Read This First: Three Systems, None of Them a Character Level
Teamfight Tactics has no character levels, no account power level, and nothing to “power level” in the RPG sense. What exists is a ranked ladder that resets every set, a Battle Pass track that runs for the set, and an in-match level that starts again every game. Anyone selling TFT “power leveling” of a permanent level is misdescribing the game; the boosting that does exist is ranked boosting, and Riot bans it by name — see the buying section.
The frame: TFT is Riot Games’ eight-player auto battler (Wikipedia), and its current set is Set 18, Enchanted Wilds — Riot’s support page dates Part I from August 26, 2026, and patch 18.4 arrived October 6, 2026 with a B-patch on October 7. A new set means a new pass track and a fresh ranked climb for everyone, which is why every plan below is a plan for this set’s window, not a permanent progression.
The in-match sense of leveling is the simplest of the three, so it is dealt with here and not again: inside a match you can spend gold to purchase experience points and increase your level, and the higher your level, the more units you can place on the board and the better the average rarity of units in your shop (Wikipedia). That level is bought fresh in every single game. It is a tactic, not a progression system — the two progression systems that persist across games are the ladder and the pass, next.
The Ranked Ladder: 10 Tiers, Divisions IV–I
Ranked TFT turns an eight-player lobby into a ladder of 10 tiers, running from Iron at the bottom to Challenger at the top (esports.gg). Most tiers are climbed division by division; the three apex tiers drop divisions entirely and run on League Points and ladder position alone:
| Tier (esports.gg) | Structure |
|---|---|
| Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold | Four divisions each: IV (lowest) to I (highest) |
| Platinum, Emerald, Diamond | Four divisions each: IV (lowest) to I (highest) |
| Master | No divisions — LP ladder |
| Grandmaster | No divisions — LP ladder |
| Challenger | No divisions — LP ladder, the highest tier |
esports.gg notes most players sit around Silver, Gold and Platinum, and that Gold and above is where ranked season rewards begin — a useful calibration for what a realistic first-set goal looks like. Standard and Double Up run as separate ranked queues with their own ladders, and Riot’s Enchanted Wilds page covers both in its ranked section; a Double Up finish does not move your Standard rank.
LP: Top Four Gains, Bottom Four Loses, Promotion at 100
LP — League Points — is the ladder’s unit, and its logic follows the lobby. 1v9’s ranked explainer puts it plainly: a top-four finish normally gains LP, while a bottom-four finish normally loses it; first place earns more than fourth, and eighth loses more than fifth. The exact amount also depends on hidden matchmaking rating (MMR) and the strength of the lobby, which is why the same fourth place can pay differently on different days.
Promotion itself is clean: at 100 LP you promote automatically to the next division and carry the extra LP over — 1v9 gives the worked example of a 30 LP gain from 90 LP promoting you with 20 LP to spare — and there is no promotion series to win. One figure no honest guide can give you is a fixed LP-per-placement chart: 1v9 notes Riot does not publish one, because lobby context changes the result. Any site printing an exact “LP for 3rd place” table as a guarantee is going beyond what Riot publishes.
Placements & the Set 18 Reset: Five Provisional Games
Every set starts the climb again, and Riot’s Enchanted Wilds support page gives the current terms. Everyone entering the ranked ladder starts with five provisional placement games: during them you won’t lose any LP for finishing in the bottom four, and you earn bonus LP for placing in the top four — or the top two in Double Up. The reset is a compression, not a wipe to zero: Riot says those who climbed highest in the previous set start their new journey at Silver IV, while no one starts lower than Iron II.
The reward at the end of that climb is cosmetic and set-bound. Riot’s page names the ranked reward for players who reached Gold rank or higher in either Standard or Double Up as the Victorious Lumie Tactician, distributed across the launch of Enchanted Wilds for the previous set’s climb. Plan the set accordingly: placements first, a Gold finish as the reward line, and no assumption that last set’s tier buys anything this set beyond the Silver IV starting cap.
Pass Progression: 1,000 XP a Level, Fed by Missions
The second progression axis is the Battle Pass, and Riot’s Enchanted Wilds support page prices its levels directly: the pass table lists 1,000 XP to each reward level through the main body of the track — levels 0 to 40 on the Part I table — stepping up to 5,000 XP per level for levels 41 to 44 at the tail. The free Pass is available from day one, and Pass+ at 1,295 RP/TC adds the premium track on the same XP; the full reward-by-reward table is in our Treasure Tokens farming guide.
The XP itself comes from missions, not from a kill counter. Riot’s tables list a weekly anchor mission — play 4 games of Enchanted Wilds — at 2,000 XP, weekly side missions at 400, 600 and 800 XP, and one-time Part I objectives from 600 up to 5,000 XP for activating a Prismatic trait. Added up in the only way that matters for planning: a week that clears its anchor and a couple of side missions is worth several pass levels, and a week skipped is gone — weekly missions reset, and unclaimed one-time objectives do not repeat. Consistency, again, is the entire strategy.
Master and Above: Banked Games & LP Decay
Decay is an apex-tier problem only. esports.gg’s ranked explainer states that rank decay in TFT applies solely to Master, Grandmaster and Challenger players: those players can bank up to 14 games, with one banked game removed each day, and a player who goes a full day with no match played and no banked game available loses LP based on tier — 50 LP a day at Master, 150 at Grandmaster and 250 at Challenger.
Below Master there is no decay clock to manage: your division holds while you are away, within the set. The practical line is therefore sharp. Diamond and below, climb when you can play; Master and above, the bank is part of the climb — check it before a busy week, because at Challenger a week of inactivity costs more LP than most divisions are worth.
Buying Boosting & Accounts
Progression for sale in TFT means one thing: ranked boosting, because the pass cannot be played by proxy without the same credential handover and the in-match level cannot be bought at all. The wired shelves are Eldorado (4.1/5 on MMODude), a request/quote hub with no fixed listing floor; G2G (4.1/5), with 770 boosting offers from $4.07 at our October 2026 check; and PlayerAuctions (4.3/5), with 27 offers from $5. Riot’s Terms prohibit the whole arrangement twice over — §1.5 bans sharing or transferring an account or its login credentials, and §7.1(15) lists playing on another person’s account to “boost” its status or rank as cheating and anticompetitive behaviour — with termination and loss of all Virtual Content as the stated exposure under §2. Full picture: our Teamfight Tactics buying guide, the Teamfight Tactics page, and the farming guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you rank up in Teamfight Tactics?
Finish in the top four of ranked lobbies to gain LP and the bottom four to lose it; at 100 LP you promote automatically to the next division, carrying any extra LP over, with no promotion series (1v9). The ladder runs through 10 tiers — Iron to Challenger — with divisions IV to I inside Iron through Diamond, and Master, Grandmaster and Challenger running on LP alone (esports.gg).
What happens to your TFT rank at a new set?
It resets, softly. Riot’s Enchanted Wilds page gives everyone five provisional placement games with no LP loss for a bottom-four finish and bonus LP for a top-four (top-two in Double Up) finish; the highest previous climbers restart at Silver IV and nobody starts lower than Iron II.
How much XP does a TFT Battle Pass level take?
On Riot’s Enchanted Wilds: Part I table, 1,000 XP per reward level through the main body of the pass (levels 0 to 40), stepping up to 5,000 XP per level for levels 41 to 44. XP comes from playing and from missions: the weekly anchor (play 4 games) pays 2,000 XP, weekly side missions pay 400 to 800 XP, and one-time objectives pay up to 5,000 XP.
Does TFT rank decay if you stop playing?
Only at the top. Decay applies solely to Master, Grandmaster and Challenger (esports.gg): bank up to 14 games, one consumed per day, and once the bank is empty you lose 50 LP a day at Master, 150 at Grandmaster or 250 at Challenger. Below Master, within a set, your division simply holds.
Sources
Checked October 18, 2026. Game systems change with patches, so confirm numbers in game.
- Riot Support: Teamfight Tactics Enchanted Wilds: Part I (Set 18 dates, Pass+ 1,295 RP/TC, pass XP table, weekly missions, ranked reset and rewards, Star Shards and Rotating Shop prices)
- Riot: Teamfight Tactics patch 18.4 notes (Oct 6, 2026; B-patch Oct 7, 2026)
- esports.gg: TFT ranks, divisions and decay explained (10 tiers, Master+ decay 50/150/250 LP, banked games)
- 1v9: TFT Ranking System — Ranks, LP & Decay (top-four gains, promotion at 100 LP, no fixed LP-per-placement chart)
- Wikipedia: Teamfight Tactics (8-player auto battler, Riot Games, June 26, 2019 PC / March 19, 2020 mobile, cosmetics economy, in-match gold and levels)
- Riot Games Terms of Service (§1.5 account sharing, §4.3–4.4 Virtual Content, §7.1(15) boosting)
