Don't buff Tristana by buffing her E scaling.

OtterlyLost··4 votes·1,070 views

Dont buff Tristana with additional damage to her E. This is a useless buff that doesn't actually help her; she doesn't need damage. She needs help with laning phase because you more or less triple nerfed her compared to the other crit ADCs; you nerfed her patches ago and then nerfed her again with all of the other ADCs. If you wanted to buff her, you should have reverted the nerfs you made specifically to her patches ago; these weren't damage nerfs but utility nerfs. You reduced her AA range both early and late. Change the range back and she would be fine.

As a Tristana main, just having 550 range again at level 1 would be way better than any damage buff to her E. She would be able to trade better with her fellow ADCs, especially since she doesn't have a skill that can poke(like cait or varus or lucian or even Kog) and she currently doesn't have the range either(like jinx and again kog do).

Her power curve always had her as a strong laner who was weak in midgame skirmishes but popped back up in late game teamfights. I dont know why you ever sought to change this; she's literally classified as an ADC Assassin.

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FNC Jellyfish2 votes

Riot wants to give ADCs ability damage buffs instead of base stat buffs (attack speed in particular) because they hate item multiplication and they want AD carries to be AD ranged mages instead of hyper carries. Tristana took a 50 range hit and is forced to scale to do any work.

Completely agree with the stupidity in buffing ability damage, but what can you do, it's the Tencent bought out balance team after all. They're making these marksmen buffs the way they are on purpose, glad you're pointing them out as well.

Riot wants spell casters. Big brain aiming over mechanics. EXACTLY what marksmen players want.

Nosliw1 votes

I think Tristanas damage is a little lackluster lately, so I do welcome that buff. For example, yesterday, me and my Morgana gets into a fight with Jhin. Morg misses Q, gets some off her w off and like two autos. Meanwhile, I jump on top of Jhin, land a fully charged E, hit an auto attack, jump on top of him again, and auto two more times. He got away and didn't even have to use heal. We were both lvl 5 with equal income/items.

To me, this seems extremely weak since he could burst my HP down to the same % in less time than that had he hit all of his abilities. If it takes Tristana longer time to get her damage off, it should atleast do damage. And we both know "but trist scales" just doesnt cut it. Jhin scales too, hard.

OtterlyLost1 votes

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I think Tristanas damage is a little lackluster lately, so I do welcome that buff. For example, yesterday, me and my Morgana gets into a fight with Jhin. Morg misses Q, gets some off her w off and like two autos. Meanwhile, I jump on top of Jhin, land a fully charged E, hit an auto attack, jump on top of him again, and auto two more times. He got away and didn't even have to use heal. We were both lvl 5 with equal income/items.

To me, this seems extremely weak since he could burst my HP down to the same % in less time than that had he hit all of his abilities. If it takes Tristana longer time to get her damage off, it should atleast do damage. And we both know "but trist scales" just doesnt cut it. Jhin scales too, hard.

If her damage is lower it's literally because they took 5 AD from her early game. They're adding extra scaling to her E at rank 5; they arent really adding damage to her until she hits about level 8. This isn't even at the point where the base ad loss evens out with the additional AD growth they gave all ADCs.

This isn't really a buff that will help her. Shes getting destroyed in lane and then struggling through midgame, where she was already weak. Giving her more range early, like she used to have, wouldn't give her too much extra power; it would just make her laning easier and soften that horrid midgame she has.

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