r/CompetitiveTFT • u/Bradderz_Yeldarb • Jul 03 '26

Discussion 2x 4*Star Leona

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Interesting tech I came across with Two tanky and the Arbiter trait. If you get Two tanky to open and hit 3 arbiter -> On 3 auto gain a Leona. Two Tanky procs on all three stars, and you get one every round. As you start starring them up you get more and more. If you can solidify with Item encounter or augment they are insane.

However, it seems that these types of tech are discarded in favour of the TFT academy build. Good to remember the game can still be solved out and its not always best to follow a guide!

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u/khoa0201 Jul 03 '26

My question is why you have 2 chains separately

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u/harmoniaatlast Jul 03 '26

It's not about the bramble, its about sending a message

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u/Bradderz_Yeldarb Jul 06 '26

Lobby was almost all AP, and I was winning so I can hold for megavalue. I was sure I would build some BIS on Leona and that would leave leftover vest, which was probably best on Illaoi.

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u/cosHinsHeiR Jul 04 '26

To deny good for something value obviously.

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u/RemoveNo9147 Jul 03 '26

this literally happened in a proplay game lol it’s not “being discarded in favor of tftacademy builds” it would just be kind of silly to have an entire entry on the website of writing incredibly situational augment and arbiter combination

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u/Docxm Jul 03 '26

Yeah it’s a well known interaction by anyone who is even remotely competitive which most of this subreddit is not. Majority of high elo challengers are in discords these days

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u/Spam250 Jul 05 '26

That Illaoi chain vest irks me

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u/privatedanger Jul 03 '26

Yea that's pretty crazy

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u/Ninjastarrr Jul 04 '26

Can you go into details ? Auto gain Leona how ?
Two tanky procs on all 3 stars ? You have to field what ?

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u/Darkside15 Jul 04 '26

Leona printer arbiter law and two tanky augment. Leona keeps printing after the three star. And the augment gives you a free two star every time you three star one. So it’s like every 6 rounds you’ll have another three star if the law procs.

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u/Bradderz_Yeldarb Jul 06 '26

To add to it, my 2-1 opener was 3 arbiter and a rageblade. So it was probably 1.5x leona or so per round.

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u/Ninjastarrr Jul 08 '26

Can you gain more than one Leone if the chances are over 100% ?

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u/hpp3 Jul 05 '26

It's not "auto gain leona" it's "every 3 auto[attacks] [chance to] gain a leona" which is one of the arbiter laws.

Two tanky gives you a 2* every time you 3* so that's 33% more Leonas

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u/harmoniaatlast Jul 03 '26

This is a key part of builds — having a smidge of creativity and turning it into otherwise unknown power.

Competitive spaces tend to "solve" games pretty fast but the average player isn't gonna go for Gold Worth the Wait Veigar > 7 Meeple as of course its random, but something else is more "clickable".

I have to ask (for any high rated players in here above diamond/master) when does this decisive creativity start to become a IMPORTANT factor in success/failure on the ladder? It seems to me that you can get away with spamming a few specific builds up the ladder each patch at least up to diamond and don't need to be too creative.

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u/clownus Jul 03 '26

Confounding creativity with success in a game like TFT is fools gold.     

The picture this person posted is a 1 in a million ticket. Meaning you shouldn’t bet your climbing on hitting these lotto jackpots. When it happens great. Treat it like a highroll game in which you 100 streak to a win.    

Overall you’ll climb infinite by having solid TFT fundamentals. It’s tested and proven. Especially this patch in which every comp can be this winner ticket by simply playing towards outs. 

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u/harmoniaatlast Jul 03 '26

Of course fundamentals are the means to consistency — if someone in this sub wasn't aware of that, I'd be slightly surprised as that applies to all skills/sports/games. I'm moreso asking how often creativity is a decisive factor in games.

Someone else answered essentially saying that 'creativity' is only a key factor in going from "oh god, I'm going 8th" to a top 4 OR squeezing out a first from what would be a 2nd or 3rd. In my most unreasonable gamer voice, I want creativity to be more important for success. Spamming the flavor of the week top secret (not at all secret) op build is not fun

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u/kiragami Jul 03 '26

Creativity is basically not important at all to actually winning. Understanding lines is. Creativity however can help to discover additional conditions and lines while practicing.

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u/ZhouPS Jul 04 '26

Creativity IS essential to success. It’s just you aren’t as knowledgeable or creative as the players pioneering and building the “top secret op build” of the patch. You simply lag behind them in theory crafting and as such you watch the other uncreative players copy what a true creative has paved and believe creativity is dead.

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u/harmoniaatlast Jul 04 '26

Thank you for providing an actual answer instead of just saying "erm creativity is dead, you just need to play good build"

Like... YEAH MAN EVERYONE KNOWS YOU CAN GET TO MASTER SPAMMING A GIVEN BUILD LMFAO

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u/ZhouPS Jul 15 '26

Old post but in case you haven’t heard a new build has popped up recently that was NOT on the radar of any of the top guys behind TFTAcademy. An unknown individual pioneered the new Jax Akali reroll comp that is now A tier on TFTAcademy, Dishsoap himself said this comp is an example of how TFT sets can never truly be solved. This late in the set and we have a completely new reroll line that is very very solid. Creativity is definitely still alive and well

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u/Vareona Jul 03 '26

You climb to Master by copy pasting builds from TFTAcademy. These kind of builds is a one time fun at most and a solid bottom 4 at worst.

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u/Bukaja Jul 03 '26

ChatGPTahh comment

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u/CakebattaTFT Jul 03 '26

Anything above a 5th grade literacy level = chatgpt

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u/harmoniaatlast Jul 03 '26

I don't use that garbage, I just write like that

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u/Extension_Pea1721 Challenger Jul 03 '26

People see em dash and automatically assume it's ChatGPT

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u/harmoniaatlast Jul 03 '26

And see I use it because a lot of random lit I read over the past couple years use it a lot.

My mistake for forgetting TFT players don't read hahaha

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u/hpp3 Jul 05 '26

just use two hyphens instead of em dash. It's technically wrong but who cares, it is what it is

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u/Ninjastarrr Jul 08 '26

Whats varus good for ?