User blog comment:OzzyrD/AP Tristana Vs. LeBlanc/@comment-203.215.118.255-20130126144555/@comment-103.14.61.50-20130127210952

the thing with MF going AP is that even if you built her AP, your gamestyle would still be the same albeit different ways of executing it. You still rely on E's slow and hammer away with AAs while W is active and you still use your ulti for AoE dmg. that's why AP MF or Mage Fortune is viable because you still do what your supposed to do which is deal damage from a distance in teamfights while keeping yourself from a safe distance. If you look at Tristana's kit which i have pointed out from the start, her kit revolves on kiting an opponent and keeping them at bay and killing them off from a distance. If you would build her as AP then you would be going against her kit because you would be using her skills offensive meaning you would start a fight by using your ulti+rocket jump+E's active which would leave you open unless with flash or rocket jump reset. You see the difference? her skills which is meant for creating distance is being used to finish opponent and if you fail to burst down your opponent then it leaves you open unless with flash or rocket jump reset. And about the maokai thing? yi is melee but most people nowadays are building him AP, the issue is that his kit is for initiating and locking people in teamfights, not bursting them down which is similar to Tristana in that her kit revolves on dealing damage FROM AFAR instead of bursting them down. Yes Tristana can and will probably burst down a champ but in doing so is going against her intended purpose and leaves you open to being bursted yourself unlike building her AD and having her kit used to the fullest potential.