Tristana

Tristana is a marksman built around one deceptively simple idea: her auto attack range never stops growing. Draw a Bead extends her Attack Range as she levels, so a champion who starts fighting at a modest 550 range eventually outranges most of the roster, letting her scale from a scrappy laner into a late-game siege threat. She is played primarily as an ADC, with a mid-lane variant that leans on her burst and mobility to bully short-range mages.

Her kit revolves around resetting and detonating Explosive Charge. Killing a unit makes her cannonballs burst into shrapnel, but the active portion — planting a bomb on an enemy that explodes after a short delay — is where her all-in damage lives. Rapid Fire cranks her Attack Speed to stack the bomb quickly, and Rocket Jump lets her leap into position, deal damage, and slow enemies where she lands. Buster Shot ties it together: a massive cannonball that knocks the target back and doubles the bomb’s detonation radius if it is still ticking.

Strengths and playstyle

Tristana punishes overextension harder than most marksmen. A full combo of jump, bomb, attack-speed steroid, and ultimate can delete a squishy target, and Rocket Jump doubles as an escape when fights go wrong. Her weakness is the window between jumps — misuse the leap aggressively and she has no disengage left.

She suits players who like a marksman with agency: someone who wants to look for kill windows and turret dives rather than passively farm, while still scaling into a monstrous late-game auto-attacker.