If you didn’t know, aside from managing and designing Teamfight Tactics, this project director – Riot Mortdog is also a Challenger player. Therefore, even though he knows everything about the content of Season 7, Riot Mortdog still diligently tests various team compositions and streams live for other gamers to watch.
Not only playing the game, but Riot Mortdog also reveals to his audience some incredibly interesting interactions of the units as well as his evaluation of the upcoming Season 7. Recently, Riot Mortdog pointed out to gamers the augment Cruel Pact and rated it as the strongest upgrade of Season 7. The reason is that it allows the owner to level up far too quickly, making it impossible for other players to maintain their win streak.
Riot Mortdog: “Let’s see, someone gets this Cruel Pact augment. When you find yourself in this situation, the first thing to do is throw Riot Kent under the bus for me. Then remember that you can’t maintain your win streak, no matter how well you play. Just look at that guy over there, level 7 and already has Sy Fen in round 2-2. This augment is really too strong.”
If you didn’t know, the Cruel Pact augment allows players to use their health to buy experience instead of gold as usual. Therefore, you can sacrifice a lot of health to reach a superior level with this technology augment to find ways to snowball the game. Moreover, leveling up early like this will help gamers acquire the key 4-cost units (Xayah, Corki…) much earlier because other players have a hard time competing with you.
However, the downside of this augment is that it becomes weaker towards the end of the game as most players will have already reached their full levels by then. Thus, the Cruel Pact augment will be strongest when you acquire it in the first upgrade selection round (round 2-1). Meanwhile, in the later stages, the advice is not to take this augment as the value of leveling up early will decrease significantly.