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YEAH ACTUALLY THINGS ARE REALLY GOOD NOW

you know what, maybe everything is going to be okay after all (these pictures healed me)

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bang chan ♡ skz-talker go!

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you know what, maybe everything is going to be okay after all (these pictures healed me)

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hehe looking back on this post is so funny to me! i started playing tft in the beginning of 2023 after watching chan play (i had watched other streamers play it previously) and made this post around that time. now i can say that i know a lot more about tft (my max rank is masters in double up).

i definitely think tft is not as difficult as before (and would encourage people to learn it!), but i'm still impressed by chan's rank because one of the most important things required for increasing rank is just playing a lot of games which, as an idol, chan doesn't really have time for

but yeah as far as i know, chan doesn't really play tft anymore bc he abandoned it to play pokemon and then later genshin 🥲

teamfight tactics (tft): a beginner's guide for stays

chan has been having fun playing tft during his lives recently and i know a lot of stays are unfamiliar with it so i wanted to put together something in case people wanted to understand the game a bit! also basically everything i know about tft is just from watching streams or videos about it so this guide is super simple and won't explain how to play or win 😅

first is to clear up that tft is different from league of legends! it's a spinoff game made from the same company (riot) and the champions in tft are from lol. since they're both under riot, you use the same account to play both tft and lol

you can play either on pc or mobile. chan has mentioned he plays on mobile (when he was saying he never even uses the chat function since he plays on his phone).

the basic premise of tft is that you create a team of champions (aka units) and fight 7 other people's teams. you start with one unit and can level up to put more on the playing board.

this is the starting carousel to choose your first champion, which also comes with an item. this picture only has one player, but normally there are 8! (so all of skz can play together haha)

this is an example of what the board looks like on mobile! there are a bunch of things on it, but i've labelled the ones most important to know. the pc version is similar, but has even more info displayed on the screen at once

tft is an auto-battler game which means you just place the units on the board and you don't control them while they fight. the main things you can control are:

1. what units you have

2. what items you put on each unit

3. placement of units

when choosing your units, there are different synergies you can create based on the type of unit and these will give you things like extra speed, damage protection, etc. on the side of the screen, you can see how many units are needed to get the benefit of the synergy

there's a store to buy different units. if they don't have the units you're looking for, you can use gold to reroll and change the units available. you can also buy xp to level up and put more units on the board (normally your level corresponds to the number of units you can put on, so level 1 means you can have 1 unit, etc). units can either be 1, 2, or 3 star (3 is the strongest) and you can level them up by buying more of them. three 1 star units of the same champion will combine to make a 2 star unit, and three 2 star units will combine to make a 3 star unit. this screenshot shows the pc version of the store.

next are the items you can put on the units. they have a lot of items and you an also combine them to create better items!

once you have the units you want and any items on them, it's important to position the units. some units are better for close combat or defense and some for long range.

before each round, there's time to move units around, buy more, and put on items. then the combat round starts and you pray your team does well, then celebrate if they win and cry if they lose

at the start of the game, each player has 100 hp. when they lose a fight, they'll lose a certain amount of hp depending on the damage dealt and how many enemy units are still alive. at 0 hp, you're out of the game. after each round, you can see who won ✅️ and who lost ❎️

there's also strategies for win or loss streaking bc you will get more gold after each round for consecutive wins/losses. also if you have certain amounts of gold (based on increments of 10) then you get interest and can earn even more gold

tft is super complicated and requires a lot of strategy and knowledge so i consider chan a big nerd (affectionate) to have platinum ranking and play it for stress relief. i'm so glad he was able to get his account back and i've been having a lot of fun watching him play it!

anyway that concludes my very bad and very simplified guide on tft basics! there is lots that i didn't mention and also lots i don't know so i'm sorry if i got anything wrong and feel free to correct me

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YOUTH BEHIND THE SCENES (close up ver)

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i am obssessed with the new pcs i got today!!!

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oh man twt stays are fighting so much abt chan not getting enough lines and attention this comeback... chan must have seen it and decided enough was enough since he said he wanted to go live to explain line distribution

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hyunjin — "合” [hop] countdown live | skzhop hipclub

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did not realise the pilot 10cm wolf chan is so much huger than the magic school 10cm wolf chan!! and also both of them are way more than 10cm!!

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AHHHH I got to work on a dream project, making some art for this Stray Kids easter egg!! If you search Stray Kids in Google and click the compass, you can play around with it! 

I had SO MUCH FUN, even though I had only about 2 weeks to finish everything. I was working on this when the new album came out, and had the best time listening to it and dragging around lil skzoos. I hope people notice the little things like quokka cheek squish!!

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THERE'S 4 DORMS NOW???

chan + i.n.

lee know + han

changbin + hyunjin

felix + seungmin

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SOMEONE SAID THE LOCATIONS IN THE MV MIGHT BE THE WORLD TOUR LOCATIONS????

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i only download and log into spotify like once or twice a year - whenever skz has a comeback bc they're a bit slow to release on youtube and i am desperate. now that it's on youtube time to delete spotify again LOL

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mountains - tbh the start of it is kinda abrupt but i love it!!!! so fun, it's powerful but not too powerful, it's such a good way to open the album, it's so skz it's perfect

chk chk boom - i am obsessed this is my fav recent title track by so much i love the sound, it's so easy to listen to, super cool to hear the different vibe, music video is AMAZING, super huge fan i cannot wait to hear this live (if i ever get to go to a concert and hear it), the hyunjin lee know chorus then felix chan chorus goes INSANE, this is literally peak stray kids music, it fits their sound so well

jjam - wish this was still called jelly legs, the chorus is so cool, the sounds reach my brain differently than any other song ever has, I KNOW YOU KNOW LEEKNOW RETURNS, perfect song for eating a red gummy bear

i like it - oh this is so smooth sounding, i knew from the mashup that i would absolutely love the chorus and i was right! lyrics are complicated, this is going to require more listens to process it all, oh man lee knows voice is so perfect for the chorus

runners - pre-chorus made me GASP ITS SO GOOD. woah the chorus is the perfect song for driving with the windows down late on a summer night, the zoom zoom zoom zoom in the different ears oh its so good

twilight - intro is so pretty!! this is a song for sitting at the window seat of a cafe looking moodily out at all the people walking by on a rainy day, so nice after the more upbeat/intense songs on the album, good to get me ready for how emo stray kids is going to make me i think

stray kids - i'm going to cry just hearing the first few seconds, it's so good, so smooth, i can so clearly imagine this as an ending song for a concert, 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹😭😭😭😭😭 i have not read the lyrics but if i do then i think i'm going to bawl, STRAY KIDS STILL GOING TO ROCK ON THE HELLEVATOR!!!!!!!! THERE AIN'T NO LAST STEP OUT!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

chk chk boom festival ver - why is it so fast haha i can't keep up but that makes sense bc i'm not a festival person, i mean this still goes hard bc i love chk chk boom but i like the normal ver better.