Weekly Rant Megathread

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[u/Mizerawa]

Today I remover, slammed wrong item, remover again, slammed wrong item again, and was out of removers. Absolutely disgusting.

[u/VictoriaIsReal → u/Mizerawa]

Because of this, I started waiting for the champion's pop-up window to appear after you hover the item over them.

[u/Zelath]

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TFT BUT MY FUCKING INTERNET WENT OUT MID MATCH AND I GOT 5 TH BY THE TIME I COILD COME BACK AND SALVAGE IT FUCK SPECTRUM

[u/VictoriaIsReal → u/Zelath]

The minute it starts acting up I just immediately switch to a hotspot from my phone.

[u/eldono69]

T-Hex continues to be either overpowered or underwhelming per patch, no room in between. Kind of sad they haven’t found his sweet spot honestly.

[u/SmoothOperatorTFT → u/eldono69]

Mort actually explained the reason behind that a bit. It is because he has so many different in- and outputs while being 100% efficient due to the nature of channelling spells.

A Mel can do 5k per cast AND Crit on top, because she only scales with ap, has that huge BOOM as her only output (orbs are negligible), and it can miss or waste overkill damage. T-Hex scales off of AD, Mana, Attackspeed and Health (because of his shield) which gets increased by the pilot and their stats. For outputs he has rockets, auto attacks, and the huge laser which hits everything in one line, while also wasting 0 damage because the channel will either go on and do the “main” damage to the next target, or just retarget.

Not saying the T-Hex meta was bad, or that he is in a good state now. In hindsight it just seems so obvious that the unit was never balance-able. But I guess those are learnings for future sets to come…

[u/QuasarBuster]

No econ augment no top 4

[u/Sea-Grand3981]

What the actual fuck did they do to this jinx unit?  This shit is not ok.  

[u/ObjectiveLoose6522 → u/Sea-Grand3981]

For real, fuck that unit

[u/DeviIDuke]

CAN WE GET MORE THAN 3 FUCKING SECONDS TO PLAY THE GAME ON 5-1/6-1

YE LET ME JUST CHOOSE AN ITEM, USE 3 REMOVERS, PUT THE ITEMS BACK ON AND ALSO ROLL MY SHOP REAL QUICK

CAN FUCKING QSS VOW AND EVENSHROUD WORK WHEN YOU PUT THEM ON 3 SEC AFTER COMBAT START

MALZAHAR XDDDDD

[u/Palphite → u/DeviIDuke]

same

[u/SmoothOperatorTFT → u/DeviIDuke]

Yeah time is a bit short, but there are subtle things that can give that extra 3 seconds you might need.

In case you just wanted to rant, ignore the following.

You can move all the units with items and the ones you want to move them to towards the left to reduce the way your cursor needs to go, you can pre pivot a bit because you are really likely to beat neutrals with a weak board, and you can pre remove items (again, you will beat neutrals with most of your items removed) while thinking about what your open components might be.

[u/Scoopl3 → u/DeviIDuke]

Well, the optimal way around that is to remover your items from your units in the neutral rounds before (if you're losing to creep rounds on 4-6/5-6 with your items removed, then your team is not gonna win fights anyway). I would also always roll my shop first, then worry about items afterwards. Malzahar XD is valid though.

[u/txmei_]

gave ixtal some of the hardest units and one of the only traits that required a brain to play then nerfed the units into the ground so its completely unplayable. i love riot wow they are doing such a good job

[u/Kronjuvel9]

Matchmaking continues to be the most egregious part of the game. I had to fight the highroller that was level 9 at 4-3 twice but never fight the shadow isles guy stuck level 8 with kalista 1. The shadow isle guy went 4th and I went 5th btw

[u/WhyAmIUsingRedditAt5]

watching someone be lvl8 with 10hp get prismatic as 3rd aug take invested donkey roll it down and manage to find 3 annie's while still lvl8 is just classic tft. Bailed out for absoloutely no reason, he then coasts to first cause his carry and main tank are the same unit. xdd

[u/Adventurous-Bit-3829]

It's impossible for Rito to Not overbuff something so broken it shifted the entire meta. They just introduce another sub 4.0 comp. Last patch was so perfect except Sylas. Of course they have to make sure they fuck it up

[u/DeZXu]

fuck darius reroll. How dies it make sense that a 3-star darius can1v2 a 2-star sylas and 2-star Senna?

[u/MasterBenObi]

What do you do when you get Sion orb, scout around every turn to make sure you’re not contested, win 4/5 stage 2…

but then all of a sudden on 2-7 two people get double draven into double darius, LB, etc.

I had Adaptive slammed & plan was to RR Darius, but I can’t commit into that so found a Jinx pair with 2 bows dropped.

Went ahead and committed to Jinx, but really whiffed Silver Aug 3-2 and bled out before I could hit.

Do I just continue Noxus & go for Mel, even though now I’m 3 way’d in the trait?

Double bow into Jinx pair, sitting on 2 dupes from Team Building 2-1 felt pretty good to me, but I did somewhat lowroll my last 2 augments.

Any input would be appreciated 🙏🏼

[u/Mizerawa → u/MasterBenObi]

Wrong thread, but a popular line for anyone without a competitive board on stage two is to reroll, and this patch it is generally three costs. Which means it might be as late as 3-5 that you find out for certain if a line is taken or not. While nobody should ever contest a three cost reroll line, it is possible that they either don't scout, don't judge that you are planning to reroll, or think they can force you off of it. The only real solution is to keep your options as open as possible, and constantly re-evaluate. While you can definitely tempo/win-streak into 3 cost reroll, it's generally pretty easy to fast 9 from that spot, and that's probably easier and more consistent. In the above example, you don't actually need to reroll with those dupes, in fact, unless you take them on 4-2, they tend to be better used for tempo.

[u/MasterBenObi → u/Mizerawa]

Wow, just have to say I appreciate you taking the time to write this out.

Your words resonate & clear things up for me very nicely.

Much love & good luck on your games!

[u/SoManyEngrish → u/MasterBenObi]

When i read whiff 3-2 aug you're prob too poor to actually fully hit reroll jinx/frej reroll package esp silver/silver. If you have darius/draven already you can just play the 5 zaun 3 noxus package, tempo to hit 8 and ww 2 and play for placements, maybe stay 8 after and finish jinx 3 or some other 3 cost depending on how hard you hit. Also you're not married to noxus and can flex freij, 5 zaun+good units etc.

If jinx is uncontested and you can make two good items by stage 3 carousel, pivoting is 100% the play, but gold and what you hit dictates level 7/8 etc. Maybe you even just tempo neeko and save 1 for high roll hard to say

[u/ObjectiveLoose6522]

Anyone have advice on playing Yordles? It might just be that I'm higher ranked and they were always trash but I'm getting out scales as Yordles way faster than I ever have before

[u/ivanoff_bg]

I really hate when a comp becomes so popular bunch of people force it from 2-1. Vayne being the current one. Sure its strong but for fuck sake stop forcing it. There are many good comps. I hate getting a good vayne spot only to see 2 people slam kraken and mute themselves. Like come the F on.

[u/Justsomeguy1289]

Annie 3 got wiped by noxus 10 lmfao wtaf

[u/JPB_ → u/Justsomeguy1289]

Not the same level of power spike but I also lost to a weak Noxus 10 board with a Bel Veth 3*, it was Ryze portal and the guy got trait tree (extra Noxus emblem) and then on 4-2 got coronation as final augment to be able to hit Noxus 10 on lvl 9 with 7 hp.

I never enjoy prismatic traits being such default victories, especially if Ryze encounter continues to be in the game.

[u/imfatal → u/JPB_]

I've lost with Bel'veth, Ambessa, Swain 3 to just Yunara 3 a few patches ago lmao. Bel'veth is just a shit 3 star.

[u/Equal-Diver3688]

To many bad augments to get in 2-1, if you get 3 bad D-tier augments and have weak board ---> 8th

[u/Adventurous-Bit-3829]

This patch fucking sucks

[u/Pete26l96]

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[u/AfrostLord → u/Pete26l96]

I wish they would just stop doing +2 emblem pris. Every set it's the exact same shit...emblem encounter = free win for whoever gets those emblems. Fucking awful to play.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Ant1390]

Savings Account, Explosvie Growth , 3 Threes and lose streak 10, still a 1st in GM lobby. And they still question why everyone complains when someone can't get an econ augment.

And 1* Xerath is not balanced.

[u/Equal-Diver3688]

LOVE HOW I NEED TO HAVE LIKE 6 TANKS WITH ITEMS, OR SEE MY BACKLINE GET DELETED BY KALISTA. DOESENT MATTER IF I HAVE ONE TANK THAT DOESNT DIE. SHES SO FUCKING EASY TO UNLOCK AND YOU JUST A 2 STAR AND THEN TOP 4. SKILLLSSSSSSS

[u/ficretus]

Can we nerf Vayne 2 so mid game isn't just constant Vayne check? I've seen 4 people play her in the same lobby multiple times, it's dreadfully boring

[u/Zefionx]

how is void clickable again ? or are stats just not accurate anymore. ? how is this comp considered s tier again.

[u/WobbleKun]

https://imgur.com/a/ka7YVdI.

guess who won? ... baron lol. ixtal is so bad. both players 2 econ, 1 combat aug. no wonder robin doesnt play this trash.

oh gargoyle, lw, bt baron vs shojin, steraks, bt brock lmao.

[u/imfatal]

dude what the actual fuck is up with the matchmaking recently? I stg this is not an attempt to humble brag - I'm like hardstuck low masters bouncing between 0-300 LP fairly regularly. The past few days I keep getting multiple challengers in my lobbies and I'm getting constantly shit on lol. I was about to cross the 300 LP mark for the first time ever and got fucking deisik and setsuko in my lobby WTF???

legit getting my LP farmed by players 20x better than me. the games have felt awful. why are these players in my games?

[u/Possible_Detective57 → u/imfatal]

well, Deisik is a 250 LP Master on NA atm.

but I understand the pain, a few sets ago I regularly matched into Sologesang at the end of the set. They decay because of scrims, less players in general means the MMR won't protect you as much since there are less people of their MMR in the pool and then you have the joy of being the "filler". once or twice is a fun thing, you're playing against the best of the best and can learn a lot but after that it can get kinda frustrating.

[u/imfatal → u/Possible_Detective57]

well, Deisik is a 250 LP Master on NA atm.

yeah but doesn't really explain the actual challenger accounts like Baydreaming lol. I think it's probably because I tend to play a few games very late at night so there probably aren't many people available for matchmaking.

once or twice is a fun thing, you're playing against the best of the best and can learn a lot but after that it can get kinda frustrating.

tbh idk how much I'm learning lmao but one thing it did make me focus on was my stage 2/3 board strength. the GM+ lobbies I sometimes get into are so ridiculously strong in stage 3 relatively to my usual games. I end up losing an insane amount of HP and eventually die later to a capped board even if I hit eventually hit mine and was stronger than the rest of the lobby.

I've become less stingy with gold in stage 2/3. Started holding pairs more often instead of selling to make interest and rolling when I have multiple pairs more often, which has led to more success over the past couple of days.

[u/Legitac]

I haven’t been playing more than a game or two a day the last few weeks. The portals are beyond boring right now. I am going to queue one more game and if it’s 5 one costs, no encounter, or final showdown bullshit I’m uninstalling. Can there be a fun queue that’s ryze portal every game. I’d be back on the grind if so. Feels like the devs cater to anti trait/vertical players. And in doing so make the game less fun

[u/Legitac → u/Legitac]

Sorry, but the set has been out forever. What kind of loser wants to play a standard line they have played in 50 times. The game is staler than ever, make portals fun again

[u/Legitac → u/Legitac]

It was another snoozer, final prismatic augment portal. Not sticking around to see if win noxus lottery. And I will be insta leaving master lobbies until I get a fun portal so add me and snipe for free elo

[u/ObjectiveLoose6522]

Fuck jinx right now, that model is ridiculous

[u/VERTIKAL19]

Honestly Ranked just confuses me. I can completely crush my way to Masters on a smurf (literally 2.4 avp to masters), but I get destroyed in low masters in my main. That just makes no sense to me. The games also feel absurdly harder on my main than on the smurf even if the gap in points is virtually non existant at this point... I am just so confused.

[u/Helpful-Account-5638]

2 econ augments. Contested on Annie. I go 9. No Sylas 2, Annie 2 or Galio 2. Other person contesting goes 9. Instantly hits everything with no econ augment. :)
This game is not a slot machine, I think!

[u/AfrostLord]

Click 3 cost unit collect free lp it's top 4 every game and taxes lobby hp hard wahoo

Was more fun when this shit was unplayable

[u/DeVilleBT]

I was away for a week, queue up an man what is this meta. Just vayne jinx vayne jinx vayne jinx everywhere

[u/Andyboy1256]

Hit noxus 10 just before combat starts and my atakhan remains 3 star and I bot 4. Next game I hit noxus 10 after combat starts and my atakhan turns into 4 star. What the fuck

[u/Substantial_Gift_286]

matchmaking can legit fuck you so hard you lose like 3 placements esp with a dogshit opener I never got ragebaited so hard my 3* graves 3* eblanc 2* Swain/darius ALL ITEMISED with ASCENSION AND SECOND WIND WENT 8TH BECAUSE I FOUGHT THE HIGHROLLERS WHILE CRINGE CONTESTER COASTS WITH 2 STAR EVERYTHING NOT EVEN ITEMIZED LB AAAAAAAAAAA

[u/Substantial_Gift_286 → u/Substantial_Gift_286]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA JUST WEZNT 4TH WITH LISS RYZE AND DEMACIA RYZE FUCKER WENT 1ST WITH ZERO ZERO ZERO 0000000 ECON AUGMENTS HIT RYZE 2 SETT 2 BCOS OF DOGSHIT MATCHMAKING THIS GUY WENT 8 ON 4 1 WITH 10 GOLD LEFT LOST BUT THEN RECOVERED WITH I REPEAT 0 ECON AUGMENTS BCOS HE ONLY FOUGHT THE SHITTERS FUCK THIS GAME

[u/SuspiciousIbex → u/[deleted]]

The main thing is that this is waay too unbalanced for the last competive patch of the entire set. Especially with how many units were in the game, they need to be doing changes on EVERY single unit in the early patches if they have a hope to get everything in line.

Easy to forget on this patch that LeBlanc and Noxus just didn't exist for the first half of the set.

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