TFT Set 15 Guide: How to Play Executioner

Welcome to our trait guide, where we’ll be covering the Executioner trait in the new TFT Set 15: K.O. Coliseum. In this guide, we’ll explain how Executioner works, cover the different champions, and give a quick rundown of the other potential traits you could branch into.

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Executioner Trait Bonus

Executioners gain Critical Strike Chance and Critical Strike Damage. Their Ability can critically strike.

• (2) 25% Crit Chance; 10% Crit Damage
• (3) 35% Crit Chance; 12% Crit Damage
• (4) 50% Crit Chance; 18% Crit Damage
• (5) 55% Crit Chance; 28% Crit Damage

Executioner grants its champions Crit Chance, while most importantly giving their spells the ability to Crit. There aren’t too many of them, but pairing any together immediately makes them more deadly.

Executioner Synergy

Here’s a rundown of the traits you can branch into from Executioner:

• Kalista – Soul Fighter
• Katarina – Battle Academia
• Senna – Mighty Mech
• Akali – Supreme Cells
• Ryze – Mentor / Strategist

There aren’t any matching traits between Executioners, but just like the other more narrow traits, Executioners only care about themselves.

Kalista Soul Fighter Executioner 1g

Kalista’s Spirit Spear hurls towards the furthest enemy, dealing a large amount of physical damage to the first enemy hit. Additionally, if the spear defeats the first enemy, it’ll continue and deal overkill damage to the next target. This is a pretty bursty backline ability for a 1-cost unit, and with Executioner, there’s always a chance it becomes even more deadly.

Katarina Battle Academia Executioner 2g

Katarina is a mobile assassin that blinks towards the lowest health nearby enemy, dealing magic damage to it and surrounding foes. Once again, Executioner can make this even more impactful especially as AoE damage.

Senna Mighty Mech Executioner 3g

Senna’s Super Beam Cannon deals physical line damage through her target. This has great damage potential, functioning as a good source of healing if the Mighty Mech is online, and even more so if it Crits.

Akali Supreme Cells Executioner 4g

Akali marks the furthest target away within her range, then dashes through every marked target dealing solid AoE magic damage. This ability gets better as the fight goes on, allowing Akali to dash between several enemies and really amplify her damage output. Then of course, Supreme Cells + Executioner make her even more dangerous.

Ryze Mentor Executioner Strategist 4g

Ryze’s Tsunami Beam deals a huge amount of magic damage to his target over a few seconds, while also dealing damage to foes within the radius. This bursty ability is complemented well by his three great traits of Mentor, Strategist, and Executioner. As a Mentor, his unique ability grants all allies increased Mana Per Attack, making him a fantastic addition to many teams.

• Golden Guillotine: Executioner kills have a chance to drop loot, scaling with Critical Strike Chance. The value of the loot given can also critically strike, granting even more loot. Gain a Katarina and Kalista.
• Executioner Crest: Gain an Executioner Emblem.
• Executioner Circlet: Gain an Executioner Emblem, an Akali, and a Sparring Gloves.
• Executioner Crown: Gain a Executioner Emblem, a Striker's Flail, and a Katarina.

Team comps are very fickle, but we’ll try to keep this section updated with the best team comps you can play around.

☑️ 5 Executioner 4 Strategist Ryze

Link Guide: 5 Executioner 4 Strategist Ryze

Thanks for reading! If you want to try and come up with your own team comps for Set 15, check out our Team Builder. For a full overview on the new set, check out our TFT Set 15 Blog Page.