Q: If I sell the carrier, do takedown-stacks on items transfer to the next holder?

Yes. Stacks tied to an item persist with that item. When you sell the carrier, the item returns to the bench with its accumulated stacks. When you equip the item to a new holder, it keeps those stacks. Stacks tied to a champion's ability work differently. Kill counters and permanent stats gained on cast belong to that specific unit instance. They are lost when you sell that unit. Note: The rule of thumb is to read where the stack is displayed. On an item icon, it is item-bound. On the unit's hover tooltip, it is unit-bound.

Question 1

What is takedown-stacking in TFT?

Accepted Answer

Takedown-stacking is a scaling pattern where the carrier earns a stack on every takedown. A takedown is a kill or an assist. The stacks stay on the carrier for the rest of the game. They do not reset at the end of the round.

The stack effect varies by source:

Bonus Attack Damage.
Bonus Ability Power.
Armor and Magic Resist.
Extra attack range.
A progress bar that unlocks a new payoff at a threshold.

The defining trait is persistence. Every round you survive, the carrier gets stronger. So early-round farming compounds into late-game burst.

Question 2

How is takedown-stacking different from in-combat stacking?

Accepted Answer

Both ramp the carrier mid-fight, but their lifecycle is opposite.

In-combat stacks reset every round. Anything tagged "this combat" or "per round" starts at zero on the next planning phase.
Takedown-stacks persist for the rest of the game. Once banked, they stay through wins, losses and round changes until the game ends.

Note: Read the tooltip carefully. The word "permanently" is usually the tell that the stacks stay banked. So is the absence of any "this combat" wording.

Question 3

How is takedown-stacking different from "on-takedown"?

Accepted Answer

"On-takedown" is the trigger. It fires whenever the holder lands a kill or an assist. Takedown-stacking is one specific payoff shape. It uses that trigger to bank a lasting stat or progress increment.

Plenty of on-takedown effects are not takedown-stacks:

All of these expire at the end of the round or spend themselves right away. Takedown-stacking is the subset whose payoff sticks.

Question 4

What kinds of stacks can a takedown-stacking effect grant?

Accepted Answer

The common shapes come in two flavors. The first is a continuous stat per takedown:

The second flavor is threshold-based. Every N takedowns, the carrier earns a discrete reward instead of a continuous per-stack stat.

The takedown-collecting trait shows both at once. Its members bank takedowns toward a permanent evolution. They also get a repeating gold payout every eight takedowns. Once the count passes thirty, the whole team picks up an Attack Damage bonus. That bonus keeps growing per additional takedown.

Note: Both flavors share the persistence rule. The gain stays banked.

Question 5

Is there a cap on how many stacks a takedown-stacking effect can hold?

Accepted Answer

It depends on the source, so always read the tooltip.

If it says "up to N", the stacks halt at N.
If it says "every N takedowns" or "whenever" with no ceiling, the gain continues uncapped.

The current per-takedown weapon and hat augments are both written the uncapped way.

One current artifact is the interesting exception to the whole family. It banks a Hat on every takedown and pays a percent of Attack Damage and Ability Power per Hat. But it also takes 20% of those Hats away each time the holder dies. So its counter is neither capped nor strictly permanent. It is a bank that leaks when your carrier keeps falling. That makes protecting the holder part of the scaling plan.

Note: Patch notes tune both the per-takedown value and any ceiling. Treat live numbers as patch-specific and check the current tooltip.

Question 6

If I sell the carrier, do takedown-stacks on items transfer to the next holder?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Stacks tied to an item persist with that item.

When you sell the carrier, the item returns to the bench with its accumulated stacks.
When you equip the item to a new holder, it keeps those stacks.

Stacks tied to a champion's ability work differently. Kill counters and permanent stats gained on cast belong to that specific unit instance. They are lost when you sell that unit.

Note: The rule of thumb is to read where the stack is displayed. On an item icon, it is item-bound. On the unit's hover tooltip, it is unit-bound.

Question 7

Does starring up a takedown-stacking carrier reset its stacks?

Accepted Answer

No. Combining copies into a higher star level keeps the stacks the carrier had built up.

The unit is upgraded in place. Its kill-counter or per-cast permanent gains carry over.
Stacks on items the unit is wearing also stay on those items through the star-up.

The only common reset path is selling the unit, and then only for unit-bound ability stacks.

Note: Combining never wipes the counter. That is what makes takedown-stacking so valuable on reroll carries.

Question 8

Do takedown-stacks carry across rounds, or do they reset between fights?

Accepted Answer

They carry. That is the defining property of takedown-stacks.

Once a takedown-stack is banked, it stays on the carrier through every later round for the rest of the game. It does not matter whether you win or lose the round. This is the opposite of in-combat stacking, which resets every round.

Cookpit gathers the takedown-triggered ones on this page. The permanent landing page collects the rest. Those are the gains that ratchet up on a timer, a round tick or an interest payout instead of a kill.

Note: One artifact skims 20% of its own stored Hats each time the holder dies. Those stacks still carry between rounds. They just take a haircut on every death.

Permanent Takedown Stacks

Items that scale with Permanent Takedown Stacks (1)

Champions that scale with Permanent Takedown Stacks (2)

Augments that scale with Permanent Takedown Stacks (2)

Traits that grant Permanent Takedown Stacks (3)

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