Talk:Tristana/@comment-22964237-20131021010020/@comment-5544574-20131021123450

It's kind of like as your second paragraph induces. The reason why Tristana is a hypercarry is because of this massive scaling on her attack speed as well as a very safe range. The idea is that spells for ADCs help progress the ADC through the game but eventually fall behind in late game because the DPS of crit-AAs rises to exceptional levels - as such, since Tristana has no AD-scaling abilities to compete she must rely solely on her autoattacks for her damage output.

The non-AD-scaling ability kit Tristana bears has a much more potent effect on her mid-game than people realize. Because part of her kit emphazies building raw damage yet the rest of her kit doesn't scale of it she's left at a weak position in the mid-game. That's also part of the reason why the massive 90% AS steroid is in place - to make her feared in the late-game to compensate for such a weakness.