Noob question: How do you lane against Renekton as a melee?

You either pick something which can outplay him early, counter him early or play very passive.

I think there are plenty of champs who do ok vs him. But even if you can't win most champs are more useful after laning phase so you only need to not fall too far behind. Just my noob opinion. Most people take press the attack on him....I used to play Darius and it was a pretty equal match up...until I met one who took Aftershock on him...it's disgusting he will easily out trade Darius, and I think any melee champ, because he will take very little damage from you after doing his combo.

A 50-50 matchup against a good Renekton. Try to gain some space away from your own minions so that Renekton won't be able to fully reach you from dashing once. After he dashed, try to get away from him to avoid his W if he activated it during/after the dash. After the duration ends, go for the engage before he dashes back. Renekton is also twice as vulnerable if he chooses to dash twice to your face & lands a full combo. If he does that, fully commit into killing since he loses a ton of damage pressure.

After Renekton dashes, quickly casts W for the tenacity & instant resistance against his full combo. Also press E at the same time so that Renekton also takes the brunt of damage to himself as he sets up his E-W-AA-Q combo.

Predict when he's going to dash, and try to use W in the middle of it to prevent him from landing a full combo. Take that moment to disrupt him with your Q & land your Es on him. Take Grasp for more damage & don't forget Bone Plating.

Pretty much outranges Renekton, as he will be forced to always dash at your face to do his own poking. Even if he does successfully dashes to your face, just press W to negate some damage while at the same time, counter back at him by Q'ing him for the slow & then flip him over with E to deal maximum damage before he dashes out.

As obvious as she looks. Try to predict when he's gonna dash, and then activate W to literally negate his WHOLE combo. Take that moment to attack back instead. She has some really good natural resistance from her W passive to also negate some of Renekton's early game damage before he gets his Black Cleaver.

Press W right before he lands his W on you to negate some damage while at the same time, deal damage towards him. Q, and then follow up with E for maximum damage.

you need to trade back after he combos when he is weakest

riven excels at this but also jax and fiora

Dont let him auto minions which lets him charge up his rage bar. As soon as you let him auto to charge up there's no way you can win trades vs his empowered abilities. Dont always have to fight him as melee champs, just prevent him from farming or autoing minions will gain you a lead through items

I've had a lot of success(As a Diana main) running Phase Rush Diana into him, with a hit and run strategy to weaken him whenever his Rage bar is low. It's by no means a free lane for the Diana, but It's worked for me more often than not.

I'd imagine it could work well with other champs that can reliably use Phase Rush to "Poke" him down.