TFT Set 8.5 Tier List – Patch 13.6 Meta Snapshot

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Updated 3/24 – 13.6 We got the new Set 8.5 comps! We have 8 comps for you today and will update with more in the coming week!

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Best TFT Comps for Set 8.5 Patch 13.6

S: Vex, Lasercorps, Anima Miss Fortune, Jhin,
A: Spellslinger, Duelists, Threats, Draven, Infiniteam,
B: Samira, Gnar Reroll, TBD
C: TBD,

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Note that Items don’t really matter that much, so don’t grief your game to get specific items unless I mention a specific item is required.

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TFT Comps Tier List Set 8.5

S Tier: Best TFT Comps – Highly Flexible or Very Strong

Vex Reroll

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Simply put, this comp is absurdly strong. Due to Mascots being overtuned and the unmatched strength of certain Hero Augments, you will easily get 1st or 2nd if you hit your units.

Last Week’s Rank: S

Difficulty: Low
Item/Augment Dependence: Medium
Variance: Medium

Requirements:

  • Good frontline and preferably AP+ mana regeneration itemS on Vex

Item Holder: Lulu, Lucian, Ezreal

How to Play: This is a 2/3 cost reroll comp, so we typically want to reroll at level 6 or 7. If you have a Mascot Emblem/Heart, you should opt to reroll at 7 for 5 mascots 3 riftwalker so that you can get 6 Mascots due to Riftwalker’s +1 trait ability. If you get a Hero augmetn like Rock Solid, you must roll at 6 and the other super units as well because the comp then revolves around Malphite carry with Vex as supplementary damage. If you roll at 7 due to getting a +1 Mascot trait through Spat or Augments, you’re mainly looking for Vex 3 and Jhin 2 as your main damage dealers. The Mascots don’t have to be 3* in this scenario, but if you are able to hit it at a reasonable time you should roll for it.

Items:

  • Vex items: Blue Buff, Rabadon’s Deathcap, Archangel Staff, Giant Slayer
  • Malphite/Alistar items: Tank items
  • Others: Tank items/Thief’s Gloves

Core:

  • 4 Mascots

Augments: Mascot Heart, Mascot Crown, Mascot Crest, First Aid Kit, Cybernetic Uplink, Ascension, Golden Ticket, Think Fast, Band of Thieves

The best Hero Augment for this comp is Vex’s Joy Siphen, as it stalls the comp infinitely and it makes it seem as if your units never die. The Support Vex Hero augment is good as well. Rock Solid is also top tier because Malphite becomes an unstoppable tank + killing machine if you hit your 3* Supers

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LaserCorps

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LaserCorps is making a comeback! It’s great again, but this time Warwick is the main carry instead of Zed.

Last Week’s Rank:

Difficulty: Low
Item/Augment Dependence: Medium
Variance: Medium

Requirements:

  • Good frontline, 3 Warwick items (must have healing)

Item Holder: Ashe, Yasuo, Draven, Jax

How to Play:
Much like Set 8 LaserCorps, this comp oftentimes begins with 3 LaserCorps + Brawler into 5 LaserCorp late game. You can use Jax or Draven to carry Warwick items until you find him. You can Belveth as well if you find her before Warwick. Once you find Mordekaiser, the game truly comes online for you. Make sure you put Warwick in the Hacker and scout your opponents to make an educated guess as to which side you want to Hacker in Warwick for the highest probability of success.

Items:

  • Warwick items: Titan’s Resolve, Bloodthirster, Hextech Gunblade,
  • Ionic Spark + Sunfire Cape on Tank/utility units
  • AP items/Thief’s Gloves on Mordekaiser

Core:

  • 5/6 LaserCorp

Augments: LaserCorp Heart, LaserCorp Crown, Thrill of the Hunt, Second Wind, Celestial Blessing, Band of Thieves

In terms of Hero augments, both Warwick augments are really good, and so is Yasuo’s Spirit of the Exile. Morderkaiser’s support augment is preferred, but if you have to take the carry augment to complete your Lasercorp synergy it is takeable.

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Miss Fortune Anima Squad

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This comp was S tier in the late patches of Set 8, and nothing has changed in 8.5. Still one of the strongest comps, this comp is straightforward and consistent.

Last Week’s Rank: S

Difficulty: Medium
Item/Augment Dependence: Medium
Variance: Medium

Requirements:

  • AP items on Miss Fortune, Damage items on Vayne

Item Holder: Jinx, Lulu, Kai’Sa, Lux, Vayne, Leblanc

How to Play:
Miss Fortune (MF) is one of the most flexible carry units this set. There are many many ways to get to her, but a standard and simple way to navigate to her would be to play 3/5 Amina Squad early with Jinx carrying the AP items and then replacing her with MF later on.

When you find MF 2*, replace Jinx with her. Make sure you have a spare Jinx to complete your 5 Anima (or 7 if you have Emblem). She is extremely flexible and you can build a lot of units around her, but make sure your frontline is beefy enough. If possible, go for 3* Vayne and Riven with Vayne as your secondary carry and Riven as your tank.

Items:

  • Miss Fortune items: Spear of Shojin, Rabadon’s Deathcap, Jeweled Gauntlet, Guardbreaker, Giant Slayer, Hextech Gunblade, HoJ, Archangel
  • Tank items on your frontline units.
  • AD/Attack Speed items on your secondary carry (usually Vayne.

Core:

  • 5/7 Anima Squad, frontline units

Augments: Anima Squad Crown, Anima Squad Crest, Anima Squad Heart Cybernetic Uplink, Axiom Arc, Celestial Blessing, Radiant Relics, Exiles

In terms of Hero augments, Bunny Mercenary allows MF to hit more units and survive longer to get more abilities in. This is better if youre desperate for board strength. Make it Rain generates a lot of gold, so if you’re high HP and have a stable board, taking this will give you the econ boost to go level 9 and add in powerful 5 cost units. However, again, if you need pure combat power Bunny Mercenary is superior.

For Vayne carry Spread Shot is far better than Into the Night.

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Jhin Renegades

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Renegades this set has an AD backline carry in the form of Jhin, and is strong this set because of the AD and AP item holders and Jhin’s strength.

Last Week’s Rank:

Difficulty: Medium
Item/Augment Dependence: Medium
Variance: Medium

Requirements:

  • Items on Jhin and Viego

Item Holder: Jax, Ashe, Draven, Camille

How to Play:
Because this comp is basically the comp you flex into, your early game could include many, many comps. Generally, however, if you’re playing for Jhin you use Draven as an early item holder with generic frontline (Defenders, Brawlers and/or Threats). Typically you can split items early game to prep for your duo carries. For example, you can have a last Whisper on Draven and an Ionic Spark on any of your frontline units to help prepare for the transition later in the game. You always want 3 Riftwalkers because it gives you an extra Renegade while giving you solid frontline with Zac.

Items:

  • Jhin items: Last Whisper, Infinity Edge, Deathblade, Giantslayer, Runaan’s Hurricane, Guinsoo’s Rageblade, Hextech Gunblade
  • Viego items: Ionic Spark, Titan’s Resolve, Rabadon’s Deathcap, Hand of Justice, Hextech Gunblade, Jeweled Guantlet, Guardbreaker, Giant Slayer

Core:

Augments: Renegade Crown, Battlemage, High end Shopping, Celestial Blessing, Level Up, Renegade Heart, Second Wind, Pandora’s items

In terms of Hero augments, both Jhin and Viego Hero augments are good, but Jhin is bit higher prio because he is the main carry of the comp. The best Hero Augment, however, is Leona’s Eclipse Prime because it gives you a Leona and offers good damage reduction for your team.

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A Tier: Solid TFT Team Comps. Weaker, less flexible, requires more luck than S-Tier

Spellslingers

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This comp has a high cap, but like the Spellslingers of Set 8, it requires good items, augments and hitting all your units to do well. Because it has so many requirements, most importantly being duo carry items on Twisted Fate and Neeko, it isn’t quite S tier.

Last Week’s Rank:

Difficulty: Medium
Item/Augment Dependency: Medium
Variance: Medium

Requirements:

  • Good frontline
  • Good items on carries

Item Holder: Lux, Lulu, Leblanc, Sona, Kai’Sa

How to Play:
Generally if you have something like a Shojin early and a Lux 2* you can look to play around Star Guardian/Spellslingers early to smoothly transition to your lategame Spellslinger comp. Otherwise, you can look to carry 3 cost units like Leblanc and Sona with Annie + Alistar frontline to do well midgame. In order for this comp to top 2, you need sufficient frontline items on Ekko and, ideally, items on both your 4 cost Spellslingers.

Items:

  • Neeko items: Spear of Shojin, Jeweled Gauntlet, Guardbreaker, Rabadon’s Deathcap, Giant Slayer, Hextech Gunblade
  • Twisted Fate items: Statikk Shiv, Rageblade, Giant Slayer, Rabadon’s Deathcap, Jeweled Gauntlet, Hextech Gunblade
  • Tank Items: Any for Ekko

Core:

  • 4 Spellslinger 2 Ox Force 2 Aegis

Augments: Spellslinger Crown, Spellslinger Crest, Spellslinger Heart, Cybernetic Uplink, Luden’s Echo, Second Wind, Celestial Blessing

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Duelists

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Much like Duelists of last set, this comp seems to be relatively good at securing a top 4 but can’t beat out the top comps.

Last Week’s Rank:

Difficulty: Low
Item/Augment Dependency: Medium
Variance: Medium

Requirements:

  • Locket of the Iron Solari on Nilah

Item Holder: Kayle, Ashe, Jax, Vayne,

How to Play:
As of right now, the Duelist meta is at least 6 Duelists + 2 Ox force and useful Threat units. Considering this, early game is pretty simple. Just play either 2 Duelists + strongest units or just 4 Duelists in Stage 2 depending on what units you hit/upgrade. At level 6, roll for 6 Duelist and for some 2* units to stabilize a bit. If needed, roll again at 4-1 for 2* Vayne and Nilah and maybe one Twisted Fate.

If you have full AD damage items (like Giant Slayer + Infinity Edge + Deathblade) Vayne is preferred to carry these items. If you have Stattik Shiv and AP items you should put them on Twisted Fate. The most important item in this comp is Locket of the Iron Solari because Duelists do a lot of damage, especially early game, and ensuring their survival will help you run over opponents early/mid game.

Items:

  • Nilah items: Locket of the Iron Solari
  • Twisted Fate items: Statik Shiv, Giant Slayer, Rabadon’s Deathcap, Guinsoo’s Rageblade
  • Vayne items: Giant Slayer, Deathblade, Infinity Edge, Runaan’s Hurricane, Guardbreaker, Spear of Shojin, Last Whisper
  • Other units: Tank items

Core:

  • 6 or 8 Duelist

Augments: Knife’s Edge, Thrill of the Hunt, Cybernetic Implants, Celestial Blessing, Radiant Relics,

Both Hero augments for Twisted Fate are decent, but the Support one is preferred. Spreadshot is way better than into the night for Vayne carry. Nilah augments are decent as well. In terms of 1 + 2 cost Hero Augments, the utility Fiora augment is good. Fiora carry augment is also playable.

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THREATS

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Usually the threats played are BelVeth, Aurelion Sol and Aatrox, but you can throw in all threats like shown above. This comp is A+/S- tier if you have full items/good Hero Augments for both BelVeth and Aurelion Sol and have the Threat Level: Maximum augment. However, without it, it lacks the punch to truly contest with the top comps.

Last Week’s Rank:

Difficulty: Medium
Item/Augment Dependency: Medium
Variance: Medium

Requirements:

  • BelVeth and Aurelion Sol items

Item Holder: Jax, Camille for BelVeth, Lulu, Lux, Leblanc, Sona, Kai’sa for Aurelion Sol

How to Play:
You play your strongest board until you can get BelVeth and ASol, then start transitioning into a full Threat board. You can also opt to reroll Bel’Veth, Rammus and Morgana. If you hit 3* of all those units, the comp is decent, but Morgana is not as good of a frontline or utility unit as Cho’Gath in my opnion. Otherwise, you play BelVeth, Aurelion Sol and Aatrox. Aatrox can fit in any Threats variation (and most boards in general, honestly) because he’s reasonable frontline. You add in Fiddlesticks later. Again, comp becomes A/S- tier when you get the augment Threat Level: Maximum.

Core:

  • BelVeth, ASol, Aatrox

Augments: Threat Level: Maximum, Ascension, Celestial Blessing, Band of Thieves, Second Wind

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B Tier: Playable, but not Preferred. These comps could be strong if uncontested.

Sureshots

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It seems with AP being so prevalent this patch, Sureshot Aegis is consistent and strong, deserving of S tier.

Last Week’s Rank: S

Difficulty: Medium
Item/Augment Dependency: Medium
Variance: Medium

Requirements:

Item Holder:

How to Play:

Items:

Core:

Augments:

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C Tier and Below: These are compositions that are weak, but if they are given to you, you might be forced to play them.

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TFT Items

Carousel Item Priority (Start of Game)

High Priority >>>> Low Priority

Bow = Flex into AS carries such as WW, TF, Vayne
Belt = Flex defensive item into anything
Rod = Ionic/Gunblade Flex
Sword = Gunblade Flex
Chain = Worse belt for defensive flex
Tear = Spellsingers/Vex
Cloak = Mech items, Chalice, Spark
Glove = Thieves Gloves, LW, JG, HoJ

FAQ

  • How are compositions ranked?
    • There are many factors, but the two strongest ones are how often they can be played and how strong they are when you get it. Think of it like frequency of being played combined with how well it can potentially do.
    • I also rank them based on how often the best players in the world play each comp (top 10 players in major regions)
  • Why isn’t XYZ Comp here?
    • Probably not played enough, not strong enough, or maybe it hasn’t been discovered yet and will hopefully be added next week.
    • It’s also impossible to fit every single variation of every composition on a tier list, so expect variations of these comps to do well too.
    • I also add in different versions of different comps in the notes, so be sure to read through them! (For example, one synergy might have two different playstyles such as reroll or standard)
  • [Legendary Unit] carry is the best in the game, where is it?
    • It is not reliable to have a 5 cost carry as a composition because you will not be able to get a 2* Legendary consistently. There may be metas where there are ‘Fast 9’ comps, but these often use any legendary they can get instead of a specific one.
  • What does Difficulty, Item Dependency, and Variance mean?
    • Difficulty is how hard the composition is to play.  Difficulty does not factor into the strength or viability of the composition but serves as a factor for new players. 
    • Item dependency is how important specific items are to the composition. 
    • Variance is the approximate placement range of the composition.  For example, a consistent Top 4 composition has Low variance.  A composition that either places 1st or 8th has a High variance.
  • Does what composition I play matter?
    • No. Playing TFT well matters a lot more
  • I can’t get these exact items every game
    • You don’t need perfect items or exact items unless specified in the Requirements section. Most of the time you just need ‘playable’ items and not ‘best in slot’ (BIS)
  • You are wrong, XYZ comp should be in S tier and ABC player said this S tier comp sucks
    • Everyone has different opinions. I try to take a data based approach by analyzing games from the best players in each region to combine all their opinions.
    • At the end of the day, comp doesn’t matter much compared to just playing TFT well (rolling, managing econ, positioning, etc). If you check out the best players, you will see that each player favors different compositions yet they are all very highly ranked.
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  • Where can I learn more?
    • There are many resources and players to learn from. I suggest starting at my YouTube channel and this website.

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