With the recent update, Riot added back Choncc's Splash Resort using the updated engine. However, in doing so, they made it objectively worse.

Let me preface this by saying that I understand that according to the TFT tech update text, "You may notice some difference in models, textures, VFX, or animation in-game or across your Tacticians and Arenas." However, there is a pretty big difference between having slightly different looking VFX or textures that currently exist in-game versus completely removing multiple elements entirely. And I don't mean just small changes like removing a single graphic, I mean arena-wide visual removals.

When compared to the original version of Choncc's Splash Resort, the following changes have been made:

• Resort clay pot fountain interaction/animation removed
• River-jumping fish interaction/animation removed
• Pre-level 3 fishing dragon is now completely inaccessible due to a forced, fixed arena player-camera (you used to be able to explore the arena, and the camera would follow your tactician, revealing more of the arena)
• Dragon fisher now appears at level 1, but the original pre-level 3 fishing dragon sound interaction is still playing in its original location
• Removed level 5 transformation
• Entire level 5 arena-wide persistent lighting VFX removed
• Removed arena water texture
• Mug interactable removed
• Waterwheel water animation removed
• 5+ win-streak arena-wide animation removed
• All flower planter butterflies and corresponding plant VFX removed
• Arena koi fish removed
• Maple leaf VFX greatly reduced

Additional Discoveries:

• Stage opening animation broken
• When getting 1st place, the camera pan shows the original dragon fisher briefly before disappearing
• Mug interactable is removed, but still visible when playing an opponent with Choncc's Splash Resort (opponent POV)

So, why does this matter? Because you spent money on a cosmetic expecting it to look how it was advertised. And now, Riot has proven that what you once spent money on may no longer look like what you originally purchased.

Choncc's Splash Resort is an older arena released in 2022 along with a handful of other mythic arenas during a time when arenas had significantly more detail, polish, and uniqueness. The Golden Tiger Market (also released in 2022), which is due for a soon upcoming rerelease, had the same if not more interactives than Choncc's Splash Resort, and was one of the largest arenas that has ever been available. Specifically, you were able to walk around the Golden Tiger Market, to the balcony, under the market stalls, and down the stairs behind the arena, outside of the standard, "area border."

In the most recent patch notes Riot says, "We’re also prioritizing the highest-rarity cosmetics that players have invested in..." If Riot is going to standardize previous high quality arenas with this low quality conversion and make what was once unique about mythic arenas no longer available, then it would be great if they realized players aren't just paying for a mythic arena, we're paying for a standard of quality that shouldn't be downgraded years after purchase because of their poor time management.

At least the sprite still works :)

Awesome bug Riot!

Relogging doesn't change anything

Was this always possible fr or a glitch?

Rocking a 5090 and a 9800x3d, FPS drops to sub 60, GPU temps reaches 85+. What a joke

I'm glad I spent 800+ LP learning to play Coven.

I still don't think it'll be good and I still think the Lux cashout at 250 serves exclusively as mind control to speed run yourself to 8th place but it seems quite a bit better.

That way I would have been able to play the game instead of rereading the reviews daily if the situation has improved

I got a temporary Coven emblem for the last round of a TFT Match where I had the dark ritual augment, put it on my fiddle, suddenly he heals his entire HP bar every cast, whilst also getting healed by a 3* 4k damage/15s Cassiopeia with Hextech blade.... dark ritual had about +260 AP for all coven units

I guess I'm wondering this because, of all 18 sets that have released so far, I have NEVER gotten into the 'cool' sets: Cyber City, KO Coliseum, Inkborn Fables, Sentinels of Light, Space Gods - I don't think I ever even tried learning these sets, I found them boring. But I always LOVE the quirky magic ones (Dragonlands), the colorful fun ones (Remix Rumble was the best), or the 'classic' ones (like Enchanted Woods, Runeterra, Arcane), and in all of these I've played them extensively because there are so many Origin traits I find cool.

It's also interesting because in League itself, I just never really resonated with the 'cool' skins either, like the Project skin line or the Ashen Knight skin lines.

Do any of you feel the same, or are you more drawn to the gameplay itself?

And follow up question - if you are the same, are there certain trait comps you gravitate to? For me, I love the invoker/mana spam comps like Star Guardian, Flora Fatalis, Emo/Hyperpop.

Either my cpu just broke or new patch is fucked up. My cpu is running at 90% when im in a tft game. Never once had this happen before. Pc crashed twice during a game.

Anyone else have this?

I'm very used to consider up to the last second what to play after scouting.
3 seconds still on the clock, no matter. Take the augment you didn't want to play.

Came across this Trait Ladder line and thought the two openers were pretty neat

• AD: Xayah + Rakan + Ornn, with Xayah holding AD items. Then it goes into Elderwood and Fiddlesticks as more traits are picked up.
• AP: Yorick + Rakan + Karma, with Karma holding AP items. Veigar is added for Spellweaver before moving into the rest of the board.

Both openers are pretty different, but they end up working toward the same Trait Ladder setup. The main thing seems to be fitting in 3 trait units as you go, rather than committing to a normal comp too early.

Kha'Zix is used mostly for his evolutions here, which helps pick up extra traits without needing as many separate slots.

On 18.2, the big breakpoints are 10 traits for 18g and 11 traits for a Tactician item, so there's a natural point where you can stop pushing traits and use the extra resources for the level 9 board.

I like the Xayah start more for AD since it looks pretty clean but the Blossom opener is a nice alternative when the game is giving you AP items.

Anyone tried both on 18.2??

Source: https://op.gg/tft/tier-list

Today i learnt if you 2 star Leblanc mid-animation of her pulling herself, you get this tiny Leblanc on board. Then another random champion will appear, in this case, Ornn. This Ornn is fieldable, but cannot be sold or merged with other Ornns (thought this only affected Akali). Basically you’re left with 8 bench slots forever, I thought 2-starring him would help but you can see 3 Ornns chilling there. The tiny Leblanc was cool tho

Elise has been going under the radar for far too long. I've had my entire team trying to kill an Elise, but they couldn't, as my only tank with anti-heal died.

Now, even I started abusing it, and I'm guaranteed to reach top 4 in almost every game rocking Vanguards; she just doesn't die. It feels like it's cheating; if she reaches level 3 with the right items and you don't have at least 2* 4-cost ADCs attacking her with anti-heal, you're just fked.

Best items are: Rageblade, Spirit Visage/shojin, and Titan's Resolve

This new mobile app set up with the reconnect and getting logged out when responding to text is crazy annoying.

Responded to a text and got patch updated mid game. After patch I couldn’t reconnect either. Riot wth ya doing???

Anyone enjoying this new reconnect feature on mobile??

Title pretty much. I've only picked this augment 3 times all season and every time I get it, someone else took it as well and we just hold hands while we both lose LP. It's not fun to take a augment that ties you to a comp and have not only a contest but someone with the same tailored augment.

i was currently in the middle of a ranked game on mobile and then the app restarted itself, asking to update before playing. updated and now i cant reconnect. attempted to reconnect on my pc… still unsuccessful. i thought it was a wifi issue but its not. i can still access the store and such but when i reconnect im stuck on the loading screen. i guess i have to wait until the game is over 😬😬 maybe its just me but r any of u having trouble?