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· The Set 17 showmatch is underway at the World Championship, and the game is already in the late stages of Stage 5.
· The new champion Graves has a unique mechanism called 'Factory New'.
· Each round, you can purchase permanent upgrades to build your own champion, which requires much more complex and strategic choices than Rumble's upgrades.
· Graves is originally a ranged dealer, but through upgrades, he can be converted into a melee combatant (2-tile range) and can gain an area-of-effect buckshot and an enemy armor reduction aura.

· The 7 Melee synergy provides hexes that generate units over time, similar to Set 11's Hwei.
· Tahm Kench has Set 13's 'Anomalous Items' in a game where Ekko appears as a god, gaining a large amount of health suited for a tank role, making him very powerful.
· Aurelion Sol is a 4-cost champion with two modes: a lightning beam mode and a Set 3 Galaxy version transformation.

· The 'For Power' augment provides players with many artifacts, enabling powerful builds.
· It is mentioned that designing augments for artifact builds was very challenging.
· The 7 Melee synergy provides a 'cashout' effect, granting many artifacts, which gives a significant advantage in the late game.

· Set 17's 5-cost champions possess passive aura abilities seen in Set 16.
· Jhin has an aura that reduces enemy armor by 10% or 14%, making him one of the most popular champions in TFT.
· Sona is part of the Psionic synergy, which provides items. Unlike Inkshadow, it can give items to any unit, making a 2 Psionic splash very useful.
· Sona also provides various utilities that strengthen allied units through commands that switch every two rounds, contributing greatly to late-game compositions.

· Shen provides shields to allied tanks and attack speed to all allies through his sword.
· Shen himself is an attack speed-based dealer; after using his skill a few times, his damage converts to true damage, allowing him to quickly eliminate enemies.
· He also has the ability to slow enemies, making him a champion with both utility and damage.
· Attack speed items like Guinsoo's Rageblade are very effective on Shen.

· The 6 Dark Star synergy empowers one of your allied units and creates two black holes that provide an additional front line.
· The black holes' health scales with the Dark Star units' health, so using them with champions like Cho'Gath can create very massive black holes.
· Set 17 is visually stunning, and the champion designs and overall theme are highly praised.

· Shepherd is a summoning trait that summons Jade Cats (Byern and Veia).
· Arbiter offers a very unique approach to TFT trait building.
· Players can directly choose triggers (e.g., every 10 seconds) and effects (gain gold, resistance, ability power) through the 'Cause and Effect' menu.
· These choices are permanently applied throughout the game and become a crucial strategic element that heavily influences the game's direction.

· Nunu is a 4-cost crowd control (CC) champion with the ability to roll a snowball and stun enemy backlines.
· Vex is a 5-cost champion that pairs well with attack speed items like Guinsoo's Rageblade.
· Vex has a unique debuff ability that steals enemy attack damage and ability power with each new enemy attacked, empowering herself and weakening foes.

· Jhin showed strong performance in playtests and is a champion that pairs well with the Dark Star synergy.
· Corki, at 3-star, shows a powerful presence reminiscent of Set 11's Corki.
· Bard can create UFOs to steal units, and it's even possible to steal PvE Elder Dragons and deploy them on the battlefield (this is an intended feature).
· A 3-star Bard has a very powerful ability to abduct all units and provide 2-star copies of the abducted units.
· Jhin has Kayle's Divine Artifact (after 18 seconds, another item transforms into a Radiant item).
· (Joke) A 3-star Blitzcrank can pull an enemy Little Legend, throw it at an ally to deal damage, and defeat it.

· We are very excited to see the powerful performance of a 3-star 5-cost champion (Bard) in the showmatch.
· Set 17 PBE is expected to be released in a few days, likely on Tuesday or Wednesday.
· The new set's name is 'Cosmic Gods'.