If your TF is frontlines, you're doing it wrong. He's a RANGED Jax. He doesn't have as much survivability as Jax, but he has as much damage.


New Zhonya's is excellent on him, but the problem is getting there. Most of my games have ended before I got the item. My build has been Haunting Guise -> Sorcerer Boots ->Nashor's -> Zhonya's. Game ends after I get Nashors. Actually, I could slip in Sheen/Lich Bane before the Nashor's and be a beastly pusher.

Also, for my runes. Red = Magic Penetration, Yellow = Health per 5, Blue = Mana Regen per 5, and Quints are the +5 AP.

Oh, and I'm running a 9/0/21 build with Flash and Clairvoyance.

Same thing I said.
I did some field tests and these are my thoughts:
AP was way underpowered I tried my old build and some minor changes and it didn't really go that well.

ASPD+AD build:
Got bored as **** playing like this but it was sure effective

1st game
Berserker boots
malady (I know many people think this item sucks but is the only recovery item I could think of for how I was making my build)
guinsoo rageblade
phantom dancer
BF sword (wanted to do infinity edge)
result 19/6/10

2nd game
more or less same build exept
berserker boots
malady
sword of occult
phantom dancer
guinsoo rageblade
16/7/12

I did guinsoo rageblade late because I forgot I had to use it tho.
Sword of occult works more or less like meijai did on AP build

pros:
turrets go down fast as hell
good survival rate in 1 vs 1
great farming power

cons:
boring as ****, feels like playing sivir or twich or teemo or w.e
wild cards is usless

I really didn't feel any pros or cons in sword of occult, it worked for me but without it I did just fine, farming infinity edge with all the ASPD of my build should not be hard, but if you wanna try hardcore sword of occult is great to build AD fast if you can save it, if I feel like my team is good I'll keep doing it, if not I'll skip it.
I'm still waiting to get a bad enemy team to try both Sword of occult and meijai together (dun think that's anywhere near possible against decent enemies)

Now, ya see, I'm going AP and AS. It's working quite well for me. He still plays like the old TF but a lot more efficiently.

Did anyone consider going hybrid now?

I thought of getting a Zhonya ring in my build, but I never get to that point, I should get it instead of phantom dancer or malady, but I always end up doing malady since is pretty cheap and has good (not great) bonus.