Talk:Twisted Fate/@comment-99.247.164.164-20120817051502/@comment-88.186.19.90-20120818161732

AD tf is just as effective as AP TF overall, but their strength areas differ. If you want to make your team snowball or if there is no effective poking/depushing in your composition, go AP and perma gank bot and top to feed kills to your team. Build AD if your team is doing well or if there are many tanky champs in the enemy team or if you plan to backdoor.

AD has better lategame damage with less burst and obviously better sustained damage. He also provides much better AD carry protection during teamfights, while AP tf has much more poking power.

AD unfortunately is much more niche because: 1. if you are going mid then there might not be another source of magic damage 2. It takes longer to build, meaning you can't provide a decisive advantage mid-game.