u/Master-Mongoose-7344

For context, I’m a low diamond midlaner who mains syndra and hwei. I’ve always thought tf was a really cool champ so I wanted to pick it up as a “for fun” pick once in a while when I get bored of my mains.

The problem is I just can’t make him work. Every time I play him, I feel like I don’t contribute anything other than a gold card. I’m so confused, like where does his damage come from? I build the normal RoA lich bane and rfc which seems like the most popular build.

Like for example, when I gank, I push the wave, press R, throw a gold card and a Q, and then… I’m just useless? My spells chunk a quarter of their hp at most and my autos don’t really do much either. If my teammates don’t follow up immediately and chain their cc, the enemies just get to walk away like nothing even happened.

Same thing for teamfights, like unless I’m giga fed, I can’t blow people up like syndra, I don’t really have zone control like hwei, all I feel like I can do is just chuck gold cards at people diving my adc and pray I get carried. I’ve tried flanking with R but I don’t have damage to one shot their adc and I end up just inting

I think I might be stupid guys, I fundamentally just don’t understand what this champ is supposed to do.

I really hate the stipulation that everyone puts on this problem of “EVERYONE is forced to participate, including people without the mental faculty to fully comprehend the situation.”

When you add this condition to the problem, there is no longer any moral ambiguity, because it is essentially saying that a significant portion of the population is FORCED to pick blue. Then to any rational actor who cares about others’ wellbeing, the clearly morally correct choice is to press blue, and the only remaining argument for red is not a moral one but a statistical or probabilistic one - “I don’t believe that enough people will press blue so I will choose to save myself instead of adding another corpse to the pile.” In my opinion, this makes the problem very boring.

The more interesting variation of the problem would be if ONLY rational actors who fully understand the situation and implications could participate. In this variant, no one is forced to press blue, and everyone makes a fully informed decision. This makes it so that there is a real moral dilemma here instead of a clearly correct choice. Personally, in this situation I would pick red, because (call me a psychopath ig) I don’t really believe it’s my responsibility to risk my own life to save the blue pressers who made a fully informed choice to risk their lives, but I could also get the argument for pressing blue as well. Either way it is a lot more interesting of a moral dilemma to not include irrational actors.