Everything for Twisted Fate Mid on patch 16.11, pulled from real Emerald+ ranked games — the build path, rune pages, the counters worth banning, the strongest teammates, and Twisted Fate's win conditions.
Twisted Fate is an AP mage in the mid, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a strong pick — a 52.3% win rate, 5.3% pick rate, 61,746 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Twisted Fate holds a fairly even power curve, staying relevant at every stage rather than relying on a single timing.
How Twisted Fate wins: roaming out of lane to snowball the rest of the map. The kit grades 10/10 roaming. Twisted Fate grades low on disengage (3/10), so don't take fights that turn on those dimensions.
The most-played core build is Rod of Ages, Lich Bane, Rapid Firecannon, which holds a 52.1% win rate across 13,057 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.
The matchup to respect is Xerath, where Twisted Fate sits at just 44.0%, the lane swings the other way into Jayce (58.5%), and on the team side, Twisted Fate gains the most from a Warwick (+7.9% pair win rate).
Twisted Fate's highest-volume core items and rune page this patch. Select the enemy composition above and the build re-optimizes for that exact matchup.
Twisted Fate Mid's worst matchups on patch 16.11, ranked by how often they win the lane. Ban these to smooth the game out.
The teammates that make Twisted Fate Mid stronger this patch, measured by how much the pair's win rate beats Twisted Fate going solo.
Twisted Fate is also played in these other roles this patch.
Take Twisted Fate into the Team Builder to plan around every pick, or check the Tier List to see exactly where Twisted Fate ranks this patch.