Talk:Tristana/@comment-9048637-20131122130209/@comment-8506165-20131122222854

Theoretically, yes, she could, but her base MS is actually craptastic and Rocket Jump depends on her gettting kills for resets because the cooldown's actually pretty long. I've always found Shiv helps mitigate her sketchy midgame as well.

I mean, yeah... the absence of it hurts her less than most carries because of her positioning abilities, high range and high AS steroid from her Q anyway, but I'm not sure what you'd want to swap it for. Not many items are going to do more for her offence, and Trist shouldn't really need more than one defensive item for all the reasons you mentioned.