If everyone thinks Tristana's early game has been nerfed, everyone needs to check back into reality.

Level 1 Rocket jump has 10 more damage, without the double damage from the combo.  Level 2 is 10 damage weaker.

Level 1 Explosive charge is far weaker, doing 20 less and without the added loss in healing, but only if you don't charge it.

If you all in, and honestly, who the fuck wouldn't, you're looking at a maximum combined level 2 ability damage of 280 plus bonus AD.  Pre "nerf" Tristana, which has a good level 2, does 150, with all AP scalers.  Even with the inability to get all four shots in before detonation, she's been significantly strengthened for her start.  If you only get two shots in before it blows, you'll still manage 218 damage off the combo.  She's a lane wrecker now.  Pair her up with Leona, Zyra, someone with heavy CC and damage, and you're getting a double kill if they try to farm.

ppft - best to try out trist and see if she's op or not.  I don't think she will be personally based on what I've read, but I could be wrong.

@thunder - you know damn well I'm going to play 1 ranked game tonight and get demoted even if I win. 

Since when is 550 a very short attack range?  This isn't Urgot.

This is the price we pay for removing DFG.  Worth IMO.

pretty much all of her ratios went up. Tons of ahri's didn't build DFG. 

If you mean like 10% then sure. DFG was a staple item on Ahri which warranted her buffs. Plus they removed the pseudo-DFG from her E.

Looks like its more like 30% don't build DFG. Oh her base damage went up on her fox fire MY BAD..... 

Play against a fizz (didn't get to lane vs him) but he ended up going like 10-3 after starting 0-2 still the same broken assassin. I think I might take a break from this game for a while. I am so tired of the meta right now. There are so many AP champions that are out of control. I played vs a Nid mid today, she got a double kill off a jungle roam. Ended up going like 21-4 or some thing. She would literally mark you, pounce and you would instantly die. Kat, ahri, fizz, nid, zed, leblanc are all cancer to the game in my opinion. I have literally zero fun playing vs these champions as I feel no matter how far they get behind it will not matter. I miss season two where it was more about team fighting, not snowballing the game completely out of control. 

yeah - i started with a repair, so I'm not really sure.  Haven't really seen any other posts about my specific problem, so no idea. 

Maybe I'll try another repair or fresh install when I get home today.  re: my log in issue, I have no idea.  It takes an unspecified number of attempts to log in every day... add in my "fake crash" issue and the worlds a super place.  Less annoying when I only have to log in once. 

back to trist - played her a few times yesterday.  kind of weak early (but there's some decent additional all in potential now as folks aren't accustomed to her new ability).   Very snowbally if she gets going.  Honestly, I don't see a HUGE change in her post changes - other than her tower killing power is kind of through the roof.  I think that will need to be turned down a bit.  I really don't think she's OP outside of that tower thing though. 

cow - take a break with mid or skip ranked for a few days and play with your pals. 

Honestly, I think you should spend a little time working on assassins.  As long as that's the current flavor and seems to be resulting in a higher win rate.  At the very least it should be interesting. 

I don't think that its all about assassins.  Assassins are good right now, but there are plenty of good non assassins.  Lots of high ELO players claim that Azir is currently the best mid in the game right now.  Xerath is really strong and popular at high ELO (big different in stats between high/low ELO).  Cassiopeia is allegedly decent (don't see her much).  Etc.

I think its more about power curves.  Right now mid doesn't favor trying to do a Nasus power curve from mid.  In other words, it doesn't favor a farm game where it is just about building a CS lead.  In fact, there were LCS interviews this weekend where mids were saying that they were intentionally giving up CS to do other things (Bjergsen said something along these lines).

Right now, mid seems to be about getting good CS early, but mostly getting an early item then spreading influence around the map.  It doesn't have to be killing, but being a big presence all over.  It's probably easiest to do on assassins since their goal is obvious at this stage - they roam and kill.  But where somebody can give the other team an advantage is if one mid spreads their influence all over the map while the other mid gets a 25 CS lead.  The influence over the map is just better right now I think since it can snowball on a lot of champions, while playing for CS rarely snowballs.

That's actually a good point.  You might be able to justify a slower curve mid if you also take TP.  Of course then you really aren't going to be killing your opponent, but you do have the map presence while still being able to farm it up.

I was also thinking anivia might be worth trying to get good with because egg sort of defeats the purpose of most assassins. Having to kill her twice might buy enough time for your jungler to come in and make a play.

TP on farming mids has interesting I just love ignite. Every game I don't have it I find myself in a situation that I would of picked up a kill and possibly lived through a fight if I had had it (I supposed this is the bryff mentality of ignite, I guess I have it too).

Azir is an interesting champion but he is currently banned in probably 75-80% of my games. He would probably be worth getting to know though since he fits my style of play. He gives me the impression of not being very easy just to "pick up" though. I think my time might be better spent on learning the good assassins, I think they might be easier to learn (especially fizz since I already have some experience on him from ARAM's etc..)