What Happened To Tristana?

Carl Steiner·3/7/2016, 7:55:36 AM·1 votes·906 views

Hi, It's me. You don't know me. That doesn't matter. The new Season has rolled in and AD carries are bit more META right now. With AD carries like this I'm feeling the oh yeah! Tristana my main back in business. If you've looked around you may have noticed quite a few tier lists with Tristana being at or close to the bottom of the tier list. This doesn't matter. What does matter though is that they have a reason for being there and nobody (not alot) of people are playing her. What i wanted to know is: What happened to Tristana, What pushed tristana out of being META, and why she is an inferior pick (in proffesional play). Is it other AD carries being op and her balanced? are her counters in the META? Is Tristana actually underpowered and riot haven't given her some buffs? Pls I'm not asking for buffs (I can beg though), I'm asking why. #MakeTristanaGreatAgain Sincerely, me.

4 Comments

MLDzXnRRR3/7/2016, 8:59:52 AM4 votes

She is a monster lategame, not midgame or early. No reason to pick her over Kog atm. Same with Jinx. There are better ADCs for teamfight like MF or Graves that spike early. Also they are not useless when behind with their AOE burst abilities unlike Trist.

Koechophe3/7/2016, 8:40:57 AM2 votes

Towers are weaker, so superior tower destruction is superfluous
With Mercurial blade and Maw, ADCs are safer, so superior self-peeling is superfluous.
Adcs that can take advantage of Essence Reaver are being prefferred. Trist isn't one of them.
Crit-centric builds are the new meta. Trist has no special interactions with crit that make it a better stat than AD/AS.
In ranked, ADC diversity is extremely low

That's about the crux of it. She's not weak by any stretch of the imagination, but her niche of sieging and tower killing are somewhat unecessary, because any time someone gets to a tower, it dies. Her niche of safety is also accessable by most adcs, so she feels less effective than the popular choices such as Lucian, Corki and Graves.

ADepressedLeona3/7/2016, 9:02:39 AM1 votes

Lucian, Ez, and Kog exist.

LittleDemonTrist3/9/2017, 8:26:36 PM1 votes

She is bad cuz games are often decided before she can do stuff and many adc's is just a better version of her(cait, jinx). She is viable now after buffs. Got to plat 5 from gold 3 in 2 weeks and mostly playing her (with fervor and the Q buffs). Rito dont know a good way to make trist good but not pick or ban so they rather want her kinda bad. Like azir and kalista