Finally found a counter to Trundle.

Don't really know why, but it worked.

Don't really know why, but it worked.
Lol...Trundle destroys Maokai.
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Lol...Trundle destroys Maokai.
Didn't feel that way to me. It was the complete opposite faceroll.
Chances are he wasn't good on Trundle. Lot of people just pick him now because they think he is op. When Maokai was picked in every game during the tank meta, Trundle was my go to counter pick against him, never lost lane. Once you get Bork on Trundle you can literally dive Maokai.
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Chances are he wasn't good on Trundle. Lot of people just pick him now because they think he is op. When Maokai was picked in every game during the tank meta, Trundle was my go to counter pick against him, never lost lane. Once you get Bork on Trundle you can literally dive Maokai.
Sounds like most of your maokais rushed roa and not thornmail + frozenheart like i did.
defensive item means nothing to trundle lol
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defensive item means nothing to trundle lol
I don't know.He's played 30 games with Trundle with a 60% win rate in high plat.
And you're silver 3 calling someone else trash.
Also Mao comes with a 300 base damage ability + 10% max life nuke. That's hardly 0 damage.
30 games? if its a volibear then i say he mastered it but not trundle plz.
maokai rely on abilities which has very high cool down(unless u max q) with not enough burst dmg, as a melee ap tank if u cant burst trundle he can just sustain himself up by constantly aa minions.
and with frozen heart thornmail rush u should be doing 0dmg and trundle will happily destroy u with a bork and spirit visage.
just from looking at ur description i can see u are talking bullshit, full armor maokai heals for half his hp with passive? wow if someone is braindead they are totally believe u.
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30 games? if its a volibear then i say he mastered it but not trundle plz.
maokai rely on abilities which has very high cool down(unless u max q) with not enough burst dmg, as a melee ap tank if u cant burst trundle he can just sustain himself up by constantly aa minions.
and with frozen heart thornmail rush u should be doing 0dmg and trundle will happily destroy u with a bork and spirit visage.
just from looking at ur description i can see u are talking bullshit, full armor maokai heals for half his hp with passive? wow if someone is braindead they are totally believe u.
8 seconds isn't exactly a long cool down. You're also implying Trundle is going to reliably farm in a very shoved lane while taking high base damage harass and going oom super fast trying to fight back.
Also, you seem to forget masteries exist O_o. Grasp of the undying + maokai passive is actually very strong together. And with the meditation mastery + the frozen heart start Maokai is basically immune to ever going oom.
Also thornmail outdamages botrk, especially in synch with maokai ult + frozen heart. All Maokai has to do is peel Trundle during his W and ult and after that he has nothing while Mao continues to wittle him down with max health% Ws + high base damage qs. If Trundle retaliates he just kills himself.
If you need examples: Go watch adcs try to kill someone with thornmail. It's really quite funny.
What I've gathered from this conversation is that the Maokais you faced were silver trash, and you were just fortunate enough to use a champ a brain dead idiot can use to beat him down while he rushed a catalyst and maxd Q and used shit runes, and had no idea how Trundle himself works.
Moving on.
just looked up ur game history and i found u were facing a triforce trundle, lmao.
LOL, Trundle has 60% win rate against Maokai. You just played against a really bad Trundle.
Maybe it has to do with that his ult is damage reduction, as opposed to flat stats that Trundle can steal? Or if you mean in lane, Maokai is just super safe at laning. Very few champs can stop him from reaching his item points.
Anyways, I'll keep this in mind and try it for myself.
Maybe it has to do with that his ult is damage reduction, as opposed to flat stats that Trundle can steal? Or if you mean in lane, Maokai is just super safe at laning. Very few champs can stop him from reaching his item points.
Anyways, I'll keep this in mind and try it for myself.
All around generally.
In lane I maxed E and W and just kept chucking saplings at him and chunking him for 8-10% of his max life and then when he popped W I'd just Q him and walk off after punching him in the face to get half my life back. Eventually I'd always be at full health, and he'd be dwindling on like 200 hp crying at his turret.
I didn't get RoA though. I rushed frozen heart and thornmail. Don't really know why, just did. Mid game he didn't really do anything either. My ult kept him from really doing anything damage wise and my maxed W made it so he died before he ever got unrooted.
he's also AP and not auto focused so the stat steal on Q really doesn't bother him at all.
The best counter for Trundle is muting him.
I personally play full AD Alistar top against him. He can duel for days.
maokai has 0 dmg, the trundle u faced is probably trash.