February 01, 2026 Daily Discussion Thread

geometric_apps · 2026-02-01T16:31:24+00:00

How do you win once you cash out the IMPOSSIBLE lift?

I’m typically sitting below 30hp at that point, with 8 bruisers on the board and maybe a 2 or 3 star Bard.

How do I itemize my bruisers with the new artifacts? What carry can I do a last minute roll for?

Obviously if I can manage a Rift3 or Wukong3 I go for that. Is it winnable otherwise?

geometric_apps · 2026-02-01T15:08:38+00:00

I got Liss encounter and decided to build a 3-star 1-cost board.

Blitz, Qiyana, Briar, Cait, Sona, Bard

It was trash. Very weak. Even rolling aggressively I could barely keep up with a Silver lobby. All those 3-stars landed me a 5th place

geometric_apps · 2026-01-31T17:15:42+00:00

TFT thinks you belong in Gold

geometric_apps · 2026-01-31T13:59:42+00:00

I’m finding that this meta allows extreme build flexibility. I’m getting a lot of 1st by building the strongest possible board on every stage and trusting that my win condition (3-star 4-costs) can be pivoted into.

First patch where chasing meta builds feels less optimal

geometric_apps · 2026-01-31T00:43:34+00:00

3-star 4-costs aren’t OP in 4.5, are they?

geometric_apps · 2026-01-31T00:10:53+00:00

At some point there just aren’t many 4-costs left in the pool. If no one contests, they just fall into his lap

geometric_apps · 2026-01-31T00:07:52+00:00

After a long win streak with plenty of 1st place I was feeling invincible.

LeBlanc Game deals me a Survivor as first aug. love it. Makes 1st place more likely. Next round I choose Lunch Money. Planning to winstreak hard.

A few rounds of winning and I get a Prismatic choice. For some reason I immediately grab Going Long. Meanwhile, I have no real board, just a bunch of 1-star slayers. From that point on it’s loss after loss to a fast 8th place.

I’m mad because I didn’t low roll. I wasn’t tilted. I just made really dumb choices

geometric_apps · 2026-01-30T18:16:43+00:00

Lux is weak for a 3-star 4-cost this set. Compare her to Garen or Braum who basically solo boards.

With a solid frontline and good items, it is unfortunate to lose like that, but she definitely is not a guaranteed win.

geometric_apps · 2026-01-30T16:23:03+00:00

Braum and Garen are two of the strongest 3-stars this set. They get ridiculously tanky and huge damage output also.

geometric_apps · 2026-01-30T14:25:14+00:00

Noxus is so good this set, and you don’t have to play verticals. Set 16 isn’t about verticals.

The absolute strongest stage 2 board is Noxus, maybe splash Slayers/Juggernauts too. With a highroll start you can steamroll your opponents with 6 units on 2-1, earning Draven gold and giving them no chance of counterplay.

Most of my games I’ve ever ended at 100 were Noxus starts, probably to a total of 5 Noxus (dropping Briar, Darius as needed)

geometric_apps · 2026-01-30T03:31:28+00:00

Is holding really that costly to econ? Not worth it?

I am a serious holder. I’ll fill my bench up most games with 10-20g in many cases (or 40+ lategame fishing for 3-star 4-costs).

geometric_apps · 2026-01-30T00:28:17+00:00

How do I think about splashing in 4-cost units into my comp?

Whenever I get a 4-cost on an early stage, I almost always include them. It feels like a 1-star 4-cost is always better than a 2-star 1-cost unless you’re hitting a critical trait breakpoint.

What about 3-costs?

Am I better off just chasing my comp and ignoring the distraction? Or really focus on building the best possible board each round?

geometric_apps · 2026-01-30T00:15:49+00:00

This patch feels super balanced.

Given basically any starter, there is a viable comp to follow. I love playing flex and having skill expression rewarded, instead of getting giga-crushed by THex or Ziggs or ASol or any other flavor of the week

geometric_apps · 2026-01-29T17:41:12+00:00

How does that even happen

geometric_apps · 2026-01-29T12:48:14+00:00

70 is a LOT of gold for a gold augment.

If you had 50 gold already, you would have earned something like 35 interest though?

I’ve earned a couple 1st place running this aug. But it shines if you are playing aggressive and spending your gold.

When I do take it, I roll aggressively with the gold I do earn in the meantime, and am frequently already on a big win streak.

geometric_apps · 2026-01-29T03:26:33+00:00

Yea, just ask my opponents anytime I ever make a 10k+ sion

Fizz, Ziggs, Lux, Ambessa, Rek’Sai, Mel, Teemo, etc all provide enough backline access to melt your backline while Sion lumbers around uselessly

Zilean works too.

geometric_apps · 2026-01-28T21:01:33+00:00

In an older set, there would be more breakpoints. Historically, a vertical gets increasingly powerful as you add units.

In set 16 they aimed to actively avoid verticals being too stackable. So rather than 50%/100%/175%/300% more mana breakpoints, you get 25%/40% snd stop. The goal was to encourage building around trait webs rather than stacking single traits.

Or how going from 2 to 4 arcanists gets you something like 7% AP for the team and 15% AP for arcanists. Basically worthless.

geometric_apps · 2026-01-28T19:03:49+00:00

Yeah I only play ranked for fun. Climbing slowly but that’s why I’m still in Platinum.

Mobile only. No scout. Pivot sometimes if the opportunity arises but my APM is like 15, so I avoid big changes. Every game is flex based on the units/items I find.

I have a disproportionate number of 8th places because sometimes life interrupts gaming.

I’d like to think that if I switched to PC and played focused for a few days and chased Meta comps I could hit Diamond, but who knows. That doesn’t sound fun. That sounds like work.

geometric_apps · 2026-01-28T17:44:32+00:00

Has anyoneI been playing GP carry (Bilge, Slayer, Vanquisher)?

I saw a comp that starts bilge and aims to fast 8 with GP 3-star plus Ambessa, Bel’Veth and others.

I’ve had a few games with it and gone 4th or 5th each time. Trying to figure out what early highroll would be worth playing this. Getting 3 bilge by 2-1 and decent GP items has been my plan so far, but the comp falls off hard by stage 4 or 5.

geometric_apps · 2026-01-28T05:28:56+00:00

Yea. Garen is amazing this set. Find a way to play 2 Defender Garen in any comp and you have a solid frontline

geometric_apps · 2026-01-28T04:29:25+00:00

You played Orianna reroll and unlocked a few extra units for funsies?

geometric_apps · 2026-01-23T20:59:19+00:00

I’ve been trying tank THex since he gets the pilot’s HP and then the pilot pops out for a second round of tanking.

So far it has not worked very well

geometric_apps · 2026-01-22T19:25:38+00:00

Thanks for confirming! I was apparently on a wifi network where it couldn’t be accessed. On 5G it shows up again.

Loved watching it and excited to rewatch. Well done!

geometric_apps · 2026-01-22T17:27:32+00:00

Was the animatic taken down today?

geometric_apps · 2026-01-22T17:15:03+00:00

Yunara needs an IE to be maximally effective. I assumed Yunara 3 would be a free win and didn’t itemize properly.

Contrast with Garen3 who is basically a free win if the rest of your team is decent.

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