How Dao TFT works

Each curated comp lists the completed items it wants, with a weight from 1 (flex) to 3 (core). Every item uses two components, so items compete for the same pool. Dao TFT searches every subset of a comp's items that your components can build and keeps the best one. Building an item earns its weight; a leftover component that is half of an unbuilt item earns 35% of that item's weight.

That value is divided by the most a comp could score from the number of components you hold, so a comp with a long flex list is not punished. It is then multiplied by the comp's tier (S 1.0, A 0.85, B 0.7, C 0.5). Augments add a bonus, held artifacts and emblems add a bonus (below), units on your board add a smaller one (full credit for a unit the comp plays, half for one that shares a trait), and opponents playing the same units subtract a penalty. The letter shown on each card is a label for that final score, not a win rate.

The same search powers “Slam now” (items it chose to build) and “Hit next” (it re-runs with one extra component and reports the gain).

Units on a level 3-6 board are cheap to replace; items are not. So your board adds at most 0.05 to a comp's score until level 7 (0.1), and only counts fully (0.15) from level 8.

Artifacts and emblems point you at comps. A held one takes one of its wearer's item slots (the unit a guide puts it on, or the carry tactics.tools rates best with it), so that comp needs one fewer crafted item. It also adds 0.2 if TFT Academy builds it in that comp, plus the placement gain tactics.tools measures for it on the comp's carry (or, at half strength, another unit on its board). An emblem also helps comps that already run its trait. One item adds at most 0.4, and all of them together 0.45.

Give your stage, gold and HP next to your level, and Dao TFT checks which comp styles you can still reach. It plays the game forward round by round, saving gold and taking free XP while you lose most fights, until you can buy up to the style's roll level (5 for a 1-cost reroll up to 9 for Fast 9) and still roll.

A style you would reach only after its cutoff, or would die before reaching, is graded D and listed last. One you reach late or at a heavy HP cost drops a grade. At level 8 with 30 gold and 20 HP on 4-2, Fast 9 is out; at level 5 with 60 gold on 3-5, only 1- and 2-cost rerolls are realistic. These are estimates: streaks and board strength matter more than the projection early on, so nothing is called a stretch more than ten rounds ahead.

Augments are judged against your components, not a global tier list. An augment can lift a comp into your top 3 (flex enabler) or make one comp clearly the best line (lock-in). Some augments rule comps out instead: No Scout No Pivot locks in the units that fight, so no level 8-9 comp is playable with it.

Scouting is manual: pick the comp each opponent is playing. A contested carry or frontline lowers a comp's score, and Dao TFT suggests uncontested comps that reuse your items.