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Choose Champion Build:
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AD Jungle Tristana
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AP Jungle Tristana
Recommended Items
Spells:
Smite
Flash
Items
Ability Order
Draw a Bead (PASSIVE)
Tristana Passive Ability
Introduction

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If you don't own Tristana you can get her for free here.
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AD Carry is the most popular build for ![]() ![]() ![]() |

- You don't get as much farm as a solo lane.
- Your team relies on you early and midgame the most because they need ganks.





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Even so, I personally can't endorse building AP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
So ultimately, it comes down to whether or not you believe AP Tristana is viable
...and you should also take your team comp into consideration when you make the decision of whether or not you choose to build AP. Optimally you want 2 AP Champions and 2 AD Champions on a team (Not counting support). This means that if you have an AP mid and an AD top, playing AP



indentHere are some short guides on how to outplay each jungle camp. This is probably the most important thing to take away from this guide.

Important: If you don't know what kiting is, click here.
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I usually start my route at Red Buff and ask for a smiteless leash. This is very straightforward. I made a mistake here and I forgot to use my

"BUT WHAT IF YOUR TEAM DOESN'T GIVE YOU SMITELESS LEASH? JUNGLE TRIST NOT VIABLE!"


Blue Line: Walk along this imaginary line while kiting

Green Lines: If you pass these green lines you'll lose aggro from the

Red X: This marks the point where you want to hop over the




. You may not be able to do this perfectly on your first try but if you just 1v1 Red Buff in some custom games you'll get the hang of it.
This is useful knowledge because:
- If you don't get a smiteless leash you still don't have to use smite.
- You can kite
Lizard Elder the next time it spawns.
- Knowing how to kite will also affect your AD Carry games.
- If your jungle is invaded you won't need a leash.
- If you start at Blue Buff you can save yourself some health by kiting.

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Blue Line: I walk along this line while kiting it.
Green Line: If I walk outside of this green area the


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Green Line: I'm careful not to move past this line or else the camp will reset.
Red X: Click on this point, the small gap between the trees, and only two wolves will be able to attack you from here.

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Green Lines: I'm careful not to cross these lines or else the camp will reset.

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indentAlright, those are all the camps in the jungle. Kiting these might seem complex at first but kiting wolves and mini-golems aren't too important and you can practice this in bot/custom games. In the following chapter we will put the knowledge of how to clear all these camps to use and see some potential jungle routes.

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In the LCS we see the junglers tend to start their route on the bottom side of the map, work their way up the jungle, and then gank top because top is usually the easiest lane to gank. Because of this, you may want to start blue if you're on the purple team. In this case you just get a smiteless leash on blue, follow the above jungle route, and kite the red buff like I do in the previous chapter.






I was watching some YouTube videos and I discovered something that is insanely broken and almost a glitch or flaw in League of Legends. This is something that can turn losing games into easy victories. It will guarantee the worship of your teammates if you pull it off, and you'll be able to brag to your friends that you stole baron or dragon. This trick is thought to be exclusive to only a few junglers, however when


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What I'm doing here is I'm


Here's a step-by-step process to stealing baron like this.
- Ward baron/dragon from the outside if it isn't already warded.
- Position yourself like I do in the GIF.
- Left-click on baron/dragon to see it's HP.
- Hover your cursor over the smite icon and see how much damage it does.
- Wait for baron/dragon to get to an HP where it's 50-200 health above the damage
Smite does.***
- JUMP (like I do in the GIF).
Smite it and then spam laugh.
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IMPORTANT:






If you do everything above correctly, you will end up making a drive-by mid-air


Here's an example of a Zac successfully doing this.

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When my enemies are very extended in lane, I prefer to save my





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indentHere I'm ganking the enemy





Don't get juked: Sometimes they will try to flash right before you use

- Slamming your R key very soon so that they can't react fast enough
- Not slamming your R key and manually walking past them after your target receives a slow from
Rocket Jump.
You should also make use of the slow on









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Basically you jump on who you want to kill and then activate





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And after you recall...
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On my first back I upgrade the ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |








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These boots are very cheap and it gives you a nice attack speed boost. There's no alternative to these boots as an AD Carry. |
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This is essential for any AD Carry. It synergizes with ![]() |
You need this to deal damage to tanks lategame. If the enemy team already has a lot of armor in midgame, you can build this before ![]() |


indentBy the end of the game you should have atleast one defensive item. You're left with a choice between





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I build AP




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These starting items are still very important even if you're going AP. On AP I upgrade ![]() |


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The stats and passives on this item combine everything that AP nukers and junglers need. This is the perfect item for an AP Jungle ![]() |
These boots boost your damage by a lot and you need mobility to give frequent ganks to your teammates. These are more important than ![]() ![]() |
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This is a very simple item. It gives you AP, and a lot of it. ![]() |


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When you should buy this: You want more damage from a distance or enemy team doesn't have much MR and not very threatening.
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The active on this item is good because if you're going very balls deep if you use ![]()
When you should buy this: The enemy team comp is AD Heavy.
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Your abilities exceed the range of this passive, but if you're going balls deep with ![]()
When you should buy this: You have another AP assassin or the enemy team has under 100 MR.
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If the enemy team has over 100 MR, you will need this to compensate for your lack of ![]()
When you should buy this: The enemy team has more than 100 Magic Resist.
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These are very standard masteries for an AP Carry. I replace 2 points in
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These masteries are the same as AP, except for the offense tree I take the masteries that are for AD Carries. |








If you're feeling confident you can take





- How to kite the jungle camps
- How to lifesteal off of the camps without them dying
- How to gank

Here are some screenshots of games I played using this build.


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