Number Munch: Renekton's Dominus, Sterak's and Gargoyle's Combo

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Dominus gives you 250/500/750 bonus health, item 3193's active gives you bonus health while among 3 or more enemy champions for 4 seconds equal to your maximum health, and item 3053 grants a shield that decays over 8 seconds equal to 75% of your current bonus health upon taking enough damage.

That's the combo! Just how much damage can it mitigate? Let's find out, given two common scenarios for Renekton with the combo on Summoner's Rift.

Frequent midgame scenario: Renekton's Level and Base Health: 12 / 1558 Bonus Health and Source : 80 / item 1055; 400 / item 3053; 500 / Level 2 Dominus Total Bonus Health: 980 Maximum Health: 1558 + 980 = 2538 Bonus Health from Gargoyle's Stoneplate's active: 2538 Shield from Sterak's Gage during Stoneplate's active (based on Bonus Health): 980 + 2538 x 0.75 = 2638.5 Total Bonus Health and Shields from the Tank Wombo: 2538 + 2638.5 = 5176.5 Including rank 5 Runic Armor: 2538 + 2849.6 = 5387.6

Best frequent lategame scenario: Renekton's Level and Base Health: 16 / 1886.7 Bonus Health and Source: 400 / item 3053; 400 / item 3071 (or a similar amount of health from an armor item); 750 / Level 3 Dominus Total Bonus Health: 1550 Maximum Health: 1886.7 + 1550 = 3436.7 Bonus Health from Gargoyle's Stoneplate's active: 3436.7 Shield from Sterak's Gage during Stoneplate's active: (based on Bonus Health): 1550 + 3436.7 = 4986.7 x 0.75 = 3740 Total Bonus Health and Shields from Renny's Tank Wombo Combo: 3436.7 + 3740 = 7176.7 Including rank 5 Runic Armor: 3436.7 + 4039.2 = 7475.9

Hoo wee, that's a lot of tankiness. Keep in mind the Gargoyle's bonus armor and MR while near 3+ enemies!

Bonus fun fact: item 3401's active is based on your current maximum health as well! If you pair its active with item 3193's active on a champion with at least 4000 maximum health you'll give both yourself and a nearby ally upwards of 800 shield each! Imagine a beefy Cho'Gath with this combo giving a friendly carry 1000+ in shields in a teamfight! How kooky would that be?

Reasons for mathing this out for Renekton :

  • Renekton has Slice and Dice for diving the enemy team, strong AoE damage and free bonus health from Dominus
  • Renekton can can comfortably build both item 3053 and item 3193 early since he's manaless and an AD champion
  • I play mostly Renekton so of course I'm super interested!

Hope you enjoyed this installment of Number Munch! Feel free to leave a suggestion as to what to math out next. Nothing too complicated please haha. Also if I made a mistake be sure to let me know for to err is to be human!

3 Comments

Martensitic1 votes

Problem is, Renekton is not an "I soak a lot of damage and have a lot of utility" tank, that really benefits from item 3193

Renekton is a "I do a lot of damage to your entire team, and I have a lot of life on top of it, so you really HAVE to deal with me." tank.

He doesn't have utility, other than a short, melee range, single target stun. He is useful, because he deals a lot of damage for a champion that tanky. Gargoyle kinda defeats that purpose.

FCJAAAAGOOOO1 votes

True, but Gargoyle's gives Renekton the luxury of waiting until he's taken a lot of focus fire before popping the active! The enemy team has to force him to use the active at all. He can cast all of his abilities before he needs to pop it for the humongous Steak's shield!

Alternatively, if he gets stunned and focused and needs to pop Gargoyle's immediately in order to have the big Sterak's shield, saving his abilities and waiting for Dominus to build Rage until the end of the active isn't a bad outcome either! The enemy team must force him to use the active yet Renekton can dive right into the enemy team by using Slice and Dice. What a deal!

EndlessSorcerer1 votes

Renekton can make fairly good use of Gargoyle's Stoneplate.

After he uses his cooldowns, he can activate it to survive long enough for a second rotation. He'd just be autoattacking for the duration anyways.

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