The Story Of Set 5 - TFTs Most Confusing Set

With the set 5.5 revival coming out, it's important to look at the original set that proceeded it, set 5 and how it was a disaster in almost every metric...

This is a story of the Riot team and how they pivoted from what they perceived to be a complete disaster

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Set 12 comes to live in a few days lets hope we're all able to get our desired ranks

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a common mistake is not watching my video all the way through ;) but whether you're a beginner or a challenger, we can all learn something here, because learning old sets is a small guide to success

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[kriskitt]

The shadow items were one of my favorite mechanic. I don't think they were a mistake. They weren't on what Riot considers is the ideal spot on the game design graph of accessibility vs complexity for the core casual audience, but I do think the items allowed for exceptional potential fun, more so than other sets. I hope Riot reconsiders their design philosophy one day.

[retroid]

I also feel like ever since the backlash on set 5 and set 7, really "crazy" interactions and fun chase traits started disappearing from set to set. I feel like set 10 and 11 are the best examples of this, where every game kind of feels "grounded" in a sense you won't see the crown of champions oneshot units with over 13k true damage anymore.

[luisfrank]

Shadow Ap crit with vayne was really cool.
Shadow JG made that you lose a % of your unit health on cast but since vayne didnt ult and had a pasive it never got hit by that negative effect.

[MutantThallid]

Seeing Warwick with the three AA staffs flying across the board really took me back. God I loved that strat lol

[aasdfasdfasdfasdf]

there used to be a bug for zzrot that would crash the game upon spawning the creature (it was in the game for like 2 days). Mortdog wasn't going to push the fix for another few days or something, but then my friend grieved him and slammed it at the last second in his pbe game so it crashed. He pushed a fix for it within the hour lmao

That set was fun but there were so many issues with the balancing of shadow items. some were terrible but others were just insanely good. It's too bad we didn't see something like it again, but they'd need to reconsider making some blatantly good and others with terrible drawbacks.

[neemius]

I remember putting 2 shadow shojin on lulu with a runans and she was constantly casting. Got me the win once

[deleleledrios]

Just found your channel today and watched all of your videos and now i see this video pop up ^^ Great content im sure this video will be as good as the rest of them. Thank you for your work:)

[ViniciusRibeiro-vgoq]

I miss this set! So happy it will come back soon. My favorite comp was the Ivern one with 3 Shadow Archangels. That was crazy OP!

[dzigayu]

Brambulance was one of my favorite builds ever. It was so cathartic to see my Brand healing the entire team with Shadow Gunblade.

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My favorite comp was Spellweaver Cavalier with Heca and Brand as carry. Blue Buff and 2x sGunblade on Brand and sIonic, sTitans + Archangels on Heca was so toxic. Basically it was dps/burst check and often enough you would win fights with all units full live due to Brand healing his team 50% of his 3k base dmg per cast as 3* and Cavalier had up to like 70% or 80% dmg reduction at their strongest point. Also I think there was a interaction with sTitians and dmg reduction, in wich sTitans would stack up with the pre-migitated dmg the unit recived, but not sure on this.

[stff]

I loved this set so much but it was more about the traits and units for me. I never used the shadow items because they were just so overwhelming and i didnt even know the normal items

[gabrielaugone]

i remember mixing soraka with the coven trait and putting her with triple shadow archangel. It was hella fun. I also remember ryze with shadow BT and shadow Blue. It was one of the most combos i have ever seen in my life. he litteraly stunned the hole board in like 6 seconds LOL. Good times.

[Lyrikeks]

I remember when I just started TFT back in set 5. I was so incredibly confused at first but I actually won quite a few games by just playing redeemed with 3 star aatrox having titans, bloodthirster and warmogs and it was surprisingly strong! Or even my favorite comp of all time- shadow blue buff, Jeweled Gauntlet and Infinity edge Kha'zix. It was one of the most fun times I ever had and I could still play it with radiant blue buff the set after. not to forget how incredible nocturne was aswell, being able to play assassins with Revenant... I miss set 5 and 5.5

[skywalkerjohn]

Ngl i like Set 5.
Shadow items are fun to use. Specifically, the Shovel. The ability to craft more emblems with the shadow components is very broken but also a very fun thing to do.
Like, imagine set 10. You can craft EDM emblem, the chaos that would bring when put on someone like Thresh, Karthus or Lucian.

[aaleven]

I think one of my favorite TFT games ever was a vertical 9 Redeemed game with Dragonslayer Varus Reroll (Riot would've removed the Pantheon + Varus interaction nowadays even if it wasn't broken) with an absurd reworked Trundle (you could have talked about the amount of reworked units this set had, was it like, Kled, Trundle, Nidalee and Kayle?) with shadow Ionic Spark and him literally 1v9 at the end with 4400 AD and 30k HP

[Alan-TFT]

Shadow shojin was amazing on Viktor. The decreased damage didn't matter when your team was always shielded.
Set 5 was the start of every trait having an emblem, which they couldn't do in set 5.5.

I would assume set 6's uncraftable emblem augments was first thought of during set 5.

[alonacalendas]

Velkoz with 3 Shadow GunBlade is my favorite moment in TFT, my board can't die

[greenfluff]

I really have to agree with the whole thing about complexity because as someone whos trying to get a friend into TFT, the biggest problem is items. With all the items in the game the amount of reading required to find the best item even if you only have 4 components means that for new players they just see two swords and put them together praying that its good, and with shadow items making one of the most daunting things parts of the game more difficult I can see why replacing them with radiant items which are very intuitive would make sence.

[Natsup]

This reminds me of the days were I used to play Kata/Coven having her permanently cast .... One if not my favorite TFT comps:D

[kattabinders]

Shadow guinsoo's on lux was my jam, miss this set haha