TF is LITERALLY an S+ tier support

I've started to play League on S2 and peaked Challenger on regular League in 2024. I have been Grandmasters at least every year since then.

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In this version of TF, he is way better at roaming and map presence and much worse in terms of damage and scaling.
It's also important to say that he scales very poorly with AP. His only AP ratios are 65% on Wild Cards (Q) and 40% on Pick A Card (W). So because of this, you don't care about AP on him at all, and focus on CDR to spam your Gate (E) and Destiny (R) more often.

There are 3 primary reasons he is insane at support.

1. Due to Loaded Dice (P) , TF is able to generate 200-300 gold before the 20-minute mark to each player on his team (TF included), except the support, since the support barely kills units in the game. As mentioned before, this version of TF does not care much about scaling or stacking AP/items, so by playing him as the support to be the person not to gain any gold from your passive, you are able to be useful to all 4 players of your team as a support without doing anything at all.

2. At max rank, Gold Card becomes a 2-second point-and-click stun with a 3.6-second cooldown at 40% CDR.

3. The elephant in the room, Gate (E). You have a gigantic map presence from early levels, and you can even put a point into it level 2 if you see a roaming angle. Having global presence every ~1 minute to spam Gold Cards from Pick A Card (W) on enemies is huge and is what makes this champion work in this case. Once you reach level 6, Destiny (R) reduces Gate (E) 's cast time to 1.5 seconds from 3, so you can reach places even faster to create plays with your team.

IMPORTANT TIP TO USE Gate (E) : If you select your Gold Card on Pick A Card (W) and THEN cast Gate (E) , you gonna have no time at all to stun before the Card time runs out.

You can't do the first cast of Pick A Card (W) while channeling Gate (E), but can use its second cast. So before using Gate (E), use the first cast of Pick A Card (W), then use Gate (E), and before its channel ends, select the Gold Card so you have way more time to stun the enemy after you arrive.

It's also important to mention that, because of Gate (E) and the unconventional playstyle, the skill ceiling of this pick is EXTREMELY HIGH. So TF Support is much harder to play than any conventional support.

Hardest Matchups

• TF's hardest matchups in lane are the ones that cant harass/hard-engage and dive your ADC, especially when you are out of lane roaming. Champions like Leona or Alistar can be pretty annoying. His easiest matchups are enchanter supports that don't provide much early presure or dive potential like Sona or Janna

• Overall, his hardest matchups are ones that can easily avoid his Gold Card. Jax and Morgana are solid ban choices especially due to how popular they are.

Best Synergies

His best in-game and lane synergies are ones that can follow up on his Gold Card stun to land abilities, or even chain their crowd control to catch enemies.

Ezreal and Ahri are great pairs.

Early Game

During early levels, you usually just want to chill in lane and use Gold Card only if your ADC can follow up or make use of it. Do not expose yourself too much since you are VERY SQUISHY. Use Blue Card on minions so you keep your mana up.

On levels 2/3, you can level up Gate (E) and look for plays in Top or Mid, especially if they are pushed, or just double gank with your jungler.

You wanna always look for those plays if you have Gate (E) available, so you can get your teammates fed and snowball as much as possible. The best way to use it is to either corner enemies so they have to run back to your teammates or take your Gold Card Stun or use it out of vision to gank them normally afterwards.

Destiny (R) is a great tool not only to cast Gate (E) faster, but to slow enemies globaly if your team is fighting and needs to chase/run. Watch out for your mana while using it, since it costs 150 mana, that's one reason that Clarity is also useful.

Mid game

It's basically the same idea as before, but now you don't need to stay with your ADC to make sure they don't die. When you reach 40% CDR, you can Gate (E) every 50 seconds or less.

Avoid making plays by yourself cause you do basically no damage, you are a support.
Abuse active items as well to help your team reach the enemy team and stop them while fighting WHILE SPAMMING GOLD CARDS NON-STOP ON ENEMIES. Sometimes try to focus carries/priority targets without any tenacity like Mercury's Treads Zephyr or Spirit of the Ancient Golem so you can abuse of the entire 2 seconds of CC

Even if you are less powerful in mid/late game, your teammates will be more powerful, you just need to support them. Not only because of the snowball you can provide in early game, but because of all the bonus gold they earned from Loaded Dice (P).