Talk:VPBE/@comment-25714442-20150602193907/@comment-3974211-20150605214831

As someone who mained support to Diamond, Jinx has an incredible early game - especially with any enabling support (Leona, Morgana, Zyra, etc). The recent nerf to her early game attack speed might have been with the intent of hitting her early game - but only time will tell.

I can't speak of Tristana. Old Tristana was very situational early game and only excelled in specific matchups - so I would agree that she used to be bad early game. However, I haven't really seen much new Tristana to comment. One of my friends plays her a lot and she seems competent - he even takes her AD mid some times and wins versus mages.

But to be honest - what is all this comparing to? Most marksmen are weak early game. I main Cassiopeia bot lane (replacing the team's marksman, just to clarify), and I've recently started playing Vladimir bot lane too. (I prefer the lane structure of duo lanes; plus there's two sources of gold; so it's all about picking champions with appropriate power curves to remain relevant late game). Caitlyn's is pretty much the only marksman who does consistently well against me; with a Leona, Vayne and Graves do too; Varus usually does well at not dying (so is annoying more than anything for always surviving). Ezreals are hit-and-miss (excuse the pun).