How I Would Get Good at TFT (If I Could Start Over)

This is so long winded.

This set made me come back to tft. It's just so versatile

WHAT? use my brain? nah i'm out

what I would do if i could start over: proceeds to talk in terms a beginner would never understand.

The sad thing is, it will be even harder for new players to climb, since diamond+ will be filled with top players from past sets. It would be so cool to see full, complete mmr reset since the game changed so drastically since set 1.

Dont play it, every game one of the guys get broken shit and you end up 3-5 place.

i think they reverted the API changes?

I actually made it to masters in season 1. Grinded my whole summer away. I quit shortly after that because I hit my goal & I didn't think tft was going to become so popular. Back then, the top streamers only had about 1000 viewers. Most strategy late game revolved around positioning so you didn't get hooked my blitzcrank or have rogues in your back line. It was good to get blitz back then, even if not in your synergy. Anyway, just came back about a week ago & I'm boggled by how much it's changed. I'm only gold now. Mainly because I forgot almost everything & I'm having to relearn the game. It "almost" feels like a new game now. It's going to take a long time to get back where I was, if ever. We'll see! (It's funny telling people you were master season 1 in gold. They're like, no you weren't. You suck 😂)

this guide is silly as hell.

After watching this video I had the confidence to get a 1st with Built Diff, an augment which previously I would rarely if ever take without knowing what i'm "supposed" to do beforehand. I had a Yasuo that kept getting revived by Shadow Isles Ryze :D Turns out brain = OP

The best part is that you can counter any composition with some luck in the draft. You don't need always the same hyper carry to winn. Now you can make any champ a carry when you combine it with the right augments and items. Also you're comp can be good and also be really bad depending on the enemy team comp. Learning you'reself is the best thing about the game. Who needs rules when you can make you're own rules.

Never played TFT but from what you are saying it sounds like y'all been playing checkers and now it's chess. As a guy who pretty much learns everyday for a living (i'm a programmer), I can tell you really know how to learn shit. One thing that you mentioned that needs emphasizing is that you need to use your brain, you can "just play" everyday and learn nothing. But if you play and think critically, ask questions like what went good, what went wrong, what would I change next time, be attentive etc.. and figure stuff out then you learn. Again not a TFT player, but this is applicable to everything that is complex.

its so obv ur reading a script its painful

The diamond hands in your video not stacking gave me PTSD

This set is easily the best one yet, it actually revolutionized the game. There are so many complicated variables compared to set 1, it's insane how far it's come.

Life was better when there was lasercorp

Loved it, I came back to TFT after skipping out on like 2-3 sets and I didn't really know what to do. After watching a few of your videos and changing my mindset of not focusing on like, only hitting the top tier builds and being more creative and consistent and actually using my brain I'm consistently on winstreaks and place in top 4th just because other people are fighting over Noxus, Zed or Akshand and meanwhile I'm free to choose from a plethora of builds and champions that people skip out on. Absolutely great feeling in the lower ranks.

thanks for you insight, playing by feel is exactly how i enjoy playing games.
Ive started TFT 3 weeks ago and got to gold III but need to get an edge on "when to roll". The overview you post on dmg type and tankiness type is helpful and I'll be referring to that actively for a while.

I have no idea how to play this game and I get these sweaty nerds playing the meta every single time while I'm still trying to figure out what items combine to make what item and what champions do what.

Even the lowest elo (my elo) is sweaty 24/7 gamers that play it all day and I literally have no idea how to play and don't understand how they are in my games.

very nice video thx for helping me. Just started with TFT and your guides are very helpful

I gotta call out the bullshit. I had 15 win streak just yesterday and now it's 5th game I place 7/8 following your advices.

this video iws so validating as some one who just got into tft blind, like ive been intuivitely doing it right this whole time !! :)))

this game is not newbie friendly

I wanna learn. Teach me senpai :3

Im so glad learning by playing is being rewarded this set. I don’t like looking up meta builds, I like feeling out a random comp of my choosing and optimizing it to the point where it can beat brain dead meta players who only look up a guide. I like feeling the game out and exploring all it has to offer. Im definitely on the more casual side of tft and am probably not climbing as quickly as I could be, but to me it’s more fun making a comp your own and running wild with it then stealing someone else’s most optimal comp and using it and just putting puzzle pieces in place every game. I feel like there is so much more adaptation and game knowledge you need to have this set and I’m loving it!

I find it so hard to see what even is good in tft. Alot of times i'm like oh this augment seems nice, this champ seems strong. Meanwhile it can just as well be hot garbage i would't know lel

THANK FUCKING GOD. Using your brain instead of just blindly following the meta? I massively prefer that over being beaten by someone who's spamming an op comp and got lucky.

as a new player i find your video amazing. It gave me motivation to use my brain and not data lmao

I feel called out in a good way. I made it to D2 last season forcing fast 8 lasercorps most games. Sure I knew that comp inside and out, but if I had to flex to something I hadn't played before it was a quick loss as I relied more on a comp guide than my own brain. Great vid as always BunnyMuffins

Huh. I would have said that even in previous sets, formulaic play (always level at THIS stage, always build THESE items, always pick the augment your overlay app says is best) would have got you to Plat at most. For Dia and beyond you'd always have to understand how the game actually works. No? Or are you saying in Set 9 even for Gold elo and below formulaic play won't work?

One guy sacrificed all his health and went lvl 7 at like 3-1. He then got a augment to heal himself a little bit and all of his health was added to all his champs. Instantly went top 4. And by then he just saved all of his gold till he finally lost. Then he rolled to 8. And instantly 2 starred a 4 cost and 2 starred a couple 5costs. It was stupid. I don’t think he won but he definitely secured top3 at least. I’ve never seen something like that. Though I’ve only been playing for 4 months.

Basically critical thinking

Gratz on 100K!

Everytime Stillwater Hold gets chosen the single person who picked that portal gets flamed and griefed lmao.

This set is wild. I’ve played a good bit of games (~20 or so) just to get 2 of my accounts to gold, I’ve never even HEARD of half of these portals he’s mentioning

i didin't understand a single thing of this guide, it didin't really help me as a starter

i'm really glad for these changes, honestly it felt bad before to climb by just copying a build over and over.. this way is a lot more fun & feels like i actually earned the wins

I like to play TFT like a rogue like, let the game decide how I'm playing each time and go from there. I think that it's more fun, and you actually learn how to play the game and adapt to the game. Following tier list alone can only get you so far before you plateau from skill

For tankiness, there's also shields!

I only played 4 games this "season" and won 3 of those. Not by just following some guide but rather using "fundamentals" and choose the Comp by Items/Augm . My biggest issue is/was and prob. always will be transitioning from Mid to Mid-Late Game and then to the real Late Game. I won the last game only because I 3star´ed Jarvan who would never fit in my comp but I love to buy pairs and out of 2 J4 become 9 very quickly just by paying attention to your shop rolls. (Golden Ticket Game) . Sometimes it´s better to move down a tier (7-5 Units of that origin f.e.) and start using stronger units who´ll counter or work better against certain enemys. As you said: Every game is different. So always adapt from Game 2 Game.

Have fun guys. and GL in your games..

As someone who has picked up and quickly excelled in multiple disciplines. One of the challenges presented by letting people learn by feel or first principles is having too broad of a focus. I think typically I've observed that those who quickly improve usually choose a highly specific area to improve (for example forcing a single comp, learning details and variants) then carry over some fundamental knowledge into the next specific skill or area, where it becomes easier with every new focus.

For example, people who one-trick in mobas are more likely to find comfort in a champ allowing them to focus more on fundamentals. People doing martial arts improve quicker when they practice a single technique than a barrage of random moves. Just my 2 cents though, the point you made about using stats definitely stands though.

In the case of TFT stat websites and comps, I can say they are genuinely super useful... up to a point. I think using purely meta-comps and looking at placement rates got me to mid diamond in under 1 month of playing TFT. Once I got to this point i realised that there was a lot more learning to be done in paying attention to matchups, scouting, identifying item priorities etc. But if I hadnt been able to play strong comps and use good items I wouldnt have had the tools to quickly learn and reach an elo where my oppenents forced me to improve.

Lol my friend louie and i give each other challeneges to maximize our creativity and flexibilty, and we straight out be finesseing sometimes.

i absolutely not understand that game actually so i am still learning

I used to play TFT to relax after playing LOL but this set is so stressful for me, I'm actually doing the opposite. The game feels very sweaty. I think I'm just really bad at making decisions under time pressure like this. I like the changes in theory, spamming 1 comp was boring, but this I think just isn't for me anymore.

You are close to 100k subscribers. I subscribed

Covid was the reason I got gud. Barely played TFT in set 2 and sucked. Pandemic rolls around, boom tons of time to play set 3 and learn

As someone that isn't grinding rank I can say set 9 feels incredibly overwhelming. Being able to look up a guide and pick like 2-3 comps and try to play whichever one seemed best for my start is how I had been playing. I probably play like 20 games per set. At the end of set 8, I didn't even know what every champions ability did.

In set 9, so far, I just lose. Trying to force any of the good comps doesn't work (or at least hasn't so far) but I don't know all of the champions and abilities and stats and items stats and expected power of other comps at various points in the game and it feels like I'd need 100 games just to start to know wtf I'm doing and it's highly unlikely I'll play that much.

In theory, I like when I can sort of just pick something that sounds fun and try it, but in practice every time I've done in that in unranked like bronze elo, I've gotten 7th. I really only felt like I could do that in set 1 and it's probably because people were worse at the game rather than because the set allowed for it. Currently the outcome of every match to me feels completely random. I high roll and hit 4 3* units early and get what I think is good items? 7th. I come up with an idea and get all the rolls I'm hoping for? 7th. I get random shit and pivot halfway through and I don't even hit what I'm trying for? 2nd. It's a point where I know so little about whats going on that I don't even know when luck is a factor. i don't know if that first comp was just so dogshit that against an average comp I'd lose or if I got lucky but everyone else got luckier. When my rag tag random mishmash got 2nd, I have no idea if it was secretly strong or if the overall power level of the lobby was just low and everyone got unlucky or was bad.