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 Teamfight Tactics is an auto battler developed and published by Riot Games, LLC, better known for their Dota-like League of Legends, and set in the same universe. How does this game work??? Teamfight Tactics pits a group of players against each other in a game where they have no input other than selecting and deploying units and items. The field of battle is a grid, and the units interact with each other depending on their classes, stats and items. At the beginning of each game and every six rounds afterwards, each player participates in the carousel phase, where they can pick up a new unit, for free, from a shared roster. Later on, only the lowest-health players will be able to participate in the carousel. Each unit from the carousel comes with an item, and beginning in round 5, they spawn with an advanced item. Following the first carousel, a monster battle occurs, and each players units will fight a group of neutral enemies for gold and items. Following the monster battle, the first PvP battle occurs, where each player will fight another randomly selected other player's units. Each battle lasts a maximum of 40 seconds - the loser of the battle is the player who either runs out of units, or has less units/health when the battle times out. The loser takes damage based on how many of the opposition units are alive, and the tier of those units. You are knocked out of the game if your health reaches 0, but there are a lot of come-back mechanics that can sometimes mean that it's worth it to stick around, even if you're doing poorly at the moment and it looks dire. The winner of the game is the player whose team is the last standing, and each player is ranked according to when they were knocked out. A lot of the quests and rewards systems in the game count top 4 as winners. How can I play this game??? Friend, simply point your browser to https://teamfighttactics.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/ and download the client - yes it is the same one as League of Legends, which has its own thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3841189 You can also play this game on your mobile device. Find it in the app store of your choosing. Where could I possibly learn more about this game??? This wiki is frequently updated and used: https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Teamfight_Tactics Here is a website I found on a search engine that looks alright: https://www.metabomb.net/leagueoflegends/gameplay-guides/teamfight-tactics-best-starting-strategies-tips-and-tactics What the hell are Galaxies??? Galaxies are additional rule sets that are randomly applied, you can read about them here: https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Galaxy_(Teamfight_Tactics) - - - - - - - Is there any way I could possibly watch people play this video game, on the internet??? Yes. In fact, you can watch them on https://youtube.com and on https://twitch.tv. Here are a few of them recommended by the thread, and they're all cute: Hafu : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddX-H9xUwQH6jOOHuL2vYw - https://www.twitch.tv/itshafu Scarra: https://www.youtube.com/user/scarraofficial - https://www.twitch.tv/scarra emilyywang: https://www.twitch.tv/emilyywang yuuubin: https://www.twitch.tv/yuuubin Is there any way that I could watch my fellow goons from this website play this video game??? Again, yes. You can find a few of their channels here: Kingcobweb: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsltk8xvt0OXnc6LeMiuUQw strong bird fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Apr 14, 2020 |
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How can I improve at the game? If you really want to get better, you should be spending almost as much time watching good players on stream/youtube as you spend playing the game. My favorite person is Hafu, whose youtube videos seem clickbait-y, but she gives really good explanations of her thought process as she's playing; she shows off how there's a thousand really minor things you can do to get an edge. Other good twitch streamers: yuuubin (friend of a goon), scarra, saintvicious, gunmay, becky, keane, emilyywang. I'm also going to shamelessly plug my youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLLjxssSvxE
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Apr 14, 2020 03:56
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Marcus Elden posted:I'll plug my buddy's stream in case anyone wants to see a good TFT player - His name is Alex (Korean name Yubin) and he's challenger rank 40-ish in Korea. He only streams in English though and he generally explains what he's doing pretty well but as far as I know he's the only high elo KR server english streamer. just going to put this on the front page, this streamer actually is pretty good and very transparent about what he’s doing and why.
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Apr 14, 2020 04:23
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yooo I'm so happy mobile TFT exists while regular TFT crashes my computer
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Apr 14, 2020 07:23
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is there anyone that luden's is good on? or any reason to build it over the several other better items that rod builds into?
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Apr 14, 2020 18:19
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It's cute on Lucian but I dunno if I'd call it good.
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Apr 14, 2020 19:40
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a fatguy baldspot posted:is there anyone that luden's is good on? or any reason to build it over the several other better items that rod builds into? It's a solid early game spike on Lucian if you want to win streak; in cybernetics or blasters, those components aren't super highly valued until you get to MF. But yeah, not a super high priority item, and you'd better be really sure you're not going to need a Seraph's later.
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Apr 14, 2020 23:57
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a fatguy baldspot posted:is there anyone that luden's is good on? or any reason to build it over the several other better items that rod builds into? It might be *ok* on Syndra if you have a tear and a rod extra, but usually your tears are going into Seraphs and Rods into Rabs at that point.
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Apr 14, 2020 23:58
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Who is Seraph's good on in cyber/blaster comps? Or any comps, really. I've never built star guardians / sorcerers and have never seen a use for it on anything else.
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Apr 15, 2020 00:27
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You should probably add a section about apps like Blitz or websites like https://tftactics.gg/tierlist/team-comps which gives you builds (and in the case of the latter, positioning examples) which are helpful to learn too.
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Apr 15, 2020 05:45
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The Shortest Path posted:Who is Seraph's good on in cyber/blaster comps? Or any comps, really. I've never built star guardians / sorcerers and have never seen a use for it on anything else. Pretty much any of the 5 star units will benefit, if only to get them to Ult sooner. It’s needed on Kaisa in the mech inf comp. Either to spread burn through Morello or stuns if you can get the demo spat. And it’s a good early item on Ziggs in a rebel comp and transfers well to Aurelion later on.
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Apr 15, 2020 06:04
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The Shortest Path posted:Who is Seraph's good on in cyber/blaster comps? Or any comps, really. I've never built star guardians / sorcerers and have never seen a use for it on anything else. Irelia (lets you position her anywhere and she casts immediately) MF Outside of that comp: Kassadin, Sol, anything with low mana costs
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Apr 15, 2020 07:13
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kingcobweb posted:Irelia (lets you position her anywhere and she casts immediately) I had to check to make sure she could still ult immediately after the tear nerf and yep she sits at 30 mana to ult so no change there.
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Apr 15, 2020 07:50
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 The mech, except with eight sorcerors. Still no idea what damage he does, his spellcasts got interrupted and his teammates killed everything real good.
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Apr 15, 2020 14:19
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Lucian got nerfed but Blasters overall got buffed so Blasters are still FreeLO right now. Also I'm a huge fan of the 2 new galaxies in this patch, especially the free reroll one.
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Apr 15, 2020 23:12
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Honestly it's my fault for not scouting as much but to get an early xin 3 then see someone else (after I get the xin) decide to slam all the protectors feels really bad as both your HP totals just roll down.
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Apr 17, 2020 22:35
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Whelp, I think I just used up all my TFT luck. Uncontested Star Guardians with two Seraphs and three Chalices. One of those Seraphs and all three Chalices came as complete items through the carousel or boss drops. It was a never ending stream of spells.
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Apr 17, 2020 22:43
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chalice seems really bad, ngl. it gives what, ten mana? not much
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Apr 18, 2020 01:35
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a fatguy baldspot posted:chalice seems really bad, ngl. it gives what, ten mana? not much
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Apr 18, 2020 04:14
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a fatguy baldspot posted:chalice seems really bad, ngl. it gives what, ten mana? not much It gives it to the wearer too so it’s insane in Star guardians And protectors are total poo poo this patch, do Not build them
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Apr 18, 2020 04:27
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kingcobweb posted:It gives it to the wearer too so it’s insane in Star guardians Unless you can make asol a protector of course. 
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Apr 18, 2020 17:24
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Stormgale posted:Honestly it's my fault for not scouting as much but to get an early xin 3 then see someone else (after I get the xin) decide to slam all the protectors feels really bad as both your HP totals just roll down. i think they need to do something to the UI to make scouting more reasonable, i cant even imagine trying to scout on mobile
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Apr 18, 2020 22:01
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Does anyone have a rule of thumb (or hard factors) to consider when selling off and re-speccing into a different comp? It's one thing to be hedging between a couple of comps and picking one, but I just had success selling off completely and going for something completely open, and I wonder if that isn't something I should be letting myself do more often. Also, just to confirm my own thinking - the pool can reasonably support two people in a given archetype, right? Obviously being the only person rolling for certain champs is best, but should I be terrified if there's one other person gobbling up Star Guardians or whatever?
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Apr 20, 2020 12:03
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Depends on the comp. Mech pilots can be rough if someone else is going for it because it might take some doing to get three of Fizz.
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Apr 20, 2020 15:06
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Boxman posted:Does anyone have a rule of thumb (or hard factors) to consider when selling off and re-speccing into a different comp? It's one thing to be hedging between a couple of comps and picking one, but I just had success selling off completely and going for something completely open, and I wonder if that isn't something I should be letting myself do more often. For the reroll comps, there should be one per archetype. Only one person can three-star a three cost unit. Don't contest a build like Star Guardians unless you're really sure you can outlast them.
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Apr 20, 2020 18:57
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I've been putting Morello on everything. Morello Kayle. Morello MF. Morello Ashe with 6 Chrono. I don't know any better I've only played this game for 4 days. But it pretty much hard counters SG players at my level. Is this an okay way to think?
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Apr 21, 2020 02:33
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If I could make a team with 1 wukong and 7 poppies, I would.
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May 11, 2020 22:16
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I want to save this thread from obscurity, so here are the comps that are Good in 3.5:
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Jun 29, 2020 07:56
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kingcobweb posted:I want to save this thread from obscurity, so here are the comps that are Good in 3.5: How is Urgot in the latest patch? I haven't been playing much because of Urgot RNG.
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Jun 29, 2020 20:06
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I don't think he got nerfed, so slap a blue buff on him and just use him as a late game "gently caress Vanguards" tool the same way I see Janna being used a lot lately. I was on the recieving end of the Sorc+Riven comp a few games ago and with a Star Guardian badge on her as well it's really painful.
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Jun 29, 2020 20:23
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.Z. posted:How is Urgot in the latest patch? I haven't been playing much because of Urgot RNG. As mortdog has talked about, Urgot isn't actually a great unit. It feels lovely to have your carry one-shot, but a five-cost with items should be able to do something like that. If you compare his power to GP, Sol, Ekko, etc, one-shotting a single unit isn't actually all that great. The situation you're most likely to see Urgot in (and the only way that I play Urgot) is off the bench with Thresh. He's still the best Thresh target, since two-star Thresh gives Urgot 50 mana, which makes him ult instantly as soon as he hits the battlefield. There's only two other situations where Urgot sees play: protector comps, which are super reliant on getting protector spat for Sol (and that's not even the best use of Sol), and 6 battlecast comps, which fall off a cliff lategame and are basically just playing for top 4.
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Jun 29, 2020 20:25
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kingcobweb posted:As mortdog has talked about, Urgot isn't actually a great unit. It feels lovely to have your carry one-shot, but a five-cost with items should be able to do something like that. If you compare his power to GP, Sol, Ekko, etc, one-shotting a single unit isn't actually all that great. That's what I was referring to with the RNG. Yeah, overall Urgot isn't that great. But it still feels super-lovely when a 1-star Urgot, Thresh or not, grabs your carry units with his initial pulls and there is nothing you can really do about it.
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Jun 29, 2020 20:41
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What's your preferred Cassiopeia items? I sometimes run her as a Star Guardian, but she's also unbelievably tanky as a protector.
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Jun 30, 2020 03:27
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GET INTO DA CHOPPA posted:What's your preferred Cassiopeia items? Blue buff turns her from terrible into a carry Morello doubles her damage, and synergizes incredibly with battlecast trait Third item is prot spat if you can get it. If you can't, RFC (so that you don't have to put her near the front) or QSS are good
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Jun 30, 2020 03:38
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I like Luden's too on her for some additional AOE, though you obviously aren't getting all of that mana.
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Jun 30, 2020 04:27
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njsykora posted:I like Luden's too on her for some additional AOE, though you obviously aren't getting all of that mana. Morello/Blue buff are pretty much mandatory- as a third item, sure, Luden's is good.
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Jun 30, 2020 04:50
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I've also had success with third item Gunblade, which makes her sustain like crazy, but it's more an option if you have nothing else to put a BF sword on than a pro tactic.
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Jun 30, 2020 15:26
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Made another TFT video, this one about early game positioning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICKOUfGRbng
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Jun 30, 2020 19:56
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10.4 patch notes with some cool stuff. Mostly this bit.quote:Your final position in the standings will now be determined once all combat has ended, instead of immediately upon taking lethal damage. Lethal damage will now take players into negative health. Players who are eliminated in the same round will finish in order of: Also Giant Slayer doesn't do true damage any more so RIP that item.
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njsykora posted:Blasters also looking like they're going to be better with Ezreal dropping to 30 mana so he could be fully spamming the AOE bombs with a blue buff. this looks like a nerf to his starting mana
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