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.
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
The stat comparisons provided here feature several critical Tristana against Elise matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s ratio of NaN, showing that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Elise..
Tristana usually has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Elise. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tristana usually fairs equally well when taking on Elise, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Tristana makes an ok counter for Elise.
While Tristana does have a lower win rate than Elise, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Elise.
Furthermore, Tristana has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Elise matchups, Elise 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 team fights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter for Elise. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Elise.
To learn all of the intricacies of Tristana in order to counter Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana typically racks up much more CS compared to Elise. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Tristana versus Elise build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Elise than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when countering Elise with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Elise as Tristana, Tristana players should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Tristana vs Elise matchups, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Elise as Tristana are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.