Renekton should get a significant buff or change.

macromite··1 votes·899 views

currently in the game there is no reason to ever pick renekton, he is straight up worse in every situation in comparison to most other top laners, this is because his heal is gated so his sustain doesn't get crazy, and his dashes are on a long cooldown. he has almost no teamfight presence and his damage isn't high enough to justify anything more than to build two offensive items. his early game is supposed to be his strength, but at this point so many champions do it on the same level or better without trading mid and late game.

I think the best way to buff renekton would be either to focus on upgrading his late game or his early game. either give him better low level bases that scale into what he has now, too pretty much secure in every situation that he has at least a kill or so in every game by mid game, or buff his late by uncapping the heal on his q and making his ult a lot stronger.

Specific other changes That i have thought of include, reducing the cd on his e, reducing the cd on his q, changing the q health restore to something based on his max health, making his ult have relevant damage, getting rid of the ap scaling on his ult and giving it an ad scaling on either the health or damage, making it easier to stack fury quickly, making his w not disable him, increasing his w stun duration, giving his w a lower cd, making it so that is fury can be gained while using an ability that uses fury, giving his ult a lower cd, giving him a slow on one of his abilities, giving really any cc on any of his abilities.

There is a lot that can be done with the croc instead of just straight buffing him or his numbers, but seriously, this guy is really starting to feel under cared for. I don't want to see him every game, I just want to be able to play the guy without feeling like I'm breaking a knee cap in champion select.

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Ezragus1 votes

he is really strong right now, actually. a buff would make him ridiculous. one of the best early games, and with the right build, (i go BC into Titanic into tank), his late game is even better. Lots of damage, lots of tankiness. At most points in the game you can combo down the ADC or mid laner before they can react. Titanic Hydra was a massive indirect buff to Renekton, to be honest haha

Slamurai Jack1 votes

I think you've just been playing against bad Renektons. The ones I see go Hydra -> Cleaver and then 1 shot your carries while being impossible to deal with in lane and being impossible to gank.

Ezragus1 votes

Haven't faced one yet, but playing as ren, i've had a lot of success lately

Ezragus1 votes

but yeah, he's super strong haha

Beoridas1 votes

renekton is actually not that bad. hes just not the best.

In retrospect however--when champs are the best for a while, a culture is sort of installed. The sentiment that he needs to be the best or should be better than others is flawed.

There was a Riven Master main who made a thread last week claiming that she should get %max hp dmg or true dmg cause she isnt the best anymore lets say that ive seen worse downvoted thread filled with biased laughable opinions but i think we should acknowledge that Renek is good--but not worth picking compared to juggernauts.

Im not going to say that its time for others to shine since darius and garen never were truly stars--like ever. But renekton was the king of the top lane for almost a whole season. I feel that the new items does help him, and that he can still bring a lane bully/splitpush 1v1 power with a reliable stun/bruiser aoe gameplay.

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