Talk:Tristana/@comment-405747-20150130030156/@comment-1905446-20150130083703

I've actually had more success with the more traditional (as of 5.1) BF Sword -> Phantom Dancer -> Infinity Edge -> Bloodthirster -> Last Whisper -> [defensive item] -> [boot replacement]. Now that she has a (damn good) AD ratio, I don't really see a need to push her attack speed that high. With fairly normal ADC runes and masteries (18.5% attack speed, from AS quints and Fury mastery), her attack speed is already 2.15824 with Phantom Dancer, Berserker's Greaves, and Q activated. Even taking CDR quints instead of AS makes a large chunk of the Youmuu's active wasted (~30% if you go CDR, ~70% if you go AS).

I think she's less effective as a teamfight autoattacker than she once was, but she destroys minions and towers faster than any other ADC at this point. If you want to see maximum turret destruction, go into a custom and build Infinity Edge + Bloodthirster + Mercurial Scimitar + Essence Reaver + Zephyr + Trinity Force. You can literally 100-0 an inhibitor turret before your Q goes on cooldown (if you lead with E and have minions present to reduce tower armor, of course). I'm not saying that it's a viable build, but it shows how scary the highest AoE AD ratio in the game can be. You'd definitely want some penetration in a real game, but turrets ignore pen, so it's a fun test to do.

I do like the idea of bringing The Black Cleaver due to the synergy with E, but I'd only use it if the enemy had no way of getting to you quickly (eg. their tank is Mundo, no Zed mid, etc.). It could either replace Last Whisper or work with it if you need to fight armor stackers. I guess the HP on it is kinda defensive :P