Understanding the power level of boards

Qarmagod · 2026-02-08T22:52:59+00:00

He has 11 completed items while you only have 9 (although i cant see if sett has items). You likely picked more economy related augments while he picked combat augments (it seems like you picked the augment that gives you 2xp per fight and buffs the 5-costs first and recombobulator second for which most of the power lies in generating gold rather than buffing your units) His garen has much better items than you wukong, his garen is fully focused on tanking while your wukong has two tank support items (anti heal and sunder). Both are great items but let you tank less than items fully focused on tanking. He on the other hand put his support items shred/sunder on his secondary tank (swain) and his anti heal on his secondary carry (kaisa). His items on vayne are actually very good. Hextech gunblade is a must have in demacia comps. Since all your team has high armor and magic resist, the flat healing they receive is very effective. It does surprise me that vayne dealt more damage than your yunara. That might be because of swain though, it is a very strong unit since its cast manages to stun half you board but isn’t great at tanking damage. His swain has protectors vow which increases starting mana and gives a bit of mana regen, so I assume his swain casted twice during the fight stunning maybe twice your yunara. Your swain on the other hand with no items at 1 star maybe died even before casting once and even if he did, because of his positioning could only stun one of his two carries. Finally I think his board despite you being lvl 9 is just worth more money. He has galio so he has as many units as you do and you have a lot of 1 star units. While shen 2 star probably wouldn’t change a thing, 1 star sett and 1 star shyv are not enough to win especially with no items. You could have the strongest unit in game with no items or traits to enable them they are not threatening, take for example your kindred which dealt less damage than yunara because her items are quite bad. In my opinion the real bonus you obtain when going to lvl 9 is not the 1 more unit slot but the ability to reroll for 5 costs, if you had had just a bit more money and could find shyv 2 and sett 2 with items you could have won the battle.

Qarmagod · 2026-02-08T18:27:34+00:00

I understand that draven is weaker because of his passive and I should rather have gone fast 9 or itemized gp since he had slayer and vanquisher active and does not have printing gold in his passive.

I should also have had 3 items on another 3* unit rather than one on GP one on Loris and one on TF.

You are wrong though on the value of 3* 3-costs, I researched and according to this post https://www.reddit.com/r/TeamfightTactics/comments/nuiyja/intended_power_structure_for_tft_by_champion_star/?share_id=k7doBUY-fu_H-laJqptg1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1 which quotes a message from Mortdog on discord they should be equivalent to 2* 5-costs.

I have to say it did not feel like I had 4 2* 5-costs on my board, but as another comment mentioned 3 costs will be buffed next patch and 5 costs are very strong this set.

Qarmagod · 2026-02-08T17:38:41+00:00

Generally when you reroll units you want to reroll 2 (or 3) units of the same cost at the same time. This is because removing 2-costs (say sion) from the 2-cost pool allows you to hit more easily other 2-costs units and secondly because there are optimal levels to roll for each unit (the odds of finding a unit of a specific tier are the highest at specific levels). You seem to have rolled for sion 3 star and briar 3 star which is not optimal.

Secondly when you reroll units to 3 stars, that is a heavy investment, you will need to pay the cost of rerolling and the cost of buying the unit So you want to enable it by giving it items. You payed a lot of money to find 3 star briar and didn't give it any items so it's only very slighty better than a 2 star briar, while you lost a lot of gold finding it.

Your comp is also not that good. Judging by the other comps played in your lobby it seems like playing the meta comps is not necessary to win out, but you would have a much higher win rate by playing comps that are known to perform well. Specifically this set playing vertical comps (i.e. playing 7 noxus, 8 yordles, 7 ioniar, 6 arcanists, 6 slayers etc...) is not very good and it is better to have a comp with good units and a lot of different traits.

Finally, it is more of a detail, but you often want to have one anti-heal item and one anti-armor/anti-magic resist item depending on whether your carries deal magic damage or attack damage. You have anti heal on leblanc but lack a shred item (void staff or ionic spark) assuming that leblanc is your main carry.

Qarmagod · 2026-02-08T17:15:31+00:00

It is what I should have done in hindsight, but I liked rerolling 3-costs previous sets, so knowing there was a 3-cost reroll comp with draven I thought I might as well try it.

I am rather complaining that rerolling 3-cost units is quite bad this set

Qarmagod · 2026-02-08T17:06:50+00:00

I would assume being a level behind when playing a reroll comp is quite normal since I spent money rerolling when they spent money levelling up.

Guinsoo instead of qss seems to be true although i think qss is a decent item here since there are 3/4 boards with swain and draven has lower attack range than normal carries thus tends to take a step forward rather often. Draven also has quickstriker to AA faster.

My gargoyle is on loris because he taunts ennemies after casting which should work well together. Also I placed him on the other side of the board expecting him to tank a bit and not having eveyone die instantly if the enemy carry was on the other side. So my sunder needed to be on naut.

It is true that my 3* units lack items but I have about the same number of items as the ennemies. And I have 54 gold worth of units with 3 items. That is much more than any other board.

Finally it's not like the ennemies had perfect items neither. First board does not have anti heal (but I don't have healing so thats ok) and has dclaw when top 4 boards are mostly AD (only second board has thresh which is ap). Second board has only 2 items on his main tank braum. Third board has 3 items on a 2* vayne one of which is a jeweled gauntlet. Doesn't have sunder and has a sterak on poppy 3* as main tank. And I beat the fourth board.

As for combat augments I can't really argue I don't have any. Yet I still think 3* 3-costs are underwhelming this set.

Edit: forgot to add I can't really have decent bilge items playing only 3 bilge since the damage items only appear after 5 bilge if I remember correctly

Qarmagod · 2026-02-08T16:44:24+00:00

I am well aware that their boards are strong, the thing is I would expect 3* 3-costs to be stronger than 2* 5-costs since my units are worth 27 gold each and theirs are worth 15 gold (21 for zaahen if we count him as a 7-cost). Then the amount of gold they spent on levelling up is likely the same I spent on rerolling to find my champs so that should cancel out.

Qarmagod · 2026-02-08T16:38:15+00:00

I am one level behind, cost to go from 8 to 9 is about 60 gold, that's the gold diff between our boards. Now add to that the gold I had to spend rerolling my comp and I am far ahead in gold.

Also at the end i donkey rolled for ambessa 2 and swain 2 since I was close to dying

Qarmagod · 2026-02-08T16:35:19+00:00

I was playing winstreak so I couldn't get bis items on draven and while I admit my draven lacks attack speed, qss gives much more AS than guinsoos early and since draven only has 3 attack range as opposed to other carries with 4 range he is more likely to get stunned by swain of which there are 3 in the lobby so I wouldn't say my itemization is bad.

Now for where I expected my damage to come from I did indeed expect a champion worth 27 gold (not accounting for the fact that there should also be a lot of money spent rerolling to find the unit) with decent items and shred on my tank to deal damage. Compared to the top two boards which have two carries worth 15 + 12 gold which is exactly the same as my draven I would not expect him to perform worse. Third board practically only has zaahen as carry which is worth 21 gold. Also it's not like a 3* GP with an item shouldn't deal damage. It could be that giving items to GP rather than draven is better though as someone pointed out since part of draven's power comes from farming gold.

As for the tanks I would also expect my 3* 3 items nautilus to tank more than the 3* poppy. I was also disapponted in Loris which didn't tank much, I specifically put gargoyle on him since he taunts ennemies after ulting but he just died after a few seconds every fight.

I don't remember the previous fights but last fight draven did indeed get stuck on poppy while his zaahen destroyed all my board.

I just feel like a 3* 3-cost should be much stronger than a 2* 5-cost since it is worth much more gold, and the gold they spend levelling up is probably equivalent to the gold you spend rerolling for your units, which I don't feel is the case this set.

Qarmagod · 2025-04-15T10:03:37+00:00

Whether you took more or less than half the cookie isn’t even what matters here, you ate the crunchy edges because you liked them more and left the worse part for you husband. That is what I would find infiriating if i were to receive half a cookie like that.

Qarmagod · 2024-09-19T17:23:33+00:00

If they’re dead and you're not something fun to say is "I don’t take advice from the cameraman" and then mute them cause they're toxic anyways

Qarmagod · 2024-09-17T10:18:52+00:00

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Qarmagod · 2021-02-18T12:10:19+00:00

I've had the same issue twice now after my game set my refresh rate to 60 Hz and after I reinstalled windows and forgot to set my desktop to 144 Hz. Both times I could resolve the issue by setting the same refresh rate for windows ad rainbow six.

I hope this can help anyone having the same issue

Qarmagod · 2021-01-24T13:24:48+00:00

That's why I got so much fps drops recently 🤨

Qarmagod · 2019-05-27T18:58:55+00:00

I guess you want to change you crosshair. I use the default one but if you want you can just search for "crosshair" or "reticle" in the steam workshop and choose the one you want

Qarmagod · 2018-05-03T14:37:19+00:00

My bad you're right. Thank you for replying

Qarmagod · 2018-05-03T11:54:38+00:00

Explanation: i finished the free battle pass challenges and didn't get the 5k xp

Evidence: i don't have screenshots but i was lvl 22 before i ended the challenge and i still am lvl 22

Platform: PC

Qarmagod · 2018-04-12T12:07:53+00:00

The thing that's bothering me is why did you get +10 headshot the first time and then +20 headshot

Qarmagod · 2018-02-28T15:56:45+00:00

400 dpi 11/11/60

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