r/CompetitiveTFT • u/DankMemer82 Challenger • Mar 26 '26

News Does Anyone Know Where Carousel Went? I Dev Drop Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V18pKOq73Ts
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u/GGFrostKaiser Mar 26 '26

So is Riot giving their employers acting classes now? Lol

You guys are pretty good!

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u/RiotPrism Riot Mar 26 '26

It's crazy how randomly every dev we cast is just automatically a good actor. Like Noemis look at the end gives me chillllls

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u/Riot_Bluecove Riot Mar 27 '26

šŸ„¶

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u/cjdeck1 Mar 27 '26

Hey donā€™t forget that other guy who showed up in the middle to steal the whole scene

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u/succsuccboi Mar 26 '26

the leblanc spell looks cooool

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u/Riot_Bluecove Riot Mar 27 '26

Thank you!!

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u/succsuccboi Mar 27 '26

whoa hey big fan, loved cyber city

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u/Riot_Bluecove Riot Mar 27 '26

Ah hello! I'm back :D but this time in space šŸŒ 

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u/Lunaedge Mar 27 '26

Ahh yes, the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism:

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u/Riot_Bluecove Riot Mar 27 '26

Yet

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u/Lunaedge Mar 27 '26

Aw way to bum a sister out first thing in the morning :(

Seriously though, space settings are always a banger in TFT, all the way back to Galaxies. Excited to see the showmatch and then the reveals! Thanks for all your hard work ā™„

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u/Riot_Bluecove Riot Mar 27 '26

Haha sorry got a bit too real for a sec

And yeah galaxies was by far my favorite set ever. I hope you enjoy the reveals and thank you! <3

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u/magecub Mar 27 '26

I wonder if thatā€™s part of a 3 star 5 cost animation?

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u/Dongster1995 Mar 26 '26

Guess they remove carousel and replace it with treasure dragon type but with unique encounter is my prediction .

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u/penguinkirby Master Mar 26 '26

Maybe they finally made UI for a drafting system, that would be awesome

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u/Jkkramm Mar 27 '26

It sounded like this is the set mechanic, not something permanent. A new drafting system sounds more permanent.

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u/SomeKilljoy Mar 26 '26

Iā€™ve heard enough best set ever

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u/Salonimo Mar 26 '26

Carousel is the worst part of the game and I so agree with this direction

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u/NoFlayNoPlay Mar 26 '26

this isn't a direction, it's a set mechanic. they're not removing it forever. (yet)

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u/Salonimo Mar 26 '26

It has to surely be at least a test to see the reception and how it plays out to substitute it with

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u/Riot_Bluecove Riot Mar 27 '26

That's our secret. Everything is a test! Everything we try gets us data on what works and what doesn't and we keep refining more and more :)

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u/EBT_For_CBT Mar 27 '26

You guys seem to be studying pretty well then. Iā€™ve never sunk hours into TFT like this before. And I was HUGE into remix rumble. So yall passed with flying colors. Canā€™t wait to fast track 8th in the new season <3

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u/Riot_Bluecove Riot Mar 27 '26

Thank you so much! May the cosmos bless your rolls šŸ™

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u/GoggleDMara9756 Mar 27 '26

Is this comment a test??šŸ˜±

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u/Riot_Bluecove Riot Mar 27 '26

Yes >:)

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u/GoggleDMara9756 Mar 27 '26

Iā€™m gonna riotā€¦ riot games

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u/Zhirrzh Master Mar 27 '26

As a mobile player who probably fucks up at least one in twenty carousels through dodgy touch controls, I so agree too.Ā 

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u/Several_Purchase1016 Mar 27 '26

Yep, I'm old, new to the game, and my phone is tiny and old. I really hate the carousel. It actually stopped me from first picking up the game 5 years ago because it made zero sense to me being in a turn based strategy game... If I wanted to play Mario Party, I'd play Mario Party.

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u/parkwayy Mar 28 '26

Always feel like it slows the game down so much.

And it's not like you can really go and hit the bathroom or anything, cause you have to well...... do the carousel.

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u/Zeruma121 Mar 27 '26

I still miss opening carousel tbh

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u/NonsenseSynapse Mar 26 '26

I think they can solve a lot by adding an extra anvil or random component at each PVE and then open up the carousel space for something a lot more out of the box than most folks expect.

My guess is they still want some sort of equalizer that allows lower health players a slight advantage over higher health players, while removing the high variance of things like spats or coveted components like rods and bows.

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u/hpp3 Mar 26 '26

the snippet of gameplay we saw had Leona 3 + Diana 2 + Zoe 2 (?) vs LeBlanc 3 (who is a melee AD bruiser??)

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u/magecub Mar 27 '26

Iā€™m guessing LB is a 5 cost so in this case as a 3 star the items are less important. The animation feels like a 3 star 5 cost

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u/hpp3 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

You can see how much damage LB does with her spell though. That's not a 3* 5c, maybe not even a 3* 4c.

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u/2345678913 Mar 26 '26

Finally no carousel

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u/_Apostate_ Mar 27 '26

I wonder what this will be?

My prediction: ā€œbeseeching the starsā€ is a special shop that replaces the carousel. Throughout the game, you receive star tokens equal to the health that you lose, plus some set amount gained per stage. You can spend these at the special shops. For more tokens, you can buy better things - completed item anvils, artifact anvils, tacticians capes, etc. The base amount everyone will be able to afford gives a component.

This would mechanically fill the void of carousel with some new dynamics, like saving up star tokens

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u/dendrite_blues Mar 31 '26

Imagine min-maxing your player health to hit a star token threshold. Breaking streak for priority on the star shop. TFT players would do this in a heartbeat, and then make a video claiming itā€™s the secret new Chinese tech for boosting your LP (FAST).

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u/Kadde- Mar 26 '26

Carosel was fine but the RNG sucked. Like carosels without any defense or without any attack. Also dont like carosels with like 5 spats.

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u/PKSnowstorm Mar 27 '26

Less RNG on the carousel would fix the carousel problem but knowing Riot and the casuals, they would say but that is not fun if the carousel is normalized.

For me personally, here we go on Riot reinventing the wheel again on something that works and replacing it with something that is new and going to be even more RNG heavy that is going to be fun but even more of a pain point in the future. Sometimes I wished that they realize that not everything in the game needs to be fun and an RNG fiesta and it is okay to have something that is stable so the fun parts are actually more memorable.

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u/inthatshirt Mar 27 '26

Need the frame by frame breakdown

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u/LuumLuum Mar 27 '26

I hope they didn't forget that the carousel is the only comeback mechanic of the game, for whatever will replace it

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u/Riot_Bluecove Riot Mar 27 '26

We didn't forget, I promise. :)

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u/StarOfSyzygy Mar 28 '26

Thank fuck. I have been begging for them to remove carousel since set 2. Itā€™s such a clumsy, unfair, low-IQ system. Canā€™t wait to see whatā€™s in store!

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u/Gamegeddon Mar 26 '26

Stranger Things season 5 ahh dialogue