
POSITIONING GUIDE | Teamfight Tactics
On August 19, 2019 by Raul Dinwiddie
Hello Ladies and gentleman today I’ll be having
a guide on positioning. I’ve been asked a lot about how to position
in a lot of different situations and I want to start off this video by saying that I do
not know how to position in a lot of situations. Positioning is a nuance that’s difficult to
figure out and something that’s going to be evolving as the game evolves as well. I’m giving you my best judgment as well as
giving you tips on how to position, especially in certain situations in the early game, as
well as late game positioning with specific comps. You should think of positioning as .. kind
of like an MMO where you’ll have meele DPS, Tanks, ranged DPS, and Assassins. Where you want to position your Tanks is at
the front line tanking all the damage, your meele DPS does the most damage in meele range
but they’re also the squishiest, so you want them to tank the least amount of damage – they
should never take immediate aggression based on your positioning. Your ranged DPS should be well protected in
the backline in a position where they don’t get jumped on by assassins; and isolated. So how do you position your tanks to soak
the most damage in the game? Well.. first of all you should think of positioning
as a situation where generally speaking the opponent can chose to position their units
on the left, the middle or the right side of the map. Most of the times, most of the people do not
position in the middle; you should assume the attack comes from the left or the right. What this means is that the unit you have
at the very farthest forward of the board is going to get hit first, regardless of whatever
else happens – assuming you position in the direct middle as well. Additionally, units that will be on the far
left and far right have a higher chance of getting targeted first. This is because usually people position their
units on the far left or far right in terms of formations. Commonly what ends up happening is I feel
a lot of people end up stacking on the left side, and since the game mirrors your positioning
and reflects it on their board, that means the enemy spawns most commonly on the right
side. So what happens is, when I position my tank,
usually my tank is positioned at the furthest forward point, far right; or the far left. That way they’re the first thing to get focused. My tanky DPS, or I would say my meele DPS
usually gets positioned right behind, or right next to my tank, so they don’t get focused
as hard or immediately – because you really want the tank to get all the damage while
the meele DPS, who could be squishy, something like Fiora is doing as much damage before
they die, even if they lose one second or one hex worth of travel time. While we’re on this topic of matter, we should
also remember; and this will be important in the future, that Assassins positioning
is very interesting. Assassins jump to the farthest unit away from
them; on the opposite side. Usually you kind of cut the map in half and
kind of think: If my position is here on that Hex, my assassins is going to jump on the
exact opposite adjacent side of the board. They start out stealthed and they Jump in. This makes so that when you’re positioning
your assassins to jump probably towards the weakest unit, or the backline ranged DPS and
their assassin wants to do the same, they want to kill your Vayne, they want to kill
your Lulu; anything in the far back that can do a lot of damage and is relatively squishy. So while we’re on the topic of formations,
let’s talk about how to actually use this theory in reality – and I’ll do this with
the formation that can occur, as soon as level 4. I call this formation Y-Formation: mainly
because when I stream we jokingly called it the Y-Formation and then it just caught on. So the Y-Formation requires 4 units and you
kind of push them in one straight diagonal line and add a unit to the left of the diagonal
line. So it kind of looks like a Y; makes sense
right? Your strongest tank is on the , your tankiest
unit is on the top right of the formation and then your meele DPS is on the left, because
you want your top right unit to tank first, your meele DPS immediately joins. the bottom left unit is the most interesting
one, it is NOT your ranged DPS. Your ranged DPS unit is actually in the middle
of the formation. The entire reason why this formation was made
was for one reason and one reason alone: and that reasoning is because Kha’Zix is the number
one most annoying unit for me to play against early game; he has an ability that if their
ranged DPS is isolated it does extra damage and it’ll kill pretty much every one 1v1. So what this formation does is it forces a
unit to be on the very back that tends to either intercept the assassin when he jumps
in, or create a position to where if the assassin does jump on my ranged DPS, while my very
far back end of the Y unit is coming toward the middle of the board, it’ll stop next to
the assassin and while it may not attack it, my ranged DPS unit is close enough either
to my front line, or to the back line Y unit that it doesn’t get isolated. So this formation is entirely build around
the idea of stopping Kha’Zix and ranged Assassins from isolating your one ranged DPS. Now…. Counters to this comp are if you’re against
mages such as Ahri which can AOEd own your units very quickly, you don’t want Vayne to
be that up close, and additionally champions that AOE similar to Ahri like Graves go through
units will also hit Vayne in this position when usually they can’t. Yeah we made the Y-Formation. I just recorded a video about this formation
today. And in the recording I’m going to talk about
how if you’re playing against Graves you actually get countered by doing this Formation hahahaha
roflmal wait Graves literally IE-Crit me and I died. However even with those downsides I tend to
use this formation quite a lot just because this is how much I hate Assassins and Kha’Zix
early. Another early game Formation that I want to
talk about is Gunslingers positioning – specifically Gunslingers with Graves. Graves is a really interesting unit in the
sense that he splashes his Damage and he’s considered a front line, but you don’t want
him to be taking damage. However, you do want him to give you angles
to do a lot of damage because his buck shot can just obliterate teams especially with
items. Gunslingers have a very unique position, especially
Graves, that you put graves in the top right HEX, where there’s only one or two units that
can possibly attack him while he gets a great curve onto any units that tend to stack onto
the right side of the board. Additionally if they don’t stack on the right
side of the board because he’s behind another unit, your actual tank will be positioned
left of the graves in the situation, the actual tank will then move forward to the left first
and soak the damage anyways, so that if there’s an encounter that stabilizes towards the middle
of the board, Graves doesn’t get hit first, and it should clump up for Graves to do maximum
amounts of damage. This positioning maximizes your Graves positioning
damage and while this is happening you can kind of create like a mini Y-Formation with
your Tristana to make sure she doesn’t get isolated by Assassins as well. Finally I want to talk about Assassin Positioning. Assassins are probably the composition that
I understand positioning the most in late game. The biggest thing and the biggest counter
to assassins is clumping in the corner and a lot of assassin players I see don’t correctly
position their front line to be able to make them come out, your job as the assassin play
is to drag the backline away so you can isolate that juicy Ashe or Aurelion Sol in the corner,
crit it, and win the teamfight. So how do you do this? You position your front line at the very first
row and what happens here in this position is that they take the longest to run toward
the opposite team, on top of this the opposite team takes the longest to run to them and
because your assassins stay invisible for the first half second of the fight, everyone
is aggro’d onto your frontline so they’ll ignore all the assassin positioning. So it’s very very common for your assassin
positioning to have tanks on the first row, assassins surrounding the tanks, bottling
them in to force them so that they can’t move at the very start of the fight on top of the
fact that it isolates the enemy assassins from being able to jump on them immediately
because they kind of bodyblock for half second and then both assassins, your assassins and
their assassins will jump and it creates kind of, I guess a “stalling effect”. This is the best way to play assassins right
now and while there could be an argument where in the backline you position them against
different types of corner stackers, left or right, this is so important, I can’t stress
this enough – I think a lot of people fall behind on assassins late game because they’re
not positioning correctly in this situation and this is something that you really need
to know if you’re looking to play assassins kind of past six or seven units. Thank you so much for watching, if you guys
enjoy this, please like, comment and subscribe and see you guys next time!
Holy fuck i play assassin today and my fucking front line cockblocked my fkin assa. My double shojin, phantom dancer Pyke (i know i'm a degenerate) went AFK for 3 round straight so thank you for this video
I saw your cheat sheet on google and it helps alot. thank you very much
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Scarra lo tieni il pesce
thnx for help dude
scarra it kinda looks like a Y.
No, it looks like a penis
I realise that I have been accidentally playing TFT correctly
I'm sorry, but it's really hard to listen to you when you're constantly stuttering and making long pauses. You don't have to record the VO all in one take, dude. Record it till you get it right. The quality of this seems quite half-assed. The content is pretty great, and the graphical indicators are phenomenal, but you gotta work on your speech pattern.
I tested the assassin positioning and jesus I feel so dirty
Thanks
Thanks dad
Item guide next ? Thanks Scarra for videos
Brilliant, concise, clear, illustrated. Best content out there. Thanks!
alright guys, im doing a guide on how to position, but before i do that, i want to let you guys know i have no clue how to do it.
good shit scarra xD
(please look at the camera)
videos like this one ruin new gamemodes. nothing against scarra but let the players think of their own strategies man. i dont wanna see all players building a shojin aurelion sol because they saw it on 5 youtube channels teaching them exactly how to do it or set it up. excuse my language but those dumbfucks should learn that themselves. everytime now when i get killed im gonna feel like that a youtuber or some internet guide told them how to win 24/7 its all about winning and not even exploring whats good and whats fun to play anymore. it just sucks man and atleast 5 out of 6 youtube channels only do those tutorials for the views and money.
This guy is so fucking ugly
Thank you bro!
Thanks for the guide! Would love some tips on positioning against the monsters too
y formation doesnt work against assassin comps later on
Formations based on enemy team comps…adjust your formation accordingly. Cycling through your opponents is normalized and you can narrow your enemies you will face as the game progresses
If you but assasin in a straight line they jump right into the enemie team attacking everyone. No protection there. If Assasins have a Frontline it is even more GG
do you have 10 guides on this gamemode. I am not a hater or a fan I'm just passing in lol vids.
Not to be that person but when I go void assassin I just place them wherever kindaXD
"POSITIONING GUIDE"
"I want to start of this video by saying that I do not know how to position in a lot of situations."
Omg stop teaching people how to play I wanna go against raw skill not YouTube watching tryhards
thanks ! ^-^
Scarra you are the man, also slow down and breath a bit. I understand that when you are presenting/teaching/reading something all by itself that suddenly you rush through it (usually because you are just trying to get to the next sentence) and don't breath but just take a full 1 second between sentences and 2 between full thoughts/points. Keep up the great work man!
tanks for translation sz
Thanks for the info Scarra
I would really love to get good at TFT so these videos are great. I wasn't too sure about positioning and I kind of just blindly setup my comp to protect the ranged damage.
where´s the song from the outro from?
And me ? i'm new to league of legends!
And, i'm learning all the way.. at least i'm trying to!
All gameplay recorded, and failures guaranteed!
Come take a look & maybe subcribe, or like?
It would help out a lot!
Thanks <3!
He still had a huge mistake at Assassins 🤦🏻♂️
for me, winning depends on the champions offered to u and how u gonna make a good composition out of it. theres no such composition that guarantees win.
Thanks for the guides! I was wondering if you could do an item guide, it would be really helpful to me since I struggle with that aspect
I just wanted to say that I haven't watched you that much before you played TFT, but I can't stop watching ever since. You are so passionate about it and you look like a very sweet person too! I genuinely enjoy every single video and stream because you are such a nice and humble person. Cheers! x)
Ah thats why the assassins position that way. Thanks for the tip !
good one about assasins
Scarra I love you but you need to run through these scripts a bit more before the finial video gets release
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So ìnormative. Thats why i love watching scarra 🥰
I don't do this much but thank you very much scarra for taking the time to put these lessons up so we all the tools we need to excel in ranked.
The video is a guide, not a guarantee win if you follow what he does exactly. You cant be guaranteed the items or units you always want or need. Being able to adapt and understand what the other players are doing can change your entire strategy. Plus a lot of the game can also depend on your play style. Different styles can accomplish different results, and not any one style is good every time you play. You might start off aggressive or be working on a hyper roll technique, but that is doing nothing for you cause rng and items are not going your way. You might have to switch to a defensive strategy or whatever. I mean, I have seen some people get everything they could ever want and just stomp, and that same player get knocked out early in another game. I am sure this probably has happened to a lot of people that play often. There is a lot of luck involved, but also knowing how to build your team, how to position it, and when to transition or change up your strategies are all equally important.
Is your team hiev tomorrow big?
Liked and subscribed. You make it really easy to understand. Great coach
Fat cow poo
You should really teach how to transition because that shit highkey difficult to do unless you get really lucky
thi s video is insane fuck assasins
Great stuff Scorro
Thank you for translating it in Vietnamese, it is really useful for me and many others
😞 You do this for TF and not for LoL?
3:17 caught using the force to make us watch your stream. #jedi
Bro I'ma be real you, regardless of what comp I have late game I always lose to Glacial EVEN WHEN I USE GLACIAL I LOSE TO GLACIAL. 😒
Really good vid, thanks so much! But if you're playing Rangers how do you adapt your positioning if you are going up against that assassin-pull your front line forward comp?
Can we get a guide about all mechanics that are not obvious to understand? (AP, AD, when they scale etc.?) I haven't found any tutorial of that sort and even though I've played a lot I'm still confused
Thats very Interesting
It´s insane how much knowledge you have in this game. I want to be so good as well. Thank you for teaching and hopefully you will win Twitch Rivals 😉
Whys is scarra so fucki g smart
juicy ashe… mhhh
"I want to start out this guide by saying I do not know how to position"
Keep up all the great tft content. Your videos are always informative and entertaining! That's why we love em!
nice guide
Shut the fuck up Scarra, you fat fuck piece of shit motherfucker. Your cheat codes/training is what's ruining gaming by teaching everyone how to play the game.
Thank you! <3
as an assasin player i must say that the best way (in my humble experience) is puting everyone on the first horizontal line, and the tanks right in the middle of that line that way you force everyone to at least move 2 spaces front and dodge the fuckers that set in the right corner of their map but if the dps carry has a Large cannon you will have little problems to kill him but that can be fix in late game when you know where your 3 other rivals positionate their carrys.
Wow, I done the Y formation solely from intuition. Good to know it's effective
So I just watched this video and the match I just did, I won and I'm pretty sure I won because of my better understanding of positioning. Thank you so much for this video.
So useful and helpful with full understanding
ty for nice guide 🙂
I need a late game guide. I do great early, get a good econ but then my opponents just made stupid comps and take me from 70s to 0 while they are at like 12. Late game is very complex from what I've gathered in my 6-8 games so far, just some points so I can better know what to do when I get there would be amazing.
"Isolate that juicy Ashe"
i lost so many tft game and after watching this video and i make the same Y strategy i finally start winning again damn you smart ass
how to positoin VS assasins?
juicy ASHE
starts Video, "i will start by teling you i do not know how to possition…" Closes video
Where is scarras’s neck?
I know what tank is, what ranged is, what assassin is, but I don't understand what "Mailay DPS" or something along those lines is
You are my favourite YouTuber
Спасибо огромное!
keep the guides coming
chào bạn scarra. tôi mới theo dõi bạn từ khi có TFT. Tôi là người Việt Nam. Cám ơn vì đã có clip Vietsub. Nó thể hiện sư tôn trọng và thân thiện cho đất nước chúng tôi và LOL. thanks you. love you.
I've been doing all these tricks without even realizing these are real strats. ok i guess its time to get masters in tft
Thank you, it's very informative and interesting!
Like that assassins tip at the end. Cheers bud 👍
Hey Scarra, can u pls make a Guide how to play from behind ?! There must be some tipps and tricks to secure at least the 4th place. And i think many people struggle when they dont get good early combs !
Thanks
Thnaks man! 🙂
damn, i passed by this video lots of times thinking "I'm already at gold so there's nothing to learn here, but damn this assasins positioning is briliant, thank you man, I loved it
and since I'm here, much love to you scarra, I was a big fan of yours back in your lol pro player days, regarded you as the best and only played the same champs as you and learnt a lot, then I started to cheer for faker (the second best lol)
I like Scarra
Hi Scarra, thanks for the video.
How do you see who you are up against next turn?
So you can position properly?
awesome content ! more guides like this plz
" throughout the game." You literally didn't talk about any mid-late game position except for assassins… and graves alone lol..
el titulo esta en español pero habla en ingles que carajos vayanse a cagar
nice video
omfg ty scarra
If u r level 5 u must try the X position
Thank you scarra watch your stream this is helpful been playing for a week and am silver now
you are so right on assassins I just learned more thanks I was doing all backline two front this works
this can be applied in almost any game, and though I don't play Overwatch, it would seem logical that the sort of positioning you use in this would apply to that as well.
Juicy Ashe…..