TL;DRPatch 18.4 is a big balance patch that adjusts traits, buffs struggling 1-cost and 2-cost units, and nerfs a few dominant strategies. It also shortens the combat arrival and departure phases by 1 second each, and 18.5 is planned as a smaller follow-up.
Who this matters to
Trait players
Trait adjustments aim to bring Origins and Classes closer together in power.
Reroll players
Buffs for struggling 1-cost and 2-cost units should enable more reroll lines.
All 174 changes
Bug fixes
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Fixed a bug where Weight the Worth could spawn copies of the Golden Egg.
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Fixed a bug where Weight the Worth could spawn copies of the Golden Egg.
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Fixed issues where some champion Ability's could disappear before dealing damage.
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Fixed issues where some champion Ability's could disappear before dealing damage.
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Min Max is no longer missing the Golden Magnetic Remover.
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Min Max is no longer missing the Golden Magnetic Remover
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Heart of Steel temporarily disabled to address a bug.
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Heart of Steel temporarily disabled to address a bug
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Coven Acolyte and Dark Ritual are now correctly limited to 1 per lobby between both of them.
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Coven Acolyte and Dark Ritual are now correctly limited to 1 per lobby between both of them
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Chosen of the Sun is now correctly limited to 1 per lobby.
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Chosen of the Sun is now correctly limited to 1 per lobby
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Choncc's Splash Party, Night Versus Dawn, and Bridge of Progress arenas temporarily disabled to support performance.
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Choncc's Splash Party, Night Versus Dawn, and Bridge of Progress arenas temporarily disabled to support performance
Killing Frenzy's AS on kill increase from 115% to 130%.
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AS on Kill: 115% → 130%
Buff
Blossom Upgrade AS on Kill
Killing Frenzy's Blossom upgrade AS on kill increase from 140% to 160%.
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Blossom Upgrade AS on Kill: 140% → 160%
Mana Potion
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Mana Restored
Mana Potion's mana restored decreases from 80 to 70.
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Mana Restored: 80 → 70
Buff
Starting Mana
Mana Potion's starting mana decreases from 20 to 10.
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Starting Mana: 20 → 10
Adjust
Radiant Mana Restored
Mana Potion's radiant mana restored decreases from 90 to 80.
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Radiant Mana Restored: 90 → 80
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Radiant Starting Mana
Mana Potion's radiant starting mana decreases from 20 to 10.
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Radiant Starting Mana: 20 → 10
Stealthy
Adjust
Duration
Stealthy's duration increases from 6s to 8s.
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Duration: 6 seconds → 8 seconds
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Blossom Upgrade Duration
Stealthy's Blossom upgrade duration increases from 10s to 12s.
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Blossom Upgrade Duration: 10 seconds → 12 seconds
Bug fixes
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Fixed a bug that could cause dead dashing champions to be considered as valid combat targets. This could cause extra Player Damage and incorrect ability targeting.
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Fixed a bug that could cause dead dashing champions to be considered as valid combat targets. This could cause extra Player Damage and incorrect ability targeting.
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Fixed a bug where Xayah's 4-star Ability damage was incorrect.
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Fixed a bug where Xayah's 4-star Ability damage was incorrect.
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Weight The Worth can no longer grant bugged copies of Adaptors.
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Weight The Worth can no longer grant bugged copies of Adaptors
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The unit granted by Late Bloomer can no longer combine with other units on your board after combat.
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The unit granted by Late Bloomer can no longer combine with other units on your board after combat
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Polymorph no longer runs on ghost armies.
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Polymorph no longer runs on ghost armies
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The Solar tooltip now highlights correctly at 7 3-stars.
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The Solar tooltip now highlights correctly at 7 3-stars.
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Fixed Mogul's Mail missing a space in its name.
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Fixed Mogul's Mail missing a space in its name
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Fixed Ashe's celebration animation not playing properly.
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Fixed Ashe's celebration animation not playing properly
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Fixed Blossom upgraded Pocket Change giving you the extra 1g when it appeared in your shop rather than when you purchased it.
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Fixed Blossom upgraded Pocket Change giving you the extra 1g when it appeared in your shop rather than when you purchased it
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Fixed Morgana's withering zone being oddly rotated if Morgana was knocked up mid-cast.
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Fixed Morgana's withering zone being oddly rotated if Morgana was knocked up mid-cast
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Fixed rare cases where Ezreal's big cast wouldn't prioritize the largest group.
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Fixed rare cases where Ezreal's big cast wouldn't prioritize the largest group
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Fixed an issue where Artifactinate would give you a Spatula if it broke apart an Emblem that was built out of Frying Pan.
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Fixed an issue where Artifactinate would give you a Spatula if it broke apart an Emblem that was built out of Frying Pan
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3-star Gnar throwing CC immune targets off the board no longer occasionally permanently destroys them.
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3-star Gnar throwing CC immune targets off the board no longer occasionally permanently destroys them
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Strongest targeting now tie-breaks more consistently.
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Strongest targeting now tie-breaks more consistently
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Updated 'unstoppable' to no longer be capitalized on various tooltips.
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Updated 'unstoppable' to no longer be capitalized on various tooltips
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Carousel tether VFX is no longer oddly hard to see.
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Carousel tether VFX is no longer oddly hard to see
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Bramble Vest's max health increase is now properly additive with other max health increases rather than multiplicative.
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Bramble Vest's max health increase is now properly additive with other max health increases rather than multiplicative
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Ezreal's tooltip now properly refers to the ability as "Forest's Flurry".
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Ezreal's tooltip now properly refers to the ability as "Forest's Flurry"
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Fixed a bug where loot orbs sometimes would not land where they were intended to (most notably with Missed Connections).
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Fixed a bug where loot orbs sometimes would not land where they were intended to (most notably with Missed Connections)
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Scuttle Crab now shows the range extension laser with increased range.
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Scuttle Crab now shows the range extension laser with increased range
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The Indomitable no longer fails to trigger for the rest of combat if the target dies while the hook is in flight.
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The Indomitable no longer fails to trigger for the rest of combat if the target dies while the hook is in flight
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Warmog's Armor now properly has its apostrophe.
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Warmog's Armor now properly has its apostrophe
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Stealthy Wisp now properly says it affects your 3 strongest Assassins or Fighters.
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Stealthy Wisp now properly says it affects your 3 strongest Assassins or Fighters
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Logic improved around acquiring 2/3-star champions when the player has a full bench.
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Logic improved around acquiring 2/3-star champions when the player has a full bench
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Various bugs regarding Ghost Armies and missing stats, items, traits have been fixed.
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Various bugs regarding Ghost Armies and missing stats, items, traits have been fixed
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Fixed an issue where auto-deploying Elderwood champions could cause the summons to fail to appear.
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Fixed an issue where auto-deploying Elderwood champions could cause the summons to fail to appear
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Fixed various bugs with Thief's Gloves and edge cases.
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Fixed various bugs with Thief's Gloves and edge cases
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Legion of Threes will no longer appear in Emblem Ensemble.
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Legion of Threes will no longer appear in Emblem Ensemble
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Blossom Polymorph Wisps no longer prioritized fielded champions over benched champions.
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Blossom Polymorph Wisps no longer prioritized fielded champions over benched champions
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Heart of Steel can now stack even if the item is equipped mid combat.
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Heart of Steel can now stack even if the item is equipped mid combat
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URF and Trait Tree are now properly mutually exclusive.
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URF and Trait Tree are now properly mutually exclusive
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Ashe's Ability trail VFX no longer goes missing on occasion.
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Ashe's Ability trail VFX no longer goes missing on occasion
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Opponent's Empowered Hexes now correctly render more consistently.
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Opponent's Empowered Hexes now correctly render more consistently
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Fixed an issue where a champion could be barred from being sold when it occupied the previous slot of a recently starred up champion on the bench.
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Fixed an issue where a champion could be barred from being sold when it occupied the previous slot of a recently starred up champion on the bench
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Fixed an issue where Sivir would occasionally go missing on ghost army boards.
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Fixed an issue where Sivir would occasionally go missing on ghost army boards
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Units with Thief's Gloves can no longer obtain 5 items in rare situations.
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Units with Thief's Gloves can no longer obtain 5 items in rare situations
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Buying a unit at the same time as Leblanc prints a different unit while you have a full bench will no longer create an invisible copy of the purchased unit.
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Buying a unit at the same time as Leblanc prints a different unit while you have a full bench will no longer create an invisible copy of the purchased unit
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Arachnophobia: Ranged Champions no longer prioritize targeting Elise more than other magic tanks at the start of the combat round.
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Arachnophobia: Ranged Champions no longer prioritize targeting Elise more than other magic tanks at the start of the combat round
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Fixed a rare case where Recurve Bow obtained from loot orbs during PvE could not be equipped onto a champion.
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Fixed a rare case where Recurve Bow obtained from loot orbs during PvE could not be equipped onto a champion
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Fixed an issue where combat would fail to resolve if a three-star Draven casts before a three-star Ivern. Congrats to the reporter who found this bug.
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Fixed an issue where combat would fail to resolve if a three-star Draven casts before a three-star Ivern. Congrats to the reporter who found this bug.
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The health bar of the BFF and the Rider no longer appear simultaneously after being transported to a different board.
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The health bar of the BFF and the Rider no longer appear simultaneously after being transported to a different board
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Fixed an issue where Adaptors failed to gain the bonus from the Augment Double Trouble.
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Fixed an issue where Adaptors failed to gain the bonus from the Augment Double Trouble
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Eclipse trait no longer becomes a white box on the end of game trait tracker.
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Eclipse trait no longer becomes a white box on the end of game trait tracker
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Karma no longer fails to be highlighted when hovered by the mouse pointer during planning phase.
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Karma no longer fails to be highlighted when hovered by the mouse pointer during planning phase
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Selling a unit no longer leaves unit drop VFX when sold during a match.
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Selling a unit no longer leaves unit drop VFX when sold during a match
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Fixed various server crashes.
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Fixed various server crashes.
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Cleaned up lingered Orb VFX during scouting.
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Cleaned up lingered Orb VFX during scouting
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Fixed an issue where fielding a champion at the last second could fail if your network latency was too high.
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Fixed an issue where fielding a champion at the last second could fail if your network latency was too high
Structured by Nerf Radar from the official notes (parsed automatically and reviewed by hand). Riot's official Teamfighttactics.leagueoflegends.com patch notes as fetched; labels follow the numbers only where the direction is clear (damage, health, resists, mana and gold costs), and other numeric changes are labeled adjust. Designer commentary, set overviews, cosmetics, esports and lines without numbers are not tracked, except bug fixes. Source: teamfighttactics.leagueoflegends.com · fetched Oct 20, 2026.