I Finally won a TFT Season 2 by using the old "Losing strategy."

Illabethe·11/18/2019, 11:04:33 AM·4 votes·1,668 views

Took forever, but I made this team, and it was solid, regardless of items:

Lux (Ocean) Zed Annie Khazix (late game bonus to a double FoN spawn on the round before Herald)Thresh Diana Ornn Vladimir Kindred Leblanc

Note: No units were 3 star. LB and Kindred got demoted to 1 stars because I needed LB's items, or rather.... didn't need them, but wanted them on Zed.

It beat Poison It beat Berserkers It beat 6 Light with a 3 Star Aatrox and Vlad It beat a Crystal/Mystic/Predator with 2 item 3046 on sustain champs (His Skarner had item 3046 item 3072 Dragon tooth and was damn near unkillable)

I know this looks like a hard to achieve build; but I generally get 9 population every game, even the losses. I didn't actually need the Lux or Kha. Both of them were just bonuses.

4 Comments

ChaosReyn11/19/2019, 4:16:30 AM2 votes

So...2 electric, 4 Ocean, 3 assassin, 2 warden, 3 infernal, 2 shadow, with a decently stacked Zed.

I'll go ahead and make a quick note for you: Zed is quite overpowered since his clones actually duplicate items. A couple of the scarier strats I've seen actually involve a Zed with Crossbow, Redemption and Shojin, to duplicate as many of himself as possible and throw crossbows and chain redemption procs to the rest of his team. He's a literal one man army if he gets a good amount of clones going for him. Swap the meme-bow for GA, and he's also nigh unkillable, since each of his clones...also clone his GA. Now...if he dies before the clone spawns, they dont get the activated item...but if they do...then they also have redemption, so they go on and on and on...and ALL OF THEM proc electric AND shadow. Every. Single. Clone. Zed was hands down THE reason you managed so well against crystal - it has no real kill potential, so in a sustained fight, your clone army (not to be confused with your ghost army) was what won that for you. this is also a large part of what helped you with Berserkers - to say they have no kill potential is wrong...but their burst potential isn't all that high, and your clone army, along with your warden frontline soaking enough to get it rolling, was more than enough to make them not matter.

Kindred is a natural counter to light, in that she's got the only natural GW in the game, so light was probably never going to be an issue for you in that run. Similarly, Annie (err...Tibbers...) is a pretty hard counter to poison as well, since once he's summoned neither he nor Annie really give a shit. In addition, 4 ocean helped you to power through most of poison's detriment anyway, so in addition to The Bear, you also had stonger mana hax.

True Garen11/19/2019, 4:00:57 AM1 votes

I'm doing the losing strategy to race to lvl 7 or 8 myself. Just buying the Olafs before they can be used against me levels the playing field considerably. I've won several matches this way. I'll usually get one or two Spatula in the process (because... I'm losing) , enabling 2 6x buffs active. And when the Lux that you need come up early, then it's a straight win for sure.

True Garen11/21/2019, 5:28:43 AM1 votes

See, I go the other way with Zed, and build him with Frozen Heart, Trap Claw, IBG, and/or Warmogs. (Redemption is also good.) He freezes up the whole enemy back line, and my guys (usually a loaded Kindred among them) knock them all down.