Why is no one talking about Tristana?

ToolooT·10/20/2017, 2:14:54 PM·10 votes·1,000 views

Everyone is talking about ardent censor/twitch/yasuo but I haven't seen alot of threads about tristana. Doublelift plays her in first week and TSM wins. MSF/SKT trades win and losses depending on who has the tristana pick. In solo queue she's extremely annoying with her overloaded safe kit with self peeling with a reset, massive attack speed, mix of burst and DPS and tower melting bombs.

She's now on my permaban list.

12 Comments

PopcornBunni10/20/2017, 2:49:06 PM7 votes

Because there's literally nothing busted with Tristana. She was just the next one around after Caitlyn nerfs with the second most lane safety. Prior to Cait's dominance, the Jhin, Fortune, Varus meta was the hot shit before getting nulled. Tristana has stayed the same while others around her have dropped down, but that doens't mean she's close to the strongest ADC.

Twitch and Kog'Maw are more abusive OF the meta, Vayne carries harder late game and her stealth directly counters Tristana, and Trist still loses to Sivir and Ashe in trades.

You want to talk about permabans, look at Kalista being literally unselectable in professional play.

Hexs Fortune10/20/2017, 3:26:13 PM4 votes

Trist has hyper carry level damage late and safety early. No reason not to pick her.

Unless you just like other champs more

[sg-miss-fortune]

doubleguac10/20/2017, 3:51:36 PM3 votes

IMO, her kit is overloaded.

When you think about an ultra long range marksmen who has a huge steroid and a kit built around sieging/melting objectives, you assume she's going to be vulnerable to being dove. Sort of like a siege tank in SC (or like Kog, TBH).

But for some reason, Trist is one of the safest marksmen in the game (besides Ez). The longest range marksmen in the game doesn't need top-of-the-line escape and self-peel. There's no reason for her to have a huge RESETTING jump in addition to massive knockback on her ult.

I'm not an expert or an analyst. But if I had to guess, the only reason Trist isn't pick/ban is because the meta has become so safe for ADCs in general. With ardent/enchanter meta, and assassins/divers being weak, ADCs are extremely hard to dive regardless of who they are. So raw DPS is favored over safety.

But, in a less safe meta for ADCs, I think Trist is too safe. Esp. for solo queue.

Azir literally just got a mini-rework because Riot thought that a high DPS champion with good mobility and self-peel shouldn't also have long range. Doesn't that also describe Trist?

Riot needs to decide what her core strengths are supposed to be, then double down on those and cut away some of the random strengths she brings to the table.

Hayaishi210/21/2017, 4:27:57 AM3 votes

I never understood why a 700 range ADC needs both self peel and a jump that resets.

OurLestrade10/20/2017, 3:30:54 PM3 votes

I remember a couple of months ago when she was the lowest win rate ADC, then suddenly people were complaining about her non-stop and she got a high win rate.

MarvelOtter10/20/2017, 2:42:30 PM2 votes

because she gets outdone by twitch. shes safer than twitch, but twitch/kog will nuke a team with their boosted as. granted, she nukes towers like absolutely nobody, not even ziggs

xJLx MCHammer10/20/2017, 4:46:03 PM1 votes

It’s because she literally spoke with 1 items that she will beat a twitch and KoG mid and early game

Once late game hits, they can kill her

BADWOLF954710/20/2017, 5:27:58 PM1 votes

Tristan is a very safe champion. She can jump in burst down your ADC, then jump back out with her W rest. She is very safe but her W isn't a flash or blink, so beware of the point and click abilitys. Tristana summoner 4

invisiblecat110/20/2017, 7:46:55 PM1 votes

Noticed how she received ZERO changes between the patch where she started becoming strong, and the patch before She is just another effect of items that benefit her such as crit and ardent being stupidly broken