Can Trundle be the next minirework

Moody P·9/7/2019, 5:07:52 PM·1 votes·968 views

Champ is unbelievably terrible in average play and from what I can tell he isn't high presence in pro anymore either.

He has a neat role to play as a debuff-based juggernaut but he's too simple about going at his job to a point that the only way to make it fair is to make him really bad early game by nerfing his pillar into the ground.

And don't say it's because there's not many tanks. Nunu and Sejuani have been god tier all season and he doesn't perform as well as you would expect against them, either.

You've done pretty good on Garen, Annie and Aurelion so Id be happy to see another dead champion get revived.

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Lovelle9/7/2019, 5:18:46 PM2 votes

He still counters Sej pretty hard, but the main issue is how weak his Pillar is early on, along with being item dependent, since he has no defensive options outside of his ult. His sustain also scales with his health and tankiness, in a meta where defensive itemization is pretty lackluster. His sustain doesn't become strong until later in the game, when he has some bulky items.

Honestly, reverting his last E nerfs would go a long way toward making him feel better to play, but would probably make him busted since they've already massively buffed his W for no reason at all. All that does is buff his late game, where he's already decent. Early and mid-game are where he currently struggles the most.

arcDapineapple9/7/2019, 6:46:03 PM2 votes

I think it would be cool if trundle could interact more with his e ability. Maybe kill on it to turn it into a projectile

Kazekiba9/7/2019, 5:30:33 PM1 votes

Problem is Sejuani's passive resist are a joke now - 14 armor/MR for 2 seconds with a Stoneplate built? - and Nunu isn't half as tanky as he used to be without the Q stack with increased movespeed/%total health amp that made Nunu ... good.

He's better at fighting Juggernauts, weakening the amount of damage they can deal + getting tons of free health and being able to last through trades and win teamfights with passive sustain or disengage with pillar + domain in a pinch. He could use some higher base stats but I dont think his kit has any major problems.