Tristana, that’s the name of the Yordle shooter.

Armed with a cannon that is bigger than she is, she shoots her opponents through the chasm.

Do you want to play a champion who gains more range with each level and thus scales well, but can also really heat up the opponents at level 2? Then this is the guide for you!

Let’s start with her abilities:

As already mentioned, Tristana gains increased range on her normal attacks with every level-up thanks to her Passive – Precision. But that’s not all, the range of your E – Explosive Charge and R – Thunder Shot are also automatically increased with each champion level.

So you start each game with an average range for a Carry Botlaner (525), but reach 661 range at level 18, not bad!

Tristana’s Q – Rapid Fire grants her additional attack speed for the next 7 seconds after activation.

Her most distinctive ability is W – Rocket Jump. This allows her to jump over walls and generally cover large distances. If you land on enemy champions or minions, they take magic damage and are slowed by 60%. The cooldown of the rocket jump can also be completely reset.

But how does this work? We first need to look at Tristana’s other abilities. Her E – Explosive Charge places an initially small bomb on your target. This can be a minion, jungle monster or an enemy champion. This charge explodes after 4 seconds.

During this time, you can increase the explosion damage with your normal attacks or abilities up to four times. Each normal attack and each ability increases the damage of the explosive charge by 30%.

If you manage to trigger the E with the maximum 4 boosts, the cooldown of W – Rocket Jump will be reset as well as in the case of a kill on an enemy champion in which you were involved.

Tristana’s R – Thunder Shot can also be used to trigger one of these 4 boosts. But what does this ability do? Tristana fires a huge cannonball at an enemy unit (minion, monster, champion), dealing high magic damage and knocking back your target and surrounding enemies.

Read on to find out how best to use this exciting kit.