Giving Tristana's W(Rocket Jump) more love is the only buff I feel she needs.
So
has seen nothing but buffs since her rework, and tomorrow she's receiving another one in the form of more stacking damage on E,Explosive charge, as well as its cast time being shorten by attack speed now. I'm actually all for her E's cast time being shorten with attack speed(makes her faster and less clunky), but the damage per stack increase on the skill seems redundant. I feel that this buff could of been directed towards her W(Rocket jump) instead by giving it an AD ratio.
Right now, Tristana's biggest and most problematic issue is managing her abilities. If both, or even 1 of them in some cases, is on cooldown, Tristana's damage suffers greatly. Q(Rapid Fire) and E are normally used together to maximize damage while W...... just sits there.
I always thought Tristana as a champion, hell, even as a character, was all about making bold moves first, ask questions later. Right now as it stands, W is does NOT have a meaningful incentive when it comes to that. Though it's range is impressive, and has the trait of letting Tristana use abilities during it(Which is really just Buster Shot, her Ultimate), It's super slow and easy to see coming. It can even interrupted by displacement effects quite easily due to a small start-up time, and **even if you land on top of someone, all you're doing is slowing them as you WON'T be maxing W 1st or 2nd for damage and the spell has NO AD ratio. You're putting yourself at a huge, pointless, risk ** If anything, It's only used as a disengage mechanic(Straight out over the wall "See Ya!" disengage; not I'm gonna move over here and keep firing at you ala Lucian E disengage); and I think that's a shame on a champion as beautiful and gung-ho as Tristana.
Now I know that Riot only does what they feel is needed to be done; the days of every champion being broken on release are over(coughcough
) , but Riot is missing their mark when It comes to this situation(and I'd love more insight as to why).Instead of cramping everything onto E and Q and hoping her target doesn't simply walk away while her Q is running, can we see some love on W to** Promote legendary (good and bad) decision making about if It's a good time to go full Leeroy Jenkins and dive into the frey and make more people THINK about using Rocket Jump aggressively instead of the answer always being "No."? **