Silver/Gold Jungler having issues playing champions like Rengar and Kha'Zix

Lasci··1 votes·255 views

Hey, hi, hello.

I recently came back to the game after a long absence and have taken up jungling with the new preseason. I understand that Rengar and Kha'Zix are both pretty big staples in the current snowbally metagame because they have a good early- and mid-game presence. This also includes champions like Elise and Evelynn. However, I've had a lot of troubles actually playing assassin champions like these in the jungle towards the mid- to late-game despite having relative success in the early game. I've had several games where I've helped my lanes get kills and have had a score line that looks like 2-0-3, but rapidly end up struggling once the enemy team starts grouping. One of the biggest issues I've run into is with teams that have a moderate amount of CC or when the enemy ADC gets fed enough to be able to blow me up before I can do enough damage to blow them up. I feel like I've had much more success with bruiser junglers like Jarvan and Xin Zhao or outright Cinderhulk tanks like Sejuani, Rammus, and Zac who build tankier than champions like Rengar.

My current win rate with Rengar is 13% over 8 games in the last week or so. I'm clearly doing something wrong, but I have no idea what it is.

I've been running what I think are fairly standard rune pages and builds for Rengar; Domination with Electrocute with Precision. Warrior Enchant, usually challenging Smite, into Duskblade and Yomuu's. I just feel like I fall off so hard in the early game and I can't pick someone off unless I have teammate that's able to initiate the fight in a meaningful manner. Even when I get off pretty substantial ganks in the early game, I feel like a fall off. I feel like my pre-6 ganks are mediocre at best unless the enemy is playing way too far forward and gets caught out. I typically take my bot side buff for the good leash, then proceed to do wolves, then take the second buff before taking a scuttle and looking around the map for a gank. If I can't find one, I go back to my jungle and look to farm until something changes or I hit 6 and have a better chance at forcing an encounter.

I don't want to belabor my perspective too much and create an unreadable wall of text. the tl;dr is that I suck with Rengar and I'd love any advice, tips, or videos that I can watch to try and improve my playstyle or see what I'm missing.

1 Comments

Red Wreckage1 votes

i see you not upgrading you're jungle item in your last 3 games as Rengar

I think that is a big mistake. It is safe to skip jg item if you get like 2-3 kills at 4 minute but if your only gold income early game is jg camps then you're really putting yourself behind a lot if you skip it. jg camps fk u up real hard after first clears without upgraded jg item, so you're probably never full HP after clearing 1-2 camps after first clears if a gank opportunity suddenly arises.
if you find yourself not in a position to "lead" the charge and turn ganks into successful kills...look to change your playstyle and get trackers....light up gank paths/enemy jg for your team and play to counter gank the enemy jungler's attempts to kill noobs in your team.
also you can't really initiate if enemy team is not outnumbered, so u really gotta wait around if not crazy fed ur enemy team was also tough in those 3 games imo....1 with soraka, so you aren't bursting anything anytime. vs vi jg and a kennen top. fk kennen

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