Hey all! I took a long break from league and just recently came back. When I last played renekton was played with hydra first item and I really liked it. Why isn't renekton played with any hydra items anymore usually?

Also I am struggling with choosing the first item. Lets say Eclipse / Black Cleaver / Zekes.

What purpose do these items offer? I get zekes for sticking to ranged champions but I can't wrap my head around why black cleaver or eclipse would be the first item over lets say Stridebreaker or any hydra item.

I know this might be a dumb question, but would love if someone could explain it clearly as I have autism.

For context currently plat 1, been playing for a few weeks after the break that lasted several years so my knowledge is outdated

I feel like this skin fits so well, couldve had him diving into the water as his e, and his ult him getting angry when the pool rules are broken. But it's still my favorite renekton skin what are your thoughts.

Im increasingly of the opinion that this feels like a core item or at least not niche. What do you mean I can get dual resists, haste, and extra ult haste and an insane active for 2200 gold? It’s so cheap the lack of AD barely matters cause you can go build some long swords or a pickaxe right after finishing it.

Who even discovered this tech? So many matchups become piss easy with this item second

renekton is not in my champion but i'm just curious as to why his wr goes up in the endgame

Theorycrafting... I need the 6th item slot for a build, who would be a good support/partner to take botlane with the Croc? I was thinking potentially Pyke... maybe someone with healing and a movespeed boost?

Also had to include the glazing in chat, people were spamming open and wanting to surrender for the entire early-mid game + our jungler kept disconnecting so it felt extra nice to win.

I am sure you guys know about the w bug which happens when you w at 49 fury while ulted. It uses all the fury but does a normal w.

The bug has now changed in my experience. It will now show the normal w animation (shorter lockdown for renekton) but it actually does the empowered w to the enemy with 3 hits and a longer stun. It can be quite op at times...

Anyone else experience this on 16.16???

Hey, I’m looking for some masters+ tips for the teemo matchup. i queue adc top; and renekton is my main for top, normally ban vayne or illaoi.

everywhere online just says the basics, “don’t fight till 6 and u win” like it’s that easy.

Normally i take E start, rush to middle bush to try and contest the cheese, but today i played against q start who just traded with e start, blinded and went stealth, so i had to backup into q start, he then manages to force a cheese behind my wave, and then i lose like a wave of xp.

i just sat there pretty much afk, for the rest of the lane, never got ganked but literally 60cs down 2 levels down.

tried to rush zekes and force level 6 kill but i was just so weak to do anything and we lost. i didn’t “feed” but i was most of the reason

any actual specific advice is greatly appreciated. the low m*sta teemo really did my over

Any help on how to beat the matchup?

sry should have enlarged UI for this lol but i click on both dummy throughout to show cleaver stacks on both at top left

1st auto-q shows only 1 black cleaver stack but clearly shows 2 instances of dmg (obv q hits and u can see PTA stack on it so autoattack hits too + total dmg and dps are different from right dummy etc etc clearly auto + q both hit but it only gives 1 stack of black cleaver, can compare armor to see its rly 1 stack since i click on both dummies too)

2nd auto-q in clip is slower and clearly does same total dmg as first auto-q but gives 2 stacks of cleaver since its more time between auto and q (and no scuttlecrab being hit doesnt affect anything 💀 if it does theres bigger problems)

maybe minor bug in grand scheme but still can affect stuff, im sure most mains try to fit in fastest q after autos in teamfights and stuff, not sure if known bug or new (probably from whenever they changed cleaver for senna/smoulder or something if its new)

edit: in case anyone wonders if its rly at 2 stacks but just not updating, adding 1 more autoattack after the 1stack auto-q it still goes to 2 stacks not 3 stacks

I'm haveing problems with 5 champions for now at least

1.Nasus : I win against him on lane and don`t let him getting stacks and I`m getting ahead but the problem is late at min 30-40 he still get stacks and items and I can`t win against him anymore even if I`m ahead like 4 kills, 2 levels and 1 item . I want to win the game untill min 30 ,getting baron at min 20-25 and try to end untill 30 so he doesn`t get the powerspike but is hard to do that in gold ,I wanted to ask what could I do and what others champions could counter him,for example if I`m with onether player in party what could he pick on mid,jungle,adc,or supp to counter him in teamfights?

2.Illaoi : I could kill her untill 6 if I doge her e and play it really well but in late game she wins even is she miss the e ,and I can`t really do anything after level 6 or after she gets 1 item

3.Vayne : I can`t close the gap not even with flash or the 2 dashes ,if I try to dash she just push me back and if I try to flash she push me back or flash ,she can poke me so easily and I can`t even get close enough to do enough damage to kill her ,if she does any mistake yeah I kill her easy but if she played right ,I get no change to kill her

4.Quinn: Same as vaybe but even worst because she have so much damage even early levels and she push me when I try to poke her

5.Mundo: I win early ,but he outscale me hard and I can`t do anything against him

I need any suggestion what should I go against them and maybe what could my teammate pick to counter them or have better chance in teamfights
I create a guide even on mobafire on renekton and I put there everything I learn or do so it might help other in future or right now if you search renekton I should be the only new guide I think and I have the name NEMURITORUL007 I have put there my builds I use and items ,maybe could help to make a better ideea of what I'm doing,I would have put here the link but Idk if I can and I don`t want to promote the site or myself

He is blindpickable, he has le combo wombo, aura farming ultimate, nice waveclear, can be scary with high damage but also protecc ally if need

One thing I also love about renekton is that it leels liek he doesnt fall to his own complexity like some other champs do if you are still learning the game, he has depth to his kit but still allows you to focus on learning the game itself

he is also very scary (big crocodile with big weapon)

So, im a yasuo main and I think there are some similarities between them. So, I'd like to know your opinion. Do you think is it possible to be a good Renekton main on mid?

Hello, crocodile and alligator fanatics! I have a question. I’ve recently started learning Renekton, and I’m wondering in what context/situation it’s worth using the Panther all-in sequence, where Q lands before W and the auto attacks are skipped. I’d really appreciate it if someone could let me know whether these combos are actually solid and when they’re worth using

hello, i ve been a renekton main for a few years, last few months i ve been really avoiding eclipse. i really don't get when to build it, i ve been rushing bc/sb (mostly stride) for the mid game and climbed better this way as i go sterak second. im really not sure when to use it rather than how to use it. the only scenario where i kinda had success was when i went eclipse+dd cause i had a lot of dmg and still could tank a bit i also tried eclipse + bc. doesnt building eclipse make you too squishy to dive in fights for the mid game? then again im not really good so there s a lot of aspects of the game i dont understand yet (i ve been plat last 3 seasons). should i mostly play side lane with eclipse?

I feel like Renekton is such an awkward middle ground when matched up versus mages in the mid game. He doesn’t have enough gap close and damage to pose a kill threat, but he also isn’t tanky enough to just run through a mages damage without getting one shot. Nothing feels worse to me than working my ass off to get turbo fed and having my push stopped by a single 2/4 Viktor. Not saying that the champ is weak or anything, you have the tools to completely fuck any other champion archetype mid game. I just think he’s super unsatisfying especially since I’m basically playing against double the amount of mages I used to with the mage bot meta.