Q: I was handed an item and it disappeared. Where did it go?

It was a temporary one. Some rewards hand you an item that only lasts a short time, usually one round. It is short-lived by design, not something you lost by misplaying. Wisps are the usual source. Most of what a wisp gives lasts one round . The reward text calls the item temporary before you buy it, so read for that word. Note: Permanent items stay on your bench or on the champion until you move them.

Q: If an effect breaks my completed items back into components, does it work on every item?

No. The effect fires when you sell a champion. It returns the components of the completed items that champion was holding. Two kinds are excluded and stay whole: emblems and tactician items. That exclusion is printed in the effect's own text. Those two are the only ones it names. Only completed items break. A loose component is already a component. Note: It also only triggers on selling. Other ways of removing an item break nothing.

Q: Why will my duplicator not work on the champion I want?

Because duplicators come in a restricted and an unrestricted version. The common restricted one only works on a champion costing three or less. The unrestricted one works on any champion. If the champion you picked costs more than your version allows, the game refuses it. Note: Whatever it copies arrives as a 1-star unit on your bench . It counts as an ordinary copy toward starring up . It is a shortcut to a copy, not a free star level.

Q: A reward says I get more later. When does the rest arrive?

When its own counter fills. These payouts hang on a stated trigger, not a timer you can rush. The trigger is one of these: A number of player fights finished. A total of attacks your team has made. The first gift lands at once. The rest follow once the count is reached. Note: What arrives later is a fixed amount, not an endless stream. Read the whole line before valuing the reward. The delayed half can land far too late to matter.

Q: How is an item that is simply given different from an anvil, an orb, or the carousel?

By how much say you get. A handed item arrives with no choice and no cost, because the game decides. An anvil offers four options and you pick one. A loot orb drops from a monster round and opens into whatever it holds. The carousel is the contested one. On the carousel, everyone picks off one shared ring. Each champion on it already carries an item. The lowest-health players are released first.

Question 1

Where do the items I am simply given come from?

Accepted Answer

From effects that hand you an item directly, instead of making you win one.

Augments and wisps hand them out.

Many augments pay out the moment you take them.
One of the seven wisp categories is items.

What arrives varies:

A single component.
A finished item.
A short-lived one.

The carousel and loot orbs are separate routes.

Note: Some gifts hand you an anvil instead. You then pick from its offer.

Question 2

Can I control which item I am given?

Accepted Answer

Mostly no.

A directly handed item usually says random. It rolls from a pool and ignores your board. So weak components early are luck, not a mistake you made.

If you want a real choice, you want an anvil. It offers four options and you pick one.

Note: Each anvil kind draws from its own pool. So the anvil you receive still fixes what those four options can be.

Question 3

I was handed an item and it disappeared. Where did it go?

Accepted Answer

It was a temporary one.

Some rewards hand you an item that only lasts a short time, usually one round. It is short-lived by design, not something you lost by misplaying.

Wisps are the usual source. Most of what a wisp gives lasts one round.

The reward text calls the item temporary before you buy it, so read for that word.

Note: Permanent items stay on your bench or on the champion until you move them.

Question 4

If an effect breaks my completed items back into components, does it work on every item?

Accepted Answer

No.

The effect fires when you sell a champion. It returns the components of the completed items that champion was holding.

Two kinds are excluded and stay whole: emblems and tactician items. That exclusion is printed in the effect's own text. Those two are the only ones it names.

Only completed items break. A loose component is already a component.

Note: It also only triggers on selling. Other ways of removing an item break nothing.

Question 5

Does a champion duplicator take a copy out of the shared pool?

Accepted Answer

Treat it as yes. The current text does not say so, but the launch text did.

The pool is shared: every player draws champions from the same stock. The highest cost tier holds the fewest copies of each champion.

A duplicator's current text says only that it creates a 1-star copy on your bench.
The description it launched with said it pulls that copy from the pool.

So treat the copy as coming out of the same stock your opponents roll from. Expect that to bite hardest at the top tier.

See the shop for how pool depth shapes rolling.

Question 6

Why will my duplicator not work on the champion I want?

Accepted Answer

Because duplicators come in a restricted and an unrestricted version.

The common restricted one only works on a champion costing three or less.
The unrestricted one works on any champion.

If the champion you picked costs more than your version allows, the game refuses it.

Note: Whatever it copies arrives as a 1-star unit on your bench. It counts as an ordinary copy toward starring up. It is a shortcut to a copy, not a free star level.

Question 7

A reward says I get more later. When does the rest arrive?

Accepted Answer

When its own counter fills.

These payouts hang on a stated trigger, not a timer you can rush. The trigger is one of these:

A number of player fights finished.
A total of attacks your team has made.

The first gift lands at once. The rest follow once the count is reached.

Note: What arrives later is a fixed amount, not an endless stream. Read the whole line before valuing the reward. The delayed half can land far too late to matter.

Question 8

How much is a handed-out item actually worth?

Accepted Answer

Rough gold values give you a yardstick.

A finished item is worth about twelve gold.
A single component is worth about eight.

So two components you cannot combine into anything you want are worth less than one finished item you can use now.

Then adjust for timing. The same item early is worth much more than late, because it decides what you build around.

Note: Judge on that, not on counting objects.

Question 9

How is an item that is simply given different from an anvil, an orb, or the carousel?

Accepted Answer

By how much say you get.

A handed item arrives with no choice and no cost, because the game decides.
An anvil offers four options and you pick one.
A loot orb drops from a monster round and opens into whatever it holds.
The carousel is the contested one.

On the carousel, everyone picks off one shared ring. Each champion on it already carries an item. The lowest-health players are released first.

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