Twisted Fate·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Twisted Fate Top build, you should take Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Fleet Footwork as your keystone, followed by Absorb Life, Legend: Alacrity and Cut Down in the primary tree, as well as Nimbus Cloak and Celerity in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Statikk Shiv as your first item, followed by Boots of Swiftness and Rapid Firecannon. For your last 3 items, you should build Terminus, Kraken Slayer and finish with Wit's End. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - W - Q. Right now, this build has 54.1% winrate over 109 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Twisted Fate Top build would be to take Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Fleet Footwork as your keystone, Absorb Life, Legend: Alacrity and Cut Down in the primary tree, and Nimbus Cloak with Celerity in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Kraken Slayer, which you should build first, followed by Boots of Swiftness as your second item and Rapid Firecannon as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Terminus, Blade of The Ruined King and Immortal Shieldbow. The skill order for this build is E - W - Q. In the current patch, this build has a 52.6% win rate over 95 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Electrocute as your keystone, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Treasure Hunter in the primary tree, and Bone Plating with Overgrowth in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Rod of Ages as your first item, then Boots of Swiftness as a second item and Lich Bane as a third item. You want to finish the build with Rapid Firecannon, Zhonya's Hourglass and Shadowflame. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 42.3% win rate across 78 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Twisted Fate Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells, Lethal Tempo, Absorb Life, Legend: Alacrity and Cut Down as your primary rune tree, and Nimbus Cloak with Celerity as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Kraken Slayer as your first item, then finish Boots of Swiftness as your second item, and Rapid Firecannon as third item. The last 3 options are Terminus, Guinsoo's Rageblade and Randuin's Omen. The ability order for this build is E - W - Q. As of the current patch, this build has a 52.9% win rate over 51 matches played.

Situational Twisted Fate Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Twisted Fate build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.