Talk:Tristana/@comment-9048637-20131122130209/@comment-5761259-20131216073114

Here's the deal with Trist, AD anyways. Her only source of damage past lane faze is her AA. As such, 3 things will increase her damage. AD, AS, and Crit (excluding on-hit effects). The best item to rush (ideally) is IE because it has the largest DPS increase of any item in the game and gives Trist a large chunk of 2 of the stats she needs, plus buffs her crit damage. That leaves her needing attack speed, though not a ton. There are basically 4 AS items that will be at all good on her in a typical match. These are BotRK, Runaan's, PD, and Shiv.

BotRK gives Trist that AS and some AD, some good life steal, a good on hit effect, and a great active. Here's the thing. It gives less AD and life steal than a BT and the on hit effect only deals more damage when the enemies CURRENT health is above 2500. The AS is relatively low if it's going to be your only AS item even with q too. The active is great if you somehow need more peel as Trist though.

Runaan's gives the most AS of any item in the game and a pretty cool sounding passive. There are several huge problems with this item though. The first is that it only gives AS, nothing else as far as stats. This means that as far as using it for a whole item slot goes, it's very inefficient. Trist also out ranges the passive for most of the game where it's going to make a difference and while you aren't going to be at max range all the time, you should be trying to be at max range all the time because that's why range is a thing in the first place, safe damage.

PD and Shiv basically provide the same stats. PD has more AS and Crit Shyv has more wave clear and move speed + builds out of a GP10 so more moneys. I personally prefer PD usually because it is a better late game item and Trist is a late game carry, but Shiv is a perfectly good pick up, especially if you're behind. The move speed is less usefull on trist than most, but still good but when it comes down to it, it complements IE to well not to build one of these zeal based items usually.