League of Legends - "The Enemies Inhibitor is respawning soon!"

[Thorax]

I've decided that Sony, while appearing to have some amount of skill, is not to be listened to for advice.

You should never say something isn't viable, you should only say that certain things provide positive results more consistently.

I know this is a bit off topic for an example, but when I was really into MtG there was a deck called "White Weenies" (because it focused on getting lots of little guys into play) that used a card called Squadron Hawk. Playing it would allow you to search your deck for other cards of the same name. A lot of people disregarded it, considering it not viable for tournament level play. However, about a month or two later, a deck by the name of CawBlade was created that was so powerful that around 80-90% of people at tournaments played it and one of it's cards was banned to help make it more balanced (banning cards is an extremely rare event). The main two cards it focused on was Sword of Feast and Famine (a good card in it's own right, and also lends to the "Blade" in "CawBlade") and Squadron Hawks (Which makes up the "Caw"). The card Squadron Hawks went from being one of the least viable cards to becoming one of the most infamous.

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[Sony]

You should play mordekaiser hes Brazilian



 ap nidalee has nice burst but tank nidalee is just all around better for your team

[Doomonkey]

What are good ranged AD carry runes?

[Sony]

What are good ranged AD carry runes?

Armorpen reds, armor yellows, mr/per lvl blues, flat ad quints

[Acid]

Warm feeling inside when half your team thanks you for good plays when your blitzcrank

[Mr. Wallet]

Sony's just trolling, as usual. I doubt even 20% of the nids I see aren't purely spear-based (minus lich bane to boost their panther). The idea that AP nid is "useless" or only AD nid is viable not only completely contradicts any modicam of experience, it also precludes the idea that RIOT are remotely competent at game design since they've very obviously designed nidalee to be viable while investing a lot of money in AP, and she's been available for gathering data and balancing for a long time without major changes. I remain incapable of fathoming the type of mind that would both believe a game to be poorly designed and choose to play it regularly as a hobby.

Also tank nidalee = support nidalee so he's contradicting himself. All she can do is boost people's AS, grant vision, and chase really really low people.

[Acid]

Realised how powerful crowd control is today. Was playing Fizz (as per usual) and managed to go something crazy like 12-0 in the laning phase. It looked like a sure win. However, every team fight (and I mean EVERY) Their fed Warwick (which i had ganked 3 times) would always ult me and I could do nothing and would go down. We lost hard.

[Katadeus]

I think I've found something that works :D

MY HYBRID TRISTANA SETUP

So I decided on using my AP set of runes. Mostly just AP there, with mana regen and possibly armor. Then, I got masteries that focused on AP but also gave good boosts to AD.
In game, my normal item order:
Doran's Ring
Gives a solid base for my rocket jump and explosive shot.
Berserker's Greaves
Don't want to leave basic attacks out, so getting that extra damage quickly is nice.
Hextech revolver into Hextech gunblade
More nice AP, should definitely have ult by now, so that's a nice boost. Its slow effect can be kinda handy as well. Once you turn it into gunblade, there's also that extra AD and such. That's quite nice.
Lich bane
Mana regen, slight movement speed boost, AP, magic resist, and its passive effect. What more could I want other than health?
Rylai's
Well, at this point I'm going to need some more health, so I figure that at this point my auto attacks are doing decent damage so I can work with AP. Also, the more slows, the better.
Phantom Dancer or Rabadan's
I can't decide, as I haven't had the chance to finish building yet. I've only played a couple games with this setup.


If there are any really obvious flaws, please do point them out.

[Acid]

You might want to edit it so people can clearly see you're talking about Tristana. The only way I figured out was because you mentioned rocket jump and explosive shot. Personally I would only ever play her full ap or full ad so I don't have experience with Hybrid Tristana.

[Katadeus]

Oops, adding that to the post.
I don't know why hybrid works better for me than either straight-up AP or AD.

[Acid]

I'm still not sure people can tell who you're talking about...

Oh and lich bane sounds like a good idea for AP/Hybrid

[Mr. Wallet]

Personally I think it sounds silly, but I'm definitely not the guy to belittle someone trying something different.

I would definitely go for frozen mallet instead of rylai's for the HP; not only are you using a lot more AD applications per minute meaning you can switch slow targets a lot, you also get a 40% slow instead of a 15% slow (except for active E, which is the only active ability she has that can proc the full 35% slow).
Lich bane is really more of an item for pure APs that also do autoattacking, not hybrids. It also doesn't make a whole lot of sense on tristana since she doesn't have a high sustained ability cast rate. On a few hybrids with huge cast rates, sheen/trinity can work really well, for example on a hybrid Ezrael, but Tris just doesn't have the cast rate for it.

[Placid]

duo queued, first regular game as corki...
got fed 11/1 and carried stuffty team (me and friend support were only intelligent people).
loving hilarious

[Katadeus]

Personally I think it sounds silly, but I'm definitely not the guy to belittle someone trying something different.

I would definitely go for frozen mallet instead of rylai's for the HP; not only are you using a lot more AD applications per minute meaning you can switch slow targets a lot, you also get a 40% slow instead of a 15% slow (except for active E, which is the only active ability she has that can proc the full 35% slow).
Lich bane is really more of an item for pure APs that also do autoattacking, not hybrids. It also doesn't make a whole lot of sense on tristana since she doesn't have a high sustained ability cast rate. On a few hybrids with huge cast rates, sheen/trinity can work really well, for example on a hybrid Ezrael, but Tris just doesn't have the cast rate for it.

I think I will go for frozen mallet, but I don't know if I want to switch out the lich bane after that. I very often have to make incredibly close escapes, so I still want movement speed. However, I also want to have more ability power, mostly for the sake of my rocket jump. The ultimate does also work nicely with the AP, but I'm not too great with it at the moment, so I'm not as concerned. I do see, though, that mostly I use my abilities in short spurts and have pretty bad cooldowns. If there was something I could do about cooldowns enough to make a difference?

[Hiiro326]

I love Ezreal.
And Galio.
<3

I just played this for 14 hours straight with friends on Skype, they just went to bed.