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 in 2025.

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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 the 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.

Lulu – The best support of the meta with Tristana

Lulu is considered, at the moment, one of the best champions in the support tier list, and she shares strong synergy with Tristana as well. The double Yordle combo is relatively easy to play and it’s also quite forgiving due to how safe Tristana can farm up and survive trades. Lulu can cast shields on her while she trades and if things get dangerous, she can reposition herself with Rocket Jump.

Scaling later into the game, Lulu will further empower Tristana’s DPS and peel for her. In addition to the shields, Lulu can use her Polymorph and ultimate and apply crowd controls to multiple targets. All Tristana has to do is not get caught overextending and she will be able to wipe out entire enemy lines with her auto attacks.

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• Turns Tristana into a scaling, self-sufficient carry
• Provides peel, mobility, and survivability for risky engages
• Great against dive-heavy enemy comps
• Weak into early burst lanes or hard CC

Alistar – dives and teamfights

If you’re looking to play more aggressively and around the laning phase, then the best choice is to switch to Alistar. The synergy between the two lies in the ability to initiate fights with Headbutt–Pulverize (W-Q) combos, followed up by Tristana’s E and auto attacks. Unless the enemy somehow disengages or reacts quickly by flashing, it should lead to a dead target most of the time.

You can even force dives as soon as Alistar has his ultimate up to tank turret shots. Play around the minion waves and be aware of all potential summoner’s spells the enemy can use to neutralize the dive. Coordinate, if possible, with your jungler to ensure you can successfully make the play. If you get an early lead, this bot lane duo can wreak havoc in the mid-game teamfights, especially if Tristana can get resets with her Rocket Jump.

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• One of the strongest kill lanes with early dive potential
• Locks down enemies for easy passive and charge procs
• Roams well once Tristana can hold the lane alone
• Needs synergy and early leads to remain effective

Nautilus – Reliable engage option

While Alistar is relatively reliable, it’s still possible to mess up the combos. Nautilus is the easier, plug-and-play version, thanks to the point-and-click ultimate. As long as he’s able to get into range, he can set up Tristana’s combo with his crowd control chain. All you have to do is find the right windows to catch enemies off position and commit to the play.

The main downside is that Nautilus is much more prone to being punished when he engages as he doesn’t have Alistar’s tankiness. Additionally, the two can struggle heavily against a poke-heavy bot lane combination such as Varus or Ezreal.

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• Easy-to-use lockdown for clean all-ins
• Great initiator for teamfights
• Works well with jungle pressure or 2v2 kills
• Struggles into ranged poke or disengage supports

Nami – the aggressive enchanter support

Nami is one of the few enchanter supports who can be used aggressively, making her a strong and underrated pairing with Tristana. The support champion can offer healing and additional damage in Tristana’s early-game combo rotations, helping her look for leads and snowball.

The combination is quite reliant on Nami’s ability to land the stun on her Q, to which Tristana follows up with her Rocket Jump (W) and E. Once she unlocks the ultimate, Tidal Wave (R), Nami can force engages and catch enemies off guard. Later in the game, Nami will continue to play around her ADC, making sure she is given enough room to dish out damage with her abilities and auto attacks.

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• Empowers auto-attacks for strong burst trades and kill pressure
• Healing for 2v2 trades
• Strong all-in follow-up or disengage tools
• The only enchanter who thrives in aggressive, skirmish-heavy lanes in the meta

Yuumi – the scaling support pick

Yuumi works similarly to Lulu in how she empowers Tristana and keeps her alive thanks to the added shields and heals. Compared to the yordle support, however, Yuumi puts more emphasis on the late-game but makes a trade-off with a weaker laning phase.

Luckily, Tristana has enough wave clear of her own to fend off potential dives, which usually happen when enemies stack up big minion waves. Play the early game slowly and look to scale up by at least completing two items on Tristana before looking to take fights. The longer the game lasts, the more oppressive this combination becomes.

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• Fantastic mid-to-late game teamfight presence
• Provides big heals and shields to survive incoming burst damage
• One of the best scaling bot lane combos for Tristana
• Sub-par laning phase

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