If you’re not yet familiar with the name RobinSongz, he is a streamer from Team Liquid. RobinSongz is currently ranked top 3 in the North American Challenger with 1256 ranking points. In his latest tutorial video, RobinSongz shares with Teamfight Tactics players about the champions he values the most at the 1-cost price point. He himself mentions that he often prioritizes buying these units. Let’s find out which units they are.
Olaf
For RobinSongz, Olaf is a champion he always wants to have at the start of the game. The reason is that Olaf has 2 very strong traits at the beginning of the game: Guardian and Warrior. With the Guardian trait, this effect provides champions with a significant amount of shields and attack speed in the early game. Combined with Olaf’s Warrior trait, which offers additional shields and damage over time, this champion can deal extremely strong damage early on.
Moreover, Olaf also possesses a skill that provides additional attack speed and healing, making this unit even more resilient in battles. With so many traits and strong effects, you can be assured that Olaf can deal excellent damage early in the game without needing to have too many powerful items.
Leona
Among the tank champions at the start of the game, RobinSongz highly rates Leona as she has the Knight trait. With the effect of blocking damage for the entire team, Leona and other Knight units can become a very solid frontline early on. Furthermore, Leona herself possesses the Sun Shield skill, which provides damage reduction, enhancing this unit’s tankiness significantly.
In terms of team composition, acquiring Leona early in the game is a prerequisite for players to maintain health and aim for an Angel team composition. If you don’t want to go for this team composition, you can just use Leona as a pure tank unit. Later, players can look for many options for the backline carry role, such as Gunner (Senna, Tristana) or Archer (Vayne, Varus) depending on the game’s situation.
Senna
As mentioned above, RobinSongz highly values the Guardian trait early in the game, so he frequently buys Senna when he sees her in the shop. If you can activate the 3 Guardian and 3 Warrior threshold with Senna, Olaf, Irelia, and Udyr, players can be confident that they will have a very favorable early game.
Even if players do not acquire Olaf or Irelia early, Senna remains a highly valuable unit when paired with Tristana, providing players with a significant amount of damage. In terms of skill, Senna’s area damage effect and ability to stun a target can be extremely strong, sometimes changing the outcome of a round.