Thoughts On TFT as a Casual and Competitive Player
Casual:
As a casual player, if you just want to turn off your brain and build a comp, not caring if you get 8th place in a normal game, TFT is great for that. Especially if you're playing with friends in a pre-made lobby.
On the other hand, if you are trying to have fun and build an interesting composition, TFT is doo doo for that. Perhaps you can build something interesting or see something interesting 1/10 games. You cannot build your favorite composition. If someone builds the champions you are getting, there is a strong possibility you won't get your units and your opponent may just be a stronger version of you. And if all the champions are out of the pool, even Neeko won't help you. Imagine ever being able to see something interesting like a 3 star Lux or 5 cost unit. You are going to roll yourself into an early grave. And good luck surviving building something below A tier. You may just die and won't be able to build anything close to the idealized composition.
Basically, not only does the rng make the game less fun, but it doesn't even do its job of making the game more varied. How many comps are you going to actually see in a day of playing TFT? 4-6? Predator every game, Nocturne, Inferno, Light, Ocean Mages kekw, Zed, Singed, Eggroll, Nami in every composition. So a few compositions, and some champions you're putting in every composition, or compositions whose sole purpose is to support your carry unit. And sometimes your opponent may get a 3 star unit that poops on your team without being able to counter it.
Then there are items. It's fairly difficult to get the item you need without tanking hp, and even then there is no guarantee. Items also have tiers, so those items you got can turn out to be fairly useless or not work in your composition, and it takes an extra level of rng to entirely switch your composition after krugs.
Competitive:
As a competitive player, you have a few options to build a composition that can get you top four. Tft is still an rng-based game, so you can get unlucky and not roll any units you need, which actually isn't that uncommon, but there is a strategy involved in Tft, and if you are able to build upon your basics and reach the top 1% in that, you may be able to finish the top over your average player.
Other than that, imagine getting Diamond+ in TfT and "smurfing" in your premade lobby or low elo. When people are looking at your board, they're just going to see your 3 star units and think "this guy got lucky." And if you did something well like transition or roll with high apm, are people going to care that much when compared to League where you can outplay your opponents? Not me. As a side note, I asked a streamer if e-girls would like me if I got Challenger in TFT, and she said maybe I could get a kiss on the cheek. kekw
Also, this is probably the most interesting, but it is interesting to see random professional League players playing TfT and actually building something interesting. I saw TheShy playing TFT in the all-star event and do well, and I just said rofl. Other than that, if I'm being honest, watching streamers in tft tournaments has not been that interesting. There are a lot of factors involved in this. It could be the format, the streamer personality, or the game itself, but I am unlikely to show any interest besides who will win.
Overall: TFT could be better. There are a bunch of other games out there that are ideal for both casual and competitive play.
And yeah, it would be normal to say do not play the game, but it was interesting at the beginning of set 1 when I guess people were going more random things and the game was fresh. But in this set 2, already it seems stale.
