Talk:Trundle/@comment-4530717-20130409121152/@comment-5266525-20130410052703

Doing 30% of your maximum health in true damage over four seconds? Are you actually suggesting that? And besides, mixed damage is not all bad news. If it were physical damage Trundle could effectively be 100% counterbuilt by just stacking armor. And the ult will shred both your armor and magic resistance anyway, so it's still going to hurt regardless of the damage type.

The ability power scaling reasoning is just that they want the ability to scale up with your stats somehow, but giving it an AD ratio would make it overpowered (not to mention not making much thematic sense). It's also there so that AP is not completely wasted on him like the small amount given from Ignite on CD with Summoner's Wrath or Baron buff.