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Good job Riot, you got Tristana's win rate over 48%...

Nilok·5/19/2015, 10:56:00 AM·4 votes·1,883 views
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...until you get past 35 minuets.

I understand the point of the rework was to give Tristana a good decent mid game while still having a weak early game for a strong late game, the problem is the Tristana rework is at odds with her identity as of late game ADC. Tristana is currently the strongest in the early and mid game, where she can be down right oppressive with the right support, and weakest in the late game. This is not Tristana, this is Nega-Tristana.

I'm honestly not entirely sure how to proceed with her. Perhaps making her damage less reliant on her Explosive Charge, or similar to Jinx on PBE, move some of Explosive Charge's power to level growth with higher damage for late game and give her base states such as her attack speed, attack speed growth, and/or her passive range growth a buff also aimed to late game.

The purpose of a rework should be to distill the essence of a champion and make it more modern. Instead, the kit is even more confused as it both encourages you to be stand off due to her passive, but also jump in if you want to deal full damage, which she cannot survive as her ratios are not good enough to permit dedicated tank items and the amount of hard crowd control.

I feel you wanted to try and combined the play style of AP Tristana into the primary build for her, but in doing so, effectively crippled a traditional Tristana play style, while not having an AD ratio on her Rocket Jump.

Edit: Something crossed my mind. Explosive Charge is basically an execute style move with an AoE, but lacks solid power behind it unless you stack a lot of AD and get all four shots off, which means it is primarily a snowball move. Unlike most other executes however, it has a long tell for when it is going to go off and gives your opponents a lot of ways to counter it.

An idea is to swap Buster Shot and Explosive Charge and make Explosive Charge the ultimate for a real satisfying boom. However, I am quite tired right now, so I may not agree with myself when I wake up.

6 Comments

Extreme Troller5/19/2015, 11:10:13 AM1 votes

well they reworked sion from a melee dps to a pure tank, so yea riot don't care. they should rework sona to a bruiser ad tank it would be good

Hupsis5/19/2015, 12:23:33 PM1 votes

She has so much utility and damage that it's ridiculous. She can jump in, push the tank/disabler away and kill all the squishies.

With adc it's really about who sees and takes the opportunity to engage and deal huge damage without being killed. Tristana is probably the most effective adc to take use of those opportunities with minimal retaliation.

And I dunno what you are talking about saying Tristana falls off late. She's even more deadly then than in the early game due to increased aa range. Obviously some of the enemies will buy tanky stats to counter her.