TFT Set 11 Guide: How to Play Heavenly

How to Play Heavenly — TFT Set 11: Inkborn Fables

Welcome to our TFT trait guide series, where I’ll be covering the Heavenly trait and how to play it. I’ll be covering how Heavenly works, analyzing each champion, and go through some potential team comps.

Heavenly is the new reroll trait for Set 11, similar to past ones like Punk or Supers. Because of this, there likely isn’t too much flexibility when it comes to Heavenly. The strength of the trait also heavily depends on the patch or meta.

Even still, reroll traits are easy to play, so it can be a good thing to try when just starting out.

Let’s get right into the guide.

If you haven’t checked out all of the Set 11 information yet, check out out Set 11 Reveal Page!

How Heavenly Works

Heavenly Trait Bonus

Heavenly champions grant a unique stat bonus to your team, increased by their star level and each Heavenly unit in play.
2-stars grant 50% more. 3-stars grant 90% more.

• (2) 100% bonus
• (3) 115% bonus
• (4) 135% bonus
• (5) 165% bonus
• (6) 200% bonus
• (7) 225% bonus

Stat Bonus Base Values:

• 10 Crit Kha’Zix
• 8 Armor/ Magic Resist Malphite
• 60 Health Neeko
• 10 Attack Damage Qiyana
• 10 AP Soraka
• 12 Attack Speed Wukong
• 6% Omnivamp Emblem

Champions: Kha’Zix (1), Malphite (1), Neeko (2), Qiyana (2), Soraka (3), Wukong (5)

Looking at the Heavenly trait, we see that it’s extremely synergistic with running more units.

Each unit will grant a unique stat bonus for the entire team, and the more units you have, the stronger that bonus becomes. The values also increase by each unit’s star level, making this a reroll trait.

Most of the units are low-cost as well, letting you reroll easily for them in the early game.

Heavenly Synergy

Here’s a list of the traits you can branch into from the Heavenly units:

• Reaper (Kha’Zix)
• Behemoth (Malphite)
• Mythic (Neeko)
• Arcanist (Neeko)
• Duelist (Qiyana)
• Altruist (Soraka)
• Sage (Wukong)
• Great (Unique to Wukong)

None of the units pair their classes together, but that’s to be expected for a reroll comp. There will be other low cost units you can use to fill out trait bonuses with the rest of the team slots.

Heavenly Champions

Let’s briefly go over each Champion in the Heavenly trait and what you can do with them. To check the updated stats and ability values, be sure to check each Champion Page.

Kha’Zix (1) — Heavenly + Reaper

[Link to Champion Page]

Kha’Zix is the first unit and one of the likely carries for the trait. This is simply due to him being a 1-cost and easy to reroll for. The Reaper trait is also damage based.

His ability is also quite good, allowing him to potentially jump to backline units. However, his ability range is 3 hexes, so he won’t always jump to the backline.

Malphite (1) — Heavenly + Behemoth

[Link to Champion Page]

Malphite is the other 1-cost unit and will likely be one of the go to tanks for the comp. Once again, this is mainly due to Malphite being a 1-cost unit.

His Behemoth trait will be nice to get a simple frontline going, and you likely will keep it. There are other low-cost Behemoths you can also reroll for, but it might be more effective to only reroll for Heavenly units. You can then replace the others with high-cost units to fill out traits.

Neeko (2) — Heavenly + Mythic + Arcanist

[Link to Champion Page]

Neeko is one of two 2-cost units, and she’s also a frontline unit. Her ability is a mix of damage reduction, healing, and AoE damage. Neeko’s Heavenly bonus is also Health, which is a great buff for all types of units.

Rerolling for both 1 and 2-cost units can be difficult, but if you hit everything, the comp will have a ton of bonus stats.

Qiyana (2) — Heavenly + Duelist

[Link to Champion Page]

Qiyana is the other 2-cost unit, and her Heavenly bonus is Attack Damage, which is great for her, Kha’Zix, and Wukong. Her Duelist trait may or may not be impactful, but she’s likely another reroll target to increase the stat buffs for your team.

Soraka (3) — Heavenly + Altruist

[Link to Champion Page]

Soraka is the only 3-cost unit, and she’s the last one you’ll find until you can hit Wukong in the late game. She will provide some nice utility by Mana Reaving enemies, but she won’t likely be a 3-star target for Heavenly comps.

Even still, having a higher tier of Heavenly increases the bonus from all stat buffs. She also provides AP with her stat bonus, which is definitely nice to have.

There is also potential for a 3-star Soraka Altruist comp, but that will depend on her numbers.

Wukong (5) — Heavenly + Sage + Great

[Link to Champion Page]

Lastly, we have Wukong, who is the 5-cost unit that will greatly power up Heavenly comps. He is a late game melee carry with a powerful 3-part ability, dealing lots of damage.

Furthermore, his Great trait allows him to get stronger as the fight progresses, turning him into a monster carry. Even if you don’t activate the Sage trait, all of the bonus stats from Heavenly will buff up Wukong immensely.

Lastly, I don’t expect Wukong to be a viable unit outside of Heavenly comps. If he’s a strong unit outside of Heavenly, the Heavenly trait will make him too powerful. As such, I expect him to mainly be used in Heavenly comps. (In an ideal world)

Heavenly Best Augments

For this section, I’ll be covering some Augments that particularly synergize with the trait. Lots of Augments are universal, like economy based Augments or item Augments, but I’ll try to cover particular synergies to look out for.

The set has yet to come out on PBE yet, so I’ll only take a look at the trait specific Augments. I’ll definitely be back to add more as we learn more.

You can check out the full list of Augments here.

Heavenly Crest

Gain a Heavenly Emblem and a Neeko.

The Heavenly trait increases slightly every tier, so the Emblem might not seem incredibly impactful as first. However, there are two main reasons the Emblem can be strong.

Firstly, with a Heavenly Emblem, you can buff up any unit with all of the Heavenly stat bonuses. For example, you can put the Emblem on Kayn and he will gain a ton of Heavenly stats while also providing Reaper with Kha’Zix.

Secondly, the Heavenly Emblem provides Omnivamp as the Heavenly stat bonus. With an Emblem, all of your Heavenly units will gain Omnivamp, scaled further by higher tiers and higher star level.

These two things combined can make the Emblem quite impactful, and a solid use of an Augment.

Divine Rolls

At the start of every stage, including this one, gain 3 free rerolls +1 for each of your Heavenly champions. Gain a Kha’Zix and a Malphite.

Divine rolls is quite an interesting Augment. Assuming you take this at 2-1, you might get one, maybe 2 free rerolls. You’ll still gain a Kha’Zix and a Malphite, which is great for jumpstarting the Heavenly comp. At 3-1, you’ll likely still be level 4, so you can get 5 rerolls there. At 4-1, you might get 6-7.

Overall, it’s a similar effect to Trade Sector, except you get your rerolls at the start of the stage rather than each round. However, it’s honestly better than Trade Sector.

The weakness of Trade Sector is that you need to reroll every round. If you pick up units, you aren’t able to build up interest at the start of the game, when it’s most important. With Divine Rolls, you get all your rerolls at 3-1, allowing you to hyper roll more effectively.

In the late game, these rerolls can also be great as you can spike a level and spend all your rerolls at level 7 or 8 to hit higher cost units.

Heavenly Team Comps

The Set has finally released, and our team has been working hard experimenting on the PBE. Here are some early team comps you can try out.

As the playerbase plays more and more games, stronger meta comps will definitely rise up the meta. Be sure to stay up to date on the current meta at our Team Comp Tier List.

Heavenly Vertical Team Comp

[Link to Full Guide]

This first comp doesn’t lean into the reroll strategy, but instead just levels up normally. You have strong carrys with Lee Sin and Soraka to hold AD/AP items. Furthermore, you have Wukong for the late game to be a third carry as well.

As it currently stands, reroll Heavenly hasn’t been performing greatly, so playing a default strategy has been preferred.

Heavenly Kayn/Morgana Team Comp

[Link to Full Guide]

Up next, we have a very similar vertical Heavenly comp, except the carry isn’t a Heavenly unit. Instead of itemizing carrys like Lee Sin or Soraka, we itemize the Ghostly carrys in Kayn and Morgana.

This is because the Heavenly trait bonus applies to your entire team, not just Heavenly units. You will still want Heavenly units to buff up your carrys, but they are just the supporting cast here.

You can play this comp with Yone over Morgana, but at the time of writing, this version is performing better. If you naturally find a lot of Yones and can 3-star him, he’s another strong alternative to Morgana.

In that situation, you can consider dropping a Heavenly unit like Soraka for Reaper 4 by adding Kindred.

Thanks for reading! Be sure to check out our meta team comps page, or head to our Team Builder to try and come up with your own comps.