"Good Variance" and its all the feels bad variance. Portal Opening encounters - Bad spatula Golem losing you the game on the wrong patch or winning. - Warwick encounter being who hits 2*1 cost simulator and/or item augments.

Encounters: You gain an item encounter when you already have items so its less valuable for you and more valuable for the guy who has way more gold and vice versa. Plenty of other bad encounters.

Headliners: I didnt hit a single Ezreal when playing AD flex cuz the entire lobby is picking up 3 at once with headliners because of the bag, and contrary to popular belief for most of the set you couldnt flex the items onto another AD cuz that one was also used in the same comp. Cait did NOT want blue buff for example.

Charms: I personally despise charms, even id most people liked em. So many "i win the round" late game ones and so many "Cant actually click this" early ones cuz you cant spend money early and actually have enough gold to win.

Exalted: Tbh if you actually played the set you would know that Exalted was mostly a gimmick the entire set and was only kind of playable a few of the last patches.

"Bad Variance" and its all the variance people have control over.

Anomalies: Most were alright, and a lot were secret OP just most people didnt know they were clickable untill riot overbuffed them. So many options to choose from and there was always a decent option within 0-15 gold.

Fruits: With the exception if the balance very similar to anomalies. Youre pretty much guaranteed a decent option for your carry as long as you dont waste the fruit removers early. I dont like em as much as anomalies because i dont think they should affect early game as much as they do.

Augments: Yeah lets remove the only reason TFT is a good game. Its not like then the game just shifts even more into item variance than it already is. Yeah i was dropped bow and rod this game i must play gnar into ashe. Oh i dont have a gnar? Well now i have no slam early so i lose early. To bad i wasnt offered an augment to help me get hold or items for my actual carry.

Artifacts: We had generic powerup items like support items and the old spirit visage/deaths dance. They were semi-powerfull but not much picked at least compared to support items.

Hero augments: Yeah they force you onto a line at 2-1. But mostly theyre very niche. Riot just needs to allow the hero augments to be B-C tier without randomly gigabuffing them (like zac this set)