Will Riot Ever Fix Rengar?

kargish··1 votes·319 views

Rengar has some huge balancing issues, honestly just about every Rengar main out there absolutely hates him right now. I know that most people hate to play against Rengar, but now people also hate to play as Rengar.

The champion is just generally way too weak, he has been nerfed 7 times in a row, but despite that Riot had to do this they still view him as a healty champion as can be seen here https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/6d3unl/taking_another_look_at_subclasses/dhzya4a/?context=3

If there's one thing Rengar currently isn't it's a healthy champion, since just about nothing makes sense on him at the moment. First of all his Q at rank 1 has a base damage of 25 and scales off bonus AD. This basically means that his Q ability will do less than a basic attack worth of damage! How did this ever come to be? The only reason to even use that clunky thing is to reset your auto attack timer, but if it didn't have that feature it wouldn't even be worth skilling the ability.

The other extremely unhealthy feature in Rengar's kit is his passive bonetooth necklace. So if you're unfamiliar with what this ability does, it basically increases your attack damage scalingly depending on how many unique kills you have. Why is this a thing?! Weren't we told that Riot themselves didn't like feast or famine playstyles, yet they go ahead and makes this into the biggest gap between feast and famine in LoL history. Getting your stacks early will ensure your damage capability, and you'll be extremely strong but if you don't happen to get more than 2 stacks before 15 minutes, you might as well not have the passive ability at all! Apparently Rengar's damage is supposed to come from massive amounts of AD, and then the downside is that his AD scalings are poor (which was also nerfed).

Just about every statistic website out there says Rengar is around 45% win rate https://i.gyazo.com/c2f6f38bca24de53b8e94dc78edd9f94.png http://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/rengar

Here comes the biggest meme of them all, the one that really makes you feel like Riot just gave you a massive middle finger to you and your champion https://i.redd.it/7d0oglj2clzy.png

2 Comments

Dreadlocks1 votes

Id consider him the new ryze of failures... Ill pray I get my main back but I feel like riot is just going to balance him around a diver because its simpliy easier than actually working.

Truly Prideful1 votes

I feel like the problem with Rengar is if they keep his ultimate and play pattern as is and never completely rework him he won't ever reach a 'balanced' state. When he's strong, you feel almost helpless against him and when he's weak he is dead weight to his team. I do agree that his necklace is a horrible mechanic, he either gets kills early and snowballs out of control or gets none and is complete garbage. Champions that rely entirely on snowballing are just not any good.

I don't play Rengar so I'm not really sure what they should do at this point, I can only really comment on my experieces against him since release and his small rework. Would you rather see him reworked / rebalanced as an assassin or a diver? I definitely feel like the definition of diver sounds more accurate to how he has generally functioned, though he has often had the burst of an assassin. Just unlike most assassins he usually isn't jumping back out.

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