TFT Cheat Sheet for Set 13, Into The Arcane

How to use the TFT Cheat Sheet:

1. Most units have 2 traits, 1 class and 1 origin (some units have 3 traits). Start by focusing on exactly one primary carry and then building outwards and matching traits.

2. Activate your carry’s damage class synergy.

3. Activate your carry's origin synergy with a frontline unit.

4. Activate you frontline unit's class synergy with another unit. Bonus points if it activates multiple synergies!

5. Add in units to hit the higher tiers of traits for your primary carry.

6. Add in splashable traits that can be activated by one unit. Avoid selfish traits that don’t match your important units.

If you want to search the spreadsheet, you can use https://tinyurl.com/tftcheatsheet13

Example Use Case

1. Let’s say we hit an early Twitch and we want to carry him. Twich is Experiment + Sniper.

2. We want another unit to activate Twitch’s major damage class, Sniper. Let's add Kog’Maw.

3. We want frontline units that activates Twitch’s origin, Experiment. Let's add Nunu and Dr. Mundo.

4. We want to activate the frontline class now. Let’s add Elise to give Bruiser with Nunu.

5. Now we can add in more Snipers to hit the higher tier of our main trait. Let's add Maddie and Caitlyn for 4 Sniper, who also match each other with Enforcer. This gives us a level 8 board with a decent mix of frontline and backline.

6. We have 7 units now. While we didn’t end up with any units that can fill splashable traits this time, we do have 1/2 Dominator and 1/2 Automata, which makes adding a Blitzcrank more valuable. This is our final level 8 board, which has a decent mix of damage and tankiness.

Additional Info

Always make sure you have a good mix of defense and offense!

There are 11 units that have 3 traits (Powder, Rell, Urgot, Vladimir, Ezreal, Gangplank, Nunu, Swain, Ambessa, Ekko, Elise) and may be played more often.

There are also 4 pairs (Powder + Ekko, Irelia + Illaoi, Maddie + Caitlyn, Vladimir + Leblanc) who share both of their traits. This can make it easy to either transition from the low tier unit into the high tier unit, or alternatively play them together.

Some 5-costs have unique traits (Junker King, High Roller) that mostly exist for flavor rather than gameplay reasons- you can think of these as a second ability. These were not included in the table.

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. Almost every single top tier meta comp can be created using this style of building out traits from your primary carry.

Thanks for reading! Check out the discussion thread in the Discord if you have any comments/questions!