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Vapora Dark In-Depth ADC Tristana Guide Season 13

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if you building Stormrazor not Phantom Dancer as second you are NPC not a real person

Cool, I want to learn how to play Tristana and this guide sounds perfect. I've always seen a lot of her guides about adcs but I didn't play that often to see one, now I can use these super cool builds and runes

I'm using this build for a long time and it's very strong i like it:p

amazing guide

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nice build

> It (Ravenous Hunter) will likely never be so weak that she would actually realistically consider any of the other options.
This aged well...which rune do you recommend in that slot now? I'm thinking either Treasure Hunter or Ultimate Hunter

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Treasure Hunter 100%, it's just as good as Ravenous Hunter. All the other options still suck for her in comparison.

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Hello, kind of new player so had a question, what is your opinion on Navore galeblade as a late game item?
It could give you a second E cast on a fight

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It's decent if you can afford to build another super expensive pure damage item besides IE. Generally I stick to cheaper/more defensive items at that stage of the game though.

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Been trying navori as second item and even with only 40% crit it refreshes q entirely before it runs out.
It might be just becuse I am low rank, but it is working preety good for me since every kill practically refreshes all cd.

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I don't think it's the best 2nd item but it's not the worst either. Keep building it if it works for you.

i like this, thank's

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After 6 years, Vapora's Guide to Tristana is getting a massive rewrite. Let's see if I can get this done in time for the guide contest!

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pog

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bread 👍

Why you archived your Kaisa guide? Please, revert it. It is still the best one!

Hmm.... Sensei, I have a question. I understand why the change from Vampirism to Natural Talent because that's what I've been running for a while now on Tristana and it's actually much better than vampirism although I'm coming into conclusion that hybrid build between vampirism (less points) and natural talen (more points) might be even better. But why the change from Fervor of Battle to Warlord's Bloodlust? I've noticed Trist with new fervor deals much more dmg that she was before and I find it good to play with but you having more knowledge than me (higher division) and me always getting my OTP Tristana build based on your guide, I would love to know why the change and what it gives to Tristana right now etc. compared to fervor and how the new fervor works on Tristana compared to the old one (what is the difference).

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I've been running for ages too, but kept in the guide since it makes for a better laning phase. A combination of the two is fine too, however the reason I swapped it for is the fact that essentially gives you more lifesteal the less lifesteal you have elsewhere (lower lifesteal = lower HP = higher lifesteal from the mastery), making less efficient compared to if you were running .

As for the swap to , the new Fervor is considered worse for a few reasons:

1. It's not an on-hit, meaning you get much less damage from . Max stack Fervor did 112 on-hit damage IIRC, and so would do 112 damage to all 3 targets it hit. With the new Fervor, you get 60 AD at max stacks, which with an crit would translate into 150 auto-attack damage to the person you're critting. Since it's not an on-hit it's affected by Runaan's 25% mitigation, meaning to secondary targets that only translates into 37.5 damage. So crits deal 150 + 37.5 + 37.5 damage, compared to old Runaan's 112 + 112 + 112 damage, which translates into much lower overall DPS, even if you're only hitting 2 people rather than 3. And it's even worse on non-crits, where the new Fervor deals 60 + 15 + 15 to the old Fervor's 112 + 112 + 112.

2. The new Fervor's max stacks is 10. The old Fervor's max stacks was 8 and tended to do more damage, so it takes longer to get to that stage now and then you're still not as strong as you used to be.

3. The duration of the new Fervor's stacks is 4 seconds, the old one's was 6. So it's harder your stacks compared to the old one, and that can result in a large DPS loss if you lose your stacks in a situation where the old one would let you keep them.

4. Even in single-target DPS, the new Fervor does less damage at max stacks until you have at least 70% crit chance. This isn't taking into consideration the fact that it now takes longer to reach max stacks.

5. The new Fervor's damage being AD means the extra damage is affected by , , , etc.

The only pros about the new Fervor are that the extra AD increases the damage of your spells (but has a long cooldown and you want to use it at the start of a fight, not when you're at max stacks, so it doesn't add to your damage by much), and that the extra damage being AD means it's affected by lifesteal, so it heals you more. But those are little consolation when remembering how good the old one was in other regards.

The new definitely has potential, but until it receives buffs it's just not worth taking over currently, especially on a champion with so few AD ratios like . I don't think any meta ADC right now wants over .