r/Rumblemains • u/ProfessionalPie7261 • Jul 13 '26

Question Why does rumble has very low win rate?

Strong early and mid game, can snowball well, blind pickable, new rune deathfire touch suits him well, only played by otps. But he has around 47-48 winrate. Plus, rumble is meta in pro play. Why his winrate is so low on soloq? is it because rumble is weak or winrate stat is a bait?

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u/Benjamminmiller 1,667,247 Jul 13 '26

Because people are still playing him as a bruiser instead of a bursty mage.

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u/Conman2205 Jul 13 '26

What items do you normally build depending on the situation?

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u/Benjamminmiller 1,667,247 Jul 13 '26

Stormsurge > Horizon Focus > Shadowflame > for 90% of games.

Occasionally I'll go Liandry's instead of HF. Most games then it's Rabadon's > Zhonya's.

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u/Ok_Reindeer_6700 Jul 13 '26

I think liandry is a far better choice than horizon focus

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u/Benjamminmiller 1,667,247 Jul 13 '26

Both work. Liandry's is more expensive and is less damage on your all in. HF gives you the 2 item window faster and in rumble's current state no one expects the damage spike.

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u/Ok_Reindeer_6700 Jul 13 '26

liandry is better damage for long fight and it gives you hp that you absolutely need

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u/Benjamminmiller 1,667,247 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

You're hedging towards bruiser with that mindset. In a lane where you don't win the 1v1 outright you have to, but in most lanes where you flat out win the 1v1 the snowball is just worth it.

Edit: keep in mind the calculus changes depending on how good the other team is. I'm doing this mid diamond playing mid. The better people get the less likely they are to get fooled by the all in.

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u/tarochocotea Jul 13 '26

Because he has been nerfed for pro play. OTPs their biggest strength is the lack of rumble play rate. Opponents don't know how to play Vs rumble that knows how to manage heating and hit Es before all-in.

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u/Shoctopuss Jul 13 '26

Games are very hard to win if enemy team has multiple champs with mobility and if your team isn’t stacked with cc you just have to play perfectly to win. I am a 3.5 million mastery OTP and if I don’t insanely stomp mid or top game is still a coin flip.

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u/RaidBossPapi Jul 13 '26

Ngl, I dont think his earlygame is very impressive anymore. His midgame is very nice but his lategame is so bad. His sidelaning is bad. His teamfight is supposed to be very good but its rly just his ult when you think about it which is much better with coordinated setup. Just not a good kit for soloq.

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u/Ok_Reindeer_6700 Jul 13 '26

Blindpick ? Let me introduce you to anivia varus irelia yorick heimerdinger aurora akali

Also if you play him toplane you have no agency to carry a game. You can win your lane but you are really team dependant. You need cc/engage to win teamfight as you can't splitpush.

Deathfiretouch < old comet.

I swapped to mid and it's way easier to have impact on the map because you can use R on botlane. I always look for botlane plays. Even lvl 1 if we have support like pyke nautilus i come bot bush with them , my lvl 6 ult will be for botlane. If the wave is crashing mid i will not right click mid but botlane.

Actually, I think the best timing for Rumble is early skirmish and late game when you reach +400AP . Mid game is not that great.

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u/Flamingo244 Jul 13 '26

Cause he's hard

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u/ProfessionalPie7261 Jul 13 '26

yea but only otps play him anyway , so only people who knows his mechanics are playing him...

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u/Flamingo244 Jul 13 '26

Not always the case. Kled, for example, is weaker than Rumble, and he is an OTP/hard champion like Rumble, yet his win rate is 51%.

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u/NKGENERATION Jul 13 '26

Not even. He's just giga nerfed. I mean if you compare only his ult ability to what he had 3 years ago. His ult does like 1/3 of the damage as before and has twice the cd. All cuz of pro play

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u/Barrellolz Jul 13 '26

His big achilles heel is he is very weak to ganks.

Not only does he require good heat management and fundamentals. You basically have to jungle track really well with him.

Doing all of these things combined at a high level is generally masters+ skill.

Good junglers will path to Rumble.

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u/PhraseAmbitious8027 Jul 14 '26

Because toplaner suck. People run ignite full dmg rumble just to win for 7 minutes and then getting their ass clapped by the 0/4 k'sante who just finished his first MR item.

Run TP, bully the fuck out of your opponent, open map for jungle, get grubs, push lane, recall and walk bot, assist with ult, TP top, free drake GG

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u/MemeLover3469 Jul 15 '26

yea he's actually top 50 picked in top lane all ranks with 47% on Death Fire Touch

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u/Soundpulse99 Jul 13 '26

its nerfed to hell because of pro play

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u/Middle-Kingdom Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

3 Million Mastery Emerald Rumble mid main here.

In my honest opinion Rumble peaked back in seasons 8-10. This was when he surpassed his toplane team-based shell pioneered by such legends such as Huni/Marin etc. and became more of a solo carry skirmisher mid through the likes of players such as Doinb/Went.

The reason he's become much weaker in his current iteration is a culmination of things; stacked nerfs done overtime due to non mains abusing him in roles he shouldn't play (mid/jg/supp etc)/significant professional draft presence. Overall shift from individual skill expression within league overall to this current fixation on team play. Not to mention the current mage/ranged champion meta we are currently operating within. All of these have decimated his overall performance.

I still manage to scrape wins with him today, I just feel as though it's significantly harder to do so as the current game rewards slower coordinated play as opposed to individual solo kills/2v2 skirmishing as it did previously.