Best supports to play with Tristana in LoL

If you’re wondering which supports work best with Tristana, here are the five champions you should be playing with her this season.

The best supports to play with Tristana in LoL

Tristana is one of the oldest champions in the entire game. Released in the alpha version of LoL, the Yordle Gunner is an iconic champion in the bottom lane. She was a popular champion in the first era of competitive League, with world-class ADC players like Rekkles carrying their own teams to victory.

Her kit has remained pretty much the same throughout the years, making her an easy-friendly champion to pick up and learn. Having said that, Tristana needs great partners in the bottom lane to destroy the enemies.

If you’re not sure which champions you should be playing with her, we have compiled a full list of champions that are guaranteed to work with Tristana, explaining the key strengths and weaknesses of these bot lane duos.

Nautilus – the no. 1 support for Tristana

Tristana is the type of champion that wants to quickly burst down the targets in the early game. If she gets enough time to auto attack and increase the stacks, she will make the enemies go kaboom without any way to retaliate. To do so, she needs a support that can help her lock down enemies and not allow them to get away.

Nautilus is the best when it comes to doing this. He offers so much crowd control on single targets that it’s almost impossible for anyone to get away from him. Tristana has plenty of time to use her entire combo, get the kill and a sweet reset.

That being said, this bot lane duo suffers from long-range poke, and it needs Nautilus to be on point with his hooks, which is not always the case. Regardless, this is the most intuitive and effective bot lane to play.

Thresh – The versatile support

Thresh has always been one of the best supports to play with Tristana. Now that he received in Patch 13.3, the bot lane pairing is even stronger.

Similar to Nautilus, he offers a good amount of crowd control. Maybe not as much hard-engage, but he trades that with an additional disengage tool thanks to his lantern. If Tristana mispositions heavily, he can save her with this ability.

That said, this bot lane requires even more coordination than the one with Nautilus, and Thresh must be played to full proficiency to make the duo work well.

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Blitzcrank – The best at punishing mispositioning

Speaking of mispositioning, Blitzcrank is probably the best support in the game at punishing it. His hooks can be game-changing, and he makes a great pairing with Tristana. Blitzcrank can lock down a hooked target for her, without the need for her to jump in. This allows her to save the jump and use it to get away from danger.

A great Blitzcrank player can spoon-feed Tristana with kills, more than Nautilus and Thresh. That said, he’s highly reliant on the Rocket Grab, which requires great game sense and good mechanics.

Rell – One of the best diving supports for Tristana

You probably have understood that engage supports are the best types of champions alongside Tristana. Therefore, Rell comes up as a natural choice to play alongside her. 

The support got recently reworked with her mid-scope update, making her engages easier to pull off while maintaining her all-in potential. When playing alongside Tristana, you want to fully utilize that potential to find early kills and advantage by finding good engages to take down the opponents. Tristana has no issues following up on any attempt with her jump and E-Q combo, quickly chaining up for a big chunk of damage.

That being said, this bot lane duo will suffer against heavy poke lanes with long-range abilities: unless you’re extremely confident and proficient at the champions, do not blindly pick this bot lane or you will have a tough time playing the laning phase.

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Pyke – the atypical support pairing

The last support pick we recommend playing with Tristana is Pyke. Even though he doesn’t offer the same level of tankiness as other supports in this list, Pyke makes up that weakness with a lot more burst damage and stronger 2v2 skirmishing potential. 

The best thing about this bot lane is Pyke’s ability to make the engages or picks during the laning phase. Given his agility, he’s able to pull off plays and catch enemies off guard a lot more often than the other traditional engage supports. And as long as Tristana has good reflexes to follow up, they will be blowing the enemy bot laners over and over again. Once they both unlock their ultimates, their single-target burst damage will spike through the roof.

Another great thing about Pyke is his roaming ability. Tristana’s passive on her E will help her quickly clear big minion waves, giving less time to the enemies to punish or poke her. This, in turn, will give more time for Pyke to make plays on the rest of the map and snowball other teammates as well.

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