What happens when Trundle uses his ultimate on someone with negative armor?
If a champion has less than 0 armor, they receive bonus damage. The damage formula:
2-(100/(100-armor))
If Trundle uses his ult on a champion, he lowers their armor by a percent. This prevents him from dropping an enemy's armor below 0 with his ult alone. With a Black Cleaver or other form of armor reduction, it would be possible to do bonus damage (use the ult THEN get stacks on the cleaver!).
Edit: Armor penetration is applied in this order (source):
- Percent reduction (Bushwhack / Pounce)
- Flat reduction (The Black Cleaver, Puncturing Taunt, etc)
- Flat penetration (The Brutalizer, Sunder Mastery, Runes of Desolation)
- Percent penetration (Last Whisper)
I think that this question is more a curiosity than a real need. Trundle is an anti-tank and it would be quite silly using his ultimate on an unarmored squishy hero.
In addition percentage stolen is 15/20/25% and it is usually difficult to cause an enemy champion to have negative armor values lesser than -20. In this case have a 0 armor buff or a -3/-4/-5 armor debuff is quite irrelevant in terms of gameplay.