Talk:Tristana/@comment-5211662-20140703051425/@comment-5955640-20140703070516

I have seen AP Tristana on occasion and I can tell you straight up why. It's unreliable and it's not really up to the quality of what you want from a mage or an assassin.

The spells are on too high of a cooldown. Just about any other mid lane mage will take out targets with chained spells much faster and will also have more secure escapes.

On the topic of escapes AP Tristana's combo of blasting you down with W,E,R only really works on champions who don't get magic resistance per level and don't build magic resistance ontop of that. If she doesn't get the kill or assist her escape is down. If her W has been used as an escape she's just been denied a third of her damage an is punished with it's long downtime.

R is a great nuke. On one person. You could get a Leblanc or a Kassadin or a Fizz if you just wanted to nuke one person and have them re-position.

It's very little crowd control. A slow, A knockback, and a Grevious wound application. Given that it's a small AOE and it's mostly single target it's not very good in a teamfight and if the enemy has a mage with a lot more crowd control you are actually more vulernable to getting caught and killed than making the kills.

And lastly. You actually deny Tristana her true damage potential in late game with a true mage build. Now you could find a middle ground like with a Wit's end or Nashor's Tooth but most Tristana's can't be bothered to buy anything more than a Zhonya's as far as utility goes. A pure mage build means that Tristana does not outtrade anybody that lives to soak her damage or just outright jukes her opporunities. At late game you start getting outplayed by people who are just wearing hourglasses, Viels, and Guardian Angels.

Tristana's Q is her damage. It's her true damage potenial. Everything else is utility to help Tristana pin and blow away the target after she's pumped them full of shells.

AP Tristana does great damage. But it's not a smart champ choice for a team comp. It's another one of those break the meta builds that just wears the paitence when it's their fault you don't scale like you should because they didn't play the role that would win certain phases of the game against certain opponents.