User blog comment:AtheistUntoDeath/Which of these champions would win? part 7/@comment-3435657-20140615155035/@comment-5824171-20140615165544

"Putting his full strength in" was enough to punch through a mountain. A solid mountain. His strength may be limited by the shield, but while the shield is heavy if you really allow yourself to think about the unbelievable amount of force it takes to punch through a mountain, a shield is not enough to put a huge dent in that strength. It will decrease it, but I think if any aspect of the shield works noticably to his disadvantage it's that he has to punch around it, limiting his angle of attack, and even then he's demonstrated that punching INTO the shield actually has some effectiveness as a ranged attack, though I expect it's severely reduced from his normal punches.

If Braum gets a proper, melee hit in on trundle with that massive strength, it will more likely than not be over. Trundle's body would not be resilient enough to withstand the force, and while the True ice club could potentially take some of the blow, his arms at least would be severely damaged from the impact of attempting to hold the club against such force. This is if he gets a proper hit in, though. I expect Trundle will take that into his calculations and avoid getting struck if at all possible, but if a hit DOES connect properly, unless Braum puts specific effort in NOT to kill Trundle, the likelihood is that the Troll would not be able to withstand it.

On the other hand, Trundle's plethora of manipulationary techniques are certainly capable of giving him openings to attack, but the fact that Trundle's fighting style will have to be less direct and more complex and tricksy is certainly a disadvantage. A disadvantage that Trundle will most certainly be able to work with, though, considering his history with thinking on the fly and getting results out of that.

Considering what you've said, though, I will say that Trundle will have one major technique by his side; exhaustion. If Trundle can wear Braum down by tricking him into exerting himself enough, he would gain a large advantage. But for this to work, Braum's and Trundle's fighting styles would have to be reversed; Braum fighting offensively and Trundle fighting defensively. It would come down to whether Trundle could use his wiles to get Braum to switch up his tactics like that. Perhaps by pretending to be weakened himself to trick Braum into going for a killing blow, or leaving a false opening. Depends, again, on how intelligent Braum's own considerations would be though. In-the-moment, everyone makes bad decisions, but if given time to think about it, Braum may figure out Trundle's tactic.

For the record, I don't know who I think would win. Every time I think I've decided who has the advantage, I think of something else to take into consideration. This message is really just another set of things to throw into the melting pot of considerations to be made. I'm playing out each of the Character's moves in my mind and so far, it seems like a stalemate to me.

New consideration, just thought of it, the boulders; Braum could throw the boulders at Trundle with his considerable force if the Troll tried staying out of range, whereas Trundle could use them, perhaps in tandem with his manipulation of ice, to gain an opening in some way.