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Renekton needs a rework

buPPDrmXEO··7 votes·1,862 views

The champion I play, and enjoy since Season 2 needs a rework.

When I see all these overpowered reworks aka let's give a perfectly fine champion (balance-wise) a bunch of new features and mechanics I think it's time to give my boy some love.

My idea is to make his E a slow, his Q should have it's cooldown reduced to 3 seconds cd on lv5 with max CDR just like Darius Q (I would go for lower than 3 sec since Darius Q is so much more powerful but I'll let it slide), and his ulti should now fear everyone around him when activated.

Also, noone like cooldowns, when your ability is on cooldown you can't use it - that's boring for everyone, Renekton's E should have 10 sec cooldown on level 1 instead of broken 18 sec cooldown which is pretty archaic if you ask me.

How do you guys feel about my "rework"?

I mean, they did give Darius sustain, when the only way to beat him was to outsustain him, they did give Fiora immunity to CC when the only way to beat her was to CC her.

8 Comments

woodvsmurph3 votes

His q is fine - perhaps a bit better scaling on the healing is all for that. His w is good. His e should have the same cd as riven shield (about 4 sec with cdr+max rank -- note, that's just an approximation). Because he's very immobile and too easy to kite without it. His r should give maybe not a fear, but either armor+mr (like nasus ult - since they buffed it to be like a more op version of renekton's ult) or % damage reduction for it's duration. I'm thinking like 20/40/80 armor+mr while active if you go the flat armor/mr route.

Everyone argues renekton is a lane bully, he can win early, and therefore doesn't need any help. But you can in most cases farm up perfectly fine vs a renekton (maybe fall 20-30 cs behind but get full xp) and just outscale by 2-3 items. Without jungler intervention to snowball his minor early advantage, renekton cannot bully champs as effectively as he was intended to; unless his opponent just doesn't have the same skill level as the renekton player and ends up feeding 1v1. Other champs have had their early games buffed so much that renekton can't consistenly carry his early game lead well enough to properly snowball. It actually takes more skill for a renekton to win early now than it takes for a jax or fiora to win late game 1v1. Neither of those champs is horribly weak early, but renekton is horribly weak late. This is the issue I have talked about for awhile now. Either renekton needs more early power (which would make him unbearable and create so many posts calling to gut him) to properly bully and secure a MEANINGFUL lead, or he needs better scaling. I also think they should adjust his ad ratios on his abilities; if they want him to be a tanky bruiser, scale the ratios off BASE or TOTAL ad rather than BONUS ad.

Why? Because in the pro scene and high elo, renekton mostly gets cleaver and titanic as his only ad items. This gives a whopping 75 bonus ad to scale off of. Compared to other bruisers and carries, this scaling is garbage. Now you can go full ad or more ad on renekton, but then you sacrifice too much of your durability compared to what other toplane bruisers and carries get. So rather than buff the ad ratios and keep it bonus ad (don't want an unkillable 6 item full ad croc), make the ratios off total ad - making stuff like sterak's more rewarding for him to purchase and just plain giving him better scaling of his abilities without making him too oppressive early game.

THE RlVER KlNG3 votes

Can't tell if satire or serious

hellhex2 votes

There are a lot more champions that needs rework before renekton.. For example nunu...

Mens Hair Club1 votes

ignore all the other changes given to Darius and Fiora, sure

AmazoX1 votes

I 100% agree about the Fear, Would be really dope to flash E R into a team while unleashing your fury upon them with your team.

SKT Leap of Fate1 votes

RENEKTON NEEDS A REWORK!!! PLZ!!

FOR EXAMPLE top laners like darius ,garen ! if we go for full tank build still they deal huge damage but if we go for a full tank build with renekton he doesn"t do any damage!! and also his CDR is too high then other fighter!! plz make him more strong!

BiggerFatterBoss1 votes

Please no! Darius does little damage when he builds full tank. Just rework all of their early game or give them some skill shots to make them slightly difficult at least.

BiggerFatterBoss1 votes

I feel like Renekton is already strong enough and that just makes every ability do more than it already does. I think that they could change his w or make one of his abilities a skill shot.

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