Me a trundle main: it’s because he’s a troll pick

There is nothing more satisfying than getting some alone time with a turret as trundle

Sivir and Trundle came from a time where movement speed actually mattered. In the early times charging with 700 movement speed on a adc was a threat. Nowadays there are 16 dashes on every champion so they can just outplay you. Especially Trundle does not have a lot of damage since he still needs to build tanky to close gaps, stealing stats isn't good enough anymore

"He definitly needs a rework" DON'T TOUCH MY BABY

As a trundle main I gotta say, there is nothing more rewarding than getting to an enemy inhib right as a team fight breaks out and having no one there to stop you from closing out the game within 20 seconds

Personally find Trundle incredibly fun, not in the micro sense but in the macro. He's so simple that instead of thinking about how I'm going to combo my opponent, I'm able to focus entirely on game plan and map awareness, something I usually struggle with. It's fucking satisfying when you manage to literally take every tower in the game because every single time the enemy team goes for a play you are chomping the shit out of a tower and stealing their entire jungle

I mean... they could give him something like the interaction singed has between his e and w, by this i mean something like this: "If trundle knocks up an enemy champion with his E Pillar of ice when an enemy is the area of his W Frozen domain they get rooted during 1/1/2/2/2.5 seconds" it would give him agency on games, differentiate bad trundles from good trundles and most importantly, it would give him something that isn't plain damage and slow on an era where there is a rune that makes you inmune to slows at all.

I'd counter argue that Trundle does have something to work toward, at least in lane: take all the towers. Not going to lie, killing towers in 5 seconds and running the fuck away from 4 members of the enemy team is fun af

Despite everything, people have to respect that trundle can take 2 towers in the time it takes for you to walk back to lane

Trundle is one of the two junglers I main. Why? It's satisfying doing something really, really simple against someone trying to be extremely complex and advanced and **still** kicking their ass. c:

I like to play Trundle vs Sejuani, as if you ult Sejuani while she has passive up she can get up to negative stats.. Seeing a full tank get melted like they are building an adc is just.. cathartic.

Hes a troll pick meant to feed then get fed.

i picked up trundle when everyone was playing reworked mord, trundle can just beat mord to death in mord ult if trundle ults in the death realm. I only really play him as a counter pick, he doesnt feel great to pick before the enemy top.

He feels like he still has that old school style of league like Xin and Udyr have, where u literally jus run around chasing champs

Last time i saw a trundle he cancelled my every back with his pillar, forcing me to walk to base. Big psycho vibes

As someone who mainly plays a lot of the champs in these vids, I appreciate these more clear cut good at certain things and not at everything champs and making it work regardless. Trundle is a far more sensible stat stick type champ than Mundo for example. Not every champ needs all types of flashy nonsense to be a good champ. It might be me being from season 3 but each and every champ since Yasuo besides a few have lost that spirit of what made league fun to play in those good old days with friends, when it was a simpler game and you didn't need an encyclopedia to read a passive.

Theyre gonna keep buffing him.... It's not gonna do anything but they're gonna do it

In a way, if trundle grows stronger based on the enemy tank growing stronger, if he is toplane against a tank, especially so a tank who doesn't actually become that much more dangerous with more gold, the "ideal" scenario might actually be to go kill for kill with it, so that you both gain money, but you essentially gain part of their money as well if you can ult them every time the teamfights start

Ahhhhhh, one of my new favorite picks to just turn my brain off and have fun. Glad he's getting some love with the new buffs :)

Man, i love the troll. One of my best champs in clash, because i suck at micro and mechanics and need someone who can just beat people to death and only one ability to think about: the pillar.

"Trundle is boring" Me: Ok, how is life stealing with max attack speed bonking the shit out of enemies boring?

Me, playing Constable Trundle this morning: Pillars someone off Also me: STOP! YOU'VE VIOLATED THE LAW! PAY THE COURT A FINE OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES!

one interresting thing about trundle his that he holds a very nice record. namely the record of the longest time not getting a balance change after release, two full years of not beeing too op to nerf or too weak to buff. in my opinion that´s pretty crazy

For anyone wondering about the music, that is instrumental part of "No more heroes" by Aviators.

Him being so simple makes him intresting. If you can run away when he ults amd go back in later you beat him and he has to get a good pillar so you dont outrun him. Yes he is very simple but he offers some counterplay and having a few simple champions aint bad.

Ah I remember when the old trundle was actually the old trundle. this trundle is a reworked trundle, would you believe it? If I remember correctly his Q didnt slow back in the day and his W also gave him tenacity. I totally favoured his old lore too, because he was a hero, who took the entirety of a deadly curse, that afflicted his clan all upon himself and because he was unique among his troll brethren, he regenerated his cells faster, than the curse could rot away at his body. the fact that he was super fucking ugly, and disgusting and that this was the result of his love and devotion to his people, that I think was kinda cool. instead he´s now a frost troll king - yeah whatever, at least his Q now slows, that is a massive improvement for him. I mean imagine playing the actual trundle today and his Q didnt even slow ... that would suck

The reason is simple: he has no right itemization right now. He is either a glass machine gun or a tank, who deals no damage at all.

In conclusion Trundle: Me go bonk.

You know sometimes it’s fun to just run at them and hit em till they die

Trundle was integral to my league experiece because he was a super easy jungler. Since jungle is probably the hardest role to learn, having someone who had no trouble killing camps and sustaining meant i could focus on watching the map and ganking lanes and obj without worrying about my hp.

You just keep pumping these videos out. Keep up the great work!

I love these episodes so much! They're so expertly made

God i love you videos, the way its structured and you voice makes it such a nice bed time story

Damn you make these fast

"Being able to make on demand terrain is still a very unlike ability, even in this dang age" Ornn:Alow me to interlude myself

3 years later he's in S+ tier for toplane for his 1v1 capability in the early game and his capabilities to split push

I literally have no clue how you have only 38k subs. The quality is better than most people with 10 times that. I'm hella subscribed and hope more people find your content

Nice video like always i cant wait for the other two .

I love trundle. He's a prefect pick against a tank/bruiser heavy team

love your vids man ! cant wait for the Tryndamere ep (im a Trynd main)

Funny. I just picked up trundle yesterday and I'm having a great time

Trundle can be such a pain to deal with so thankfully as you have shown no one plays the dude.

I love this video. You say some amazing and insightful things about trundle, while also highlighting what makes him fun for me, a trundle player. You just get to bonk the life out of people, that’s what I love about him. Turn the brain off and bonk. Also, he protecc, he atacc, but most importantly, he steal stat.

Yo, Trundle enthusiast here. The reason he is so fun to me is because he has imo the best splitpushing power in the entire game through all stages of the game (maybe yorick is better but not by much imo). The fact that you can get so huge and push so fast it can lead to situations where you completely ignore the enemy top trying to kill you while you mow down an inibh turret. The biggest reason I think people don't play him much aside from some of that things you said is that 90% of the people don't know how to build him, they think it's a smart play going tank items but there is 0 necessity for it since you get tanky with your ult (even if you ult squishies), so people build that way, get rekt or get bored because altough they can't die, they also can't kill. Another reason I like trundle is because he is so liniear, he requires alot of macro knowledge so it ends up being way more satisfying gettings win on him than some meta pick.

The reason trundle was a contested pick in season 8 was his e when he was played in the support role

This video is the reason I started playing Trundle. Thank you.

7:06 False. If there are still towers standing I have a very clear objective.

I remember a Nexus Blitz game where I was playing a very fed Shen vs a Trundle that had low kda, and still lost the 1v1.

Love these vids

playing this on one for all is absolute domination. 5 trolls just banging on you is next level trolling

So hyped for the Xin Zhao vid!

Change his W so when enemies are in it they are slowed and when you're in it your Q changes into a leap.

I'm not gonna lie i rarely see trundle in game but every time i do he's an absolute menace

Despite the disclaimer, I'm still triggered. -1m+ mastery trundle player Also, what more satisfying than beating people with a club and give 'em the FAT CHOMP THIS CHAMP TAKES ME BACK TO AN OLD BLOODLINE

3 years later: Trundle has the highest winrate of all toplaners, while still having the EXACT SAME abilities.

I’m scared that if they give him a VGU rework, they’ll make him hot .-.

Lowkey thought I left a tab open when I heard the instrumental for No More Heroes by Aviators. Unexpected, but a nice surprise nonetheless.

a nice gameplay update to trundle is like u said when enemies are in him frozen domain then if they get knockup by pilar (instant stun) if not like zoe sleep countdown they get stun if they stick next to pillar for a certain time not able to get away (rewarding/giving user mechanics). rather being a stat checker, giving trundle sticking potential and an engage for charging in teamfights draining the frontline then he can stuns enemies.

I think there is a certain point though that not every champ needs to be reworked to have 6 dashes and 4d chess outplay potential. There is an appealing niche to having straight stat stick champs in a moba, and there are players who enjoy that kind of playstyle. Once in a while it's good to have champions with very straightforward gameplans and micro plays, because it incentivizes improving macro play instead (of which most of us could stand to be better at). And with the way trundle is designed, he really doesn't need much to be successful, he just needs small adjustments here and there, like a singed style change where his W interacts in some form with his E. (E.g. making E stun/root if it is summoned inside W) Trundle's other niche appeal is also as a counter pick, and again, it's also just good for the health of a moba to have meta-agnostic champs; a full rework will likely take that away from him.

Been binging and I love the use of FE Three Houses music subtly.

I love trundle so much he is my Jung main

I'm late and I play mostly aram(which is another beast I know) but MAN do I love getting Trundle and just bonking people in the face. He is simple and that's the charm. You walk up to people and smack them so hard they get back in time with the headache. I can think of 3 or 4 situations people disregarded me just to get melted in a moment by a R+W+Q. Making people acknowledge you and start respecting you is immensely fun and the "new and shinning" champs with their billion tricks can't do that in the Trundle, Renek and other rather "underestimated" champs do(Renek not so much, but I guess you understand my point).

I really like trundle and play him a lot. His iceberg is so great!

I love play trundle. The only problem is so many jungle can jump through wall now. Hard to catch enemy jungle nowadays.

I was happy to see the trundle done bc I love top laning and jungling as trundle

Trundle was one of my first mains, and is still a pocket pick for me. I love me some troll king. I would love to see what a rework does to him. A WW style rework for Trundle would be amazing

Trundle be like: bonk

Trundle is somewhat of a guilty pleasure for me he's simple and it's oddly relaxing watching your champ hit things with a club, my issue why I don't play him more is around mid game you can get really tanky but that's about it your damage really falls off and whilst it's fun watching tanks panic as their suddenly not as tanky as they thought they were your just sat there with no cc or anything just being a meat shield as you threaten no one with your damage. If your looking for a suggestion on improving gameplay form me, I'd just give his kit more interaction with itself, like giving the pillar a wider range when stacking in frozen domain and a stacking slow which adds a debuff after 2/3 of being affected by it which then stuns them for a second or two should trundle attack them which would help him land damage much better in teamfights and also make his ganks early much more consistent.

I think the utility of pillar is understated. Has a knockup and a slow up to 60%. On the correct targets this blows a flash every time if used wisely.

Man trundle became one of my fave top lane champs back in S4 when I blinded him into a Rengar top and absolutely crushed Rengar since I could deny so much of his early damage with a and deny him access to brush with e. Definitely can see why from the points discussed in video. But I do like sometimes being able to 1 v 5 an enemy team with the massive stat machine.

It's also important to note that whenever junglers like sejuani are popular, trundle instantly comes back since he is possibly the best counterpick to her.

me a trundle main has to say yes but the last part you said about trundle not having a stun, he has a knock up if you aim your pilar below them

It’s funny this got uploaded right after I started playing him lmao

I love Trundle he was my love child champ just to tell you how good I was with him. I master his Ice pillar being able to perfectly landing it between the champion and pinning them to the wall. It use to be able to bug out the enemy champ making them in a semi stun state that stop them from using all movement ability. However, they fix and now he just a giant stat stick champ.

When I started play ing I was really surprised to find out he is very low played, the least played at some points, because I always heard about him being really OP. Also, inconsistent is definitely your favorite word.

i’m legit addicted to your videos

I think a rework for trundle would be really cool to make his passive his domain that summons itself on his next ability cast with an internal cooldown and then keep his q and e largely the same but move the stat-stick parts mostly to that passive so he becomes nigh unstoppable within his domain and then give him some more outplay kind of abilities to replace w and r

Crit Trundle: I am growing stronger!

3:21 Im still waitin for that why no one plays xin zhao video. Although im assuming it aint happening cuz of the rework

Nice vid , i hope u will do a "Why no one plays taric " soon

"Picking him is considered trolling" *i see what you did there*

Honestly, i think a simple and elegant change would be to fuse some of his skills. His Q could be part of his passive and add a heal, lower the AD steal some, and have it cooldown faster in his domain. Icepillar and Frozen domain could fuse and meet between their ranges of effects, and that alone would open up 2 skills to add in for him, so you can make him more dynamic.

So I've been on and off League for a few years now but recently got back into it...and Trundle hits a sweet spot for me. Sure he's extremely simple but honestly - I think it's his thing and suits his character, I don't think he needs more complicated abilities. A bit of ability synergy might be nice though. I just enjoy whacking people hard and fast with his club while draining their stats away and he's a fantastic tower destroyer. Wonderful video though, good job! I only got Trundle many years ago because he was getting a VU and you got a free skin if you bought him before the VU launched. I ended up loving him so much and I just find that funny :P

Trundle has a great clear speed and arguably the best sustain in the game as a jungler. He is *better* against tanks, but can also destroy squishies with ease. He can outduel anyone, solo objectives, splitpush like a boss. Honesty, Ice Pillar is the only real 'skill' he has because he needs nothing else.

I always found it weird that Trundle, a non magical beatstick had an ult that really fits a Warlock/Lich kind of character. He essentially drains their lifeforce/soul and takes it for himself. You could rename his ult to soulstealer or something and it would fit perfectly.

I remember saying you should add old videos from the era that you are talking about .It seems my idea has been used :) (pls keep adding more old footage if you can love the vids)

How does Vars make these so quickly?

He’s the first champion I bought, whenever I’m autofilled Jungle I play trundle he’s just relaxing fun to play imo

It’s funny, for a champ that is a very good at dealing huge crit damage while having easy ways to go in and out of fights with E, can get free diving kills under tower on R, and can be around splitpushing or teamfighting to have an impact, and can easily snowball. It’s kind of unusual that Tryndamere is unpopular especially since he can also comeback from farming and the weakness of CC can be a bit nullified by avoiding them.

yeah, i think at most a VGU is required and at least a light rework to one or two of his abilities and their interactions with each other is necessary to make him more played

Trundle is such a great split pusher, specially in lower elos where teamfights break out pretty often and players don't look their minimap lol

E: makes a pillar. Champs hit by this ability leave behind trundle domain. Bring down the slow of the pillar but put it also on his domain. That way he can fight longer in his domain.

can take 4 towers in literally 15 seconds or less. Alongside can beat essentially anyone level 1. He is very viable

I’m gonna start maining trundle now lmao

I like playing him support :)) you are a cool blue tank, spam the ice age for getting to ur opponents or getting rid of them and the feeling of hitting fast is great :))

I would mention that in Legends of Runeterra he wins damage based on how many stronger allies so basically his ult but he can cast it on allies. Which Is a good direction to rework him, not only he gets stronger from enemies but his own allies, making him a juggernaut focused on teamfights, which makes sense cause he Is the troll king, he fights with His own kind and leads them to victory

As he is a king: Maybe they could make the w give some benefit (not too strong of course) to his teammates? Them taking a bit less damage, giving a bit of a speedboost, raising attackspeed could work? Or maybe redirect some damage and or healing in this area to him? (King-tax of some sort?)

I have a cute idea for a trundle rework somewhat inspired by hogger in hots: Passive: On hit, trundle steals a certain % of the enemy's "primary" state(determined by whichever is their largest bonus stat) Q: Is now a small aoe cone in front of him that applies on hit effects and has vayne's condemn effect (wallbang for stun) with half the distance of condemn's displacement W: same thing but more bonus healing since reworked passive E: same thing R: same thing, but also takes primary stat as defined by passive but with diminishing returns when applied to same target as his passive, but also cleanses trundle of any CC that was applied by the champion he ults This would give skill expression to him since he can set up pillar summons into q stun. It would give his kit more natural synergy since his primary cc in Q could be set up with both pillar or the movement speed from W to reposition such that he can wallbang you even without pillar. This rework would also make him useful in many more situations and require a lot of situational awareness from the trundle in terms of who he wants to ult or steal stats from. Do you ult and run down the hypercarry? Do you instead attack the carry but steal tanky stats from someone else with ult? Do you ult the carry but attack the tank because you think you can stack up on the tank but the carry will kite you? Do you go greedy and build damage relying on getting tanky stats from two tanks on the enemy team? The answers to these questions will change based on the game state as well depending on who's fed and what they are building. The enemy team could also play around this by changing build orders. The major tradeoffs here would be that trundle would lose the fast cd on q and atk damage steal baseline so he would hurt less without items or stealing stacks from the correct targets, and he would have to rely more on items or W for healing without his old passive. I think that's fair to make him more dynamic, skill intensive, and with more counterplay since I think this idea retains trundle's really core identities from pillar and stat steal.

I just picked up this champ. He's actually really good in top with sunderer. New meta new champs!

Started playing more trundle recently. Last game went 1/0/18 😂 true support 😅