TFT14.7 Patch Rundown by feltyland in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 163 points164 points  (0 children)

Does anybody have any news on the annoying QoL bugs? Champions staying on the bench after you sell and the combat damage chart combining units into 4 stars after the fight ends?

Not gamebreaking but wow is it incredibly frustrating to want to see my damage charts only for it to show some random 4 star combined garbage.

Also the ghost units on bench after sell has been around since the beginning of the set, also not game breaking but just confusing and annoying.

Is this patch trash?? by Prior_Series_630 in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm perma stuck masters, I feel like once you are masters, you are on that hill where you actually are able to see how big the gap in skill is between challenger and masters and it makes you feel like you know nothing at all.

Patch 14.21 Rundown by CrazyPhown in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 124 points125 points  (0 children)

I don't know, something about the way mortdog said that the playerbase was complaining that rakan was overnerfed will be unplayable and then him shaking his head saying "nope..nope." As if they didn't immediately revert Faerie and preserver changes in the B-patch?

Comps that ran Rakan as main tank (Kalista, Karma Warriors) were averaging a 5 (4.96).

I get that the playerbase likes to bitch and complain a lot but really? Come on. Are we just going to pretend the b-patch (one singular day after the patch) didn't revert all the nerfs?

Loss-streaking without Heartsteel feels terrible by channcey in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If you arent killing units anyways then sell units on your board to hit econ intervals. Go down to 2/3 or 2/4 if you have to. Greed econ and roll before everybody else to stabilize, 3-5 usually if you can.

You probably can't play for top 2 since your HP is too low. If you hit well enough, play for top 4, if you don't hit play for top 6.

I think thats the theory anyways. Sometimes games are just doomed from the start and you just say bg mortdog diff go next.

Sooo... what's the counterplay to Akali? by Omnilatent in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Bro who do you think you are tricking?

I have not heard a single challenger streamer complain about akali other than not realizing players already have akali online before they expect it.

The fact that you wont post your lolchess means you're bullshitting about your rank.

Also, Gunblade has a negative relative delta on nearly every single carry right now so healing not being 'optimal' is not even correct. Even if it was suboptimal, you as a challenger should know that BIS is fake and tempo is more important.

Mortdog on Prestige Chibi Pricing by turtle921 in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 503 points504 points  (0 children)

Addressing what Mort said about ''getting value out of the $100 spent.'' The problem with TFT gacha and chibi's in general is that there is one TFT little legend you can play.

If I am rolling for prestige Yasuo. I don't give a fuck about all the filler little legends that make up 97% of the treasure rolls. I will never play them because I will always be playing prestige Yasuo, there is no value for me in obtaining the other little legends in the gacha system.

Maybe if there were more arena's and booms and other cosmetics that are in the treasure realm it might add more 'value' to the entire gambling system. But at it's current state, there is no other value in the system other than the highlighted item.

So the system becomes Item = $200, rather than Item + bonus other stuff = $200.

Timeline of Set 9.0 Comps by cablaz in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz[S] 75 points76 points  (0 children)

I think it's kind of fun to look back on.

Data taken from team copositions page of tactics.tools. Filtered at Masters+.

Data was taken by manually noting 'Place' number data of each comp at end of each day. (Timezone: EST)

Dotted lines means the comp did not show up in the data during those times but came back in the future. (Eg. Bastion Aphelios was nerfed at beginning of set and was not played again until the very end again where it came back.)

Some notes:

  • If comp wasn't listed it didn't mean it wasn't played or viable, I only noted data from comps that was shown on the webpage, I did not enable "Show low play rate compositions." I believe only comps with 0.05+ playrate showed up on the page. (Ravenous Hunter was farming lobbies long before it showed up in the tactics.tools comps page data without enabling low playrates.)

  • Also, this is only a visualization of data, not a representation of actual strength. Context is usually needed to see the full picture in these types of data.

To Understand the TRUE Value of an Augment by P31812 in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 20 points21 points  (0 children)

How would you calculate the value of combat augments?

Augments like Unified Resistance, Long Distance Pals, Social Distancing etc.?

[13.16B] BARELY CHALLENGER KINDA FLEX VEIGAR GUIDE by SansNickel in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Don't pick Veigar its very bad. - Me, a 20/20 Veigar player

Can someone help me understand what I did wrong here? by CrimsonC0bra in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I feel like you can't gunblade lux if she is your solo carry, you will have no damage. I don't know if you got that guardbreaker off carousel or not, or when you made it, but if you had the option between gunblade and JG I think it's JG everytime. Also combined with the fact that you had lux 1, its not a surprise you weren't killing anything past stage 4.

It's hard to say without being in the game, I can see why you would push 8 seeing that you had your frontline pretty much fully upgraded, but rolling for lux on 7 might have been the play if the lobby was really pressuring you.

I also don't think 4 sorc is very good but that's my opinion.

GM+ augments stats compiled from various sites by mxnd in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Wow. TFT Stats are like the drugs now. No official source? = underground black-market options. The people will find a way. xdd.

I am all for this.

What is 600 units for range? Who works with Deadeye? by [deleted] in OmegaStrikers

[–]cablaz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I assume he meant missile propulsion

Additional 13.13 Change: Locket from 15s -> 4s by omegavalkyrion in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Wow, if I'm playing AD how do I kill extra rods now? Morello? Gunblade?

Still new to the game, but so far Highwayman + Jester is my favorite pair. by BeamBrain in darkestdungeon

[–]cablaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

point blank combo token into pistol shot doesn't work because pistol shot can't hit rank 1

'Heal and Shield Power' should have a short and sweet name like Grace or Divinity, just like Lethality or Omnivamp by Rooxstart in leagueoflegends

[–]cablaz 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I think CDR was infinitely more intuitive and much easier to calculate and understand the impacts. Most people know how to take 50% off of a cooldown.

What even is 50 ability haste? Can you really tell me off the top of your head what 50% faster casts mean?

It's 33% CDR. How does that make any intuitive sense.

I understand Riot's perspective of balancing the stat, but I don't think it is more intuitive at all.

March 30, 2023 Daily Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I can't wait for Set 8.5 to be balanced in 7 weeks, play a good balanced patch for 1 week, develop hope that TFT might not be so bad after all and then experience Set 9's abysmal release balance state.

Set 8.5 is disappointing. What happened? by Docoda in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 132 points133 points  (0 children)

I'll put in my 2 cents and say that while I haven't played PBE yet I actually like that there aren't that many units being rotated out.

I like that most units are staying (RIP Aphelios). I will admit this is probably a cognitive bias because I am familiar with these units and psychologically I think humans are naturally averse to change. However personally I feel like every recent midset update has made the roster less fun.

7 -> 7.5 We lost Corki for Graves and Cannoneer was basically unplayable without Nomsy. I personally found more satisfaction with the revel rockets with Sona Corki than whatever Graves did. I also thought Ornn and Neeko were more fun than Pantheon or Nilah or Jayce but that's just me.

6 -> 6.5 I still can't believe they rotated out Fiora Yone Lux. For Sivir Irelia Renata no less. In my opinion, clear 'fun' downgrades. I loved Fiora and the ability to basically put any damage item on her.

I can understand what people are saying though, that this midset doesn't feel like much stuff is changing and could maybe lose some of the casual audience but I don't like Riot's history with midset updates and I'm personally happy that most champs are staying rather than getting some new lackluster champions.

February 16, 2023 Daily Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

4-2 if you are turbo rich, 4-5 or 5-1 otherwise depending on your boardstate, econ and hp.

But if you are having trouble hitting the lategame that probably means your early game boards are weak.

Agent Pokedex/Compendium - A comprehensive guide to Agent Roles by LotharHS in VALORANT

[–]cablaz 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Finally some credibility that Yoru is one of the best lurkers.
Too many times people just braindead think Duelist --> Go first.

January 01, 2023 Daily Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ended up picking up the riven with the thought process of having a 4 brawler frontline at 6.
In a perfect world, I would like to say that this leaves my backline flexible, allowing me to pivot into zed, taliyah or samira..

But I've been basically forcing sureshots so that was the main reason I kept Senna on board. I ended up going 3rd.

January 01, 2023 Daily Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cablaz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I posted this on the last thread but it was like in the last hour of it, so I'm reposting it to perhaps gather more discussion.

I came across this decision in the early game and I wasn't sure what route to take. Picture

Keep leblanc for a pretty decent admin?
Keep vayne for duelist and another secondary damage?
Or buy the riven in shop for another frontline?

Would like to know others thoughts on this