Ixtal
Primary
Tier
Required
Fast 8
1-Cost Reroll
2-Cost Reroll
3-Cost Reroll
Fast 8
Fast 9
1 & 2-Cost Reroll
1 & 3-Cost Reroll
2 & 3-Cost Reroll
9
105
Main
▾
Traits
1
Targon
1
1
Emperor
1
1
Rune Mage
1
3
Ixtal
3 > 5 > 7
2
Defender
2 > 4 > 6
2
Disruptor
2 > 4
2
Piltover
2 > 4 > 6
2
Shurima
2 > 3 > 4
1
Arcanist
2 > 4 > 6
1
Zaun
3 > 5 > 7
1
1
1
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
Tips & Tricks
- Ixtal provides you quests throughout the game that reward you Sunshards. Eventually, you can cash them out for a reward and if you get enough of them, you can unlock Brock which is a powerful 7-cost
- Brock does not require you to get all the Sunshards in a singular cash out. You can unlock him even if you cash out multiple times, as long as you get enough Sunshards throughout the game.
- Generally only play from spots where you have Ixtal on 2-1
- Always try to get 550 cashout instead of 500 or 625 if possible. The 550 cashout is by far the best (50% chance of 2 golden duplicators and 7 lesser duplicators that you can use to get Milio 3 and Brock 2). If you have Milio 3, consider the Invokers option.
- Make sure to prioritize Gargoyle with Chain / Cloak as you really want to unlock Skarner
- Realistically you won’t unlock Volibear in most Ixtal games, so can play around Sejuani + Vi + Loris package. Be flexible, once you cash out you just want to play your strongest board. The example boards provided are good endgame states, but your post cashout board will not look like them at all.
- General quest strategy: Try to prioritize quests that provide you the highest amount of Sunshards per round. Typically this is the buy XP, have X gold, or lose X rounds quests. As such, you will almost never want to level or prepump XP before seeing new quests. Instead, maintain high gold.
- Always be mindful of how much gold a quest will take to complete (e.g: reroll quests are typically quite expensive, but can be okay after you stacked up Bard rolls). Losing early game is not mandatory if you are not on a lose quest, but you will often lose anyway due to playing a weaker board.
- Sometimes the game offers you terrible quests. It’s part of the variance of this trait and there’s not much you can do about it. Technically you can early cashout, but most of the win potential from this line comes from big cashouts so just be mentally prepared for getting unlucky sometimes.
Strong Conditions
+3 Tier Conditions B → S+
Titanic Titan+2 Tier Conditions B → S
Caretaker’s Ally
Ixtal Expeditionist
Tiniest Titan
Worth the Wait II+1 Tier Conditions B → A
Hard Bargain
Stars Are BornOpeners
Ixtal
Jarvan IV
Qiyana
Sona
NeekoMilio3
2
2
Ixtal
Brock
5
5
No Level Requirement
Collect 500 Ixtal Sunshards over the course of the game
Ixtal Sunshards over the course of the game
Current
Alt Build 1
Seismic Slam
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Slice and Dice
Runic Overload
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Impale
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 if on 4+ win streak (scout to see if necessary in high elo) or can stay above 40g.
- Level to 6, unless you would go below 30g. If you have to stay level 5 due to low gold (rare), then level to 6 on 3-5.
- Level to 7 if you can stay above 30g, otherwise stay level 6.
- Level to 7.
- Level to 8. Roll for desired comp until stable. “Stable” changes depending on rank, items, augments, composition, and patch. Melee carries and tanks get the biggest spike for 2-stars. Usually stable involves 2-star tank or carry and some other supporting 2-stars. Try not to roll below 10g.
- If you are weak (e.g., have no 2-star 4-costs), consider rolling again to 10g here. If you are stable, save gold to go 9.
- If you are low HP and haven’t 2-starred your carry and tank, roll to 0g. If you have medium to high HP with an upgraded + itemized 4-cost unit and some other upgrades, save gold to go 9.
- If high HP, consider waiting until 5-5 to go level 9. If medium HP, consider going level 9 if you can roll 20g or wait until 5-5. If low HP and can afford to go 9, do so even if you have almost no gold to roll on 9. If you can’t afford to go 9 this game, roll every turn for upgrades.
- Level to 9 if possible. From this point onward, look to level to 9. Acknowledge games where level 9 is not possible and roll every turn on 8 to preserve placements.
- For max cap games, you can either roll on 9 or level to 10. If you are itemizing a 5-cost carry and it is 1-starred, roll on 9. If you have all your main itemized units upgraded, level to 10.
if you do invokers dont backline
the last 4 games.in a row i run into players having prismatic traits. (10 noxus, 10 ionia) This is sus
i keep trying this comp and it never works. got the mission to lose 3 combats in sequence and won against a shadow isles comp that was 3rd place up to that point. in another match i did my best to avoid quests that required losing but my comp didn’t won a single fight anyway bc of how weak they are. i just wanted to get brock for my book </3
everytime i commit to this comp, all lobby get a prismatic orb at 3-7 and fuck me over
Finding it really hard to stabilize when doing quests. Just feels like you are constantly bleeding HP.
easiest 8th place of my life
would pandoras bench be good for nidalee board?
I think people who try this comp need to open with Ixtal and aim to get Invokers + gargoyles asap over anything lese
ridiculously hard comp to navigate given the randomness of quests, would love some more tips on how to play the midgame and type of units
agree
WOULD HAVE LOVED IF YOU TALKED ABOUT THE SKARNER WIN CON THANKS MAN, FUCKED ME OUT OF MY PROMOS.
moron alert
blaming a GUIDE for you failing your own promos? you deserve your rank.
this comp is so hard to play
so why “stars is born” good for this comp?
cuz the neeko, i mean 2 neeko 2 star to unlock nidalee soon
neeko + winstreaking
I got caretakers neeko and 2* Brock with 15 win streak and BiS from pandoras and still got 4th…
love the website btw good shit bro
Caretaker is gone as for this patch
EDIT: Caretaker’s Ally is definitely still in the game.
I believe that’s only Caretaker’s Favor, not Caretaker’s Ally. Which I did not realize until your comment, so thank you — I removed Caretaker’s Favor from another comp. But are you sure Caretaker’s Ally is gone? Don’t see anything for that yet.