Trundle a good jg?

parrzival·7/1/2015, 5:06:51 PM·1 votes·1,344 views

I main voli on my other account and I have been seeking a jungle that is very similar and I think I might have found it in trundle. How does trundle do in ranked? What are the main differences between him and voli from a tank/damage perspective? I feel like I am as tanky and can get as many kills/assists as I do with voli. Is he very comparable? I feel like its a very similar play style and wanted to know how viable he is. I just dont want to start taking him in ranked and have people complain at champ select if I choose him. I ask because I just never see him played at the bronze 3 level I am at.

8 Comments

Lost R7/1/2015, 6:01:35 PM2 votes

Trundle is similar to Voli in that they're both near-full melee, but Trundle specializes in stealing the enemy's stats and wearing them down with constant basic attacks, while Voli is harder to peel and can cause unsavvy players to overcommit to fights with him as his passive grants him a second wind. Voli is incentivized to build tank, and while individual hits don't do much damage, he will win in a war of attrition as damage dealers will take longer to wear him down and tanks will not do much damage to him at all. Trundle is a great tower smasher and duelist, and he can get by easily building tank/DPS.

Rueian7/1/2015, 5:09:03 PM2 votes

Trundle is a pretty solid Jungle and top-lane.

Ganking with him is alittle harder with no real hard CC just a slow from pillar and his Q, but when you catch someone off guard you should kill them or burn their flash since you stick real hard.

item 3078 or item 3025 become your main source of damage while you build him straight tank after

KalkiKrosah7/1/2015, 5:59:23 PM1 votes

I like him. He's underestimated a lot of the time. And his kit isn't team fight centric so even when team is on the losing end he is always viable. He is up there with Jax, Master Yi and Tryndamere on the list of "People who shouldn't be left alone with my towers" so he fits in with split push team comps as well. His ganks are lack luster but after 7 minutes he can actually shove a lane, heal off the dying minions around him and just beat up on the enemy tower taking all the poke they can throw at him. You may not get kills through ganking with him but you can surely rack up damage on towers and then take them when the time comes for it.

Dryditch7/2/2015, 2:13:49 PM1 votes

Trundle Troll Judge, Troll Jury, and Execu-troll.

Trundle is incredibly fun to play in the jungle. His E can block off an entire corridor to force people's flashes or combat/disengages.

Always q first, so you get the ad steal off jungle monsters (really helps with health management in the early game),then your W next. Don't be afraid to buy frozen heart early to help with mana sustain (he might be an excellent Runeglaive candidate). W increases both atk speed and movespeed, which means Trundle is powerful wherever he has time to set up shop.

He has no hard engage, but his E can definitely lock people in to a fight or otherwise scatter a team/disrupt channels. Rely on laners to set up sneaky ganks, but otherwise just join them in lane for a push to tower, bite the damn thing a few times, then walk away and resume farming and ganking.

ITEMS:

your core in the jungle is item 3717 After that, you should be building spirit visage and Warmogs (w increases healing from all sources).

That combo is all the tank you should need outside of fed carries on the enemy team.

Grab a GA, Triforce, and a Frozen Heart in whatever order you'd like, but you can swap the Triforce for BotRK or Cleaver if you'd like.

ROUTE:

start krugs, taking advantage of Trundle's fast aa speed with W and his resets on Q to stun the red buff and raptors a few times (remember to smite at end so you keep the buff longer).

Red, raptors, scuttle, wolves, blue, scuttle, grump.

Lane gank or back, then another gank, then drag.

Farm/gank until late game.

Become raid boss. Never die.

Orbv7/2/2015, 2:22:54 PM1 votes

There isn't any comment saying this, but when they redesigned him they made it so if you can land Pillar of Filth right in the center, it does in fact have a knock back (VERY small) but it can disrupt channels. That's just incase there is a Fiddlesticks Katarina Galio Janna Malzahar MissFortune Nunu Shen Urgot Warwick Zac

Neamean7/2/2015, 9:14:54 PM1 votes

if you like someone like Volibear have you tried Olaf or Udyr? Xin zhao also got a similar play style but he is not as tanky however he can still go tank if needed. Shyvana is also good at dishing out damage while still being tanky.

Beerstein7/2/2015, 9:16:37 PM1 votes

When you could pick champions for the opposing team someone picked Trundle for me, never played him before but oh man was he amazing, absolutely wrecked them.

Left Hook Larry7/1/2015, 5:33:03 PM1 votes

Play whatever you want. No one will complain about a champion in champ select and if they do, then they're not worth your time. Trundle is a great champion and very similar to Voli