Tristana isn't overpowered nor is she overtuned
The meta is simply in her favor. She does not need a nerf.
People hate her W reset and ultimate. However, her kit has remained the same for quite a long time. She is only gaining popularity as other ADCs started to dwindle away due to nerfs and tuning.
Let's see what made her shine:
- Lethality nerfs. Took Draven, Varus, Jhin, and other ADCs out of the equation for a bit. She could not survive the lethality meta.
- Caitlyn nerfs with runaans and her traps. It made other ADCs look for the next safest thing, which was Tristana.
- This is a "peel" meta. Ardent Censer, tanks, heals, and shields are all helping Tristana with her additional safety. Thus, it's not a problem with her kit design but rather how well her kit fits the meta right now.
- Tristana has not been in the game for a while and people still forget you don't want to fight her when she places a bomb on you - a squishy.
These things have never changed:
- You can still CC her when she jumps unlike some mobility abilities or wall jumps.
- Her abilities have high cooldowns if she doesn't utilize her kit. People don't pay that much attention to this other than higher elos.
- Her burst is delayed due to her bomb. So it is also quite easy to kill her before she focuses on the team.
- Her W doesn't stop point-and-click abilities. Assassins can still easily one-shot her.
- She's immobile for 16 seconds if she hops and doesn't get a kill. Plus, she's slow so Youmuus to get that booty if she hops or Rs away.
Every meta has a champion that fits well. It's not the champion. It's the situation around them. Like Ardent Censer with Janna and Soraka.
They will take no damage at all. Except for the E bomb damage.
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as core for her, and fact that
increasing shiv's crit dmg, those things gives her both sick burst dmg vs squishy champions and high sustain dmg wich makes
simply unhealthly for game, also her powerspike appears pretty earlier than before (now is as soon as you finish
exists :c).