Riven: "I need to play this champ for 30 games minimum to learn the basic combos and even then, I am only useful if my player is semi-decent!" Renekton: "W"
@@VarsVerum or Tahm players when you break their 3k HP shield with the press of one button. Or the Yasuo who wants to trade with passive up, always hilarious.
As someone who plays alot of top lane bully champions (Darius, Illaoi). I kinda enjoy laning against Renekton. Its top lane in its purest form, 2 giant murder machines beating the hell out of each other for 15 minutes.
When I used to play lol that was the main reason why I hated ranged tops so much. Even if I'm playing to win, I care less about that and more about exchanging punches as much as possible
I used to play garen and it’s so fun to have a true fistfight on top like against darius and renekton but since vayne and aphelios got popular i now play full ap malphite and kayle and it felt like mid lane instead of top
This is why similar champs like Warwick, Tryndamere and Fiora are my favorite champs, the outplays and 1v2s you can make if you know your limits is insane. Kled, Renekton, Riven and Aatrox fall into this category as well, but I dont play them.
bruh getting fed as kled, then 1v1ing hecarim in rift pit after launching us both in there, then just getting skarrl and dumpstering this guy is so muc hfun
Renekton is the only low health brawler I respect, because he doesn't get any form of self defense apart from his sustain and ultimate, unlike bulshit 5 second invulerability or immunity to CC and a crazy attack speed steroid.
how about mordekaiser ''oops you caught me Darius, oh wait I ulted you and pressed w now you're trying to hit my 700 hp shield while losing 400 hp per second? yea good luck lmao.''
Damn this was my main back then. The amount of sustain this Croc has with insane damage especially when you use his passive. This champion almost has everything. I love this champion. I'm looking forward to this video. I recently discovered you and I'm liking it so far
this champion is being released on wildrift and there aren't that many op baron laners right now even riven isn't out yet just camilee,fiora, malphite nasus, darious olaf, kenen
Short answer:renekton go brrr Long answer:he is very good pick with good team fighting has a stun double dash and ult that gives him more hp and dmg per second has a lot of healing and good laneing
And he falls not because of low dmg, cause his numbers by abilities from ad are pretty good, just because 2 short dashes is not enough to prevent kiteing sometimes.
@@mateuszkucharski1350 damage does come into play however, unless you build bortk, renekton’s late game damage can be slightly underwhelming, once people figure out grabbing a bramble vest or get deathdance, Renekton is not as deadly
This video is truth! Something I always keep in mind with Renekton is he one of the strongest early game lane bullys hands down. What that means is, it is on the Ren player to capitalize if he wants to do well. You must punish every mistake, draw attention wisely, take heralds, invade jung, outplay, and snowball hard. Which is precisely why he's seen less in high elo. At that level of play you don't see as many blunders taking place at low elo. As more people have a good understanding on how to farm safely until power spikes and stay relevant until Ren falls off. If he's not getting solo kills in the early game it becomes very difficult to start matching his opponents power spikes in the mid game.
Huh, thats weird... from my point of view, EVERYONE plays Nasus and NOBODY plays Renekton... sure, im at a low elo permanently but still... weird to see this video
I like how at 10:35 Renekton gets jumped by 3 enemy champions, Ryze blocks the screen for a few seconds and then after he's gone you see Renekton still alive while having half hp and 2 enemy champions dea.
@@HooVeeHoo most of the reneks i play against do that so i just Q poke and do a quick trade of my own when they come in, you really gotta keep your shit on CD if renek knows what hes doing but otherwise its chill
I think something cool to see in the future is “why no one plays x role” or “why no one likes x role”. Examples would be “why no one plays support”, highlighting how a lot of players don’t enjoy being the playmakers who get no credit. Another might be “why no one likes adc” and highlighting how players dislike being so heavily reliant on unreliable teammates and the fact that even a super fed adc must be hand held all the way until the game ends or else they’ll just get 1v1 by the 0/10 Yasuo and then proceed to lose the game bc the Yasuo got a 1k bounty and now facerolls to win. Actually, I think this is pretty much why botlane (support and adc) see relatively lower play rate than top, mid, and even jungle. Botlaners are highly dependent on their teammates, which makes it really frustrating when you lose or win based on your teammates’ performances regardless of your own sometimes. There are plenty of times where I’ve won the early game and then immediately got destroyed by their super fed mid/top/jungle, then lose the game. There are far fewer times where the roles were reversed (me winning lane then beating the other winning lanes), and it tends to only happen in super specific counter matchups (botlane is lulu/vayne, while teammates are tanks/have cc, and the enemy Renekton got fed, for example). I think it’s this reliance on teammates that makes botlane a less fun experience especially in solo queue. Maybe I’m biased as a bot lane player but I think those could make interesting analysis videos in the future, if you’re interested in expanding beyond analyzing specific champions.
Dude, I became a support main bc back in the days when I played ranked there were no draft mode and it was "who calls first gets the role" and I was playing on a potato so I always was the the last one to enter the lobby and was forced to play support. I ended up enjoying that role and climbed up to high gold playing only support. Good ol'days !
I play blind. I learned every role and now I fill, even when some idiot botches lane call I snag smite or heal and play the role. I get flamed sometimes and some combos do not work, but for the most part it's all about getting the job done. Samira/ Vayne jg is slow to start but ganks op. Xayah mid/top is insane because no anime protagonist expects the roots and r is a get out of gank free card. Vlad support is weak late game (get that sup item, he's expensive), but his e and w slows and deaggros turret for those pesky adcs to get that kill (also, anyone ganking a Vlad sup is asking to feed). It's about understanding the role and how to get your champ to do it. That's why Swain sup is the OP sup that's not a sup. Play him as a root/grab for the adc and predict for that sweet w kill. That's why Eve laning is amazing... enemy is too afraid to farm, you're always ready to one shot, she melts turrets with Rabadon's and tp/ganking is a nightmare for your opponents. That's why Rakan mid is so weirdly satisfying. It's going off meta, thinking outside the box, but making some unconventional clutch plays because you know what you need to do. So you do it regardless of who/where you're playing.
He looks like an anime protagonist, talks like an anime protagonist and is voiced by Dio from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. No shit I'm gonna spam his broken ass in my games.
Illaoi is complete BS and counters literally every single melee champ in the game. Also what other melee juggernaut has an easy to land skillshot that just autoloses you the lane? Unlike Darius and Urgot, you dont even have to commit anything to Trade the other player completely out of lane.
@@Dingdong2730 If u lose to illaoi as renekton ur a cancer bad troll and u need to unistall. If u time e correctly the lane is complelty done but since these kids dont know how to play correctly, d4 hardstucks so cringe.
man I used to be a Renekton feeder because my play skill is so bad but lately I just discover that Renekton wasn't a farm champ but he's lane bully and this support my theory Thank you Mr. Vars
Uhh uhh. I’m picking up what you’re putting down. But to me, I’m just hearing a whole list of strengths and very few weaknesses. Hmmm, I smell overturned.
so 1 year ago everyone played renekton now no one plays renekton and if they do they hard lose the game Renekton from top tier pick to dumpster pick in less than 1 year
This was a great video, you do an excellent job of explaining a champions strengths, weaknesses, and the reasons for their high or low play rate. As a Zed main, I was wondering if you could do an analysis video on Why EVERYONE plays Zed?
Dude's my 1 trick and I LOVE him. Absolute insane champion lol, the work pays off, he's simple enough to just pick back up after a hiatus, and he can carry the fuck out of games Easily one of my favorite champions in the game
He falls out late in sense that you need flash or ghost to win team fight , he has kill power to devour enemy but you need correct build,i m thinking that boots with 100 move speed maybe are best i will try
tbh though, renekton can make it really, really hard for other champs to use their kits. Example: darius Q, aatrox's first 2 recasts of q and his w. He just makes it so hard to win with champs that require good spacing.
Renekton is the spacing champion worst nightmare, a tanky bruiser with a lot of damage and most importantly, mobility. Also CC. Also survivability. That croc is kinda busted ngl
To be honest if a new league player would ask me to pick him a champ that would excel in top I will suggest Renekton. Easy to pick up, decent mobility, and flexible build path. To add, you may also play him mid.
just got league up and running again thanks to your videos it has renewed my love for the game and won my first game back on the rift ^_^ thanks again for the amazing content ❤️
Big tip, those large blocks of white text you put in the video are really annoying. I feel like you’re trying to make me read an essay whenever they pop up, instead of doing video content. A simple title header would suffice, and your explanation caps it off. It’s even worse cause you don’t go word for word of the white text... Hope you remove them in the future! Remember the audience is watching a VIDEO, not reading an essay. Look at MatPats Gametheory vids for a good example. He explains stuff, but never puts anything more than 3-4 words on the screen
Nick S. Yeah that champ is so bullshit. The only reason the community doesn’t complain more about him is because only around plat+ is where people start to play him well enough to be OP, he does take skill and a lot of games to master, I hate to admit. The kit is just way too overloaded and he can just do too much compared to all other champs. He is an assassin who 1 shots adc at 2 items, yet has no problem with tanks either due to max health damage on both passive and W passive. 2.25 seconds aoe stun, that in itself is the most broken thing for teamfights. Insane dash/engage range, with rocketbelt can dash tower to tower in the midlane. Good short trades with passive movespeed, also a safetynet if engage a target you can’t burst. The Ultimate I dont even have to talk about. Then there’s a whole other Factor of how these abilities and passives interact with eachother along item actives like Hourglass and Rocketbelt.
@@Dingdong2730 im glad that more people are on my side with that. I would really like it, if Vars would talk about him in his future videos. When the next video comes out maybe one of us can copy your comment and post it there.
I have a question, I have seen that people loves sett and he is so strong, but am i the only one who thinks that his image looks like someone photoshopped his face there? Really, when i first saw it i thought it was the face of a youtuber and the face was anotherone
W: long ass stun (even more with PTA). Q: Similar to Darius's Q but shorter (i guess this is why they reworked Darius in season 5 since 2 instant heal was not ok), E: a bruiser w/ 2 gap closers is fine btw and R: bullshit Renekton aka Tryndamere with more mobility but no undead ultimate
thats the class i hate the most juggernauts , renekton garen darius urgot need legit zero skill to function they go 1 offense item into full tank and stomp nearly all time their lanes most of them got insane sustain mixed dmg true dmg max health or any shit then there is riven she gets counterd by cloth armor pog
Warwick was the first champ I ever bought when I first started playing. But Renekton was who carried me out of bronze and into gold. Since then, I've always kept him as my main. I think I started in S2, and picked him up at the end when I felt top WW was too inconsistent. Only got Renekton because I had literally never seen anyone play him and he was one of the 6300 IP champs so figured he was good, and he looked awesome. Best choice I ever made I say. Did make me sad to see so many other people start to play him as time progressed though. Kinda liked being in the minority. Even more saddened by the fact I can't just pick him so easily for a win now. Hw feels weak in the current meta. Even getting fed doesn't help
I know im late but should do one on some of the lower played champs like singed or something just to see why people end up being otp's with them >-< edit I know the reason being a singed otp myself but would still like to see a vid on the lower played champs in general (doesnt have to be singed but it would be nice :) )
The rage management ruins the gameplay for me, for example your oponent has shit positioning on lane and you are about to e-w hus mistake, but WHOOPS YOU HAVE 51 RAGE NOW ENGAGE IS UNOPTIMAL AND YOU HAVE TO STACK ANOTHER 50 RAGE TO CAST EMPOWERED W
Easy answer: cause he's a *NEURON ACTIVATION* champ. That's also the reason for champions like sera or ivern, who have been giga broken for a hell lot of patches, to almost not being played at all. Because their playstyle is now "flashy"
3:28 I'm extremely annoyed by the fact that you decided to cover the screen with that text EXACTLY when Renek was dived and killed all 3 of them. I was actually paying attention... ☹️
I've been playing for 7 years and besides those times he gets really popular and meta, I almost never see this champ so I'm also surprised that he falls under a Why Everyone Plays video.
@@Kuran1986 true. I started playing league in September, but 100 hours seems like a lot for how recently I started. Prob the most I've played a game in the time span that I've started playing
Riot games just banned me from league of legends yesterday because I am Iranian. Their words not mine. It also means they hundreds I've spent in the game, are also now literally stolen.
I love your videos but damn, every time you reply a non absolutely-positive comment it sounds so passive agressive hahaha chill dude, we are all idiots in the internet
Tbh i have never considered renekton strong, i would even say that i see him as rather easy matchup. But after this video you nearly convinced me to try him again.
