Renekton's empowered W offers close to no counter-reaction. (Solution included)

BeatzBoyFTW··5 votes·1,258 views

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:

  • Renekton's W at Rank 1 is more than enough to help attempting to dominate the lane hard against melee/squishy ranged champions.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

8 Comments

Trollmanship3 votes

Every time I play renekton I feel like killing myself because of how little fun I have against every meta champion.

Warlord Rhinark3 votes

So TwistedFate 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?

What the fuck.

Source: https://champion.gg/champion/Renekton/Top?league=

Ahpe1 votes
BeatzBoyFTW1 votes

I don't think TF has the capability to chunk 80% of your health by himself with one stun & a Q. Secondly, his ult is already a big indicator for the enemy team that he's coming.

And is winrate even an issue anymore since Riot simply doesn't gives a fk about public servers & focuses their balances based on proplays?

Warlord Rhinark1 votes

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I don't think TF has the capability to chunk 80% of your health by himself with one stun & a Q.

I'd like some video evidence of a Renekton doing this.

And yes, if he's fed enough, and if he gets the 4th hit from his E, he can totally burst you down.

Secondly, his ult is already a big indicator for the enemy team that he's coming.

So is Renekton?

TF is allowed to engage from miles away but you actually have to be close to Renekton for him to be able to do anything.

And is winrate even an issue anymore since Riot simply doesn't gives a fk about public servers & focuses their balances based on proplays?

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

Are you saying that just because Riot is balancing their game around proplay, we can gut champions that are already doing horrendously?

What?

Ahpe2 votes

Fury champions are supposed to be difficult to fight and going https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/d/d4/Legend-_Tenacity_rune.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/55?cb=20170926030145 isn't that big of a sacrifice since more than likely the entire enemy team will have some sort of CC; soft or hard.

Btw which champions did you use that make Renekton hard to deal with that lead to this post, if any.

Altiverse1 votes

Counter-reaction

>Balance team 2018 Yeah right.

LetMeCarry19831 votes

Renekton falls off too hard to justify any kind of early game nerf. It's next to impossible to do anything with this champion if you go 0-0-0 in lane, much less so if you lose it. His early game assraping sessions is all he really has.

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