How to Play Teamfight Tactics: An Introduction to TFT
TFT is a round-based strategy game. Your goal: Build the strongest team and be the last person standing.
TFT is a round-based strategy game. Your goal: Build the strongest team and be the last person standing.
League of Legends' new game mode Teamfight Tactics (TFT) is blowing up. This guide will help you get a jumpstart and get ahead of the curve.
How to Play
Teamfight Tactics is Riot Games’ take on Auto Chess. In a game of you and seven other players, each player has their own play space. Where they can place their own units and build an army, to take on other opponents. At the start of each game, each player controls their character, or “Little Legend,” around a carousel of champions you can pick from. All eight players including yourself will choose a starting champion from the carousel. Once you are back onto your chessboard, you will see two creeps. You can now click and drag the new minion you selected onto to board to fight the creeps. After each round you receive gold. Gold is used to buy new champions to build your team. You can see your available champions to purchase on the bottom of your screen. Any champions purchased will automatically go to your bench on the bottom of the screen. To play your newly purchased champion simply click and drag it onto the play space.
Items
The first three rounds will always be creep rounds to gain EXP and items. Items can be given to your champions to make them stronger. You can combine two separate items to craft one item. You simply click and drag the items together to combine them onto any champion you wish. There is a total of 64 different combinations of items you can craft. This item build list shows the required basic items you need to combine to create more powerful items for your champions.
Champions
You can purchase multiple of the same champion for your team. Buying three of the same champion will combine them into one stronger version of the same champion. To create a silver two-star champion, you’ll need three one-star champions. To create a gold three-star champion, you’ll need three two-star champions. Gold three-star champions are the highest level, as well as the strongest. Each champion has a unique class and origin they belong to. Having multiple champions with the same class or origin may give you benefits.
For example, having a Gangplank, Miss Fortune, and Graves, three champions from the Pirate class, will allow you to earn up to four extra gold at the end of each PvP round. Each class and origin have their own perks. Building a strong fun team that fits your playstyle is very important. The level of your personal character determines how many champions you can have on the playing area at once. You can spend extra gold on EXP to level up quicker and get more champions on your board.
Classes
Assassins jump to the backline of the enemy team and deal additional critical strike damage.
Blademasters have a 35% chance to strike additional times each attack.
Brawlers receive bonus max health.
Guardians give adjacent allies additional Armor
After attacking, Gunslingers have a 50% chance to fire additional attacks
Elementalists gain double mana from attacks.
Knights make your team block damage from basic attacks.
Rangers have a chance to double their attack speed for the next 3 seconds
Shapeshifters gain bonus maximum Health when they transform.
Sorcerers gain double mana from attacking and allies have increased spell damage.
Origins
Attacks from Demons have a chance to burn an enemy's mana and restore their own.
Dragons gain resistance to magic damage, equivalent to what a Dragon's Claw would give.
Throw a bomb at an enemy unit with an item, and disables all items in a hex radius for 8 seconds.
Exiles gain a large shield to start combat if they're isolated from the rest of your team.
On hit, Glacials have a chance to stun for 2s.
Phantoms will make it easier to eliminate one enemy unit.
Ninjas gain a percentage of Attack Damage and Ability Damage
Nobles grant +50 armor +50 magic resist, and 25 health per hit
Imperials deal Double Damage.
As previously mentioned, Pirates give you additional gold after PvP rounds.
Robots start combat at full mana
All basic attacks deal true damage
Attacks generate stacks of Fury (up to 5). Each stack of Fury grants 7% Attack Speed.
Attacks against ally Yordles have a chance to miss.
Gold
At the end of each round, you’ll gain EXP and gold depending on the results. If you lose the round you drop-down points on your health bar. All eight players start at 100 health. When you drop down to zero you are out of the game. The last player standing is the winner.
Gold is very important in TFT. Some of the many actions include
Extra Tips and Tricks
- On the bottom of the screen, there is a map will all other seven players on it. You can click on your opponents and check in on their builds and team comps. This is very important because being able to counter another player is a huge factor in winning.
- If you keep losing rounds swap the roster. Don’t keep playing round after round to lose. Sometimes one new champion can turn things around.
- Don’t spend all of your money. Nothing is worse than having a champion pop up on the store that you really need, and you don’t have enough money to buy it.
- Don’t only go for strong champions on the carousel. If you are the last pick and you do not get the champion you wanted, don’t stress. Sometimes going for a champion with an item you need is a better strategy.
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