Tristana Mid Build

Tristana Champion Guide

Role: Marksman

Lane: Midlane

Tristana Mid performs best with a build featuring The Collector, Berserker's Greaves, Navori Flickerblade, Infinity Edge, and Lord Dominik's Regards. The most effective rune setup for Tristana Mid includes Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, paired with Taste of Blood and Treasure Hunter in the secondary tree.

Tristana Champion Abilities

Draw a Bead

Increases Tristana's attack range by 8 every time she levels. At level 18, Tristana has 125 bonus range on her autoattacks (675 total range). P

Rapid Fire

Increases Tristana's attack speed by 60 / 75 / 90 / 105 / 120% for 7 seconds. Q

Rocket Jump

Tristana fires at the ground to propel herself to target location, dealing 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+50% of ability power) (+0.75 per bonus attack damage) magic damage and slowing surrounding units by 40% for 2 seconds when she lands.

Rocket Jump's cooldown resets on kill or assist or whenever Explosive Charge detonates at maximum stacks on champions. W

Explosive Charge

Passive: Tristana's attacks that kill enemies deal 45 / 60 / 75 / 90 / 105 (+25% of ability power) magic damage to surrounding enemies.

Active: Tristana attaches a bomb to an enemy or turret that deals 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 (+1.0 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4 per bonus attack damage) (+50% of ability power) physical damage to surrounding enemies after 4 seconds. The damage is increased by 0-75% depending on the critical strike chance and by 25% each time Tristana hits an attack or ability (max 4 stacks). At 4 stacks, the bomb explodes immediately. E

Buster Shot

Tristana fires a massive cannonball, dealing 275 / 325 / 375 (+100% of ability power) (+0.7 per bonus attack damage) magic damage to the target, knocking them back and stunning them and surrounding enemies for 0.4 / 0.55 / 0.7 seconds. R

Tristana Summoner Spells

Flash

Flash is a location-targeted summoner spell that causes your champion to blink to the location in range of your cursor.

Ignite

Ignite is a unit-targeted summoner spell that burns an enemy champion for a few seconds, dealing periodic true damage, applying healing reduction, and revealing the target over the duration.

Tristana Runes

Tristana Items

Tristana Ability Order

Tristana Matchups Overview

Strong against

Vel'Koz

Smolder

Karma

Katarina

Aurelion Sol

Lissandra

Weak against

Irelia

Corki

Jayce

Akshan

Vex

Talon

Tristana Tips and Tricks

When using your Explosive Charge E, make sure you auto-attack the enemy as much as possible to increase its damage output. While your W can be used aggressively, before jumping in, make sure the enemy CC abilities are down and the Jungler is not nearby. Jumping forward into the waiting arms of the enemy Jungler will leave you for dead. In team fights, use your R as a self peel tool. Use it to knock away the enemy frontline to keep yourself safe.

Tristana Best Build, Runes and Items for Mid

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Tristana Mid build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Press the Attack as your keystone, followed by Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, as well as Taste of Blood and Treasure Hunter in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build The Collector as your first item, followed by Berserker's Greaves and Navori Flickerblade. For your last 3 items, you should build Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards and finish with Bloodthirster. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - Q - W.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Lethal Tempo as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, and Taste of Blood with Treasure Hunter in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are The Collector as your first item, then Berserker's Greaves as a second item and Navori Flickerblade as a third item. You want to finish the build with Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards and Bloodthirster. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - Q - W.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Tristana Mid build, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Grisly Mementos and Treasure Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Legend: Bloodline with Triumph as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete The Collector as your first item, then finish Berserker's Greaves as your second item, and Navori Flickerblade as third item. The last 3 options are Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards and Bloodthirster. The ability order for this build is E - Q - W.

Situational Tristana Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or taking specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state, and your matchup to plan your Tristana build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.