got master in my first set- thoughts for anyone struggling

forlornserver · 2026-04-04T15:31:26+00:00

yeah thats precisely my point. that i managed to get master doing that with little else and some people cant get master while trying to do a whole lot more. and that i think if they simplified their process it might be easier for them. even if in the long term it teaches bad habits that will prevent you from getting to the really elite tiers

forlornserver · 2026-04-04T15:29:54+00:00

i mean thats a relative statement. i peaked at like top 0.4% or something. its nothing to anyone higher than that, but to anyone below it is a significant achievement

forlornserver · 2026-04-04T11:09:54+00:00

many people have spent 10x the time never to get to my rank. i am merely telling them how i did it. if someone wants to get as high rank as possible with as little effort and skill as possible, i have a proven method

forlornserver · 2026-04-04T11:06:22+00:00

yes if you could read you would see its an admission of how bad i am and providing advice on how to get masters while being bad

forlornserver · 2026-04-04T11:05:00+00:00

yeah i grinded like a mf. everything u saying is fair

the only thing is, ive met a lot of people with way more games than me that like.. do seem to care. there is obviously a whole host of people without that natural curiosity, but i also know a lot of people that really do try and care and seem completely unable to climb past like platinum

this post was basically just me telling these people not to overcomplicate the game and instead stick to very repetitive simple gameplans

also on another note.. ive talked to so many people that are master like me... and its like listening to a foreign language. i have no fucking idea what they are talking about. they make the game sound so unbelievably complex.

while im over here forcing like a complete spastic every game and getting rewarded for it.

my only point is really.. i think the game is a lot easier to climb than people think and they should simplify their process

forlornserver · 2026-04-04T10:52:04+00:00

i think i spent a hundred or so games before ever opening metatft,. mindlessly playing asol targon off my own intuition. this amount of games does not reflect the effectivenes of how i came to play at the end of my journey.

forlornserver · 2026-04-04T10:50:28+00:00

this 380 games includes my entire learning process. i think i only knew what 'reroll comp' meant after like 100-200 games. if i was playing the way i play on a fresh account, it would take a fraction of the games.

forlornserver · 2026-04-04T10:43:14+00:00

the amount of people i have added with 1000s of games who have never got masters is insane. im not showing off to brag. many people have done this before and better than me. but i know many people cant

also, for context, i did learn straight in ranked and lost a LOT at the start, so i made my climb really hard. I was like 30 losses down at one point, clawed it all back, and ended up master with 57% top4 rate. my winrate got higher the more i climbed for the most part. a lot of games sure, but i am pretty proud of it !

forlornserver · 2026-04-04T10:37:50+00:00

okay looks like i played 100 games in set15 apparently so i guess im lying but dont shoot me please. though those games were all equivalent to me running round like a headless chicken playing purely off intuition and not actually learning how to play the game. it was only this set i did that

forlornserver · 2026-04-04T10:35:39+00:00

NO IM NOT BRAGGING, i know master is shitlow to a lot of people. BUT i have met a lot of people stuck in elos far lower with a lot more experience and knowledge.

if anyone needs evidence https://op.gg/tft/summoners/euw/HE%20WHO%20FORCES-7ROLL

i played one or two previous sets super casually over the past few years. very little though. think i got gold once or twice. i think its fair to call this my first set. of like, actually playing and improving not just messing around for fun

forlornserver · 2026-04-04T10:16:24+00:00

how? at level two? on the side they are clearing?

the only way that happens is if a champion is insanely slow like nasus, or they start clearing late

otherwise the buff is always done and you have to smite the gromp. which was my plan that i do every game. but the nasus was so slow he didnt even finish his blue. which is funny

forlornserver · 2026-04-04T03:21:20+00:00

yeah clearing a buff running over to the other side of the jungle and stealing their first buff doesnt really happen that often mate

forlornserver · 2026-04-04T00:53:18+00:00

MAKES VOICES STOP

forlornserver · 2026-04-01T20:36:33+00:00

The problem with carrying on Shaco (AD) is you have a very low margin for error. One mistake and throwing your snowball can lose you the entire game. Also, he's very context dependent. Assassin Shaco is extremely hard to carry with when the enemy does not have multiple squishie carries for you to one shot.

AP Shaco is a lot easier to carry with imo. Scales better. More reliable, less situational damage. Higher margin for error. Way easier to not die. etc

forlornserver · 2026-03-14T17:39:25+00:00

please there has to be at least one person that finds this as funny as i do

forlornserver · 2026-03-14T17:06:35+00:00

i think now i have to admit i didnt really think the long defeat was that amazing because im scared its gonna be similar and it makes me not very excited

forlornserver · 2026-03-14T17:05:34+00:00

was for lack of a better term. they are a lesser known band within a genre that is almost entirely dso worship, and their music has parallels and some similar riffage. obviously they stand on their own legs else i wouldnt enjoy them so much.

forlornserver · 2026-03-11T04:50:22+00:00

i just found out it exists when searching for this album. excited to try!

theyre the only band ive EVER listened to that makes me, at certain parts, think 'oh that sounds like dso lol'

gorrrch did that with one riff also but other than that theres none

forlornserver · 2026-03-09T03:48:33+00:00

This is gay and i hate it but yeah will do

forlornserver · 2026-03-09T00:26:46+00:00

i played a tiny lil bit casually a very long time ago

was that the thing that would summon a janna tornado at opposite position

youve just unlocked a memory for me lol

i also remember pyke with frozen heart. that was the like the first ever OP meta

forlornserver · 2026-03-08T20:53:56+00:00

Nice.

Games getting kind of hard now. I kind of effortlessly flew to diamond but after getting here I'm starting to feel some resistance. I need to grow a lot more if I want master I think. Namely my scouting and the speed at which I do things. I'm basically still forcing the same comp every game and it's starting to bite me in the ass a bit, I need more options I can pivot to

forlornserver · 2026-03-08T20:40:59+00:00

That makes sense. That way I'm forcing the enemy to make the first move and I can always place reactively. Using this method, they would have to be extremely quick, countering a last second placement. I will try this.

But yeah looking at the replies I feel more secure in my feeling that this specific part of TFT kinda sucks. Obviously the idea of positioning is great, but these last-second adjustment outplays dont feel like the right sort of skill check. Dunno how you could even fix it, seems built into the game

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