Invest in Balance and Stability, not Aesthetics

Something that Riot has continually had issues with is making sure their games are balanced and stable, and ignoring those for making it pretty instead. Please for the love of god just balance the game and squash bugs. I play consistently on mobile and pc and while the bugs don’t always make me want to stop playing, the bugs plus the lack of balance really just makes it unfun. There’s the issue with trap claw where sometimes your champ will get stunned while wearing it, and the lag in the store making you either lose a roll or do too many. Also it would be cool if reconnecting to the game didn’t make the visuals different. It’s not game changing but it is annoying to be on mobile and there be visual discrepancies because the connection isn’t as stable. That’s been a problem since beta, and while items don’t turn into abyssal masks anymore, it’s still annoying. I think maybe the patches should be less frequent for the team to really be able to test new stuff on the PBE, because right now at the rate they’re being pumped out it feels as if not enough work is being put into insuring balance and FUN. This patch is more RNG/highroll based than most which tends to make it less enjoyable. Hopefully I have brought some ideas to the table and you listen, though to be honest I do not trust this company to have the players best interests at heart lol.

I love this game for mobile

This game works very well in the mobile format. Even when you need to answer a text you can leave the app and come back to the game immediately. The only hiccup is if you take to long it has to log you back in but it doesn’t disconnect you from the match and you keep playing. I’m glad the challenge system works now and you can make your seasonal pass xp on mobile. I do however find a lack of stuff to do when I completed my season pass. I don’t really have anything to strive for so I’m at a loss after playing for probably 3 weeks straight. It’s not a bad thing, but I would like to also like more things to do on mobile. I don’t usually ever play ranked in riot games but I’m really enjoying tft since it came to mobile and Ranked is something to go for now that I know where to access it on mobile too. It’s tough for me to play computer because I haven’t put a WiFi card in so it’s a lot of setup in the living room to play but my phone works perfectly well. The new patch recently released and they made the modes more noticeable and I actually wrote a review during the prior version incorrectly saying I wanted ranked play and it was probably in the game the whole time. Whoops. Anyways, I love the app and you should probably try it if you like to win or just the battle royal or free for all type games since it’s free. Get it!

Don’t Trust A Review Complaining About Balance

I’ve played this game since its inception and continually find myself coming back to it. New sets every few months keep this game fun and fresh. Albeit some sets were awful, mainly the second and third, but the last few have been as fun as the first. Easy to pick up, incredibly difficult to master, and loads of entertainment to be had. It should be noted that Riot has, and always will, be focused on a patch system to create an ever evolving game. I’ve read reviews complaining about the game changing week to week so they can’t keep up, but that’s exactly what Riot’s philosophy is for their games. They do it in League, they now do it in LoR, so duh they’re going to for TFT as well. I see some people complain about certain units being way too strong or unbalanced, but as someone who has hit the Plat rank in multiple seasons, I firmly believe those comments are made by players who don’t understand the economy of the game, or are just bad at it (I said what I said). I play the game on both mobile and PC.

Mobile needs work…

I am a longtime fan of RiotGames, and I have to say that I’ve played most of their games. My favorite of those games being Teamfight Tactics which is why I’m taking time out of my busy day to raise my voice for this amazing game. This game is so huge for PC gamers but I feel as though the mobile community is left out. I do not have a computer so I mainly play on my iPhone or iPad Pro and I’ve noticed that the game is just so inconvenient on these devices. Whenever I want to play and listen to music on another app, the teamfight tactics app blocks off most of the “volume” on the music and dulls the sound. Same for the iPad. And the iPad is another horror story altogether! How can you make this game mobile and not make it full screen capable for the iPad? I hate have two giant black bars covering most of my screen when it has the capacity to play other games in amazing quality. I feel as though the PC community gets most of the love since of course that’s where most of the revenue comes from, but your company has loyal fans on the mobile side as well that want similar if not the same treatment. Hopefully this reaches Riot and some of these MINOR fixes can be done. Then I will happily leave a 5-Star review. Until then I can only sadly say that besides the game being super fun, the comfort and quality of the game on mobile are C-Tier.

It’s alright

I’m not sure if I’m just blind and not seeing the enemies having a sword breaker equipped, but 99% of the time I’m noticing my champions randomly being hit by a sword breaker the enemy team has none at all, nor any cc items. Happens a lot within blademaster/attack speed comps. Kinda makes the game really irritating to play when you know you could have beat another players team but you’re randomly stunned and all you can do is watch your team die. Other than that, the game itself is alright. Rng clearly likes some more so than others. I’ve had my share of good luck and then also some really terrible luck too. Don’t know how there’s even a ranked option for a game based on luck like that. You typically see the same exact comps every match(usually even right down to items) and it just gets boring after a while 🤷‍♀️ oh no, another blitz/ez/cait/Malphite and some variation of chrono, they’re in the top 3? Or jhin/Ashe/karma and some variant of celestial/dark star. They’re in the top 3 too? Who could have guessed. TLDR; the game itself runs smoothly, but it gets old really fast when you see the same exact “top” comps every game, and if you do decide to try something different that’s been left uncontested you lose anyways because at least 3 players have one of those two comps mentioned that are incredibly strong, or you lose because there are apparently random sword breaker auto mechanics I am not aware of somehow.

App 5 Stars, Game 4 Stars

As far as the app is concerned, I’ve had no problems running the game. It’s crashed twice but I was able to reconnect within several seconds and get back in the game. The UI is wonderfully done for mobile. The only thing I’d like to see is a toggle to turn off “champion dmg” auto appearing after every round as on mobile it takes up 1/3 to 1/2 the screen. Now onto the game, it’s fun. That’s it for me: it’s fun. There’s a lot of randomness to the game but also strategy. A game starts with 8 players, and each player buys units from a shared pool. As each player levels up, their odds of finding “better” and “stronger” units increases. The strategy involved is about scouting other players and building a strong composition that are uncontested to get the greatest odds of the champs you want showing up in your shop. Getting 1-4 place is considered a “win”. It’s a fun game. Some people are addicted to it but the constant “rebalancing” patches put me off from the game. I don’t like relearning everything each week. The game is entirely free to play with only cosmetics being purchaseable. A solid game, that for me personally, is a good time waster when I’m out, but I have better things to play when at home.

Game is Broken

This game cannot be played on my 3rd generation iPad Pro with iOS 16.5. First of all, I had to try three different birthdates to create a “valid account,” which was a minor annoyance (the year wheel scrolls all the way to the year 1, by the way). The EULA comes next, and you have about half an inch of screen space to read this document, which is extremely long. Devs, I can guarantee you that no player of this game has ever read even half of that, but you’re forcing everyone to agree that they read and understood it before they can even try the game out. Don’t make people lie. Once I got to the main menu, I saw that the game wasn’t made for screens as large as an iPad. It plays in a tiny, phone-sized window in the middle of the iPad screen. I can let that stuff go if the game is playable. However, I couldn’t even get into the tutorial. There’s a box that comes up that says “Play Tutorial?” with a checkbox for ‘X’ or ‘check.’ I tried both options multiple times, but it just stayed on the main menu. I tried all the other play modes and got weird, unintelligible errors that included the words ‘name_change.’ I tried everything, Devs, and couldn’t play the game at all. Fix your game, people. I was ready to sink a whole rainy Saturday morning into playing it, but now I’m writing this review instead.

Fun game, need for balancing makes it not

This is a pretty fun game and as a long time consumer of Riot game’s services I can say this one of the more enjoyable games now that I understand how to play. That is, as long as you start out as top of the lobby…. Just as Riot has a history of doing, they sacrifice balance and variety for wow factor. It’s a very tough game to get in to as a beginner to start with, but even once you figure it out, your chances of “victory” are slim. I see why top four are considered winners, because the difference between first and fourth is massive, let alone first and last. The fact that either every high tier team comp is contested or one player does so well (due to a combination of luck and skill) that there just isn’t a chance for anyone to knock the king off his pedestal, is what makes this game so unfun to me. Out of the 65+ games I’ve played so far, only 3 have felt like everyone in the lobby had equal chance of winning. Either more variety needs to be added to this game so that more team comps are possible or there needs to be more of each champ available in the community pool or bring down the top tier comps down to realistic standards so everyone can feel good about playing this game. For these reasons I’ve given my one star and I just simply have better more balanced games to play in my free time.

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