Hey! Hey! Hey! As more and more old sets come to TFT, I'm taking the opportunity to share with you sets that I haven't been able to share with you before. Today I'm going to share with you one of my favorite compositions to play in Set 4.5, Nuclear bomb Neeko!
You can watch my gameplay here without commentary:
Swain visited us and showed us that all augments will be prismatic. I honestly don't find prismatic augments as powerful as they used to be, I've said that before.
I chose Upward Mobility as the first augment. This augment reduces the cost of getting XP by 1 and gives you 2 HP and 3 free shop replacements every time you level up. I think this is the best of the leveling augments.
There was a mechanic called Chosen in this set. When you bought a chosen champion, you got it as 2 stars and the chosen attribute of the champion you bought counted 2x. For example, the Diana you see here is Spirit chosen, so she activates Spirit on me without any other champion.
The early game was not bad for me at all. I won 3 fights and lost 2. Diana is a good pivot that will prevent you from taking very heavy defeats in the early game. Make sure to take advantage of this.
I need certain items as I want to play Neeko composition. That's why I chose Pandora's Items, which is a good option as it gives me one radiant item.
The mid-game went much worse than I expected, I think it had more to do with my opponents being strong than me being weak. I managed to find a Mystic Chosen Neeko, now my only goal is to make him a 3-star at level 7. If you ask me, it's very hard to 3-star a champion in this set. Especially a champion worth 3 gold. It's much easier to 3-star a champion worth 4 gold.
I didn't want to take any chances, so I chose Bulky Buddies as the last augment. This augment allows units that start combat with only one teammate to gain 330 health, and when one of these champions is slain, the other gains a shield of 18% of their maximum health for 10 seconds. It's too long to explain but basically it's just a tanking boost lol.
After making Neeko 3 stars and activating Fabled, I became incredibly strong. My opponents are amazed at the damage Neeko does. 11500 damage is not bad at this stage. Now I need to recover the economy and reach level 9.
Do you see this? 18500 damage! Great, but there's a problem. Neeko is the only carrier in this composition, so you have to protect him very well. Yes, there are a lot of tanks in front of him, but there are a lot of assassin champions in this set, so you have to be very careful with your lineup.
Speaking of the importance of things, Neeko's items are also very important. Spear of Shojin, Hextech Gunblade and Archangel's Staff are must-have items. It is impossible to get the maximum efficiency when you don't give any of these items. Apart from that, all champions in your composition are tanks and functional champions, so prioritize tank items. When you find only Zilean, you can use another Spear of Shojin, that's all.
This composition is extremely strong against adjacent compositions. For example, you can see that my opponent's champions are all clustered together and Neeko destroys them all with a single ultimate. If you want to beat this composition, place your champions as far apart as possible.
If you watch this fight you will realize how important items are. Neeko almost died and survived thanks to Hextech Gunblade. You can see how the damage is concentrated on one champion in the graph on the right. My opponent has 3 high damage champions while I only have 1.
This is the final version of composition. 5 Mystic, 4 Vanguard, 3 Fabled, 1 Blacksmith, 1 Ninja. At level 10 you can add Yone or Sett. Either way it is very powerful.
This opponent of mine was also very strong. He had 2 stars of many champions worth 5 gold, but he didn't even come close to beating me because both 5 Mystic and 4 Vanguard make my champions very tanky.
You can see the problems of having only 1 carrier. If somehow Neeko dies early the other champions are useless. So now I have to pay attention to my lineup.
I'm not going to lie, I secretly wanted to lose this fight because there was a chance I could make a 3 star Ornn. If you watch the first part of the fight I had 5 Ornn and I found a selected Ornn. If I found only 1 more Ornn I could have made Ornn 3 stars but I won the last fight and finished 1st XD
I appreciate you reading my post. Do you like this set? I have to say that some features are very broken, and if you have played a few games you have seen how broken Teemo and Kalista are. That's why people don't like it, but I'm curious what you guys think. Don't forget to share in the comments! See you in the next game...
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