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Tips & Tricks
- Play from Bilgewater opener. Make sure to put two items on Twisted Fate as early as possible so you can unlock Graves.
- Highest priority with Bilgewater shops is getting to 5 Bilgewater, Graves 2, and Nautilus 2. At 5 Bilgewater, you can find Lucky Doubloon and Captain’s Brew which help itemize Graves and Twisted Fate in Stage 3 as well as help you get more Serpents for items later on.
- Once you get Lucky Doubloon, you can buy copies of Graves / Nautilus / Twisted Fate and duplicators to help you hit your 3 stars
- After you secure your 3 stars, push levels and play the highest quality units that you can. If you’re far ahead of lobby tempo, you can consider 7 Bilgewater for a few rounds to increase your Silver Serpent acquisition
- Remember that you can only see the powerful Bilgewater items at 7 Bilgewater. You do not need to play it during player combat. You can just toggle it during planning phase and then buy from shop / refresh shop and you will have a chance of seeing 7 Bilgewater items.
- Bilgewater items are a key part of capping the comp. Do not forego trying to get some of them as you won’t be able to itemize all your Bilgewater units without them. Try to get Lucky Doubloon, Captain’s Brew, and ideally two 7 Bilgewater items
Strong Conditions
+3 Tier Conditions A → OP
+2 Tier Conditions A → S+
+1 Tier Conditions A → S
Openers
Bilgewater
No Level Requirement
Twisted Fate with 2 items equipped
Current
Best-in-Slot
Alt Build 1
Alt Build 2
Alt Build 3
Economy Strategy
- Level to 4 if you have upgrades and a good item to place on one of those upgrades.
- Level to 5, unless on 3 loss streak.
- Level to 6. Roll until stable. “Stable” changes depending on rank, items, augments, composition, and patch, but generally speaking it involves 2-starring your desired 2-cost carry and a tank with items. Major divergence between elos: The lower your elo, the less upgrades you need to be “stable” and thus lower elo players should generally roll less than high elo players on 3-2.
- After your 3-2 rolldown, you should attempt to rebuild your economy to 50g.
- Once you reach 50g (it might be later than 3-5), start slow rolling down to ~52g each turn. Try to avoid rolling to exactly 50g as any unit you want to buy in shop will put you below 50g.
- If you are high HP relative to the lobby, continue slow rolling to 52g each turn. If you are lower HP, you should roll to hit your first 2-cost 3 star on 4-1 or 4-2. If you have to roll below 30g, your placement is usually capped at 3rd or 4th.
- If you are still high HP (70+), you can continue to slow roll. Otherwise, in the majority of cases, you should roll deep for your 3-stars here. If your HP is low, you can even go to 0 gold looking for your 3-stars. If you have your 3-stars and can afford to level to 7 with 10g+, do so.
- Level to 7 if you haven’t already.
- Level to 8 as soon as possible. This may not happen until 5-5 or in some games, stage 6.
- Level to 9 whenever possible. This is rare, but can happen in the games you have a chance of winning.




any place you just play 7 backwater? and if so can make you a tap for that comp when you got time? and if it is not worth it ever why?
how me can get graves? he is not in the shop??
Need to unlock him by playing 2 items on Twisted Fate. There is an unlock icon you can see on Graves and any other unlockable champions that shows you how to unlock them. This page shows you how to unlock any champion: https://tftflow.com/how-to-unlock-every-champion-set16