My thoughts and observations on Rengar

MeleeNuke··1 votes·371 views

Famous for his 0.03 instant kill and his jump scares, it's no doubt that Rengar is a powerful champion. But after playing as him for a bit, I learned some of his strengths and weaknesses.

Pros:

  1. Takes out carries quickly.
  2. Great at securing kills with your team using bola strike.
  3. Has a decent sustain with empowered w.
  4. Great snowballing opportunities.
  5. No mana.

Cons: 1: Cannot kill tanks easily. 2: No escape potential besides his ult. Even then it will rarely help him escape. 3: No aoe cc and little aoe damage. Bola strike will only strike one target.

For Rengar to even be a viable champ, he needs his kill potential. What most want is Rengar to not instant kill, which gives your team the opportunity to stop Rengar from finishing off the adc or whoever they're protecting. The problem is that Rengar is all about kills, and by delaying his kill potential, he is pretty much useless. What defines an assassin is the ability to take out a target quickly and get out. And Rengar sure has the kill potential, but not the escape. LeBlanc is a good example, she has the opportunity to instantly kill her target and get out. Also keep in mind Rengar needs to be really fed in order to assassinate carries instantly.

In order to thwart Rengar, it's very important to play tanks and heavy cc champions. Late game he will struggle to find a target available for him and likely end up getting caught out. Also make sure you get sweeping lens and hide your adc in hidden brushes at a far distance. I would recommend like having 2 or 3 of them. Just make sure that Rengar cannot see any easy targets. Some examples of good anti-Rengar picks would be Malzahar For his long supression Twitch For his stealthTwistedFate For his global true vision Alistar Amumu Braum DrMundo Chogath Galio Garen Gnar Gragas Hecarim Illaoi Irelia JarvanIV LeeSin Leona Malphite Maokai Nasus Nautilus Nunu Olaf Rammus RekSai Renekton Shen Shyvana Singed Sion Skarner TahmKench Taric Thresh Trundle Udyr Volibear Zac For being tanky and sturdy

Rengar is hard to play against. It gets especially frustrating when you didn't feed the Rengar, but he got fed off your teammates and then instant kills you. Personally, I think the amount of precautions necessary when playing against him are too much, especially for solo q when it's hard to communicate extremely well and coordinate good positioning.

Let me know what you think

5 Comments

Sachabot2 votes

I agree with your thought process. It seems to me that the reason RengarChoi has come up being so powerful is at least partly because tanks are out of the meta. This means more squish for him to pounce on, and mistakes are easier to exploit into kills and pressure. Peel is effective as long as you can keep him peeled off, but I'd rather hard CC and pick off if possible.

undesirable team2 votes

No on Malz and Twitch counters. He can just kill malz before he can ult, and kill twitch before he can stealth, TF can see him, yes. But does that mean he can kill him? no, tanks counter rengar, but it's not tank meta. Rengar has a lot of counters, but they're not really in the meta atm.

MeleeNuke1 votes

Very interesting, but I would like you to reread some of this: "Also make sure you get sweeping lens and hide your adc in hidden brushes at a far distance." This would also apply to mages or any easy targets, not just adc. Often a good strategy on Malzahar is to buy zonyas and use that when out of position. Also with item 3116 and item 3027 and item 3151 Malzahar couldn't be instant killed, so his team has the opportunity to cc him down and take him out. If Twitch is too up close to be ripped apart by Rengar, he is too out of position. Twisted Fate will reveal Rengar, giving the tanks on your team a great opportunity to strike and Twisted Fate's stun card will also help.

Troiann1 votes

No, malz is a good pick because he can hourglass as the rengar jumps. Most of the times you see a malz dying to rengar is because rengar is massively fed (can oneshot before malz has hourglass), or the malz wasn't paying attention.

And while it's not a tank meta, tanks are extremely prevalent. Rammus, trundle, mundo, and malphite are huge picks right now, because they can peel for an adc while doing really good damage, while being able to solo an adc.

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