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We’ve been here before. This isn't the first time Riot has shipped an augment that’s just straight-up broken. Just last patch we had Solo Plate, and if you look back at basically any set, you’ve got stuff like Evil Beyond Measure, Mecha-Prime, or Diamond Hands.

​1. The Knowledge Gap is killing semi-competitive players

​Hiding augment stats gives fulltime pros a bigger edge.

​Pros have study groups. They share data in private Discords and know exactly what's bugged.

​Meanwhile, we have to spend hours on Reddit and pros' VODs just to check if a specific augment even works as it says.

It’s exhausting. Staying competitive shouldn't feel like you have to fact-check the game own tooltips.

​2. Holding the balance team accountable

They just ship two of the worst augments, ​Loot Singularity and Timestream, in the exact same patch

​The numbers are pathetic, ​the cashouts are impossible to reach, and overall massively underpowered.

Riot has all the internal data, live and PBE. They should know when an augment is an fast 8th before it even goes live. If you’re going to ship stuff that’s this flawed, give us the stats so we don't have to pay some LP tax to learn your mistakes.

​3. The Creativity argument is flawed

​Riot keeps saying they want players to be more creative when choosing augments, but creativity is always based on a sound foundation.

​If an augment is averaging a 6.0, no amount of creativity is going to save your game.

​

Moreover, the people who actually check stats aren't casuals. Non-casual players have knowledge and their own reasonings -- they then can definitely decide which augments are best in each situation, not braindeadly choosing the ones with highest AVG.

​Bottom line: If Riot can't guarantee that every augment can actually function, or every new augments are not completely trash, they need to provide us data to protect ourselves from flawed mechanics.

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Now hear me out. Why are 90% of the chibi summoners female? all i want is a garen chibi, darius chibi, etc. i want some male chibis.

In fact, they only release male summoners in the form of unbound. it's very odd to me. I play TFT very often and have been waiting weeks after weeks to no avail, they just continue to make variations of ashe and zoe etc.

TDLR: where the male chibi summoners at? and why male summoners always unbound?

Patch 17.3 LAUNCH DAY — meta reset + same-day 17.3.b hotfix already pushed. Heavy content drop, even heavier bug list.

Meta Check

• Day-1 read: Briar / Teemo / TF / Leona / Jax got hit hard. Corki, Riven, ASol, LeBlanc Shepherd are the big winners. Datatft 17.3 speedrun: "Dark Star Lissandra reroll" and "ASol caster" are the two new comps debuting; "Corki and Riven were not nerfed, pushing them into S tier." Wasianiverson's read on Master Yi: small omnivamp nerf, otherwise winners are 4-cost AP (Karma, Nami, LeBlanc, Mighty Mech, Sona all buffed). Cosmic Restart, Exclusive Customization, Golden Gamble all nerfed — fewer auto-pick prismatics.
• Robinsongz on the global shape: "They buff Noo-Noo, Karma, and Leblanc... they nerfed all the forc[ed reroll lines] so fast [9] line is stronger this patch."

Busted Right Now

• Corki / Riven (4-cost) — untouched in 17.3 while everything around them got tuned. DataTFT bumps both to S tier on the speedrun list.
• Lissandra reroll Dark Star — newly viable per DataTFT. K3Soju's "Lissandra 3 Carry" video confirms the line works (he ran Cho/Liss reroll on patch day). 1-cost so 3-starring is realistic.
• ASol non-mech caster — 17.3 buffed his non-mech form by ~2x. Pairs with the new Concentration augment (Conduit ability duration +25–50%) for an L8 caster spike. Community read on r/CompetitiveTFT: "Concentration non-mech ASol looks very strong."
• Anvil Transformation + Twisted Fate reroll — Robinsongz: "Anvil transformation is too [explicit] broken." Despite the 17.3 TF nerf, the build was still oppressive in his run.
• Two Tanky Samira — still kicking despite the Samira ecosystem nerfs. Robinsongz's "biggest LP thief this set" framing continues to hold; he ran it again post-patch.
• Lulu reroll (Robinsongz): "This Lulu is broken. Now, Lulu is broken." Even after the 17.3 Serpent Stargazer + Lulu base nerf, the reroll line is still spiking. Crownguard on Jax + Lulu items is the bridge.

Falling Off

• 1-cost reroll generally — Briar AD 40→35 (over 10% damage cut, "huge" per Wasian), Teemo poison nerfed, TF nerfed, Leona armor/MR + spell-resist nerfed. Briar/TF/Teemo openers are all weaker.
• Master Yi reroll — omnivamp 15→10%, plus Marauder trait nerfed + Malware Matrix (Psionic item) nerfed with Graves/Yi. Wasian: "they are nerfing master a few times."
• Fast-9 Vex/Graves — Wasian had been calling this a Vex+Fiora board (not Vex+Graves) even pre-patch; Graves "got nerfed pretty hard" in 17.2, no help in 17.3.
• Choncc's Treasure / Set 15 callback — Reddit roasting Riot for bringing back Choncc 4 weeks into the set. Sentiment: "Set 17 is over for me lol. Long live choncc."

New 17.3 Augment Reads (consolidated)

• Loot Singularity (Dark Star black-hole-loot, Gold) — Day-2 verdict shifting hard to TRAP. r/CompetitiveTFT (108 pts): hitting 350 stacks in a 1st-place game with 6-Dark Star by 3-5; 31 rounds at 8 kills/round to hit the radiant. Wasian is the dissenting optimist ("could be like lifting competition"). 17.3.b also flagged a Spatula-reward bug.
• Concentration (Conduit duration +25–50%, Silver) — Wasian: "pretty weak — conduits are very weak." Reddit consensus: ASol-pivot enabler. Sleeper if you have an Asol opener; pass otherwise.
• Tour of the Galaxy (Voyager scaling, Silver) — Wasian: "decent on 2-1 for win-streak; vertical Voyagers still weak." Reddit fears matchmaking abuse ("voyagers gonna mess with matchmaking").
• Timestream (Timebreaker per-reroll scaling, Silver) — Robinsongz: "infinite HP, infinite AS with Prismatic Ticket." Wasian: "extremely weak — basically hefty rolls without the upfront rolls — sounds unclickable." Disagreement is real; lean situational.
• Heart of the Swarm (Primordian apex at L9 + 6 unique 3-stars, Prismatic) — Wasian: "just unclickable. Doesn't do anything until you're level 9 with a million 3-star champions, baits you into rerolling bad units." Robinsongz softer ("that'll be fun"). Currently bugged on away rounds per the 17.3 megathread.
• New Recruit (BUGGED) — does not grant +1 team size. Acknowledged in the 17.3.b hotfix. Multiple r/CompetitiveTFT posts of LP losses; one with 128 upvotes. Hard avoid until the fix is live.

Tips & Nuggets

• Dishsoap on 17.3: "I think this comp [Rogue Fizz] is probably broken." Fizz buff is real and the 1-cost is still scaling fine despite the broader 1-cost nerf wave.
• Wasianiverson on Stargazer fountain: "Stargazer fountain reenabled. Stargazers and empowereds heal an additional 2.5% — that's actually half of an Archangel which is pretty good." Worth playing into when offered.
• Robinsongz on TF nerf: "I don't know about TF nerf. I also don't think Teemo needs a nerf." Disagrees with the patch direction on 1-cost rerolls.
• K3Soju on Anvil Transformation strategy: still a "broken in the right setup" silver-augment per Robinsongz. With Trade Tree present, near-instant click; standalone it's still a question mark.

New Videos from Favorites (Robinsongz spotlight)

• Robinsongz — Patch 17.3 Rundown → His comprehensive line-by-line: "Karma, Noo-Noo, LeBlanc all buffed. Fast 9 stronger this patch." Most efficient single video to catch up on what changed.
• Robinsongz — I Broke the Game with This Twisted Fate Build → Anvil Transformation + Caitlyn carry off TF reroll. "Val Jax is busted." Despite the TF nerf, the line still clears.
• Robinsongz — New Patch Lulu Reroll Can 1v9 → Crownguard Jax 2 + Lulu items. Lulu still broken in Stargazers post-patch.
• Robinsongz — Highest Cap Board You Can Play This Set → Rost 5-cost flex, Nami 3-star endgame. "Nami's done is so broken" (note: that's a 3-star Nami hit, 4-cost — extreme highroll endgame, NOT a planned strategy).
• Robinsongz — I'm the Fast 9 Usain Bolt of Set 17 → Reaffirms the post-patch fast-9 read.
• Robinsongz — I Stole the Elder Dragon and ITS BEYOND BROKEN → Choncc's Treasure portal interaction.

Hot Takes on Reddit

• "Morgana is still apparently a 5 cost" (424 pts, 53 comments) — Pengu pity selection is showing 5-cost Morgana even after she was "demoted" from 5-cost slot. Bug or working-as-intended. Top: "small indie company / one of the most unpolished sets I've ever seen."
• "One guy is doing real well after the latest patch" (256 pts) — Jax meme. Top reply (61 pts): "Meta is going to be AP flex. The only main tank in his comp is armor reliant." Tracks with Wasian's 4-cost AP-buff thesis.
• "New Trait Augments" (194 pts, 50 comments) — Community gut: Voyager looks too strong / matchmaking-abusable. Conduit one might over-perform on Asol. Dark Star didn't need an augment (already best vertical). Primordian augment "needs to be prismatic or genuinely scary."
• "Fateweaver Mode" (145 pts) — "Seems busted." Stargazer + MF Fateweaver mode gets 75% lucky-chance → ~94% effective procs.
• "If an encounter needs a dozen augments removed to work, maybe the issue is the encounter" (90 pts) — Push-back on Riot's pattern of disabling augments for specific encounters. Suggested fix in top reply: "gain 3 random non-unique emblems. Emblem augments are disabled."
• "Chonccs treasure is back 4 weeks into set 17" (38 pts) — community read: not a vote of confidence in the set.
• "DataTFT 17.3 Comp Speedrun v1" (27 pts) — Liss reroll + ASol new; Corki + Riven into S; LeBlanc Shepherd into mid-A.
• "17.3 May 13th Mid-Patch Update — Live Now" (24 pts) — Hotfix list: ASol ability range, New Recruit team-size, Loot Singularity Spatula bug, Retribution crit-chance bonus.
• "17.3 Bug Megathread" (11 pts but 42 comments) — Active megathread tracking the New Recruit / Heart of the Swarm / Morgana-5cost / Portable forge bugs.

[Augment takes captured today]: 6 new takes across loot-singularity, concentration, tour-of-the-galaxy, timestream, heart-of-the-swarm, new-recruit (new file). All references at tft/knowledge/set-17/augments/.

Patch 17.3 LAUNCH DAY — meta reset + same-day 17.3.b hotfix already pushed. Heavy content drop, even heavier bug list.

Meta Check

• Day-1 read: Briar / Teemo / TF / Leona / Jax got hit hard. Corki, Riven, ASol, LeBlanc Shepherd are the big winners. Datatft 17.3 speedrun: "Dark Star Lissandra reroll" and "ASol caster" are the two new comps debuting; "Corki and Riven were not nerfed, pushing them into S tier." Wasianiverson's read on Master Yi: small omnivamp nerf, otherwise winners are 4-cost AP (Karma, Nami, LeBlanc, Mighty Mech, Sona all buffed). Cosmic Restart, Exclusive Customization, Golden Gamble all nerfed — fewer auto-pick prismatics.
• Robinsongz on the global shape: "They buff Noo-Noo, Karma, and Leblanc... they nerfed all the forc[ed reroll lines] so fast [9] line is stronger this patch."

Busted Right Now

• Corki / Riven (4-cost) — untouched in 17.3 while everything around them got tuned. DataTFT bumps both to S tier on the speedrun list.
• Lissandra reroll Dark Star — newly viable per DataTFT. K3Soju's "Lissandra 3 Carry" video confirms the line works (he ran Cho/Liss reroll on patch day). 1-cost so 3-starring is realistic.
• ASol non-mech caster — 17.3 buffed his non-mech form by ~2x. Pairs with the new Concentration augment (Conduit ability duration +25–50%) for an L8 caster spike. Community read on r/CompetitiveTFT: "Concentration non-mech ASol looks very strong."
• Anvil Transformation + Twisted Fate reroll — Robinsongz: "Anvil transformation is too [explicit] broken." Despite the 17.3 TF nerf, the build was still oppressive in his run.
• Two Tanky Samira — still kicking despite the Samira ecosystem nerfs. Robinsongz's "biggest LP thief this set" framing continues to hold; he ran it again post-patch.
• Lulu reroll (Robinsongz): "This Lulu is broken. Now, Lulu is broken." Even after the 17.3 Serpent Stargazer + Lulu base nerf, the reroll line is still spiking. Crownguard on Jax + Lulu items is the bridge.

Falling Off

• 1-cost reroll generally — Briar AD 40→35 (over 10% damage cut, "huge" per Wasian), Teemo poison nerfed, TF nerfed, Leona armor/MR + spell-resist nerfed. Briar/TF/Teemo openers are all weaker.
• Master Yi reroll — omnivamp 15→10%, plus Marauder trait nerfed + Malware Matrix (Psionic item) nerfed with Graves/Yi. Wasian: "they are nerfing master a few times."
• Fast-9 Vex/Graves — Wasian had been calling this a Vex+Fiora board (not Vex+Graves) even pre-patch; Graves "got nerfed pretty hard" in 17.2, no help in 17.3.
• Choncc's Treasure / Set 15 callback — Reddit roasting Riot for bringing back Choncc 4 weeks into the set. Sentiment: "Set 17 is over for me lol. Long live choncc."

New 17.3 Augment Reads (consolidated)

• Loot Singularity (Dark Star black-hole-loot, Gold) — Day-2 verdict shifting hard to TRAP. r/CompetitiveTFT (108 pts): hitting 350 stacks in a 1st-place game with 6-Dark Star by 3-5; 31 rounds at 8 kills/round to hit the radiant. Wasian is the dissenting optimist ("could be like lifting competition"). 17.3.b also flagged a Spatula-reward bug.
• Concentration (Conduit duration +25–50%, Silver) — Wasian: "pretty weak — conduits are very weak." Reddit consensus: ASol-pivot enabler. Sleeper if you have an Asol opener; pass otherwise.
• Tour of the Galaxy (Voyager scaling, Silver) — Wasian: "decent on 2-1 for win-streak; vertical Voyagers still weak." Reddit fears matchmaking abuse ("voyagers gonna mess with matchmaking").
• Timestream (Timebreaker per-reroll scaling, Silver) — Robinsongz: "infinite HP, infinite AS with Prismatic Ticket." Wasian: "extremely weak — basically hefty rolls without the upfront rolls — sounds unclickable." Disagreement is real; lean situational.
• Heart of the Swarm (Primordian apex at L9 + 6 unique 3-stars, Prismatic) — Wasian: "just unclickable. Doesn't do anything until you're level 9 with a million 3-star champions, baits you into rerolling bad units." Robinsongz softer ("that'll be fun"). Currently bugged on away rounds per the 17.3 megathread.
• New Recruit (BUGGED) — does not grant +1 team size. Acknowledged in the 17.3.b hotfix. Multiple r/CompetitiveTFT posts of LP losses; one with 128 upvotes. Hard avoid until the fix is live.

Tips & Nuggets

• Dishsoap on 17.3: "I think this comp [Rogue Fizz] is probably broken." Fizz buff is real and the 1-cost is still scaling fine despite the broader 1-cost nerf wave.
• Wasianiverson on Stargazer fountain: "Stargazer fountain reenabled. Stargazers and empowereds heal an additional 2.5% — that's actually half of an Archangel which is pretty good." Worth playing into when offered.
• Robinsongz on TF nerf: "I don't know about TF nerf. I also don't think Teemo needs a nerf." Disagrees with the patch direction on 1-cost rerolls.
• K3Soju on Anvil Transformation strategy: still a "broken in the right setup" silver-augment per Robinsongz. With Trade Tree present, near-instant click; standalone it's still a question mark.

New Videos from Favorites (Robinsongz spotlight)

• Robinsongz — Patch 17.3 Rundown → His comprehensive line-by-line: "Karma, Noo-Noo, LeBlanc all buffed. Fast 9 stronger this patch." Most efficient single video to catch up on what changed.
• Robinsongz — I Broke the Game with This Twisted Fate Build → Anvil Transformation + Caitlyn carry off TF reroll. "Val Jax is busted." Despite the TF nerf, the line still clears.
• Robinsongz — New Patch Lulu Reroll Can 1v9 → Crownguard Jax 2 + Lulu items. Lulu still broken in Stargazers post-patch.
• Robinsongz — Highest Cap Board You Can Play This Set → Rost 5-cost flex, Nami 3-star endgame. "Nami's done is so broken" (note: that's a 3-star Nami hit, 4-cost — extreme highroll endgame, NOT a planned strategy).
• Robinsongz — I'm the Fast 9 Usain Bolt of Set 17 → Reaffirms the post-patch fast-9 read.
• Robinsongz — I Stole the Elder Dragon and ITS BEYOND BROKEN → Choncc's Treasure portal interaction.

Hot Takes on Reddit

• "Morgana is still apparently a 5 cost" (424 pts, 53 comments) — Pengu pity selection is showing 5-cost Morgana even after she was "demoted" from 5-cost slot. Bug or working-as-intended. Top: "small indie company / one of the most unpolished sets I've ever seen."
• "One guy is doing real well after the latest patch" (256 pts) — Jax meme. Top reply (61 pts): "Meta is going to be AP flex. The only main tank in his comp is armor reliant." Tracks with Wasian's 4-cost AP-buff thesis.
• "New Trait Augments" (194 pts, 50 comments) — Community gut: Voyager looks too strong / matchmaking-abusable. Conduit one might over-perform on Asol. Dark Star didn't need an augment (already best vertical). Primordian augment "needs to be prismatic or genuinely scary."
• "Fateweaver Mode" (145 pts) — "Seems busted." Stargazer + MF Fateweaver mode gets 75% lucky-chance → ~94% effective procs.
• "If an encounter needs a dozen augments removed to work, maybe the issue is the encounter" (90 pts) — Push-back on Riot's pattern of disabling augments for specific encounters. Suggested fix in top reply: "gain 3 random non-unique emblems. Emblem augments are disabled."
• "Chonccs treasure is back 4 weeks into set 17" (38 pts) — community read: not a vote of confidence in the set.
• "DataTFT 17.3 Comp Speedrun v1" (27 pts) — Liss reroll + ASol new; Corki + Riven into S; LeBlanc Shepherd into mid-A.
• "17.3 May 13th Mid-Patch Update — Live Now" (24 pts) — Hotfix list: ASol ability range, New Recruit team-size, Loot Singularity Spatula bug, Retribution crit-chance bonus.
• "17.3 Bug Megathread" (11 pts but 42 comments) — Active megathread tra

Patch 17.3 LAUNCH DAY — meta reset + same-day 17.3.b hotfix already pushed. Heavy content drop, even heavier bug list.

Meta Check

• Day-1 read: Briar / Teemo / TF / Leona / Jax got hit hard. Corki, Riven, ASol, LeBlanc Shepherd are the big winners. Datatft 17.3 speedrun: "Dark Star Lissandra reroll" and "ASol caster" are the two new comps debuting; "Corki and Riven were not nerfed, pushing them into S tier." Wasianiverson's read on Master Yi: small omnivamp nerf, otherwise winners are 4-cost AP (Karma, Nami, LeBlanc, Mighty Mech, Sona all buffed). Cosmic Restart, Exclusive Customization, Golden Gamble all nerfed — fewer auto-pick prismatics.
• Robinsongz on the global shape: "They buff Noo-Noo, Karma, and Leblanc... they nerfed all the forc[ed reroll lines] so fast [9] line is stronger this patch."

Busted Right Now

• Corki / Riven (4-cost) — untouched in 17.3 while everything around them got tuned. DataTFT bumps both to S tier on the speedrun list.
• Lissandra reroll Dark Star — newly viable per DataTFT. K3Soju's "Lissandra 3 Carry" video confirms the line works (he ran Cho/Liss reroll on patch day). 1-cost so 3-starring is realistic.
• ASol non-mech caster — 17.3 buffed his non-mech form by ~2x. Pairs with the new Concentration augment (Conduit ability duration +25–50%) for an L8 caster spike. Community read on r/CompetitiveTFT: "Concentration non-mech ASol looks very strong."
• Anvil Transformation + Twisted Fate reroll — Robinsongz: "Anvil transformation is too [explicit] broken." Despite the 17.3 TF nerf, the build was still oppressive in his run.
• Two Tanky Samira — still kicking despite the Samira ecosystem nerfs. Robinsongz's "biggest LP thief this set" framing continues to hold; he ran it again post-patch.
• Lulu reroll (Robinsongz): "This Lulu is broken. Now, Lulu is broken." Even after the 17.3 Serpent Stargazer + Lulu base nerf, the reroll line is still spiking. Crownguard on Jax + Lulu items is the bridge.

Falling Off

• 1-cost reroll generally — Briar AD 40→35 (over 10% damage cut, "huge" per Wasian), Teemo poison nerfed, TF nerfed, Leona armor/MR + spell-resist nerfed. Briar/TF/Teemo openers are all weaker.
• Master Yi reroll — omnivamp 15→10%, plus Marauder trait nerfed + Malware Matrix (Psionic item) nerfed with Graves/Yi. Wasian: "they are nerfing master a few times."
• Fast-9 Vex/Graves — Wasian had been calling this a Vex+Fiora board (not Vex+Graves) even pre-patch; Graves "got nerfed pretty hard" in 17.2, no help in 17.3.
• Choncc's Treasure / Set 15 callback — Reddit roasting Riot for bringing back Choncc 4 weeks into the set. Sentiment: "Set 17 is over for me lol. Long live choncc."

New 17.3 Augment Reads (consolidated)

• Loot Singularity (Dark Star black-hole-loot, Gold) — Day-2 verdict shifting hard to TRAP. r/CompetitiveTFT (108 pts): hitting 350 stacks in a 1st-place game with 6-Dark Star by 3-5; 31 rounds at 8 kills/round to hit the radiant. Wasian is the dissenting optimist ("could be like lifting competition"). 17.3.b also flagged a Spatula-reward bug.
• Concentration (Conduit duration +25–50%, Silver) — Wasian: "pretty weak — conduits are very weak." Reddit consensus: ASol-pivot enabler. Sleeper if you have an Asol opener; pass otherwise.
• Tour of the Galaxy (Voyager scaling, Silver) — Wasian: "decent on 2-1 for win-streak; vertical Voyagers still weak." Reddit fears matchmaking abuse ("voyagers gonna mess with matchmaking").
• Timestream (Timebreaker per-reroll scaling, Silver) — Robinsongz: "infinite HP, infinite AS with Prismatic Ticket." Wasian: "extremely weak — basically hefty rolls without the upfront rolls — sounds unclickable." Disagreement is real; lean situational.
• Heart of the Swarm (Primordian apex at L9 + 6 unique 3-stars, Prismatic) — Wasian: "just unclickable. Doesn't do anything until you're level 9 with a million 3-star champions, baits you into rerolling bad units." Robinsongz softer ("that'll be fun"). Currently bugged on away rounds per the 17.3 megathread.
• New Recruit (BUGGED) — does not grant +1 team size. Acknowledged in the 17.3.b hotfix. Multiple r/CompetitiveTFT posts of LP losses; one with 128 upvotes. Hard avoid until the fix is live.

Tips & Nuggets

• Dishsoap on 17.3: "I think this comp [Rogue Fizz] is probably broken." Fizz buff is real and the 1-cost is still scaling fine despite the broader 1-cost nerf wave.
• Wasianiverson on Stargazer fountain: "Stargazer fountain reenabled. Stargazers and empowereds heal an additional 2.5% — that's actually half of an Archangel which is pretty good." Worth playing into when offered.
• Robinsongz on TF nerf: "I don't know about TF nerf. I also don't think Teemo needs a nerf." Disagrees with the patch direction on 1-cost rerolls.
• K3Soju on Anvil Transformation strategy: still a "broken in the right setup" silver-augment per Robinsongz. With Trade Tree present, near-instant click; standalone it's still a question mark.

New Videos from Favorites (Robinsongz spotlight)

• Robinsongz — Patch 17.3 Rundown → His comprehensive line-by-line: "Karma, Noo-Noo, LeBlanc all buffed. Fast 9 stronger this patch." Most efficient single video to catch up on what changed.
• Robinsongz — I Broke the Game with This Twisted Fate Build → Anvil Transformation + Caitlyn carry off TF reroll. "Val Jax is busted." Despite the TF nerf, the line still clears.
• Robinsongz — New Patch Lulu Reroll Can 1v9 → Crownguard Jax 2 + Lulu items. Lulu still broken in Stargazers post-patch.
• Robinsongz — Highest Cap Board You Can Play This Set → Rost 5-cost flex, Nami 3-star endgame. "Nami's done is so broken" (note: that's a 3-star Nami hit, 4-cost — extreme highroll endgame, NOT a planned strategy).
• Robinsongz — I'm the Fast 9 Usain Bolt of Set 17 → Reaffirms the post-patch fast-9 read.
• Robinsongz — I Stole the Elder Dragon and ITS BEYOND BROKEN → Choncc's Treasure portal interaction.

Hot Takes on Reddit

• "Morgana is still apparently a 5 cost" (424 pts, 53 comments) — Pengu pity selection is showing 5-cost Morgana even after she was "demoted" from 5-cost slot. Bug or working-as-intended. Top: "small indie company / one of the most unpolished sets I've ever seen."
• "One guy is doing real well after the latest patch" (256 pts) — Jax meme. Top reply (61 pts): "Meta is going to be AP flex. The only main tank in his comp is armor reliant." Tracks with Wasian's 4-cost AP-buff thesis.
• "New Trait Augments" (194 pts, 50 comments) — Community gut: Voyager looks too strong / matchmaking-abusable. Conduit one might over-perform on Asol. Dark Star didn't need an augment (already best vertical). Primordian augment "needs to be prismatic or genuinely scary."
• "Fateweaver Mode" (145 pts) — "Seems busted." Stargazer + MF Fateweaver mode gets 75% lucky-chance → ~94% effective procs.
• "If an encounter needs a dozen augments removed to work, maybe the issue is the encounter" (90 pts) — Push-back on Riot's pattern of disabling augments for specific encounters. Suggested fix in top reply: "gain 3 random non-unique emblems. Emblem augments are disabled."
• "Chonccs treasure is back 4 weeks into set 17" (38 pts) — community read: not a vote of confidence in the set.
• "DataTFT 17.3 Comp Speedrun v1" (27 pts) — Liss reroll + ASol new; Corki + Riven into S; LeBlanc Shepherd into mid-A.
• "17.3 May 13th Mid-Patch Update — Live Now" (24 pts) — Hotfix list: ASol ability range, New Recruit team-size, Loot Singularity Spatula bug, Retributi

Patch 17.3 LAUNCH DAY — meta reset + same-day 17.3.b hotfix already pushed. Heavy content drop, even heavier bug list.

Meta Check

• Day-1 read: Briar / Teemo / TF / Leona / Jax got hit hard. Corki, Riven, ASol, LeBlanc Shepherd are the big winners. Datatft 17.3 speedrun: "Dark Star Lissandra reroll" and "ASol caster" are the two new comps debuting; "Corki and Riven were not nerfed, pushing them into S tier." Wasianiverson's read on Master Yi: small omnivamp nerf, otherwise winners are 4-cost AP (Karma, Nami, LeBlanc, Mighty Mech, Sona all buffed). Cosmic Restart, Exclusive Customization, Golden Gamble all nerfed — fewer auto-pick prismatics.
• Robinsongz on the global shape: "They buff Noo-Noo, Karma, and Leblanc... they nerfed all the forc[ed reroll lines] so fast [9] line is stronger this patch."

Busted Right Now

• Corki / Riven (4-cost) — untouched in 17.3 while everything around them got tuned. DataTFT bumps both to S tier on the speedrun list.
• Lissandra reroll Dark Star — newly viable per DataTFT. K3Soju's "Lissandra 3 Carry" video confirms the line works (he ran Cho/Liss reroll on patch day). 1-cost so 3-starring is realistic.
• ASol non-mech caster — 17.3 buffed his non-mech form by ~2x. Pairs with the new Concentration augment (Conduit ability duration +25–50%) for an L8 caster spike. Community read on r/CompetitiveTFT: "Concentration non-mech ASol looks very strong."
• Anvil Transformation + Twisted Fate reroll — Robinsongz: "Anvil transformation is too [explicit] broken." Despite the 17.3 TF nerf, the build was still oppressive in his run.
• Two Tanky Samira — still kicking despite the Samira ecosystem nerfs. Robinsongz's "biggest LP thief this set" framing continues to hold; he ran it again post-patch.
• Lulu reroll (Robinsongz): "This Lulu is broken. Now, Lulu is broken." Even after the 17.3 Serpent Stargazer + Lulu base nerf, the reroll line is still spiking. Crownguard on Jax + Lulu items is the bridge.

Falling Off

• 1-cost reroll generally — Briar AD 40→35 (over 10% damage cut, "huge" per Wasian), Teemo poison nerfed, TF nerfed, Leona armor/MR + spell-resist nerfed. Briar/TF/Teemo openers are all weaker.
• Master Yi reroll — omnivamp 15→10%, plus Marauder trait nerfed + Malware Matrix (Psionic item) nerfed with Graves/Yi. Wasian: "they are nerfing master a few times."
• Fast-9 Vex/Graves — Wasian had been calling this a Vex+Fiora board (not Vex+Graves) even pre-patch; Graves "got nerfed pretty hard" in 17.2, no help in 17.3.
• Choncc's Treasure / Set 15 callback — Reddit roasting Riot for bringing back Choncc 4 weeks into the set. Sentiment: "Set 17 is over for me lol. Long live choncc."

New 17.3 Augment Reads (consolidated)

• Loot Singularity (Dark Star black-hole-loot, Gold) — Day-2 verdict shifting hard to TRAP. r/CompetitiveTFT (108 pts): hitting 350 stacks in a 1st-place game with 6-Dark Star by 3-5; 31 rounds at 8 kills/round to hit the radiant. Wasian is the dissenting optimist ("could be like lifting competition"). 17.3.b also flagged a Spatula-reward bug.
• Concentration (Conduit duration +25–50%, Silver) — Wasian: "pretty weak — conduits are very weak." Reddit consensus: ASol-pivot enabler. Sleeper if you have an Asol opener; pass otherwise.
• Tour of the Galaxy (Voyager scaling, Silver) — Wasian: "decent on 2-1 for win-streak; vertical Voyagers still weak." Reddit fears matchmaking abuse ("voyagers gonna mess with matchmaking").
• Timestream (Timebreaker per-reroll scaling, Silver) — Robinsongz: "infinite HP, infinite AS with Prismatic Ticket." Wasian: "extremely weak — basically hefty rolls without the upfront rolls — sounds unclickable." Disagreement is real; lean situational.
• Heart of the Swarm (Primordian apex at L9 + 6 unique 3-stars, Prismatic) — Wasian: "just unclickable. Doesn't do anything until you're level 9 with a million 3-star champions, baits you into rerolling bad units." Robinsongz softer ("that'll be fun"). Currently bugged on away rounds per the 17.3 megathread.
• New Recruit (BUGGED) — does not grant +1 team size. Acknowledged in the 17.3.b hotfix. Multiple r/CompetitiveTFT posts of LP losses; one with 128 upvotes. Hard avoid until the fix is live.

Tips & Nuggets

• Dishsoap on 17.3: "I think this comp [Rogue Fizz] is probably broken." Fizz buff is real and the 1-cost is still scaling fine despite the broader 1-cost nerf wave.
• Wasianiverson on Stargazer fountain: "Stargazer fountain reenabled. Stargazers and empowereds heal an additional 2.5% — that's actually half of an Archangel which is pretty good." Worth playing into when offered.
• Robinsongz on TF nerf: "I don't know about TF nerf. I also don't think Teemo needs a nerf." Disagrees with the patch direction on 1-cost rerolls.
• K3Soju on Anvil Transformation strategy: still a "broken in the right setup" silver-augment per Robinsongz. With Trade Tree present, near-instant click; standalone it's still a question mark.

New Videos from Favorites (Robinsongz spotlight)

• Robinsongz — Patch 17.3 Rundown → His comprehensive line-by-line: "Karma, Noo-Noo, LeBlanc all buffed. Fast 9 stronger this patch." Most efficient single video to catch up on what changed.
• Robinsongz — I Broke the Game with This Twisted Fate Build → Anvil Transformation + Caitlyn carry off TF reroll. "Val Jax is busted." Despite the TF nerf, the line still clears.
• Robinsongz — New Patch Lulu Reroll Can 1v9 → Crownguard Jax 2 + Lulu items. Lulu still broken in Stargazers post-patch.
• Robinsongz — Highest Cap Board You Can Play This Set → Rost 5-cost flex, Nami 3-star endgame. "Nami's done is so broken" (note: that's a 3-star Nami hit, 4-cost — extreme highroll endgame, NOT a planned strategy).
• Robinsongz — I'm the Fast 9 Usain Bolt of Set 17 → Reaffirms the post-patch fast-9 read.
• Robinsongz — I Stole the Elder Dragon and ITS BEYOND BROKEN → Choncc's Treasure portal interaction.

Hot Takes on Reddit

• "Morgana is still apparently a 5 cost" (424 pts, 53 comments) — Pengu pity selection is showing 5-cost Morgana even after she was "demoted" from 5-cost slot. Bug or working-as-intended. Top: "small indie company / one of the most unpolished sets I've ever seen."
• "One guy is doing real well after the latest patch" (256 pts) — Jax meme. Top reply (61 pts): "Meta is going to be AP flex. The only main tank in his comp is armor reliant." Tracks with Wasian's 4-cost AP-buff thesis.
• "New Trait Augments" (194 pts, 50 comments) — Community gut: Voyager looks too strong / matchmaking-abusable. Conduit one might over-perform on Asol. Dark Star didn't need an augment (already best vertical). Primordian augment "needs to be prismatic or genuinely scary."
• "Fateweaver Mode" (145 pts) — "Seems busted." Stargazer + MF Fateweaver mode gets 75% lucky-chance → ~94% effective procs.
• "If an encounter needs a dozen augments removed to work, maybe the issue is the encounter" (90 pts) — Push-back on Riot's pattern of disabling augments for specific encounters. Suggested fix in top reply: "gain 3 random non-unique emblems. Emblem augments are disabled."
• "Chonccs treasure is back 4 weeks into set 17" (38 pts) — community read: not a vote of confidence in the set.
• "DataTFT 17.3 Comp Speedrun v1" (27 pts) — Liss reroll + ASol new; Corki + Riven into S; LeBlanc Shepherd into mid-A.
• "17.3 May 13th Mid-Patch Update — Live Now" (24 pts)

Patch 17.3 LAUNCH DAY — meta reset + same-day 17.3.b hotfix already pushed. Heavy content drop, even heavier bug list.

Meta Check

• Day-1 read: Briar / Teemo / TF / Leona / Jax got hit hard. Corki, Riven, ASol, LeBlanc Shepherd are the big winners. Datatft 17.3 speedrun: "Dark Star Lissandra reroll" and "ASol caster" are the two new comps debuting; "Corki and Riven were not nerfed, pushing them into S tier." Wasianiverson's read on Master Yi: small omnivamp nerf, otherwise winners are 4-cost AP (Karma, Nami, LeBlanc, Mighty Mech, Sona all buffed). Cosmic Restart, Exclusive Customization, Golden Gamble all nerfed — fewer auto-pick prismatics.
• Robinsongz on the global shape: "They buff Noo-Noo, Karma, and Leblanc... they nerfed all the forc[ed reroll lines] so fast [9] line is stronger this patch."

Busted Right Now

• Corki / Riven (4-cost) — untouched in 17.3 while everything around them got tuned. DataTFT bumps both to S tier on the speedrun list.
• Lissandra reroll Dark Star — newly viable per DataTFT. K3Soju's "Lissandra 3 Carry" video confirms the line works (he ran Cho/Liss reroll on patch day). 1-cost so 3-starring is realistic.
• ASol non-mech caster — 17.3 buffed his non-mech form by ~2x. Pairs with the new Concentration augment (Conduit ability duration +25–50%) for an L8 caster spike. Community read on r/CompetitiveTFT: "Concentration non-mech ASol looks very strong."
• Anvil Transformation + Twisted Fate reroll — Robinsongz: "Anvil transformation is too [explicit] broken." Despite the 17.3 TF nerf, the build was still oppressive in his run.
• Two Tanky Samira — still kicking despite the Samira ecosystem nerfs. Robinsongz's "biggest LP thief this set" framing continues to hold; he ran it again post-patch.
• Lulu reroll (Robinsongz): "This Lulu is broken. Now, Lulu is broken." Even after the 17.3 Serpent Stargazer + Lulu base nerf, the reroll line is still spiking. Crownguard on Jax + Lulu items is the bridge.

Falling Off

• 1-cost reroll generally — Briar AD 40→35 (over 10% damage cut, "huge" per Wasian), Teemo poison nerfed, TF nerfed, Leona armor/MR + spell-resist nerfed. Briar/TF/Teemo openers are all weaker.
• Master Yi reroll — omnivamp 15→10%, plus Marauder trait nerfed + Malware Matrix (Psionic item) nerfed with Graves/Yi. Wasian: "they are nerfing master a few times."
• Fast-9 Vex/Graves — Wasian had been calling this a Vex+Fiora board (not Vex+Graves) even pre-patch; Graves "got nerfed pretty hard" in 17.2, no help in 17.3.
• Choncc's Treasure / Set 15 callback — Reddit roasting Riot for bringing back Choncc 4 weeks into the set. Sentiment: "Set 17 is over for me lol. Long live choncc."

New 17.3 Augment Reads (consolidated)

• Loot Singularity (Dark Star black-hole-loot, Gold) — Day-2 verdict shifting hard to TRAP. r/CompetitiveTFT (108 pts): hitting 350 stacks in a 1st-place game with 6-Dark Star by 3-5; 31 rounds at 8 kills/round to hit the radiant. Wasian is the dissenting optimist ("could be like lifting competition"). 17.3.b also flagged a Spatula-reward bug.
• Concentration (Conduit duration +25–50%, Silver) — Wasian: "pretty weak — conduits are very weak." Reddit consensus: ASol-pivot enabler. Sleeper if you have an Asol opener; pass otherwise.
• Tour of the Galaxy (Voyager scaling, Silver) — Wasian: "decent on 2-1 for win-streak; vertical Voyagers still weak." Reddit fears matchmaking abuse ("voyagers gonna mess with matchmaking").
• Timestream (Timebreaker per-reroll scaling, Silver) — Robinsongz: "infinite HP, infinite AS with Prismatic Ticket." Wasian: "extremely weak — basically hefty rolls without the upfront rolls — sounds unclickable." Disagreement is real; lean situational.
• Heart of the Swarm (Primordian apex at L9 + 6 unique 3-stars, Prismatic) — Wasian: "just unclickable. Doesn't do anything until you're level 9 with a million 3-star champions, baits you into rerolling bad units." Robinsongz softer ("that'll be fun"). Currently bugged on away rounds per the 17.3 megathread.
• New Recruit (BUGGED) — does not grant +1 team size. Acknowledged in the 17.3.b hotfix. Multiple r/CompetitiveTFT posts of LP losses; one with 128 upvotes. Hard avoid until the fix is live.

Tips & Nuggets

• Dishsoap on 17.3: "I think this comp [Rogue Fizz] is probably broken." Fizz buff is real and the 1-cost is still scaling fine despite the broader 1-cost nerf wave.
• Wasianiverson on Stargazer fountain: "Stargazer fountain reenabled. Stargazers and empowereds heal an additional 2.5% — that's actually half of an Archangel which is pretty good." Worth playing into when offered.
• Robinsongz on TF nerf: "I don't know about TF nerf. I also don't think Teemo needs a nerf." Disagrees with the patch direction on 1-cost rerolls.
• K3Soju on Anvil Transformation strategy: still a "broken in the right setup" silver-augment per Robinsongz. With Trade Tree present, near-instant click; standalone it's still a question mark.

New Videos from Favorites (Robinsongz spotlight)

• Robinsongz — Patch 17.3 Rundown → His comprehensive line-by-line: "Karma, Noo-Noo, LeBlanc all buffed. Fast 9 stronger this patch." Most efficient single video to catch up on what changed.
• Robinsongz — I Broke the Game with This Twisted Fate Build → Anvil Transformation + Caitlyn carry off TF reroll. "Val Jax is busted." Despite the TF nerf, the line still clears.
• Robinsongz — New Patch Lulu Reroll Can 1v9 → Crownguard Jax 2 + Lulu items. Lulu still broken in Stargazers post-patch.
• Robinsongz — Highest Cap Board You Can Play This Set → Rost 5-cost flex, Nami 3-star endgame. "Nami's done is so broken" (note: that's a 3-star Nami hit, 4-cost — extreme highroll endgame, NOT a planned strategy).
• Robinsongz — I'm the Fast 9 Usain Bolt of Set 17 → Reaffirms the post-patch fast-9 read.
• Robinsongz — I Stole the Elder Dragon and ITS BEYOND BROKEN → Choncc's Treasure portal interaction.

Hot Takes on Reddit

• "Morgana is still apparently a 5 cost" (424 pts, 53 comments) — Pengu pity selection is showing 5-cost Morgana even after she was "demoted" from 5-cost slot. Bug or working-as-intended. Top: "small indie company / one of the most unpolished sets I've ever seen."
• "One guy is doing real well after the latest patch" (256 pts) — Jax meme. Top reply (61 pts): "Meta is going to be AP flex. The only main tank in his comp is armor reliant." Tracks with Wasian's 4-cost AP-buff thesis.
• "New Trait Augments" (194 pts, 50 comments) — Community gut: Voyager looks too strong / matchmaking-abusable. Conduit one might over-perform on Asol. Dark Star didn't need an augment (already best vertical). Primordian augment "needs to be prismatic or genuinely scary."
• "Fateweaver Mode" (145 pts) — "Seems busted." Stargazer + MF Fateweaver mode gets 75% lucky-chance → ~94% effective procs.
• "If an encounter needs a dozen augments removed to work, maybe the issue is the encounter" (90 pts) — Push-back on Riot's pattern of disabling augments for specific encounters. Suggested fix in top reply: "gain 3 random non-unique emblems. Emblem augments are disabled."
• "Chonccs treasure is back 4 weeks into set 17" (38 pts) — community read: not a vote of confidence in the set.
• "DataTFT 17.3 Comp Speedrun v1" (27 pts) — Liss reroll + ASol new; Corki + Riv

Patch 17.3 LAUNCH DAY — meta reset + same-day 17.3.b hotfix already pushed. Heavy content drop, even heavier bug list.

Meta Check

• Day-1 read: Briar / Teemo / TF / Leona / Jax got hit hard. Corki, Riven, ASol, LeBlanc Shepherd are the big winners. Datatft 17.3 speedrun: "Dark Star Lissandra reroll" and "ASol caster" are the two new comps debuting; "Corki and Riven were not nerfed, pushing them into S tier." Wasianiverson's read on Master Yi: small omnivamp nerf, otherwise winners are 4-cost AP (Karma, Nami, LeBlanc, Mighty Mech, Sona all buffed). Cosmic Restart, Exclusive Customization, Golden Gamble all nerfed — fewer auto-pick prismatics.
• Robinsongz on the global shape: "They buff Noo-Noo, Karma, and Leblanc... they nerfed all the forc[ed reroll lines] so fast [9] line is stronger this patch."

Busted Right Now

• Corki / Riven (4-cost) — untouched in 17.3 while everything around them got tuned. DataTFT bumps both to S tier on the speedrun list.
• Lissandra reroll Dark Star — newly viable per DataTFT. K3Soju's "Lissandra 3 Carry" video confirms the line works (he ran Cho/Liss reroll on patch day). 1-cost so 3-starring is realistic.
• ASol non-mech caster — 17.3 buffed his non-mech form by ~2x. Pairs with the new Concentration augment (Conduit ability duration +25–50%) for an L8 caster spike. Community read on r/CompetitiveTFT: "Concentration non-mech ASol looks very strong."
• Anvil Transformation + Twisted Fate reroll — Robinsongz: "Anvil transformation is too [explicit] broken." Despite the 17.3 TF nerf, the build was still oppressive in his run.
• Two Tanky Samira — still kicking despite the Samira ecosystem nerfs. Robinsongz's "biggest LP thief this set" framing continues to hold; he ran it again post-patch.
• Lulu reroll (Robinsongz): "This Lulu is broken. Now, Lulu is broken." Even after the 17.3 Serpent Stargazer + Lulu base nerf, the reroll line is still spiking. Crownguard on Jax + Lulu items is the bridge.

Falling Off

• 1-cost reroll generally — Briar AD 40→35 (over 10% damage cut, "huge" per Wasian), Teemo poison nerfed, TF nerfed, Leona armor/MR + spell-resist nerfed. Briar/TF/Teemo openers are all weaker.
• Master Yi reroll — omnivamp 15→10%, plus Marauder trait nerfed + Malware Matrix (Psionic item) nerfed with Graves/Yi. Wasian: "they are nerfing master a few times."
• Fast-9 Vex/Graves — Wasian had been calling this a Vex+Fiora board (not Vex+Graves) even pre-patch; Graves "got nerfed pretty hard" in 17.2, no help in 17.3.
• Choncc's Treasure / Set 15 callback — Reddit roasting Riot for bringing back Choncc 4 weeks into the set. Sentiment: "Set 17 is over for me lol. Long live choncc."

New 17.3 Augment Reads (consolidated)

• Loot Singularity (Dark Star black-hole-loot, Gold) — Day-2 verdict shifting hard to TRAP. r/CompetitiveTFT (108 pts): hitting 350 stacks in a 1st-place game with 6-Dark Star by 3-5; 31 rounds at 8 kills/round to hit the radiant. Wasian is the dissenting optimist ("could be like lifting competition"). 17.3.b also flagged a Spatula-reward bug.
• Concentration (Conduit duration +25–50%, Silver) — Wasian: "pretty weak — conduits are very weak." Reddit consensus: ASol-pivot enabler. Sleeper if you have an Asol opener; pass otherwise.
• Tour of the Galaxy (Voyager scaling, Silver) — Wasian: "decent on 2-1 for win-streak; vertical Voyagers still weak." Reddit fears matchmaking abuse ("voyagers gonna mess with matchmaking").
• Timestream (Timebreaker per-reroll scaling, Silver) — Robinsongz: "infinite HP, infinite AS with Prismatic Ticket." Wasian: "extremely weak — basically hefty rolls without the upfront rolls — sounds unclickable." Disagreement is real; lean situational.
• Heart of the Swarm (Primordian apex at L9 + 6 unique 3-stars, Prismatic) — Wasian: "just unclickable. Doesn't do anything until you're level 9 with a million 3-star champions, baits you into rerolling bad units." Robinsongz softer ("that'll be fun"). Currently bugged on away rounds per the 17.3 megathread.
• New Recruit (BUGGED) — does not grant +1 team size. Acknowledged in the 17.3.b hotfix. Multiple r/CompetitiveTFT posts of LP losses; one with 128 upvotes. Hard avoid until the fix is live.

Tips & Nuggets

• Dishsoap on 17.3: "I think this comp [Rogue Fizz] is probably broken." Fizz buff is real and the 1-cost is still scaling fine despite the broader 1-cost nerf wave.
• Wasianiverson on Stargazer fountain: "Stargazer fountain reenabled. Stargazers and empowereds heal an additional 2.5% — that's actually half of an Archangel which is pretty good." Worth playing into when offered.
• Robinsongz on TF nerf: "I don't know about TF nerf. I also don't think Teemo needs a nerf." Disagrees with the patch direction on 1-cost rerolls.
• K3Soju on Anvil Transformation strategy: still a "broken in the right setup" silver-augment per Robinsongz. With Trade Tree present, near-instant click; standalone it's still a question mark.

New Videos from Favorites (Robinsongz spotlight)

• Robinsongz — Patch 17.3 Rundown → His comprehensive line-by-line: "Karma, Noo-Noo, LeBlanc all buffed. Fast 9 stronger this patch." Most efficient single video to catch up on what changed.
• Robinsongz — I Broke the Game with This Twisted Fate Build → Anvil Transformation + Caitlyn carry off TF reroll. "Val Jax is busted." Despite the TF nerf, the line still clears.
• Robinsongz — New Patch Lulu Reroll Can 1v9 → Crownguard Jax 2 + Lulu items. Lulu still broken in Stargazers post-patch.
• Robinsongz — Highest Cap Board You Can Play This Set → Rost 5-cost flex, Nami 3-star endgame. "Nami's done is so broken" (note: that's a 3-star Nami hit, 4-cost — extreme highroll endgame, NOT a planned strategy).
• Robinsongz — I'm the Fast 9 Usain Bolt of Set 17 → Reaffirms the post-patch fast-9 read.
• Robinsongz — I Stole the Elder Dragon and ITS BEYOND BROKEN → Choncc's Treasure portal interaction.

Hot Takes on Reddit

• "Morgana is still apparently a 5 cost" (424 pts, 53 comments) — Pengu pity selection is showing 5-cost Morgana even after she was "demoted" from 5-cost slot. Bug or working-as-intended. Top: "small indie company / one of the most unpolished sets I've ever seen."
• "One guy is doing real well after the latest patch" (256 pts) — Jax meme. Top reply (61 pts): "Meta is going to be

Patch 17.3 LAUNCH DAY — meta reset + same-day 17.3.b hotfix already pushed. Heavy content drop, even heavier bug list.

Meta Check

• Day-1 read: Briar / Teemo / TF / Leona / Jax got hit hard. Corki, Riven, ASol, LeBlanc Shepherd are the big winners. Datatft 17.3 speedrun: "Dark Star Lissandra reroll" and "ASol caster" are the two new comps debuting; "Corki and Riven were not nerfed, pushing them into S tier." Wasianiverson's read on Master Yi: small omnivamp nerf, otherwise winners are 4-cost AP (Karma, Nami, LeBlanc, Mighty Mech, Sona all buffed). Cosmic Restart, Exclusive Customization, Golden Gamble all nerfed — fewer auto-pick prismatics.
• Robinsongz on the global shape: "They buff Noo-Noo, Karma, and Leblanc... they nerfed all the forc[ed reroll lines] so fast [9] line is stronger this patch."

Busted Right Now

• Corki / Riven (4-cost) — untouched in 17.3 while everything around them got tuned. DataTFT bumps both to S tier on the speedrun list.
• Lissandra reroll Dark Star — newly viable per DataTFT. K3Soju's "Lissandra 3 Carry" video confirms the line works (he ran Cho/Liss reroll on patch day). 1-cost so 3-starring is realistic.
• ASol non-mech caster — 17.3 buffed his non-mech form by ~2x. Pairs with the new Concentration augment (Conduit ability duration +25–50%) for an L8 caster spike. Community read on r/CompetitiveTFT: "Concentration non-mech ASol looks very strong."
• Anvil Transformation + Twisted Fate reroll — Robinsongz: "Anvil transformation is too [explicit] broken." Despite the 17.3 TF nerf, the build was still oppressive in his run.
• Two Tanky Samira — still kicking despite the Samira ecosystem nerfs. Robinsongz's "biggest LP thief this set" framing continues to hold; he ran it again post-patch.
• Lulu reroll (Robinsongz): "This Lulu is broken. Now, Lulu is broken." Even after the 17.3 Serpent Stargazer + Lulu base nerf, the reroll line is still spiking. Crownguard on Jax + Lulu items is the bridge.

Falling Off

• 1-cost reroll generally — Briar AD 40→35 (over 10% damage cut, "huge" per Wasian), Teemo poison nerfed, TF nerfed, Leona armor/MR + spell-resist nerfed. Briar/TF/Teemo openers are all weaker.
• Master Yi reroll — omnivamp 15→10%, plus Marauder trait nerfed + Malware Matrix (Psionic item) nerfed with Graves/Yi. Wasian: "they are nerfing master a few times."
• Fast-9 Vex/Graves — Wasian had been calling this a Vex+Fiora board (not Vex+Graves) even pre-patch; Graves "got nerfed pretty hard" in 17.2, no help in 17.3.
• Choncc's Treasure / Set 15 callback — Reddit roasting Riot for bringing back Choncc 4 weeks into the set. Sentiment: "Set 17 is over for me lol. Long live choncc."

New 17.3 Augment Reads (consolidated)

• Loot Singularity (Dark Star black-hole-loot, Gold) — Day-2 verdict shifting hard to TRAP. r/CompetitiveTFT (108 pts): hitting 350 stacks in a 1st-place game with 6-Dark Star by 3-5; 31 rounds at 8 kills/round to hit the radiant. Wasian is the dissenting optimist ("could be like lifting competition"). 17.3.b also flagged a Spatula-reward bug.
• Concentration (Conduit duration +25–50%, Silver) — Wasian: "pretty weak — conduits are very weak." Reddit consensus: ASol-pivot enabler. Sleeper if you have an Asol opener; pass otherwise.
• Tour of the Galaxy (Voyager scaling, Silver) — Wasian: "decent on 2-1 for win-streak; vertical Voyagers still weak." Reddit fears matchmaking abuse ("voyagers gonna mess with matchmaking").
• Timestream (Timebreaker per-reroll scaling, Silver) — Robinsongz: "infinite HP, infinite AS with Prismatic Ticket." Wasian: "extremely weak — basically hefty rolls without the upfront rolls — sounds unclickable." Disagreement is real; lean situational.
• Heart of the Swarm (Primordian apex at L9 + 6 unique 3-stars, Prismatic) — Wasian: "just unclickable. Doesn't do anything until you're level 9 with a million 3-star champions, baits you into rerolling bad units." Robinsongz softer ("that'll be fun"). Currently bugged on away rounds per the 17.3 megathread.
• New Recruit (BUGGED) — does not grant +1 team size. Acknowledged in the 17.3.b hotfix. Multiple r/CompetitiveTFT posts of LP losses; one with 128 upvotes. Hard avoid until the fix is live.

Tips & Nuggets

• Dishsoap on 17.3: "I think this comp [Rogue Fizz] is probably broken." Fizz buff is real and the 1-cost is still scaling fine despite the broader 1-cost nerf wave.
• Wasianiverson on Stargazer fountain: "Stargazer fountain reenabled. Stargazers and empowereds heal an additional 2.5% — that's actually half of an Archangel which is pretty good." Worth playing into when offered.
• Robinsongz on TF nerf: "I don't know about TF nerf. I also don't think Teemo needs a nerf." Disagrees with the patch direction on 1-cost rerolls.
• K3Soju on Anvil Transformation strategy: still a "broken in the right setup" silver-augment per Robinsongz. With Tra

Patch 17.3 LAUNCH DAY — meta reset + same-day 17.3.b hotfix already pushed. Heavy content drop, even heavier bug list.

Meta Check

• Day-1 read: Briar / Teemo / TF / Leona / Jax got hit hard. Corki, Riven, ASol, LeBlanc Shepherd are the big winners. Datatft 17.3 speedrun: "Dark Star Lissandra reroll" and "ASol caster" are the two new comps debuting; "Corki and Riven were not nerfed, pushing them into S tier." Wasianiverson's read on Master Yi: small omnivamp nerf, otherwise winners are 4-cost AP (Karma, Nami, LeBlanc, Mighty Mech, Sona all buffed). Cosmic Restart, Exclusive Customization, Golden Gamble all nerfed — fewer auto-pick prismatics.
• Robinsongz on the global shape: "They buff Noo-Noo, Karma, and Leblanc... they nerfed all the forc[ed reroll lines] so fast [9] line is stronger this patch."

Busted Right Now

• Corki / Riven (4-cost) — untouched in 17.3 while everything around them got tuned. DataTFT bumps both to S tier on the speedrun list.
• Lissandra reroll Dark Star — newly viable per DataTFT. K3Soju's "Lissandra 3 Carry" video confirms the line works (he ran Cho/Liss reroll on patch day). 1-cost so 3-starring is realistic.
• ASol non-mech caster — 17.3 buffed his non-mech form by ~2x. Pairs with the new Concentration augment (Conduit ability duration +25–50%) for an L8 caster spike. Community read on r/CompetitiveTFT: "Concentration non-mech ASol looks very strong."
• Anvil Transformation + Twisted Fate reroll — Robinsongz: "Anvil transformation is too [explicit] broken." Despite the 17.3 TF nerf, the build was still oppressive in his run.
• Two Tanky Samira — still kicking despite the Samira ecosystem nerfs. Robinsongz's "biggest LP thief this set" framing continues to hold; he ran it again post-patch.
• Lulu reroll (Robinsongz): "This Lulu is broken. Now, Lulu is broken." Even after the 17.3 Serpent Stargazer + Lulu base nerf, the reroll line is still spiking. Crownguard on Jax + Lulu items is the bridge.

Falling Off

• 1-cost reroll generally — Briar AD 40→35 (over 10% damage cut, "huge" per Wasian), Teemo poison nerfed, TF nerfed, Leona armor/MR + spell-resist nerfed. Briar/TF/Teemo openers are all weaker.
• Master Yi reroll — omnivamp 15→10%, plus Marauder trait nerfed + Malware Matrix (Psionic item) nerfed with Graves/Yi. Wasian: "they are nerfing master a few times."
• Fast-9 Vex/Graves — Wasian had been calling this a Vex+Fiora board (not Vex+Graves) even pre-patch; Graves "got nerfed pretty hard" in 17.2, no help in 17.3.
• Choncc's Treasure / Set 15 callback — Reddit roasting Riot for bringing back Choncc 4 weeks into the set. Sentiment: "Set 17 is over for me lol. Long live choncc."

New 17.3 Augment Reads (consolidated)

• Loot Singularity (Dark Star black-hole-loot, Gold) — Day-2 verdict shifting hard to TRAP. r/CompetitiveTFT (108 pts): hitting 350 stacks in a 1st-place game with 6-Dark Star by 3-5; 31 rounds at 8 kills/round t

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He is sooo good and so fun to watch jumping around

17.3 dropped this morning; a mid-patch hotfix (17.3.b) was already live by afternoon. That tempo tells the story — Riot is firefighting a noisy launch.

Day-1 friction

• Morgana wasn't actually reclassified to a 4-cost in Pengu select despite the patch notes. The top r/TFT post of the day is exactly this (366 upvotes). Community read: "most unpolished set I've ever seen."
• Loot Singularity is being widely panned (65u / 65c on r/CompetitiveTFT) — needs 350+ stacks of space matter to convert into a Cho + Lissandra; one player hit 6 Dark Star by stage 3-5 and still couldn't make it pay off. Top reply: "no, New Recruit is" — for context on how low this floor is.
• The patch ships with augment-disable lists tied to specific encounters. Community pushback (79u / 48c): if you need to disable a dozen augments to make an encounter playable, the encounter is the problem.

What's bid

• Jax is the day's broken-unit candidate. Viral clip (207u): a Jax tanking a level-10 board with 3 snipers + Jhin 2 — Reddit's call: meta will lean AP flex because AD struggles to break the new tankier frontlines.
• Fateweaver Mode (new mode) getting "love it, seems busted" energy on first impressions (99u).
• From yesterday's streamer rundowns: Karma flex and Bard reroll flagged as sleepers worth pre-positioning around.

Bottom line: noisy day-1, real meta read in 24-48h once both the data and the patch state settle. Watch the 17.3.b hotfix notes when they drop and any followup on the Morgana classification bug.

When the Black Hole consumes enemies, it turns them into space matter. After acquiring enough, the Black Hole turns it into loot! Gain a Cho'gath and a Lissandra.

Space matter and loot quality increase each time. Gain 2*/3/*4 space matter depending on Dark Star breakpoint.

Set 17 so bad they brought back chonccs treasure in 4 weeks into set. Ty for coming to my ted talk

Morgana is still a 5 cost in the pengu selection stage.