ROBINSONGZ TFT HANDBOOK
Standard Comps
Top Tier
When to Play:
AD Opener
How to Play:
Strongest board until level 8. Board is Big Shot + Frontline.
Play 4 bigshot if bigshot headliner
Items:
Ezreal: BB + AD + HEALING (IE, GS, LW, Guardbreaker, Gunblade, BT, etc)
Tank: Tank
When to Play:
Disco Opener
How to Play:
Play a mix of dazzler/disco/frontline.
Strongest Headliners: Disco TF > Dazzler TF > Frontline
Items:
Twisted Fate: Attack Speed/AP/Mana items
Tank items on any 2 star frontliner
When to Play:
When you’re highrolling out your mind
When to Play:
KDA / AP Opener
How to Play:
Can go 7 Spellweaver if spellweaver headliner
Play 5 KDA + 5 Spell depending on headliner
Can also play Lulu 3 if stuck on 7
Items:
Ahri: BB + AP
Lulu: Shojin + AP
Sera: Shojin + AP
When to Play:
KDA/AP opener
How to Play:
Fast 8 into Karthus or Akali headliner.
Depending on your headliner, play 5 KDA / 4 EXEC / 5 PENTAKILL
Items:
Karthus: MANA + Guardbreaker + Archangel (you get AA from superfan)
Akali: AD + healing (you get HOJ from superfan)
Morde: Tank
Other
When to Play:
slammed bruiser items, hit zed headliner
How to Play:
4 EDM + 4 crowddiver.
EDM Zed > Crowddiver Zed
Items:
Zed: EON + Healing + Damage
Zac: Tank
Reroll Comps
Top Tier
When to Play:
Lots of annies + headliner annie
How to Play:
Slowroll for Annie 3 and push levels for Superfan + Guardians + Spellweavers
Emo Annie > Spellweaver Annie
Items:
Annie: Shojin + Nashors (you get another shojin from superfan)
Amumu/Ekko/Neeko: Tank Items
When to Play:
Only play with Crowd Diver Kat Headliner
How to Play:
Roll for Kat 3 on level 6 or 7
Play 3 Superfan + 4 crowd diver until you hit qiyana, then play 6.
Items:
Kat: HOJ HOJ JG (you get HOJ from superfan)
Zed: EON + Healing
Neeko: TANK + SPARK
When to Play:
Lots of MF
How to Play:
Roll for MF 3 on 7, push levels cap with legendaries
Items:
MF: Guinsoo + LW (you get DB from superfan)
Neeko/Ekko: Tank items
When to Play:
Punk headliner
How to Play:
Roll for Jinx 3 / Vi 3 on 5
Can also push 6/7 and play for Pantheon 3 / Twitch 3.
Always roll the 1 gold rolls
Try to play 4 guardian
Play 2 Exec if carrying Twitch
Play 2 Rapidfire if carrying Jinx
Items:
Jinx: Attack Speed + AD items
Twitch: Attack Speed + AD items
Pantheon: Tank
When to Play:
Country opener or slammed bruiser items
How to Play:
Strongest board to level 7, roll for samira 3 / urgot 3
Play a mix of country/mosher/executioner depending on headliner
Can roll for Sett 3, Vex 3, Amumu 3 as well depending on gold
Items:
Samira: IE + LW + 1
Urgot: Bruiser items (titans, eon, bt, db, gs, qss, etc)
Sett: Tank Items
Other
When to Play:
Lots of LUX + EDM Lux headliner
How to Play:
Roll for LUX 3 on level 7, push levels for 4 dazzler 5 edm + bruiser
Items:
Lux: Rabadon + Crit
Zac: Tank Items
When to Play:
Lots of Sennas
How to Play:
Roll on 6 or 7 for Senna 3
True Damage Senna > Rapidfire Senna
Play vertical True Damage or Rapidfire depending on headliner
Items:
Senna: AP + Multiplier (GS, JG, Guardbreaker), you get Shojin from Superfan
Neeko/Ekko: Tank
Strong Stage 2-1 Augments & What to Play
| Augment | Team Composition |
| That’s Jazz Baby | Bard or MF Reroll |
| Three’s A Crowd | Samira/Urgot Reroll or any Superfan Comp |
| Bigger Shot | MF Reroll or Ezreal Flex |
| March of Progress | 3 Cost Reroll |
Strong Combat/Econ Augments
| Silver Augments | Gold Augments | Prismatic Augments |
| Stationary Support 1 | Three’s A Crowd | Binary Airdrop |
| Good for Something | Little Buddies | Shopping Spree |
| Cutting Corners | Crash Test Dummies | Stationary Support 3 |
| Cybernetic Bulk 1 | Stationary Support 2 | Lucky Gloves |
| Scrappy Inventions | Inspiring Epitaph | Roll the Dice |
| Vampirism 1 | Sleight of Hand | Phreaky Friday |
| Iron Assets | Escort Quest | Cybernetic Bulk 3 |
| Buried Treasures 1 | Lucky Streak | Buried Treasures 3 |
| Cybernetic Bulk 2 | New Recruit | |
| Patient Study | Endless Hordes | |
| Portable Forge | Living Forge | |
| Idealism |
Set 10 Augment Tree
Headliner Effects
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Leveling Odds
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Headliner Odds
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Superfan Items
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Missed Connections
Early / Mid Game Boards
Early Game Leveling
Should you pre-level or no?
What is “pre-leveling”? Pre-leveling is the strategy of buying XP so that you’ll hit the next level at the start of the next turn.
So at Stage 1-4, you are at level 3 0/6 exp. If you push 4 into exp, you will be at level 3 4/6 exp. You gain 2 exp per round, so the next round (at Stage 2-1), it will automatically level you up to level 4, giving you LEVEL 4 SHOP ODDS instead of LEVEL 3.
Level 4 shop odds open you up to 3 cost units and a higher chance at 2 cost units, with a lower chance at 1 cost units.
Keeping this in mind, you can decide whether or not you want to PRE-LEVEL or not.
PRE-LEVEL IF:
- You have upgraded 1 cost units
- You have clear direction on what early game you’re playing
- If you want higher odds at hitting 2/3 cost units
OTHERWISE, don’t PRE-LEVEL
PRE-LEVELING IS WRONG IN ABOUT 90% OF YOUR GAMES!
PRE-LEVELING when you shouldn’t usually leads to weak board strength and poor econ.
Level to 4 or stay level 3?
Level to 4 if you think you can win streak. Otherwise, stay level 3 and go for lose streak / carousel priority.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU CAN WINSTREAK OR NOT: If you have a strong slammable item and/or you have multiple upgraded units, you are probably strong and can go for win streak.
Examples:
Kennen 2 Taric 2 Corki 2. STRONG.
Annie 2 TahmKench 2 Olaf 2. STRONG.
Nami 1 Taric 1 Gragas 1. NOT STRONG. No upgraded units.
If you leveled at 2-1 and are currently level 4:
In most games you would stay level 4. However, if you started with a 12+ gold opener AND won the first round, you can put in 8 EXP to level to 5 IF you have a good 5th unit to play and are contesting win streak with someone else that is pretty strong.
If you lost the first round, DO NOT level.
If you are level 3:
If you won the first round when you were trying to lose, you should level to 4 to try to win streak. HOWEVER, if you are absolutely positive you cannot beat anyone even if you level, DO NOT LEVEL, stay level 3.
If you lost but upgraded a few units from the current shop and think you can start winning / 4th unit spikes your board pretty hard, you can level to 4 here.
Otherwise, just stay level 3 and lose again.
By now, EVERYONE should be level 4 here.
If you are on a 2 win streak AND have a good 5th unit to play, and you are contesting win streak with multiple players, level to 5 here.
YOU SHOULD BE SCOUTING FOR STRONG OPPONENTS IN THE LOBBY TO POSITION FOR. Usually, these are the opponents with 100 / high HP in the lobby.
On this turn, you should generally pre-level or make 10 gold.
If you can’t make 10 gold without selling valuable units, pre-level to 5 here to get level 5 shop odds (Push in exp until level 4 8/10 exp).
Otherwise, make 10 gold.
However, if you are contesting lose streak and you think having an extra unit for the next two rounds would cause you to beat someone else contesting lose streak, DO NOT PRE-LEVEL.
YOU SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT WHAT CAROUSEL ITEM TO GET HERE. FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, AND FIFTH BEST CHOICES.
If you are level 5, there’s nothing to do here. If you’re win streaking, make sure to scout for tough opponents you haven’t fought yet and position for them.
If you are still level 4 and think you can win the next 2 rounds, you can level to 5 here and go for a 2 win streak into neutrals.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU CAN WINSTREAK NEXT TWO ROUNDS:
If you completed a strong item from carousel (e.g. Sunfire Cape if you have upgraded frontline units) AND upgraded a few units / got a strong carry, you can probably try to win the next two rounds.
KEEPING TRACK OF OPPONENTS YOU FOUGHT IS VERY USEFUL HERE. If you’ve already fought the 3 strongest people in the lobby, you can scout the remaining players left in your pool and make a judgement call as to whether you can win the next two or not.
If you are still level 4 and don’t think you can win the next 2 rounds, you stay level 4 here and keep losing.
IF YOU ARE ON A 3 OR 4 LOSS STREAK:
Make sure to scout and make your board weaker than the weakest player in the lobby you haven’t fought yet. You do NOT want to win and want to lose streak into neutrals for maximum econ.
IF YOU ARE ON A 4 WIN STREAK:
On rare occasions, if you are rich (12+ gold opener / have an econ augment like hustler), you can level to 6 if you have a good 6th unit to play AND are contesting win streak with someone else.
MAKE SURE TO SCOUT TOUGHEST OPPONENT YOU HAVENT FOUGHT YET AND POSITION FOR THEM!!!
OTHERWISE, do nothing.
Leveling Intervals
This is assuming you are NOT playing a reroll comp and are playing a standard leveling comp.
At 3-2, you should be level 6. Roll if needed (board is all 1 star and lost a lot of HP on stage 2).
You can either sell your headliner and roll or just roll. This depends if you think you can get a better headliner relatively easy.
You can also level to 6 at 3-1 if your econ is good AND you are trying to continue your win streak from stage 2.
If you are lose streaking, instead of rolling at 6 sometimes you can sack until 3-5 and go level 7 and roll down to stabilize, depends on your board, econ, and HP.
Level to 7 on 4-1. Now you have 4 options here:
- Sell headliner and roll
- Keep headliner but roll
- Don’t roll and aim to go level 8 on stage 4-2
- Don’t roll and aim to go level 8 on stage 4-5
Any options here depend on your spot on 4-1. It depends on your current board, hp, and gold.
Option 1 is if you are still using an early game headliner (1 cost headliner) AND your board has barely any upgrades
Option 2 is if you have a good enough headliner but you still need to upgrade your board.
Option 3 is if you highrolled and are super rich and can go level 8 on 4-2 with a lot of gold leftover.
Option 4 is if your HP is high and you can afford to sack 3 here.
You should almost always be level 8 on 5-1, assuming you are not playing reroll.
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Set 9 Augment Tree
BING CHILLING – I just stabilized / in a good spot
Its a FORST – I just highrolled and think I’m getting first place, but probably an over exaggeration
Its an EIF – Something bad just happened, I think I’m going 8th but also an over exaggeration, probably going 6th
Mortdogged – Screwed over by bad RNG
Soju special – going level 9 and rolling once and dying
BIS / Best in slot – best items for that specific champ, can just use for “Best”
WIS / Worst in slot – worst item for that champ, can use for “Worst”
Donkey rolling – rolling to 0 gold every turn
Disneyland – easy lobby
Highrolling/Lowrolling – getting lucky/getting unlucky
Open Fort – intentionally losing first 5 rounds in stage 2 to maximize econ
Slow Rolling – Rolling above 50 gold to maintain 5 gold interest
Bebe level – Leveling aggressively for no reason, level 5 on 2-2, level 6 on 2-6
This game is so bad – frustrated by RNG, don’t really think game is bad
Its a tuber – game was super entertaining, going on youtube
NEAL – Not Even A Loss – one or 2 unit losses
Slamming – Placing an item on a unit, usually completed item
Naturaled – Receiving an item from creep rounds and not from carousel
AP / AD – ability power, attack damage
One-trick – plays only 1 comp
20/20 “Comp” – refers to lolchess posting 20 most recent match history, all 20 are same comps, same as one trick
KEWKcone – chalice, looks like ice cream cone, KEWK is soju emote
RAT – kiyoon’s nickname, spammed when someone takes zephyr / shroud
OLDGE – robins nickname, not sure why
KEWK – soju emote
OkaygeBusiness – helping someone out, “pleasure doing business” with them
DongerJ – something big
PogO – something really lucky just happened
Frontline / Backline – Tanks / ADCs
Diff – difference in winning or losing a fight
NO BITCH – not a bitch, just YOLO
Fast 8 – going level 8 on 4-2 or 4-5, not rolling on level 7
Lives – number of rounds you get knocked out
Flex – being open to playing more comps, being flexible
Believers / Doubters – believe in streamer to win prediction / doubt
Sacking – holding onto your gold knowing you will probably lose rounds until you spend it later
Vertical “Comp” – playing 6 to 8 of that trait. Vertical Duelist = 6 to 8 duelist
PD – player diff
FON – tacticians crown (+1 unit), old name was called Force of Nature
BG – bad game, opposite of gg
Neeko – Champion Duplicator, used to be called Neeko’s Help
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