Forgotten AD carry saved by LoL Patch 14.19’s other huge champ rework

Riot Games is showing Tristana some serious love in the mega-sized League of Legends update coming next week, with League Patch 14.19 now expected to deliver the pint-sized AD carry enough buffs to drag her back up into the metagame.

Tristana’s impending League rework is mainly stat-focused, with her base numbers being changed alongside all four of her abilities including her ultimate. The focus, Dot Esports understands, is to push her into AD carry properly and take power away from her ever-more popular mid lane variant; Tristana has popped up more and more as a priority attack damage pick in the central role in Season 14 and Riot isn’t so happy with her modern usage.

These changes, which come at the same time as K’Sante steals headlines with his sixth League overhaul, mean Tristana gets less powerful while collecting experience but exponentially explodes in power with more gold. This means she can now easily share EXP with a support in the bot lane and suck up all the creeps and kills for faster power spikes.

Ability-wise, the Yordle Gunner should be able to employ her Rocket Jump, Explosive Charge, and Buster Shot to devastating effect once she buys several AD and critical strike items.

This move back into hyper carry territory should go some distance to helping Tristana’s frankly horrendous win rate. She’s slumped to a 45.99 percent win rate in the later months of the season, according to League stat tracker U.GG, and fares even worse mid lane with an expected 42.38 percent victory-rate. Perhaps the most concerning record from her competitive campaign recently, however, is the fact she’s only appeared in a pitiful 15,000 games through the 14.18 cycle—a huge drop from the 100,000 plus in early 2024.

The celebrations among Tristana mains across social media have been fast and boisterous, with nearly every League player who regularly picks the Yordle Gunner anticipating a surge back into the meta for their favorite AD carry. The biggest wins included “no more early duellist and splitpusher builds” as well as a return to an item-focused strategy.

Here’s all the changes being tested for Tristana on the League PBE right now. Until they ship live with Patch 14.19 on Wednesday, Sept. 25, all buffs are still tentative.

All Tristana changes in LoL Patch 14.19

Base stats

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

Draw a Bead (passive)

• Bonus range reduced from 0-136 to 0-125, total range increased from 525-661 to 550-675.

Rapid Fire (Q)

• Bonus attack speed increased from 50-110 to 60-120 percent.

Rocket Jump (W)

• Base damage reduced from 95-295 to 70-210, slow duration changed from 1-3 to two seconds at all ranks, slow reduced from 60 to 40 percent.
• Damage now scales with 75 percent bonus attack damage.

Explosive Charge (E)

• Passive base damage reduced from 55-155 to 45-105, bomb base damage reduced from 70-110 to 60-100, bonus bomb damage per stacks reduced from 30 to 25 percent (maximum bonus bomb damage reduced from 120 to 100 percent).

Buster Shot (R)

• Base damage reduced from 300-500 to 275-375, cooldown reduced to 100 seconds at all ranks, from 100-120.
• Damage now scales with 70 percent bonus attack damage.
• Now stuns all enemies hit for 0.4-0.7 seconds.