Where does Tristana stand in 5.5?

Shïfty·Mar 21, 2015·1 votes·4,888 views

How do you guys think Tristana is in patch 5.5? Is she still a really good adc or has she just fallen off? Because a lot of people say that she has fallen off but I do perfectly fine with her.

18 Comments

Only Play DariusMar 22, 20153 votes

The awesome base attack speed and high range per level were tristana's defining features, both of which were heavily nerfed. Now she really just feels like a mobile jinx, except jinx has better base stats, so why wouldn't you pick jinx?

ShïftyMar 22, 20151 votes

I do lol she is my most played champ in ranked I think I am 15-4 with her xD

Only Play DariusMar 22, 20151 votes

My point exactly.

ShïftyMar 22, 20151 votes

But..... Jinx so boring now I played her too many times. I played Jinx straight from lvl 1 to like 20 lol.

SnarflazMar 21, 20151 votes

I never see a tristana do good anymore. I'm being honest here every game when someone chooses tristana i know they are going to lose lane. Im always right.

ShïftyMar 22, 20151 votes

I wouldn't be surprised. I still play with Tristana but since I have played her soo many times I don't do bad with her in lane. Most of the times I actually win my lane and do good. But she definitely got hit hard with that atk speed nerf. I think that if she had the same atk speed and the new E. She would be even stronger. Whenever I do see a Trist though, they don't do too well :(

KindThoughtMar 21, 20151 votes

I think she needs some buffs. Her e is so useless, her ult knockback people say is a utility, fine, but its damage is horrible. I really think jinxs overall is head and shoulders much much stronger than tristana. In fact I think jinx is easily the strongest adc in the game, lucian is a decent second if you know how to use him, but he's not the easiest champ to master.

OperationDEEZ1Mar 21, 20151 votes

Graves is basically an easier Lucian.

Only Play DariusMar 22, 20151 votes

*tankier

ShïftyMar 22, 20151 votes

Both lol. Graves is so easy to play.

ShïftyMar 22, 20151 votes

Her E really isn't useless it actually makes a huge impact on getting objectives in the game and also pushing towers. If you get the E on a target and charge it up it does huge damage to her opponents in lane. I think Tristana isn't as good as she used to be anymore just because of that atk speed per lvl nerf. Jinx being the best adc as of right now I probably can't disagree. The only adc better than jinx right now would probably be Sirvir and Graves. I don't think Tristana is terrible or top tier but to me she is still decent.

Player of GamesMar 22, 20151 votes

Eh, she's sort of fun to play, but definitely not a tier 1 ADC. I honestly see no reason to play her over Graves, Lucian, Jinx, Corki, or Sivir.

ShïftyMar 22, 20151 votes

Yeah she is my favorite adc but it kinda sucks that she isn't top tier after the nerfs. One thing I hate about adcs is that the champion pool in the meta is so tiny. She is just sooo fun to play for me at least.

Player of GamesMar 22, 20151 votes

I agree, they should've atleast kept her range as I feel that it was her most defining feature, aka her identity. It's like if they made it so Lucian's passive proc'd only ever so often rather than after every cast, it'd butcher his identity.

But yeah, the meta ADC pool is rather low. Just one thing to remember though if you're good at a champ it can work, I love bringing Kog to lane and having people severely underestimate my damage, only for them to get half-health'd at level 1 due to W poke. It sucks even more because her VU is kinda cool, but her damage isn't :c

ShïftyMar 22, 20151 votes

Yeah Jinx was my 1st main and still is but I have sooo many memories with my Trist lol. Jinx and Tristana are my go to adcs. I kinda like Tristana more tbh. I got kinda bored of Jinx.

ErockandrollMar 22, 20151 votes

She's isn't quite the late game hyper carry that she use to be (obviously.) But she still retains some of that potential. And she is probably favored better in the League of Tanks, since she will still have lots of AS for tank shredding.

As for comparing her to Jinx, I feel like people underValue the Mobility that Trist has. Jinx is powerful Overtly, but she's immobile if she isn't procing her passive, which makes her easy to gank. and the fact that she needs time to scale makes it hard on her if she is ganked. (though yoloQ may neglect this fact)

ShïftyMar 22, 20151 votes

Yeah I completely agree with everything you said. A lot of people don't like her E for some reason but I think it is great. It gets you objectives and towers rally quick and gives your team so much pushing power.

Melee FormMar 25, 20151 votes

They nerfed her range and her attack speed scaling so that she would have big highs with E and big lows without it. She basically depends on E for her damage. There wasn't enough power added to make up for this.

I have a feeling they will either need to boost her E to stupid levels of damage or give her back some attack speed before she is good again.