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Enabling The Empty Board Strategy Gives Players Options With Bad RNG Games

Drunkish·7/5/2019, 6:31:05 PM·1 votes·539 views

Having played a decent amount of both TeamFight Tactics and Dota2 Auto-Chess one thing that really stands out to me is how much damage a player can receive on a loss. In particular, the early round damage means that the viable (and interesting) strategy of having an empty board in Auto-Chess is not viable in TeamFight Tactics. In Auto-Chess you only take 1-3 damage per round in the first 10 rounds this lets you build up interest and a losing streak while trading about half of your health. It's a high-risk high reward strategy.

Importantly empty board strategies also let a player who got no items or all bad roles in the early game successfully win the game for a significant number of games.

The other aspect of the empty board strategy that's not available in Team Fight Tactics is automatically placing pieces on the board if there's an open spot. I think this is a great quality of life improvement for the majority of situations but this should really be a toggle to allow players to place exactly the number of characters they want on the board. This would let players balance their health vs the risk of winning and breaking their losing streak before they're ready.

1 Comments

Ratpie7/5/2019, 8:40:20 PM1 votes

Honestly I am not sure what you are really asking for, because you can pretty much do this already. Just put your building pieces out instead of your leveled ones. I play this style almost every game. I often am down to 40ish life before I start winning, but then I often steamroll. I bank up and roll a losing streak still. I guess I don't see how this is not already a thing in TFT?

If it doesn't work then it REALLY doesn't work. I will be in top 3 or win a lot of my games, but for the few times I don't get in the top 3 I am at the very bottom. I am very rarely in the middle. I think the strategy you are looking for is there already, it just doesn't look the same as to what you are used to. As you said, its a high risk high reward strategy, but its also an intelligent strategy. I actually sort of laugh when I see people going all out in the beginning. I rarely ever see them win in the end. They will last until about raptors, and then just get rolled.