Twisted Fate — LoL Classic counters & build

Who beats Twisted Fate in League of Legends: Classic, who Twisted Fate beats, and the Season 3 items, runes and masteries to run mid. Patch 26.17.

Twisted Fate is weak against

Akali mid
Shroud makes your card-picking useless and she all-ins you at 6.
Katarina mid
Squishy with no self-peel. You gap close through his cards and burst him before Gold Card lands.
Talon mid
He kills you from stealth. You are squishy with no defensive tool.

Twisted Fate is strong against

Karthus mid
Gold Card interrupts the channel and you outrange his safe farming.
Kassadin mid
Gold Card locks you down before you scale and he roams while you farm.

Twisted Fate Season 3 build

Start:

Doran's RingHealth Potion ×2

Core:

Lich BaneRabadon's DeathcapDeathfire Grasp

Lich Bane procs on every Gold Card. That is the Season 3 TF damage pattern.

Alternative Twisted Fate builds

AD Twisted Fate: Trinity Force → Phantom Dancer → Infinity Edge → Statikk Shiv → The Bloodthirster
Gold Card still stuns, but the global ult now arrives on a split-pushing crit carry instead of a poke mage.

Twisted Fate rune page

9× Mark of Magic Penetration9× Seal of Armor9× Glyph of Scaling Ability Power3× Quintessence of Ability Power

Flat magic penetration is the strongest first-blood stat in Season 3 - base MR is only 30 at level 1, so 9 marks strip a fifth of it. Scaling AP glyphs beat flat ones from about level 9.

Twisted Fate masteries

21/9/0 Offense. Archmage multiplies your whole AP curve, and Arcane Knowledge stacks with magic penetration marks.

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