 0/40 ⇒ 0/30
• Ezreal Ability Cast Time: 0.5 ⇒ 0.25

Tier 4

• Ashe Attack Speed: 0.7 ⇒ 0.8
• Brand Ability Damage: 250/450/650 ⇒ 300/450/600
• Brand Bounces: 4/6/20 ⇒ 5/6/20
• Malphite HP: 800 ⇒ 850
• Olaf Mana: 0/75 ⇒ 0/90
• Yorick Ghoul Health: 750/1250/1750 ⇒ 600/1000/1400
• Yorick Ghoul Attack Speed: 0.8 ⇒ 0.7

Tier 5

• Singed Health: 1050 ⇒ 950
• Singed Ability Damage: 250/500/2000 ⇒ 200/400/2000
• Taric Health: 850 ⇒ 900

Items

• Frozen Heart Attack Speed Slow: 35% ⇒ 25%
• Guardian Angel: Can no longer be healed during the resurrecting state.
• Iceborne Gauntlet Attack Speed Slow: 35% ⇒ 25%
• Ionic Spark Damage: 100 ⇒ 90

Ranked

• It's on! Time to prove how well you can adapt to the Rise of the Elements.
• Everyone will be reset back to Iron.
• No losing LP for the first 5 games.
• No losing LP for placing 4th or better.

Bug Fixes

General

• General improvements to melee unit pathing.
• Spooky, invisible Woodland units no longer erroneously add to Trait bonuses
• All PVE small monsters are now properly considered 1-star.
• All summons are now properly considered 0-star.
• Dragon/Elder Dragon/Rift Herald are now properly considered 3-star.
• Ranged Berserkers (via Rapid Firecannon or Berserker’s Axe) now properly deal damage emanating in a cone from their target instead of themselves.
• Fixed a few height bugs on Freljord Arenas. Items and champions should no longer get buried in the terrain.
• The Electric trait no longer benefits from Ability Power, and no longer feeds into Hextech Gunblade.

Tier 1 Champions

• Diana's orbs can no longer hit multiple targets each.
• Kog’Maw's ability adjusted to miss far less often.
• Renekton’s ability now properly deals Magic Damage (tooltip to be updated next patch).
• Fixed healing text on Vlad to show the proper amount.
• Zyra’s plants attack speed and duration now match their intended amount.
• Zyra plants no longer occasionally hop into your bench.

Tier 2 Champions

• Malzahar's minions attack speed now matches attack speed ratio. (This results in a slight reduction of Malz Minion AS)
• Volibear’s ability now also restores him to full mana if a non-execute cast kills the target.

Tier 3 Champions

• Azir no longer summons soldiers adjacent to untargetable units like Zyra plants.
• Dr. Mundo won’t cast his ability when there’s nothing in range that it could hit.
• Qiyana won’t cast her ability when there’s nothing in range that it could hit.
• Clarified Veigar’s tooltip that it instantly kills lower star targets.
• Veigar’s ability now executes non-champions if their star level is below his.

Tier 4 Champions

• Annie can no longer gain mana if she summons two Tibbers (Mage’s Cap), then one of them dies.
• Fixed Ashe’s three-star Scaling to be the intended 250% value
• Fixed an issue where Ashe could not proc Blademaster while her ability was active
• Fixed Olaf and Singed looking like they were glacial’d, even though they were still attacking

Tier 5 Units

• Champions can now properly take damage from multiple poison trails created by different copies of Singed.
• Zed’s clones now properly attribute damage to Zed in the damage tracker.

Items

• Dragon's Claw now also reduces magic damage received from non-ability effects (Items, Traits, etc.)
• Fixed Iceborn Gauntlet’s attack speed slow occasionally persisting across rounds
• Inferno Cinder now properly works on: Renekton, Jax, Rek’Sai, Vayne, and Nami’s Tidal Wave empowered attacks
• Spatula items now correctly no longer double the non-spatula component’s stats
• Talisman of Light now correctly grants Magic Resist