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.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stats provided here clarify some influential Trundle against Rumble matchup stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, showing that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rumble..
Trundle typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Rumble. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Trundle usually wins when taking on Rumble, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Trundle makes a good counter for Rumble.
While Trundle does have a higher winrate than Rumble, when on opposite teams, Trundle also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Trundle into Rumble.
Furthermore, Trundle also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Rumble matchups, Trundle is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Trundle is a good counter for Rumble. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Trundle against Rumble.
If you would like to truly master Trundle to counter Rumble during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Rumble. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Trundle versus Rumble build include Ravenous Hydra, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Trundle combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Rumble than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Trundle had an average winrate of 52.9% battling Rumble with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Rumble as Trundle, Trundle players should equip 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 rune builds players used for Trundle vs Rumble face-offs, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rumble as Trundle are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.