Riot Games has officially confirmed that Teamfight Tactics is now a permanent addition to League of Legends, and Riot Games plans to continue to implement updates, regular patches, new champions, champion sets, and ranked seasons.
Additionally, Riot Games announced today the addition of four League of Legends champions to TFT. Camille, Jayce, Vi, and Jinx all hail from the brand-new Hextech origin, according to an official press release.
These additions are playable on the beta environment (PBE) when its patch hits later today, and will come to live servers with live patch 9.16, which is scheduled for August 14th.
Here are the details:
Hextech
- At 2/4 Hextech, disable 2/4 random items on the enemy’s board at the start of combat.
- Random here = randomly select a unit from all units that have items, then randomly disable one of the items on that unit. This means it actually is generally more reliable vs players who are stacking all their items on a few units.
Camille
- Class: Blademaster
- Ability: Hextech Ultimatum – Camille roots and damages her current auto-attack target. Camille’s abilities that can attack that target will switch their current target to do so.
- Meta: Ideally, Camille can single out an enemy and help her team focus fire them down. Explicit external control over AI’s targeting is a new effect, and we’d like to see players consider who they want to target on the enemy team.
- Skin: Base
- Tier: 1
Jayce
- Class: Shapeshifter
- Ability: Thundering Blow + Transform Mercury Cannon – Knock back his target then change to ranged, gaining max attack speed for a few attacks.
- Meta: Jayce is able to break up the enemy frontline fairly early on in the fight, a premium and rare effect in TFT. Jayce has particularly low mana cost for a shapeshifter (50).
- Skin: Base
- Tier: 2
Vi
- Class: Brawler
- Ability: Assault and Battery – Vi targets the furthest enemy and launches towards them, knocking aside everyone else while knocking up and dealing damage on impact with her target.
- Meta: Vi provides backline access on priority targets. Something we particularly wanted for Brawlers.
- Skin: Base
- Tier: 3
Jinx
- Class: Gunslinger
- Ability: Get Excited – Jinx gets more excited as she scores takedowns. After her first, she gains attacked speed. After her second, she pulls out Fishbones for AoE damage on Autos.
- Meta: Jinx is a ramping AoE AA carry (opposed to Draven ramping single target AA carry). She’s a particularly squishy, high risk/reward carry.
- Skin: Base
- Tier: 4
