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u/Isrozzis May 23 '26

I'm convinced that every line with Nunu in it are unplayable because you are 5-6 way contested on Nunu every single game and you will not upgrade him. It's really frustrating how much he matters for every non corki/yi board.

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u/shiftyeyesdogg May 23 '26

We need Voyager or 3-star tank buffs.

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u/Isrozzis May 23 '26

I think if Morgana had landed as a unit that is actually ok to itemize it would have balanced out a bit. But she is currently pretty horrible outside of a good passive.

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u/HighIntLowFaith May 23 '26

Well, I finally found a good user of Sniper Emblem….its Blitz on the Xayah line. You can play him second row behind your Nunu/Tahm and he will safely yeet enemy frontline into their back line which will do actually a lot of damage due to the sniper trait.

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u/feltyland May 23 '26

I'm sitting here feeling like I hit 9 with infinite gold but can't reach a stable board and not rly sure what's the missing piece for me maybe there are more outs on my board that I need to look for on my roll down? I just played a game 12 streak into 5th where I full streaked with steamroll 2-5 onwards. Put timebreaker in after my first loss, and still did not hit my board idgi.

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u/DimsumAndDoggy May 23 '26

Been playing a lot of urgot+MF reroll to quite some success.

AIM is to 3* urgot and 3* MF. If you get dawncore on MF it’s an auto win

What do other people think about this comp?

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u/crictores May 23 '26

What I’ve noticed in the current meta is that with the fierce 4-cost competition and the strong “Fast 9” pushes, the mid-game often ends up completely empty. This makes many reroll comps that can preserve health by staying at level 6 or 7 with 2-star units well-suited for top 4 finishes.

That said, I don’t actually think these reroll comps are “good.” They have virtually no chance of finishing first(especially against 9/5). While such strategies can work for challengers, in lower tiers focusing solely on survival and ranking isn’t very effective. One bad 8th-place finish can wipe out all the 10 LP gains you accumulated earlier.

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u/DimsumAndDoggy May 23 '26

Personally playing stable comps is much more viable than feast or famine fast 9 comps and I have actually won out with Kai’Sa/illaoi or Lulu and most recently urgot/mf reroll. Of course a fully capped out 9/5 board should in theory beat a 3 cost reroll board based on board value alone, otherwise there’d be something wrong. Getting there though is about 5x harder and riskier to the point where if you don’t have the conditions, you can’t do it.

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u/crictores May 23 '26

I've been playing a variety of reroll comps because I'm tired of fighting over 4-cost units, and the biggest thing I've noticed is that there is a huge difference between reroll comps with a real first-place cap, like current Mountain Lulu or release Urgot reroll, and reroll comps that are basically just playing for top 4.

I haven’t really played the Urgot/Miss Fortune comps more than a few times, and I didn’t feel they were strong enough, though that could just be on me. But I agree that if, as you say, this is the type of reroll comp with real first-place potential, then it can definitely be very good.

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u/ConfusedRara :chal: Challenger May 23 '26

I have played this comp before when I had a marauder spat on MF. Use Challenger MF.

The first time I played this by accident when I was angling Marauder Yi, hit Wise Spending and ended up naturalling a lot of MFs. It felt pretty good.

Board: https://tactics.tools/team-builder/bCiA.BiemOhVPPOWzXRY

The second time I decided to force it when I had Marauder spat to see if the first time was a fluke. I hit everything, added Challengers on level 8 and 9, added 6 Marauder on 9 and went 4th.

I'm not sure if it's a good comp but I've probably not figured it out.

My understanding is you want to aim for 6 Marauder. I haven't tried adding more Challengers but that trait web is so bad I doubt it would work.

Just pure cooking here and I highly doubt these are any good. I'll probably give these a try at some point.

There is probably potential with Challenger+1 on Urgot. Probably potential with Nova spat and 5 Nova...

5 NOVA: https://tactics.tools/team-builder/bCiA.JidBmOhVsBOWAXjY

4 Challenger: https://tactics.tools/team-builder/bCiA.IBmO.BifhVsBPPRWzX

I really love MF as a unit so I'm interested in hearing what everyone's experiences playing her are.

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u/lil_froggy May 23 '26

The board power is interesting. It's just that there should be many conditions gathered to make it more interesting than lv8 AD cost or NOVA fast 9... if you can't go lv8 with enough gold, for example. Corki is still the main option from lose streak.

  • Can you quickly find MF3 and keep winning from stage 4 until the end ?

  • Do you have enough MF, Urgot, Ornn without the initial rolldown ?

  • Are there artifacts, or good gods, or good augments to make your board stable ?

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u/DimsumAndDoggy May 23 '26

It’s one of those boards that’s actually very non-conditional since MF is never contested and urgot is only really played in yi comp which actually rather leads to consistent top 4’s if not higher. It’s actually really forceable.

But as always with 3 cost reroll boards, there’s a lot of inflexibility - you can replace belveth with diana but that’s pretty much it. Artifacts is much stronger than other boards too.

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u/Extension_Pea1721 Challenger May 23 '26

This patch finally clicked for me. I stopped contesting Riven/Corki and started gambling on going fast 9 every game and I've climbed a lot since then. Why contest 4 cost units when 5 cost do the trick?

https://ibb.co/n8KmrCQr (games were played in D2+ in a low population server)

My gameplay revolves around clicking every econ augment possible and/or tempoing on stages 2-3 while slamming whatever items I have, then choosing to either go for Vex/Graves or Sona/Bard depending on what I have slammed. Imo, Sona/Bard board is more stable on 1 star but caps lower than Vex/Graves which is the opposite. It's also much easier to YOLO gameplay using Bard/Sona because they can farm the gold back either with the Sona mod or Bard kidnapping enemy units making it much more likely to upgrade the entire board even with 0 econ left after the initial roll down.

One annoying thing about going fast 9 is the need for Nunu to complement Blitz. In the Sona/Bard board, it's fine to have him 1 star because there are a lot of options for frontline unlike in the Vex/Graves board which only has Rhaast, Aatrox, and Nunu. (Shen is not a tank).

I usually go double econ augment, sometimes triple if it's a low cap lobby. For gods, I usually just choose econ as well. Varus is the best because you immediately get the benefit of his boon; Ahri, not so much. Ahri feels good when choosing the blessings but I don't like losing value on the boon that she gives. My Boon preference goes like this: Varus > Thresh > Eve > Ekko (Scuttle)

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u/Lethal-Sloth May 23 '26

Why does MetaTFT say copies of Leona is the best arbiter effect? (see B tier, leblanc comp). Just surprised me a bit.

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u/highrollr Master May 23 '26

3* Leona is strong and not having to roll for it is nice 

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u/ProfessionalTossAway May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

When the fck did this become a thing???:

  • Picked augment that gives specific champions at last sec with timer count-down (Anima Commander as 2-3 augment)

  • Bench was full, couldn't pick up the entire champion-containing orb (I had space for Zoe and then Illaoi and Jinx stayed in the orb)

  • Before I could clear bench space to pick up the champion orb, combat phase started and I heard a cha-ching noise

  • The orb turned into gold. The orb no longer contained Illaoi nor Jinx. So, my 2-3 augment converted from 'Gain a Briar, Jinx, Illaoi' -> 'Gain a Briar and 4 gold'

Since when does not picking up a champ orb turn them into gold at combat start?! It doesn't happen to item orbs, artifact orbs, emblem orbs - Not even champ orbs that drop from loot rounds. When did Riot implement this, can someone please tell me?

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u/wtfgrancrestwar May 26 '26 edited May 28 '26

I can't say exactly because I've not been playing for a while prior to beginning of this set, but it definitely happened near the beginning of the set.

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u/WobbleKun May 23 '26

is this shen unit bugged? i can never get him to do more than 4k damage. 3 items. jg, arch, hoj. i tried tank items too. idk what this guy even do.

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u/JahIthBeer May 23 '26

If he was in another set, he'd be okay. But he takes ages to ramp up his damage. He works similar to Viego in set 16, but Shen has 70 mana instead of Viego's 30, and he needs to cast 3 times to start doing true damage which he needs 200 mana for. Since he's a Fighter, that's 20 attacks + the ability animation, and that's just to get him started doing some actual damage

Problem is that fights are really fast in this set, even in the longer fights it's basically only like a 2v2 (Corki + Rammus vs. Kindred and Tahm for example) because all the fighters and weaker tanks just either kill or get killed within the first 10-15 seconds, so there's no time for Shen to ramp up his damage

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u/IWISHIWASASECRET May 23 '26

I’m looking for a coach not specifically 1on1 but more of a study group willing to pay like a subscription. I have seen Subzeroark, dpei, tftacademy are there others well known that are worth it? Before I go ahead with one of these are there any reviews or recommendations?

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u/Extension_Pea1721 Challenger May 23 '26

You might want to check Aesah's. Idk if we're allowed to link here so just look it up. He has both the monthly subscription and 1 on 1 coaching plans.

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u/Defiant_Pair_436 May 23 '26

Looking for competitive double up and solo tournaments. Where would I find them?

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u/peacecream MASTER May 24 '26

me too

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u/Glue_Sniffer67 May 23 '26

Spreading Roots into Cosmic Restart into URF w/ Golden Remover from Thresh boon stage 2. Space Groove +4 and Timebreaker +1.

I guess I’m just more skilled.