Trundle vs Gragas Counter Pick

Two bruisers with almost the same starting health, 650 for Trundle and 640 for Gragas, drift far apart by level 18, when Gragas reaches 2,595 health and 123 armor compared with 2,520 and 113.5. Happy Hour heals Gragas on every ability cast, which means the slow grind that usually lets the Troll King hold a top lane stops working. Trundle’s recorded result on patch 16.13.1 is 41.1% across 224 games.

Mixed damage creates the second problem. Barrel Roll and Drunken Rage hit with magic damage that gets past 37 base armor, and Body Slam’s stun together with Explosive Cask’s knockback keeps cutting off Chomp, which only works if the contact lasts. Chomp drains attack damage and applies slows, a good match for an auto-attacker but a weak one against a champion whose damage comes from casks. Trundle’s edges are real but slim: 68 base attack damage to 64, 350 movement speed to 330, and 175 attack range to 125. That is enough to trade with a stationary Gragas without walking into cask range. Subjugate is still the biggest swing, since stripping resistances from a target with 123 armor accomplishes more than doing it to a squishier body. Cast it after Explosive Cask has been used, because otherwise the displacement ends the duel before four seconds pass.