Is Randuins, Thornmail, or Frozen Heart more efficient to rush against Tryndamere or similar champs?

Sorgklaan·Aug 28, 2015·1 votes·2,685 views

Let's say your champion can take advantage of all the stats, what is better? The attack speed slow and crit resistance of randuins, the sheer armor and cheapness of Thornmail, or the armor and aura of frozen heart?

Is it still worth rushing thornmail against champions like Tryndamere? Or is it worth finishing randuins or frozen heart first? And even then, is the crit resistance worth more than the 30 extra armor and affordability of Frozen Heart despite the increased cost to Frozen Heart?

6 Comments

Lord DusteonAug 28, 20151 votes

Really depends. If your champion doesn't want mana or really value CDR that much, Randuins is better. If it's early and your champion has a built in armor steroid, Thornmail could be good.

AtheosisXAug 28, 20151 votes

Randuin's is probably best due to the crit reduction. You can also slow him when he ults which is pretty useful for obvious reasons.

Hullabaloo907Aug 28, 20151 votes

depends on your champ. Most of the tanks i like to play just love the cdr from frozen heart, so i tend to get it instead of randuins. Just straight looking at the items, you want randuins, because trynd is going to be crit dependant and attack speed dependant, so he gets double hit by that item. Thornmails new design encourages stacking it with other armor, so i would go randuins then thornmail, because you already know their team will be aa dependant.

AL000Aug 28, 20151 votes

just frozen heart can slow him...

thormail and randium omen are not effective slot anymore...

just get fh + offensive (ad+hp)

Lt CuddlesAug 28, 20151 votes

item 1029 5 item 2003 start, rush right into item 3143 , then snag the item 3075 , as its passive now scales better with armor, also go into your masteries and get "reinforced armor" if you're going for tank/bruiser builds to stack onto the passive, item 3110 is good too if you need the mana and want to lower his attack speed, and synergies well with the above items, just make sure you'll need it with the mana and all, in fact frozen heart can come second of even first if you really need the CDR/mana.

windwolf777Aug 29, 20151 votes

Honestly, depends, against MasterYi item 3110 would be your best bet because his wuju ignores armor, and it also ignores the item 3075 return damage, his first 2 items (not including boots), will most likely be item 3153 item 3930 or item 3931 if he wants to go that way which will pretty much ignore entirely. (Especially since melee have mp+level. Yes when he's using highlander he's going to ignore the slow and may not build crit with the sated build til later). So against him my order would be item 3110 , item 3075 , item 3143 . Just against him in a vacuumhowever. ( I skipped item 3047 because he does true)

Tryndamere item 3047 item 3143 item 3075 item 3110 if he's the kind of trynda that wants to fight you. (I know he;s known for split pushing but if he does want to fight).