Renekton's empowered W offers close to no counter-reaction. (Solution included)
Let's face it. Renekton, alongside Darius & possibly Aatrox, is one of biggest & mightiest top lane bullies of all top laners. This is all simply due to the fact that:
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Renekton's W at Rank 1 is more than enough to help attempting to dominate the lane hard against melee/squishy ranged champions.
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His fury hitting the 50 cap is a giant "gtfo if you value your health" behavior, which is not a very pleasant thing to go against in-lane. A tad similar to Tryndamere's case.
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Renekton has the capability to fully proc his full E-AA-W-AA-Q-E combo while the opponent is stunned for the whole 1.5 seconds. And let's face it, that's not a healthy thing to go against.
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Building Mercury Thread against an AD Renekton or possibly a full enemy AD comp may still somewhat wise to build, but not a very pleasant thing to build to fight against. So is buying an MR item like QSS, or forced to use the Precision tree to utilize the Legend: Tenacity rune.
So here's my solution to it. And don't worry, this doesn't involve nerfing his damage numbers or upping the cooldown.
> #W - Ruthless Predator > > - After the enemy gets stunned by either of Renekton's W or empowered W, Renekton's next attack will remove the enemy's stun debuff, but will briefly slow the opponent. > - If the stunned enemy never gets damaged by Renekton during the whole stun duration, he will NOT get briefly slowed. > - Stun duration on both W & empowered W unchanged.
This will help to give opponents some sort of counterplay against Renekton's incoming damage combos, while at the same time, still grants Renekton the ability to lockdown targets thanks to the added brief slow to his W.
What do you guys think about this?
is allowed to stun you for a base duration of 2 seconds (at rank 5) from 3 miles away no less with a lower cooldown, but 48.7% win rate Renekton isn't allowed to have the one thing that's barely keeping him viable?
currently has a 6% pick rate and is pretty trash unless played almost perfectly. People also desperately want to make