TFT Cheat Sheet for Set 15, KO Coliseum
How to use the TFT Cheat Sheet:
Most units have 2 traits, 1 class and 1 origin (some units have 3 traits). Start by focusing on one primary carry and then building outwards and matching traits.
Activate your carry’s damage class synergy.
Activate your carry's origin synergy with a frontline unit.
Activate you frontline unit's class synergy with another unit. Bonus points if it activates multiple synergies!
Add in units to hit the higher tiers of traits for your primary carry.
Add in splashable traits that can be activated by one unit. Avoid investing in selfish traits that don’t match your important units.
If you want to search the spreadsheet, you can use https://tinyurl.com/tftcheatsheet15
Example Use Case
Let’s say we hit an early Samira and we want to carry her. Samira is Soul Fighter + Edgelord.
We want another unit to activate Samira’s major damage class, Edgelord. Let's add Yasuo who also gives us 1 Mentor.
We want frontline units that activates Samira’s origin, Soul Fighter. Let's add our 4 cost, Sett.
We want to activate our frontline class now, Juggernaut. Naafiri is a clear choice as a trait pair with Sett. We are now 3/4 Soul Fighter, so let’s also add Xin Zhao.
Now we can add in more Edgelord units to hit the higher tier of our main trait. Let's add Shen who pairs with Xin Zhao to get Bastion. Now we are 3/4 Edgelord so let’s also add the 4 cost Edgelord, Volibear.
We now have 1/2 Luchador, so our last unit can be a Dr. Mundo. He gives 3/2 Juggernaut so won’t make our other Juggernauts stronger, but he will at least will benefit from it himself. This is our final level 8 board without using any legendaries (5 costs), and has a decent mix of damage and tankiness.
Additionally, note that this is just an example of how to creatively use the flowchart to build a cohesive board and get as much value out of your units as possible. There are millions of combinations so keep trying things out.
You can also slowly replace some of the cheaper units with more stronger units once you find them. For example, when playing Edgelords, we would obviously want to fit in a 2 star Yone if we find him. We’d likely be level 9 with an extra unit slot, so we could replace our Shen with the legendary Bastion, Braum. Since we have 4 Soul Fighter we might also want the legendary Gwen, and could replace our other Bastion, Xin Zhao with Swain to gain Sorcerer. We can cleanly transition one piece at a time to this level 9 board and utilize legendaries.
Additional Info
Always make sure you have a good mix of defense and offense!
There are 7 units that have 3 traits (Aatrox, Kennen, Syndra, Janna, Shen, Swain, Udyr, Ryze) that you may want to play more often.
There are also 7 pairs (Ezreal + Yuumi, Garen + Leona, Lux + Gwen, Naafiri + Sett, Syndra + Seraphine, Lucian + Karma, Jhin + Varus) who share both of their traits. This can make it easy to either transition by selling the low tier unit to play the high tier unit and maintain your traits, or alternatively play them together at the same time.
Some 5-costs and Lulu have unique traits (Monster Trainer, Stance Master, Rogue Captain, Rosemother, The Champ) that mostly exist for flavor rather than gameplay reasons- you can think of these as a second ability.
Not all comps created using the TFT Cheat Sheet flowchart style will be incredible, but they should be pretty solid as long as you aren’t using too many cheap units (or too many expensive units which may make the comp difficult to assemble!). Almost every single top tier meta comp can be created using this style of building out traits from your primary carry because it maximizes the efficiency of your limited unit resources.
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