Talk:Tryndamere/@comment-74.72.20.212-20121001012637/@comment-79.175.67.68-20121002135958

Got nerfed a few times, META game makes Trynda unusable in any lane or jungle. He can't play mid of course, on bottom lane he can't play since he is not ranged and he can't support, he can play top lane but gets stomped by other top lanes, e.g. Olaf, Riven, Renekton, Yorikck, Jax... Only place that he can do fairly good is jungle and he can pull of nice ganks but when you see real junglers, he is not really shining, there are far superior junglers than him.

When I started to play this game around in May 2011, new players didn't have any clue about META game, so the setup for game was on top you would put a tank and someone with ranged attack or a mage with ranged attack and spells, mid lane goes to AD carry and bot lane is for assasin and maybe another AD carry or support.

It was like that a year ago in normal games, Trynda functioned very well in those games since he was with a partner in lane and could farm while his partner protected him or maybe zone enemies out.

Then a Trynda with 150-200 minions, 3-4 kill with almost 80% critical strike chance would simply stomp enemies since nobody had DPS that he had, he was a terror.

Then slowly normal games started to look on META game very much and from bot lane Trynda shifted to solo top, then after releasing some uber solo top champions (Renekton, Riven, Yorick, Rumble...) he was simply outclassed and then Tryndamere was out of the story.

Since competitive and tournament matches play only by the META game, that makes Trynda very unlikely to be picked.