Discover the ultimate Tryndamere build guide for League of Legends season 13, inspired by the innovator of Tryndamere, Yasukeh.
Table of Contents
What is Tryndamere?
Tryndamere is pretty much a melee AD carry known for his high physical damage and critical strikes. He is perfect against melee and immobile champions but struggles against opponents who stack armor or go the very skilled item building, bramble vest – ninja tabi.
With his high AD and an ultimate that gives him temporary immortality, Tryndamere is a very good split pusher capable of diving enemies under turrets. He thrives off early kills and being proactive in the game to build up momentum, falling behind can make it very challenging for him to have an impact. Therefore, mastering Tryndamere’s early game is crucial for his success.
Pros & Cons for playing Tryndamere:
PROS
- Strong split pusher
- High damage output
- Good sustain with Q
- Immortality with ultimate
- Can outduel many champions
- Good mobility with E dash
- Great scaling
CONS
- Item dependent
- Only one slow for crowd control
- Struggles against hard counter matchups
- Vulnerable to crowd control and kiting
- Useless without ult
Tryndamere Runes
Spells
Tryndamere is a full melee champion and needs to constantly be dealing damage to be a threat. Flash and Ghost are the best at keeping you in range of enemies, while also scaling the best throughout the game.
Lethal Tempo: The best Keystone for Tryndamere without a doubt. This rune increases your attack speed and auto attack range, which will increase your damage output/dps. Lethal Tempo fits Tryndamere’s kit perfectly since he is an all-in champion. You must use Flash and Ghost to run this page efficiently.
Triumph: Triumph and Tryndamere work extremely well together, making it easier for you to survive after your ultimate ends and giving you a boost of health after a kill. This is useful for barely escaping after killing an opponent in a teamfight or surviving turret shots after diving.
Legend: Tenacity: Your biggest enemy is crowd control, and your best friend is tenacity. By stacking this rune, you may eliminate CC quicker, giving you more time to deal damage during fights. If the enemy team has zero CC, this can be swapped to Legend: Alacrity.
Last Stand: Works incredibly well with Tryndamere’s ultimate because it increases damage output when he is low hp.
Second Wind: You are one of the best sustaining champions in the game when Second Wind and Bloodlust (Q) are combined. How difficult it is to push Trynd out of his lane is one of his greatest assets.
Unflinching: When you are low hp, which is a state you frequently find yourself in when fighting and getting cc’d, Unflinching provides not only slow resistance but also an extra 30% tenacity max. You will effectively have 50% tenacity when Legend: Tenacity is combined with it, which improves your ability to stick on targets and auto attack them.
Tryndamere Build
Yasukeh Burst Build
Starting Items
First Items
Core Items
Full Build
Situational Items
Starting Items: Doran’s Shield is the best starting item for Tryndamere, providing the ideal balance of offense and defense, allowing for increased trading opportunities and enhanced durability against opponent pressure.
First Items: Berserker’s Greaves is the optimal first item to rush as it provides valuable attack speed and movement speed, essential stats for Tryndamere. Tiamat allows for faster and more efficient minion wave clearing. The lifesteal from Vampiric Scepter is great for maintaining high HP, enabling you to stay on the map longer.
Core Items: Hydra is a powerful AD item that lets you stay on the map forever until you choose to recall and lets you split push/farm much faster and reliably. Essence River is the perfect item for Tryndamere, offering CDR, AD, and Crit stats that increase his burst damage and a sheen proc that functions as an extra critical strike, all at a cost-effective price allowing you to obtain it quickly. Eclipse is a highly effective item for Tryndamere, providing strong lethality, a 6-second cooldown shield, burst damage, essential movement speed, and insane ability haste.
Full Build: Infinity Edge is another very strong item, it increases your damage drastically by increasing your crit damage. Phantom Dancer is great when playing against team compositions where you need the extra movement speed or need to spike right away, it can be chosen over Infinity Edge because it costs 800 less gold. But you still need to build IE after.
Korean Split Push Build
Core Build
Full Build Example
Tryndamere Matchups
Tryndamere Counters
Akali – Before she reaches level 6, try to be aggressive. Auto-trade for E, then leave while constantly pressing Q. To have a playable game, you need an early-game snowball because Akali outscales you extremely hard.
Tryndamere Ideal Matchups
Irelia – It’s crucial to avoid getting hit by her stun. She won’t be able to win trades without minions. Beware of her passive in the early game since it gives her more damage output than you. So, save your spin to try and dodge her E stun.
Malphite – He can still be killed before getting armor items. Go for a trade or all-in when he uses E on the minion wave. Trade frequently and take benefit of your sustainable advantage. Play the matchup as aggressively as you can early game. If you don’t snowball against him, you must use really good map rotations/macro to try to take fights or turrets while he isn’t around.
Dr. Mundo – It’s a very easy matchup. Make sure to dodge cleavers to maintain high health. When he misses a cleaver, capitalize on the opportunity to trade or go all-in.
Poppy – She can trade with you very well, especially if you allow her to get an E wall stun. Her W stops your spin (E). Try to fight her primarily with auto attacks and short spins to prevent her from popping her W and knocking you up. She can also quickly become very tanky, making it difficult for you to easily create windows that allow you to kill her if you don’t get ahead.
Illaoi – You will win all of your trades if you dodge the E grab and play around her cooldowns. If she’s smart and won’t let you do that, play safe, don’t feed, and get what you can early. It’s probably recommended that you bring ignite for this matchup and only use it when she ults, so it reduces her healing.
Darius – He shares a similar playstyle of auto attack-based combat, but unlike Tryndamere, he can invest in defensive attributes. Aim for quick trades without allowing him to stack his passive. Make use of his vulnerability when his E ability is on cooldown or poorly utilized. Darius is vulnerable to ganks, so coordinating with your jungler can be very helpful.
Yorick – As soon as he spawns ghouls, try to kill them asap. Avoid using your Spin (E) to start the trades, because he can just W cage and kite you. As soon as he summons his R Maiden, kill it. Also, avoid single AA trades as his Q will out damage you and you will lose the trade.
Tryndamere Skills Order
Start the game with levelling E. Take Q level 2 and 3 and W level 4. Max Q first, E 2nd, W 3rd, and R last.
The reason you should max ultimate last is because it only gives you a small amount of extra fury on cast, and 10 seconds off its cooldown. Levelling other abilities first gives you more value.
Tryndamere Tips & Tricks
Spinning Slash: By flashing during an 
E animation, you can increase the range of your E engage by having the damage land where you flash.
Manipulating Critical Strike: League of Legends RNG uses a Pseudo System, meaning that if you fail to get a 
crit it will raise the percentage likelihood of the follow-up to be a crit. You can use this to your advantage to strategically manipulate the next critical strike chance. Here’s an example: 
Fight Setup in Lane: As a melee champion with no real burst or trading, but consistent DPS, ideally, you want to start off fights on your side of the lane. This will allow you to run the enemy down through the lane, which gives you more time to hit them, pretty simple. So, when the wave is on your side of the lane, try to freeze it so you are in a more favorable position to look for an all-in. 
Mocking Shout: Tryndamere’s 
W can be cast even if you don’t have vision on enemy champions. The ability will lighten up once an enemy champion gets in range, even if they are invisible for example when someone is recalling in the 
bush or when a 
Teemo is hiding in the bush.
Credits
If you want to take your Tryndamere to the next level, I would recommend watching Yasukeh’s content on Twitch and Youtube. He goes more In-depth on the Builds, Itemization, Matchups, and what to do in certain situations of the game.
Also want to give credit to the Challenger Tryndamere player RANGERZX for the gameplay provided on the GIFs.
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