Unlocks are coming back to Teamfight Tactics. Riot confirmed today in a short video that the mechanic returns in Prismatic Tour, the game’s next set, which the video says is live on December 2. Unlocks first appeared in Lore and Legends, and the early reaction from players to their return is warm.
Watch the short YouTubeThe video also gives the first look at who you will be unlocking. The examples lean on League of Legends’ music groups: a Heartsteel quest, a Pentakill quest and an Akali who shows up in the shop as a K/DA champion.
A Recurve Bow on a Heartsteel champion unlocks Aphelios
Unlocks give you access to extra champions during a game by completing quests. Riot shows two ends of the scale in the video.
- The easy end: equip a Recurve Bow on a Heartsteel champion and you unlock Aphelios.
- The hard end: Mordekaiser asks for “11 unique star levels of Pentakill.”
Riot has not explained how those star levels are counted yet, so the exact Mordekaiser requirement will need the full set reveal.
An unlocked champion appears in your very next shop
You do not have to roll and hope after finishing a quest. “Once you unlock a unit, it’ll show up in your next shop so you can instantly cash in on your hard work,” Riot says in the video. The footage shows that happening with Akali: her unlock card pops, and she is sitting in the shop straight after as a K/DA champion that costs 5 gold.
Akali, Baron Nashor and Teemo also get unlock cards in the footage
Five unlock cards appear across the 27 seconds: Aphelios, Mordekaiser, Akali, Baron Nashor and Teemo. Riot only gives the quests for the first two. What Akali, Baron Nashor and Teemo ask for is not shown.
Heartsteel, Pentakill and K/DA join True Damage, which Riot had already named for the set. All four were last together in Remix Rumble, the music set from 2023.
True Damage has an A-side for win streaks and a B-side for loss streaks
Riot described Set 19 as a “global music event” in a developer post on November 2, before the Prismatic Tour name was out. That post previewed True Damage as a new take on a streak trait: you choose the A-side if you plan to win streak, or flip to the B-side to get paid for a loss streak.
The same post introduced the Tour Collection, a room in the client that you decorate with band memorabilia as you play through the set. Riot says it has more than 70 customization options.
One game of Prismatic Tour earns every player 500 Treasure Tokens
Patch 19.1, the patch that opens the set, comes with a thank-you. Riot wrote that “the transition to Unreal has had its bumps” and set up two missions for everyone:
- Play 1 game in Set 19 to earn 500 Treasure Tokens.
- Play 20 games in Set 19 to earn one random Mythic Chibi, through a token for a banner that holds only Mythic Chibis.
Players who owned a Mythic Tactician or Arena before Patch 18.7 also get 2 Mythic Medallions, and Prestige Tactician owners get a Mythic Chibi that Riot has not announced yet. Both arrive automatically at login once Patch 19.1 is out.
Riot says the full Set 19 reveal is still to come in a Dev Drop.
