Talk:Tryndamere/@comment-166.147.114.124-20120523215719/@comment-86.180.178.173-20120531192641

Tryndamere was at one point one of my main champions. I'll admit, he was relatively easy to score a kill on. Unfortunately, his early game was not fun, and the majority of people in lane against him could make you cry unless you were playing very carefully. If you do manage to get your farm, you're a very powerful champion with a nice gap closer. Unfortunately, CC does make the gap closer irritating. There have been many incidences where I'd close the gap, then get knocked back by a Tristana/Janna before I could do anything. Plenty of champions have enough slows to kite you if they're good, and dodging your W makes it virtually impossible to catch up with any in a 1v1. Naturally, catching them in a 1v1 is a bad idea, since you want to wreck them in a team fight. However, unless you're building to be a bruiser, your team fight time is usually about 5-6 seconds, which coincidentally is your ultimate and a little longer, as you'll be brought down to 1 hp very easily by the current bruiser/AoE fest meta that has struck. The only time I can truly remember dominating was back in the original jungle where jungle Tryndamere could earn more farm, making it easier to get an IE and start grabbing some Bloodthirsters while destroying whichever lane needed it most. The changes to the map have made Tryndamere a bad jungler, since he needs more farm than it gives him for his clearance time.

Other than that, low ELO play Tryndamere can still work if people aren't used to CC (and by level 30, you should be used to CC'ing a person who's powerful) or if your team has someone even nastier than Tryndamere to CC.