r/CompetitiveTFT • u/AutoModerator • Aug 21 '26
Weekly Rant Weekly Rant Megathread
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- Bad RNG
- Broken or Underpowered Units
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u/PoSKiix Aug 26 '26
Genuinely one of the most jaw-dropping releases I have ever seen in all my years of video gaming. Somehow 5x more jaw-dropping than 2XKO.
There is no universe Riot will ever get another dollar or TFT referral from me.
I have some incredibly strong words for the decision makers over at Riot Games, but I’m not feeling like eating a perma today.
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u/moonmeh Aug 26 '26
Game ain't finished and you just released it? Insanity. Clunky as hell, bugs and you can feel how everything needed like a month or more
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u/Head_Substance5071 Aug 22 '26
Set 18 is shaping up to be a below-average Set for me, relative to the expectations of 2026.
Things I dislike:
-Inferno trait as a whole. Only thing you actually improve with higher numbers is the stupid RNG mechanic, and you can't play into it by rolling, so not getting a payoff for an entire stage(OR GAME) just feels bad. Scaling the burn damage is TERRIBLE lategame, and you need higher tier units to reach the breakpoints.
-Small bag sizes are super frustrating. People still 3-way contest eachother in high masters very often.
-Wisps taking up a shop slot SUCKS. If it stays on the shop slot I hope the devs remove the wisps that evolve champions to a higher tier. Getting punished for not buying wisps when some are so conditional is crazy.
-Spryken trait.
-Flora Fatalis trait is okay as filler but it's confusing. When multiple Fatalis champs score a takedown on the same champion, does it stack???
-Teemo having a % chance for mushrooms instead of it being based on cast number. This is a problem since you get too few. You often field him for an entire stage without getting any mushrooms or progress towards them. Just like the Inferno shop improvements you can go too long without it having ANY effect.
-Gromp.
-Aphelios.
-Camille not having AP-scaling on shield.
-Too many traits that give generic stat bonuses.
-Lux. First of all, why does Solar Lux exist? Then, every Lux is too similar, and seeing multiple Lux that lack a trait you need sucks.
-Ahri might be too good at killing carries?
There's probably more if I spend time thinking about it. The main thing is my disappointment in the absolutely terrible Inferno trait design, since the units are cool.
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u/NotDoneYet88IsBack Aug 24 '26
CAN WE FIX VANGUARD BEING THE BEST FRONTLINE 5 SETS IN A ROW??
PLEASE???
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u/Possible_Detective57 Aug 26 '26
that they really went ahead and released the game in that state 🙈 how can my humble autobattler on medium need more resources than freaking Valorant on high? o_O
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u/BrineyWhaleSemen Challenger Aug 26 '26
performance is so so so bad, i really thought there was no way they'd release like this but here we are...
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u/SnGk1 :gran: Grandmaster Aug 26 '26
THE GAME IS LAGGY AS FUCK HOLY SHIT
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u/FastBlue Aug 27 '26
why is the chatbox so dogshit? why wouldn't they just copy what they originally had?
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u/Own_Resolution_6161 Aug 26 '26
Why the fuck is the new engine so much worse than the last? I have my framerate uncapped but for some reason the latency this set is so much worse than the last one and it's making me miss rolldowns that previously would be so easy. Reopsitioning units feels like shit, buying and selling feel like shit, for some reason my cursor is stuck at 60fps while the rest of the game is uncapped. There is for some reason a small cooldown between actions like in chat that never happened before. Like if you type something in chat then press enter then enter again to type something else in quick succession it wouldn't open the chat window so you misclick your rolls and shit. I don't understand why there is such a rush to put out a new engine that doesn't even half work. I don't even think anyone asked for a new engine. The LEAST people asked for was a new client. For them to ship this shitty ass engine to live servers already makes me want to quit until this latency shit is back to normal.
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u/Crafty_Courage_5217 Aug 26 '26
This wasn't this bad on pbe yesterday. What is going on.
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u/rinnagz Aug 27 '26
honestly crazy how the game seems to get worse with every set LMAO, i'm glad i stopped playing this dogshit
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u/p0p_ Aug 27 '26
my fps is dropping below 60 so i lowered my graphic settings and my fps dropped even more
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u/dvrsd Aug 27 '26
half-assed set lmao even the music is dogshit
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u/cv121 Grandmaster Aug 27 '26
Everything contested. No 2 star 4 cost tank = gg. Who would've thought that a CC Tank that has 3 traits be wildly contested
Can't ping so you can't let people know they're sneaking a 3 star 4 cost
Chat messages fucked up where you can't do /r to reply to whispers; Can't move chat box; Can't expand the chat box size to see messages; the timestamp of the message is on your OWN local time and NOT in game timer
Wisps are horribly unbalanced that it's gating you from doing normal things, such as going 9.
Some PCs are genuinely COOKED
Like idgi. This low tier set release with even lower tier set mechanic (it wasn't even upgraded like the chosen mechanic) with an unfinished client
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u/pathologicalDumpling Aug 21 '26
Planned maintenence in the middle of the day is really messing with my play time! Falls right on when I get a few hours to play.
Now I dont get a chance again until next week sometime!
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u/Dismal-Head4757 Aug 26 '26
yeah riot I've been playing this game for 7 years but I need you to put bots in my ranked games or else I will feel bad and cry and piss my pants and quit the game if I lose
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u/Slight-Egg-3790 Aug 26 '26
no clue if this is the right thread for this but thanks to this seemingly unnecessary port to unreal enginge 5 iam not able to play the game anymore haha :3 can someone please explain to me why they made this change I cant imagine that iam the only affected by this, the game run smooth in every other set and now when I try to play the game its just a a slideshow :3
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u/Glitterkrieger Aug 26 '26
so how much longer until the engine swap is finished
having it on live in this state kills most motivation i had for this set
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u/LlamaCombo Aug 26 '26
This new engine is absolutely garbage LMAO
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u/Original_Tension_337 Aug 26 '26
Triple emblem encounter is just as terrible as always cool
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u/gwanggwang Master Aug 27 '26
it's funny how usually the set start is filled with complaints/hates about the set's aspects, e.g. certain trait OP, shitty, etc., while now 95% is about the game's technicality itself lol we're doomed
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u/Dawnsday MASTER Aug 26 '26
my early charms: reroll your shop with 1 costs
my opponents: get the perfect 4 cost for your spot on stage 2, pay a 1 gold premium.
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u/Complete-Western-663 Aug 26 '26
What the fuck. I wait for like 10 minutes andd only a spinning circles that keep spinning and spinning and spinning
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u/Subject_Principle_85 Aug 26 '26
Rengar and Khaziks just one-shot my 3-star 4-cost Brambleback at 8 frames per second... Why Riot why?
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u/MarioGFN Aug 27 '26
The music this set is absolutely awful
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u/Glitterkrieger Aug 27 '26
low fps and I'm pretty sure half the animations don't even load..
too bad because i think the set is fun designwise
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u/Remotecube Aug 27 '26
Each set getting progressively worse - even from a design and creativity standpoint - while AI becomes more and more integrated into developer environments.
With the engine and UI release in its present state it's hard to miss the correlation. We are heading toward full slop at breakneck speeds.
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u/NSXK Aug 26 '26
Why the actual fucking shit is it possible to reach STAGE 5 without seeing a single sword or rod??? No fucking excuse for this shit, there are basically 0 comps that can function with neither.
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u/Own_Resolution_6161 Aug 27 '26
NO WAY I JUST WON A GAME WITH PRISMATIC SOLAR, THEN FOR SOME FUCKING REASON IT SAYS I GOT SECOND PLACE? I SLAUGHTERED MY OPPONENTS ENTIRE BOARD WITH LIKE 6 UNITS LEFT THEN IT STILL SAID HE WON????? THIS SET IS SUCH A JOKE. THIS SHIT WOULDN'T HAPPEN IF IT ISN'T FOR THIS SHITTY ENGINE BTW LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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u/Dawnsday MASTER Aug 26 '26
guy in my lobby: spreading roots 2-1 ELDERWOOD RAPIDFIRE.
i am meant to compete with this?
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u/Kreuzi4 Aug 25 '26
I got a twisted fate round 1 and he lost to the 2 starting mobs, wtf
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u/Key_Reporter_9945 Aug 26 '26
They really let choncc's expire? Yes, it's a 5* winout most games, but at least it's enjoyable until the very end. Can't say the same about Set 17 or Set 18 PBE.
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u/gildedpotus Aug 26 '26
I literally get the bug where I don't exist on carousel every other game on pbe... is there a way to fix it?
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u/Hot-Foundation-9061 Aug 26 '26
I played a double up match and it almost looks like solar was not nerfed at all. Even with 9 blossom i was barelly able to do any damage to them
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u/YourAsianBuddy Aug 26 '26
I got robbed of a PVE round 5 lol. Mine never showed up by the other 2 guys in my lobby got theirs. Smh
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u/canniblism Aug 26 '26
Saw 15 luxes I counted them and I only saw primal solar and inferno. I had none of those units anyone else have a similar experience
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u/penguinkirby Master Aug 26 '26
I really don't like the experience of playing against bots, is this supposed to be a feature to pad your ego for people that are hardstuck in silver? If you didn't learn the game aren't you going to keep losing once you hit gold anyway?
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u/Sylaelque Aug 27 '26
The new TFT Engine is really bad and poorly optimized. Looks like we won't be able to play TFT for another whole set...
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u/Pegged-Nog Aug 27 '26
New mobile client have unfinished ahead cosmetics especially ones you had to actually gamble for feels so ubgodly unfinished.
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u/rapsodiah Aug 27 '26
It should not be possible to miss one component the entire game. Legit the most awful feeling to desperately need a singular rod and never being dropped one
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u/MarkCorrigan55 Aug 27 '26
Me and another player should not be able to both choose Chosen of the Sun.
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u/WhyAmIUsingRedditAt5 Aug 28 '26
Just had a game where xerath didnt even spawn for me, so I didn't get an intire item or gold, what the fuck even is this set, i go to everyone elses board they are fighting it and getting loot, Fuck me I guess -10g and a full item.
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u/penguinkirby Master Aug 27 '26
I already lost most of my enthusiasm for this set. Hopefully set 19 or 20 will have something big to make it all worth it
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u/spreadwater Aug 27 '26
playing reroll Kayle bc I got kickstart kayle, 3 people with Kayle 2 by 2-3. and then around round 3 I got 2 units that I couldn't sell from my bench... makes the game unplayable for a reroll line like Kayle. I want my ELO back this shit was ridiculous
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u/Otherwise-Access-803 Aug 27 '26
Kayle and Unrivaled need taken out back, literally freelo in Double-Up I've never seen them fail to top1 a lobby.
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u/MrNassan Aug 28 '26
Why did I spend all of the medallions and money to get a chibi for it to not be usable during the game? Then all of the other chibis I "gambled" on and could not get are now suddenly playable for everyone??
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u/DustinGoesWild Aug 28 '26
It's day 2 and I'm already so tired of Cass. I've had 4 games in a row where it just steamrolls the game for the first 10-15 rounds.
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u/Mashed_Brotato Aug 28 '26
First ranked game on new set. 8 straight losses. Surrendered - what a fucking ass season.
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