TFT: Champion Pool Size.

Effwhy·6/29/2019, 7:12:39 AM·4 votes·12,954 views

I have two questions related to champion pools and how they work.

1: When a unit is bought, the champion pool for that unit decreases by 1. When that same unit is sold, does the pool increase by 1, or remain the same?

2: When a player is knocked out, are all their units added back to the pool?

I am working on analyzing the strongest, most sustainable team comp and these answers would be incredibly useful to me.

Thank you.

12 Comments

DarkSoul19946/29/2019, 7:24:33 AM1 votes

Curious about 2 as well. I alter some of my comps to take out players who have units I want, but I don't think that they actually get added back into the pool.

Karn Bishop6/29/2019, 8:24:03 AM1 votes

The answer to 2 is no.

Sathelight6/29/2019, 10:19:21 AM1 votes

So we can buy and sell units our enemies want just to deny them upgrades.... and we have no idea if the champion we need is still available. Well...

iCrazyOwl6/30/2019, 12:01:04 PM1 votes

i would say

  1. -1 when someone pick champ and +1 when is sold. i mean why not to buy full hand every time and sell it if unit is not back in pool to deny others.
  2. not sure but i would say its back.
PenPen7/1/2019, 10:37:43 AM1 votes

Ok so what I discovered so far is something like this:

Yes when you buy a unit it decreases the pool and when you sell it it comes back (so always stack 1-cost champions when a lot of people are going for 1-costs and never do this if you see many others stacking 1-costs) Units come back in the pool when a champion dies.

But this is the part I'm not really sure about:

  • If you sell a level 2 champion does it add 1 of that champion to the pool or 3? -Same thing if someone dies.

I get the feeling that selling a 2 star champion actually only adds 1 of that champion back in the pool. Meaning that if you always stack pairs to get the best chance of a level 2 and later sell them you deny other players a chance of getting a 3 star champion and you still get full gold back.

If anyone could test this as well and let me know the results :)

TearyKnight7/20/2019, 7:33:34 AM1 votes

Why hasn't this question been answered yet? If someone finds out, can you please tell me?

NomiNoo7/20/2019, 7:57:35 AM1 votes
  1. yes
  2. yes

The amount of champions in the game will stay consistent, if a player sells a 3 star champion, all 9 duplicates of said champion will re-enter the store to be available to other players again. That being said, there's a limited amount of champions, so sometimes it is impossible to 3 star a champion when other players have already taken the rest of the duplicates

This link explains the amount of copies of each champion well: TFT champion selection strats

D3m37r17/21/2019, 3:21:31 AM1 votes

One thing that no one here has mentioned is that just having a champion in your shop also removes it from the pool.