Top Team Comps #137: No Room to Run (Anivia & Trundle)

This team builds the map while you're standing in it. Walls, pillars, and traps decide where the fight happens, and you don't get a vote.

Top Team Comps

No Room to Run

Trundle · Rek'Sai · Anivia · Jhin · Bard

This team builds the map while you're standing in it. Walls, pillars, and traps decide where the fight happens, and you don't get a vote.

Every champion here either creates terrain or punishes you for standing next to it. Trundle drops a Pillar of Ice [E] in the middle of your escape route, Anivia's Crystallize [W] walls off the half of the fight you wanted to be in, Bard's Tempered Fate [R] freezes whoever tries to come help, and Jhin's Captive Audience [E] traps cover the paths out. Rek'Sai is the exception, and that's the point. Her Tunnel [E] ignores walls, so your team still moves freely through a map you just broke.

Team Composition Score Card

AOE DamageB

Crowd ControlS

Diving PowerB

Dueling PowerB

InitiationA

Poke PowerA

Pushing PowerB

SustainC

SynergyS

WaveclearB

Difficulty

Power Curve

Early GameB

Mid GameA

Late GameA

Super Late GameB

SAmazing AGood BAverage CBelow Average FBad

Check out how to play it below!

Champions

TOP

Top Lane – Trundle

Pillar of Ice [E] is the most underrated wall in the game. Trundle can cut a retreat in half, split a teamfight down the middle, or fence somebody in while Subjugate [R] strips whatever made them scary in the first place.

JNG

Jungle – Rek'Sai

Rek'Sai is the one champion here who ignores the mess her own team makes. Tunnel [E] punches through terrain, Burrow [W] shows her where everyone is standing, and Void Rush [R] drops her back into the fight from across the map.

MID

Mid Lane – Anivia

Crystallize [W] is the wall that ends games. Anivia can trap the enemy carry on the wrong side of a fight, block the only exit from a choke point, and then sit in Glacial Storm [R] slowing everyone caught inside it.

ADC

Bot Lane – Jhin

Captive Audience [E] turns every path out of a fight into a decision. Jhin's traps root whoever walks the wrong way, Deadly Flourish [W] punishes anything already slowed, and Curtain Call [R] reaches the survivors who thought distance was safety.

SUP

Support – Bard

Bard is the piece that ties this together. Cosmic Binding [Q] only stuns when it pins somebody against a wall, and this team makes walls on request. Tempered Fate [R] then freezes whoever tries to walk into the fight and fix it.

Key Concepts

• Bard's Cosmic Binding [Q] needs a wall behind the target, and Anivia and Trundle create walls on demand. That turns a situational stun into a reliable one, which is the single best reason to run these three together.
• Fight where terrain already exists. Jungle choke points, dragon pit entrances, and lane brush all double the value of every wall this comp adds on top.
• Wall placement beats wall timing. A bad Crystallize [W] cuts your own carry off from the fight, so practice the angle before you need it.
• Place Rek'Sai's Tunnel [E] entrances before the fight starts, not during it. They're the escape route for a team that just removed everyone else's.

Countering

Terrain only works on champions that respect it. Draft the ones that don't, keep a way to reach whoever gets walled off, and refuse to fight in the choke points this comp wants.

Here's an example team that may succeed:

TOP

Top – Gragas

Body Slam [E] crosses walls, so a Crystallize [W] between him and the fight barely slows him down.

JNG

Jungle – Kayn

Walks straight through terrain, which makes every wall in this comp optional.

MID

Mid – Talon

Assassin's Path [E] vaults over walls on a short cooldown and reaches the carry the pillar was protecting.

ADC

Marksman – Ezreal

Arcane Shift [E] blinks past whatever just got dropped in front of him.

SUP

Support – Thresh

Dark Passage [W] pulls a teammate out from behind a wall, which undoes the whole plan.

What do you think about this team composition? Got ways to improve on it? Better ways to beat it? Comment below!

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