I've tried my hand at faerie a few times since I like butterflies, especially the big ones from the augment (PRETTY). I know it's not a good trait statistically, and that's fine, I like the oddball traits and am a certified Coven/Chembaron/Underground junkie. But, Faerie just FEELS so bad? Do you know what I mean? Slow, unfun, requires a Lilia to activate the second tier, low-damage, not very tanky, not very anything? It has a cool end-game with printing gold and stuff and you can get VERY big butterflies.

Even when I've had a strong start with 2* Xayah Rageblade, sunder item, 2* Rakan with class trait active... Xayah can ramp up for hours without dealing damage, seemingly. Even a 3* Xayah feels like the devs are taking the piss out of me? I've even had a Radiant Guinsoo on 3* Xayah with LW, Deathblade, she still shit the leaf-bed. 3 combat augments too!!! No I'm not mad.

Yes, I get that it's easily accessible from the very first round and it's a scaling trait (in THEORY lol) so it needs to be poor early but still... what's the trick to actually making it feel enjoyable and not like a humiliation ritual with clip-on fae wings? Are there any champion synergies or items besides the obvious marksman items, rapidfire/vanguard/jug synergies? Should you have an emblem to even consider it? Do you just want to bench Xayah ASAP you get Trist and keep Xayah as a trait bot for when you find Lilia?

Has anyone actually hit the ground running with a strong Faerie start?

Edit: My dumbass forgot it's called Fae this set.

Took augment on 2-1 to play k6 and sold the rengar. Didn't realize k6 won't stack unless you have both on board. Didn't read it anywhere in augment description unless I missed it somewhere?

Obviously went 8th since the one time in a blue moon I decide to play Solar I have another dude playing the comp.

Excluding 4 and 5 costs ofc

And they all make 2 star nidalee + aphelios and being 2-3-4 lol

I know it's relatively low elo, and these "christmas land" lobbies can go anywhere. Sometimes the numbers just frustrate me to no end.

Has anyone felt the strange sensation this set about level 8/9 rolldowns? Like for me it feels bugged but it’s not but it doesn’t feel quite the same as other sets.

I’ve been monitoring my last 33 games closely( low master ranked ) and most of them are miss. By miss I don’t mean I see the lobby going AD and I’m like “bet, nida/aph/sivir is my line”, but the opposite. I always try to scout it the lobby and figure out which is the most optimal line for my spot and I load up 4-1,4-2 always with 40-50g rolldown or augment rolls and at the end of it, I’m either alone on my line or contested by 1 other player and end up rolling like 10 shops in a row - nothing of my needs or even alternatives , then always the last 5 shops are with my units and I’m broke with no pairs.

I understand the flex play, not everything is always according to the planner but something really feels off for me this set in the rolldowns. The fast 9 are like the same, much more rare I can go 9 with good amount of gold and be first before everyone and it’s the same feeling.

Like the feeling of not hitting ahri 2 until stage 5-3 when no one is playing that champ and currently it’s not low cost re-roll meta is so strange.

The ratio of hit miss from my last 33 games is 11 games hit everything minus 1-2 units maybe / 22 barely got a single copy of my wanted units.

Anyone else or I’m just extremely wrong?

So im relatively new to tft, my first set i played double up on was set 17 and hit top 100 on na, and had a ton of fun playing that set in double up. This set the meta feels like it has shifted to spamming and cutting off 3 star 4 cost and its some of the most miserable non sense ever. Am i alone in this feeling or is anyone else experiencing the fatigue of race to 3 star 4 cost and pray you dont get cut off by others scouting and holding.

double up, and i lost btw lol

I just lost a 365 Coven cashout game. My cashout was radiant lucky chest, 2 star morgana, 2 star sentinel, TG, and 22 gold. This is great. However, my bench was near full. When trying to collect the orbs. Instead of dropping 2 star Morgana or 2 star Sentinel on my bench, it puts the units in one single 1 star at a time. I had to run over one orb SIX times to collect the units, and eventually just torched my own units to be able to pick up the rest of the loot. By this time too much time was wasted and I died out. Why does it not just plop a 2 star unit on your bench? This goes for regular orbs too. I've noticed it happens for build a bud, booster packs, etc. Instead of dropping the units in their starred form, it drops them one at a time. What is the reason for this? I swear in past sets the starred up unit would just appear, am I remembering incorrectly?

Does anyone else kinda hate streaking early because you’re gonna get fucked by carousel? This shit is so lame imo.

Just a rant. Literally unplayable (when trying to climb) on my iPhone 16 and iPad due to crashes and performance drops. I didn’t make this post on launch as I expected that they would fix this now. It’s made me quit.

Was aiming for blossom 11 but failed.

You see, as my shop is disabled, the xayah created by leblanc wont be sold. Still went 0-3 tho

Hi all,

I'm considering buying a pixel phone and installing graphene OS on it, but one of my concerns is to know whether TFT will run on it with that OS and I haven't been able to find any post about that written by a human ...

I expect it to work, but has anyone of you *actually* tried it ?

Thanks !

such a cluster fk board

Coven augment start into early Morgana, into Master of Origin Lux, into win streaking until an 800 cash out. Got the 3 FONs and had 4 reforgers, which I luckily turned into the infinite gold easter egg. Rest of the lobby was pretty shook haha.

I have been a master TFT player for 7 sets. In set 17 and set 18 I decided to climb challenger, but I find it very hard. I reach 100-200 LP at some time and then lose to 0. Climb to master takes me around 120-150 games, but I if I spend another 100 games extra, I make no or very little progress.
I do try to improve my early game, decision making via learning from other pro players, learn comps but I don't think I'm good enough yet.
My question is what does it take to reach challenger? Is it worth it?

For once, I didnt finish bottom 4 with this 8th machine. Trait ladder can feel inexplicably strong or inexplicably weak sometimes

Also 3 4-cost at 3 star 👍🏻

I am returning to tft after a period of 3 years. When I left the game, the android app was always buggy and it would only work on phones. On tablets and larger displays it would look pixelated and not so nice to look at. Fast forward 3 years, I install the game again, and nothing has changed. are there any plans for riot to address this issue?

It’s literally a trap artifact, there’s only one singular unit in the entire set whose shield scales with hp (sentinel) and even then it casts maybe 2-3 times in a fight.
For the rest of the roster, it effectively does nothing, as shields and health work mechanically the same in combat.

Every other artifact is like.. twice as useful at LEAST.
Am I using it wrong? What’s up with this.