Tryndamere is a melee fighter usually played Top on Summoner's Rift. This guide covers Tryndamere in ARAM: Dive aggressively with your spin and ultimate, focusing on sustained damage and lifesteal to outlast enemies in teamfights.
Tryndamere gains Fury from attacks and kills, increasing his critical strike chance.
Tryndamere gains Attack Damage when wounded; he can consume Fury to heal himself.
Tryndamere's cry reduces nearby enemies' Attack Damage and slows those facing away from him.
Tryndamere spins toward a target, damaging enemies in his path.
Tryndamere becomes unkillable for a short duration, refusing to die regardless of damage taken.
Dive aggressively with your spin and ultimate, focusing on sustained damage and lifesteal to outlast enemies in teamfights.
Use your E to spin through walls for quick escapes or engages in the narrow ARAM map.
Build attack speed and crit early to maximize your passive fury generation.
Save your ultimate for when you're low on health to survive burst damage and turn fights.
Focus squishy targets with your spin and auto-attacks to snowball kills.
Use your W to slow enemies and reduce their attack damage before engaging.
Spin (E) onto a target, auto-attack to build fury, then use W to slow and reduce their damage.
Pop ultimate (R) when low, then spin (E) away or continue attacking to heal with lifesteal.
Start with W to slow, then spin (E) in for a full combo of auto-attacks and Q heal.
Runes
Primary — Domination
Secondary — Precision
Summoners
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In ARAM, Tryndamere typically builds core items like Berserker's Greaves, Ravenous Hydra, Phantom Dancer and Hail of Blades runes (Domination primary, Precision secondary).
Take Hail of Blades in the Domination tree as your keystone, with Precision as your secondary tree for Tryndamere in ARAM.
Dive aggressively with your spin and ultimate, focusing on sustained damage and lifesteal to outlast enemies in teamfights.
Spin (E) onto a target, auto-attack to build fury, then use W to slow and reduce their damage.