Talk:Twisted Fate/@comment-4124337-20150829030643/@comment-35229418-20150901183604

Probably they just didn't know how to play TF.

Laning phase is actually decent. Safety if you can manage gold cards, good harass with red cards + Q, mana sustain with blue cards. If you can poke an enemy down to not much less than half hp and have E ready at level 4, flash + gold + Q + ignite is usually a first blood.

Ultimate isn't that easy to use since you usually have to wait for an ally (or an opponent, why not) to engage if you want to use it successfully. But when you can, it's usually a double kill. (Don't gank top with ult unless bot lane is stomping/top lane is feeding, it's not worth it at all.)

About the damage, well, it all comes from items. Lich Bane and Arcane Blade make your full burst go to 220% AP, which isn't really bad for something you're sure to hit. His passive is like that because he relies a lot on itemization. If you get so late into the game that you're able to build Luden's Echo, that makes your Q scale on 75% of your AP, which is huge for a spammable long-range skill like that.

About the matchups, yeah, most of those champions are quite good against TF, except for Katarina and Diana. It's so easy to harass them with both abilities and autos that it's not even funny. At least until level 6 for Diana, but TF should aim to camp side lanes (not necessarily with ult) when she reaches it.

Oh yeah, late game. Well, at this point, you've just become a splitpush-cleanup-peel-burst machine. Not much to explain about it. Push lanes, go in teamfights, gold card > Q whenever you can. You could even make a flow chart for it.