Perfectly Designed: Twisted Fate | League of Legends 

As an aurelion sol main, i feel like i mained de wrong twisted fate.

"The only reason people care so much about micro is to make up for their micro pe-" Ok this one got me off guard Good one

Can we appreciate that the color of the text was blue, red, yellow, just like TFs cards?

"there is no way you can mechanically screw up on this champion" ult bot at level 6 with no mana, gold card a minion and die Introducing my mid laner

I love tf, he feels fair to play against even if he is impactfull, there are few champions like that

How do you manage to make so many high-quality videos every week? Isn't it kind of exhausting?

Maining someone like Zed just teaches you how to be good at Zed. Maining Twisted Fate teaches you how to be good at League of Legends

One thing that makes it for TF is how well his theme goes with his playstyle. TF is a trickster, a cheater and smart as the Devil, he literally gives out the cards of the game. Good TF's players have to be like Twisted Fate himself, unpredictable like by not giving out wich card they will deal right on and outsmarting with his ult. He literally cheats the game by getting extra gold and seeing the enemy's hand, with one of the most OP ults in the game.

Twisted fate is the chad champ. Not frustrating to play and to play against, he truly is perfectly balanced.

"The only reason people care so much about micro is to make up for their micro pe-" No no, finish the sentence, you're right.

I swear to god I was waiting every day for him to appear. But he didn't fit in No One or Everyone plays so I lost hope until Fiddle made his way. Tha k you kind sir I'll be at that premiere for one of my favorite Champs of all time. (have some rest bro BTW you working too hard)

It's kind of funny to hear TF being regarded as boring when I consider him one of the coolest characters because of his "Pick a Card" ability. It's not a huge decision but you still get to decide often how to use that spell. And overall I just like the Marvel Gambit style in terms of appearance/showmanship

I recommend playing tf if you're new to the game because he teaches you map awareness and let me tell you it's the most valuable things you can learn if you're new

"In smash the top tiers have less weaknesses than the rest characters" Me:laughs in smash 4 bayonetta

I remember how I heard someone say the less you rage and use insults, the harder it hits once you do. And boy does Vars use that well. Caught me so offguard with the micro bit

8:20 you can't abuse him to challenger Tobias fate: laughs with pirate accent

“The only reason people care so much about micro is to make up for their micrope-“ I’m sorry but that was fucking gold lmfao

The joke about micro made me lose it hard, nice vid as always!

I feel like Oriana deserves a "Perfectly designed" episode too

Twisted Fates old model still gives me nightmares

Do you like danganronpa or just its music? I like the fact that you use danganronpa songs a lot jskdkdfk

I learned the true power of TF was watching my friend play him AD and just watching people's health bar dissappear was scary And having a lux, morg or anyone with a cc they weren't going anywhere

I love TF because when you win a game, you feel like you won because you were the superior player, not because you were carried by your own broken champ. Would've also been great to hear you talk about his versatility, he can run almost any keystone in the game (besides conqueror or glacial), he can build any mage or marksman item, and can even build support mythics.

He's not horrible early game, and he's not horrible late game. Plus his ULT is the most impactful of any champion in existence.

Just wanted to state that i REALLY dislike premiere. Seeing the video on my subs feed and not being able to watch it is seriously annoying, and then when i do watch it, is because i encountered it in the recommended feed cause it is down below in the subs one. I might unsub cause it's useless to be, besides for giving support to Vars. >:( Edit: best thing is that it actually happened: found the video in my recommended

The way to beat a good tf is to first off type *pees cutely* in chat to disorient him then now it’s 50/50

I love how this new perfectly designed series is becoming kind of a showcase for champions that teach you game knowledge, i hope it keeps that way. Love you Vars

Twisted Fate to this day is still my favorite champion, and based on the recent champion releases I don't see that changing. What I loved about old-school league was the fact that almost every single champion was simple and basic, yet despite how simple they were players were able to come up with the coolest ways to use them. The simplistic nature encouraged out of the box thinking and creativity. Contrast that to modern League, every modern day champion is a play maker. They are all disgustingly overloaded because Riot for some reason believes that anything less would mean they wouldn't be able to shine. Creativity is out the window, it's very obvious what you need to do with your champion to make a play happen and that's super lame. "When everyone is super, no one will be."

It's really refreshing to finally see a good video about TF. When I start playing, way back in season 4, I really like TF style and skills, and wanted to play him. But a lot of people (both IRL friends and youtubers) told me that he was one of the hardest champs to play...without explaining why he was hard. Tanks a lot for spreading this knowledge!

tf is a respectable champion. however, i do feel like his E does not benefit his playstyle much, specifically the attack speed part. i think that if it was changed somewhat, it could help compensate for his age. i don't have any ideas for a new ability, though...

Something I think is really worth pointing out that you almost got to, but didn't mention, is that TF's point-and-click stun ability is also balanced by the fact that it's not something you can cast on demand. You have to prepare it ahead of time, and even when you do, you only get a handful of seconds to use it before it runs out and you have to take the time to prepare it again. And since that same ability is also a critical part of TF's kit in all other situations (for mana sustain and creep clear), it is entirely possible to catch TF off-guard when he CAN'T use that ability. Furthermore, TF's stun ability is not coupled with huge burst damage or any other CC; if he hits you with that stun, the only other things he can do in that brief window is use a Q (which is more for poking and waveclear or hitting multiple champions than it is about bursting down one target) and/or a basic attack, and he's not an AD Carry. TF also lacks any dashes or speed boosts, and the one mobility ability he does have is his ult, which means that he can't dive and then disengage; if he commits his ult, he has to walk back if someone else attacks him in the next minute. TF's balance is excellent because his strengths have fair counterplay and his weaknesses are clear and exploitable, while bringing enough damage, utility, and flexibility to the table to be useful in a lot of situations.

There is no way you can screw up this champion " TF mAiNs in my games : Allow me to demonstrate ...

You REALLY like the dangaronpa V3 music dont you vars. Ngl it really fits here.

Ahh yes. Macro. The thing most league players never bother learning. I’m not a master myself, but I consider myself to be above average by following some basic rules: Never chase an enemy into thier jung for more than 5 seconds. If over extended, place a ward. If cannot place a ward, then back off even if you are winning. If you push your lane opponent into tower, either back or roam. Don’t just sit there waiting for the wave to bounce back. There are more, but I find these to be the most relevant.

Thats him... *wipes tear* Thats my main since way back The first champion i ever got a skin for

what i like about tf is that with the right build you can legit one-shot squishy champs with blue card. so sometimes while running after a jinx or something you press w and lock in blue card the jinx thinks you messed up and tries to fight only to have her health bar dissapear instantly.

"For a character to be considered good to play, they are expected to be unfair". Ah yes, the type of players who gets boosted in ranks and probably one of the reasons a game is so toxic.

We need Perfectly designed Orianna!! Great video btw ;)

When i play with friends and play him the amount of times I gank and scream “I JUST WANTED MANA” because I accidentally get blue card instead of gold card is why I have fun with him xD

It's ironic that a cheating gambler character is one of the most balanced champions

This is exactly why I love playing him as a support, he IS a catcher, but has many bad matchups, being bot lane theres a 2nd person to deal with your bad matchus making laning safer and a second eprson to kill when you catch someone out of position. Also, global vision is super handy (especially if Akali is on the enemy team). Honestly I don't know how people haven't picked up on playing him support yet.

He may be boring to play as time goes on, but being boring isn't a bad thing. It makes him and other well designed champs with not-so flashy or if not cancerous kits feel special. In my opinion, champions don't necessarily need to be flashy or cool, all they ever need is to impact it's player as much as possible. As many say, the real special part doesn't always come from the outside, but the inside that counts.

Tf gives me major vlad vibes when hes walking toward me with yellow card.

He feels broken to me.

I just played ranked as t.f. I went 3/3/15 against an Akali, Evelyn, pantheon.

Vars: "TF's Yellow card is undodgeable and cannot miss" Me a shen main "ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT!?" Only playing, but it is one of the reasons why I love playing shen into tf.

So uhmm, Darius has better winrate in diamond than in silver/gold. A better exemple would have been Yi

10:16 me who accidently picks a blue or red card instead of a gold card

The issue is that he is fair. People would rather abuse an op champ that’s easy to play than actually get good.

I started playing tf because of Tobias Fate. Maybe I cant play him good, but I appreciate this champ and he IS iconic. Shame he is not played as much as he deserves

I never seen a good tf carry a game in my elo mainly cause I main assassins and bruisers

This champion is actually very weird, you never feel like you're doing a lot of Damage (well mid game you do) and yet, you do a lot of damage, I had a game that I was dealing half of anyone's health with a Q, 5 minutes later a WQ+AA Lichbane + E wouldn't do as much damage as the single Q was doing - but yet, I topped damage chart, felt very frustrating to loose that game, on the other hand AD TF is sooooooooooooooooo much fun, so powerful

You can't escape gold card Gwen is immune

My man Gambit! Started playing him way back in...-checks account creation email- -grows Gandalf beard- ...2011, and still love to play him. AD, AP, don't care. More partial to AD, 'cause two seconds of riverdancing on someone with max attack speed and chunky attacks while they're stunned is never gonna be unfunny to me.

I’m so sad you didn’t mention Tahm Kench when you brought up global ults :(

feel like you should have mentioned that his blue card has the highest dmg of the 3

The best thing about TF is that ppl ship him with Graves as they are obvious husbandos 😌

Out of all the champions in the game, there is, in my optic, a select few that does instil frustration when you get outmatched by them, TF is one those champions.

How is this man able to mass-produce this much high quality content in so little time?

9:45 mean but true

“There’s almost no mechanical way to fail” Oh hoho, well my friend my match history begs to differ

Can we get a vid on mordekaiser? I started to main him few days ago pretty powerful. Would like to hear your opinion on him

9:47 holy shit, you caught me totally off guard. Great video and cool series, I enjoyed both the Fiddlesticks vid and this one. PS: Mean Vars is hilarious.

I wish I had played back when the Gold Card was an AOE Stun.. interesting you don't mention old TF. I found at interesting that his Passiv was global back then and gave everyone just +2 gold for last hits.

the rammus ult at 7:28 😭

Vars: "Undodgable stun" Vars' video in the background: ' *GwEn Is ImMuNe* '

Wow you know about competitive pokemen, I'm so fascinated bout you mentioning it. Have you ever played? I played for many years

I have a question: Is champion power budget a deterministic or a subjective spec? Like does riot actually have a hard number for it or is it opinion based?

TF teaches you so much about macro, a fantastic champion to learn midland.

Twisted fates stun is conditional because you need to proc it. A true reliable stun ability isn't in league anymore, only conditional ones.

Instant like for the danganronpa music

Funnily enough, Darius currently has a higher win rate in higher elos lol

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Imo the perfectly designed champions in league: -TF -Fiddle -Orianna -Sivir -Senna -Jhin -Ekko -Jinx -Xayah and Rakan -Soraka -Urgot -Draven -Annie -Pantheon -Vel'Koz -Xerath -Lilia

Kinda laughed when he mentioned Darius as a pub stomper despite being broken accross all elos for a while now

Perfectly Designed, yet so underrated overall, you almost only see him in pro/challenger.

Picked TF on purpose against Fizz just to prove myself. I still remember that game from 2 years ago

Hot take the game needs more champs like TF and less champs like Akali

Whats also interesting is that you need experience as an ADC to truly play TF as well. Vars is not wrong of how you need to be very good at positioning considering how he needs to get into auto range to truly dish out damage on a single person. He truly is the defintion of easy to learn, hard to master considering his damage output being much lower than every other mage out there and lacking in range (His Q, wild cards, is not an effective range abiltiy. its extremely slow comparative to other champions and as a squishy mage).

He is weak now (and will stay weak). (I was OTP.) Compare to new mages he has no dmg, no mobility, no scaling. Only point and click stun. Second support on mid, but with less utility (compare to tresh) and less dmg (compare to senna).

9:45 love it. that goes to people that have the audacity to say zed or qyiana are harder than TF

I feel like Leona deserves an episode too, she is never on the patch notes, she is constantly in meta(but never overpowered) and has clear strengths and weaknesses, so perfect counterplay without removing her completely from a game, and a lot of skill expression, not abilitywhise but desicionmakingwhise

You know, watching this through, you showed his icon once early on, but never touched on the comparison with Pantheon. His ult actually gives you less time to *react* (Yes its a longer cast, but the indicator that you are coming doesn't come until 1.1something seconds into it), no true sight, but a huge area of damage that does essentially end up hitting that note of 'appearing in the middle of a team and Neeko ulting' A point and click stun that doesn't last as long, but is followed by a *much* more painful combo A way to actually defend himself when he gets caught out (The empowered MS is nothing to sneeze at either) And the ability to actually go toe to toe regularly with many champs due to his AD nature. TF might be ranged, but Pantheon is naturally faster and can itemize for the sake of catches, and/or lead the charge if he itemizes as a bruiser. Not to mention crashing from the sky while looking like you are about to rip someone in half is so much more aesthetically pleasing too.

Twisted Fate is "almost" perfect His Stacked deck should be an Enhanced auto-attack reset that he can activate like a Yorick Q, Darius W, etc. Auto attacks reduce the cool down of stacked deck

I just played this guy after like 11 years, and in ranked no less. Wasn't even trying that hard, ended up carrying the game with 18/10/9, lmao. He's so stupid when ahead, porting on top of anybody by themselves and deleting them. Kinda fell off in the late tho

The only reason TF is such a well designed Champion is because he is an Old champion. If he came out today his passive would also grant bonus Gold for everything he gets Gold from, not only Minions but also kills, turrets, etc. His Q would heal him for 10% of the damage it deals wich would get nerved 2 patches after release to be half as effective against minions. His W would default to start at gold card and have the E as an additional passive of the W. His E would be some Kind of unnecessary mobility. Probably his Ult just with much shorter range and no reveal but it would reset on takedowns. His Ult would be something ridiculous where you pick an enemy champion and play a round of BlackJack against them. If they lose they die, give you 300 of their gold and if they have insufficient funds they give you their cheapest Item worth at least 400 gold. But TF is the dealer and thanks to his Cardmagic he always draws 20 so you have to land on 21.

One day, some lux player complained about how my blue card did 1500 damage in one hit. 1st : it did at max, without mitigation or resistances, 800. 2nd : wtf girl ?

imagine if all bronze yasuo mains would be forced to play and learn TF and macro instead of playing yasuo 24/7 and feeding like no other while trying to be the next Moe/tempest/arkadata/Dzukill

Why dont more people play TF? Answer: TF is a balanced Champion in an unbalanced game. RIOT has his favorites and they keep them in OP Tier while pushing everyone who even gets close out. I mean, just compare the power of Thresh, Leona or Senna Support to other Supports. There is almost 0 reason to not pick one of those three if you want to win. No other support can bring as much stuff to the game while having little to no drawbacks.

It's funny because the exact same thing seems to be happening in Wild Rift. They buffed the area of his red card, then called it a day. That's it. That's all he ever got. And yet he's always at least A tier I'm plat in WR and I picked him up when I was silver. I still recommend him to low elo players because getting good on TF is a crash course in macro 😂 You ain't gonna win, but you're gonna learn to look at the minimap

Tf ult Counters Akali shroud. Always funny when an Akali forgets she can't just hide in her stupid vape cloud.

Actually, TF got 1 thing fked him up. It's E, E giving attack speed which totally useless on him. I sent Riot my idea but they seemed to not understand

Being a tf main its not all flairs and good games: compared to the overloaded champions he is balanced, basically making him a weak choice most of the times. Of course this applies to Silver where my teammates never set the waves for a good gank or always push or expect insane damage like syndra and zed or flame me for doing nothing. Meanwhile I am tilted, 0/0/0 score at 15 and /allmute on. Most of the time I got flamed even for picking tf or ASol and sometimes someone dodges the lobby. But good lord, smurfing on the enemy is worth all of the above :)

Idk man, I am just gold but I already see Darius as a weak champion, it's been 2 years since I don't see a fed Darius carrying a game or making pentakills

Honestly, he kind of sounds like the definition of perfectly designed, just the length of time he's been relevant for speaks volume

As someone who decided to play Twisted Fate as his first real champion in Season 10 and almost lost every Game with him in the begining, I can say that it is really worthwhile to play him, even if you suck at first and complain about all the bad matchups (I had a really rough time at the beginning), but because of all that suffering in the beginning, I eventually learned how to really play the game with him and he also gave me the Idea to only really play the Champions, that you almost never see in your games, so I started playing Sion and Tahm Kench Top, together with Wukong and Ornn in the top lane and as Support my trusty Rakan and Braum!

As a tf and fiddle main in emerald, completely agree with this. Two of the most perfectly designed champs in the game. Game knowledge > mechanics

TF can hit the Gangnam Style. He's my main now. Unaware enemies won't be able to play while laughing their asses of.

Met a 2.4 million Darius yesterday I’m gold 4 also a 2.2 million lux macro helps u climb not the champion

I basically always play him on free rotation while I can. But I know if I buy him, I won't wanna play him.