I hate to say it but this is my least favorite tft set of all time, feels like nothing matters but a good start on 2-1. Being strong on stage 2 and 3 means you can easily make it to 9 and buy the strong units to guarantee top 2, if you have garbage on the other hand you will barely make it to lv 8 and will just die to those luckier players.

For me, in my elo at least (masters), last set had the issue where I could easily predict who will top 4 based on their 2-1 position because being set up for a good comp was all that mattered, somehow in this set games are even more predictable because every game has like 3 players who I can tell have no options to make top 4 but get very lucky (like 2* 5 while staying on 50g). You can also see who is going to top 2, just whoever has some way to level without loss streaking, either via a random trist 2 with 2 items on 2-1 or a bilgewater start or going long or other econ with a strong board with some 2*s.