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TFT 14.3 patch notes: Hacks, Kobuko rework, no more Mortdog patch rundowns

Amy Chen

Amy Chen

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Here are all the TFT 14.3 patch notes, which include a bunch of buffs, new Hacks, and more. We also cover the Mortdog situation.

Riot Games has revealed the details of the latest Teamfight Tactics (TFT) patch notes. TFT patch 14.3 features new Hacks, balance updates, a Kobuko rework, and more.

TFT patch 14.3 release date

TFT patch 14.3 went live on April 30. The next patch will arrive on May 14.

TFT 14.3 patch notes
Highlights from the TFT 14.3 patch notes (Image via Riot Games)

TFT patch 14.3 notes

Below are all the TFT patch 14.3 notes, as provided by Riot Games. In TFT’s latest update, Rodger “Riot Prism” Caudill revealed that champions such as Morgana, Zyra, Braum, Gragas, Yuumi, Aphelios, Cho’Gath, Vex, Xayah, Smaira, and Urgot got buffed. Meanwhile, nerfs went to Jhin, Twisted Fate, Vayne, Veigar, Jarvan IV, Rengar, Aurora, and Viego. A.M.P. 

Traits such as Anima Squad, and A.M.P. received buffs while Folden Ox and Dynamo got nerfed. As for other changes, the game added in new Hacks plus reworked Kobuko.

Carousel Hacks

Tome Carousel: Carousels can appear with Tome of Traits. Use the Tome of Traits to select an Emblem partially tailored to your composition.
2-star Carousel.
Big Carousel: Carousel has 15 Champions instead of 9.
All 3-Cost Carousel: Carousel is all 3-costs.
All 4-Cost Carousel: Carousel is all 4-costs.
Double PVE: After a PvE round, you’ll immediately face an exact copy of it, rewarding the exact same loot.
Golden Spatula/Pan Carousel has been removed.

Opening Encounter Hacks

To Split or Not to Split: After every Carousel, players choose to split a pot of gold or take a guaranteed separate amount of gold.
Group Investing: After every Carousel, players choose to split a pot of gold or increase the total amount for future rounds.
Reroll Subscription: At the start of every stage, gain free Shop rerolls, increasing over the game.
Three Champions: Start the game with a two-star 2-cost champion. Every player gets a unique one.

Orb Hacks

Bag of Gold (consumable): Use on a champion to gain 4 gold. Increase this by 1 after every combat.
Salvager (consumable): Use on a champion to remove all their items and break them down into components. [+1 unstable component]
Implant: Size (consumable): Use on a champion to permanently increase their max health and size. Lasts until the unit is sold. [+1 unstable component]
Implant: Speed (consumable): Use on a champion to permanently increase their Attack Speed and decrease their size. Lasts until the unit is sold. [+1 unstable component]
Starter Kits (Stage 1 only): Gain a 1-, 2-, and 3-cost with 1 shared trait. [Cypher excluded]
Nesting Dolls: Spawn a silver orb, which spawns a blue orb, which spawns a gold orb.

Traits

Anima Squad now counts total star level at start of combat, instead of the current surviving members’ star level for weapon damage.
With more consistent Anima Squad weapon power, we’re making adjustments to weapon scaling which will result in a net nerf to one-star heavy Anima Squads and a buff to two- (and three-) star teams.
A.M.P. Power Charges: 1/2/3/4 ⇒ 1/2/3/5
A.M.P. HP: 100/200/350/500 ⇒ 100/200/400/600
Cypher AD/AP: 30/45/55% ⇒ 30/45/65%
Cypher Intel Per Loss: 18/20/22/24 ⇒ 16/20/24/28
Cypher (Hyper Roll): 20 + 2 per stage ⇒ 30 + 3 per stage
Exotech, Cybercoil Armor/MR: 55 ⇒ 65
Exotech, Flux Capacitor Shock HP% Damage: 15% ⇒ 8%
Exotech, Flux Capacitor Attack Speed: 20% ⇒ 25%
Exotech, Flux Capacitor AD: 15% ⇒ 20%
Exotech, Holobow AP: 25% ⇒ 30%
Exotech, Holobow Crit Bonus: 60% ⇒ 40%
Exotech, Holobow Crit Chance buff no longer can stack on itself. Multiple Holobows still stack Crit Chance.
Golden Ox Base Damage Amp: 12/22/30% ⇒ 12/22/25%
Street Demon Base Stats: 6/10/15/50% ⇒ 6/10/17/45%

1-cost units

Alistar Flat Damage Reduction: 12/18/25 ⇒ 15/20/30
Alistar Ability Damage: 200/300/450 ⇒ 240/360/600
Dr. Mundo Ability Heal HP%: 2% ⇒ 5%
Dr. Mundo Ability Damage AD%: 130% ⇒ 200%
Dr. Mundo Ability Damage HP%: 20% ⇒ 25%
Kog’Maw Ability Bonus Damage AD%: 40% ⇒ 50%
Morgana Ability Damage: 220/330/550 ⇒ 400/600/1000
Morgana Ability Duration: 10 ⇒ 16 sec
Zyra Ability Damage: 260/390/600 ⇒ 290/435/660
Zyra Secondary Damage: 130/195/300 ⇒ 145/220/330

2-cost units

Jhin starting Mana nerf: 14/74 ⇒ 4/74
Jhin Bounce AD%: 174% ⇒ 164%
Twisted Fate AP Per Auto: 2 ⇒ 1.5
Twisted Fate Base Card Damage: 200/300/450 ⇒ 220/330/500
Twisted Fate Special Card Damage: 250/375/565 ⇒ 265/400/595
Vayne Mana nerf: 40/80 ⇒ 30/90

3-cost units

Braum Kingpin Bonus Damage Armor/MR%: 100% ⇒ 100/150/200%
Gragas max Mana buff: 30/90 ⇒ 20/80
Jarvan IV Ability AD%: 350% ⇒ 280%
Rengar HP: 800 ⇒ 750
Yuumi Base Ability Damage: 95/145/220 ⇒ 100/150/235
Yuumi Secondary Spell Damage: 55/85/125 ⇒ 60/90/140
Yuumi Mark Damage: 175% ⇒ 190%

4-cost units

Aphelios Mana buff: 0/60 ⇒ 0/50
Aphelios Number of Chakram’d Autos: 6 ⇒ 8
Aphelios Chakram bonus AD: 7/7/50% ⇒ 11/11/100%
Cho’Gath Mana buff: 60/110 ⇒ 60/100
Cho’Gath Ability HP Gain AP Ratio: 50/80/500 ⇒ 70/100/500
Xayah AD: 60 ⇒ 65

5-cost units

Aurora Base Ability Damage: 50/125/3333 ⇒ 50/90/3333
Aurora Split Ability Damage: 575/1000/9999 ⇒ 525/800/9999
Kobuko AS: 0.8 ⇒ 1.0
Kobuko Ability reworked
Kobuko Passive: Attacks deal (100/150/999) bonus magic damage. At 50% Health, trigger ‘Phase 2’, then enrage for the rest of the fight, gaining 100% Attack Speed, 30% Omnivamp, and increasing the bonus damage by 33%.
Kobuko Phase 2: Gain (100/100/400% HP) shield for 4 seconds. Pick up a nearby enemy, knocking up all enemies within 2 hexes for 1.5 seconds. Then, slam down, dealing (300/450/13370) magic damage to the target and (150/225/1337) damage to all enemies hit.
Samira AD: 65 ⇒ 70
Urgot Mana buff: 0/50 ⇒ 0/40
Urgot AD: 63 ⇒ 66
Urgot Ability Missile AD%: 95/95/999% ⇒ 100/100/1000%
Viego Soul Heal Percent: 8/8/100% ⇒ 5/5/100%
Viego Base Ability Damage: 220/330/10000 ⇒ 200/300/10000
Viego Ability Splash Damage: 100/150/10000 ⇒ 90/135/10000

Augments

Coronation AS on Crown: 25% ⇒ 20% AP on Crown: 35% ⇒ 30%
Cybernetic Uplink III HP: 200 ⇒ 180 Mana Per Sec: 3.5 ⇒ 3
Endless Hordes (and Endless Hordes+) (Black Market) HP Reduction: 20% ⇒ 12%
Future Sight Dummies no longer gain HP from starring up
Hall of Mirrors (Black Market) has been Disabled
Lucky Gloves no longer gives a third glove later
Lucky Gloves+ Sparring Gloves: 3 ⇒ 2
Subscription Service Gold Per Stage: 6 ⇒ 8
Chug Bug (Gragas) Passive Damage: 130/195/300 ⇒ 160/240/375
Chug Bug (Gragas) Overkill Spread: 75% ⇒ 120%
Crown’s Will Armor: 10 ⇒ 8
Cutpurse (Executioner) no longer appears on 2-1
Cyberdeck (Exotech) Ideal Items Granted: 2 ⇒ 1
Cybernetic Uplink II Mana Per Sec: 2.5 ⇒ 2
Glass Cannon II Damage Amp: 18% ⇒ 20%
New High Score (Cyberboss) 3rd Breakpoint: 15000 ⇒ 17500, 4th Breakpoint: 25000 ⇒ 30000, 5th Breakpoint: 50000 ⇒ 60000, 6th Breakpoint: 75000 ⇒ 95000, 7th Breakpoint: 100000 ⇒ 125000
Item Collector II AD/AP per Item: 1.5% ⇒ 1%
Reinforcing Skeleture (Bruiser) HP per Death: 40 ⇒ 55
Sated Spellweaver Omnivamp: 20% ⇒ 15%, Max Shield: 300 ⇒ 500
Spear’s Will Starting Mana: 10 ⇒ 5
Spirit Link now only works on champions. Training Dummies do not have a spirit.
Trait Tracker Emblems Granted: 6 ⇒ 5
Trial Run (Exotech) Bonus HP% and AD% Removed
Vampiric Vitality HP Healed from Damage: 20% ⇒ 12%
Button Mash (Poppy) Ability Damage: 200/300/450 ⇒ 200/330/500, Cyberboss AOE: 40% ⇒ 45%
Eye For an Eye Total Components: 4 ⇒ 3
Eye For an Eye+ Total Components: 3 ⇒ 2
Glass Cannon I Damage Amp: 15% ⇒ 13%
Rigged Shop Rerolls Granted: 9 ⇒ 5

Small changes

Units
Poppy Mana buff: 20/70 ⇒ 20/65
Shaco tooltip no longer mentions the Hyper Roll adjustment outside of Hyper Roll
Annie Mini Fireball Damage: 40/60/300 ⇒ 45/68/300

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug where Champion Augments were not correctly displaying on the Champions’ inspect panel tooltip and were just represented on the Augment prop
It was an oxcident: Fix bug for Golden Ox’s prop “Next Bonus” percentage being incorrect for certain breakpoints, leading to inconsistent tooltips (did not affect functional total bonus)
Fix bug on Scapegoat Augment tooltip incorrectly saying it’ll grant one gold immediately (actually grants 4)
Holobow tooltip reworded to better indicate that the bonuses are applied the moment the champion begins casting
Bulky Buddies will no longer update in combat if a unit is summoned during combat, like from Aurora
Fixed a bug with Thorn Plated Armor Augment that wasn’t scaling correctly for Stage 5+
Fixed a bug where Emblems could show up on Stage 5+ carousel when they shouldn’t
Sagging pants: Bruiser Circlet correctly grants a Giant’s Belt
Fixed a bug where Twisted Fate would not throw enough cards if there were fewer targets than expected
Too Angry: Anger Issues no longer transforms Radiant Exotech items
Brink of Dawn properly heals the holder

TFT Mortdog: No more patch rundowns

Like always, Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer from Riot Games shared an early rundown of the TFT 14.3 patch notes on his YouTube channel. However, this might be his final rundown for a while. On April 28, he revealed that he’s stepping away from TFT patch rundowns, his time on X, and streaming for a bit.

“I’m going to be stepping away from extra stuff for a while,” he said. “The last few weeks, months, have been really rough in the spotlight as the target for a lot of the frustrations around TFT. All you have to do is click on any one of my Twitter posts recently and read the replies.”

He continued, “I’ve been getting it a lot [of them] lately, to a point where I’m pretty burned out. I put a lot of extra effort in and [I’ve] been advised that I put in too much effort. At this point, I don’t know how else to phrase it other than ‘the haters win.’ They got to me, which sucks to admit after six years. I’m gonna take a break because I can’t take much more of it.”

Mortdog’s patch rundowns aren’t a requirement of his position at Riot Games. Rather, they’ve always been something he does voluntarily. Community members such as Dan “Frodan” Chou and Bwoffa noted how this departure is a loss for the TFT community.

That’s all for now. For more TFT news and updates, stick around on esports.gg.