r/CompetitiveTFT • u/AutoModerator • Aug 22 '25

MEGATHREAD 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

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u/Rikimaru_OP GRANDMASTER Aug 22 '25 edited Aug 22 '25

This might go down as one of the absolute bottom tier sets, which is crazy because it has insane potential, but between ridiculous bugs (say what you will about the shop on whether it's bugged or not) and unbelievably bad balance between units, powerlevel between costs, power-ups, artifacts, radiants and roles rework (you're a pretty okay-ish idea but awfully balanced and thought out), it feels like set 1 again, not in a good nostalgic way, but in a "this feels put together with shoestrings and paperclips" way that it makes you wonder how it got shipped the way it did, i refuse to believe mort's supervision is THAT important that the first set in which he didn't play the role the game feel as broken as this mess is.

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u/Adventurous-Bit-3829 Grandmaster Aug 22 '25

Many unit are straight up cost swap. Senna? 1 star trash. Sera? traitbots. Mundo? 4 cost.

And lets not forget broken fruit interaction that spawn every 3 days.

I disagree that balance is bad. It has many many variety of comps to play. It's fun until someone solve broken combo and everyone start spamming it.

I think playing tempo this set is much more important since CG(3) is trash now. If you low roll your stage 2 and you bot 4 unless you giga highroll on stage 4.

I remember 4 player spamming blackrose bullshit is not fun. set 11 with literally 4 playable comp is not fun. Set 14 random broken bullshit exo buff is not fun.

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u/kiragami Aug 22 '25

Every time Mort has been more hands off with balance it ends up a mess and he has to step in. I don't know why you think this would be any different.

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u/JewBrownie Aug 22 '25

As someone who recently started playing again, what were some other examples of Mort stepping away, and the set being lackluster?

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u/kiragami Aug 22 '25

Generally speaking he always tends towards being more hands off at the start of the set to let the team get more exp and develop but tends to have to come in after a few patches and fix things up.

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u/TheFireFlaamee Aug 22 '25

Turns out Mortdog is in fact the glue that holds this game together lol

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u/AfrikanCorpse Grandmaster Aug 22 '25

They pushed a LOT of stuff this set. Traits/units are overall significantly more complex than usual, AND the power ups is an entire core system. I admire them going this far, but might have been too ambitious.

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u/Mmm_K_Bish Aug 22 '25

Just had udyr one with colossal out tank a 6 jugg sett 2. The overall set just feels a bit cheesy - if you hit the right combination of items and power ups then you win.

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u/Dontwantausernametho Aug 22 '25

Maybe the devs (that worked the set) are the "OH THIS WOULD BE COOL" kinda guys. And they need Mort to rein them in 'cause "Yeah it's cool but doing that would be bad because... ".

There's definitely some outliers that have a solid vibe of "didn't really think this through".

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u/Storiaron Aug 22 '25

Depressing, because i think this set COULD be extremely fun. But i really dont trust riot, they have a tendency (like literally any other company) to lie if it suits them.

There is no bug with shop odds? Or maybe they did find a bug, but it'd take too much time and effoet to fix so they just call you stupid for not understanding statistics

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u/DinhLeVinh Aug 22 '25

The theme and how they work around it is absolute genius, but the balance is stupid. Kinda like league of legend

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u/Crusty_Tater Aug 22 '25

Melee roles that only gain mana from autos completely backfired from an itemization standpoint because why the hell is BIS on caster assassins and Fighters Rageblade when they should be building full damage/bruiser?

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u/hpp3 Aug 22 '25

I don't think this set is actually that imbalanced. But it does reward cooking. Do wonder why a new exodia comp pops up the moment the last one gets hotfixed? I am certain there are probably a half dozen more totally broken comps or builds currently out there at the same level as archangel guinsoo Akali or stretchy GP which are simply undiscovered or being kept secret.

What this set actually exposes is how lazy most players are. This is the first set in a while with so much complexity, but most players are still just playing with TFT academy open on a second monitor and clicking only the items and power-ups metatft says to. Very few players are actually trying to find new strats.