How TFT Set 9.5 Region Portals work

Riot Games has upgraded the Teamfight Tactics mechanic Region Portals for Set 9.5 Runeterra Reforged: Horizonbound, opening Portals to regions full of loot, items, ability boosts, and more.

A total of 13 Runeterra Region Portals are featured in TFT Set 9.5, containing two to four regional Augments. A majority of the regions feature a form of advantage during the early game, while others boost players during the early and mid-game Stages. Region Portals are the main mechanic of TFT Set 9 and 9.5, working in conjunction with Evergreen and Legend Augments.

All TFT Set 9.5 Region Portals and Portal Augments explained

At the start of each TFT game, players will choose one of three Portals offered on the Carousel. The traditional Carousel was removed for Set Nine and replaced by three of the 13 possible Region Portals for Set 9.5.

All votes from players are treated equally and are accomplished by moving your Little Legend or Chibi Champion into one of the three Region Portals. But there’s a catch: The game chooses a random Portal, as long as that region receives at least one vote from the eight players. Mousing over each of the Region Portals offered will provide a description.

Upon a Region Portal getting chosen, the Augment holder on the Arena battlefield will showcase the Region Portal that was picked. Players can then further inspect the Portal chosen for a full description. Set 9.5 added two new Region Portals: Bilgewater and Ixtal. No Region Portals from Set Nine were removed.

Bandle City

• Scuttle Puddle: Every PvE round is replaced by scuttle crabs that grant extra loot
• Yuumi’s Zoom Zone: When you purchase XP, gain an additional two XP
• Bandle Cafeteria: Gain a Spatula on 2-1. At shopping start, units equipped with a Spatula feed a Poro Snax to their closest ally, granting them 20 permanent health for each Spatula Component they have

Bilgewater

• Finn’s Market: Twice per game, Finn will randomly appear and offer Completed, Artifact, support, or Radiant items. You can choose one to keep for free
• Rat Town: Starting on Stage Two, Lucky Shops randomly appear once per Stage. Featured units are tailored to your army’s active traits
• Slaughter Docks: Gain a free shop reroll equal to the Stage number plus one at the start of each Stage. Shop rerolls only last for the round they were received in.

Demacia

• House Lightshield: Gain a powerful Crown of Demacia on 2-1. If the wearer dies, you instantly lose the fight.
• Ehrenmount (formerly Petricite Forest): Gain three Component Anvils at the start of the game

Freljord

• Hearth-Home: On 4-5, gain a consumable Masterwork Upgrade that lets you upgrade one equipped item into its Radiant version.
• Ornn’s Forge: Randomly on either 2-5 or 3-5, gain an Ornn Anvil.
• Valar’s Hollow: On Stage 2-3, gain a Component item Anvil. At Stage 3-3, gain a Support item Anvil

Ionia

• The Dreaming Pool: At the start of each stage, gain a champ that slots into your team.
• God-Willow’s Grove: A spot on your bench becomes the grove. The unit in it contributes their traits as though they were in your army. The unit in the Grove can’t get sold during combat.
• Placidium Library: Gain a Scroll of Knowledge at Stage 3-5. Use it on a champion to open an Armory that offers every Emblem that matches the unit’s traits

Ixtal

• Ixaocan: Each time players star up 20 champions, all players gain valuable loot. This applies to all players in the lobby
• Cardinal Arcology: You will always be offered a Silver, Gold, and Prismatic Augment for this game in that order
• Serpentine River: The Stage Two and Four Carousels are replaced by voting rounds. Everyone gets a Component Anvil and the winning reward

Noxus

• Noxkraya: Each time you take an Augment, a random arena Hex appears. Units on an arena Hex gain an item that they can use.
• Immortal Bastion: Players start with 115 health
• Fleshing Arena: Twice per Stage, get a free high-tier champion. the champion’s tier increases with game time

Piltover

• Jayce’s Workshop: All Augments offered during this game will be Prismatic.
• The University: The first Augment round will be a Prismatic Augment.
• Stilwater Hold: Whenever you would be offered an Augment, gain a Completed item Anvil instead

Shadow Isles

• Thresh’s Sanctum: When any champion perishes, collect their soul. Every 40 souls you collect, gain loot. 
• Yorick’s Graveyard: Every time a player perishes, all players open an Armory containing four of the eliminated players’ completed items.

Thresh’s Sanctum early-game loot table

This table shows the odds and loot upon reaching 40 souls before Stage Four.

Thresh’s Sanctum late-game loot table

Shurima

• Warlord’s Palace: The 4-7 NPC round is replaced by an Armory of treasure that can be rerolled at a cost of one gold per reroll any number of times until you run out of gold. There is a possibility of seeing Chaos and Order Armories.
• Shifting Sands: Everyone gets the Pandora’s Bench effect (three bench slots will transform into another champion of the same cost each turn). The Augment Pandora’s Bench was disabled through Patch 13.15, preventing players from stacking the effect.
• Shurima Bazaar: Component carousels have Two Components on them instead of one, except a unit with Spatula. 

Targon

• The Summit: Starting at Stage Three, gain a Lesser Champion Duplicator at the start of each stage. On Stage Five and beyond, gain a Champion Duplicator instead.
• Tagon Prime: When you reach 40 HP, gain a blessing from the Targonian Gods.
• Marus Omegnum: On 2-5 and 4-5, gain a Tactician’s Crown.
• Marus Omegnum Two: On Stage 2-5 or 3-6, gain a Tactician’s Crown

Void

• The Hall of Nine: At the start of each Stage, everyone gets the same loot from a highly varied pool
• The Rupture: Travel to a random location that is not currently shown.
• Unstable Rift: Gain an unstable Compleated item that pops off and transforms into a random item each round

Zaun

• The Sump: There is no interest during this game. Instead, starting on 2-1, gain three gold every round.  
• Glasc Industries: Every time you build a completed item, gain three gold.
• Ecliptic Vaults: Every time you select an augment, gain four gold per Augment you have.

Update May 31 12:45pm CT: Additional information was added via Mortdog’s TFT Set Nine PBE Rundown.

Update June 6 4pm CT: All Legends TFT Set Nine Augments were updated following the June 6 PBE Patch.

Update June 13 1pm CT: Odds tables were added for Thresh’s Sanctum through Riot Mortdog for the Patch 13.12 TFT Set Nine launch.

Update June 27 3:50pm CT: Portal stats and abilities in TFT Set Nine updated following Patch 13.13.

Update Aug. 2 10:15am CT: All changes from Patch 13.15 were added to TFT Set Nine Region Portals.

Update Sept. 13 3:15pm CT: All TFT Set 9.5 Mid-Set changes were applied to the Region Portals and the regional Augments.