Talk:Tristana/@comment-176.10.220.37-20120504101702

I think Tristana is really underestimated as a late game hyper carry. A lot of people consider Vayne and Kog to be THE late game carries but Trist definitely has a strong late game with her long range, 90% AS steriod, great escape mechanism and the ability to push those pesky bruisers off you that otherwise want to keep sticking to you. I feel like she's not played as much as she should for what she offers but with that said I think she could get a minor buff to reach the level of the top tier champions that you see more often both in normal play and in competitive play.

My main problem with her is the high mana costs and cooldowns of her abilities which really hamper her early and mid game more than they should as well as the low range of her E which you can't really use to harass to the extent that you need to in laning. Alternatively give her E or R AD ratios to make them more significant. I don't really consider the lack of AD ratios a huge problem as i see her as an all utility spell champion, similarly to someone like Ashe. Most carries (AD and AP) have one or two utility spells that do little damage or scale poorly but provide good utility but in Tristanas case all of her abilities provide a lot of utility in exchange for doing little damage/scaling poorly which I don't consider to be a bad thing or a problem making her UP. I would rather have her abilities be less costly to use and the ability to use them more often and I think this would put her up to par with the top tier carries.