Tristana is a champion that naturally excels at ARAM due to her design, however, Riot has taken things into their own hands, and significantly nerfed her ability to be impactful in this mode. This has led to Tristana win rate dropping much lower than the average 50%. But do not fret, as we will save the day with our best Tristana ARAM Build.
Tristana Best ARAM Items
Statikk Shiv
The most natural first item for Tristana in ARAM is Statikk Shiv, it will enable us to poke enemies much more, as we will be able to shove them under their tower due to the pushing strength the item will give us. It will also lay a foundation for other critical strike items we will be building.
Infinity Edge
The second item we will build is none other than Infinity Edge. Despite it being an expensive purchase we do have the ability to collect gold quickly in ARAM. The item will give us great amounts of damage, critical strike, and most importantly critical strike damage.
Lord Dominik’s Regards
Next up we will take the LDR. It’s a crit armor pen item that has incredible armor shredding properties. It will significantly empower and increase our damage output, and will buff the build no matter what we build next.
Blood Thirster
By now, we will already have a nice amount of critical strike, and it would be okay to build Blood Thirster. However, if you want to cap out your critical strikes, you might opt for an Immortal Shieldbow first.
If you do choose Blood Thirster though, you can be confident it’s a good purchase as it will give you incredible sustain through life steal and the shielding it provides.
Immortal Shieldbow
Our last item will be the Immortal Shieldbow, which will put us at exactly 100% critical strike. This will enable us to use the full value of our build, most importantly the value of the Infinity Edge. The Shieldbow is also great for the Shield which it provides when we are sufficiently low HP and it can be lifesaving in many situations.
Boots
The best boots for Tristana on ARAM will be the Berserker Grieves. Aside from movement speed, these will give us the much-needed extra attack speed. Additionally, these boots are extra powerful, as they can be upgraded to Zephyr later in the game.
Tristana ARAM Runes
- Hail of Blades
- Taste of Blood
- Eyeball Collection
- Treasure Hunter
- Triumph
- Legend: Alacrity
Hail of Blades is the best keystone for this Tristana ARAM build, as it will allow us to easily dish out tons of damage. Next up, we will take Taste of Blood as it will allow us to heal throughout the early game. We will also take the Eyeball Collection to stack AD with each unique takedown.
The first rune of our second half of the setup will be Treasure Hunter. It will give us early gold which can be used to snowball the game more easily. Then we will select Triumph which will heal us on every Takedown. Finally, we will take Legend: Alacrity, as it is the best rune from its branch which will grant us attack speed.
Final Thoughts
Tristana is a decently powerful ARAM pick when played and built correctly. She can push fast, poke enemies, and destroy towers quickly. The best ARAM build for Tristana is a critical strike one, paired with Berserker Greaves.