At the end of today's TFT Magic n' Mayhem Tactician's Crown Finals, Riot Games revealed its upcoming 13th set for Teamfight Tactics titled Into the Arcane. The new set coincides with the second season of the hit Netflix show Arcane which just debuted its second season on November 9. Into the Arcane will feature 11 TFT-exclusive champions from the show meaning they were created just for this set and do not exist outside of the Into the Arcane TFT set.

If an Arcane-themed TFT set seems familiar, that's because the 6.5 mid-season set for Gizmos and Gadgets added Arcane character Silco. This time around, however, the entire Set mechanics, characters, and system seem to be built around Arcane which is pretty awesome. Alongside Silco, the Into the Arcane set roster includes Powd?er, Violet, Vander, Sevika, Smeech, and more.

Five new Traits are also making their debut in Into the Arcane, including the Shimmer-focused Chem-Baron. Here are all five new Traits coming with Set 13??:

• Enforcer: Start combat with shields and damage amplification. The highest health enemy
  units become WANTED, granting Attack Speed boosts upon their defeat.
• Chem-Baron: Gain Shimmer after each player combat, with increased rewards during a
  loss streak. Collect Shimmer to access the Black Market and choose powerful Illegal Items
  that enhance your Chem-Barons.
• Academy: Sponsored items provide bonuses to max Health and Damage Amp, which are
  doubled for Academy units.
• Firelight: Firelights dash every 6 seconds, attacking with infinite range while healing based
  on the damage they’ve taken.
• Family: Family members provide mutual support, reducing max Mana and enhancing
  bonuses.

The Into the Arcane Set Mechanic is The Anomaly, a new gameplay feature that allows players to reroll bonuses and permanently transform one Champion per game. There are various buffs you can obtain from the Anomaly including power, tankiness, or added utility, as well as some Anomaly effects that offer a specialized unique effect for a Champion. There are over 50 Anomaly effects in total, and the Anomaly is encountered a?t Stage 4-6 meaning players can use the decision to shape and mold their end-game build.

While Cosmetics are always a big part of TFT Sets, there are some pretty special Arcane-specific ones coming in Into the Arcane. Fans of the Chibi Champions will be happy to see Chibi Firelight Ekko, Chibi Arcane Vi, and Chibi Arcane Caitlin. The Prestige cosmetic is Prestige Arcane Superfan Annie, which is pretty comical in its own regard. But the most interesting addition is the new Unbound Tactician cosmetic type, a new category of cosmetics that highlights champions at their peak power and offers are more darker tone alongside unique emotes, movement animations, and even splash art. The Unbound Tactician for Into the Arcane is Arcane Jinx Unboun?d, and is pretty sick loo??king.

The Teamfight Tactics Set 13 Into the Arcane?? starts on November 20, 2024. Those interested in checking it out before than can jump into the PBE when it starts up this week.

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Riot revealed today that popular auto battler Teamfight Tactics will receive its second every set revival with Teamfight Tactics Revival: Dawn of Heroes, a limited game mode that refreshes and modernizes the set from three years ago. The revival version of the Reckoning: Dawn of Heroes set will feature an all-new progression system as well. Teamfight Tactics Revival: Dawn of Heroes goes live on September 25, 2024.

This is just the second set revival Riot has done for Teamfight Tactics, with the Set 3.5 Revival: Galaxies launching earlier this year. The set revival is a temporary game mode in which Teamfight Tactics champions and traits from the Reckoning: Dawn of Heroes set from 2021 are revamped to fit with today's version of TFT.

Also coming with this new set revival is a new ladder progression system, where players can unlock new ranks and rewards based on how they play the new TFT Revival game mode. Also, even though augments didn't exist back when Reckoning: Dawn of Heroes released—they are now a staple part of TFT gamep??lay—new augments have been created to specifically work with the set revival. New augments include The Monstrous Chopper, an Abomination trait-focused augment where the Monstrosity from the trait equips an ax to do additional cleave damage, as well as Death Approac?hes, which allows Thresh to hook himself to the farthest enemy and do additional damage on his next attack.

Players interested in checking out the Teamfight Tactics Revival: Dawn of Heroes limited-time game mode will be able to do so on both PC and mobile when TFTPatch 14.19 drops on September 25, 2024. The ?l?imited-time set will last through patch 14.21 which releases on November 4, 2024.

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During the Teamfight Tactics Tactician's Crown Finals on July 14, Riot Games revealed details of the upcoming TFT Set 12 titled Magic n' Mayhem. As per usual, the new Set introduces new mechanics while changing up the Traits, Augments, and playable champions in the tactical auto battler over the next few months. Magic n' Mayhem will be available for testing on the PBE starting July 16 with the start of the?? Set scheduled for July 31, 2024.

A CHARMing Set full of whimsical moments

Alongside the shakeup of the champion pool for this set, three all-new characters never before seen in TFT are joining the battle. First up is Norra, a Yordle from Riot Games' card game Legends of Runeterra. Interestingly, Norra comes paired with Yuumi, allowing players to attach the magical cat to champions of their choice to support them, just like in League of Legends. Also joining TFT in Set 12 are Briar and Smolder, newer released champions in League of Legends.

Other key features in Set 12 include 27 Traits, 60 Champions, and over 200 Augments including all-new High-Stake Augments. These Augments have replaced High-Stake Traits that previously existed in TFT, allowing players to utilize the popular high-risk and high-reward gameplay with any build they choose, which is certai?nly good news for ?those that like to play those sort of builds.

Without a doubt the biggest addition to Magic n' Mayhem, however, is the new Charms feature. There are over 100 Charms that appear for p??layers to buy each round, which are essentially single-use purchasable spells. Each Charm changes up the gameplay in some way for that round, offering Combat boons, economy buffs, amplifying traits, and much more.

I had the opportunity to play a few games of Magic n' Mayhem and the feature really changes up the meta for TFT. I found myself early game opting for Charms that assisted by economy or helped mold the Traits and build I was going for, before?? transitioning towards combat-specific Charms later in the game to try and give me an extra little edge over my opponents. The biggest factor here is that you can only choose one Charm per round, and they cost Gold, so o?ften times I'd find Charm options that were "okay" and have to decide if it was worth risking it to try and get a better one or just take that Charm and hope for the best.

Riot also announced that the e-sports world of TFT will be headed to Macao later this year for the TFT Macao Open, a globa??l LAN event taking place f??rom December 13-15, 2024. In total, there will be 512 spots available via the open-bracket tournament allowing players from all over the world to compete for their share of the $300,000 prize pool.

Teamfight Tactics: Magic n' Mayhem Set 12 goes live on PC and mobile on July 31, 2024. As per usual, the new update will?? be free for all players.

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Hot off celebrating the five-year anniversary of Teamfight Tactics, developer Riot Games has revealed some details for the upcoming 12th set of the popular auto battler. Title??d Magic N' Mayhem, patch 14??.15 introduces new champions, mechanics, augments, cosmetics, and a new Pass & New Pass+.

Full details on what to expect in Teamfight Tactics: Magic n' Mayhem is scheduled to drop this weekend following the TFT ??Set 11 Inkborn Fables Tacticians' Crown tournament, but for now all we know is that in this update Little Legends will explore the Magitorium, a castle of curiosities where limitless magic mixes with boundless imagination.

I really enjoyed the most recent Inkborn Fables set for Teamfight Tactics, ??so I'm excited to see ??where Riot is going next. Based on the teaser image, it looks like there will certainly be lots of magic with this update, as the characters featured all look to be in their best caster garb.

Teamfight Tactics: Magic n" Mayhem is set ??to release on both PC and mobile devices on July 31, 2024.

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Following the finale of the Teamfight Tactics Remix Rumble Championship yesterday, Riot Games unveiled the next set for the popular autobattler. Inkborn Fables introduces a fun new RNG-based gameplay mechanic called Encounters. At random points throughout a TFT match??, players will encounter legendary mythological figures from Runeterra. These figures add some sort of spin to the match, providing ??bonuses or altering gameplay completely.

A little chaos goes a long way

I've played every Teamfight Tactics set since the autobattler was originally released almost five years ago.?? Some of them changed things up? more than others, but Inkborn Fables has the chance to be the biggest shake-up to gameplay yet with its Encounters system.

Over the last few days I've played about a dozen or so matches of TFT's Inkborn Fables set on the press and creator PBE, and every single one required me to change up my approach to have any sort of success. I'd consider myself a relatively average TFT player. Pretty much every set I get?? in, learn a few really good builds that I tend to swap between based on the match, and have been able to climb to Platinum rank each set.

But in Inkborn Fables, I actually felt the desire, and need, to actually spice up my builds based on what happened each match, and to try some new things that probably wouldn't be considered "Meta" just to see if they worked. Sure, sometimes it resulted in me getting last place before Raptors. But, sometimes I'd find a?? build that only worked under the exact set of Encounters from that matc??h, that ended up carrying me to a first-place finish.

In Inkborn Fables, over 90 potential random Encounters happen throughout the game at random times. Some may happen right at the start of the g??ame, while others may take place on the carousel or before the start of a round. Some encounters have a pretty minimal effect on the game. For example, in one Encounter, each player is given a random Level 3 1-Star unit for just a single round. It doesn't really change much. But in another Encounter, Kayn showed up at round 5-4 and killed everyone in order from least health to most, essentially ending the game right then and there.

Of course, the normal things you expect from a new TFT set are present too. Inkborn Fables features 59 champions, 27 ?traits, and more than 100 augments. Two of the champions are brand new and making their first appearance in Runeterra: Alune, Aphelios twin sister, and Kobuko, a Yordle?? martial artist.

Overall, this is shaping up ?to be one of the most content-rich and diverse sets we've seen yet. I'm excited to see what type of builds the really good players make to handle specific Encounter situations.

Teamfight Tactics Inkborn Fables set drops on Marc?h 20 on both PC and mobile??.

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Riot Games has revealed the next set for its popular strategy auto battler Teamfight Tactics. Titled Inkborn Fables, the new set brings players to a mystical and ancient world filled with mythological creatures and legendary heroes. Patch 14.6, which begins the new Inkborn Fables set, goes live for PC a?nd mobile on March 20, 2024.

I've had a lot of fun with the current TFT set, Remix Rumble. However, the release date for Inkborn Fables is at right around the four-month mark with Remix Rumble which is the standard lifespan f?or sets at the moment.

As is usual with new sets, Inkborn Fables will introduce new champions, mechanics, traits, augments, cosmetics, and a new Season Pass. Even though the teaser trailer above is brief and doesn't show any gameplay, there are more than likely some hints about some of the things we can expect in the new set. The beautifully painted scrolls depict mystical beasts as well as some pretty fantastical renditions of certain champions from the Runeterra universe including what?? I'm pre??tty sure was Janna and Teemo.

Oh, and you want me to think the Rammus picture on the wall is just there for show? As my spiked shell frien?d would say: "Okay."

Teamfight Tactics: Inkborn Fables will be released on PC and mobile on Ma?rch 20, 2024, as a free update

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It should be a fun summer in Runeterra

Riot Games has unveiled Soul Fighter, an all-new summer event that spans multiple games. Inspired by t??he adrenaline and competition of fighting games, Soul Fighter will add in-game content to four Riot Games titles. The event will last six weeks and start on July 20 globally.

Soul Fighter takes place in a colorful alternate universe where competitors fight to prove? themselves in the "Tourna??ment of Souls". The tournament is a competition hosted by the mysterious God's Eye, where fighters battle it out until there is only one standing.

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“We’re really excited for the range of different experiences across the League of Legends ecosystem that make up the Soul Fighter event," stated Andrei Van Room, Senior Vice President & Studio Head of League Studio. “Arena, Soul Brawl, and Tag Duel will let players experience League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and Wild Rift, respectively, in new ways that we think bring something?? really fresh to the table. We can't wait t?o see what players think once they get their hands on them."

Content across four different games

As part of the Soul Fighter event, four titles will get in-game content:

• League of Legends will have a new game mode called Arena and an in-client Metagame Experience called Tournament of Souls. As part of the event, the new Naafiri the Hound of a Hundred Bites champion will also launch. Finally, LoL players can expect a new Soul Fighter 2023 Pass and a dozen new event-specific skins.
• Teamfight Tactics also has a new game mode called Soul Brawl, as well as its own unique in-client Narrative Experience. TFT fans can also look forward to a new Chibi Gwen Tactician, a Soul Fighter Event Pass, and a new Tournament of Souls Arena.
• League of Legends: Wild Rift is in the event. A new Tag Duel game mode will be introduced alongside its own in-client Narrative Experience. Nilah the Joy Unbound will also see her champion launch during the event as well as the Soul Fighter Event Pass. There are also half a dozen Soul Fighter-themed skins coming to Wild Rift.
• Last is the digital card game Legends of Runeterra. Runeterra will also receive its own Soul Fighter Even Pass featuring new Emotes and Cardbacks.

For the duration of the event Riot will also contribute 20% o??f proceeds to the Riot Games Social Impact Fund from the sale of select items. The qualifying items are Soul Fighter Samira (skin only), Unmatched B??ounty Hunter Bundle, Soul Fighter Event Pass, and the Soul Fighter Event Pass Bundle.

During the event, Riot Games will also be ho??sting Soul Fighter: Fight Night. This broadcast experience will take place in Los Angeles and feature a competition between 16 content creators. They will compete both in and out of the game for the chance to win the title of Fight Night Champion. The event will be livestreamed on Twitch starting at 6PM on July 17.

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Riot say it's not paying the ransom

League of Legends studio Riot Games has now confirmed that, following a recent cyberattack, hackers took source code for both League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics, as well as a legacy anti??-cheat platform. But after being sent a ransom demand, Riot says it won't be paying.

Last week, Riot announced its systems were compromised in a social engineering attack, a method that also resulted in the massive Grand Theft Auto leak last  year. No player or personal data was obtained, but today ??Riot confirms that source code for the aforementioned programs was tak??en. The attackers submitted a ransom demand, but Riot Games says it will not be paying.

"While this attack disrupted our build environment and could cause issues in the future, most importantly we remain confident that no player data or player personal information was compromised," said Riot in a statement. "Truthfully, any expos??ure of source code can increase the likelihood of new cheats emerging. Since the attack, we’v??e been working to assess its impact on anticheat and to be prepared to deploy fixes as quickly as possible if needed."

Prototypes and sources

While the source ??code contained a number of experimen?tal features, Riot says most of it is in prototype and may or may not be released in the future. The company is working with external consultants to audit the attack, and plans to release a report on it in the future. Also, Riot confirms it is working with law enforcement as they investigate the group behind the attack.

"We’ve made a lot of progress since last week and we believe we’ll have things repaired later in the week, which will al?low us to remain on our regular patch cadence going forward," reads Riot's statement. "The League and TFT teams will update you soon on what this means for each gam??e."

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Get all your champions, agents, and more

Xbox announced a new Game Pass partnership today, and it's bringing a veritable boatload of content.? Riot Games is par?tnering with Xbox, bringing its games and content to Game Pass this winter.

This encompasses Riot's PC and mobile games, including League of Legends and Valorant. These are free-to-play games, but ??what Xbox is un?locking is actual content.

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In League of Legends and its mobile counterpart Wild Rift, that means all champions unlocked. For Valorant, it's all agents. Teamfight Tactics will have a select set of Little Legends made available, and Legends of Runeterra will give Game Pass subscriber??s the ?Foundations Set.

Game Pass subscribers will get access to all current characters, plus forthcoming ones as well. That means whenever a new agent hits Valorant or a new champion storms onto Summoner's Rift in League of Legends, it will be available day-one on Game Pass.

Leagues of legends

For anyone who's played a game like Valorant or League of Legends, you can?? probably imagine how massive an unlock this is. While characters can take a while to gradually unlock or cost cash to get ASAP. This makes it very easy for newcomers to hop right in and play whoever they want, without having to grind.

In the Xbox Wire post, Riot president and co-founde??r Marc Merrill says there will be more information in the coming months about how the partnership will work. No firm date's been set outside this winter for the Riot-Game Pass collaboration.

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Back to the Lab again

It's been inching close to two years since Riot Games joined the auto-battler genre with its own entry, Teamfight Tactics. The League of Legends take on the burgeoning game type stood out, ??and in the time since, has become a frontrunner.

With its upcoming set Reckoning, Riot Games is looking to experiment a bit. Rather than rest on laurels, Teamfight Tactics is continuing to play with ideas like respawning units, pieces that cost healt?h, and a giant abomination that gains power as your units waste away.

What caught my eye about Reckoning wasn't necessarily just some new items and synergies for its pieces, though. As an on-again, off-again player of Teamfight Tactics, it's the Lab portion that's grabbed my attention; Riot is testing out new ways of playing Teamfight Tactics, and ??its first test is the turbo-charged faster game type Hyper Roll.

Where a normal game of Teamfight Tactics has every player starting with 100 health points and gradually whittling it down, Hyper Roll starts everyone out at 20. There's only a loss of one point-per-round to start, later escalating to two, but most importantly, there's no gold interest. Typically, a major portion of Teamfight Tactics is deciding when to save money and? hit higher levels of gold banked, which boosts the interest a player rece?ives each round, and when to spend gold on rolling for a much-needed piece to put on the board.

TJ Bourus, the Product Lead for Teamfight Tactics at Riot Games, says Hyper Roll wasn't actually the first Lab the team explored. It looked ?at several ideas.

"Hyper Roll made the fastest progress (perhaps unsurprisingly — it's hyper after al??l)," wrote Bourus in an email. "And so it was the best candidate to release first."

Originally called "Turbo Mode," the idea for a shorter version of Teamfight Tactics surfaced last summer. Eventually, the Turbo moniker was dropped, as Hyper Roll doesn't ask players to take faster actions or play on shorter timers. It is simply faster Teamfight Tactics.

"The original goals were to see if we could shorten the game time significantly without sacrificing any phase of the game," said Ananda Gupta, Teamfight Tactics: Reckoning's Design Lead. "That is, we didn't want to take away player control of their early team compositions, or have the game end before level nine (which is when som?e traits really come into their own)."

?Balancing between multiple game modes is something Riot has some experience with, as League of Legends has had variants like the three-on-three Twisted Treeline and control-based Dominion over the years, and its competitive shooter Va?lorant has faster modes like Spike Rush.

Bourus says the team played a lot of games, as well as the shorter versions they offered, to see how they made shorter-session variants work. With Teamfight Tactics, Hyper Roll is aimed to provide a different type of game altogether—faster, and not necessarily beholden to what Teamfight Tactics proper is doing—and playing those other games helped inform the team on what parts of Teamfight Tactics ??they were willing t??o shrink, or remove, to condense the experience.

The team will be very happy if Hyper Roll has a different metagame from the standard Teamfight Tactics, and if a trait is good in the regular game but bad in Hyper Roll, that's also okay. According to Gu?pta, they're not necessarily trying to ?ensure "metagame parity," just trying to keep both in a healthy, balanced state.

He says the biggest challenge came with traits built around specific intervals in the game, including the previous "Fortune" trait from the Fates set. In this set, Shadow items are fairly prominent, allow?ing players to build cursed ver?sions of specific items to create unique synergies.

"Similarly, we have to make sure thi??ngs like access to Shadow item components in Reckoning is basically equi?valent in both versions, since the 'Forgotten' trait gets some of its power from spreading those around your champions," said Gupta.

Hyper Roll and the Labs modes are being described as limited-time modes, though Gupta says that whether Hyper Roll stays around for a long period of time or not depends entirely on players. It will have a separate ranked system, apart from the main Teamfight Tactics ladder, though it won't ??offer Challenger and Grandmaster r?anks.

Critically, it will simply offer a new experience. With the two-year anniversary coming in June, there's been plenty of turnover in terms of content and set mechanics. Bourus says the team hopes Labs will expand Teamfight Tactics' audience, beyond what a new set mig??ht normally accomplish.

"That doesn't mean that a Lab that doesn't stick around is a failure," said Bourus. "But we'll be happiest if Hyper Roll brings a bunch of players to [Teamfight Tactics] who?? felt that either the session length or the economic gameplay in Standard ?wasn't for them."

Teamfight Tactics: Reckoning and its Labs mode hits the Public Beta Environment today, and goes live on gen??eral ser??vers later this month on April 28, 2021.

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