The hextech champs (besides lvl 2-3 jinx with items) are absolute trash and even if you're rangers with massive items as long as they are spread out a bit and not all stacked on one champ you will dominate a hextech team since camille vi and jayce are utter garbage like why are people complaining about this ? I went from G2 to P4 last night using rangers with items against hextech teams and they all just sucked
Flemman3 voteshextech anti synergize themselves so hard, going for 2 hextech is actually better than aiming for the 4 champ
Illabethe2 votesBecause you only need 2 Hextech to disable any closely bunched team, so most Hextech builds aren't (4) Hextech.....
Most Hextech teams are Blademaster + Gunslinger using Jinx and Camille, which basically creates a situation that procs Jinx almost instantly and shreds an entire team LONG before the 8 second item disable ends.
It's beating almost every build out there.
Louie Kaboom2 votesyes yes, I'm sure with all these "cerebral" players saying hextech is "fine" and it's just a matter of adjusting....sounds like the same type of players who also thought xin zhao was "fine" on release. LMAO
tires1 votesI’m convinced it’s just due to people not wanting to adjust their strategies.
The majority of negative threads I see about tft have always been like that. But especially since it’s so new, people haven’t learned how to deal with hextech and just wanna complain that they’re op instead of mixing up their playstyle to counter them.
Give it a week and nobody will care.
Illabethe2 votesNah. They're going to care because of how Jinx works with the 8 second potential full disable of a team, vs a thinner card pool of the champs they used to want.
It's REALLY hard to both spread out to prevent team item disabled and insulate yourself to Blademasters/Gunslingers. Guardians can't do their job when you spread out a team, and Zeke's, Solari can't do theirs either.
What the result is: Aatrox or Jinx can just take out line after line just because you didn't want your items disabled. Assassins can fit easily in between your team and take out your mid/back line.
Some champions the only defense was a tightly knit team comp. Hextech makes it impossible to do so.
tires2 votesI totes understand that, but if the only defense for some champs was a tight knit team comp and you’re trying to force said comp in a meta that it doesn’t work in, that’s not adjusting your playstyle to what’s happening.
I’m not really trying to argue bc I’ve seen you on the forums before and really value your thoughts bc you make good points super often! I’m just a bit iffy on this because I’ve found hextech relatively easy to adjust to personally (maybe it’s just at my elo though, which is high gold/low plat depending on how well I can make my brain work on a day to day basis lol).
I haven’t had much issue with spreading and assassins because assassins still aren’t super viable in the handful of games I’ve had opponents run them against me.
Generally when I see multiple opponents running hextech, I change my positioning to counter them as much as possible with a 4 man front line and split carries. Sort of like a sideways [ shape if that makes sense? And it seems to be really effective, even against blademaster/gunslingers. Splitting the items between the carries also helps due to only one of them getting canceled out by hextech and the other still being able to be a carry.
If running guardians you still get the trait bonus on your front line which helps, and can still locket the front line if you run that item. It might not fully solve the problem but it’s the best chance of getting through with minimal losses that I’ve found so far.
Azurereaper1 votesIts just another hardcounter on the pile of hard counters. Nothing is being balanced properly, just bandaids over existing problems.
This is why Dota Underlords is a hell of a lot better than TFT, everyone is roughly on the same playing field and are not dependant on luckly getting MORE items than the rest of the players.
Ventira1 votesTips for dealing with Hextech: Don't pile all your best items onto one unit. 2. Have "buffer units" that don't have items between the ones that do. and 3. If someone runs 4 Hextech they've already lost.
