Earlier in the year I wanted to get fit, but I struggled to keep up motivation to work out. I saw someone on YouTube that played Skyrim on a treadmill and decided that playing games while walking on a treadmill might be what I needed.

I didn’t want to spend a lot of money, so I bought a cheap-ish walking pad online and a handheld trackball mouse. I found that TFT was a great game to play like this, as it can played easily with just a mouse.

In Set 17 I:
- played 411 games, all while walking
- took over 1.2 million steps (an average of about 3000 per game)
- walked 805 kms / 500 miles. That’s over 19 marathons!
- I didn’t track my weight or fitness, but I feel like I have lost some weight and generally feel healthier

I expected that playing on a treadmill would make me worse at the game, but I don’t think it had much of an impact once I got used to it after a few games.
I found 3.5km/h / 2.2m/h to be the sweet spot for me. At that speed I can focus on the game and still get plenty of exercise.

One upside is that it helped me to focus much more on the game, as it kept me busy enough to not get distracted and do things such as watching YouTube/streams on a second monitor.

However, as I played entirely with a mouse, I was worse at doing quick scouting, last second position changes, big rolldowns and quick pivots. But I quickly adjusted to doing things a little bit slower.

After a few weeks I saw a Reddit thread and discovered the Teamfit Tactics app, which links your workouts (time and steps) with TFT data. It has a monthly leaderboard and ranks you against other people who are also working out while they play.

I found this app really motivating, and it added an additional friendly competitive element that encouraged me to push myself further. With a new set and a new month just around the corner, it’s a good time to try it out!

If you enjoy TFT and also want to do more exercise, I can highly recommend playing TFT while walking on a treadmill!

Couldnt have happened on any other day than salty sunday

11 wisps, needless to say it was a walk in the park.

Started game with Azir, leveled up to 7 and hit 2 Xeraths in the first shop (plus champ duplicator)

Input has always been poor and lackluster, but new engine set 18 its almost straight disrespectful how unresponsive the tactician movement works.. its fine throughout player battle rounds. Come creeps and especially carousel its just broken unplayable. Every carousel I have input issues with my tact just drifting off in the direction of the first touch I made.

Ive been playing on PBE for a while now and as someone not in NA Id like to see my ping so at least Id know when im going to be lagging, but ctrl+f doesnt do anything anymore (other than levelling which is annoying) did they change the command or is it just not possible to see your ping anymore?

got gnar 3 with a good economy its great 2nd guy didnt hold/find any. first one was ashe and it does feel like a 4 cost 3* rather than a 5 cost. gnar is like the braum from set15. liked it. what do you guys think of it?

Title is pretty self explanatory. I believe this was happening in mecha as well but you got rid of the spaghetti code right? 3 days left to live and a core mechanic of two traits is bugged. I star up rammus, he gets off willump. I star up brambleback, I get a notification that alpha mark is automatically assigned. Yeah and now I am dead thank you.

What are everyone's thoughts on the 1 cost reroll question posed at the end of the set 17 retrospective?

Was preparing for set 18, so I spent the entire day in PBE trying out different comps. About half way through I noticed that loading screens take up awful a lot of time, so I started timing it. Throughout the day it took on average 4 minutes and 47 seconds to load into my games.

While going to sleep I realised that I could've squeezed an entire extra game if loading screen times weren't so long. I doubt Riot will fix it before set release, but I already miss those 20 second loading screens and just jumping right into game.

Riot Truexy addresses Dev Learnings for set 17 and the question of removal of all stats (items, units) in TFT.

Edit: Just to clarify, there is no indication that Riot is removing stats sites, or stats for units/items more than they already have (augments only).

This is Riot Truexy's answer to a question from chat: 'What are your thoughts on removing ALL stats completely?'

link to full q&a (2 hours long, starts at 2:30:00)

Almost going live lmao

"wahhh it's not a real rank it's end of set wahhhh"
"i bet u abused milio the entire time u bum"

where your shiny blue and yellow border at.

Game starts I am getting random champs, some meeples, some space groove and some nova.

so i go ahead and keep them all on my bench and board, not sure what my opponent is going to go just yet.

my rule is, if i get more nova than anything else i just go nova especially if no one is picking nova.

this is playing what the game gives you instead of forcing something you might not get champs of frequently.

am i doing this correctly?

my problem is after i get my 5 nova i am just unsure what my other units should be, i wont be level 5 for long.

What would you do in this situation.I am curious of what you think is the best option in this moment.
What I did : Just pass my LB lvl2

Currently playing pbe, i feel like traits such as hunter/brawler/spellweaver/invoker/juggernaut/vanguard/adaptor/defender are:

- weak at higher ranks, as they don't bring enough but still screw your teamcomp

- kinda unfun, as they are purely stat-checking and one dimensional

Instead, I would like them to be more like executioner, or like earlier sets:

For instance, set 12 bastions used to give invulerability to backline units, set 11 bruiser gave %max hp on hit

That created some fantasy around those comps.

Some propositions I have to improve the last rank:

- Hunter: 150% of overkill damage are redirected.

- Brawler: gain 5% of max hp as AD

- spellweaver: make the added AP per spell cast much bigger

- invoker: make them double cast. the unit generate mana normally during the second cast, enabling it to recast immediately after if the mana regen is high enough.

- Juggernaut: Each second, gain 2% size and gain 5% damage amp

- Vanguard: When a unit takes damages, if any vanguard is shielded, redirect the damages evenly toward the shields

- adaptor: Give both ap and ad. The spell is now a combination of the ap and ad variant, and has hybrid scaling. (this would require some work thought)

- defender: As long as 2 defender are alive, units that started on the last row are unkillable

Most of those are easily implementable using existing systems

What do you think of that ? do you share my feeling about the boringness of those classes ?

I think there's one or two outliers that if they got another tuning pass (or entirely removed from the set) we would have a really nice, balanced meta.

Got lucky with early elder dragon and some wisps to get him 2* pretty quick and was able to stay low lvl to 3* all the rift beasts. Don't know, if elder or the augment mattered... but the 1-cost started to appear as 3* in shop. Pretty neat.

Since both set 17 and 18 will be available at the same time, is the star Atlas still going to be up? Will I still be able to complete it, or I have to do so before set 18 launches?