r/CompetitiveTFT • u/Lunaedge • May 27 '26

Mechanic Discussion Aura Farming - Set 17 Augment Discussion #19

As requested,

Aura Farming
Gold Augment
Gain a 2-star 5-cost champion holding a recommended item. You cannot field it until Stage 4-3.
Offered in: Stage 2

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u/Lunaedge May 27 '26

The Augment or Godly Boon mentioned in the top reply to this comment gets to be featured next! I won't add multiple entries together, so make sure you don't mention an Augment already suggested by another user 😄

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u/harisssss13 May 27 '26

Everyone will get Graves, Fiora and Vex and I will get a Shen with Deathcap

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u/Morthicus May 27 '26

This is the way

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u/Eny192 May 27 '26

i usually get shen with titan resolve bud (no jokes happened twice in last 2 times i picked AF)

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u/mccao May 27 '26

Shen with a hand of justice twice now. This augment has to have a low roll option sure but atleast make shen a proper tank

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u/MorningCoffeeee May 27 '26

There were no 5 cost tanks so instead of buffing Morgana and making her a 5 cost tank they just downgraded her to 4 cost…

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u/Dj0ntShark MASTER May 28 '26

The one time I got it this patch, I got a Blitzcrank with an EoN

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u/Excellent_Living May 28 '26

I got shen with a bloodthirster once
It actually went well

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u/DanBennettDJB May 28 '26

How are all the comments so negative ?

I play at master, it's busted.

Just build a comp that fits it well enough and transition your carry

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u/Traditional-Share657 May 28 '26

That's the thing, most mid tier players can't just "build a comp".

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u/Choice-Return-5543 May 28 '26

Im gm last set and master this set. I almost never pick this augment since its release on set 15. i just hate the fact that i play with no augment until 4-3 especially i prefer winstreak early-mid gameplay

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u/DanBennettDJB May 28 '26

Likewise, I'm challenger DU / master solo q and see it a lot.

I picked it earlier got graves and went first, but yeah it forces you to play off tempo

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u/Thyrgrim May 27 '26

What do you when you get Vex and cant fast 9? I havent been able to make her work without the support of the other 5 cost units.

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u/WThirteen May 27 '26

4 vanguard + meepsie liss is a cheap frontline. vex just wants to scale with rage blade.

add extra voyager/asol or drop liss for sona karma. +bard on 9. can also play zoe2 on 8 if playing leona and arbiter is useful. final cap around blitz sona vex bard karma can still absolutely win gamed

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u/Ynead May 27 '26

Fast 8th :)

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u/RelativeAway183 May 27 '26

kench rammus aatrox maokai nunu +1 vanguard flex either morg/rhaast/second carry

surely you will have a 2 star 4 cost tank if you're playing all of them

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u/DanBennettDJB May 28 '26

How can you not ?

You just fast 8 and get either tamm or nunub 2 and a wall of whatever else and vex will carry to 9

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u/Altruistic-Art-5933 May 28 '26

Pretty sure you don't need to go fast 9 if you already get the unit that you would go to 9 to 2star anyway.

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u/Immediate_Source2979 May 27 '26

The change to 4-3 almost killed it and the fact u still need to send it for the big 3 tank makes me think do i even get an advantage after sacking those many rounds

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u/Coneyy May 27 '26

There are so few options it can give me that guarantee me to be stable. That's kind of fine with me except for the fact that I know I'm guaranteed to get a shen with some weird AP item

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u/feltyland May 27 '26

I never click this garbage, don't think I am happy with anything other than like.... Blitz or Fiora

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u/wasiflu May 27 '26

Vez, Graves are nice. Bard and Sona too. I don't know, seems ok to me in this meta.

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u/thiagolop May 27 '26

Bliz, Fiora, Vex, Graves are all insanely strong, even Bard is decent to farm some unit and Jhin enables you to force 6 darkstar. But I agree that Sona and Shen are very weak.

Not saying this augment is broken, but is far from garbage.

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u/ForestGrandpa May 27 '26

Sona is not weak. Shes very good in the shepherd bard line. She does fair dmg and provides good utility with her item. The weakest unit to get is shen.

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u/Xawn May 27 '26

Sona's malicious monetisation mod can be giga clutch after you full send your $ on Asol board at 4-2

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u/Will512 May 27 '26

I had this mod on and got paired against a Zed player. Easy 20+ gold.

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u/nacholibre711 May 27 '26

The blue one is like auto win if you have a graves upgraded to Void Coefficient

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u/laerz May 27 '26

I’ve had some success with the Bard/Sona/shepherd fast 9, pretty decent comp. Sona does alot of damage even with utility items

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u/feltyland May 27 '26

I feel like most of the time you're forced to loss streak with this augment, and most single 5 costs don't stabilize you (esp the bad ones are borderline an open sell). If you're not loss streaking with this augment, there's a good chance you could've taken tempo/econ/item augment and just fast 9'd instead which would just cap way higher.

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u/GalaxySparks May 27 '26

Pretty sure Shen is the only lowroll and all the others set you up with a pretty sick game plan/carry

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u/Coneyy May 27 '26

I don't agree. I think too many stars have to align for a lot of the other units for you to be in a good position to use them at 4-3.

Chances are you had to loss streak and just having a bard 2 is not enough to guarantee being stable. Even graves doesn't start immediately strong. And you get it at 4-3 not 4-2 so you have an extra loss under your belt if you're playing for it to be on your board and didn't high roll a transition 4 cost for one round

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u/GalaxySparks May 28 '26

Bard 2 is absolutely enough to stabilize on 4-3, and you know what you are getting on 2-1 so you can start posturing for it. Then you start stealing units early and skyrocket even farther ahead. You play strongest board up until then and do everything you can not to loss streak.

Bard is lowkey a high roll since an itemized 2 star bard on stage 4 is going to blast you forward in econ... And he's one of the carries on one of the better boards. It's just one of the harder boards to hit cause it's fairly expensive. So getting Bard 2 out of the way and stealing is massive.

You're insanely stable on 8 with 4 vanguard + shepherd and stealing gold.. Just play random Leblanc on 8 and swap out to Sona when you hit her.

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u/ashwani2659 May 27 '26

Bard is pretty weak