Talk:Tryndamere/@comment-4219452-20120112022608

I'm going to go against what I see to be the general tide of opinion here (and not merely for the sake of going against it) in my opinion of this guy. Or, more simply, I think he's terribly weak and encourages bad gameplay.

People seem to like to point out the strength his ult gives him, but I see his ult as being both his biggest dependency and therefore weakness. If the death prevention was taken out of it, he would be really terrible, likely one of the worst champions in the game. To further emphasize this, the rest of his skill set is duly terrible. If your skillset is so bad that your ult behaves like "Press __ to not die for __ seconds," someone is doing many things wrong.

His heal? Insufficient in regards to how much his combative skill is set off by thereafter, even at 100 fury. His CC? Highly conditional, and even then won't save him from mages and shit. His gap-closer? It does its job, but there are much better ones generally. If he takes Cleanse? He's already down a summoner spell, and Cleanse just becomes one more reason not to blow all of your CC on him at once.

It gets even worse when people think it's okay to build him to be so brittle just because for five seconds out of generally 90, he won't die, guaranteed. It's not like that skill also saves him from CC or, forbid, smart gameplay. And then what will he do for the rest of the time? Cough on people?

I just generally think he's a poor mix of weird skills, and encourages poor gameplay. Especially when I see instalock Tryndameres in queue who then do nothing but build super brittle and only give two shits about playing this game like an FPS.