Study Hall
The TFT Study Hall
Free, no-fluff Teamfight Tactics guides. The evergreen fundamentals that climb every set, plus the Set 18 Enchanted Wilds guides. Read the theory here, then let the overlay coach it live in your games.
Fundamentals
TFT Fundamentals: Econ, Health, Leveling, Rolling & Team Building
The complete map of TFT's core trade-offs — gold vs health, tempo vs econ, strongest board now vs later.
8 min read Read guide → FundamentalsThe Econ Loop: Why 'Money Makes Money' Is the Biggest Lie in TFT
Interest won't make you rich — winning and streaking will. How board strength and gold feed the econ loop.
6 min read Read guide → FundamentalsTFT Leveling & Econ Guide: Standard, Reroll & Streak Strategies
Level-by-stage charts for win, loss, and mixed streaks, plus reroll roll-down patterns and interest thresholds.
7 min read Read guide → FundamentalsTFT Learning Framework: How to Master Any New Set Efficiently
A repeatable method to learn any new TFT set: roles over tooltips, realistic boards, and cores over whole comps.
8 min read Read guide → FundamentalsThe Flex Play Guide: Mastering TFT's Early Game
Flex isn't your final comp — it's how you play Stages 1-4: hold pairs, play tempo, slam for your units.
9 min read Read guide → FundamentalsWhy Do I Keep Losing at TFT? The 5 Habits That Actually Cost You Games
The five habits that sink your placement, ranked by how much each one really costs, measured against 9,169 real high-elo lobbies.
8 min read Read guide → FundamentalsWhat Is Teamfight Tactics? How to Play TFT, Explained for Beginners
The complete beginner explainer: what kind of game TFT is, how a round works, and how gold, leveling, and the win condition fit together.
7 min read Read guide → FundamentalsTFT Star Levels Explained: Is a 4-Star Unit Actually Possible?
The copy math behind 2-star and 3-star units, how often 4-star units showed up in Set 18 ranked games, and when chasing a 3-star is a win versus a trap.
7 min read Read guide → FundamentalsWhy Is Everyone Playing the Same Comp in TFT? (And How to Beat Them)
Why lobbies converge onto a few lines, the data on being contested, and how to out-execute a contested comp instead of panic-pivoting.
7 min read Read guide → FundamentalsTFT Comps and Builds: How to Choose the Right Team Every Game
A decision framework for picking a comp and build each game: reading tier lists, core versus flex, best-in-slot items, and when to force versus flex.
7 min read Read guide → FundamentalsIs TFT Rigged, or Just Luck? Here Is What the Data Says
TFT has randomness, but decisions decide games. We measured a disciplined policy beating greedy and random play against 9,169 real high-elo lobbies.
8 min read Read guide → FundamentalsWhat TFT Set Are We On Right Now?
TFT is on Set 18, Enchanted Wilds, patch 18.4 (live since October 7, 2026). When Set 18 launched, where Riot's schedule puts Set 19, and how the cadence works.
5 min read Read guide → FundamentalsCan You Demote in TFT? How Demotion Really Works
Yes, you can demote in TFT. Hit 0 LP and you drop a division, with short protection after promoting. How ranked, demotion, and decay work.
6 min read Read guide → FundamentalsTFT for League of Legends Players: Your Head Start
Coming from League? Here is what transfers (champs, items, macro) and what is new (econ, augments, the shared pool), so you can start TFT with a head start.
7 min read Read guide → FundamentalsIs TFT Part of League of Legends?
Yes and no: TFT is a separate Riot game played through the League client and a mobile app, sharing champions and accounts but with its own ranked and rules.
6 min read Read guide → FundamentalsTFT Mythic Medallions: What They Are and How to Get Them
Mythic Medallions are a store currency for redeeming Mythic cosmetics, earned through the Treasure Realms system alongside Realm Crystals and Treasure Tokens.
4 min read Read guide → FundamentalsHow Long Is a TFT Game? Measured Over 110,328 Ranked Games
A ranked TFT game lasts 37.6 minutes at the median, measured over 110,328 Set 18 games. The spread, the shortest and longest games, how many rounds a game runs, and what 18.4 changes.
6 min read Read guide →Set 18
TFT Set 18 News Log: Launch, Patches 18.1 to 18.4, Unreal Engine and the Standalone Client
What happened with Set 18 so far: the PBE, the August 26 launch on Unreal Engine, patches 18.1 to 18.4, and the latest date for the dedicated TFT client.
10 min read Read guide → Set 18TFT Set 18 Enchanted Wilds: Overview, Launch Date and Patch Timeline
What Set 18 Enchanted Wilds is, when it launched, how Wisps work, and what patches 18.1 to 18.4 changed, with links to Riot's notes.
5 min read Read guide → Set 18TFT Set 18 Champions and Traits: Every Unit and Breakpoint
All 65 Enchanted Wilds champions by cost and all 35 traits with their breakpoints and the champions that carry them, from the game's data files, checked at patch 18.4.
11 min read Read guide → Set 18TFT Wisps Explained: How Set 18's Shop Mechanic Works at Patch 18.4
Wisps are Set 18's shop mechanic: one buy per round from the rightmost slot of every other shop. The rules, the Polymorph Wisps, Riot's published prices, and the changes from 18.2 to 18.4.
15 min read Read guide → Set 18When Is the New TFT Client Coming Out?
Riot's FAQ says November 3 for the dedicated TFT PC client, and Riot's own September 29 post describes one move, from patch 18.4 to patch 18.6. Every date, with the Riot page it came from.
6 min read Read guide → Set 18TFT Set 19 Release Date: What Riot's Schedule Says
Riot's TFT patch schedule lists patch 19.1, the first patch of Set 19, for December 1, 2026 (as read on October 11). Where the reveal and the PBE stand, from Riot's own pages.
5 min read Read guide → Set 18TFT B-Patch: What It Is, What the 18.4 B-Patch Changed, and Every Set 18 Mid-Patch Update
Riot's 18.4 B-patch, headed October 7, 2026: unit buffs, eight Wisp lines, eleven augment lines, Heart of Steel switched off. Plus every Set 18 mid-patch update, dated.
9 min read Read guide → Set 18Can You Play TFT on Mac? Native macOS Status in Set 18, Patch by Patch
TFT lost native macOS support with patch 18.1 and has been PBE-only on Mac since 18.2. Riot's Mac specs, what each patch said, and what Riot has not said yet.
5 min read Read guide → Set 18Is TFT Ranked Down? Set 18 Queue Shutdowns, Timed From Riot's Posts and Notes
Riot's posts switching TFT Ranked off and back on, October 7-8, 2026, came 7 h 30 min apart. Which Riot channel said what and when, plus both Set 18 queue shutdowns Riot has written up.
6 min read Read guide →Game Phases
TFT Early Game Mastery: Stage 1 to 2-1 Decision Framework
Stage 1 to 2-1 decides most games. Trajectory, pair-holding math, hold tiers, and openers-first thinking.
8 min read Read guide → Game PhasesTFT Reroll Fundamentals: Every Comp Is a Reroll Comp
Stop sorting comps into reroll vs. not. They're all reroll comps: only the roll level and your flexibility change.
7 min read Read guide → Game PhasesTFT Augment Selection Framework: Choose the Right Augment Every Game
Sort every augment into four types (econ, item, combat, direction) and learn which to take from your board state.
7 min read Read guide →Combat & Boards
TFT Itemization Guide: All 36 Items Explained
All 36 TFT items grouped by what they actually do, plus the core carry and bruiser combos that recur every set.
9 min read Read guide → Combat & BoardsTFT Positioning Guide: 3 Goals That Will Transform Your Fights
Three goals to flip fights: tank dies first, carry deals max damage, carry dies last, plus strong vs weak side.
7 min read Read guide → Combat & BoardsTFT Tanking Guide: The Formula Behind Unkillable Frontlines
EHP = HP x Resistances x Durability. Balance all three buckets so your frontline stops melting.
8 min read Read guide → Combat & BoardsTFT Damage Guide: The Three Sources of Damage & Why Your Carry Feels Useless
All TFT damage is Base x Frequency x Multipliers — fix the missing bucket so your carry stops tickling.
5 min read Read guide →Tools
Best TFT Overlay in 2026: An Honest Side-by-Side Comparison
TFTSense, Mobalytics, MetaTFT, TFT Academy, and Overwolf overlays compared fairly, side by side and head to head, on data source, live coaching, meta depth, platform, and price.
13 min read Read guide → ToolsAre TFT Overlays Allowed? Are Third-Party TFT Assistants Safe?
What Riot's policy targets, where screen-reading overlays stand, how to vet any overlay, and exactly what TFTSense reads and never reads.
7 min read Read guide → ToolsTFT Champion Pool and Shop Odds: Copies per Cost and Odds by Level
How many copies of each cost exist in the shared pool, how many distinct champions per cost in Set 18, and the full per-level shop odds table, with why it decides when to reroll.
7 min read Read guide → ToolsTFT Overlay and OBS: Streaming With a Screen Overlay
Why display capture reliably shows a screen overlay on stream while game capture often hides it, plus a checklist to make your TFT overlay visible or hidden.
5 min read Read guide → ToolsTFT Overlay Without Overwolf: Which TFT Tools Need It?
Which TFT tools install through Overwolf, which are standalone Windows apps, and which are web only, each sourced from the vendor's own page.
4 min read Read guide →Set 17 (past set)
TFT Set 17 Opener Guide
Every viable Set 17 early-game carry, sorted by cost: items, openers, positioning, and reroll lines.
9 min read Read guide → Set 17TFT Set 17 Guide: The Fast 9 Strategy
A repeatable Fast 9 line for Set 17 built on fundamentals, not on chasing whatever is currently meta.
6 min read Read guide → Set 17TFT Set 17 Space Gods: Complete Guide to Mechanics, Traits, Champions & Augments
The big-picture Set 17 overview: Blessings & Boons, the nine gods, unique traits, champions, and augments in one place.
12 min read Read guide → Set 17TFT Set 17: Essential Mechanics & Unique Traits
Every set-defining Set 17 trait, the standout 3-costs, and what each 5-cost legend actually does.
8 min read Read guide → Set 17TFT Set 17 Space Gods: 17 Essential Tips & Tricks
Free N.O.V.A. auras, solo-PvE gold, tank-item slams, and lose-streak rewards — 17 edges for Set 17.
9 min read Read guide → Set 17TFT Set 17 Blessings & Boons Guide: Complete Breakdown
Ranks all nine gods, the blessings to grab, and how to chase the best Boon. Yasuo and Evelynn lead.
9 min read Read guide → Set 17TFT Set 17 Artifacts Guide: Carry Items, Best Users & When to Pick Them
Rank Set 17.2 carry artifacts, learn their best users by comp, and know when each pick is worth it.
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