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9 Min read Understanding when and why to build items in Teamfight Tactics can be key to winning more consistently.
Our TFT items tier list is created in collaboration with high-level TFT players and by using our Stats feature.
TFT Set 13: Into the Arcane has just released, and with that, we have a whole new cast of champions. While the items have mostly stayed the same (outside of Emblems), we don’t know for sure which items fit best with the current meta.
Even still, for the most part, items are largely the same as last set. You’ll want the item that best suits your carry, and the meta team comps will ultimately decide what items are meta. Tiers will be updated a lot over time, so be sure to check out our latest resource. This article will provide a snapshot of tiers at the start of Patch 14.23.
If you want to see what items are performing best in real time, be sure to check out our Item Stats Page.
Looking for info on Set 13? Check out our all-in-one Teamfight Tactics Set 13 reveal article that covers all champions, synergies, and more!
| Tier | Champions |
|---|---|
| Optimal (S-tier) | Blue Buff, Crownguard, Dragon’s Claw, Edge of Night, Giant Slayer, Guardbreaker, Guinsoo’s Rageblade, Jeweled Gauntlet, Last Whisper, Nashor’s Tooth, Red Buff, Runaan’s Hurricane, Spear of Shojin, Steadfast Heart, Tactician’s Cape, Tactician’s Crown, Tactician’s Shield, Thief’s Gloves, Warmog’s Armor |
| Great (A-tier) | Bloodthirster, Bramble Vest, Deathblade, Gargoyle Stoneplate, Hextech Gunblade, Infinity Edge, Ionic Spark, Morellonomicon, Protector’s Vow, Rabadon’s Deathcap, Redemption, Statikk Shiv, Sterak’s Gage, Sunfire Cape, Titan’s Resolve |
| Good (B-tier) | Adaptive Helm, Archangel’s Staff, Evenshroud, Hand of Justice, Quicksilver |
| Tier | Champions |
|---|---|
| Optimal (S-tier) | Automata Emblem, Experiment Emblem, Firelight Emblem, Pit Fighter Emblem, Quickstriker Emblem |
| Great (A-tier) | Ambusher Emblem, Black Rose Emblem, Bruiser Emblem, Conqueror Emblem, Enforcer Emblem, Rebel Emblem, Sorcerer Emblem, Visionary Emblem |
| Good (B-tier) | Artillerist Emblem, Family Emblem |
| Niche (C-tier) | Sentinel Emblem |
As previously mentioned, these item tiers are a result of combining performance and play rate. If an item performs the best, but is the least built, that will hurt it’s overall rating. The same is true for the opposite. An item may have average or poor performance comparatively, but if it’s built the most often, that will improve it’s rating.
Overall, we take into account stats like Play Rate, Win Rate, Avg Placement, and Top 4 Rate into account. After normalizing these stats, we factor Play Rate at 50% weight and the other three combined into 50% weight.
This makes it so that items that are built often may be skewed higher. This can be detrimental if the entire playerbase is wrong. But in general, taking the stats of Diamond+ players usually leads to an accurate assessment of the meta.
Keep in mind that items are also very contextual, so don’t take these ratings as truth.
For example, Thief’s Gloves is an item that performs amazingly, but it’s not necessarily something you want to slam early on. Endgame boards often can go for Thief’s Gloves once the main carrys all have 3 items. This may inflate the item’s rank compared to others.
In the following sections, you’ll find commentary on the best basic items and the TFT item recipes to create the best TFT item combinations. To get a quick and easy reference, check out our TFT Items tool.
These basic items make the best TFT item recipes in the game. Unless you already picked up a lot of these, these are the items you should aim for at the carousel.
B.F Sword is a great offensive item pick as it builds into the best Attack Damage items and also healing items for both AD and AP users.
Armor always brings great utility and defense to a team, and the balance of the game brings defensive items into a good spot.
Giant’s Belt also builds into a good amount of S tier items. Zeke’s Herald is a strong item on many team comps, while something like Sunfire Cape can be used to try and win streak early game.
Needlessly Large Rod is similar to B.F Sword in that it builds into a lot of powerful items. It can be used in attack and magic damage items, making it highly sought after.
Negatron is similar to Chain Vest in that it mostly builds into good utility items. It usually isn’t a high priority, but it still builds into a lot of strong items you want on many teams.
Recurve bow builds into a lot of strong attack damage carry items, but not so much magic damage. It can be sought after as many of the items have powerful effects, but it’s not as flexible as some other item components.
Sparring Gloves has become a premium item in the game. It builds into some of the best offensive items in the game as well as some of the best utility items.
Spatula is an amazing item purely because it brings so much variance. In the hands of a good player, it can become that extra push for your team. However, it can become a dead item in some situations if you get one late in the game.
Tear is an extremely powerful item simply because it gives mana. To build on that, it builds into some of the strongest items as well. Overall, Tear is a solid item which is also core for some team comps that want to cast their abilities a lot.
Adaptive Helm is an interesting item as you can flex between two different effects. The mana generation is not on par with items like Spear of Shojin or Blue Buff, but you also gain some additional AP as well. As for the frontline, it gives a decent amount of Armor and MR, with a little AP as well.
Archangel’s Staff is a great way to provide AP scaling for magic damage champs the longer the fight goes on.
This item provides good lifesteal for units that basic attack. Units with very high damage like Draven thrive with this item as their ability hits scales their basic attack damage.
This item is mainly used on carries that have low mana pools to allow them to continuously cast their ability.
This item is great for tanks as it allows them to negate any critical damage whether it’s attack damage or magic damage. The small damage it applies can also be nice for early game fights.
Crownguard is another new AP hybrid item like Adaptive Helm, but it focuses more on the frontline aspect. It provides a strong shield, and a strong AP bonus once the shield expires. This item is perfect for AP frontline units.
Deathblade is a good combined with or as an alternative to Infinity Edge. It gives a lot of attack damage to any carry that basic attacks.
If you are facing a magic damage comp this is ideal! This is a great item to put on a frontliner to make them take much less damage from abilities.
If you have a character that is being targeted by Assassins or is maybe a frontline carry, this item can be great to take aggro off them during the fight.
Evenshroud provides Sunder to nearby enemies, which is great for any Attack Damage comp. If you don’t have other sources of Sunder, this can be a great way to scale your AD damage in your comp.
This item is great on solo frontline units. If you want to make an unkillable tank, this is the item for you.
Giant Slayer is one of the few items that give multiplicative scaling. This is very powerful and becomes even stronger against enemies with high health.
Guardbreaker is a very specialized item, and focuses on countering shielded units. While the effect isn’t applicable every game, it can be good in certain metas.
This item is in a league of its own. Infinitely stacking AS with hyper carries is a recipe for broken team comps.
Hand of Justice has a very powerful effect as it gives multiple bonuses in attack damage, ability power, and healing. This can be a good flexible item on a lot of carries.
Spell reliant units can benefit heavily from the omnivamp here but it can work on most damage dealers.
Ionic Spark is a great utility item to put on front line units. Reducing magic resist is useful for all team comps and the mana debuff can also be clutch in many fights.
Infinity Edge is one of the best attack damage items in the game. It gives 100% crit chance to the holder and scales extremely well on a lot of champions.
Jeweled Gauntlet is very powerful on magic damage carries as it provides crit damage to spells. This provides multiplicative scaling instead of simply increasing Ability Power.
Last Whisper pairs extremely nicely with Infinity Edge against teams that have a lot of armor.
The burn and anti-healing are good vs almost every comp. This item also fits into a lot of comps assuming you have an AoE caster.
Nashor’s is a great item for units that scale off both Attack Speed and Ability Power. Previously, Guinsoo’s Rageblade was the only real hybrid Attack Speed/AP item, but now we have Nashor’s as well. Nashor’s is also great because it uses a Giant’s Belt, meaning you can save other offensive item components (like Sword or Rod).
Steadfast Heart is looking to be a very strong tank item as it is very flexible. It provides damage reduction which is universal for both tanks and vs enemy damage types.
This item introduced in set 7.5 allows the holder to provide a lot of shield value to the rest of the team. A strong option to fit on many teams.
Quicksilver is currently the only effective game mechanic that counters CC and will surely see some play in countering late-game enemy comps.
This is a great oomph to a spell caster, but remember to pair it with items that allow the caster to cast more frequently. Otherwise, it loses its value and you are better off going for something else.
Red Buff gives a small damage bonus and provides an on hit Burn and Wound effect. All of these effects are strong, but can be overshadowed by items that are purely utility or purely damage.
Sunfire is a great early game item to add some damage to the slow fights at the start of the game. It is also a good way to utilize defensive items offensively early in the game.
Redemption is a solid early game item that can be difficult to deal with. It provides a lot of value that might be difficult to tell, but it’s a solid pick for any comp.
Hurricane is core on champions who’s auto attacks are their main source of damage. This will provide multiplicative scaling for a champion, so keep this item in mind.
Spear of Shojin is for champions that have high mana pools or have high attack speed. It’s similar to Blue Buff, but will be more effective on certain champions.
Shiv is an item that is mainly used to gain an advantage early game. This item will often fall off late game, but in some comps, it can be a carry item when combined with extremely high attack speed.
This is a strong item to place on any melee or short range carry unit that scales with AD. This will give them both extra survivability and damage.
This item allows you to place an extra unit on the field. Yeah…that’s pretty good!
There are many champions in the game that make good use out of any item, namely the 5-cost units. For a small investment of two items, copying two items can be quite RNG based, but will on average result in decent outcomes.
Phantom Dancer has been replaced by Titan’s Resolve which has a very interesting stacking mechanic for a defensive item. Note that it resets every round and doesn’t stack throughout a match.
Solid item to give any unit more survivability, whether its a tank or an important unit you need to keep alive.
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