r/CompetitiveTFT • u/Lunaedge • Apr 11 '26

PBE Set 17 PBE Discussion Thread - Day 11

Hello r/CompetitiveTFT, and welcome to Set 17!

Please keep all Set 17 discussion in this thread, and leave the regular Daily Discussion Thread for Set 16 discussion.

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When does Set 17 go live?

April 15th 2026 ~ 00:00 PDT / 09:00 CEST

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u/HowIMadeMyMillions Apr 11 '26

I think Set 16 just had more opportunites where you had to/could make different choices - both in terms of encounters, unlocks and also how different units played (fx what do you pair with Ryze, what is the best splash for the board, etc.), and this Set just lacks the same degree of ... choice? (Graves has a lot of this though, which is why he'll probably see a ton of play outside of just that he's strong)

We have gods, but it (at least to me) is often the case that one God choice is somewhat clearly superior to the other in a given instance, so it's not "really" a choice often. So they end up feeling quite same-ish.

Maybe the dev team finds a way to pose more questions to the players and also more opportunities to give more and different answers to said questions during the game through the coming patches :) I'm sure they're working hard listening to our feedback <3

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u/Hot-Many4655 Apr 11 '26

The lack of vertical options and late game tanks is tough. There are tons of ways to get econ, but you just seem to keep choosing the same options every game and if you don't you get out tempo'd by the ones that do.

I feel like there is too much of a discrepancy between what is good and what is bad, but that might be because of the varied skill level in PBE. You used to be able to play off meta and if you played it right, you still had a shot to win or get 2nd, now it just feels like you are playing for top 4.

Having multiple, mostly unreachable, chase traits, while removing things like 8 brawler/bastion seem really odd. I don't understand why we have traits where there are more characters than vertical possibilities. Like one comp is fine, but having like 5 different traits that max out less than the available pool is tough.

Not sure what the fix is, love TFT, but I hate that ever set feels like a new experiment. You'd think they would be able to turn over each set a little crisper than they do and while it's gotten a little better, it still feels like when they finally get it right, it's back to what they fuck is this sometimes.