Why was Rengar ruined, it's actually really saddening. :(
I haven't played in nearly 2 years, but recently came back a few days ago. I knew about the Rengar rework before and tried it back then and it was lame.
Now I try it again another year later and he feels terrible. Losing ferocity for no reason, seems like some weird double backwards trade-off like:
- We are gonna let you cast empowered stuff at 4 instead of 5.
- We are going to make it so you lose all ferocity instantly after not attacking.
Why? It was already not possible to use 3 Qs in a row, but this makes it so if he doesn't land something you fail to do anything.
Just makes the character feel shitty. There was nothing wrong with old Q. Why was it turned into some weird breast-stroke lunge? Not being able to apply it while stealth and it being a wonky skillshot which any somewhat mobile champ can move out of a portion of its damage isn't cool.
The W not being a just normal heal when empowered ruined his laning capabilities from behind, and completely shifted it from how I am used to using it.
Bola is fine, it's the same really.
Ult is fine, if that was the place to nerf him, okay, but Passive/Q/W made the champ. It is just gross playing him. I played over 1000 games of old Rengar and made it to Plat 2 with him alone back in season 3 or 4. It really is just a new champ that doesn't feel like Rengar, but some chinese knockoff game trying to imitate him.
Just super sad that I'll never get to play that Rengar again, because he was without a doubt my favorite Champion in the game.