PSA: Buy 1 cost units early, even if you plan on not using them later.

NTrumpWeTrust·7/7/2019, 9:48:55 PM·9 votes·7,132 views

If you watch some of the best streamers, level 3s are something they rarely ever get before the game is over. If they do find them it's usually 1-2 and it's just overkill at that point. In lower tier games, the issue with rank 3s is that people do not understand that you should be buying as many tier 1 units as possible early on in the game People go into games thinking "oh I get 2 early tristanas I'm going to ignore everything but gunslingers!" What ends up happening is that you leave the champion pools so wide open that it's very easy for other people to get rank 3s. Take those vaynes, take the nidalees, take the garens, warwicks, kha, and kassadins. If everyone does this (and you should because you shouldn't decide on what comp you're going to use this early) the chance of anyone getting rank 3s is so incredibly low that it becomes a nonissue.

15 Comments

Metal Janna7/7/2019, 10:38:21 PM4 votes

Don't spend gold you would have got interest on, but any other gold you should spend on any champion you're the slightest bit interested in recruiting. You never know if your next hand will have two of them and then you can get a 2 star before you even put him onto your team. Flexibility in strategy is important for dealing with champion roll RNG.

hrooza dota 7/8/2019, 1:26:41 AM3 votes

unlike any other unit, 2 star 1 cost units sells for the full price even if you are going pirates upgrading that garen to win the early wont harm you in the slightest

SatNaav7/8/2019, 9:35:24 AM2 votes

No point holding on to gold early. Just don't re roll too much.

Karn Bishop7/8/2019, 1:11:08 AM2 votes

Yeah 100% disagree, this only works if your going for a comp that is easily achievable, pulling off other comps requires you not waste any slots on preventing gold stars for other players.

Many streamers also don't solo queue, they group up with their followers and friends which lets them sit on gold until late game and still "magically" pull a fully functional comp out of their rear ends despite the fact that all those champions should be cleared out at that point.

Partholonian7/8/2019, 4:21:43 PM1 votes

Mental flexibility is important to the mode, so I agree with not over-tunneling on your first 2 star or whatever, but I think sold and dead player's champs should go back into the "deck" so that it's not so easy to screw up other players' builds. It just doesn't feel right to "beat" someone by burning through champs they wanted, rather than beating them in a fight. Although ultimately, what is and isn't a legitimate strategy is for Riot to decide.

While I agree you shouldn't screw yourself out of interest, buying and immediately selling them still "burns" them AFAIK. Without tying down your bench space long term or preventing you from getting interest (as long as you sell them before the round ends). This is disgustingly cheesy and should be removed, IMO.

And before someone says "but it works, so you should do it", Revive Karthus was effective, too, that didn't mean Riot should keep it in the game, and eventually, they didn't.

hewhodoesnotcare7/8/2019, 6:16:01 PM1 votes

I save until 50 gold then spend it on lvls winning!

CHODES AND LOADS7/7/2019, 11:19:23 PM1 votes

just keep your bench full, shit sells for the same gold that u buy it for. sitting on tokens ur opponents need is virtually the same as having gold since u can just hock it for 100% value when u need to

TrenixPL7/8/2019, 2:32:45 AM1 votes

I don't get what you're saying. So is there a limited amount of champions in the game or something?

Ginger9767/8/2019, 3:57:27 PM1 votes

Wait...There's a limit to the amount of cards that each champ has in game? Is there a source for this?