How Do I Increase My Damage to Champs without Dying?

Howldoom·9/29/2015, 3:46:16 AM·1 votes·4,018 views

http://freelo.gg/summoner/NA/Dakka%20Downpour

Largely working off of this, but the stats imply that I'm too cautious as a Tristana player. I focus more on farming and pushing for objectives than trying to get kills. I don't really try auto-attacking the other team when they're sieging and there's no one to frontline, because that's when I get chain-CC'd and blown up, as the last game shows: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1964089048/203289894?tab=overview

Everyone says "Attack more", but when the enemy is moving around and trying to dive me it's really difficult to keep attacking and getting damage off unless I'm fed or have my core damage items. Is my line of thinking/playstyle wrong for ADC? I also prioritize not dying, getting my items, and getting the turrets destroyed/applying pressure.

8 Comments

AwesomeChad9/29/2015, 3:52:10 AM1 votes

Have good positioning......only commit when you know you can survive the fight....you can survive if you play smart and try really hard not to die.

Only Play Darius9/29/2015, 4:32:02 AM1 votes

Well Juggernauts are tanky enough to walk through your frontline and 100-0 you without dying so overall it just isn't good to be an ADC right now.

But what I do when i'm forced to ADC is in teamfights I only AA enemies that my teammates have cc'd.

WalkingInACircle9/29/2015, 4:46:20 AM1 votes

I can't say I was any good at Trist, but her thing is usually throwing explosive charge on a target and then jumping right on top of them, Blow the charge, ult, get kill, reset jump, get out or move to next kill.

And yeah, you have no poke and no initiation. You have to wait for a teammate to start things off.

Lugg9/29/2015, 4:47:05 AM1 votes

It sounds to me like you are playing Tris properly. Farm up, get items, take objectives. Only go for kills when you have some kind of advantage, whether it be numbers, minion aggro, CD advantage, etc. In teamfights, you don't want to get aggressive with Tris until you know jumping in will get a kill or assist. Once she starts getting resets, you can really go ham.

TotN Titan9/29/2015, 8:25:46 PM1 votes

Damage to champions is a flawed statistic to base your ability to play a particular role or champion on, especially as a late game AD Carry. Tristana's main focus is objective control. You're doing the right thing by farming safely, avoiding deaths, and taking down towers while you build up your second and third items. You won't be doing a lot of damage to champions before the 20 minute mark, not like an assassin (like Rengar, Ahri, Yasuo) who base their entire in-game existance on getting the jump on an unsuspecting lane with roams or ganks. Just like you can't judge your support or top lane prowess on damage to champions, you should keep your focus more on what you're doing. The damage will come on its own if you get past the 20 minute mark and have proper positioning in team fights. If I had just one word of advice for an AD Carry trying to be involved in the maximum amount of team-fights, though, it would be that after you have dropped the two outer towers, camp yourself in the mid-lane so that you can have full map coverage for roaming to those all important fights and objectives like dragon and Baron. It's your job to be there.

Vesarixx9/29/2015, 10:14:48 PM1 votes

You do need to take a bit of risk to increase your damage, a lot of it is about knowing the limits of your champion in terms of what will kill you and what will leave you at a small bit of health, as well as knowing how much damage you can do to them. You don't need to stand on top of a Karthus passive or anything but if you can get in range of an enemy and only risk taking one auto then do it, also always attack something if you are in range, if you aren't auto attacking because you can't reach the back line, auto the tank until you can switch to a better target. In lane auto the enemy every time you won't lose farm for it and they either can't trade back or will lose the trade, with Trist you can force them to keep trading with you until you want to disengage with your jump and even if you initially lost the trade the bomb will probably turn it into a won trade. Also, buy health potions so you can take an uneven trade and still come out ahead as long as you have more pots than the enemy or a sustain support, it applies a lot of lane pressure.

7zhas1oVlI9/30/2015, 1:54:48 AM1 votes

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