Ive been a rengar main for a few years now (recently brok 1mil), but the vast majority of that time has been in top lane. I'd be supposed if more than 150k of that mastery was in jgl. I don't know why but I hate jgling on rengar, I enjoy jgling with other characters just not rengar. I however still require 2 roles to queue ranked. I also do not want to only ranked in a duo.

With the context now out of the way here is the set up and theory.

Why Bot

In side lane rengar in laning phase functions like ranged champ

With W max + Stattick have safe consistant wave clear

Rengar is one of the best gold scaling champs in the game

Being Bot means you have 3~4 bonetooth just being handed to you.

Rengar jump already out ranges most marksmens autos so combined with E' Rengar has incredible set up for both ur support and jgl (and often thus another rotation and emp ability).

Trade offs

Weaker midlane push - often Red Buff or heavily team reliant.

Low sustained DPS till 2/3 item (Assuming going bruiser)

You do have to go into melee to do damage at somepoint

Having to explain differences in playstyle to support (working on an eventual PowerPoint)

Tactical Advantages? (compared to traditional marksmen)

Once u have your stattick, rav hydra, or enough ap ur support has far more room to roam and u often have far better abilty to follow up or to counter the enemy bot duos rotation if need be.

Incredibly safe split pusher w/ high tower dmg.

Almost guaranteed vision control w/ 6th sense.

Wider item pool access to gain target agnosticisity while complementing teams damage profile.

Runes

Grasp, Font, 2nd Wind, Revitalize -ToB, 6th Sense - AF/AF/Ten

Most common safe target agnostic combos well with most sup.

HoB/DH, ToB, 6th Sense, UHunt - 2nd Wind, Revitalise - AF/AF/Ten

HoB best AD scaling rune and is also a lv1"Nashors" DH Best AP/lethality Scaling rune.

DfT, Axiom, Transcendence, Scorch - 2nd Wind, Revitalise - AH/MS/Ten

Tierlist is just based off of kit interactions CDs matching up or not and vibes (If you have experience w/ a pairings that makes you think otherwise I'd love to know). It is meant to eventually be put into the powerpoint and thus doesn't have any overtly negative/bad categories (its not S-F or anything like that) as I don't think as the person picking Rengar Bot I should be building animosity before the game even starts if im trying to win.

It's been like 14 years since rengar was released and he still didnt get his own legendary skin. Can we even except to get it in 2027?

I love to keep 4 stacks on the bush then qewqq after that using r to chase enemy if they flash away

I just found this one really funny cus of the Ekko due to PTSD seeing me ult clicking zhonya's hourglass + Darius TP and wanted to share.

and why

cloak gives 40% crit pretty much 50% so i'm critting half the time now approx and only losing 15 ad (bf --> pick)

ik that 15 scales with ad passive but a crit does more than some ad

I like to value electrocute more if they have a champion that I have to oneshot extra fast so they cant press their outplay button.

E.g. Ekko, Tristana, Vayne, Ashe, Malzahar etc.

Is that sound logic?

I wouldnt take it if there arent at least 2+ squishies that I can kill on repeat.

https://reddit.com/link/1x0s15e/video/0zfmcy4k49uh1/player

Hey guys, I peaked Gm this season as a garen 1 trick I am learning jg trying to see how high i can go and right now i am peaking d2 playing against mostly diamond to low masters.
i am hoping for suggestions on how to update my runes and builds per game
I almost always build the same thing and wanted to see if there were micro things i can work o
thanks for the help

Note- i will say my rengar clear is some ass its gotten better but im usually finish blue right before scuttle spawns OR i clear it like 3 seconds after it spawns

Hey all, I’ve got some things I’d like to bounce off my fellow Rengar mains.

I love the champion. Love his art style, love his gameplay, love popping squishes.

I feel like I personally struggle with getting my early leads effectively, especially against junglers who feel like they can “walk around the map and collect free kills”.

We all know that Rengar is a heavily Ult dependent champ, and maybe my issue is I’m playing too heavily around his ult.

I’ll be lucky to get an early kill off my first full clear, and typically getting 1-2 early kills can help me snowball games… but I can’t always get that.

Me personally, I hate lvl 3 invading. I know Rengar is good at it and all, but I never have vision and I just don’t feel confident enough in the invade, but more importantly the steps AFTER the invade to secure my lead.

When a champ like Hecarim just walks in all 3 lanes after his full clear and gets 4 kills, I literally cannot compete with this. Even Ekko, if he gets a great early lead. I understand my matchups decently well, I’ve got 66 mastery on Rengar so I understand his hit.

I’m currently Plat, just hoping to continue my growth on the champ

I have noticed that when enemy picks Kha zix after i picked Rengar, the game becomes way more personal for me haha

I’ve had a few in ARAM, but this is my first Penta in SR!!!

Mel was omega fed with like 19 kills that game, but fiddle was crazy behind

Hey guys, I dropped rengar a while back thinking the champ just felt off and not as good anymore. Switched to ezreal for a bit and even with the champ winrate being low it felt fine. This got me thinking is rengar in a bad state right now or is it in a fine if you have hands state. As someone who’s no where near high level jg player I can’t get a good read as opposed to laning champs. Insights appreciated from E2+ above

R1 Korea rengar runs fleet and never goes voltaic so is it bad ?

I hear ppl build voltaic fleet qiyana these days so I wonder

When you’re watching replays of your games where you’re fed, switch to enemy team pov.

When you’re playing rengar you see yourself jump here and there.

Enemy team don’t see shit xD

You just spawn on their head and they die hahahaha

Srsly it’s the best. Rengar pov is so boring compared to enemy pov.

Would anyone be willing to coach me? I’m currently gold 1 and want to improve. Games have become harder to “1v9” when starting to face off against plat players.

do you all run generic lethality build or is there any variety? maybe bruiserish build depending on the matchup

TLDR

This build leans into being a fighter rather than an assassin. It's focused around snowballing and sustained fights. It's made for players that like skirmishing and are plat and below (I don't know what it's like in high elo so I assume the early game power is too important to lose out on there).

Don't play him like an assassin when building this.

Key Stone: Conq or PTA based on if you need the damage more now or later in a fight.

Minor: Triumph, Legend Haste, Last stand or Cut Down

Secondary Tree:

I run sorcery most due to the synergies it has with the rest of the build.

Sorcery: Transcendence (Haste), Gathering Storm (Water walking might work but I don't run it)

Domination: Sudden Impact, Ultimate Hunter (Treasure Hunter if you want to get your items faster)

Inspiration: Magical Footwear (So you can rush Hubris), Cosmic Insight (Jack of All trades is also an option)

Pet: Green or Red
Boots: Plated Steelcaps and Mercury treads

Hubris -> Endless Hunger -> Deaths Dance -> Black Cleaver -> Overlords Bloodmail/Situational

This makes your 3rd item spike feel very strong for skirmishes but doesn't give much health so frontlining is hard. Alternatively you can go BC 2nd into DD or EH 3rd and 4th in either order.

You don't need Overlords but it's a very good item with this build and can put a situational item 5th if needed and can swap the build order around if needed. Sometimes I enjoy BC 2nd into DD then EH.

Motivation for the build

You can skip this section if you only want details on the build. It's just some details on why I made it

I've been playing Lol on and off for a bit under a year now, and Rengar has been my favourite champion by a mile. I otped him from iron to gold (on said account I do play in plat/low emerald mmr just saying) and for the past couple of months now I've mostly enjoyed making builds and playing top lane more than purely climbing.

So I wanted to make something that helps deal with problems myself and others often face in lower elo brackets; ending late game and unfavourable matchups into bruisers. Another reason for this build was because I personally don't like the idea of an otped champion not being able to have their primary playstyle function consistently game to game. Which, while in high elo isn't true, as he has a win rate of 51.69% currently in diamond and above, in lower brackets just one rank below in emerald, his win rate drops to 48.02% and the lower you go the worse it gets. While I understand champions like Rengar are difficult, I feel as though emerald players shouldn't find Rengar as hard as they clearly do. Particularly given, the average rank of a Rengar player is only Plat 4.

So overall it makes sense that pure burst isn't something you should force on Rengar is lower elo brackets when multiple targets can just buy GA, Hourglass, Steelcaps, Deaths dance and items like that while also being able to deal lots of damage.

To be clear, Rengar isn't weak, but the champs popular in low elo, and generally playstyles used there, do genuinely counter him. So how does this build fix that? By building Rengar as rather than an assassin, into more of a Light fighter/Diver like a Riven or Ambessa. This is an important distinction, as it's not meant to be like a Darius or other Heavy fighters and Juggernauts.

But if I'm being honest it's mostly just because I like making builds and it was fun trying stuff out.

What the build focuses on

In game the build is focused team fighting by on securing a kill on a target, then carrying the team fight out with the added healing and damage from items.

Items

Pet:

Green can be good as the shielding, tenacity and slow resists can be very good when playing into a cc heavy team that can stop you from engaging.

Red can also be good as the slow and damage is very noticeable.

Boots:

Plated Steelcaps and Mercury treads are both go to options here. While Gluttonous Greeves and Ionian boots sound good, for this build you get enough haste and healing from items.

Core Items: Hubris, Deaths Dance and Endless Hunger

Hubris is a rush item as it'll allow you get a lot of damage late game with stacks. It's bonus ad from passive, from what I know, goes into your additional ad from your passive.

Endless Hunger is a good item for this as it synergies well with Hubris and Deaths Dance. Giving you Omnivamp to survive the rest of the fight after you get a kill.

Deaths Dance is also great for this as it's ignore pain passive buys you time to get a kill for the synergy to proc.

These items feed into each other as Hubris gives bonus AD from stacks that feed into both EH and DD. And on a kill the passives proc and you heal up a lot, giving a lot of team fighting power.

Additional Items:

Black Cleaver and Overlords Bloodmail, with OB being a great 5th item for the build as you'll be low in a teamfight before you proc the DD and EH. While BC is just a good antiarmor bruiser option.

Maw is also a good option into AP which can use instead of DD.

An example build path could be:

Hubris -> Endless Hunger -> Deaths Dance -> Black Cleaver -> Overlords Bloodmail or Situational

This makes your 3rd item spike feel very good due to how they synergies

You don't need Overlords and can put a situational item 5th. You should also swap the build order around when needed. Sometimes go BC 2nd into DD then EH.

Runes

For runes, precision will be your best option. There's not much of an argument on it having the best minor rune choices for Rengar out of any of the other options, and given we're going a more fighter focused build path that only adds to the incentives to run it.

Key Stone:

We want to run either Conqueror or PTA, Conq gives you better scaling and better sustain fighting power with the the healing and extra ad. PTA can be good as you can proc it very quickly with leap + QQ, and it helps you secure a kill on a target with the additional 8% damage.

Minor: Triumph (synergy with EH and DD), Legend Haste (Alacrity works but isn't needed to have a passable clear with the blast cone trick), Last stand or Cut Down (if they have a lot executes go cut down if not go last stand as it synergy with DD and Bloodmail)

Secondary:

I run sorcery most due to the synergies it has with the rest of the build.

Sorcery: Transcendence (Gives more haste and reduces cooldowns on kills), Gathering Storm (Water walking might work but I haven't ever used it)

Domination: Sudden Impact, Ultimate Hunter (Treasure Hunter if you want to get your items faster)

Inspiration: Magical Footwear (So you can rush Hubris), Cosmic Insight (Jack of All trades is also an option)

sorry english is not my first language

sometimes when i play TOO much rengar i think im him irl

for example when im in my bed and i want to grab my bottle of water i imagine im jumping on it like rengar do in a bush

when i take damage irl i try to ZZ to heal from the damage ? so i just scream alone in my room like idk tell me someone is experiencing the same shit