Team Fight Tactics' Main Issue

JoshTGW·10/1/2019, 6:19:04 AM·2 votes·1,256 views

While playing the game Team Fight Tactics, I always find myself incredibly frustrated by the randomness in both the item distribution and champion shops. The main issue currently facing Team Fight Tactics (TFT) is not just the poor balance, but also the fact that RNG has been integrated as a core mechanic in this game which creates an incredible problem for its competitive mode. If your rank is depicted solely by the randomness of the game instead of pure knowledge and understanding, then it's clear that RNG creates way too many inconsistencies that balance changes can't fix. In any games i've played, occasionally they feature some sort of RNG system, but ones that aren't a core aspect, rather something off to the side where it can't drastically impact the game and someone's rank if the game has competitive modes.

What Needs To Happen: The RNG of Team Fight Tactics needs to be absolutely marginalized to a point to where it's not a major impact on the game. First off, the Champion shop system needs to be converted to something else. What it should become is something like the "Hero Select" screen when queueing up for a match in League of Legends. In this screen however, the player can choose what characters to buy and not be effected by RNG what-so-ever. The next issue of course that has to do with RNG is the item distribution. The new item capsules were nice, but also creates drastic inconsistencies with the game. Too alleviate this, it's better to make an item shop as well similar to what players have in a match of League. These items of course should cost gold and be set at fair and balanced prices. As for the item capsules, they should be converted to pure gold capsules so players have a consistent source of income in which they can spend it on champions and items they want for their compositions.

14 Comments

Jesi Oni10/1/2019, 6:26:10 AM2 votes

There is a lot of rng but if you cant climb then its your fault and not game. 1-4th place is easy to achieve if you know what you are doing.

There is a reason why people like Disguised Toast are able to hit #1 (ladder) despite RNG. You have to know your odds and get value out of things that drop for you instead of going for comp that you like~

Brolando10/2/2019, 6:15:20 AM2 votes

Read the first sentence, stopped reading and laughed.

Let's just say you have more control than you think and knowing how to pivot and which compromises to make in order to make a team comp work are very important skills in this game.

If I could consistently build my ideal comp every game this game would stop being interesting.

KyraSun10/2/2019, 6:29:17 AM1 votes

Every game in existence has RNG, also real sports. You can't avoid pure luck ever somewhere, its hard to make this consistant.