Build the first permission to move

0:00–6:00, or until the first clean crash and recall window

From 0:00 to roughly 5:00–6:00, make the lane pay for every movement. Use Wild Cards and basic attacks to secure the wave, build income through Loaded Dice, and preserve enough mana for a real trade or escape. If you can push without losing health, crash before recalling or moving toward river. If the opponent controls the center, collect experience and safe last hits near your side rather than forcing a card trade inside their wave. Your transition is the first clean crash: spend the tempo on a reset, river information, or a visible play.

Lane

Crash before you ask the map for help

If the first three waves can be pushed without losing a health or mana trade, clear them toward the enemy turret and use the crash to recall or move. If the opponent has stronger early pressure or your wave is already pinned, take safe experience and last hits instead of forcing priority; your goal is to reach a usable map window, not to win every early trade.

With Twisted Fate

• If Twisted Fate has priority and Destiny is ready, give him a visible target or a clear side-wave setup rather than starting an uncertain fight in the river. Push your lane before moving so he can arrive with the wave advantage, and stay close enough that his Gate landing creates a numbers advantage instead of leaving him alone. When he reveals enemy champions, follow the location he selected rather than splitting into separate guesses.
• If Twisted Fate is preparing a card near a contested area, let him be the second contact when your champion can start the fight. A frontline champion should create the safe space and a carry should keep damage available for the target he locks down; if an enemy diver reaches your backline first, Twisted Fate's prepared card can be more valuable as peel than as a backline entry.
• If the team is ahead, use his side-wave pressure as a timer: one player answers the wave while the rest establish vision for the next objective. If the team is behind, protect his safe farm and do not demand a blind Gate into a lost 5v5. A revealed enemy without a safe landing is information to use for a cross-map trade, not a command to fight.
• If a major objective is approaching, help him crash mid and reset rather than pulling him into an early skirmish. Arrive together after the reset, establish vision before the objective, and let his reveal check missing enemies while the team holds the entrances. This gives his map tool a real conversion target and reduces the chance that he spends it simply returning to lane.
• If Twisted Fate dies while splitting, the team loses more than one body when Baron or a tower is available soon afterward. Keep the nearest wave moving, track enemy disappearances, and make the safe side the farm side. When his ultimate is down, avoid plans that require him to appear globally; when it is ready, build the plan around a target and a landing location rather than hoping he finds one after the fight begins.