Talk:Tristana/@comment-8234800-20140212222800/@comment-20804982-20140422183836

Because her playstyle deviates so dramatically from almost every other champ out there; she is super hard to pick up (or at least different to play correctly). Ad Trist is almost completely auto-attack based - she is a pure Marksman.

Nearly all of the other adcs rely heavily on abilities... most of them work kind of like ad-mages with a strong auto-attack. Tristana's abilities are basically her steroid and escapes - it is why she sucks mid game while adc-mages like Lucain and the rest are poking people down with all their ad-scaling spells.

I have seen so many new tristanas try to play her like an ability based champ and do zero damage... I have also seen very good players try to pick her up and just get wrecked because they are used to ability based adc-mages and have never had to rely on pure positioning and AA.