Team Fight Tactics Lineup Guide - Best Teams To Win Matches
2025-04-13
While playing Team Fight Tactics, players will have the chance to experience a wonderful interesting chess-like gameplay with the mini versions of the various beloved champions from League of Legends by pitting them against one another to achieve victories.
In this amazing game of chaotic magical chess known as Team Fight Tactics or TFT, team compositions and synergies play an important role for all magic chess match victories, with a good strategy and team lineup determining the failure or success of a player’s fight and determining their ranking for each ranking match.
Therefore, in this guide, we will go over everything players need to know regarding Team Fight Tactic’s best lineups and traits and advise players on how they can best build their teams in order to achieve victory and advance higher in the rankings for each match.
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TFT Traits & Factions - Everything You Need To Know To Make a Team
The most important part of TFT gameplay are the different chess pieces and their faction Traits with each other, providing the different chess pieces on the board with powerful buffs depending on the different faction buffs.
In the brand new update 14 patch - Cyber City, old chess pieces and Traits will be replaced with more futuristic chess pieces and brand new Traits. These new factions that players should be aware of are:
Cyberboss (2/4)
When activated, Cyberboss trait upgrades the strongest Cyberboss on your board to its final form, providing more attack, HP, AP and ability Size. When all 4 Cyberboss chess pieces are on the board, this upgrade effect is granted to all 4 of them.
Street Demon (3/5/7/10)
Street Demons are a ragtag group of hex users that tag special hexes on the board with different formations each round. When activated, upon players placing chess pieces on Hex spaces, they will be granted more AP, HP and AD, with this effect being doubled for Street Demon Chess Pieces. The more Street Demon chess pieces are on the board, the more stats will be provided through hexes, with some signature hexes providing special effects.
A.M.P. (3/5/7/10)
A.M.P Chess Pieces gain individual class buffs and ability buffs depending on the amount of different A.M.P chess pieces on the board. Different A.M.P chess pieces will receive special effect buffs depending on their unique kit.
Anima Squad (3/5/7/10)
Anima Squad is a faction that relies on different equipment RNG. During a match, when the Anima Squad trait is active, a random Anima Squad chess piece will pick an equipment every tier and fire them off during the match. The chess piece will receive additional Armor, Magic Resist and Damage Amp. The higher the Anima Squad trait is, the more powerful equipment you can pick.
Cypher (3/4/5)
When activated, the Cypher trait allows players to gather Intel upon winning or losing the match, with the intel scaling higher with each enemy defeated and whenever you lose the match. Using the Intel you gathered, you will be able to exchange for chess pieces during specific rounds (3-3, 3-7, 4-3, or 4-7). Once spent, the more intel you spent, the more AD and AP Cypher Chess Pieces will gain.
Divini Corp (1/2/3/4/5/6/7)
When active, the Divini Corp trait grants special stats to Divini Corp chess pieces in play, with each chess piece receiving a specific stat that they want. The higher the trait count, the more stats are granted to the Divini Corp Chess Pieces.
Exotech (3/5/7/10)
Upon this trait activation, when defeating enemies, the enemies will drop equipment loot that can only be equipped by Exotech Chess Pieces. Each equipment provides beneficial stats and effects to Exotech Chess pieces, and the higher the Exotech trait is, the more stats are granted to the Exotech Chess Pieces with the equipment.
Golden Ox (2/4/6)
When Golden Ox trait is active, upon defeating the enemies, Golden Ox chess pieces have a chance to obtain gold for every kill. Using gold to reroll in the shop a number of times will permanently increase the AP of all Golden Ox Chess Pieces in exchange for a higher rerolling price. At maxed Golden Ox trait, defeating enemies may grant special loot as well.
Syndicate (3/5/7)
Become the underworld criminal boss with the help of the Syndicate trait. Upon activation, the Syndicate trait grants the special Kingpin buff and effects to Syndicate chess pieces, granting them extra HP and allowing them to use their special teleporting abilities. Upon reaching Syndicate (7), the Kingpin buff effect will be enhanced and Syndicate chess pieces will gain special on kill effects.
Nitro (3/4)
Build a powerful laser with the help of the Nitro trait. Once activated, Nitro trait allows Nitro chess pieces to summon a small bot onto the battlefield. Upon defeating enemies, Nitro Chess Pieces will gather materials to upgrade the bot and make them extremely powerful. Upon completion, at Nitro (4) the bot will receive massive stat buffs and laser beams to fight against enemies.
Special Traits
Aside from the Traits as stated above where a set amount of chess pieces of the same trait must be achieved, there are special Traits unique only to specific chess pieces that players can obtain from the shop. These are:
- GAREN: GOD OF THE NET : When 2 players combat, Garen will open a trait modifier setting, allowing the player to modify a champion to be able to benefit from a trait permanently. This champion doesn’t contribute to the trait’s number, but will receive all the benefits from the trait itself.
- ZAC: VIRUS : When obtained, Zac Virus will infest the shop with a Virus that has a 10% chance to spawn a bloblet. When purchased, the bloblet will increase the Max HP and Ability power of Zac by a set amount.
TFT Team Building - Tips & Tricks To Make The Best Teams
To win a rank match in Team Fight Tactics, there are different types of strategies that players can utilize in order achieve victory, with some of the traits requiring you to win matches in order to gather resources, obtain special items or special characters to snowball the game in your favor, and some traits even needing you have a losing streak in order to gather as much economy as possible to win the game.
For Players Who Want To Focus On Winning Rounds & Snowballing
The normal tactic and one of the more traditional way of team building in TFT, snowballing means that you want to win as many matches as possible in order to complete your tam with powerful traits that grants you extreme benefits and economy the more characters you obtain.
To achieve this, it is highly recommended that players focus on obtaining units from the Cyberboss, A.M.P or Street Demon traits in order to start their strengthening processes, allowing you to obtain powerful effects from having as many chess pieces of these traits as possible.
Overwhelm Your Enemies With Sheer Economy & Gold
For players who want to completely overwhelm their enemies with gold and economy in order to obtain powerful units, players should consider using the Cypher trait.
When using the Cypher team, you are required to lose as much as possible in order to obtain various benefits from a losing streak, allowing you to accumulate as much economy as possible in a short amount of time in order to be able to buy powerful units and equipment as quickly as possible to make a come back later on during the match.
Obtain Powerful Unique Traits
Aside from the different trait combos and teams that you can make, it is important to note that there are specific characters and chess pieces that you can obtain that have their own unique traits - including GAREN: GOD OF THE NET and ZAC: VIRUS, which in of themselves can completely dominate a match by having them on the field. Therefore if players were to obtain these chess pieces in the shop or through other means, you should absolutely consider deploying them onto the battlefield if it doesn’t interfere with your overall strategy.
Don’t Focus Only In 1 Trait Team
Simply focusing on a single Trait team is not recommended due to the difficulty of obtaining all the chess pieces from a single trait to achieve the full trait effects.
Therefore, it is highly recommended that players mismatch different traits at different ratios to achieve good team balance and effects to help achieve round and match victories.
