Dawn of Heroes Revival: A Look Back at TFT Patch 14.19

Originally released three years ago, Dawn of Heroes introduced several key features that left a lasting impact on TFT:

• Radiant Items: These powerful items added a new strategic layer to the game, offering enhanced versions of regular items that could turn the tide of battle.
• Divine Blessing: A life-saving mechanic that granted bonus resources when your health fell below a certain threshold. It was so popular that it inspired the creation of the Portals we see in current sets.
• Tome of Traits: This book offered players the chance to gain additional traits, a mechanic that added flexibility to team compositions. Although the Tome has recently been retired, its legacy lives on in the way we build our teams today.

And let’s not forget the addition of new champions like Akshan, as well as the introduction of thematic traits like Sentinels, the Forgotten, and the mischievous Hellion!

We will provide a full list of the champions and traits soon on a dedicated post.

What’s New in the Revival?

Starting September 25th at 4:30 PM PT, the Dawn of Heroes Revival will be available until November 4th, 4:30 PM PT. During this period, players can jump back into this iconic set and experience it with fresh updates and a new competitive environment.

The Revival comes with its own Ranked Revival Ladder and rewards.

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Trait Adjustments: Balancing the broken traits

Patch 14.19 introduces a series of trait adjustments aimed at refining the balance and performance of various traits in TFT. Here’s a breakdown of the key changes:

Faerie 🔻

The Faerie trait has been consistently overperforming, largely due to the powerful synergy between the Queenguard’s Armor and the healing mechanics provided by the Queen.

To address this, the following adjustments have been made:

• Queenguard’s Armor Healing/Shielding Power: Reduced from 35% to 25%.
• Queenguard’s Armor Healing from Queen’s Damage: Reduced from 15% to 12%.

Eldritch ✅

The Eldritch trait has struggled to maintain competitiveness, especially outside its final chase trait. To improve its scaling into the late game, several buffs have been introduced:

• Eldritch 3 Tainted Golem AD: Increased from 60 to 65.
• Eldritch 3 Tainted Golem Ability Damage: Decreased slightly from 250% to 240% AP.
• Eldritch 3 Tainted Golem Stage Scaling HP Multiplier: Adjusted from 0.9/1/1.05/1.1/1.5x to 1/1.05/1.1/1.4/1.5x.
• Eldritch 5 Dark Monolith Stage Scaling HP Multiplier: Increased from 0.65/0.85/1.2/1.45/1.55x to 0.7/0.9/1.25/1.6/1.75x.
• Eldritch 7 Many-Eyed Beast Summon Ability Damage: Increased from 340% to 375% AP.
• Eldritch 7 Many-Eyed Beast Stage Scaling HP Multiplier: Adjusted from 0.6/0.75/0.9/1.15/1.3x to 0.6/0.75/0.95/1.3/1.45x.

Warrior ✅

The Warrior trait is being adjusted to improve the performance of lesser-used champions while reducing the dominance of certain carries. The changes are focused on enhancing the general power of the trait while targeting specific outliers for individual adjustments:

• Warrior Damage Amplification: Increased from 10/18/25% to 10/20/25%.
• Warrior Omnivamp: Increased from 10/18/25% to 10/20/25%.

Frost 🔻

• AD/AP: Increased from 16/35/50/80 to 16/35/50/90.
• Frost Soldier Explosion Damage: Reduced from 600-800 to 500-700.

Honeymancy 🔻

• Bee: Reduced from 6/8/15% to 5/8/16%.
• Damage Taken Per Bee: Reduced from 3/4/10% to 3/4/8%.

Mage ✅

• Mage (10) AP: 140% ⇒ 200%

Sugarcraft ✅

• Sugarcraft (6) Bonus HP: 50 ⇒ 100

Champions Adjustments

1 Costs

• Seraphine ✅
  • Ability Damage: 220/330/495% AP ⇒ 240/360/540% AP
• Soraka ✅
  • Mana: 20/60 ⇒ 10/50
• Twitch ⚙️
  • Item class updated to Attack Caster
• Ziggs 🔻
  • Ability Damage 200/300/450% AP ⇒ 190/290/435% AP
  • Ability Area Damage: 100/150/225% AP ⇒ 95/145/215% AP

2 Costs

• Akali ✅
  • Ability Kunai Damage: 140% AD + 30/45/70% AP ⇒ 150% AD + 30/45/70% AP
• Ahri ✅
  • Ability Foxfire Damage: 12/18/27% AP ⇒ 13/20/30% AP
• Nilah ✅
  • Ability Damage: 360% AD ⇒ 360/360/380% AD
• Syndra ✅
  • Ability Damage: 220/330/495% AP ⇒ 230/345/520% AP
  • Ability Adjacent Damage: 110/165/245% AP ⇒ 115/170/260% AP

3 Costs

• Ezreal 🔻
  • AD: 60 ⇒ 55
• Hecarim 🔻
  • Ability Cleave Damage: 140/140/145% AD ⇒ 125/125/130% AD
• Jinx ✅
  • Ability Damage: 100% AD + 16/24/36% AP ⇒ 110% AD + 16/24/36% AP
• Katarina
  • Ability Damage: 175/260/420% AP ⇒ 165/245/395% AP
• Veigar ✅
  • Ability Damage: 240/330/450% AP ⇒ 240/330/475% AP
• Wukong ✅
  • Passive Bonus Armor/MR: 40 ⇒ 45

4 Costs

• Gwen ✅
  • Ability Dash Logic Updated: Prioritizes hitting the most targets, with changes to her dash range logic.
  • Ability Small Snip Damage: 45/70/210% AP ⇒ 40/60/180% AP

5 Costs

• Briar ⚙️
  • No longer unstoppable while in frenzied form.
• Norra ✅
  • Mana Buff: 30/90 ⇒ 30/80
• Morgana 🔻
  • True Damage Health Threshold: 33% ⇒ 25%

Augments Adjustments ⚙️

• [Bugfix] Flexible 🔻⚙️
  • Now correctly grants health on away boards.
  • Health per Emblem: 40 ⇒ 30
• High Horsepower (Lillia) ✅
  • Bonus Damage: 240% ⇒ 260%
• Item Ladder ⚙️
  • Re-enabled after bug fix.
• Pillar of Flame (Shen) ✅
  • Ability Damage Over Time 40/60/95% AP ⇒ 45/70/110% AP
• Royal Guard (Faeries) 🔻
  • Queen AP/AD: 1.5% ⇒ 1%
• Spider Queen (Elise) ✅
  • Poison Damage: 110% ⇒ 120%
• Winter is Coming (Frost) 🔻
  • Health: 200 ⇒ 150
  • Attack Speed: 20% ⇒ 15%
• Witchy Wallop (Poppy) ✅
  • Ability Damage: 75% ⇒ 80%
• Zap Attack (Blitzcrank) 🔻
  • Damage Rate: Every 4 seconds ⇒ every 5 seconds

Items and Charms adjustments ⚙️

Item Changes

• Moonstone Renewer 🔻
  • Shielding: 60-360 ⇒ 55-325 ( Support )
• Deathblade, Rabadon’s Deathcap, Luminous Deathblade, and Rabadon’s Ascended Deathcap ⚙️
  • New flavor text added.
• Demonslayer (Giant Slayer) ✅
  • AP/AD: 40 ⇒ 50
  • Damage Amp: 40% ⇒ 50%
• Equinox (Evenshroud) ✅
  • Bonus Armor/MR: 50 ⇒ 70
  • Duration: 15 seconds ⇒ 20 seconds
• Rosethorn Vest (Bramble Vest) ✅
  • Bonus Health: 8% ⇒ 15%
• Sunlight Cape (Sunfire Cape) ✅
  • Health: 300 ⇒ 450
  • Armor: 20 ⇒ 40
• Willbreaker (Guardbreaker) ✅
  • Damage Amp: 40% ⇒ 50%

Charms Changes ⚙️

• Removed Charms:
  • Desperate Plea
  • Conjure Pan
  • Conjure Spatula
• New Charms:
  • Conjure Support: 25g – Gain a Support Anvil (Stage 5+)
  • Study Hard: 1g – Gain 2 XP for each Study Hard purchased in the game (Stage 3/4)
• Tremors Activation Time: Every 8 seconds ⇒ every 10 seconds
• Lightning Strike and Meteor Storm: Re-enabled

Bug Fixes ⚙️

• Akali
  • Now properly uses enhanced attacks with Runaan’s Hurricane and Hextech Gunblade equipped.
• Briar
  • No longer unstoppable while in frenzied form.
• Pillar of Flame (Shen’s Champion Augment):
  • Casts at a further range if no targets are in range, instead of near/on himself.
  • Functions consistently on away boards.
  • Requires Bastion activated to appear on 3-2.
• Yuumi
  • Now grants Attack Damage instead of Ability Power to AD casters like Varus and Ezreal.
• Draconic Mastery
  • No longer counts takedowns on PvE rounds.
• Faerie Augments
  • Now correctly require the trait to be active to appear on 3-2 and 4-2.
• 4-Star Units
  • Fixed various bugs.
• What the Forge and Anger Issues
  • No longer transform Tactician’s Shield or Cape.
• Stage 5+ Carousel
  • Fixed an issue where it incorrectly offered 3 Tactician’s Crowns + 6 other non-Tactician’s items. Now only the ALL Tactician’s Items Carousel (3 Crowns, 3 Shields, and 3 Capes) contains Tactician’s items.
• Arcana Emblem Variant
  • Now correctly counts Tactician’s Cape and Shield twice, in addition to Crown.
• Reforging Issue
  • Reforging a unit with all three different Tactician’s Items no longer returns nothing.
• Flexible
  • Now correctly grants health on away boards.
• Wukong (Spin to Win Augment)
  • Shield duration corrected to 2 seconds (previously 0.3 seconds).
• Mordekaiser (Mage Emblem)
  • Now manalocked for the correct duration.
• Overencumbered and Polymorph Charm
  • Fixed interactions between these effects.
• Jak’Sho the Protean (Radiant Adaptive Helm)
  • Tooltip now correctly indicates it provides 40 bonus AP in the back two rows.