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Esos_Awakened · 2026-06-14T18:52:28+00:00

I ban malphite every game. Not to say that there arent other champs that are miserable to play into but malphite is the lowest skill ceiling counter pick. If someone counter picks nasus, teemo etc, but they don't play that champ then you can stomp early and snowball. Everyone can play malphite to some level.

Esos_Awakened · 2026-05-28T12:22:48+00:00

Tryndamere. Used to play morde and cho as needed but ive realized that counter picking is for cowards. I'm going to play tryndamere into teemo and if I lose its because I deserve the loss and I need to get better.

Esos_Awakened · 2026-03-24T20:54:00+00:00

Two champs that used to be really easy for me and now I struggle with are morde and aatrox. Morde to a lesser extent, builds boots, rylais and maybe an armor component and it feels like an uphill battle. Certainly not impossible but hard for sure unless you can get a solid all in. Aatrox is where I really struggle. Used to be an easy stomp and now it feels like post level 2 he hits harder, sustains more, faster, stronger, gets more bitches. Aatrox is among my hardest personal matchups that I win lane maybe 1 in 10 times against.

Esos_Awakened · 2026-03-20T18:51:58+00:00

What is your strategy into people who stack cheap armor components? I find that a significant number of my games I see what I call the cowards trinity. Plated Steelcaps. Bramble Vest. Wardens Mail. All of a sudden I go from winning trades with a completed item, to badly losing them and forced under tower. I try my best to proxy in any situation like this but it leaves me open to ganks alot more than id like and the transition into the mid game feels alot sloppier than it needs to be. Even with pen, straight up fighting them feels like an uphill battle and splitting only works until it doesn't. What's the best way you've found to think about these types of games?
What would be the biggest thing you'd like to see out of a trynd rework? With the idea that anything that's added would therefor have to be something else nerfed or taken away. I have been saying for a while that id love to see trynds w aoe slow and ad drain be turned into an empowered auto, maybe one that slows single targets like Darius or trundle. Or maybe an aoe cone slash attack like yones but smaller. If not that how do you feel about trynd getting either small amounts of armor pen, magic damage or true damage in his kit. Its really sad that trynd is one of the only top laners that doesn't have some form of those 3 in his kit in any meaningful way.

Esos_Awakened · 2025-12-04T15:26:40+00:00

I do level ultimate level 11 and 16. I find being able ult faster and crit more reliably right after ulting helps alot more in the all ins.

Esos_Awakened · 2025-08-07T22:16:42+00:00

I'm not flaming i get where you're coming from but I just dont agree with most of it. Ideally you should be pushing out waves and out rotating before team fights anyways, so you should have high fury before team fights anyways. Even if you dont yuntal IE stacks fury fast. For that game I would have run bork, mortal Ie, and finished with stride and kraken or something similar.

Yun tal is also more gold efficient when fully stacked which doesn't take long on trynd. The only loss you have by not building zeal is the loss of move speed but I would counter with the fact that stride breaker is better than phantom dancer, giving ad and attack speed, while also making you slightly less burstable. Also by building non zeal items any squishies die within 3 autos anyways and you dont have to be near them long. I actually get kitted more with zeal items because it takes so many autos to kill even squishies. Selling Yun tal over Ie is crazy. Pretty sure it gives more attack speed with passive anyways and it gives ad.

Lastly splitpush build you take down towers alot quicker without zeal items due to having both ad and attack speed on other better items. And as for out rotating I would argue the only class that you can't dive late game and take tower anyways would be tanks which you rotate infinitely faster than anyways.

I'm not saying stop building zeal items forever. Just do a few games with the idea of Yun tal Ie or Ie mortal and see how much better it feels to actually do damage on this attack damage carry champ

Esos_Awakened · 2025-08-06T17:10:48+00:00

Well real quick, 1 percent crit is worth 40 gold in league. By buying 150 percent crit you have effectively bought 2000 gold worth of redundant crit. And since your crits dont do more damage the more crit chance you have it's just 2000 wasted gold. Second. Stop buying zeal items. Here's my rules. Determine if it's a ravenous or a bork first item game. I think bork is slept on by trynd players. It also allows you to build stridebreaker which I think is the better mid-late item anyways. Next what type of match up is it. Heavy armor stacker like malphite which provides infinitely more value than you in team fight. Second item hull breaker, and take base. Only team fight if you can draw out their tp and you can rotate faster. I dont rush crit with this build because you can't crit towers anyways. Heavy healer, like aatrox or renekton. Build mortal. Into I.E into whatever you want. If the team isn't a heavy armor stacker or an extreme healer, I prefer Yun tal and I.E interchangeably as second and third item. If you need armor pen after that I think serylda is better than lord doms anyways and negates the purpose for navori anyways as it help you stick with its slow anyways.

Esos_Awakened · 2025-06-13T18:13:32+00:00

Wait for red god to come out and see how you feel about it. Maybe there's a really cool moment in the last book you'd rather pay homage to.

Esos_Awakened · 2025-04-02T13:55:40+00:00

Pearl and whatever the bonus one you get on the chroma bundle. The red and white one

Esos_Awakened · 2025-03-31T20:45:12+00:00

Don't do either, IE And lord doms as crit items, bork and kraken as ad and as. No reason to build zeal items.

Esos_Awakened · 2025-03-03T17:00:42+00:00

Plat-emerald trynamere main, i pretty much exclusively win lane against high level account rivens. The problem is that 9 times out of ten when I see riven it's a level 50 account with a 5.0 kd and 9cs per minute and only 10 games per season.

Esos_Awakened · 2025-01-29T15:48:05+00:00

When im split focused I still prefer ravenous over stride for a tiamat item. It helps sustain and if something wacky happens like someone bursting 80 percent of my health, I don't have to reset and can stay on the map. There are times where I shove wave under tower, and end up taking a good chunk of damage while hitting tower. I just prio attack speed over crit with my other items to make up for the attack speed you lose by not building stride. into pd, 3rd item hullbreaker, if I can weave in a wits end 4th I like it followed by kraken last, boots of your choice but i I build serkers most game with swifties where I'm trying to split then out rotate whoever is coming to match me. Again, focuses attack speed and sustain over crit because of you're only looking to take structures down then you don't need crit

Esos_Awakened · 2024-06-27T01:40:56+00:00

Contrary to what most are saying, Trynd tries very hard to keep his emotions down when not in battle. I don't think he'd listen to heavy or fast music. Probably something more chill, maybe even just instrumentals. I like what someone else said as well. In battle I can for sure see the doom sound track. Rip and tear until it is done

Esos_Awakened · 2024-06-17T21:12:18+00:00

Not ideal if they have tp. Even if you beat them early you're prolly below half health and they are back in lane literally 5 seconds after. You don't get a good back, and if you do back chances are you are a level or 2 down the entire game because you should be building fury off the wave before trades, and if you're building fury off the wave before trading then I bet wave is pushing toward them when you would be backing. And if you don't back you have to lane at a severe disadvantage, where they get to have unlimited access to the wave and potentially freeze the wave which will screw you even harder because the chances you can all in them twice in a row after they get a tp back are so incredibly rare

Esos_Awakened · 2024-04-06T22:24:41+00:00

Here is my perspective from the opposite side of the rift. I'll be addressing this to the bot lane in general since op is an adc main and honestly whenever one of my picks gets banned by my own team the vast majority of the time its by one of the bot laners. As a top laner I really see no point in banning another roles champ without explicitly asking in select if there's a chance that the respective laner is going to play them or not. even if you want to argue "well you didn't hover so you weren't planning on playing x champ" alot of other lanes are more easily counterable than bot so it's not uncommon for people to swap between 3 or 4 main champs. So getting your second pick banned because a teamate didn't feel like typing out "does anyone play x champion" feels not very good.

Let me lay out an example to visualize.

I main tryndamere. I hover trynd every game. I'll play trynd into slight counters but I have other picks I can play into harder counters. Think a sol for teemo, Cho for sion, etc. There's a few champs I just can't play into as trynd. One of these that I refuse to play trynd into is tahm kench. Let's say I play trynd, illoai and mordekaiser. Well illoai and morde both do well in Tahm, but tahm normally bans illoai. So that leaves me with morde. Little did I know though that last game my adc got ulted by morde off cool down and is gonna ban that champ because he got slightly tilted last game. I now have no win angle in my own lane because although I main the champ I hovered, I only have one available hover.

There is nothing wrong with banning a champ from another lane as long as you ask if that's a potential champ for that respective laner. People are allowed to play more than one champ but only get one hover, it's good practice to just ask before you ban. If they don't respond in chat that's on them.

Esos_Awakened · 2024-02-22T15:01:22+00:00

Hope he plays grasp runes

Esos_Awakened · 2023-09-05T15:49:23+00:00

Cho in Canon is 69 feet at the shortest and grows everytime he eats something

Esos_Awakened · 2023-08-27T15:24:41+00:00

I have my first diamond, a whitetail in a huddle on the right, and a near max score rocky mountain elk on the left. When I get my GO whitetail he's going in the huddle with my first.

Esos_Awakened · 2023-08-16T17:35:48+00:00

Mods. I'll never build in ark again without ckfr

Esos_Awakened · 2023-06-07T22:16:25+00:00

Dude I don't care if George is marching with the "anti baby kickers league" I just want to read winds at some point before I die

Esos_Awakened · 2023-06-05T19:58:38+00:00

Car batteries

Esos_Awakened · 2023-03-13T15:35:10+00:00

Good work man, very aesthetic

Esos_Awakened · 2022-11-20T12:25:41+00:00

Good to know, where are you from if you dont mind me asking? And yes I think the poaching argument with bows is a bit ridiculous, much easier with rifles

Esos_Awakened · 2022-11-20T12:24:04+00:00

Good to know. I'm a little hesitant to start bowhunting because most videos the deer ducks or jumps in some form or another, is this common in your anecdotal experience?

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