PROS WHEN PICKING RENGAR + Great in jungle duels and skirmishes. + Rengar is very versatile with runes and item setups. + Mechanical, fast-paced and incredibly fun to play. + His Battle Roar is among the most broken abilities in the game. + One of the most satisfying champions to master.

CONS WHEN PICKING RENGAR - Definitely one of the harder junglers in the game. - Limit-testing is crucial, you will need to play him a lot. - Your ganks aren't that great till you have Thrill of the Hunt; you'll need to improvise. - Enemies roughly know where you are when you use Thrill of the Hunt.

Since Rengar can go for multiple trees and thus make diverse rune-pages I'll go over a few basics here:

Lethal Tempo Lethal Tempo is the most amazing rune on Rengar and he can stack it quickly, it allows you to get a lot of Attack Speed while skirmishing in the jungle. Combined with double adaptive runes this grants you a lot of extra damage. It is useful later in the game, however it's less useful if fights are based on you assassinating a squishy champion. You can take Lethal Tempo if you think you'll be going for extended fights throughout the game or when you go bruiser Rengar with Trinity Force.

First Strike First Strike is one of the best keystones on Rengar. It allows you to snowball the game out of control with the extra gold it grants; since you'll get your items faster. Going into the Inspiration Tree also allows you to take Magical Footwear (which gives you extra bonus movement speed), Future's Market (for faster item spikes) and Cosmic Insight for lower Smite cooldowns. True damage also helps a lot later in the game when enemies have started building armor.

Electrocute This rune is amazing for when you gank and later in the game when you want to be one-shotting targets who aren't easy to catch. Electrocute is also a viable strategy when playing against champions who can go into invisibility, you can oneshot them before they go invisible.

Dark Harvest Dark Harvest is amazing when you fight a lot; it allows you to scale even better than Electrocute if you can get yourself some kills. Combined with the item The Collector, the rune Dark Harvest proves lethal.

Hail of Blades Hail of Blades will allow you to combo someone to death really fast and is especially good for early fighting. Hail of Blades is especially good when targets aren't that hard to catch (e.g. don't have dashes). It gives you more damage than the enemy and above all of that it allows you to go into the Domination tree.

Fleet Footwork Fleet Footwork allows you to kite people more easily than you ever could with other runes; the healing gets stronger the later the game goes. There is no reason to play this rune anymore while the runes listed above are also available; you want damage, not healing.

Precision In the Precision tree you can combo two of the following: Triumph, Legend: Alacrity or Legend: Tenacity or Legend: Bloodline and Coup de Grace. Personally I like to go for a more early game based approach if I take Precision, since I want to try and snowball on Rengar; that is Triumph with Legend: Alacrity.

Domination You could go for Relentless Hunter or Ultimate Hunter, since they are both amazing tools for extra map impact and pressure. For the second rune you can go Sudden Impact for early-game power or Eyeball Collection for scaling.

Sorcery In the Sorcery tree you can go for Absolute Focus and Gathering Storm if you want to scale even harder. Transcendence can be taken for some free extra ability haste. Waterwalking is another possibility; this rune is good when you want to invade fast (movement speed) or fight in the river. Nimbus Cloak and Nullifying Orb are also options you could go for, however they're way less useful than the other runes.

Resolve In the Resolve tree you can take Bone Plating. Revitalize is also an amazing rune on Rengar. This could be an idea in some of the hard early-game matchups.

Inspiration In the Inspiration Tree taking Magical Footwear for the gold efficiency is the best. Furthermore, you can choose between Future's Market and Cosmic Insight, however keep in mind that Cosmic Insight was nerfed this season.

There are quite a few options for Rengar depending on your playstyle and the enemy team-composition. Take your time in champ-select and decide which runes will work best in that specific game. Take either one Attack Speed rune shard with one Adaptive rune shard or just straight go for two Adaptive rune shards, this choice is based on your preference, just remember that Attack Speed is more useful early-game if you don't go Lethal Tempo. Last rune shard is optional, but remember that Shield helps against monster damage.

Emberknife Emberknife works really well vs a lot of matchups, including Assassin matchups and dueling matchups, since it reduces the enemy damage with a whopping 20% for 4 whole seconds while you gain an X amount of true damage (depending on your champion level) for 2,5 seconds after you've smited the enemy. The burn works with in-game ticks and resets with every basic attack.

Hailblade Hailblade is, at most, nice if you want to have that extra utility (slow) on your ganks and invades. It also deals damage instantly instead of overtime allowing you to one-shot people even faster.

DUSKBLADE Duskblade of Draktharr is an item that grants Rengar the damage and lethality to assassinate squishies. However, this is not the main reason we buy Duskblade of Draktharr since Prowler's claw can do the exact same. Duskblade of Draktharr shines the most when your gameplan is to assassinate someone, get out of the fight through the invisibility and then decide whether you want to jump in again or get out of the fight. The downside of Duskblade of Draktharr is less single-target damage and direct mobility than Prowler's Claw.

TRINITY FORCE Trinity Force is a very versatile item on Rengar. Trinity Force gives Rengar a lot of damage, attack speed and mobility; but it also allows Rengar to survive many more battles. Furthermore, Trinity Force gives you a lot of strength and mobility in sidelanes. Enemies simply won't expect the pushing power you have with Trinity Force. It allows you to clear waves very quickly AND you'll deal more damage on turrets because of your Sheen passive, which will be on a 1 second cooldown when combined with Ingenious Hunter. If you want to carry games, then Trinity Force is the Mythic you should go.

ECLIPSE Eclipse shines in extended fights and it also gives you an incredible amount of dueling power. Eclipse is really good against champions that heavily rely on high cooldown abilities to deal damage, like Gragas, since you gain a shield every 8 seconds. Eclipse scales incredibly well with the amount of armor penetration it gives.

GOREDRINKER Goredrinker gives Rengar an incredible amount of health and sustain, especially when you combine it with your Battle Roar. Since this item gives you so much health and sustain, you take Goredrinker into team-compositions that you won't be able to do much against after you jump in with Thrill of the Hunt, like a lot of tanks and crowd-control. You won't be useful if you just get one-shot without being able to do anything. At the moment Trinity Force build is better.

WIT'S ENDThis might seem like a strange item on Rengar, however Wit's End gives you magic damage on an AD Assassin! Not to mention the splitpushing power and attack damage/speed the item grants. It is also very useful against champions that deal AP damage, since the item grants you magic resist.

BLADE OF THE RUINED KINGThis item has a few things going for it. Blade of the Ruined King grants you extra splitpushing power, because it's on-hit damage works on minions. Furthermore it also gives you Attack Damage and Attack Speed which are both very useful stats on Rengar, both in battles and when you are splitpushing. The lifesteal it grants allow you to survive more battles and regain your HP without recalling.

DEATH'S DANCEOne of the best item's in the game: Death's Dance makes you incredibly tanky because of the delayed physical AND magic damage you get from how the passive works. Furthermore, it gives you a good amount of Attack Damage and Armor AND on top of that you heal a lot of HP when you get a kill/assist on an enemy!

MAW OF MALMORTIUSAnother exceptional item: Maw of Malmortius makes you incredibly tanky against enemies that build Ability Power. On top of that, you get a fat shield whenever they try to burst you down or execute you. Keep in mind that you can't stack item's like Immortal Shieldbow and Maw of Malmortius.

LORD DOMINIK'S REGARDSAt some point in the game, the enemy team will have gained a lot of armor, whether its through levels or through building armor-based items. Lord Dominik's Regards will allow you to shred through, and top of that it grants you extra damage if the enemy has 200-2000 more MAX HEALTH than you do. With the reworked Rengar, critical strike chance also amplifies your basic attack damage.

ESSENCE REAVERWith Essence Reaver, a damage-oriented build will deal a lot more damage. The passive proc of Essence Reaver works with the amount of AD you have at that moment. If the game drags on for a while or if you are snowballing and you get the chance to build more damage-oriented items, the passive of Essence Reaver will grant you a lot of extra damage. With the reworked Rengar, critical strike chance also amplifies your basic attack damage.

INFINITY EDGEThe Mythic Infinity Edge gives you a 35% increase to all damage that comes from critical strikes. That's it honestly, it just amplifies your damage by a LOT. With the reworked Rengar, critical strike chance also amplifies your basic attack damage, furthermore your Savagery always crits.

BLOODTHIRSTERYou take Bloodthirster for extra damage, crit chance and extra healing. However, that's not the only reason why you buy Bloodthirster. The item gives you quite a big shield; which equals to a lot of extra survivability, especially when combined with item's like Death's Dance.

IONIAN BOOTS OF LUCIDITY Currently these boots are extremely cost-efficient for the stats (ability haste) it gives. If you don't need the defensive/tenacity stats of the other boots this is a must-go.

MERCURY'S TREADS These boots are very useful if you need some Tenacity. Tenacity becomes even more useful when you're building a bit more tanky or when the fights are extended.

PLATED STEELCAPS A valid choice against heavy AD teams or champions that heavily rely on auto attacks. Again, defensive stats work better with more HP.

With Rengar you have a lot to learn but there also small mechanics and a few tricks you might not know yet:

#1. You have a time-window to jump on a target after you leave a bush; which means that you can do some jumps that you think you couldn't do. Furthermore, because you have a time-window, having more movement speed (e.g. with Fleet Footwork, empowered Savagery or items like Youmuu's Ghostblade) means you can jump further since you have a bit of extra time to do the jump and thus can take the jump later; allowing you to close the distance between you and the target. TLDR: Movement speed equals bush jump range.

#2. You can jump to all auto-attackable objects, including objects placed by champions, all wards and jungle plants. This allows you to do cool stuff, for example jumping to a ward and then to an enemy from there. This is very important to keep your ferocity stacks and to move around the map faster.

#3. There is a mechanic that allows you to use your Savagery thrice. Get full ferocity before a fight and wait for all your abilities to go off cooldown (you can see it ticking if you look at the abilities while in empowered mode) and after that just do a normal combo on someone, but now with an extra Savagery after it. Remember that you can use your abilities mid-air and that Thrill of the Hunt does not remove your ferocity.

#4. You can use Scryer's bloom to get vision of enemies, objectives or camps. Having vision means you'll be able to jump on it, if it is in range. Useful when you want to clear your Red Brambleback or Krugs for example.

#5. Hitting blast cones, scryer's bloom's and honeyfruits allow you to keep stacks. Being in combat (also taking damage from camps) will reset your passive. Keeping your stacks, for example, by tanking damage from one small raptor or mini-krug before a gank or fight is also very useful.

#6. Don't immediately jump on a target, especially in low-elo, if they have a dash of some sort. Most of the time if you just show yourself (by walking into their vision-range) they'll use the mobility ability as a reflex. If you jump after that, they'll have no chance of escaping.

#7. The difference between a decent and a bad Rengar is often which empowered ability they use in different scenarios. Think about what you want to do; sometimes using your Bola Strike to root an enemy to allow your team to kill him, is better than doing just a bit of damage but letting the enemy escape with low-health. Don't use your Battle Roar too early, this is a mistake a lot of people make; you're a glass-cannon with the assassin build; take as much damage as you can before using it to use it for it's fullest potential (given you don't need to use it to one-shot people).

#8. Don't use your ultimate Thrill of the Hunt prematurely; remember that it is also a tool to exert pressure. If you use it too early (way before a fight begins), people can just wait it out and you won't have the same amount of pressure anymore.

#9. If you're playing Teleport, you can use your ultimate ability before the Teleport instead of using it after the channel.

In this section we will talk about some champions that synergize good and work well with Rengar. We will also talk about some champions that do not synergize at all with Rengar, but can still be a good asset to the team. Think about something like Brand in an AD heavy team, since there is the chance that your midlaner takes an AD champion.

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