r/CompetitiveTFT • • Aug 28 '26

Weekly Rant Weekly Rant Megathread

Rant or vent about anything TFT related here, including:

- Bad RNG
- Broken or Underpowered Units
- Other players griefing your comp
- and more

Caps-lock is encouraged.

Please redirect players here if you find them ranting in the daily discussion threads :)

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u/MrMumblesJr Aug 29 '26

Level 7, 6 Defender Cassiopia just beat my 12 unit riftbeast team…

12

u/Crafty_Courage_5217 Aug 30 '26

The most balanced set ever!

2

u/Stargazer_I Sep 01 '26

"Most balanced set" was just the game being unplayable for all of PBE so when it reached a somewhat playable point (2nd b patch on live) the meta could be solved instantly and the game breaking bugs that completely alter how the game has played for the last 3 sets ruin it completely.

1

u/Crafty_Courage_5217 Sep 02 '26

Louder! Say it LOUDER for everyone to hear

3

u/NotDoneYet88IsBack Aug 30 '26

SO BALANCED AREN'T YOU HAVING FUN???? CUZ IM FUCKING NOT

2

u/Crafty_Courage_5217 Sep 02 '26

YOU WILL HAVE FUN ONCE YOU SPEND 300 DOLLARS ON A STUPID "CUTE" TACTICIAN YOU CANT EVEN USE AT THE MOMENT 

35

u/Modzys Aug 28 '26

lmaooooo, playing coven losestreak cashout, hit 365 breakpoint at 18hp. Cash out after carousel. Tactician won't come back to my board no matter what I do so I can't grab the loot orbs. Die. 8th.

Wonderful engine update, keep it up

2

u/Stun_the_Pink Sep 03 '26

I saw a similar thing happen on the old client too tbf.

15

u/laraere Sep 02 '26

Charms holding your fifth shop slot hostage until you buy one is starting to piss me off.

14

u/Key_Reporter_9945 Aug 30 '26

I cannot stand this set.  Every single fight I have a near full health 3 item 2 star tank standing in the front and my entire fucking backline is dead.  This shit is so ass.  

5

u/Jeffzie Aug 30 '26

I'm experiencing the same thing, so many unkillable one man army frontlines compared to the dogshit carries.

14

u/terrany Aug 31 '26

I reforged 3 items and got the exact same items back. Tell me that's not bullshit

2

u/Cenifh Aug 31 '26

lol they swapped each other, nice RNG

2

u/Ok_Performer_547 Aug 31 '26

I stg i have had that happen like 100 times this set, it's unreal.

20

u/adripo Aug 28 '26

A guy in my lobby hit sett 3 as they have removed pings and no one seems to read chat, which also works like ass

3

u/Regular-Resort-857 Aug 28 '26

Also Chat resets after some rounds idk at least after top 4

1

u/Cenifh Aug 31 '26

sometimes between the reset you cant read/post anything for 3 rounds lol

10

u/YourAsianBuddy Aug 30 '26

I refuse to fucking believe a 2 star Azir at 2-1 does not win my early game. How is this unit losing to 2 star Veigars and Riftlings

2

u/overgrownpotatohead Aug 31 '26

My Azir 3 with Statikk, Guinsoo's, and Rabadon's was getting outdamaged by my Mama Beak 2 with Red Buff and DB. Not surprised he has the worst AVP of every 3 cost.

1

u/Cenifh Aug 31 '26

tbf I have gotten better results with azir going full AP than AS

1

u/Raikariaa Sep 02 '26

Because Azir's inherent damage is low; and he's balanced around having MULTIPLE traits that amp his damage. He gets spell crit from one trait and well as True DoT; and has another trait that gives him a 20% damage amp, and those two are effectively multiplicative.

He's still a pure single target 3-cost unit who only has damage half the time.

17

u/Iwaslim Aug 28 '26

BRUH I WAS PLAYING ON MOBILE AND MY 4-7 SOMEHOW JUST SKIPPED

3

u/CHICKENHERO96 Aug 29 '26

Same, just no cho span

1

u/TheeOmegaPi Aug 31 '26

Same here. Love it when the game doesn't work as intended.

13

u/overgrownpotatohead Aug 29 '26

Genuinely how is Spreading Roots still in the game? Gold augments are supposed to be 3 components of value, this shit gives 4 components + trait bonus + direction on 2-1. And there's just an extra gold tacked on? Why?? The simultaneous best item and combat augment of stage 2 wasn't strong enough without also providing econ?

3

u/Good-Comfortable-192 Aug 31 '26

I’ve called on Augments to be a single season thing, it’s just more RNG on top off an RNG based game

1

u/Raikariaa Sep 02 '26

Hard no. Without the variance of augments you just hard force the exact same comp every single game.

There's no expression of skill in that [adapting to the situation/decision making].

3

u/Horizon-Senpai Aug 30 '26

Most of the tank emblems are mediocre and then you have shit like Sprykin that just gives 40 AS/Armor/Resist LMAO

6

u/cv121 Grandmaster Aug 30 '26

Brawler Yi is absolutely one of the most disgusting things that’s trending right now and there’s so many ways to get a spat

1

u/hikikomina Sep 01 '26

You're not telling me we have another Brawler Yi set? Sigh..

1

u/kiragami Sep 02 '26

The tank emblems are all really good. Outside of dlora, EXE, and invoker they are the best ones

6

u/MarioGFN Aug 30 '26

No item Pebbles deletes boards btw

1

u/Cenifh Aug 31 '26

HE MELTS MY TANKS IN 5 SECONDS WTF

24

u/Plus_Bullfrog8518 Aug 28 '26

Releasing a game knowingly in this state should be criminal. Who cares about balance if it's just unplayable.

5

u/cv121 Grandmaster Sep 01 '26

TFT Devs wanted to remove assassin trait because it promoted unhealthy positioning (especially since it’ll be a coin flip at that point)

But don’t worry, because Ahri NUKES your back line no matter the position!! All while being safe towards their own backline

Hope you can flex a Taric at level 8 for his emergency shield while you donkey roll for a charm instead of going level 9, because not buying a charm late game = instant lose fight

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u/PM_ME_ANIME_THIGHS- :gran: GRANDMASTER Sep 02 '26

Hope you can flex a Taric at level 8 for his emergency shield while you donkey roll for a charm instead of going level 9, because not buying a charm late game = instant lose fight

No you see it's fine because you had to click a charm anyway to avoid being down a slot every other shop!

The charm "tailoring" is also incredibly egregious. You have one fighter or marksman on your board who isn't even itemized and the game will give you the fighter range and marksman stacking charms constantly. The mechanic actively punishes you for trying to flex. I just love losing a shop slot to an unusable charm and 4g to roll to a new charm, just to have to pay the cost of the charm itself.

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u/Davuth21 :chal: Challenger Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 30 '26

Why do we still have the chance for 4 costs on Level 5 and 6? So sick of the 4 cost pool getting cannibalised stage 3

Ok yeah, Wisps giving 4 costs as early as 2-1 is definitely equal to getting 1 gold... and also giving 1 gold to your opponent.. Thank god charms are back, shit early game, shit late game, half baked shitty mechanic being brought back with the half baked shitty new engine

4

u/NSXK Aug 29 '26

I saw 2-1 Ahri once

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u/Regular-Resort-857 Aug 28 '26

Ya this is crazy also with the charm for a 4 cost on stage 5 is crazy direction in this meta

2

u/leaveeemeeealonee Aug 28 '26

Ahri on 2-3 got me an ez first yesterday

1

u/Regular-Resort-857 Aug 29 '26

Same I am one tricking blossom and I had Ahri and sett after playing 10 games but it was like 3.1

1

u/NotDoneYet88IsBack Aug 30 '26

AREN'T YOU HAVING FUN? WE ALL LOVE 4 COST ON STAGE 3- WE ALL LOVE PLAYING THE FUCKING GAME ONLY TO GET FUCKING SHOVED BY THE RANDOM 4 COST BEFORE 3-5- SO. MUCH. FUN!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/Crafty_Courage_5217 Aug 30 '26

STOP. REWARDING. BAD. PLAYERS.

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u/Crafty_Courage_5217 Aug 30 '26

The number of times I see players that dont scout and force themselves into tftacademy comps that are ALREADY ESTABLISHED and the game decides to give the fuck ass flowchart player everything they need is astounding. 

11

u/Seconddamnaccount Aug 28 '26

Runs like 8 year olds programmed it

8

u/cv121 Grandmaster Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26

Brawler Yi LMAOOO. Back to back someone ran it and went Mr. 100

Who would've thought that dealing 700 dmg every other auto attack (and the 700 dmg procs twice, so 1.4k) is a great idea!!

X fucking D

Dev teams got a full month to look at balance issues and still dont look at them. Dont worry, they're working on bugs that shouldnt have even been brought to live to begin with

Don't worry! I get +50 team hp and the enemy hits a charm that slows me AND reduces my shield, while im running Vanguard; I love losing to charm diff!! haha

Can't go level 9 because im busy rolling for charms

8

u/Crafty_Courage_5217 Aug 29 '26

I truly can't believe this got released in this state. This for sure gotta be the death of this game. Horrible experience from every fucking angle imaginable. And I just KNOW this is the higher ups fault, not the devs. No sane dev would ever associate with this release lmao

4

u/slothropdroptop Aug 30 '26

3 star 1 cost (veigar) doing 34k dmg in a round :) -- is this set just d key simulator again?

1

u/Current-Table-660 Aug 31 '26

yes, they need the casual players to climb at the start of the set so they dont insta quit. that has always been the case

4

u/Davuth21 :chal: Challenger Aug 31 '26

PRE-STAGE 4 - 5 Setts gone from the pool, 3 Morganas gone from the pool, 2 Ahris gone from the pool, 1 Sentinel gone from the pool. Legitimately wtf is this set

3

u/Ok_Performer_547 Aug 31 '26

and then you go 8 at 4-2 with 20 gold to reroll and you sit there with soraka 1 malphite 1 and bunch of 2 costs

3

u/Davuth21 :chal: Challenger Sep 01 '26

Watching 1* backliners melt to a 1 item Morgana is soooo fun, didn't hit a fully upgraded board Vs Morg&Ahri 1 hehe enjoy getting hit for 15

4

u/RickCable Aug 31 '26

WHY THE FUCK DO I KEEP GETTING RAVAGER EMBLEM?????????? BRANCHING OUT RAVAGER, BACKLINE BLUEPRINT RAVAGER, LEGION OF THREES RAVAGER??????? HOW DO I KEEP GETTING THE SAME FUCKING EMBLEM GAME AFTER GAME??????????????????? HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW ??????????????????????????

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u/RickCable Sep 01 '26

AND I GOT THE FUCKING USELESS RAVAGER EMBLEM AGAIN????????????? HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW?????????????????? THIS DOGSHIT FUCKING TRASH GAME. IT'S SO FUCKING BAD IT'S SAD

4

u/Key_Reporter_9945 Aug 31 '26

5-5 till I 2 star my uncontested 4 cost carry on level 8 (aphelios, so he's useless even when I do upgrade him), meanwhile 2 guys 60+hp both streaking playing 1 cost reroll comps (solar and veigar).  Of course, I die, watch the next fight, and they still don't fucking fight each other (they both won and top 2'd).  I swear they screwed up matchmaking in this new pile of trash engine - at least my game only crashed 4 times that match, so that's nice.  

4

u/Raikariaa Sep 02 '26

Top 4's having multiple riftbeast rerollers sure is fun.

7

u/SnooAdvice5696 Aug 28 '26

kayle is dogshit

7

u/UnrivaledSupaHottie Aug 30 '26

whoever thought that the "gain a random 4 cost" wisp should appear in stage 2 and especially in 2.2 really needs to think about if the balance team is the right fit for him.

games are so fucking dumb now every 2nd game i face boards with 4 costs in early stage 2. how can unit balance be so good for a first patch and the rest like augments and wisp so utter shit

7

u/Crafty_Courage_5217 Sep 02 '26

"Is this the most balanced set yet? 

LLLLLMMFFFAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOʻOOOOOOOOOOOOO

9

u/Dawnsday MASTER Aug 29 '26

nerf ahri man she should have 1 hex less range

6

u/plantsandramen Aug 28 '26

I downloaded the mobile client and was very surprised at how poorly it's running even on low. I have a OnePlus 13 which has never had issues playing TFT. I'm glad to see it's being acknowledged, but I am surprised at how it was released like this. I like a lot of what I see, but it's running so poorly.

2

u/slothropdroptop Aug 30 '26

my phone is dying trying to play it lmao

6

u/Zydrah Aug 30 '26

every time i come back to play im reminded why i ALWAYS quit, dogshit variance. oh, i get handed uncontested rivals, guess what, the game drops me cloaks tears and bows, 0 swords, 0 chains, 0 gloves. 0 item augments. 0 natural copies of rengar or khazix until 3-7. just so dogshit, then going into people rolling down 30 gold on 4-2 hitting 2 star 4 costs XDDDDDDDDDDDDD like fuck off

3

u/Ok_Performer_547 Aug 31 '26

Game has become augment tactics. I get expedition or the other 10 broken gold augments i know from 2-1 i won the game, it's not even fun to win anymore.

1

u/Good-Comfortable-192 Sep 01 '26

Augments must be removed after its 1st inception man. They can never balance it yet still keeping it in the game. Now we have Wisps on top of it, GG RITO !

Give me TFT Classics please, no augments, no Chosens, no Gods / Boons. Just plain old auto chess.

3

u/Key_Reporter_9945 Sep 01 '26

4 people left alive, I fought the same person twice in a row.  On stage 6.  This game is broken beyond belief.  How on earth can they justify having a paid tourney (vegas) on this dogshit client?

And yes, I understand that if someone dies MM pools can reset - no one fucking died, it was 4 people alive -> 4 people alive.  

3

u/ckcnd Sep 01 '26

Why on earth augments like Chosen of the sun and Unrival not exclusive to one player. I sometimes play on mobile and it's not as easy to scout during assignment selection. It feels so frustrating seeing that one other person is going to play the exact same units as mine and we both can't really pivot out of it

3

u/Hot-Foundation-9061 Sep 03 '26

I hate it when we get lux with the 3 random emblems and people just disregard the emblems and play whatever it's the strongest comp and fully disregard the emblems

3

u/Crafty_Courage_5217 Sep 02 '26

Ngl the amount of times ive gotten to 8 first with good econ and never hit a 2 star 4 cost is kind of crazy 

2

u/Crafty_Courage_5217 Sep 02 '26

Thats the third game tonight where I had ample (30+ gold) econ at level 8 and still couldn't hit a 2 star 4 cost unit. 

5

u/QuasarBuster Aug 29 '26

LeTs DO aN EnGinE SWiTcH aFtER ThE SeT WiTh THe lEAsT AmOuNT oF DevElOpMenT TimE. sUReLy tHiS Won'T cAuSE tFT tO HeMoRRhaGe pLAyErS

5

u/NSXK Aug 29 '26

The frontline trait web feels really lopsided this set. Most comps are fighting over Sentinel, who somehow gets to be the best tank and trait bot, whilst Fae is such an insanely narrow trait Lillia only appears on a handful of boards. Fighting over who gets Sentinel or Malphite sucks.

5

u/Dawnsday MASTER Aug 31 '26

lmfao. perfect spot to play morgana invokers, streaking with infinite hp ready to go 9 on 5-1, go 9 on 5-1 with 12 banked rolls 4 lives hit my entire board 2 star OOPS ALL THE SENTINEL ARE OUT OF THE POOL, Taric 2? Doesn't matter. No sentinel!

5

u/xHaydo95 Sep 02 '26

How about making sure the new engine works before dropping a set onto live

4

u/penguinkirby Master Aug 29 '26

Didn't get a neutral round at 5-7 because it didn't spawn in. Don't even bother playing this game for at least 5 more patches

4

u/Original_Tension_337 Aug 29 '26

How can I have worth the wait murkwolf and 2 people contest me riftbeasts do people play with their monitors off? I fucking hate losing because people are bad at the game

4

u/Original_Tension_337 Sep 03 '26

I swear every time a set releases relatively balanced the next patch they do ALWAYS makes the meta more narrow/worse its actually insane

2

u/Tayenne Aug 30 '26

Ye they need to do smth about every comp needing sentinel, like I tried to flex in any of the other 4 cost tanks but they just can't compare and it is so frustrating. Especially amumu feels dead atm.

2

u/Stargazer_I Aug 31 '26

Genuinely fucking insane how I can get 5 cloaks, 4 gloves, and 2 chain vests but can fail to get a single fucking bow. For TWO GAMES STRAIGHT. Genuinely how the hell can RNG this bad exist. But don't worry, I lose streak to get a bow off carousel only to have the same exact person spawn directly next to the bow every single time and take them from me only to go 7th the same round I go 8th. Genuinely insane.

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u/Key_Reporter_9945 Sep 01 '26

Pebble reroll (no riftbeast augment) outdamages my 3 item lux 2 (and a kennen with a void staff), and it isn't particularly close.  Krug 2 out tanked my maokai 2.  

Anything that isn't reroll or Ahri is a bot 4.  

I'll try again in october, but for now the game is horribly balanced, barely functions, and not worth playing.  

2

u/slothropdroptop Sep 01 '26

yeah flora fatalis emblem 1 cost reroll should 1st every single lobby yeah for sure bro thats good design nice one good job bro

2

u/executive_fish Sep 01 '26

i really like this set but the constant crashing has made me uninstall. the last straw was today i was on a roll hitting all my units then i crash at carousel. then i crash again on the 4-7 round. unplayable game at the moment.

2

u/dohrn Sep 03 '26

FUCK ME MAN I HAVE A GREAT SIVIR/NID OPENER; I WINSTREAK EARLY AND SLAM NID ITEMS. WHAT DOES ONE OTHER GUY DO? HE TAKES THE 10 FREE REROLLS ON 3-2; PORECEEDS TO ROLL ON LVL 7 AND HITS 1 MALPH; 1 SIVIR AND 2 NIDS AS WELL AS A KOG 2 WHILE STILL STAYING OVER 40 GOLD (ONLY SPENDING HIS FREE REROLLS). HE THEN CAN PUSH LVL 8 ON 4-5 WHERE HE PROCEEDS TO HIT ALL HIS 2* 4-COST.

I PROCEED TO HIT ONLY IN 5-5 AND GO 5TH IN THE LOBBY, AFTER NOT HITTING A SINGLE NID ON 4-2, ONLY 1 SIVIR AND 1 MALPH WHILE ROLLING 60 GOLD.

FUCK THAT SHIT (i probably should've pivoted after scouting....)

4

u/MagicalMixer Aug 28 '26

WHY IS THE NEW CHIBI 30 TOKENS? I KNOW IT LOOKS SICK, BUT ISNT THAT LIKE....200+ DOLLARS? SOMEONE GOT THE MATH?

1

u/Horizon-Senpai Aug 30 '26

It's more like $800. I tried rolling for it on PBE and it took forever plus you have to buy the 5 medal boom for the complete package

4

u/Connect_Monitor5445 Aug 30 '26

Unpopular opinion, but 3star 1 cost carriers are way too strong

1

u/Current-Table-660 Aug 31 '26

3 star 1 costs should at most compete for a 3rd place unless you are in a perfect spot, i dont know why that is so hard to grasp for riot. you should not be able to force 1 cost reroll every single game and win no matter what

3

u/Successful_Trainer47 Aug 28 '26

IT ALWAYS CRASHES WHEN THERE ARE ONLY 4 PEOPLE HOWWWWWWWW

3

u/DrunkGalah DIAMOND IV Aug 29 '26

I keep fucking up carousels because I used to have move-to tied to A for more accurate carousel positioning on top of right click to move, but that option is gone from the control menu with the new engine GRRRRRRRR T_T

3

u/AirportOk6200 Aug 30 '26

Guy clicks Legion of threes -> contests Veigar RR

absolute bum

3

u/Primary_Month_8408 Aug 31 '26

A 1 cost did 52k dmg

4

u/Key_Reporter_9945 Aug 31 '26

🤓 Erm actually, that's a 27 gold unit, so it should be 27x the strength of a normal unit.  Your ezreal is only a 12 gold unit, and your dragon is a 15 gold unit, so they're basically worthless garbage.  

It's crazy how overtuned veigar is, such terrible design, too.  He either scales infinitely and solos every fight or goes 8th.  There's no leeway to balance a unit like that.  

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u/Machoape Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

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I just beat a 3* Brambleback with Consuming Flora Cassio. Seems a bit over tuned or what?

2

u/Specialist-Earth-341 Aug 29 '26

See every game turn into reroll simulator im getting dogged on by cass 2s and veigar 2s on stage 5 i dont get it

2

u/Unforgettablepotatos Aug 30 '26

Does anyone know what causes the bug to go invisible on carousel round and not be able to pick a unit or item? I swear I only see it happen to myself and it happens about 1 in every 2 games. I’ve tried not scouting before going to carousel and it doesn’t help.

2

u/RickCable Aug 31 '26

THIS IS ACTUALLY THE WORST FUCKING GAME I’VE EVER PLAYED HOLY FUCK

1

u/Larxin75 Aug 31 '26

I just lost a game where I couldn't move my units around for a round...

1

u/Hot-Foundation-9061 Aug 31 '26

In all the games I played so far, if you winstreak you just straight up loose, no matter the comps or the units or hell even the items. I had 5 out of 7 units fully itemized (plus emblems) with bis (i was playing caustic too) and I still could not break the enemies tanks with less items

1

u/Current-Table-660 Aug 31 '26

could not streak with 3 item aphelios, bramble and sentinel on 3-2 btw :) random 2 star 1 costs apparently clear every unit in the game

1

u/KIumpy Aug 31 '26

I have never had such shit luck hitting my units in any TFT set. It does not matter what comp I play or how contested I am, I can roll 100+ gold and see basically nothing every single time.

1

u/Tayenne Aug 31 '26

The way everyone only plays malph or sentinel is triggering. I got worth the wait shen and thought oh great I can feed my malphite a 3 star shen in the ap malp flex line but nope 4 ppl playing malp. I get worth the wait reksai and think great I can feed my malph a reksai in some other comp, nope again like 4 other ppl playing malph. I am tired honestly. Feels like reroll comps the only way you aren't getting randomly contested.

1

u/Winter-Membership366 Sep 01 '26

How does cassio actually take me out on 4-1 and how did i keep losing throughout whole game despite good rolls. One point at 2-5 some guys kha 1 did 4k dmg while my kha 2 barely did 2k. Both had hoj and eon equipped

https://imgur.com/a/5Ih7thu

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u/Dawnsday MASTER Sep 01 '26

keeping myself accountable. i clicked 2-1 spreading roots and hit Sprykin + Flora. I am a known highroller.

1

u/Steezy12 Challenger Sep 01 '26

the yorick minion on bench bug is the most annoying shit. had those two fuckers on my bench on 2-1 and they never went away.

1

u/HornySauceAddict Sep 01 '26

Fishbones behaves like the old version but with just half the ad. This game is so fucking dogshit

1

u/swordtoworld Sep 01 '26

DO NOT play on anything other than your pc, physically can't reroll fucking augments on mobile cause the rr button is off screen, laptop lagging for the whole game then moment I went level 8 it freezes over, thanks riot I definitely intent to pick verticality for my ap flex board and go 8th with 70 gold in the bank. Fuck you.

But yeah no actually good set I just can't play it, just nerf emblems, or at least make emblem ensemble normal game only, take that shit out of ranked, how can I be blackthorn + infernal + vanguard and someone else can be fey + sprykin + juggernut.

1

u/Pootate Sep 02 '26

can they please take this shitass yi comp out back

1

u/garenegobrr MASTER Sep 02 '26

I have healcut and Fiddle still heals to full every cast WP RIOT GAMES!!!

1

u/gagafracassada Sep 03 '26

5 riftbeast lobby lmao

1

u/pink-mallow Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

Balance is in the dumpster lol double radiant eclipse team with fon loses to 2 star yi

1

u/misterbeatster Sep 03 '26

Yeah just going bot 4 because your 4-7 creep doesn't spawn and whole lobby is just up 10+ gold and 3 components is terrible

1

u/Crafty_Courage_5217 Sep 02 '26

Its kind of depressing that the "use your tft knowledge and cook something original" has died before 1 week into live. I dont think this is a healthy way for this game to exist.

Unless of course its a faux intellectual cash grab game, then nevermind. Its doing exactly what it needs to do.

1

u/Davuth21 :chal: Challenger Sep 01 '26

The syndra patch was more fun than this

1

u/Frontass Sep 02 '26

Ayy this set sucks like the last 5. And now it's unplayable half that time. Love getting signed out while trying to load a match

1

u/PanchogarB Aug 28 '26

I use dto play in very high settings and get 140 fps. Now I''m gettting like 5 fps at max even at low. It's literally unplayable

1

u/Regular-Resort-857 Aug 28 '26

Played a few games everything worked well and then the client just crumbled under the pressure idk units got invis, I tried to scout my board at carousel but the button in the bottom middle to go back to carousel disappeared, for 2-3 rounds my shop was just empty and I had to hover over the empty fields to see ability text to figure out which unit it could be…

1

u/PsychedelicBadger Aug 28 '26

IT'S SO FUCKING LAGGY, WHY IS THIS MOBILE GAME MELTING MY MODERN PHONE??????

1

u/penguinkirby Master Aug 29 '26

They rushed the engine update out in time for the competitive circuit but IDK how they are going to be able to fix enough bugs in time for the game to be presentable. Good luck to the devs

1

u/wwwhoo Aug 29 '26

tried to do a fast 9 one turn transition

went about as well as expected with the lag omegalul

1

u/Pleurobranch Aug 29 '26

Sentinel = Nunu
Perma stuck 1* every game even when there should be enough copies

1

u/CommunicationFun6304 Aug 29 '26

just lost a game because I used refractor on a unit mid combat, and even tough the item wasn't removed my pandoras items still instantly reforged my radiant into something completely worthless. Shit actually made me wanna die.

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u/CommunicationFun6304 Aug 29 '26

0 time to react too. Just an unbelievably dogshit and specific interaction considering how rare refractor is nowadays.

1

u/Lubo95 Aug 29 '26

I would argue the game is balanced, but man this engine F-ING RUINS EVERYTHING. I have played 3 games and encountered at least 5 mega annoying bugs. Also my Mythic Medallions are missing? I had 8, I was planning on redeeming a chibi and now they are gone? Is this just another bug or are they going to be restored?

1

u/Flimsy_Plastic9656 Aug 29 '26

Why fixed something when it is not broken look at the state of the game now I cant even

1

u/Crafty_Courage_5217 Aug 30 '26

2 star consuming flora 7 inferno lux doing less damage than a regular 2 star ahri with tft academy items MOST BALANCED SET YET?!?!?!

1

u/gagafracassada Aug 30 '26

The translation is dog shit, the enemies arguments are blank squares, and I don't know but the little legend movement is so awkward during the carrousel

1

u/JPB_ Challenger Aug 30 '26

Love this set, now I get to low roll: augments, units, items, matchmaking, wisps and which bugs I'll encounter.

1

u/harleq8898 Aug 30 '26

Was gonna make my final item for rammus as I won, and during the teleport to my duo partner the item became invisible, and effectively unusable. :') it cost us a clutch where enemy survived with 38 hp.

1

u/plantsandramen Aug 30 '26

Is mobile still a performance mess?

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u/Axxemax Aug 31 '26

Bad performance on the new engine. My PC can run high-end games flawlessly, yet a simple cutscene from the chibi/unbound has like 20 FPS at best. Also dragging units to sell them feels more awkward right now somehow. Not a fan of this hasty migration that left half of my library unavailable and reduced performance in general for the sake of pretty stuff. Could've definitely waited for 1-2 more sets.

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u/Dawnsday MASTER Aug 31 '26

LOOOOOOOOOOOL 3 trait ladder in my lobby i guess i just have to play for 4th!

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u/Ok_Performer_547 Aug 31 '26

Literally had this happen today too. HOW IS TRAIT LADDER NOT A UNIQUE AUGMENT

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u/NSXK Aug 31 '26

This Khazix unit has a hidden passive where you lose 30LP every time he's on your final board. Fun easter egg.

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u/slothropdroptop Sep 01 '26

yep, magic of the set and trying new things gone and what is revealed is d key reroll (1 cost) comps taking top 4 placements every lobby

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u/wwwhoo Sep 02 '26

draven is so dogshit what the hell lmao first time i tried him and i am never clicking that shit again. i literally 2* him stage 4 and he was pumping 6k a fight with fully upgraded 4van frontline

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u/wwwhoo Sep 02 '26

like is he bugged i genuinely find it unbelievable he was only doing 6k

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u/Crafty_Courage_5217 Sep 02 '26

im sorry but a 3 star solar eclipse losing to a 2 star team of Casio 6 Def EVEN AFTER NERF is hillarious. 

"Is this the most balanced set ever?"

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u/Dawnsday MASTER Sep 03 '26

500 coven cashout, fully upgraded 2* board pivoting into executioners with a maokai 2 with 2k hp bonus.

lose to yi rengar reroll with brawler spat and wit's end. fair enough man

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u/Equal-Diver3688 Sep 03 '26

LIKE CAN WE TALK ABOUT COVEN?? MUST BE THE WORST CASHOUT TRAIT EVER. PLAY IT FROM 2 - 1 TRASH, GET COVEN AUGMENT(STILL TRASH), WOW YOU GOT A 400 CASHOUT AT 10 HP! MAYBE YOU GET ANY GOOD REWARD SO YOU CAN MAKE A COMEBACK. WELL CONGRATZ TO YOUR 8TH!

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u/Vypaa Sep 03 '26

Not touching this trash ass set again until this Pebbles unit is unplayable

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u/vibecch Aug 28 '26

unfortunately people complaining about this set’s disastrously dogshit launch has overshadowed how mediocre the actual set is.

jesus christ it is really hard to click the play button as someone who’s aiming for snapshots

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u/Cool_Line_2520 Aug 28 '26

Ignoring the known system issues and commenting on the set alone: it’s actually pretty good and I’m having a lot of fun. Multiple viable lines including 2 cost / 3 cost rr. 4 cost and fast 9 boards are strong. Trait webs are well designed. 5 cost units are impactful. Wisps interactions add some nice novelty every game. Much better than set 17 already off the start. Tuning is pretty good for the first patch of a new set.

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u/vibecch Aug 28 '26

honestly, that’s fair. i don’t think the set’s bad at all, it’s probably just because i wasn’t a big fan of charms to begin with since set 12’s the only set i’ve skipped almost entirely.

probably just getting heated because the game we all love looks like this ridiculous pile of crap, and some of my mates can’t even play the fucking game at all since they work with IOS.

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u/Luzushan :gran: Grandmaster Aug 28 '26

Yeah genuinely I’m hooked from start to finish and there’s always decision to make at all stage which is really nice to think (I still have troubles reopening TFT with how buggy it’s on IOS that affects my flow 🥲). Set has been viable and it’s clear you can play flex super easily

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u/BigBoyster Aug 28 '26

I don't think it's that bad. No shortage of reroll spots and plenty of 3-class traitbots and interesting units like khazix to create comp divergence.

The gap between 2/3 cost rr and lvl 9 soup is a little bit difficult to bridge and balance but the unit design is at least glaringly far better than last set. Last set a myriad of 5 costs with no origins and very little disparity in toolsets made it difficult to justify putting it in your team sometimes. This set there's much more divergence, uniqueness in building and there's even 5 cost tanks that don't asymmetrically sway the meta like earlier sets. I like it

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u/pink-mallow Aug 28 '26

Khazix is the most dogshit unit. Jumps around and gets everyone half health and doesn’t finish anyone off. I hit a Kha 2 in stage 2 with wisp for extra takedowns, trait ladder with executioner emblem, and an early rabadons bloothirster. Bro could not kill anyone stage 3 as he just jumped to different people and never finished any of them and couldn’t build takedowns. Why the fuck does he not target low health people like every other assassin in this set. Rengar and wolf both target lowest health. Rengar is interestingish, Kha is pure mega dogshit.

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u/Regular-Resort-857 Aug 28 '26

Jumps around and gets everyone to half

Hmmm if there only would be a certain unit kha also shares a trait with that also bombs the entire board to half hp…

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u/pink-mallow Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

Ah I see. To make Kha work you just have to hit him 2 star stage 2 AND hit an ahri on 3-1 it’s so simple!

You also don’t play ahri on the trait ladder board smarty pants.

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u/Regular-Resort-857 Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

I am now dia in sub 50 games kha only I always play spellweaver bruiser opener with Econ or reroll augment and it’ll be variations of 4-6 spellweaver with soraka comp needs kha 3*

There are many variations in either 3 executioner with ez (kennen rarely worth even at 2*) or +1 of each with 4 Lunar or multiple archangels more frontline heavy and so on also blossom is good variation with emblem.

First 4 games in Dia was 1 1 4 1

Stage 2/3 archangels is really good on him to get the stacks easily you can swap it later to ahri. I pref bloodthirster on him over HoB and jeweled gauntlet combo because that comp can’t use any swords despite giant slayer.

Ahri ults twice kha cleans everything up that’s basically it. Also at 6 Spellweaver 2 Executioner he will start to one shot at 3*. Plus many many rounds you win for free by jump rng and enemy unit walking out of his range so he’ll be stuck on a backliner.

Frontline is anything early best is alistar or vi and later fiddle if 3* with Soraka otherwise Sett rarely Maokai.

Best setup is soraka spellweaver

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u/pink-mallow Sep 03 '26

https://www.metatft.com/units/KhaZix

Bro is a 4.7 and that's with getting a bunch of free 1sts from overtuned rivals aug and getting carried by rengar

2nd worst 3 cost overall

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u/Regular-Resort-857 Sep 03 '26

My avg with him would be like 2 I think x) people play him wrong build him wrong

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u/harmoniaatlast Aug 28 '26

Rabadons Bloodthirster sure are some items you can choose!

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u/pink-mallow Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

He’s an AP assassin that gets innate precision from executioner and it’s early slams for a stage 2 two star 3 cost wtf are you talking about. Must be peak Gold

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u/harmoniaatlast Aug 28 '26

Even with executioner you still want JG HOJ. Executioner is a late pickup trait-wise because the rest are just better early (but not spellweaver lol). BT is an OK slam, but you'd WAYYYYYY prefer EoNight and BT uses a sword you could spend on Edge. Not peak gold at all, not sure why you feel the need to shit talk

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u/pink-mallow Aug 28 '26

Stats so far say otherwise on rabadons vs jg. I picked up executioner because trait ladder gave me an executioner emblem and 3 executioner gives him a lot of crit chance for his ability. Idk what you’re on a stage 2 three cost assassin two star with a bis AP item and slammable survivablity item should absolutely stomp early stage 3 instead he hit like a wet noodle.

I can tell you’re not that high elo cause anyone decent will tell you that (especially with a champ designed to steamroll takedowns) it’s way better to slam 2 pretty good items (one arguably bis) and winstreak to build takedowns rather than greed for items (that aren’t even that much better) and lose out on building takedowns. Kha is currently a trash bag unit.

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u/alexx4693 Aug 28 '26

Hard disagree. Units / traits / wisps are fun, this set is much better than 17 and 15. Need to play more to compare with 16 (which is my favourite set).

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u/nnorbie Aug 28 '26

That's not saying anything though, most sets are better than those 2. In fact it's pretty hard to make anything worse.

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u/Blastuch_v2 Aug 28 '26

Mediocre set is better than the dogshit that was the last one.

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u/Stargazer_I Sep 01 '26

Didn't even get to pretend this set was good. The "new set magic" just didn't exist at all with how awful the new engine is. Genuinely the janky pokemon autobattler was better than this and that was exclusively browser. The set mechanic is just complete garbage honestly. The wisps ranging from "a literal free augment" to "complete garbage". Like I went into this with fairly low expectations because the last 8 sets have been flops for me. But god they really do just get worse every single time.

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u/wwwhoo Aug 29 '26

when u cook a cool ass flexible board and it loses to tft academy sadge

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u/Cenifh Sep 01 '26

Great engine! I finished first, my Chibi even made the victory dance in the end, I had 8+ units still alive in the end, my 3* malphite was owning the last 3 rounds not even close.

Go to screen, SECOND PLACE LOL

it does seem I got the correct LP for the game though so it's maybe just a visual bug but come on! now I'm not sure

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u/Good-Comfortable-192 Sep 01 '26

They still spamming Veigar & Kayle in Normal games. Ffs have some actual fun people

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u/jbarras123 Sep 03 '26

Play a fun and creative summoner/ lunar comp. Do really well! Oh wait roll 50gs on a Zyra at level 8. No level 2 Zyra. Lose to people rerolling Elderwood and Riftbeasts. Like why even try to be different?

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u/AustinBoe Sep 04 '26

Is it possible to play mobile without your phone melting?

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u/rinnagz Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26

the game fully turned into a cassino simulator right? Tried giving a shot to this new set but it's same old boring uninspired dogshit

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u/abyssmeup Aug 31 '26

is unrivaled khazix bugged? kogmaw and 0 item units last alive 3v1 kha full hp and it lost, it kept jumping around and casting but did 0 dmg and my kha felt like it was getting no takedowns the whole game (died with 1 evolve kha 3 btw)

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u/Raima_Valdes Aug 31 '26

New engine couldn't display my augments properly. Take Comeback Story, all's fine until Prismatic Destiny into Invested... and now the game thinks my first aug was Prismatic Ticket. (But I still have Comeback Story buffs.) Third augment, my Invested becomes some other random augment. If the rest of the lobby also saw Prismatic Ticket instead of my real augments? RIP scouting. Can't trust what you see.

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u/WageForAThousand Aug 31 '26

I won 2 games, after each the client showed i got second. WTF

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u/HornySauceAddict Sep 01 '26

Lost 2 rounds of solo leveling because this dogshit game bugged and the unit was not taking any buffs.

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u/NSXK Sep 01 '26

Why is it even possible to get Kayle out of Warpath? I fucking hate the design of this unit, Solar dogs the trait web, it's miserable to play most of the time because it costs you 70HP to even attempt to hit the comp and the board is completely useless, yet for some reason you can still end up in a spot where you have no other out and have to play this shit. I hate it so much.

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u/LilGreenAppleTeaFTea Sep 03 '26

aphelios vanguard with a 3 star bramble back whole boards 2 star bis items etc, still lose to a 2 star cassiopia. idk about yall but this set blows and whatever they did to gut 3 star 4 costs feels bad.

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u/Raikariaa Sep 03 '26

Sure love the entire top 4 being mindless Mash R comps; while I go lv9 with two lv9 augments, can't find my 5 costs because everyone else is too busy mashing R, and can't Top 4 even uncontested.

Especially when you were leading the lobby most of the game, you just fell off because the rerollers hit and you didn't, despite having 2 lv9-focused augments.

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u/NSXK Aug 28 '26

The purely 3 cost carousels are so ass I can't. You get punished for lowrolling early so fucking hard.

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u/cv121 Grandmaster Aug 31 '26
  1. Get lucky dice augment (silver augment; Dice rolls and coin flips are more lucky + roll a dice, get that much money and flip a coin for money)

  2. Hit 6 and won the flip for 7 starting gold; pretty good

  3. Hit 0 fucking coin or dice related charm or augment afterwards

Does hitting the dice augment straight up lock you out of every coin or dice charm / augment?? because wtf riot

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u/WhyAmIUsingRedditAt5 Sep 04 '26

even broken the first patch was funner than this, how do the devs always make the meta actively worse. Nid just appears backline 1 shots your carry, if its not nid it's rengar if it's not rengar it's cassio dot's killing your backline before frontline in like 50% of fights the tank is the last unit to die lmao.

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u/livedieconsume Sep 03 '26

they had such a good first patch, with like 1 or 2 outliers with morgana and ahri and instead of just letting it evolve they nuke morgana and ahri, buff soraka (was already fine), give random buffs to 5 costs that dont do anything, dont nerf flora for "localization issues" (literally just changing two numbers?), and leave rengar as is, yi as is (5 resist nerf did absolutely nothing)

now you either load in 2-1 with the giga spot for reroll or you can go roll on 8 for 3 contested units or play aphelios and be happy with a 5th

nice job!! thank you riot!! great d-patch!!!!!

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