How to improve at TeamFight Tatics.

DivineWalrus99·Jan 21, 2020·2 votes·908 views

I'm going to be honest. I suck at TFT, like I'm pretty sure that most people can beat me blindfolded.

After making to bronze I have done nothing but get 8th place in nearly every game I play. I have tried really hard to think about team comps, items, and counter plays, and the odds of getting the heroes I want; but no matter what I try I can never get past 8th place. After awhile I finally decided to make this post to ask the following.

-I realize that because I am in bronze I am sh*t at this game, but I don't know why I suck so bad. so, why am I trash at this game? -What are common mistakes that bronze players make that I should not only learn from but also exploit? -I clearly don't understand what counterplays, team comps, and items work for certain situations; so what does? -who should I watch for TFT content on youtube? -what websites should I go to study the meta and other useful information -what do high elo players do that I probably do myself?

That is all, thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.

9 Comments

FakeGravityJan 21, 20202 votes

i would say the most important thing in TFT is patience, you dont have to build items right away, not role hard for champions, let the economy grow, and since items are very important it is often better to tailor your composition for the items rather than hoping to get the right items for your comp. if you have strong defensive items why not go for wardens or any variation of them? attack speed? find someone who can use it, luden? find a champion that can spam skills.

never be over fixated into a comp from the start, you never say "i want to build this this game" if the game throw woodland at you, you take it, if you can incorporate another synergy and the items allow it, do it, you dont have to go 6 light just because, keep it as an option but if suddenly you see you can add three light three beserker and put on hit items on those beserkers, well go for it

DivineWalrus99Jan 21, 20201 votes

Okay, I'll try that. but might I ask, what do I do if I'm in an awkward situation where lets say, I have strong defense Items, but Warden is being heavily contested?

FakeGravityJan 21, 20202 votes

thats when not building items right away works to your advantage, also if everyone is going for warden, or lets say three people is working on that, it means other comps might be wide open, as long as you can find a character that can use an item you have a chance.

example, you got tornmail and warmog on braum, then realize two other ppl are going for wardens and have braums, it is time to decide, is one of those players going to lose so braum will be free eventually? or is it better to find another user for it? as long as you can find someone tanky like maokai, or amumu or someone that likes the front line like ornn you have a chance to turn things around

also lets say you have 6 uncompleted items sitting around, which is something that many ppl do, then you have many options that you can tailor to the units you get, and just because you cant 3 star a unit doesnt mean a two star with strong synergy and items wont win

DivineWalrus99Jan 21, 20201 votes

okay. I see now. I'll take that into practice. thanks for your help

Kei143Jan 22, 20202 votes

Tank items are not limited to tanks as well. You can put defensive items on your carries and they can have more up time.

There are also pseudo tanks like jax, skarner, maokai and oven. Drain tanks like olaf, renekton and vlad. You don't have to use only wardens as tanks.

You can also check out drybear on youtube. He has some basic tutorials, tier list and comps that he updates every patch. Much different than scarra and toast's videos, which are lesser of tutorials but more about stream highlights. You can learn a thing or two from those two, but it requires you to go through their whole video to maybe learn a tidbit here and there.