Teamfight Tactics Dev Tracker

Brand is my favorite champ. I love the "Put a dot on everything" fantasy, and I loved Cassio in Galaxies.

And because of that, Abomination has been my favorite synergy. I love the way its a cool itemization puzzle figuring out how to get Sion the best items possible. Sadly it's been a bit on the weak side, but I was still able to use it a lot on my climb to masters.

Yeah, there's some good learnings here. Shred needs to exist as a counter option for sure. You don't want to play a magic comp, see a single Dragon's Claw or 4 Mystic and go "Well its now impossible for me to win", both because that's just not good game play AND it feels bad.

That being said, the conclusion we're starting to realize is that AOE Shred specifically being so sharp is hurting the game a lot. Last Whisper being 70% is probably OK, while Garen being 70% is extremely limiting. Ionic spark at 40% for example is totally fine. In Patch 11.11 you'll see some changes to shred based on this logic.

1. We don't have any plans to change the scouting hotkeys at this time.
2. Nope, we haven't had a chance yet to return to the idea of showing items in UI instead of in world space. The problem we still need to solve is how to make scouting opponent items not just functional, but actually easy and intuitive. We might end up revamping scouting itself in order to get this right, and if we can't arrive at a good solution, we probably won't move items into UI.

A lot! A healthy meta usually revolves around the 4 cost carries, which is an intentional design decision. So a lot of the balance work can be getting them to a healthy level, then balancing around them in the other areas (5 costs slightly better, 3 costs slight worse, etc). Reckoning for example launched with 4 costs being a bit over tuned, which then warped the meta around them.

Honestly this is one of the reasons I set up Twitter and stream and discord and things. There is something to learn about the VOLUME of posts and comments. That being said, there is also a difference between usability frustration and game play frustration.

In the case of usability frustration, it can be really helpful to hear how many people are struggling with not being able to inspect the carousel when a new set comes out, as it can give us insight on how to prioritize the player pain being felt compared to other opportunities.

Gameplay frustration is different. Since TFT isn't direct control, a lot of "frustration" comes down to "I made a plan, and it wasn't effective and that was frustrating". The most common example of this is "I made a 3-item backline carry (Draven/Velkoz/etc) and it got CC'd over and over and I didn't get to play the game"...but the reality is TFT wouldn't be nearly as deep or interesting of a game if every comp was front to back DPS races. C...

Yup, we are working on the design right now! The idea is to add more information to the trait tracker, in the form of additional tooltips. I can't promise a patch when it'll arrive, but we want to make this happen as soon as we can.

Aside from that, a longer term solution would be to expand the Team Planner (seen only on mobile) into a fuller-featured in-game wiki. This isn't something we are actively working on since it would be a pretty large body of work, but if this is something you all are very interested in, it would be really helpful to let us know!

It's much less about units or traits that are problematic. When we start developing the mid set, its likely too early to tell what was problematic long term anyway.

The primary goal of a mid set is to create a good moment for players to consider coming back (ranked has reset, and there's a bunch of new stuff to play with), so our goals are often around making sure the set feels different. In Galaxies, we didn't quite achieve this since Jinx carry (as an example) still dominated so games felt pretty similar. With Fates, we ended up swapping out a lot of the carries, which let to them feeling very different.

And yeah, it can feel bad if your favorite carry rotates out, but our hope is there is something new you can play with as well.

Typically we try to avoid major trait shifts like this unless they are absolutely necessary, as the learning cost to players is extremely high as well as the domino effects it has to the rest of the trait system.

The obvious swap here would be Riven becomes the Skirmisher and Nidalee becomes the Legionnaire...however that leaves Skirmisher with ANOTHER melee champion which they already struggle with having too many, and Riven's spell would likely need to be redesigned since getting more AD would make her spell unsustainably powerful.

If we ABSOLUTELY had to make a change like this we would, but I'd also ask the team to retro how we ended up in such a dire situation where it was necessary to make such a large change.

The honest truth here is that there is a LOT of work to be done to bring back an old set. Even just basic stuff like getting it up and running again and updating some of the code, then there are the more complex questions like "Should the items be the same as they were for that set?" If yes, thats a ton more work. Should Launch Set board size be used? Etc. So it is a TON of work to get right.

Then assuming we did all that, the question is how valuable is it? I think playing Launch Set or RoTE for a weekend or something sounds awesome, but we see this with other games like HS or MTG that the appeal very quickly loses its luster. We also likely wouldn't have ranked queues for multiple sets at the same time, and we know players really lose motivation without ranked.

All that being said, it's still on the wish list. Lots of players didn't start TFT until Galaxies or Fates, so giving them a chance to try the old stuff would be fun. We just need to find the right time to ...

Hello!

The spectator we are building, or better-named esports camera, is only being built for broadcast and tournament purposes. Unfortunately, this will not be a feature we make available for the everyday TFT player.

I am very curious though what you would find valuable or you would enjoy from a player facing spectate a friend option?

No new news yet! I really want to, and I hear you all who have asked for so long for official iPad and Tablet support. TFT really is a great fit for those devices! But it will be a little ways away until we can grow the team and tackle some of our more emergent work as well as keep shipping you all awesome sets!

We think the new "Emblem" system helps a lot with initial readability and learning the system, and especially with 16 spatula items. So we will likely be continuing this system moving forward with every set. We know its not perfect right now (Looking at you Dawnbringer vs Nightbringer), but things like the colors we added near the end of PBE should help it out a bunch.

For Revenant Spatula, it's a slightly more complex GA since you need the trait to activate it AND it comes with the 30% damage increase which can open up some cool strategies with champs who can lifesteal it back up.

Finally for the extra chase traits, we didn't want to overload the set at launch, and were finding things like Ironclad 4 were confusing players asking "How do I get this, there are only 3 champions?" To be honest we probably should NOT have shipped Abomination 5 at launch. All that being said though, or plan is to add these once the set has been live for a bit, looking to be likely aroun...

Hi Frodan!

We plan to give a formal update soon in an upcoming dev video! But things are moving along, I currently have no reason to believe the Reckoning finals timeline is at risk but if that ever changes I will let you and the community know :) We are just chipping away at making it posible for an observer to control the camera!

I know using big words like "strawman argument" can help try to make a bad argument sound valid, but what you're arguing for is a different game.

TFT is closest to things like Poker or a Magic the Gathering Draft. They are not "fair" by design, and the skill expression is measured in how you use what you are given. In such a system there are going to be moments where someone else had an extreme moment of luck (perfect drafts, hit on the river, etc). Doesn't mean you played bad, but also doesn't mean "Every game should give everyone the exact same thing".

In any individual game, luck will play a factor. Over the course of many games, consistency and skill play a much larger factor. When this happens to an opponent, your goal is Top 4.

Something we need to work on making clearer is that Top 4 is A WIN, not just 1st place.

You're exactly right! Thanks for making this point.

For a long time, I've very much wanted to turn on champ inspect in the carousel, but right-click (and tap on mobile) is an overloaded action in shared draft. It's move AND inspect. We have spiked this before internally, and it wasn't too bad on mobile, but it felt a bit weird on PC because the champ inspect card moves in a circle along with the champ, and trying to hover the item icon of a moving target wasn't great. I think we have more work to do before we can ship a good solution.

BOW DOWN TO YOUR ITEM OVERLORD

Get it...? Bow?!

LOL

Ofc no problem :)

Ah, my bad I should've specified that's for PC.

For IOS, we're currently having an issue with store items, see here: https://twitter.com/RiotSupport/status/1387460987570192387

Are you on android or ios?