Tristana Build Guide by joeishere

I first thought WTF but it seems like a fun build so I'm going to try it out. I might come back and vote you up if I like it.

Honestly, the 2 additional points in Perseverance are overkill, and really bad scaling, 2 points in good hands gives more general utility... same as tanks picking 3 points instead of just 1 in hard skin instead of tanking them in dodge or minion damage reduction.
I would also move the minion damage down to attack speed just because it has more impact on her white (aa) damage and she doesnt need the extra 4 points because of the passive from Explosive.

I've seen too many AP Trists feed like hell. Although it can be fun and freaking hilarious when it works, it's a pretty troll build.

Wow Wow Wowww! Troll much.
Everyone knows you get your E to 5 before your W on AP trist!
Quit trolling and go back to ad, nub +1

Pretty interesting build, I'd tried AP Tristana before, but never looked into it deeply. You should also turn on comment to vote.

Just finished a fun game w/ AP tris. She can't really do much early and mid game, so I take a Kage's pick,and philopher's stone and mostly just farm till around lv 9. The burst she can do with lich+deathfire+buster is halarious. Although I only take 9 points in offense and 21 in utility. I think that mana regen and cdr from it benefits her more than a 4% increase in damage. And btw would you rather take a crystal scepter or roa? I personally like the scepter for the slow. And I never thought of using spell vamp. I just used an evil tome for the cdr and mana regen.

It can be fun to play trist this way. But there are better alternatives for a burst champ.

I haven't read the whole guide but it looks good though :)

Hi guys, thank you all for the feedback so far. I've edited the guide to explain some of my choices in more detail.

I've never had a problem with not doing enough damage in early-mid. Her level 1 harass can do close to 200 damage every 10 seconds. At level 6, an E+R combo will do over 40-60% of your opponent's total health depending on how much hp/mr they have. The reason why I don't like CDR too much on AP Trist is that Deathfire Grasp doesn't scale with it. You shouldn't be trying to kill someone when your DFG is on cooldown. The phil stone+DFG gives enough mana regen that only need to go back to make big purchasees.



Maxing Rocket Jump first means you can initiate your harass/kill combo or escape from ganks more often. Also, it gives you more damage to your burst combo which is the most important thing when playing AP Trist.



Good points here. I will try Good Hands again, but I find that I rarely need it. But bringing your point back, 2% of attack speed is extremely minimal. Sometimes, the window to last hit without being harassed is small enough where that extra minion damage comes to play. In laning phase, you're not really going to clear multiple creeps with one autoattack with the passive from Explosive since you're maxing out Rocket Jump. I also try not to let the passive from Explosive hit a lot of creeps if at all possible to minimize the push.



This is the reason why I wrote this build. AP Trist has a bad reputation, and I'm sick of it. I get fed in almost 100% of the games I play, and win well over 75% of the games I play.

Hmmm ive been seeing alot of carry heroes used as ap mages O.o. Nice guide +1

I played with you so many times and proved that AP trist is godly. Up +1 yours truly.