Dark Ritual Coven
2-Cost Reroll Primary
Tier
Required
Econ
Item
Flex
Formula
Example
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Main
6 Vanguard
Fast 8
Lvl8
61
Lvl8
1
Traits
1
Attuned
1
1
Greenfather
1
4
Vanguard
2 > 4 > 6
3
Coven
3 > 4 > 5 > 7
2
Invoker
2 > 3 > 4 > 5
2
Lunar
2 > 3 > 4 > 5
2
Spellweaver
2 > 4 > 6
1
Elderwood
3 > 5 > 7 > 9 > 11
1
Ravager
2 > 4 > 6
1
Riftbeast
3 > 5 > 7 > 10
8 
117 1
1
4
3
2
2
2
1
1
1
Comp Variations
Flex
Alune
Ivern
Lvl8
66 Vanguard
Tips & Tricks
- Prioritize taking Cassiopeia on first carousel regardless of the component most of the time - It's more important to make sure you get 4 Coven as early as possible than perfect items.
- Two ways to play this comp: Reroll or Fast 8. Reroll version of comp should roll on level 6 and 7 and go for Elise 3 + ideally Cassio 3. For Fast 8, hold extra copies of Cassio on Level 8 and try to 3 star her while playing 6 Vanguard or 4 Vanguard + Legendaries.
- When playing reroll, itemize Elise 3 as she can go infinite with the AP from augment. When pushing levels, play around Elise 2 as your tank until you 2-star Sentinel or Taric, then switch tanks. Previously Fast 8 was more common, but now reroll is looking more common.
- Two main ways to play around cashouts: Go for 250 cashout (most popular before Patch 18.3) or cashout 130 on 3-2 / 3-3 and roll for 2-star Elise + frontline and then go for another 130 cashout while ideally winning rounds in Stage 3. Make sure to drop to 3 Coven in Stage 3 when trying to win.
- The reason for Titan's Resolve on Elise in the reroll version is because with the AP from Dark Ritual, she often is unkillable as she heals back up with each auto attack. Often the only way for her to die is crowd control ("CC") or her walking up toward the end of a fight.
- Rageblade is a good item on Elise 3, but not necessary. Two tank items + Titan's or even 3 tank items are fine builds too, but it becomes more important to have good Cassio / Morgana items in these cases.
- For positioning Elise 3, try to avoid solo frontline in Stage 5 onward. In an ideal world, she doesn't take all aggro because it is possible for opponents to burst her down late game. The goal is split aggro enough that she drain tanks and sustains, but not so much that she dies.
- Do not pass by Coven Lux if you hit her. She is a massive spike - her passive and ability help all your Coven units, plus she does a ton of damage with the AP from augment.
Strong Conditions
+1 Tier Conditions S → S+
Economy Strategy
2-Cost Reroll
- 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 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.
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EliseP
Cassiopeia
P
Morgana
Coven
Vanguard
Elise
2
2Default
When to Play
Only playable with Dark Ritual augment. Always take Cassiopeia on first carousel if she is there.
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Encounters
Golden Gala
Golden PreludeCoven
Formula
Flex
Example
Patch Changes
Camilledefault Ability
Patch 18.3
PBE
Slice the target for 160/240/400/680 (
) physical damage and gain 60/90/200/310 Shield for 2 seconds.
) physical damage and gain 60/90/200/310 Shield for 2 seconds.Slice the target for 160/240/400/705 () physical damage and gain 60/90/200/310 Shield for 2 seconds.
) physical damage and gain 60/90/200/310 Shield for 2 seconds.
18.3▾
18.3
18.2b
18.2
A → S
Board removed (Variation: Reroll Version)
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Board added (Variation: Fast 8)
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Board changed (Variation: 6 Vanguard)
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After
Advanced Loan+ added with tier modifier +1 Feeling Lucky added with tier modifier +1Elise
SentinelSentinelSentinelEliseSentinelTip changed from This is also why Rageblade is bad - Elise usually survives as long as she is in attack range of an enemy and isn't CC'd. Rageblade fixes neither of these issues. Therefore the best Elise 3 builds are usually Titans + 2 Tank items to help her survive walking up. 3 Tank items is fine too. → Do not pass by Coven Lux if you hit her. She is a massive spike - her passive and ability help all your Coven units, plus she does a ton of damage with the AP from augment.
Tip changed from The reason for Titan's Resolve on Elise in the reroll version is because with the AP from Dark Ritual, she often is unkillable as she heals back up with each auto attack. The only way for her to die is crowd control ("CC") or her walking up toward the end of a fight. → For positioning Elise 3, try to avoid solo frontline in Stage 5 onward. In an ideal world, she doesn't take all aggro because it is possible for opponents to burst her down late game. The goal is split aggro enough that she drain tanks and sustains, but not so much that she dies.
Tip changed from Do not greed for best in slot items. You do not need specific items - it's more important to kill units early game so you can make it to the 250 cashout. → Rageblade is a good item on Elise 3, but not necessary. Two tank items + Titan's or even 3 tank items are fine builds too, but it becomes more important to have good Cassio / Morgana items in these cases.
Tip changed from Make sure you try to kill units early game and midgame, otherwise getting to 250 with enough life can be difficult. Cashout earlier if you must, but 250 is ideal for winning out. → The reason for Titan's Resolve on Elise in the reroll version is because with the AP from Dark Ritual, she often is unkillable as she heals back up with each auto attack. Often the only way for her to die is crowd control ("CC") or her walking up toward the end of a fight.
Tip changed from Goal is to get 250 Essence, which gives your Coven units 125 AP. Cash out 40s after your first big conversion for 7 AP each time unless you can get to 135 Essence which converts to 50 AP. → Two main ways to play around cashouts: Go for 250 cashout (most popular before Patch 18.3) or cashout 130 on 3-2 / 3-3 and roll for 2-star Elise + frontline and then go for another 130 cashout while ideally winning rounds in Stage 3. Make sure to drop to 3 Coven in Stage 3 when trying to win.
Tip changed from Two ways to play this comp: Fast 8 or Reroll. For Fast 8, hold extra copies of Cassio on Level 8 and try to 3 star her while playing 6 Vanguard or 4 Vanguard + Legendaries. Reroll version of comp should roll on 7, not 6, and try to go for Elise 3 + Cassio 3. → Two ways to play this comp: Reroll or Fast 8. Reroll version of comp should roll on level 6 and 7 and go for Elise 3 + ideally Cassio 3. For Fast 8, hold extra copies of Cassio on Level 8 and try to 3 star her while playing 6 Vanguard or 4 Vanguard + Legendaries.
Tip changed from When pushing levels, play around Elise 2 as your tank until you 2-star Sentinel or Taric, then switch tanks. When playing reroll, itemize Elise 3 as she can go infinite with the AP from augment. Play Fast 8 most of the time. Can play reroll for Elise 3 if 5+ copies natural by 4-1. → When playing reroll, itemize Elise 3 as she can go infinite with the AP from augment. When pushing levels, play around Elise 2 as your tank until you 2-star Sentinel or Taric, then switch tanks. Previously Fast 8 was more common, but now reroll is looking more common.
Item Priority changed: Item Priority changed: Econ Strategy changed from Fast 8 → 2-Cost Reroll
Removed Ravager Emblem with tier modifier +1
Ravager Emblem with tier modifier +1Removed 
Money Hungry with tier modifier +1
Money Hungry with tier modifier +1Removed 
Patient Study with tier modifier +1
Patient Study with tier modifier +1Removed 
Shopping Spree with tier modifier +1
Shopping Spree with tier modifier +1Removed Slammin' with tier modifier +1
Slammin' with tier modifier +1Removed 
Slice of Life with tier modifier +1
Slice of Life with tier modifier +1Removed 
The Golden Dragon with tier modifier +1
The Golden Dragon with tier modifier +1Removed Sentinel Current Build
SentinelRemoved Sentinel Alt Build 1
SentinelRemoved Sentinel Alt Build 2
SentinelRemoved Tip: Do not pass by Coven Lux if you hit her. She is a massive spike - her passive and ability help all your Coven units, plus she does a ton of damage with the AP from augment.
It’s disabled since 18.3b
i love tft
It feels like the augment is mandatory to get this board moving
Updated guide for Patch 18.3. Lots of changes (reroll is standard approach, new cashout strategy, etc.).
ROFLMAO…I totally missed the fact that Dark Ritual was an augment and played this as a normal 7 slow roll. It absolutely owned the board, though I’ll say one thing that really helped was I got two complimenting Artifacts that I put on Camille. The one that smacks them with true damage when they get stunned and then I got the one that causes the toons attscks to stun for. 08s, Camille was just tearing up the board.
3 riftbeasts pebbles invoker + alpha on blue buff also seems nice
After I hit 250, only winstreak from there. It was so fucking funny seeing my 2-stars Cass with coven Lux dominate the whole board. One guy hit sivir 3-stars but Cass kill her before she even cast once.
free first if u winstreak early stages
Invoker emblem?
I had dark ritual on 2-1 and golden dragon on 3-2. I hit elise 3 fairly easily, I put gargoyle and mogul’s mail on her. I was able to stay at 100 hp until roughly 4-1. I ended up 7th, lost to all the lv 9 boards, lv 9 boards crush this board unfortunately. I was able to cash out at 250 and then I cashed out twice on 40.
Problem is that you were 100hp, you need to lose a bit early, while killing some units (in a perfect world all but 1) to tank the least amount of damage and get the 250 cashout easily
What’s the build for Elise if you 3 Star?
This build is insane! Highly recommend this. I was losing at first but then when I got enough to get 250 essence I just snowballed from there.
how to use comp with golden dragon augment
Since you have to go Lv 8 for 4 Vanguard, I’m guessing it goes on Sentinel but hypothetically insane on Elise 3 if you hit
you need to hard tempo the game and having a reroll augment is a must in my opinion or be very lucky.
if you hit the board elise 3 and cass 3 you win over fast 9 board even without your 5 cost.
Updated the guide now that a few days have passed. Comp is still not solved, but general vibe is this: If you have 5+ copies of Elise by 4-1, you can reroll on Level 7 and try to 3-star her by 4-5. Otherwise, play fast 8 and aim to play Sentinel 2 as your primary tank. Elise 2 isn’t good enough for Stage 5+ where the single target is too strong for her to sustain. But you can play around Elise before you hit Sentinel 2 or Taric 2.
hit the entire board super early, still got 6th because Elise doesn’t go infinite and Cass sucks now
i hit 250 but couldn’t hit cass 3 before dying. elise did not tank as much i thought she would despite 6 vanguard
got 7 coven with dark ritual absolut madness with lux i had 450% ability power banger
idk how you want to hit either cass or elise 3 when the goal is level8 while losestreaking for the 250cashout – got 8th
is very good comp but i play it 2-3 time before,for a first time i have no info i just spam cash out 40 get just 7 AP(very useless i bot 4) BUT next time i go for 130 for 50 AP as possible it MUCH BETTER(Morgana and Cassiopeia with 150 AP Base is crazy)
you def want 3* elise. 2* with gargoyle+titan+radiant crown dies very fast even with 203%+50% ap
maybe it was because i didnt get a gunblade but she felt pretty weak
Have seen pro players do both, I would not say definitely – It’s probably just not Titans on 2-star Elise. 3 tank items on her, don’t solo frontline. But will see over next few days. This comp will get much more popular