I stopped playing Twisted Fate a while back. Sure, he’s a lot of fun – you can rack up kills so quickly that your enemies are likely to surrender, if not beg you to march it down main street around the 18 minute mark. He is undeniably broken, offering more map control than any character should rightly have.

As you can see from the pic, I’ve regained a liking for him. It’s not always fun to stomp through your opponents, but this new skin is so cool I find myself unconcerned with the quality of gameplay for a few days. I especially love the detail on the back, which looks like a card sporting the letters C and M where you might normally find a card’s rank. That’s not what this post is about, though.

This post is about the upcoming TF change. It’s been a topic of red posts for months now, and Phreak finally said it will be coming “very soon.” I have to say, I’m excited. He could potentially get nerfed through the floor, but I do like his character design, and putting him somewhere in that range of deadly-in-the-right-hands but not oh-my-god-legendary-in-anyone’s-hands would suit me just fine. I’m willing to bet he’ll lose the global slow/visibility, and he might even lose his port. As for the other skills, I’d say anything is possible. Part of the problem with TF as I see it is his range of skill and the potential for nukes. Wild Cards has a crazy-low cooldown, which, when paired with Pick a Card turns into a lot of opponents getting 3-shot. There’s also the fact that Gold Card is a stun, a slow, AOE damage and has the potential to crit. It’s pretty tough to keep TF from scaling to unmanageable levels very early in the game.