Tristana

Detailed Tips

1. 01

   Play For Sustain Early - Tristana’s lane bully playstyle within the beginning of the game can cause slight issues for Renekton’s playstyle, as typically she will be able to out range and out DPS him if he tries to come into contact. Try to play safe by keeping your HP by farming with Q, then trying to play the wave on your side of the map. Utilise D Shield And Second Wind to outsustain and survive the laning phase.

2. 02

   Respect Tristana's Q and E - Tristana’s damage within most stages of the game is very high, this mainly due to her Q and E interactions. Her Q provides her with 60% to 120% additional attack, which combined with her E, she can instantly nuke whoever she puts her bomb on. Within the laning phase, she can chunk really hard if she detonates her bomb, which also resets her W jump. Try to leave her auto attack range if she puts her E onto you, doing this will lose a lot of damage for Tristana, providing you the ability to safely trade with her once it’s on CD.

3. 03

   Rush Plated Steelcaps - Plated Steelcaps are essential for this match up as Tristana can easily out DPS you, while also being able to easily escape your combos with her W. Once you build plated, you will be easily able to out space Tristana’s range, while also being able to easily soak up a lot more of her auto attacks and her overall AD damage. After this you can get regular damage items or utility, based on whatever your preference for the match up is.

4. 04

   Play Wave On Your Side - Playing the wave on your side essentially means playing wave states on your side of the map, via abusing wave manipulation tactics or freezing on your side of the map. Simply use this to help you combo on your laner, taking away any space from them being able to trade you back (This also helps prevent the enemy running you down with their extended or sustained movement speed abilities). You can also use this wave state to run down your opponent with your abilities up, helping you obtain kills a lot easier vs stalemate or ranged match ups. Look to do this when your opponents are below 50% HP, or potentially make a mistake to provide you an all in opportunity to run them down.

5. 05

   Play For Ganks - Trying to do combos on Tristana can always be a pain with her naturally long range, high damage and safety tools to peel away Renekton with her R and using her W. With that said though, pre 6 if you’re able to get her W out, while keeping the wave on your side of the map, this will easily present an opportunity to gank a Tristana. Post 6 will be trickier to gank as she can easily R a target away, but as long as you can burn out her R in the process it becomes a lot easier to have your way in the lane against Tristana. Make sure to do either of these things to create an easier time and give yourself the help you need to win the match up.

6. 06

   Quick Trades - E > Q > AA > W > AA > E Out / E > Q > W > E / E Q E - These combos allow for Renekton to get quick damage off in being able to keep health up and whittling his opponent down, use these to get your laner low and look for a low HP kill with flash

7. 07

   Abuse Renekton's R Powerspike - Prior to this point in the match up, if Renekton has farmed safely and rushed defensive boots in the match up, Renekton is now ready to fight his opponent in an all in. Renekton's high base damage and stats from his R, allows Renekton to completely stat check his counter match up. Simply wait for the enemy to make a mistake, then go all out and kill your opponent.

8. 08

   Ping Tristana's Roams - Tristana’s goals are naturally to try and either hard shove the lane to get easy platings, or simply to roam the map and pick up kills using her W reset and utilising her naturally high damage. With that said, try to always ping out Tristana’s roams and make sure to crash the wave whenever Tristana tries to roam. Doing this results in her missing gold and xp, which are needed to leverage an advantage over Tristana through the game.

9. 09

   Build Eclipse, Stridebreaker or Profane - Go Eclipse for consistent power through mid game and damage mitigation with the shield. / Go Stridebreaker to cripple Tristana’s mobility and provide teammates with additional utility. / Go Profane for full damage focused playstyles.

10. 10

    Mid Game + Teamfighting Tips - Tristana as a champion works in a strange way, where in the early stage of the game she will out perform and dps a lot of champions within the laning phase. However in the mid portion of the game she becomes very average until she finishes her last couple of items, where her power levels once again spike up to disgusting levels of damage. Tristana’s biggest weaknesses are utilising heavy CC onto her all in damage patterns, alongside her being able to keep her HP up on the outside of a fight. With those in mind, try to hard focus Tristana if she jumps into close range of your team and look to stun one shot her as soon as you can. Alternatively, if you can distract her and her team by engaging on top of her carries or self, your team will be able to free fire ranged or aoe abilities, chunking Tristana out and denying her overall play presence within the game.