5 Reasons why Rengar shouldn't have gotten nerfed. (Rito this doesn't mean buff Rengar tho!)

Ready 2 B Blamed··4 votes·514 views

Here's my opinion on the Rengar nerfs as a jungle main. It is probably 1 of the most unecessary and unwarranted nerfs in League history! Rito is over here buffing Riven and your nerfing Rengar to the ground? A lot of players are complaining he has no counterplay? Oh well it sure as hell helps when you tell an employee or 2 to say "Well, we do think Rengar is broken" or some shit along those lines. If you guys said the following " We think Nami is overpowered and deals too much damage for the enemy team to handle." Idiots will literally permaban Nami until she gets nerfed! Not even kidding!

Look, this doesn't mean buff Rengar because honestly, that champ is boring. He is so boring and I never play him. Not to mention, he's still very flawed in his own way. I main Shaco, so I shouldn't say I play a "Flawless" champion. Clearly, I main one with as much flaws, if not, more than Rengar. Nonetheless, people complain and complain. Look, I seen quite a few people complain about Volibear. "Oh! But Volibear is pretty strong top-laner you know? He's broken!" Eh, I guess he is alright in top lane, still has flaw but yeah. Just one issue: They are talking about Volibear jungle. I am just like "0-0". Lol. Now to answer: What were his flaws?

I think it's silly that I am even answering this because it's like people don't understand how Rengar works. Well, they dont. That's the issue right? As long as Rengar has been out you'd think they would understand...

-Rengar is basically the "seen" predator. The range of the exclamation mark is outside of his jump range. You should have more than enough time to prepare for what comes next.

  • His (E) was not guaranteed to snare you at all. Excluding the fact that you could probably side-step it, if you have a mobile ability, then dash to the side. "That would require me to predict his jump!" Yeah, you kind of have to predict a lot of things in this game. Go figure...
  • pre-6 ganking isn't as strong. This is a similar issue Xin has. Xin is an early game jungler that is just not "as" impacting as other early game junglers such as Kindred, Rek'sai and well Shaco. This is why I love Shaco so much. That's what Rengar has, it's not like it's bad like for example: Volibear, Shyvana and Master Yi. It's more like at the same level as Wukong where a gank isn't as lethal but it's still somewhat strong. It would require 5 ferocity though.
  • Odd build pathing. I don't particularly like when a build path is too inefficient and all that, you can argue that there's many ways to build Rengar but the ones I've seen are just too inefficient for me. If you get behind, it's hard to come back with what you have. That said, it isn't as bad as Xin's build pathing. It's hard to build Xin, trust me. That is, without going devourer cuz devourer is just... bad. I mean even if you go devourer it's still pretty hard BACK ON TOPIC! -Teamfighting. If your ult is down, your fucked. Your forced to peel for your carries essentially. Still, I never liked the idea that you had to ult to get in the teamfight. Mostly because: THEY KNOW YOUR COMING! EXCLAMATION MARK LITERALLY! The enemy team should know how to play around that instead of panicking like idiots...

That is all: Rito again, this doesn't mean buff Rengar... but more Kha'Zix buffs would be nice. You know, cuz Kha'Zix is actually an entertaining champ to play? Also stop buffing Riven and finally nerf her FFS.

2 Comments

Lauchmelder1 votes

The main Problem I had with Rengar got fixed. The exclamation mark popped way too late. Sure, it's out of his jump range, but with ult + boots + item 3142 he got into range too fast. You basically had not even 1 second to react to that. Placing a fast pink + peeling your carry at the same time is a matter of luck rather than skill.

My opinion on his nerf (and please not, I hate Rengar. He is an abomination and has a toxic kit IMO): Ult nerf deserved and needed. See the explanation above. The other part of his nerf wasn't needed.


Simply said: I wanted to have counterplay to Ult + Boots + Youmus, not have them gut Rengar.

Ready 2 B Blamed1 votes

I mean this is a game where we have to react to things like flash charm Ahri or Flash coccon Elise. Or even things like Vi which is another thing a lot of people have misconceptions over. The only way Rengar should be killing you is if he is really ahead and/or your support isn't peeling and/or you have no summs. It takes a lot for assassins nowadays to assassinates our targets. I should probably bring up the fact that there is gonna be a lot more champs that people are gonna complain about. I still can't understand how people even get jumped by Rengar when his (E) Bola is actually pretty easy to sidestep.

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