User blog comment:Rapacious/Rapacious's sexy guide to understanding ranged AD builds/@comment-4743916-20120201041002

I have a question. Wouldn't Tristana technically fall under short ranged? She has 500 base range and doesn't get past 600 until about level 11 so during the majority of her laning phase she's going to have short range. Also, how do I know when to get the lantern if I'm losing my lane compared to getting more dorans blades? If I start off with a dorans blade I'd have to cough up an extra 1600 gold when I probably could just buy a BF sword with that money to further reach my IE goal rather than either saving up or spending only about 950 more on two more blades. 1600 seems like a lot of gold for someone doing badly in laning.