@Riot: Can we get CONTEXT on Tristana's passive nerf? You didn't explain it at all.

She still has the highest base attack range in the game after lvl 16 with the range maxing out at 669. I believe the change was made because a lot of spells have a cast range of 700. with her previous max range of 735 she could technically always stay out of their range while still attacking, now she needs to pay a bit more attention to positioning/orb walking.

Although I would still like their context for this change not just my guess.

I would like to say it is a trade off to the ability to use her E on towers now. (Crazy dmg from it btw) But let's be honest. Riot CANNOT say why they change things. If they do, and turns out it was wrong ("we don't want Cass to be a lane bully" Cass is now a bigger lane bully, ect...) they get a lot of heat for it.

Riot keeps talking about champion identity, but these recent changes are actually detracting from Trist's identity and making her lose uniqueness.

The most reliable long-range siege hypercarry, who wrecks faces IF she can get the game to that point.

But now with the changes

• more pressure in lane via E: has an easier time in lane - AGAINST HER IDENTITY
• less overall range: less of a threat lategame - AGAINST HER IDENTITY
• W more damage on melee: long range adc in melee range?? - AGAINST HER IDENTITY

Why shouldn't I just stop playing Trist in favor of Cait now? Much less situational. -same mobility -same pushing capability -more useful R (assuming you postiion well enough to not need Trist R as a pretty high cooldown last defense) -traps useful all game (unlike trist whose E loses usefulness lategame) -instant range -can lane bully much better

I'd assume it's because her new E active is significantly more damaging out of laning than its predecessor, seeing as it actually has an AD ratio now.

Power shifts need power, and that power has to come from somewhere in the power budget

her range is lower?

She looks like a feral monkey.

They changed her because they liked watching that one guy jump aggressively with her into fights at Worlds last year, and want more "Give me something to talk about!" moments from her; instead of the standard talking point of "Tristana will win the game at the 45 minute mark!".

The explanation is quite simple.

With her improved mid-game (due to E actually scaling with AD), her improved pushing power (E active is now AoE) and her new unique strength of tower-busting (only non-AA-modifying skill that I am aware of that can target towers), she had to give up some of her late-game strength as the single safest one of the hypercarries. So, instead of trying to target her damage output, they target her safety, by forcing her to move a little closer to the action.

Despite this, she still is the safest hypercarry, between her resetting repositioning tool, her AoE selfpeel and her still quite high range.

Pre-update 's biggest design flaw was her extreme safety. Not only could she dash away and knock you back if you came too close, but she was also perfectly fine with pinging you from 700+ units away, whereas even and have costs or downtimes to their range. With a range nerf, even AD Trist is going to have to use her self-peel and mobility more often, and AP Trist will have to start her combo at a slightly riskier range in addition to jumping onto her target. She still ends up with the best permanent range in the game, except she's a bit more reachable now.

Tristana after the rework seems like a lot of her damage comes from stacking e… it has a huge damage potential with huge ratios if she can stack it all the way (MAXIMUM PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 120 / 140 / 160 / 180 / 200 (+ 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 / 220% bonus AD) (+ 100% AP) having the pre nerf range would be somewhat ridiculous as she could just stand a billion miles away while stacking her e and doing even more damage than pre rework trist as she still has the huge attk speed buff, mobility and self peel !! the passive nerf imo seems like a tradeoff for more damage at more risk… its not as if she's been gutted she still has the amazing self peel and mobility and huge steroids while the nerf is regardless rlly severe as she can't be as safe as before i kind of think her new kit seems more fun and rewarding to get full stacks and to blow people up rather than the old dot and longer range

Though lower than before I think she will still function as a hyper carry. Still, context would be appreciated.

Considering she just got a good dueling tool / tower killing move in her new E, they needed to make sure she wouldn't just be OP again with it. So they wanted her to be a little closer to danger to compensate.

Do you need an explanation?

Tristana was the hardest caring adc in the game simply due to her long range. Just means that there is going to be more levels that other adc will have a chance to get in range to counter poke her with AA. I still think she can do Barron outside of the pit (which in itself is still ridiculously safe on purple side)

I mean it sucks that they are taking some of her range away, but she will still be a very strong and safe pick in the right hands.

Because they didn't like Tristana's paradigm of "35-40 minutes in, I win". TBH that's one of the FEW changes they've made this season that actually makes sense, considering they improved her mid game and tower pushing quite considerably, and her early game could arguably be better or worse due to the way her E works.

She's still incredibly strong late game, just not as much.

Feels massively nerfed, Her new E is basically the new Twitch expunge where you actually need stacks to do damage, she loses grievious wounds too. Physical damage too

Ap Trist is dead Riot why do you make us hate you

I would rather they remove her E entirely and nerf her early game then get rid of her late game carry ability. That's why I chose trist.

Request granted....start E, use on enemy carry lvl 1, support stun win lane and proceed to dominate game. Anything else you need to know?