Teamfight Tactics game design director Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer recently tested shop distribution rolldown systems in response to internet bug theories and found room for design improvement. 

Mortdog silenced TFT tin-foil hat theories about broken rolldowns and shop bugs sprouting up across the internet on May 29 with logic and math through a Reddit post. As the Inkborn Fables meta becomes more solved through Patch 14.11, players are looking for an advantage, which typically includes playing non-contested units for a top-four finish in a lobby. Many players as of late have perceived that uncontested champions weren’t appearing in the shop during rolldowns while contested units are.