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Tristana

Marksman / Assassin

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Tristana was last nerfed in Patch 26.1 (). Across 68 patches, Tristana has received 28 buffs, 15 nerfs, 24 adjustments since release in Patch 0.8.22.115.

Abilities
Draw a BeadPC
Passive - Draw a Bead

Innate: Tristana's basic attacks, Explosive Charge and Buster Shot gain 0 - 167.65 (based on level) bonus range, for a total of Tristana +0 + (Tristana +150- Tristana)/0 - 323 (based on level).

Rapid FirePC
Q - Rapid Fire
Cost: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 Mana
CD: 20 / 19 / 18 / 17 / 16
Cast Time: None

Active: Tristana empowers her cannon, gaining bonus attack speed for 7 seconds.

Bonus Attack Speed: 60 / 75 / 90 / 105 / 120%
Rocket JumpPC
W - Rocket Jump
Cost: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 mana
CD: 22 / 20 / 18 / 16 / 14
Cast Time: 0.25
Range: 900
Effect Radius: 350

Active: Tristana dash to the target location. Upon landing, she deals magic damage to nearby enemies and slows them by 40% for 2 seconds.

Magic Damage: 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+ 100% bonus AD) (+ 50% AP)

Scoring an enemy champion takedown or detonating Explosive Charge at maximum stacks on a champion will reset Rocket Jump's cooldown.

Tristana can cast any of her abilities during the dash.

Explosive ChargePC
E - Explosive Charge
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 mana
CD: 16 / 15.5 / 15 / 14.5 / 14
Cast Time: 100% of Tristana's windup time
Range: 550 / 587.5 / 625 / 662.5 / 700
Effect Radius: 300 / 300 / 600

Passive: Tristana's basic attacks are empowered to trigger an explosion when they kill the target, dealing magic damage to nearby enemies.

Magic Damage: 45 / 60 / 75 / 90 / 105 (+ 25% AP)
Minimum Physical Damage: 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+ 80% bonus AD) (+ 50% AP)
Bonus Damage Per Stack: 15 / 21.25 / 27.5 / 33.75 / 40 (+ 20% bonus AD) (+ 12.5% AP)
Full Stack Bonus Damage: 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+ 80% bonus AD) (+ 50% AP)
Full Stack Physical Damage: 120 / 170 / 220 / 270 / 320 (+ 160% bonus AD) (+ 100% AP)

Active: Tristana tosses an explosive charge at the target enemy that attaches to them for 4 seconds. The charge then detonates, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies. Explosive Charge can target and damage turrets, and explodes in a larger radius on a turret.

Tristana's basic attacks on-hit and abilities against the target increase Explosive Charge's damage by 25%, stack up to 4 times for a maximum 100% increase, upon which the charge also detonates instantly. The charge's total damage is additionally increased by 0 to 40 .

If Buster Shot is used to apply the last stack, the detonation will instead be delayed until the end of the airborne or the 4 seconds expire.

Buster ShotPC
R - Buster Shot
Cost: 100 mana
CD: 100
Cast Time: 0.25
Range: 550 / 625 / 700
Effect Radius: 200

Active: Tristana fires a massive cannonball at the target enemy that deals magic damage. They and surrounding enemies are also airborne and stun for a duration, during which all targets are standard sight.

Magic Damage: 225 / 275 / 325 (+ 70% bonus AD) (+ 100% AP)
Knock Back Distance: 600
Stun Duration: 0.4 / 0.55 / 0.7 seconds

Base Stats

Health: 640
Health Per Level: 102
Mana: 300
Mana Per Level: 32
Attack Damage: 60
AD Per Level: 2.9
Attack Speed: 0.656
AS Per Level: 1.5
Armor: 30
Armor Per Level: 4
Magic Resist: 28
MR Per Level: 1.3
Movement Speed: 325
Range: 550
Health Regen: 4
HP Regen Per Level: 0.5
Mana Regen: 7.2
Mana Regen Per Level: 0.45
Patch 26.1nerf

Tristana's E is one of the sharpest-scaling abilities in the game, and considering her late game is already poised to be great with a strong attack speed steroid, long range, and lots of crit damage, we think the top end of her E can stand to go down a few pegs.

Explosive Charge

  • Minimum base damage increased to 60/85/110/135/160 from 60/70/80/90/100.
  • Minimum bonus AD ratio reduced to 80% bonus AD from 100/110/120/130/140%.
  • Base critical strike chance scaling reduced to 0 to 40% (based on critical strike chance) from 0 to 75%.
  • Infinity Edge scaling reduced to 0 to 12% (based on critical strike chance) from 0 to 40%.
Patch 25.23buff

Tristana is a little underrepresented and could do with a small buff and we'd like to ensure she has good late-game attack power, so we're bumping her AD growth.

Stats

  • Attack damage growth increased to 2.9 from 2.5.
Patch 25.8nerf

R damage decreased.

Buster Shot

  • Base damage reduced to 225/275/325 from 275/325/375.
Patch 25.S1.1change

Rocket Jump

  • Bug Fix: Killing a clone no longer unintentionally resets the cooldown.
Patch 14.20buff

E range increased. R range increased.

Explosive Charge

  • Range increased to 550 from 525.

Buster Shot

  • Range increased to 550 from 525.
Patch 14.19change

Basic Attack Range, Damage, and Attack Speed Ratio increased. AD growth, HP Regen growth, and Armor growth decreased. Passive range decreased at higher levels. Q Attack Speed increased. W slow decreased and duration changed to a flat value. W AD ratio added. E damage profile reworked to value crit. R cooldown changed to a flat value. R stun added. R damage profile reworked to account for AD ratio.

Stats

  • Attack range increased to 550 from 525.
  • Base attack damage increased to 60 from 59.
  • Attack damage growth reduced to 2.5 from 3.7.
  • Attack speed ratio increased to 0.694 from 0.679.
  • Armor growth reduced to 4 from 4.5.
  • Health regeneration growth reduced to 0.5 to 0.65.

Draw a Bead

  • Bonus range reduced to 0 to 125 (based on level) from 0 to 136 (based on level).
  • Total range increased to 550 to 675 (based on level) from 525 to 661 (based on level).

Rapid Fire

  • Bonus attack speed increased to 60/75/90/105/120% from 50/65/80/95/110%.

Rocket Jump

  • Base damage reduced to 70/105/140/175/210 from 95/145/195/245/295.
  • New Effect: Damage now scales with 75% bonus AD.
  • Slow duration changed to 2 seconds at all ranks from 1/1.5/2/2.5/3.
  • Slow strength reduced to 40% from 60%.

Explosive Charge

  • Passive base damage reduced to 45/60/75/90/105 from 55/80/105/130/155.
  • Bomb base damage reduced to 60/70/80/90/100 from 70/80/90/100/110.
  • Bonus bomb damage per stack reduced to 25% from 30%.
  • Maximum bonus bomb damage reduced to 100% from 120%.
  • Bomb bonus AD ratio changed to 100/110/120/130/140% bonus AD from 50/75/100/125/150%.
  • Bomb critical strike chance ratio increased to 0 to 75% (based on critical strike chance) from 0 to 33.3%.
  • New Effect: Bomb critical strike chance ratio now scales with 100% bonus critical strike damage.

Buster Shot

  • Base damage reduced to 275/325/375 from 300/400/500.
  • New Effect: Damage now scales with 70% bonus AD.
  • Cooldown reduced to 100 seconds at all ranks from 120/110/100.
  • New Effect: Now additionally stuns all enemies hit for 0.4/0.55/0.7 seconds at the start of the airborne.
Patch 14.14buff

Base mana increased. Q mana cost added, attack speed decreased. W mana cost decreased.

Stats

  • Base mana increased to 300 from 250.

Rapid Fire

  • Bonus attack speed reduced to 50/65/80/95/110% from 65/80/95/110/125%.
  • New Effect: Now has a mana cost of 50.

Rocket Jump

  • Mana cost reduced to 50 from 60.
Patch 14.11change

Rocket Jump

  • Bug Fix: Hitting an enemy with Rocket Jump while she has any amount of ability power and Explosive Charge is active on them no longer instantly increases its stacks to the maximum, triggering the explosion improperly.

Buster Shot

  • Bug Fix: Hitting an enemy with Buster Shot while she has any amount of ability power and Explosive Charge is active on them no longer instantly increases its stacks to the maximum, triggering the explosion improperly.
Patch 13.16change

Base armor and armor growth increased, base health and magic resistance decreased.

Stats

  • Base health reduced to 640 from 670.
  • Base armor increased to 30 from 26.
  • Armor growth increased to 4.5 to 4.2.
  • Base magic resistance reduced to 28 from 30.
Patch 12.16buff

Q bonus attack speed increased.

Rapid Fire

  • Bonus attack speed increased to 65/80/95/110/125% from 50/62.5/75/87.5/100%.
Patch 12.10buff

Stats

  • Base health increased to 670 from 600.
  • Health growth increased to 102 from 88.
  • Armor growth increased to 4.2 from 3.
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 1.3 from 0.5.
Patch 12.8buff

AD growth increased.

Stats

  • Attack damage growth increased to 3.7 from 3.3.
Patch 12.2buff

Base health and health regen increased.

Stats

  • Base health increased to 600 from 559.
  • Base health regeneration increased to 4 from 3.75.
Patch 11.7nerf

Base attack damage decreased.

Stats

  • Base attack damage reduced to 59 from 61.
Patch 10.16buff

E now deals 1% increased damage per 3% critical strike chance.

Explosive Charge

  • New Effect: Damage is now increased by 0 to 33.3% (based on critical strike chance).
Patch 10.11buff

Stats

  • Base attack speed increased to 0.679 to 0.656.
  • Attack speed ratio increased to 0.679 to 0.656.
Patch 10.8buff

E bonus damage ratio increased.

Explosive Charge

  • Minimum bonus AD ratio increased to 50/75/100/125/150% bonus AD from 50/70/90/110/130%.
Patch 10.7change

Rapid Fire

  • Bug Fix: No longer cancels basic attack animation.
Patch 9.13buff

Stats

  • Attack damage growth increased to 3.3 from 3.11.
  • Base mana increased to 250 from 246.76.
  • Base mana regeneration reduced to 7.2 from 7.206.

Rocket Jump

  • Base damage increased to 95/145/195/245/295 from 85/135/185/235/285.
Patch 9.1buff

Rapid Fire

  • New Effect: Ability icon HUD now shows the remaining duration of the ability.
Patch 8.24bbuff

Explosive Charge

  • Active minimum base damage increased to 70/80/90/100/110 from 60/70/80/90/100.
  • Active maximum base damage increased to 154/176/198/220/242 from 132/154/176/198/220.
  • Active minimum bonus AD ratio increased to 50/70/90/110/130% bonus AD from 50/65/80/95/110%.
  • Active maximum bonus AD ratio increased to 110/154/198/242/286% bonus AD from 110/143/176/209/242%.
Patch 8.24change

Dragon Trainer

  • Bug Fix: Champion-specific taunt and joke VO lines are now properly synchronized with her animations.
Patch 8.20nerf

Explosive Charge

  • Bug Fix: Passive no longer deals reduced damage when triggered by Stormrazor guaranteed critical strike.
Patch 8.13buff

Explosive Charge

  • Bonus AD ratio increased to 50/65/80/95/110% bonus AD from 50/60/70/80/90%.
  • Mana cost reduced to 50/55/60/65/70 from 70/75/80/85/90.

Rapid Fire

  • Bonus attack speed increased to 50/65/80/95/110% from 30/50/70/90/110%.
Patch 8.11change

Stats

  • Base health increased to 559 from 542.76.
  • Health growth increased to 88 from 82.
  • Base armor reduced to 26 from 31.
  • Base health regeneration reduced to 3.75 from 6.
  • Base attack damage reduced to 61 from 65.
  • Attack damage growth increased to 3.11 from 2.41.
Patch 8.5change

Stats

  • Base attack range reduced to 525 from 550.

Draw a Bead

  • Bonus attack range increased to 0 to 136 (based on level) from 0 to 119 (based on level).

Rocket Jump

  • Base damage increased to 85/135/185/235/285 from 60/110/160/210/260.
Patch 8.4nerf

Buster Shot

  • Cooldown increased to 120/110/100 seconds from 100/85/70.
Patch 8.3nerf

Stats

  • Base health regeneration reduced to 6 from 6.192.
Patch 8.2buff

Buster Shot

  • New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
Patch 7.22buff

Explosive Charge

  • Active base damage increased to 60/70/80/90/100 from 55/65/75/85/95.
Patch 7.19change

Omega Squad

  • Bug Fix: Once again has her helicopter shadows during their recall animations.
Patch 7.18nerf

Explosive Charge

  • Bonus AD ratio reduced to 50/60/70/80/90% bonus AD from 50/65/80/95/110%.
Patch 7.16change

Omega Squad

  • Bug Fix: SFX have been restored during her dance and death animations.
Patch 7.3buff

Rapid Fire

  • Duration increased to 7 seconds from 5.
Patch 6.16change

General

  • Bug Fix: Rocket Girl Tristana Punk chromas no longer use Tristana's base visual effects.
Patch 5.18change

Explosive Charge

  • Explosive Charge no longer fizzles if detonated at 4 stacks by Rocket Jump. There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom.
Patch 5.9buff

Explosive Shot

  • Now uses Tristana's basic attack cast time. (This means the spell's cast animation is reduced with your attack speed).
  • Active's damage increase per basic attack increased to 30% from 25%.
  • Max. damage increased to 132/154/176/198/220 / (+ 110/145/176/209/242% bonus AD) (+ 110% AP) from 120/140/160/180/200 (+ 100/130/160/190/220% bonus AD) (+ 100% AP).
Patch 5.7nerf

Rapid Fire

  • Tristana's basic attacks during Rapid Fire reduce the cooldown of Explosive Charge by 0.5 seconds (1 second against champions).

Explosive Charge

  • Cooldown increased to 16/15.5/15/14.5/14 seconds from 16/15/14/13/12.
Patch 5.5buff

Rapid Fire

  • New Effect: Tristana's basic attacks against targets with Explosive Charge reduce Rapid Fire's cooldown by 1 second.
Patch 5.2change

General

  • Title changed to "the Yordle Gunner" from "the Megling Gunner".
  • New lore.
  • New ability icons.
  • Visual upgrade across all skins.
  • New voice over.

Stats

  • Base attack damage increased to 54.54 from 52.54.
  • Attack speed per level reduced to 1.5% from 2.5%.
  • Base health reduced to 542.76 from 552.76.
  • Base armor reduced to 22 from 24.04.

Draw a Bead

  • Range per level reduced to 7 from 9.

Rocket Jump

  • Base damage reduced to 80/105/130/155/180 from 70/115/160/205/250.
  • AP scaling reduced to (+ 50% AP) from (+ 80% AP).
  • New Effect: If Rocket Jump strikes an enemy marked with Explosive Shot, Rocket Jump's damage to all targets is increased by 25% per stack of Explosive Shot. Rocket Jump will also detonate Explosive Shot if the target was at 4 stacks.
  • Maximum damage on Rocket Jump is 160/210/260/310/360 (+ 100% AP).

Explosive Shot

  • Renamed Explosive Charge.
  • New Active: Tristana places a charge on the target enemy or tower that explodes after 4 seconds, dealing damage to nearby enemies. Tristana's basic attacks against the target will increase Explosive Shot's damage by 25%, stacking up to 4 times, with the 5th attack detonating the charge immediately.
  • Damage changed to 60/70/80/90/100 (+ 50/65/80/95/110% Bonus AD) (+ 50% AP) from 80/125/170/215/260 (+ 100% AP).
  • Maximum damage on Explosive Shot is 120/140/160/180/200 (+ 100/130/160/190/220% Bonus AD) (+ 100% AP).
  • Damage type changed to physical from magical.
  • No longer applies Grievous Wounds.
  • Mana cost increased to 70/75/80/85/90 from 50/60/70/80/90.
  • Cooldown reduced to 16/15/14/13/12 seconds from 16 at all ranks.

Buster Shot

  • Ability power ratio reduced to 100% AP from 150% AP.
Patch 4.18change

General

  • Attack speed per level reduced to 2.5% from 4%.

Rapid Fire

  • Attack speed increased to 30/50/70/90/110% from 30/45/60/75/90%.
  • Duration reduced to 5 seconds from 7 seconds.
Patch 4.17nerf

Buster Shot

  • Cooldown increased to 100/85/70 seconds from 60 at all ranks.
Patch 4.13nerf

Rocket Jump

  • slow duration changed to 1/1.5/2/2.5/3 seconds from 2.5 seconds at all ranks.

Explosive Shot

  • Active magic damage reduced to 80/125/170/215/260 from 110/150/190/230/270.
Patch 4.10change

Draw a Bead

  • The bonus range is now applied to Buster Shot.

Rocket Jump

  • Mana cost reduced to 60 at all ranks from 80.
  • Now more accurately checks for nearby landing spots when jumping close to, or over, walls.

Buster Shot

  • Base range reduced to 550 from 700.
  • Spell range calculation changed from 'center to center' of Tristana and her target's champion hitboxes to 'edge to edge' of the hitboxes.
Patch 4.4buff

Rapid Fire

  • Cost reduced to 0 from 50.
Patch 3.3buff

As with Ashe, we wanted to make her stand out as a bigger late game threat.

Stats

  • Attack speed per level increased to 4% from 3.01%.
Patch 3.1buff

Rapid Fire

  • Mana cost reduced to 50 from 80.

Explosive Shot

  • Damage increased to 110/150/190/230/270 from 110/140/170/200/230.
Patch 1.0.0.150buff

Explosive Shot

  • Cast range now matches her attack range (including per level increases from Draw a Bead).

Rocket Jump

  • Fixed: Rocket Jump is now more reliable when used around terrain.

Buster Shot

  • Mana cost reduced to 100 from 140.
Patch 1.0.0.143change

Explosive Shot

  • Passive damage no longer activates from spell damage.
  • Tooltip now reflects the ability power ratio.
Patch 1.0.0.141change

Explosive Shot

  • Fixed a bug where its passive was not working correctly with Madred's Razors and Wriggle's Lantern.
Patch 1.0.0.138change

Explosive Shot and Buster Shot

  • Tristana will now attempt to immediately attack champions targeted by them.
Patch 1.0.0.135buff

Explosive Shot

  • Cast range increased to 625 from 600.
Patch 1.0.0.130change

General

  • Fixed a bug that caused Tristana's abilities to lock up.
Patch 1.0.0.129buff

Stats

  • Base attack damage increased to 46.5 from 44.5.

Explosive Shot

  • Tristana will now automatically attack the target of Explosive Shot.

Buster Shot

  • Knockback radius increased to 200 from 175.
  • Now has an indicator around the target to show knockback radius (similar to Conflagration.
Patch 1.0.0.120change

Rocket Jump

  • Fixed a bug where the cooldown reset upon kill or assist could fail if Tristana's damage output was fully absorbed by a shield.
Patch 1.0.0.115buff

Explosive Shot

  • Damage now applies over 5 seconds instead of 4-8.
  • Total damage increased to 110/140/170/200/230 from 100/125/150/175/200.
  • Healing reduction duration is now a static 5 seconds from 3-8.
Patch 1.0.0.113change

Rocket Jump

  • Has a bigger target indicator.
Patch 1.0.0.106nerf

Stats

  • Base movement speed reduced to 300 from 310.

Rocket Jump

  • No longer deals damage and slows if the jump is interrupted by another movement effect.
Patch 1.0.0.100nerf

Rocket Jump

  • Debuff now correctly states the slow amount.
  • No longer be cast while root.
Patch 1.0.0.86change

General

  • Updated several particles.

Explosive Shot

  • Fixed a bug that was causing an extra tick of damage on impact.
Patch 1.0.0.83change

Rocket Jump

  • Can no longer be cast while immobilize.
Patch 1.0.0.61buff

Explosive Shot

  • Passive component no longer deactivates when on cooldown.
  • Healing reduction effect increased to 65% from 50%.
Patch 1.0.0.52buff

Stats

  • Auto attack missile speed increased to 2250 from 1450.

Rapid Fire

  • Mana cost reduced to 80 from 100.

Rocket Jump

  • Mana cost reduced to 80 from 100.

Explosive Shot

  • Passive explosion damage increased to 50/75/100/125/150 from 30/50/70/90/110.
  • Active component will now tick damage every second as opposed to every half second.

Buster Shot

  • Mana cost reduced to 140 from 150.
  • Pushback radius increased to 175 from 150.
Patch 0.9.25.24change

Rocket Jump

  • Now procs effects of area of effect spells.

Explosive Shot

  • Now properly costs mana.
Patch 0.9.25.21nerf

Stats

  • Attack speed per level reduced to 2.8% from 3.1%.

Rocket Jump

  • Cursor changed to Area of Effect Indicator.

Buster Shot

  • Damage reduced to 300/400/500 from 300/450/600.
Patch 0.9.22.16nerf

Draw a Bead

  • Bonus range reduced to 0 to 162 (based on level) from 0 to 180 (based on level).
Patch 0.9.22.15nerf

Stats

  • Base health reduced to 497 from 545.
  • Health per level reduced to 82 from 90.
  • Attack speed per level reduced to 3.1% from 3.3%.

Rocket Jump

  • Decreased damage to 70/115/160/205/250 from 60/120/180/240/300.
  • Increased cooldown to 22/20/18/16/14 seconds from 20/18/16/14/12.
  • Cooldown is now refreshed on champion kill/assist.
  • Removed AoE cursor (still AoE).

Explosive Shot Remake

  • Reduced passive AoE damage on kill to 30/50/70/90/110 from 50/100/150/200/250.
  • Increased AoE range to 300 from 275.
  • New active: Single target DoT that reduces health regen/healing by 50% for 4/5/6/7/8 seconds.

Buster Shot

  • Reduced cooldown to 60 seconds at all ranks from 90/75/60.
Patch 0.8.22.115new

Tristana added to League of Legends

Stats

  • Base attack range increased to 550 from 500 (can now get up to 730 at Level 18 with her passive).
  • Armor per level increased to 3 from 2.4.
  • Magic resist increased to 30 from 25.

Rocket Jump

  • Damage increased to 60/115/170/225/280 from 50/100/150/200/250.
  • Slow duration increased to 2.5 from 2.