Which brainiac at riot decided that the amount of Items you get be RNG?

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the game isn't rng it's about skillful adapting /s

I understand its not about RNG but it should be more about positioning and not buffing one unit so that they carry the game this isn't solo q lol.

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the game isn't rng it's about skillful adapting /s

Kind of hard to adapt when there's nothing to adapt with.

We think the players find them fun and exciting.

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Getting no items in the first 3 rounds is the TFT equivalent of getting a wukong mid OTP in your promos to diamond.

Who decides ahri mid is too much of a counter and goes top to soak exp instead.

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It's definitely heavy on the RNG. I've had multiple games where the creep fodder rounds gave me nothing at all. I've also had rounds where I had 2 and 3 full sets of champs 1 1 star away from getting them 3 star before the end of stage 2 and I lose because the game never gives me the last one I need. All of this while I watch other people WITH THE SAME CHAMP getting 2 and 3 stars left and right.

That's your answer and honsetly i don't know why tf Underlords and TFT doesn't point this out. THE SHOP IS SHARED among all players. If you see someone else with the champ that you're trying to get to 3, at 3, you're prolly SoL for anything beyond a 1 cost unit. There are enough 1 cost units in the pool that maaaaaybe 2 people can get 3 stars but 2 costs is slim 3 cost forget about 2 people having the same 3 cost 3 star champ and 4 cost? you don't even get one of those to 3.

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CertainlyT designed the item system

Like honestly anything combining into anything seems like a good concept until you consider the fact they didn't change how often drops happen compared to a normal autochess game.

did he actually? Cause if yes thats just another fuckup in a loooong list of fuck ups that dude made. Should´ve been fired years ago

I feel like the "Items build into other items by combos" is really neat.

But "there's a chance you just don't get anything at all, ever, for any reason" is uhh...incredibly bad.

There needs to be a guaranteed number of items everyone gets, with a slight RNG element for one or two extras. I should not be on round 3 of PvP with a chain vest while my opponent blasts me apart with Statik.

I think that I understand that riot doesn't want the games to be long

Which is strange, cause on average my TFT games have lasted longer than Overloards or DOTA AUTO CHESS. lol

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Yeah they for sure need to take a page out of the DAC book with that cause I think that it doesn't make sense like you said that two items make a full item. I think that I understand that riot doesn't want the games to be long but I think that they need to kiss that goodbye. They need to rework the items but I think that people at a high level have complained enough about it that it will get looked at.

I mean, I played 3 so far and I wasn't in a game shorter than 30-40 minutes, so wdym they don't want games to be long?

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It’s like draft from mtg

not really. It's nothing like draft, because everyone gets the same amount of cards in a draft. It would be like if someone was able to grab 4 cards from a pack, then you got skipped completely and weren't able to pick any.

If every player drafted from the same pile of cards, and everyone had to share the limited lands that were offered, maybe.

An ACTUAL draft style would be great. Shared shop feels like nothing more than a way to half-ass the champion selection.