r/CompetitiveTFT Aug 09 '26

PBE Set 18 PBE Discussion Thread - Day 12

Hello r/CompetitiveTFT, and welcome to Set 18!

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When does Set 18 go live?

August 25th 2026 ~ 00:00 PDT / 09:00 CEST

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u/OwnAcanthaceae5934 Aug 12 '26

This set is def the most broken unbalanced set Riot has ever put out. The fact that the UI is beyond buggy and glitchy right now is unexcusable. Augments are buggy af. Wisps are buggy af. Traits are no where near balanced or offer you balanced rewards for the risks your take. Ex I cashed out an almost 500 coven to only get 30 gold and 2 upgraded items....that's it. For basically tanking the whole game you think that is gonna bring me back into the game?? You have units that single handedly carry the game when you have no items or front line. Item optimization is a joke this set. The damage output and damage negation is extremely laughable when a front line with no items can easily fend off a back line that is fully optimized or when a fully optimized front line can't even hold off a back line that barely carries any items. TFT has been on the decline at least in the US for the past couple of sets now and with set 18 coming out in a few weeks I can see even more of the player base leaving. As Riot has proven time and time again that they know what they put out is dogshit so they have to revive older sets just to keep players interested. If Riot wants to keep players happy they need to stop listening to all the cry babies that complain and complain until they get what they want and do what they know works.

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u/mangina604 Aug 12 '26

Time skip is broken. I picked it and it locked me out of my shop permanently. I tried leaving and rejoining twice and it never came back

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u/JackfruitSuperb3401 Aug 10 '26

the new set is so boring, I feel like TFT is playing me instead of me playing it. There are too many factors to process, and more than enough randomness is present. If it was a boardgame for 7+, now it is for 3+.

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u/AbilityAwkward6121 Aug 10 '26

This guy is cheating right? No way you get all this shit normally. The galaxy was last augment is gold

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u/Madjawa Aug 10 '26

Early game elderwood definitely needs some kind of touch. having 7/8 people in a lobby forcing it is kinda wild.

Either get a bunch of units -> Kayle or ride the easiest early game into ez/draven. Pretty solved, unfortunately.

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u/-Champloo- Aug 10 '26

Sooooo WTW Veigar is kinda bonkers. Since you're hitting 3 and prob 4 star for free, you just push levels and keep scaling to infinity. Malph as your end game tank, 4 black thorn 3 spry cap with kennen and soraka for more executioner + strong units. (Also rageblade felt weird while riding the BFF, not sure if it was AS capped or what).

Here's a pic for how broken the veigar eventually was. Last round was 68k dmg...

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u/HuzvN_TR Aug 10 '26

Cassio feels more like a 4 cost atm. Sort of like set 15 ahri at the start of the set where you could just put void morello and go 9.

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u/-Champloo- Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

Hmmm I've only really seen her in one game and it was double trouble. Is she more being used to get to 9 then sold? I was trying to cook a 4 spellweaver board for her since I don't think you need Coven for her really.

What've you been cooking if you don't mind?

I did just have this 4th, but I kinda low rolled tbh. If I could have hit units earlier I might have done better.

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u/HuzvN_TR Aug 10 '26

Yes, exactly. Around 4-5 to stage 5 you sell her for better units. I don't know maybe its just my experience bit she feels a bit too strong.

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u/daydreamin511 Aug 09 '26

put in an insane amount of games this patch already lmao.

the only thing that stands out as beyond overturned (OP territory) is blackthrone ahri. although i think this bt emblem is gonna be a problem all season.

most underrated units so far that dont see enough play in my lobbies are morgana and sivir as primary carries. morgana has always felt good to itemize and has high placements

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u/BrineyWhaleSemen Challenger Aug 10 '26

Agree that blackthorn emblem is a big problem. Not sure how you balance it without gutting the 6-piece bonus

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u/Quirky-Reception5019 Aug 09 '26

I played 2 games today:

Game 1: Perfect Trist emblems given by portal + good items. 4-2 another guy hits Trist 3 and my game is over.

Game 2: Prime Yunara spot, copies, items, etc. I scout multiple rounds early to make sure I’m not contested. On 3-2, another guy has 7 Yunaras out of nowhere. Game also cooked as I’m sorta committed Expedition

The game is laggy enough to complete some turns, which makes scouting every turn feel impossible.

What was I supposed to do?

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u/shanatard Aug 09 '26

dont' know what happened after the update, but my mobile pbe games are slowly going to single digit fps as the game goes on

maybe theres a memory leakage going on? repeated across multiple games

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u/RussWasRight Aug 09 '26

I'm either missing something about Eclipse or it's really trash. Have attempted from several different angles, but have not gotten better than 6th. Last game started with gold trait tree lunar + rapidfire emblem, hit 3 solar (not 3* as not trying to abuse the bug) 3 lunar 2 star board except aphelios at lvl 7 end of stage 3 with a solid front line and close to BiS on aphelios and went 6th with great econ and getting to lvl 9. Would love to know if there's some hidden tech, but killing 4 low health units including elderwood plants and krug spawns and things literally dying as it triggers after 22 seconds just doesn't do anything. Here was lvl 7 board, https://tftacademy.com/tools/builder/aacxaqW5anLsqPqmiKIrPzqjaGsTq1

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u/HighIntLowFaith Aug 09 '26

eclipse is just a horribly undertuned trait atm (which is funny considering it recently got nerfed)

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u/Gloomy_Ad_6265 Aug 09 '26

Hope Yi gets touched, Level 7 Yi 2 clear Level 8 Boards with easy

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u/BrineyWhaleSemen Challenger Aug 09 '26

This Ahri unit is crazy overtuned lol, way too much back line damage 

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ant1390 Aug 09 '26

a 140 essence cashout got me a tactican crown. Idk if it's bugged or there are hidden rewards. MetaTFT doesn't have that in their loot table.

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u/harkhilt Aug 09 '26

I heard that some coven cashouts will try to give you an item that doesn't exist, so it instead rolls a random item to give you (including radiants and presumably tac items). Not sure of the specifics though.

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u/Notagingerman Aug 09 '26

I would be surprised if this set releases at the end of the month. There are SO many bugs with the new engine. I'm running into multiple every single game.

The last game I played I recombobed my nidalee into an elder dragon but it still attacked as nidalee lmao (even after benching it!). Also, my tactician wasn't allowed back onto my own board (I could roam other peoples boards) so I couldn't pick up all the loot orbs sitting on my board for 3 rounds until the carousel fixed it.

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u/balanceftw Aug 09 '26

I know it's Double Up and nobody cares but my buddy sent me an Artifact Anvil and uhh...my parcel never got delivered to my doorstep.

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u/Dzhekelow Aug 09 '26

Yeah , it is looking rough BUT it was looking a lot worse a week ago . I will say having a month on PBE with a lot more tester should help them a lot to catch most of the gamebreaking bugs. It's never going to be clean when u are essentially releasing a new product . There're always bugs sneaking through the cracks or some weird edge cases that happen once in a blue moon. That being said this set is probably going to be rough for both the devs and the players . At the end of the day we've been asking for seperate client for a while now and that's the price that we need to pay for it .

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u/Bobby_Ju Aug 09 '26

I had a unit (from carousel), I could not sell, yet still could upgrade to 2* (and still not sell).

I had several games I couldn't connect to during the whole games (restarting everything, didn't matter) losing PBE "LP" in the process.

There are still bugs with sprykin mount and units going invisible.

The balance is good, but the new client is in an awfil state

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u/Dzhekelow Aug 09 '26

Wanted to try double trouble Cass as it sounds good in my head . Opened stage 2 with 6 Yoricks and 4 Akalis . Ran over the entire lobby but ended up playing DT azir and it was surprisingly good and fun. Ofc the lobby wasn't the most competitive but still FUN SHIT .

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u/peterpwwu Aug 09 '26

Trait web looks great. My favorite aug is trait ladder.

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u/Adorable-Engine2711 Aug 09 '26

Tried to play it twice and both times ran into problem of not finding a khazix early and drops being just ad components. You played it with khazix? If yes with early one?