Talk:Tristana/@comment-155.69.203.1-20121219184100

The key to building a strong Tristana capable of screwing up almost anyone? (I once got hard-countered by a Garen who was going pure tank, blademail+warmogs+other armors)

A good lane partner. Nami, XZ, Blitz, Nautilus, anyone who is capable of helping you stop the enemy and let you and him burst it down together. Of course, you need good lane synergy. Both of you need to dare to play aggressive as long as you aren't at the enemy tower.

When you have that, you pick up maybe say 5 kills/assists by lvl 6. And possibly outlevel your midlane. Take doran's first, the new passive really helps with early sustain. At first back you might have enough money to pick up your entire set of first tier items, which for me is greaves, avarice blade (for the statikk shiv later), and wriggle's lantern, for farming purposes, early armor, lifesteal and damage. That will cost 900+800+1600=3300, which is really only possible if you have a spectacular early game. (Completely doable IF you and your lane partner are both aggressive and on the same page) After that, build items in the order of: IE, zeal, statikk shiv, runaans (which synergises with both statikk and wriggles), FM or EC or some other item with an on hit effect to make use of runaans, i personally go with FM for mass slowing and health, then end off by switching wriggles to BT. As long as you have wriggles, make sure you always remember to use your ward every 3 minutes.

As long as you have a good early game, your midgame shouldn't be too painful and you should be able to rush out both IE and statikk in quick order. Once you get these two up, you are in endgame mode. Its basically turn on q, blast, chase with w, attack healers like renekton or garen with e, occassionally finish off people with r, disengage from melee range when rushed down with w. Rinse repeat till victory. With this kind of build, you+a tank should be able to take down everyone on the opponent team other than maybe their tank, and only if their tank is stacking lots of armor and blademail. Then get your ap to take him down.