Hey all! Got a lot of interest in this after my announcement yesterday, so let’s do it! Planning to start answering questions in an hour (9am PT). Will give you til then to start getting in questions and upvoting the ones you like. Planning to duck in and out throughout the day between meetings, but should be able to get to everything before I’m done. Feel free to ask about whatever you want - my career, my history in TFT as a player/caster/podcaster, the new role, and all things TFT esports. So excited to be here and dive into everything with you!

Edit: it's almost 5pm and I've been going since 9am. Getting through as much of this as I can, but I'm starting to fade and hitting a bunch of repeat questions - will try to tune back in and respond more later. But for now I just wanted to say thank you all for asking so many good questions and for your general support/enthusiasm. Means so much to me.

I knew it wasnt the best but pretty much the only stage I was winning was 2. I hit Rengar 2 pretty early, got Diana, Hecarimm Elderwood and I got 8th. I like rerolls and hero auguments and this is the closest we can get to that in this set. I remember when this was broken but this is brutal

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• tactics.tools
• TFT Flow
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Hey guys, I'm Voids1n, longtime TFT competitor and coach. I hit top 10 a little while ago and am grinding for Rank 1 omegalul. I've been taking this set more seriously than previous sets, and I think one of my biggest strengths is flexing early, mid and even late game sometimes. In recent sets, active pivoting may have been a secondary or almost useless skill but I think it's actually very viable this set. Despite the bugs and the technical issues, I think this set is good in terms of trait design and potential creativity. It reminds me a little of pre set 6 sets, which is a bit of an unc take I know.

Video format for this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6fQwF25MDY

FLEX GUIDE:

EARLY GAME FLEXIBILITY:

• Early game flex is really important because you want to think of units as archetypes like AD caster, AD autoattacker, AP caster, Tank, AP/AD Fighter rather than concrete boards.
• You want to think of buffing your strongest carry and your strongest tank with synergies. (E.g. brawler for Rek’Sai, Rapidfire for Xayah, etc.).
• The types of units you hold depend on your components as well. For example, if I have a Sword, Belt, Cloak drop I am way more inclined to hold Akali + Camille than Veigar because I have a Sterak’s Gage slam. More importantly, because my items lean AD, I’m looking to make an early game AD board to make my gameplan more fluid.
• Always look for potential upgrades and don’t get complacent with your 2* 1 costs. A lot of times you can hold 2 or 3 cost units on the bench to replace your 2* 1 cost carries/tanks for Stage 3 and early Stage 4 once you upgrade them.

EXAMPLES OF ADAPTING YOUR EARLY/MID GAME:

• When brainstorming useful +1 units (for your next level), think about not only how to buff your strongest carry/tank, but useful synergies that either offer teamwide benefits (Brawler, Defender) or useful utility (Blossom, Riftbeast) as well.
• Strong individual units such as 4 costs and Rival units can also be considered

AP LINE:

Standard AP opener, in this instance Karma and Rek'Sai are our main carries/tanks respectively because they're upgraded.

Once Teemo is upgraded, we shift to making him our main carry and adding a +1 Invoker to buff him.

Teemo remains our main carry bc Teemo 2 > Kog 1, but we have a Krug 2* here. Notice that slotting in Riftbeast helps buff up our new strongest tank but also adds a +1 Invoker for our main carry.

Generic Soraka Malphite. This is a potential standard level 8 endgame AP board that we've landed on.

Generic Ahri Invokers. This is another potential endgame AP board that we can play.

With our AP opener, we have the option to play into 2 example endgame boards. Of course there are others as well such as Zyra Jugg, Fast 9 AP, etc. If you’re really crazy you can flex the 4-2 rolldown for either comp, but oftentimes if you have Jeweled Gauntlet + Striker’s/Rabadon’s it’s better to just force Ahri. This applies double if you don’t have spell crit at all for the Soraka Malphite comp.

AD LINE:

Standard early game Ravager board

Notice that we shift to Shen as our main tank once we 2* him, add in Adaptor for Akali, but also have Rengar in as a strong independent unit because we've found nothing else for our level 6.

Once we have a Rengar 2*, we now shift gears to making him our main carry, replace Camille with a more quality Ravager and have +2 Defender to buy time for our Rengar to pop off.

Example A of level 8 AD

Example B of level 8 AD

Flexing Around Emblems

• If homeless with a weak early game board/no direction, emblems are a great way to force a direction. Depending on the meta, certain emblems will be stronger than others.
• Oftentimes when you click augments like Trait Tree you won’t get multiple emblems that are useful in a particular comp, so you have to choose the one that applies most to a strong meta comp or enables a high cap comp.
• For example, if you have Rapidfire Emblem + Executioner Emblem, you either play: Aphelios 5 Rapidfire with the emblem on Brambleback or you play Executioner Malphite, but if you have primarily AD items with Xayah Elderwood opener you are heavily leaning into the 5 Rapidfire comp
• If you have AP items, you lean heavily into the Malphite Executioner comp
• I realize now that this actually may not be the best example of isolating valuable emblems as you can play Aphelios Elderwood as well with these Emblems, but you get my point :D.

EXAMPLES OF USING EMBLEMS THROUGHOUT THE GAME:

AD:

https://preview.redd.it/dgwkwnpmjauh1.png?width=956&format=png&auto=webp&s=3537f117f203bac09d3006bcf6145bc008bb0124

https://preview.redd.it/hh24wh4njauh1.png?width=959&format=png&auto=webp&s=67e9d09b480b4fa18b39d4336ad8bfcc4631cc06

AP:

https://preview.redd.it/itsc401pjauh1.png?width=957&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b9e51e1ea26d870ab09b144d3e444017ba1b267

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Notice how our items heavily affect the path in which we go under with our emblems.

Flex Around the Meta:

• Even though this set is way more flex than most if not all of the recent sets, it doesn’t mean you can just Frankenstein any board you want.
• You want to flex around the strong existing comps/units, not just what you think makes sense
• You can make a crazy board to play for placement, but you should not have it as your Plan A gameplan

Examples of Freaky Frankenstein Boards:

https://preview.redd.it/5bun8xuyjauh1.png?width=961&format=png&auto=webp&s=8d3dffb66d04f1771ca49261f96cb5d15ea0da7e

Something like this you would think would work based off intuition, but because AP Nidalee is not the best right now, this comp is something you would only play if you suddenly got dropped 3 Rods off Raptors, had a Rapidfire emblem and were playing for a 4th at best, not a comp you craft in your mind when 2-1 rolls around.

https://preview.redd.it/e89dimuzjauh1.png?width=957&format=png&auto=webp&s=f971c3b65596a9556387d33be179fef934afacd9

Here is another example of flex where things could go wrong. I think boards like these where you’re deviating from the established level 8 boards have to hit multiple 2* 4 costs immediately to be stable, but the bigger issue is if you’re low HP you are destined to die starting stage 5 when people start finalizing their boards and you’re stuck with a mish mash board.

https://preview.redd.it/kn3oz372kauh1.png?width=944&format=png&auto=webp&s=888a8dca4f5384d56004476ba405573cee7aee6f

I made this guide/video on the tail end of last patch so I actually don’t know if Mama Beak has motion this patch after buffs, but this is an example of “freak flexing” in which you have too many various carries scattered around the place, and if you’re in a spot to enable Kha’Zix for 3 traits, it’s better to just put the fries in the bag and play standard Kha Zix rather than do something crazy, ESPECIALLY with no emblems.

Yes, technically you can get Rapidfire, Executioner and Ravager on Kha’Zix, but you’re playing around suboptimal units when you can just either do regular Kha reroll or regular Azir reroll.

Flexing Level 9

• Fast 9 is more flexible than Fast 8 comps (without emblems) usually.
• A lot of lvl 9 units require only 1 or no synergies to be effective
• This allows for a lot of different carry combinations as long as your frontline is stable enough

https://preview.redd.it/j8hpuzk7kauh1.png?width=959&format=png&auto=webp&s=35a841b547a2abb0b0e88800da02ac7faab077cd

This diagram seems confusing at first and it definitely is, but the intent is to put units together that can use similar items. The Tanks are adjacent to each other, the IE + Strikers users are next to each other, the AD autoattackers are next to each other, and so on.

This is meant to demonstrate holding certain units on your rolldown based on what items you have. TG could go on any secondary unit by the way.

With that in mind, you can make some unconventional level 9 boards!

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This is an example of an unconventional board with unconventional Ashe items. Yes, you’re looking for Draven first with these items but if you hit Ashe pair with no Dravens, you’re heavily leaning into having her carry the attack speed items. 4 Juggernaut is a cheap frontline option that can stabilize you even into lategame, and Alune is the AP unit that we hit because we have hybrid damage items made.

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This is something a little more wild. Say you were looking to play Alune/Lux but there are many copies gone/you’re lowrolling, but you hit a random Ivern 2*. Usually you don’t think to carry him with the Shojin/JG package, but he can do some work as well with these items. No one really thinks of Ivern + Dragon duo carry, but since these are the upgrades we hit with the items we have, we  have to make do and adapt to what the game is giving us.

FINAL THOUGHTS:

I hope this guide was really helpful to those who are trying to become more of a competitive player, I’ve been putting in a decent amount of work to improve this set and am always open to helping out the community. If you want private coaching hit me up on discord: voids1n or join my discord to pay attention to when I do my free group coaching sessions!!

I realize that flexing reroll comps is missing in this guide as those comps have been generally MIA for the past few patches but maybe I’ll make a guide on that soon :D

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I put together a spreadsheet of TFT websites and tools for Set 18: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VAUNk9xb1oSvMixOIwT7KHYhlzDGekVVFRruvqFEUYs/edit?rm=minimal

The list covers almost everything I found, no matter how big or small, and in any language. Most people seem to talk about the same handful of sites, so I wanted to show the true extent of what's out there. For example, there are more providers of stats explorers, PBE patch notes and overlays than you may have realized.

There's been a massive explosion of new sites this year (no prizes for guessing why), with just under half of the list being from Set 17 and 18. Not all of them are meta sites, there are numerous standalone tools and personal projects. Comp solvers (for emblems, Trait Ladder, etc.) started as dedicated sites, but I've started seeing this feature integrated in larger sites.

It's been very interesting to see what people have been cooking (both old sites and new), regardless of scale and quality. Some have fallen behind in patch updates already and likely won't survive (happens all the time), so check them out while you still can.

What do you think of the landscape after seeing the list? Is there any feature or niche that needs better coverage? Is there still demand for the mythical all-in-one site?

The list in set release order (formatting may be messed up on old reddit):

#	Name	Description	Started	Category
1	Blitz	Multi-game app	Set 1	TOOLS
2	Esports Charts	Tournament prize pool + viewership data	Set 1	ESPORTS
3	Guiadeparche	Comps by Worlds caster Jupeson	Set 1	META
4	League of Graphs	Data-driven site	Set 1	META
5	Liquipedia	Volunteer-run TFT esports wiki	Set 1	ESPORTS
6	lolchess	Korean-made hub for comps, player profiles and past sets	Set 1	META
7	METAsrc	Custom algorithmic rankings	Set 1	META
8	Mobalytics	Challenger-curated comps	Set 1	META
9	TFT Wiki	Riot-supported wiki maintained by community volunteers	Set 1	INFO
10	TFTactics	Database and comps app	Set 1	TOOLS
11	Tracker.gg	Stream overlay, player profiles and leaderboards	Set 1	TOOLS
12	BunnyMuffins	Beginner-targeted guides	Set 2	META
13	GAMEWAVE	Gaming news site	Set 2	META
14	lol.qq.com/tft	Official Chinese TFT portal by Tencent	Set 2	META
15	tactics.tools	In-depth stats with full explorer	Set 2	META
16	MetaTFT	Stats, explorer and popular overlay (now with Overwolf-free version)	Set 3	META
17	Teamfight Tactics	Official TFT site by Riot Games	Set 3	INFO
18	Metafy	Coaching marketplace	Set 4	COACHING
19	tftplay.com	Mobile assistant app	Set 4.5	TOOLS
20	SeeMeta	Tier list site with stats	Set 5.5	META
21	WeCoach	Rank-verified Challenger coaches	Set 5.5	COACHING
22	teamfight.lol	Stats site focused on quick lookups	Set 7.5	META
23	TFT Handbook	Comp tier list + flowchart by robinsongz	Set 8	META
24	OP.GG	Comps and player lookup	Set 8.5	META
25	GGmeo	Patch notes and comps	Set 9	META
26	TFT Plus	Vietnamese comps and leaderboard	Set 9	META
27	TFTips	Most well-known Japanese TFT site, with comps list made by title	Set 9	META
28	TFT Coaching	Coaching membership service with very active subscriber Discord server	Set 10	COACHING
29	TFT Academy	Popular comp site by Dishsoap + Frodan and overlay with game-recording feature	Set 11	META
30	TFT Labs	Companion site for a Korean YT channel	Set 11	META
31	DataTFT	Chinese comps and many tools	Set 12	META
32	Little Buddy Bot	Datamined reference tables and in-depth mechanics research	Set 12	INFO
33	MetaTFT.gg	Comps and set info	Set 12	META
34	TFT Flow	Flowcharts, guides, line selection by GM Blue	Set 12	META
35	tftdle.gg	Guessing game inspired by Wordle and Loldle	Set 12	TOOLS
36	vnTFT	Comp guides	Set 12	META
37	YUME PBE	Trending videos and custom augment design	Set 13	TOOLS
38	TFT clubs	Riot + GGTech club program for Spain	Set 14	ESPORTS
39	TFTguide.org	Vietnamese info site	Set 14	INFO
40	Amumu	Overlay with match auto-accept, card markers and game recording features	Set 15	TOOLS
41	Compete TFT	Hub for official competitive TFT events	Set 15	ESPORTS
42	MetaBot.GG	Stats, overlay and MetaBot AI	Set 15	META
43	TFT Double Up	Suggests good comps that synergize with your Double Up partner	Set 15	TOOLS
44	TFT Recommender	Comp solver for emblems, max synergies or Trait Ladder	Set 15	TOOLS
45	TFT Simulator	Darth Noob's damage simulator tool	Set 15	TOOLS
46	Bamboo Gaming	Fundamentals/beginner guides	Set 16	INFO
47	CookedGG	Analyze your ranked games to see if your MMR is cooked	Set 16	TOOLS
48	HexKey	Hotkey-based app for Mac + Windows, now with web version	Set 16	META
49	La Casita del TFT	Meta site with interactive TFT tutorial and decision lab	Set 16	META
50	Playerse	Player lookup and stream tools	Set 16	TOOLS
51	Prismatactics	3D rolldown practice tool	Set 16	TOOLS
52	TeamFit Tactics	Mobile app with leaderboard for people who exercise and play TFT at the same time	Set 16	TOOLS
53	TFT DoubleUp Buddy	Desktop app to sync shop highlights and find a partner	Set 16	TOOLS
54	TFT Gameplan	Coaching and videos by long-time competitor and coach dpei	Set 16	COACHING
55	TFT Skins	Database of TFT cosmetics: Tacticians, Arenas, Booms, Portals	Set 16	INFO
56	TFTable	Stats-backed comps and item priority	Set 16	META
57	TFTmeta	Meta comps, and builds requiring specific augments or emblems	Set 16	META
58	1 Stage Simulator	Stage 1 practice simulation tool	Set 17	TOOLS
59	13dogsTFT	Stats and info site	Set 17	META
60	CoachingTFT	Coaching, meta and tools	Set 17	COACHING
61	Cookpit	Browse units, items, etc. by mechanic (e.g. stun, burn, on-hit)	Set 17	INFO
62	Đội Hình TFT	Meta site with AI coach tool	Set 17	META
63	DTCLMeta	lolchess imitator	Set 17	META
64	EmblemComp.gg	Comp finder based on your emblems	Set 17	META
65	MaomiTFT	Comps and stats by TOC caster shourenmaomi	Set 17	META
66	mentr	10-week mentorship program by kai watanabe, also known for PROJECT PBE	Set 17	COACHING
67	RiftDaily	Patch notes and news	Set 17	INFO
68	Tepdemy	Guides and tools by tept	Set 17	META
69	TFT AlphaSim	Combat simulator and unit/team power sandbox	Set 17	TOOLS
70	TFT Atlas	Team/guide builder	Set 17	TOOLS
71	TFT Clash	Weekly clash events (resuming in Nov), pro scene data and digital cards	Set 17	ESPORTS
72	TFT ELO	Rates board strength based on fights, not just final placement	Set 17	TOOLS
73	TFT Flex	Meta site with Teamder tool by analyst Khym	Set 17	META
74	TFT Forge	Comp guides and team builder	Set 17	META
75	TFT Game Station	Huya comps and in-game assistant	Set 17	TOOLS
76	TFT IQ	Quizzes based on Korean server data	Set 17	TOOLS
77	TFT Lab	Comp meta galaxy observatory, workbench, damage simulator	Set 17	META
78	TFT Meta	Meta comps	Set 17	META
79	TFT Premium	Brazilian content and coaching from Slooper + DobZ	Set 17	META
80	TFT Stratify	Stats and set info	Set 17	INFO
81	TFT Tools	Meta tier list and comp recommendation tool	Set 17	META
82	TFT Trait Tracker	Comp solver for emblems, strongest board, cheapest board, perfect synergy	Set 17	TOOLS
83	TFTForDummies	Spanish guides and competitive scene info by Bastida	Set 17	INFO
84	TFTraits	Comprehensive tools and info collection	Set 17	TOOLS
85	TFTSense	Screen-reading overlay	Set 17	TOOLS
86	TopMeta	MetaTFT imitator	Set 17	META
87	UU.CX	Comp stats and leaderboard	Set 17	META
88	April Fool TFT Tools	Calculators and content creation tools	Set 18	TOOLS
89	CompBook	Personal comp/guide creator/organizer	Set 18	TOOLS
90	Donekihu Juku	Comps and beginner TFT guides	Set 18	META
91	Fantasy Tactics	TFT esports fantasy league by Frodan	Set 18	ESPORTS
92	Liga Hispana de Clubes de TFT	New club league for Spain and LATAM	Set 18	ESPORTS
93	Mactician	Tool to play TFT on Apple Silicon Macs	Set 18	TOOLS
94	Range visualizer	Hex range/distance visualization tool	Set 18	TOOLS
95	ROLLDRILL	3D rolldown/transition simulation	Set 18	TOOLS
96	SmartTFT	Rolldown practice tool	Set 18	TOOLS
97	T-Flex-T	Comp solver/optimizer	Set 18	TOOLS
98	tefete	Comp tier list and guides	Set 18	META
99	TFT Codex	Stats including for one-tricked comps	Set 18	META
100	TFT Deck Builder Zac	Meta comps and recommendations	Set 18	TOOLS
101	TFT Set Database	Database for all TFT sets, and some guessing games	Set 18	INFO
102	TFT Toolkit	Emblem planner and meta watch	Set 18	TOOLS
103	TFT Trait Link	Interactive knowledge graph of units	Set 18	TOOLS
104	tft-comp-lab	Theorycrafting tools	Set 18	TOOLS
105	tft-space.com	EUW comps	Set 18	META
106	TFTailor	Comp solver including Trait Ladder and Bronze for Life	Set 18	TOOLS
107	TFTKIT	Comp solver, rolldown calculator, Coven planner	Set 18	TOOLS
108	tftlobby.gg	Tournament standings and results	Set 18	ESPORTS
109	Trait Ladder	Trait Ladder augment solver	Set 18	TOOLS
110	Trait Ladder (Crabbix)	Attempt to make wasianiverson's perfect Trait Ladder tool	Set 18	TOOLS
111	Yilu Companion	Stage-by-stage guides for comps	Set 18	META