Talk:Tristana/@comment-184.162.97.115-20130113020745/@comment-88.186.19.90-20130113053451

AP trist is like a modified leblanc with weaknesses in the same areas but with different consequences. Overall, I'd say that AP Tristana is burst assassin that requires heavy ganking during levels 6-9 to snowball her team and herself while still having a potentially strong lategame thanksto her farming capabilities and the fact that she deals good damage soloely with an IE+PD. I go AP-ish if I think I can land relatively easy kills on the enemy bot laner and snowball off it with an item or two before switching to the standard AD-carry build, I then start with a doran, sorc boots, then proceed to build my IE and PD.

Both of them have a strong early and much less effective lategame; but trist can actually transition into an on-hit or a typical AD-carry build (doran, sorc boots, DFG of applicable, IE, PD) thanks to her farming capabilities and kit, while LB is condemned to remain a 1 target burster. They are squishy burt mages, but LB is much safer when fighting and while trist has a limited amount of non-retaliation CC and needs to land E at point-blank range. On the other hand, LB can't really push her lane, while trist can simply AA 6 times and start roaming.