Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
Keep behind allied minions if Caitlyn is harassing you with Piltover Peacemaker (it deals less damage with each subsequent target).
You can intercept Ace in the Hole's missile from hitting an ally if you stand in its path.
The stats shown on this page clarify some critical Trundle against Caitlyn matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Caitlyn’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Caitlyn..
Trundle typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Caitlyn. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Trundle usually wins when playing against Caitlyn, with a 54.1% win rate. Thus, Trundle makes a great counter for Caitlyn.
While Trundle does have a much higher winrate than Caitlyn, when facing one another, Trundle also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Trundle into Caitlyn.
Additionally, Trundle also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Caitlyn. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Caitlyn matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Trundle is a great counter to Caitlyn. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Trundle against Caitlyn.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Trundle to counter Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Caitlyn. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Trundle versus Caitlyn build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Titanic Hydra. When Trundle combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Caitlyn than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Trundle boasted an average win rate of 54.1% when countering Caitlyn with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating Caitlyn as Trundle, Trundle players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Trundle vs Caitlyn counters, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.1% winrate overall.
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