Teamfight Tactics Beginner Guide: How to Play TFT

Teamfight Tactics (TFT) is Riot Games' auto battler. Eight players each build a team of champions on their own board; every round, your board fights another player's automatically, and the loser takes damage. The last player standing wins, and in ranked games finishing in the top four counts as a good result. You don't control the fights themselves. You win by deciding what to buy, when to spend, how to combine champions and where to place them.

The board and the bench

Your board is a field of hexagons where your active champions stand and fight. Your bench below it holds champions you own but aren't using yet. How many champions you can field depends on your level: at a higher level, you place more champions on the board.

The shop and rerolling

Each round, the shop offers a handful of random champions:

• Buying costs gold, more for stronger champions.
• Rerolling (refreshing the shop) costs gold and shows a new set of champions.
• Selling a champion gives gold back.

Champions of higher cost appear more often as your level rises. That is why levelling and rolling are connected.

Combining champions

Three copies of the same champion combine into a two-star version, which is much stronger. Three two-stars combine into a three-star. Upgrading your key champions is one of the biggest sources of power in a game.

Gold, interest and streaks

Gold is your main resource. You earn it every round from:

• A base income each round.
• Interest: saving gold earns extra gold each round, up to a limit. Keeping a bank of gold makes your income grow.
• Streaks: winning or losing several rounds in a row gives bonus gold.

Spending everything every round leaves you poor later. Saving everything leaves your board too weak. The TFT economy guide explains how to balance the two.

Levels

You gain experience each round, and you can buy experience with gold. Higher levels let you field more champions and make stronger champions appear more often in the shop. Deciding when to level and when to roll is one of the main skills in TFT.

Traits

Every champion has traits, shared with other champions. When you field enough champions with the same trait, it activates a bonus for your team, and more of them reach stronger levels of that bonus. Building around two or three traits that work together is how most teams are made.

Sets change every few months, bringing new champions and traits. The idea stays the same: look at the trait list in the game and see which champions share them.

Items

You collect item components from monster rounds and other rewards. Two components combine into a completed item. Put items on the champion that uses them best: damage items on your main damage dealer, defensive items on your front line.

You don't need to memorise every recipe at the start. The game shows what each combination makes.

Shared draft and augments

• In the shared draft (the carousel), all players walk to a ring of champions holding items and each picks one. The players with the least health choose first.
• In most sets, you also choose augments at certain stages: a pick of three upgrades that shape the rest of your game.

Positioning

Where your champions stand changes fights:

• Front line: tanky champions in front to absorb damage.
• Back line: damage dealers and supports behind them.
• Watch the enemy: if an enemy jumps to your back line, move your carry away from that corner.

A simple plan for your first games

1. Buy champions that share traits with what you already have.
2. Upgrade pairs to two-star when you can.
3. Keep some gold saved for interest in the early game.
4. Put your best items on one main damage dealer.
5. In the late game, spend your gold to make your final board as strong as possible.

Frequent questions

How do you win in Teamfight Tactics?

Be the last player standing. In ranked, finishing in the top four is a win for your rank.

Is TFT free?

Yes. TFT is free to play; purchases are cosmetic, such as arenas and Little Legends.

Do I need to know every trait?

No. Learn a few strong combinations first, and read the trait list during the game.

How long is a TFT game?

Usually around half an hour or a bit more, depending on how long you survive.

Riot Cash codes on Mas4Games

You can't buy wins in TFT; cosmetics are what you buy. Mas4Games sells Riot Cash codes for Teamfight Tactics in lira for Riot accounts of the Türkiye region, redeemed in the game's own store. The code is shown on your order's page in your account and sent by e-mail, and the help center has live support.