Talk:Tristana/@comment-10428734-20140824003304/@comment-20804982-20140829035930

Trist was almost never picked in pro games until the changes... she was picked zero times during S3 championship. There were a number of adc guides written S3 early S4 that totally omitted her because nobody serious played her as adc. There were even periods where people asked me to pick a different adc in ranked because "trist trash tier."

She really hasn't changed much since then... what has changed is that she is the FotM, itemization changed (a little), and games are longer so it is easier to get to her death-star mode. She didn't suddenly become OP... people just started playing her again. The same thing happened with Lucian - everyone thought he was trash for a long time after he was introduced, then the Korean's found him, everyone started saying how broken and OP he was, and his popularity changed the ADC meta from late-game to mid-game.