Just had an AP Renekton on my team

Eedat··6 votes·4,618 views

item 3100 item 3115 item 3089 Renekton

He went 2/8/1 and did less damage than our support Braum.

Trolling or nah? Only AP ratio Renek has is a .1 ratio on his R. Just got told that "as long as there is one ability that scales with with AP, while I may not agree with the strategy, you can build ap" and its not trolling. Not even joking. They were dead serious.

How do these troll not get punished? Why are there actually people that defend them straight up trolling?

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dunder kill8 votes

lul why did you post it on the player behavior board? Just ignore that board bro. Its nothing but dbags on self righteous power trips. Saw a thread earlier today where a guy sold his stuff and bought tears seconds before a game ended while he was dead and got banned for it. Even linked the match history with the timestamps. Everyone told him he deserved it XD

e46 Fanatic2 votes

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Saw a thread earlier today where a guy sold his stuff and bought tears seconds before a game ended while he was dead and got banned for it. Even linked the match history with the timestamps. Everyone told him he deserved it XD

Yeah and that guy also did 6k damage to champions in a 56 minute match, meaning he quite literally did nothing at all except for roam and heal a few times just enough for him to slick by(so he thought). He deserved his ban, I'm sure that wasn't his first time doing that. Also, he didn't get banned because of the tears, that's just the impression he was under because he thought he had made sure that he wouldn't get triggered by a report review by half ass playing while intentionally not doing shit for the team...

dunder kill3 votes

LOL yet thats thesame people who insist "having a bad game isnt a punishable offense" right? Give it up. That board is nothing but a bunch of pretencious assholes that cycle through their roledex of contradictions to find you guilty

FFS the comment saying AP renekton isnt trolling got upvoted HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

JustaNewb1 votes

Mostly it seems that the PB board are people screaming about THEIR bans, and shooting down any statement that players do/say anything wrong.

BLIGHTBRINGER3 votes

Renekton only has AP scallings on his R (that are quite bad), so it's kind of trolling.

Eedat2 votes

Its a .1 AP ratio. Thats literally the only AP ratio Renekton has

BLIGHTBRINGER1 votes

I mean that Ratio is a total 300% if Renekton is able to keep himself alive for straight 15 seconds while damaging the enemies with his R aura damage.

AquariusGine3 votes

0.1 ratio can make a big difference. Did you hear, Janna just got a 5 damage nerf

ChaosThief3 votes

Keep his other abilities in mind. For example, a normal W with those two items has a 70% AP ratio. With fury, 85%.

Granted, unless he's ignored he can't really make use of his ult's constant damage, and having to rely entirely on items for one ability to do damage isn't always great.

Also, that's technically not trolling; disagree with me if you will, and yes if you would like you can call me a "white knight" or whatever. Personally, I don't agree with AP Renekton, because the ult's ratio isn't really enough to justify it, but in a normal game, a player has the option to try whatever build they want. The game isn't just about winning with the same time tested builds, but winning with a build that you can make work. Blue Ezreal didn't always exist, for example.

Again, let me be clear: I don't agree with his statement "as long as there is one ability that scales with (you have two "withs") AP, while I may not agree with the strategy, you can build AP." Well, actually, I do agree with it, because it does state that you don't have to agree with the strategy. The point is that players should have the right to experiment and play champions however they like, as long as they have a reason to believe that it can somehow work. I can't see AP Renekton working, simply because to play it you either have to be wildly ahead, or build tanky anyway, making you a worse AD Renekton.

For reference, I can think of a few champions in which building AP isn't the default build, but still can work on them:

Blitzcrank . He has a 100% ratio on both his Q and ultimate (activation). If you ever played against him in one for all, you'd understand to respect his range for more than just the rest of his team.

Ezreal . I believe AP was actually the original build on him; he has quite literally every ability with an AP ratio. He simply lacks the waveclear to compete with mages, for the most part.

Gnar . He only has a 100% ratio on his W in mini form, and I believe something like 50% on his ult in mega form. Typically, you build things like a nashor or guinsoo since attack speed will help you proc this bonus more often. It can be quite scary, but does pretty much lock out his mega form, barring the CC.

Gangplank ; this one is a bit arguable considering the amount of scaling that needs to be done. His W has a 90% AP ratio, meaning every time he activates his W he'll pretty much recover a second health bar, and his ultimate starts with a 120% AP ratio but can scale up to 210% with the upgrades, while being completely global. A team that can force enemies to stay in this ultimate will take quite a hilarious amount of damage. I used to play it quite a bit, but because of all the ultimate nerfs (cooldown, mostly), as well as the pacing of the game changing, it's become quite a bit more difficult for me to pull off.

Varus ; his blight has a 2% hp per 100 AP ratio, and his ultimate has a 100% AP ratio, that also auto stacks blight on the target over the duration. If they don't build either hilarious amounts of health or MR, they can say goodbye to their health bars.

There are others, of course, but the point stands. Gnar really only has 1 AP ratio, but it works because you aren't required to constantly stand near your target for 10% of your AP as damage (meaning a bonus of 80 every tick if you have 800 AP...)

Auz the Ripper1 votes

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Ezreal . I believe AP was actually the original build on him; he has quite literally every ability with an AP ratio. He simply lacks the waveclear to compete with mages, for the most part.

Ap was not the “original” build of Ezreal. Ezreal dates back to a time when abilities pretty much only scaled with AP with a few exceptions, It’s why AP is called Ability power.

ChaosThief1 votes

I started playing around the release of original fiora. I did remember hearing that ar some point in time there were so little AD scaling champions (Ignoring auto attacks) that you could count them on your hand.

Either way, Ezreal somehow deviated from this build and somehow AD/blue ezreal became the default build, for whatever reason, which is a shame really.

Auz the Ripper1 votes

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I started playing around the release of original fiora. I did remember hearing that ar some point in time there were so little AD scaling champions (Ignoring auto attacks) that you could count them on your hand.

Either way, Ezreal somehow deviated from this build and somehow AD/blue ezreal became the default build, for whatever reason, which is a shame really.

I meant ezreal was always mainly AD and that his AP ratios were mainly a result of the time. In fact he was more inclined to go AD back then as he was one of the few that had an AD ratio.

JustaNewb1 votes

Not sure what you want us to do about it? They rarely listen to us.

deadlychuck1 votes

Eh get over it. Some people find fun in trying different things that aren't tailored by the devs to be an intended build.

Unfortunately you've seemed to have gotten use to, or have only played league, where everyone is being forced into the same homogenized build with maybe 1-2 item variance from others of the same class. Where the majority of the player base is using a build directly from or based on website recommendations.

Hell, I'd go as far as to say that many of the current players (because so many of the experienced ones have quit playing all together) don't even know about different game mechanics and interactions which give things like Renekton synergy with AP.


Simply put... No it's not trolling. If you don't like it then too bad. Go find another game, which will likely have very few players, instead of latching on to the titles that are actually good and dragging them down to the quality of those other games. These people aren't the problem, the problem are people who have joined the game during/after the really experimental times and have been catered towards resulting in the excessive homogenization which is now acting as the poison killing the game

Stacona1 votes

Posts like this do not belong anywhere.

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