Tristana vs Caitlyn
How to Beat Caitlyn as Tristana
based on 13,366 Tristana vs Caitlyn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Caitlyn Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Caitlyn as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Caitlyn
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Advice to Win Against Caitlyn
Keep behind allied minions if Caitlyn is harassing you with Piltover Peacemaker (it deals less damage with each subsequent target).
You can intercept Ace in the Hole's missile from hitting an ally if you stand in its path.
Tristana vs Caitlyn Counter Stats
How to Counter Caitlyn with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several significant Tristana versus Caitlyn counter statistics that can help you understand the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Caitlyn’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Caitlyn..
Tristana often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Caitlyn. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tristana and Caitlyn
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Who is Better, Tristana or Caitlyn?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually fairs equally well when playing against Caitlyn, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes an ok counter to Caitlyn.
While Tristana does have a lower win rate than Caitlyn, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Tristana into Caitlyn.
Moreover, Tristana also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Caitlyn. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Caitlyn matchups, Caitlyn is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter to Caitlyn. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Caitlyn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana in order to counter Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Caitlyn. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Tristana versus Caitlyn build consist of Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Bloodthirster. When Tristana combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Caitlyn than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 49.4% when countering Caitlyn with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Caitlyn as Tristana, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Tristana vs Caitlyn face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
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