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Renekton - Nothing will stop me!

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Nice Guide

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wrong runes,wrong masteries, wrong summoner smells. So many wrong in this guide

Doran's Blade or Shield is good, because of a few things. I don't want to talk about it, I want to talk about the "when". The when is when your enemy just can't handle too much harass in early. When this fact is true, then you have to start with a Doran's Blade, to get your advantage in early. The second "when" is when your enemy uses mana, deals psyhical damage and the jungler does the same, or has skills which deals psyhical damage, and hurts. Then you have to use Doran's Shield. There's a lot of NO, to dont use it, or dont use that. This is my own selection, and voting down because I do it on this way, and I do it efficiently, but you aren't, is just not a real reason. Also, Renekton isn't an endgame champion... Mid and early-endgame champion - feel the difference -, where he just destroys any carry, in a teamfight, of course. The attackspeed, the movespeed helps you to deal damage without abilities, which is important if you're chasing a carry, who joined the fight right after how it started, but you didn't saw him/her and your abilities aren't ready yet.

Personally, I like the Sunfire Cape, because it gives HP, which is plus damage, not that much - but who doesnt estimate the little, doesnt deserves the big -, gives armor, and that's good, because an avarage team contains 3 AD, and the 30dps/sec is just a plus.

However, mostly I start with Boots and 4 HP pot. at this times, because newly this is my "most useful option" and not that I wrote above. The League of Legends always changes, because of the patches. Keep it in mind.

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You should just about never start with a Doran's item on anybody except a few champions. Also, youmuu's ghostblade isn't a very good lategame item and sunfire cape isn't that cost efficient. Upgrading to it gives very little more than what you had already. That 30 extra damage at lvl 18 isn't all that much because you're not constantly standing next to people.

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Voted +1

Well written guide, would be even better once this guide is finished. +1

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Thanks for replying my questions ^^ , i will try what you said the next time i play him.

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Its really nice guide and i already voted , but i have 2 questions if you can answer plx.

1- When i used to play Rene i was picking Vampiric Scepter as first item , it was enough for me to stay ear the minions and farm while ignoring an harass from the enemy as the lfe steal was enough to recover all the hp , do you think i should ignore this item as first item and go with doran shield? and why?

2- I also used to pick Ruthless Predator because most solo top try to do a first harass and the time they do i use my Ruthless Predator doing great dmg and i maybe can kill them if they couldnt reach the turret fast , so is Q skill is really better as first skill ? (I looked at other people guide and they also picked Q as first skill but i still wanted to ask).

Renekton just dont need Lifesteal. Sometimes Health Potion are good, but that's all what you need to get back HP, because on Rank 5 your Cull the Meek can heal 250-350 near a lot minion. Also, try to fight near minions to get back the most possible amount of health with your Cull the Meek. Well, and I didn't spoke about your Ultimate, which instantly grants 300/450/600 health.

Picking Ruthless Predator is a good way, sometimes I do the same, but this cant work against all enemy.
Against Akali it's the best what you can do, but against Rumble this is the worst. So, when your enemy need to get close to you when he wants harass you in early, pick Ruthless Predator. When your enemy don't need to stay near you to harass, pick Cull the Meek first, for farm.

About Slice and Dice - Maxing E instead of W -:
On Slice and Dice the cooldown is just too much. 18 seconds is too long. Also we can farm with it, and it deals more damage with the same amount of AD on rank 5 than the Ruthless Predator on rank 5. For an example, we have 200 AD: While Ruthless Predator deals 135+225% of your attack damage on rank 5 - it's 585 damage with Fury to 0 Armor -, the Slice and Dice deals 60 on Rank 1 +0.9/1.35 of your AD - 570 damage on Rank 1 with Fury to 0 armor. With Rank 1 Ruthless Predator this amount is 465 damage to 0 armor and with Fury, while the Slice and Dice Deals 825 damage and also shreds your target's armor, plus it's an AOE ability. So with Rank 5 Ruthless Predator and Rank 1 Slice and Dice the total damage is only: 1155 to 0 armor and with Fury, while with Rank 1 Ruthless Predator and Rank 5 Slice and Dice the total damage is 1290 to 0 armor with Fury, and also your target loses his 25% armor. Plus your farm is better, you can escape more times if it's needed and your Ruthless Predator's cooldown is not too much with some Cooldown Reduction - Mine is 8-9.5sec -.

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You have a decent grasp on Ren and your choices are mostly logical.

Your starting item choices aren't good though. Ren should really never start with a Doran's item. He needs to be aggressive in the lane and hp potions are the only way to quickly mitigate enough damage early on. That leaves you with boots and pots or cloth armor and pots. Because Ren will constantly push his lane while he harasses, running boots and pots is almost always best to avoid ganks and avoid damage.

For instance:

"When you face against a champ which has less sustain and early harass than you, buy this item, harass him to die, or simply send him back to take advantage, free exp. and farm.
E.g.: Udyr - Lee Sin - Rumble" Talking about

Rumble has the most anti melee harass in the game for the first 10 minutes. He will destroy Ren! He is a blatant counter pick and if you get him in your lane you should just try to farm and stay behind creeps to hide...the last thing you want to do is pick a fight...until 15+ minutes and even then you need to have built mr and outplay him.

Udyr has solid harass in tiger stance, and soaks harass better than Ren with Turtle stance...the only way you will win against one is to drain his mana by making him stance dance between turtle to mitigate you, bear to try to retaliate, and tiger to try to hit you but don't let him do that and that lies in boots.

Lee Sin is often completely immovable with his shield, inherent life steal/spell vamp and will absolutely crush a ren if he connects with q. Ren needs boots against Lee to avoid q best as possible. Lee also bounces around with his shield making it hard for Ren to get close enough to apply skills until Lee can hit with q (his win condition in that duel). Boots make it harder for Lee just to kite and poke you all day.

If not boots, cloth armor and hp potions so that you can stay topped off all the time and avoid the tons of free damage Lee's Q gives against weakened targets.

Also rushing a mogs early wastes the only part of the game that Ren is strong. Ren can do really well against a handful of fighters in top lane at the begging and snowball himself ahead.

The key to early game success is Armor Penetration. You need to shred their armor early on and do nearly true damage to them. You throw away your early game high damage by rushing a Mogs when you could be doing assassin's damage instead. Ren falls off quickly though...by the time you complete the Mogs, Ren's opportunity to change the game has ended and he becomes a warm body to soak damage for the team...

Given, Ren also fails horribly against certain counter picks and there is nothing you can do about it if they know how to play well- (Rumble, Vlad, Swain, Kennen, Lee Sin, WW to name the worst of the worst).

All in all Ren is UP and needs a buff as he just isn't worth playing currently...

If you go top lane against any of the counter picks, you will lose because Ren doesn't sustain for **** since they nerfed cull to not lifesteal off minions. He'll get harassed out of lane in no time...

Well, I don't know how much games do you have as Renekton, but I found those items as the most useful against them. The why is the following:
Rumble can harass you, if you stay close to him, but when he need to follow you to make damage on you... in early a normal Rumble wont do it, even he loses his farm, like you. After level 3 you can instantly dash forward to make damage on him. Since Rumble isn't who can sustain anything, and also useless if he bought a Doran's Shield without any more armor from Runes or Mastery, cause you can penetrate 100% of his armor, or at least 80% of his armor. So, after level 3 he just cant harass you enough times with enough damage, because you just go back, you wait his Flamespitter and you can land at least 300 damage on him - if you have 50 or more Fury -. A Rumble cant handle that damage before some Spellvamp. Also, if you can kill him before he gets his spellvamp, you already the winner on top. To play against Rumble is hard, but it depends on how tricky are you, on your tactic.
About Lee Sin: Probably not that tanky one in early. Doesnt matter how he can hit you, if you can deal 3x more damage. Well, starting with boots is another good option, but I like my Doran's Blade just because of the more HP and Damage. Lee Sin will start with Wriggle's Lantern, which means, he got armor, but no HP. Do you know what it means? His armor isn't enough to keep him alive, doesnt matter the lifesteal. Last day when I played Renekton I got 3 times a Lee Sin. There was who got skin, and who didn't, and a not skinny Lee had Legendary after the enemy swapped the lanes - I got a fed Ranged Carry and Lee gone bot - so I can say they were decent players, but on top all of 'em was bad. Renekton just simply stronger than them, if you know what you doing, of course.
Also, I agree what with your Udyr problems, but I dont think how you need more than a bit sustain. Well, just because he can harass it doesnt means how you cant, and also, Udyr cant handle too much harass from the enemy, even he need to max his Turtle Stance, and since you can harass well with Cull the Meek, he stays behind minions, or maxes Turtle Stance. First treat: You can farm cos Udyr wont come close to you. Second treat: Udyr lost his harass, because he maxed Turtle Stance.
And also you can stun him before he can apply his stun via Bear Stance, so you can Slice and Dice away like a racer croc, or you can land a Cull the Meek too.

Rushing mogs was a mistake, 'cos I forgot adding The Brutalizer first to the Purchase Order.

Also for me the only counters was Riven, Teemo, and Nidalee. Riven goes well now, he cant do nothing from the first mins, Teemo is hard, but not that impossibru, but, Teemo is who can destroy me on top only, and Nidalee maybe, but I need to buy a Chain Armor to counter she's damage, after Nidalee isn't that really scary enemy anymore.

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One more question why should i max his E second and not his W? i normally use E to be able to reach the enemy and use W then Q , and i see W as a great skill dmg wise.