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[13.5] Trundledaddy's UPDATED INDEPTH Trundle Top guide 👹🦴

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Runes: My most used runes rn

1 2 3 4 5

Precision

Lethal Tempo

Presence of Mind

Legend: Alacrity

Last Stand

Resolve

Demolish

Unflinching

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+15-140 HP (lvls 1-18)

Spells:

1 2 3 4

I use this

Ghost

Teleport

Items

Standard full build

Additional situational items

Start of game

Melee

Ranged/tanks

First back

Good defensive items if struggling

Sheen first back

First full item

Diovine rush -> bork -> hull

Ability Order

Trundle Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Fiora

Extreme

Please just ban, lane is insanely hard,true damage, sustain, poke, if against, just don't ult/int pillar her W and pray to god, stay close to wall so she can't proc all of her passives on ult, it's the matchup I personally have played the least, and the champion is disgusting.

Poppy

Ideal

Always fun to pair pillar with her e

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Poppy

Ideal

Always fun to pair pillar with her e

Champion Build Guide

Hello, I'm Trundledaddy, an EUW Master tier trundle otp, who recently started picking up Trundle after a 2 year break from league, and flew to master tier with Trundle top only with a 65% wr in 140 games from a fresh account in the season 12 preseason, and now I spend most of my time limit testing on my stream in master tier on Trundle, uploading educationional tip but also the occasional ****post on my tiktok. I am just now learning how to write a guide, so bear with me while I update it as I go along with new images and such, thank you!
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PROS

+ Every game is winnable
+ Strongest 1v1
+ Can split push effectively
+ Sustain in lane
+ Strongest lvl 1 in game
+ Most gigachad champion
+ Pillar is OP

CONS

- Can get zoned easily when behind
- Hard to 1v1 when behind
- No gap closer
- Teemo exists
- Not that strong without ult
- Probably doesn't smell very good

If you don't want to check out the excel sheet, I will try to summerize it up here.

Conditioning

In terms of the runes, generally you go conditioning into tank matchups, or matchups where you just want to scale.

Second Wind

This is quite a strong rune for when you're going Dorans Shield agianst ranged matchups, the synergy between Dorans Shield, Second wind and Trundle's passive makes the laning phase in sufferable lanes slightly more managable.

Bone plating

Boneplating is usually taken into people with an autoattack reset or all in potential, such as Camille, Jax, Assasins (except Akali), Darius, Wukong.

FLASH

I usually take every game, it's just such a strong summoner spell, and can allow you to get some cheeky auto attack (Q) reset kills in lane, and it is quite good for getting out of a pickle.

Teleport

As well as , I usually take for it as well, since I play a more splitpushing playstyle, and it allows me for some great backdoors, or some even greater surprise appearances in teamfights.

Ghost

However, you can swap either of the summoners out with , if you feel like the enemy team comp won't make your worthy, such as a full ranged enemy team comp, if you flash on them they will usually just or dash away, and helps to keep up with them.

CLICK THIS LINK FOR MY MATCHUP SHEET WHEN TO BUILD WHAT IN LANING PHASE

The first 2 items

Divine Sunderer

Plated Steelcaps

Hullbreaker

Wit's End

(DONT RUSH HULL ANYMORE) generally is the more safe pick, and therefore it's picked against ranged matchups, more specifically hull first is strong against: Akshan, all supports top (Karma etc.), Assasins (Akali etc.) Jayce, and other squishy high damage dealers, since the extra damage on isn't as beneficial against those, and the extra resistances from are absolutely lovely.
RUSHING HULLBREAKER FIRST IS NO LONGER VIABLE, GO DEFENSIVE ITEMS IF UR MEETING A HARD MATCHUP LIKE WARDENS OR BOOTS AND THEN JUST GO DIVINE INTO HULL/WITS/BORK, RUSHNG IT IS ALMOST NEVER GOOD ANYMORE!

The first 3 items are almost always , , then the other one, and then , the damage is nice, the movementspeed/slow also. There are a few matchups where going after as 3rd item is more beneficial and for this I would recommend you take a look at my matchup sheet such as heavy armor tanks. DO NOT RUSH HULL BREAKER ANYMORE, GO 2nd OR 3rd AT EARLIEST, NEVER BEFORE LVL 12 100%!

Divine vs Trinity

DIVINE SUNDERER

TRINITY FORCE

probably better from 12.14 and up, still testing though.

probably better from 12.14 and up, can go shieldbow as well but trinity is probably better, biggest problem is stackign trinity but divine is getting nerfed again 12.15 so it really isn't worth a lot anymore.

Items after the first 2 items.

Wit's end
You should get this item 3rd unless you went 3rd then you should go wits end 4th, 99.9% of the time this item is strong, due to the extra damage and movement speed. (check matchup sheet to know when to do which)

Death's Dance
is a very good item now as well to go 5th, especially after the buffs, you can even go it 4th if you feel like you need some more survivability than 4th can give you.

Blade of the ruined king(bork/botrk)
is a really strong 4th item after your if you don't feel like you need the extra survivability you get from , but the Dueling power that gives you instead, a soilid pick for 4th pick, or 5th after , ESPECIALLY if enemies don't build armor, is always strong if enemies are not building armor

Mortal Reminder
/ are if you're versing a lot of healing such as an with support, or with full lifesteal, usually I would just advise getting an and hold on to it, and then possibly upgrading it depending if you need the or the , depends if you're feeling squishy or not.

Frozen Heart
is also a strong 4th item if you're against someone like , or , if enemy is full AD, + makes you completely unkillable.

Guradian Angel
, this buy is a bit iffy, but I do sometimes run into the situation where there is 1 teamfight left to win it all, and you have the money from a you bought earlier, which you might consider for important fights, it doesn't really help you in the 1v1 situations but it's always a neat thing to have in the bag if you can't afford another full item or you are more teamfighting.

Sterak's Gage
is purely if you're the main tank for your team and frontlining for the bros, it offers little to no 1v1 power in comparison to the other items, and I would only build this 5th or 6th if I am the main tank/teamfighting frontline for the team.

Maw of Malmortius
is a very strong pick if you're against an AP toplaner and buy early on in the game, but usually a + is enough until 5th or 6th item.

-OR-

Plated Steel Caps > ARMOR
These are my go to boots, due to the fact that the runes chosen give a lot of tenacity as well, so I don't go unless I need it ASAP for laning phase.
Mercury's Treads > TENACITY
Super super strong in some lanes, like or lanes.

King's Tribute (Passive) When an enemy unit dies near Trundle, he heals for 2 - 7% (levels 1- 18) of its maximum Health.

Chomp Trundle lunges at his opponent with his next basic attack, dealing physical damage and slowing his target by 75% for 0.1 second.
This attack increases Trundle's Attack Damage for 5 seconds, with his opponent losing half of this amount.

Frozen Domain makes Trundle coats target location with ice for 8 seconds, gaining Movement Speed, Attack Speed and 25% increased healing and regeneration from all sources.

Pillar of Ice makes Trundle creates an icy pillar at target location for 6 seconds, becoming impassable terrain and slowing all nearby enemy units.

Subjugate makes Trundle drains an enemy champion's maximum Health as Magic Damage and 40% of their Armor and Magic Resist, half immediately and half over 4 seconds. The Armor and Magic Resist is returned 4 seconds after the drain ends.

CLICK THIS LINK TO GO TO MY MATCHUP EXCEL SHEET OF ALL TOP MATCHUPS WHICH EXPLAINS THE LANING PHASES IN DEPTH

CLICK THIS LINK TO GO TO MY MATCHUP EXCEL SHEET OF ALL TOP MATCHUPS

Hullbreaker: Get your and splitpush, 1v2 their jungler and top, become a huge mid game monster with your 2/3 items, and completely dominate the side lane and absorb pressure for your team to get back into the game if behind.

Divine Sunderer: Get your Your is going to be doing a lot of damage at this point of the game, utitlize it to poke out the enemy laner and eat away the towers.

Hullbreaker: Get your focus on objectives and lane dominance.

Hullbreaker: Split on the opposite side of objectives with your teleport, especially if enemy toplaner doesn't have TP, you can chose to group up or split to win, but to split you need to be stronger than enemy top

Divine Sunderer: If you are not stronger than the enemy top, you can group up, and ult the person in hopes that your team can carry it, especially if you're really far behind, you are a minion in the side lane.

Hullbreaker: Get your focus on objectives and lane dominance.