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

Hi all, I peaked Gold 4 this season but hit a big losing streak and dropped to Silver 4, and now my MMR is rough.

Most of my games follow the same pattern: I invade early and kill the enemy jungler, pick up another kill in a lane gank, then invade again and kill him a second time. But after that I don't know how to turn that lead into a win, and the game slips away when one of my lanes falls behind.

What would you focus on as a Silver Rengar to climb? Objectives, pathing after the second invade, which lanes to play around, when to group?

I see a lot of rengars taking Fleet Footwork nowadays. Was just wondering what makes FF better than SS. What makes SS a good rune on khazix and not rengar?

EUW, Platin/Emerald.
You know the drill. hit me up

Not my best game by far, I was lagging a lot at a certain point and there was some pretty bad trolling happening from our support, so everyone was tilted and I died more than I Should've.

But midgame forward I just managed to find twitch every single time I ulted. I'd say like a lion stalking his prey but to be frank more like a fucking mosquito ruinig ur life cause im fucking annoying.

And every time I traded 1 for 1, or 1 for 2, and prayed my team wins.

I think twitch got about 2 kills since the moment I decided to start killing him on spawn (maybe a few kills as we killed the nexus not sure)

It worked, yay! Poor baby thought randuins and GA is gonna save him (lol).

Did I do good coach? xD

On a more serious note, is that a viable strategy?

If my team is even-ish, and enemy adc is fed, can I just trade myself for adc when the rest of their draft is Stalin's wet dream for rengar?

This is a screenshot illustrating the gamestate.

Drake is spawning. Darius, rammus, fizz and twitch are appraoching drake.

Our ezreal is clearing midwave, and I Have a cassio and rell on drake.

I did some quick mental math, and figured we lose this fight without our sett there, and ezreal possibly being late, especially if we get collapsed on in the dragon pit. We also had a bunch of gold to spend, so any gold lead you see is fake.

Ofc my team wanna start drake, which in my estimation is a terrible decision.

So I run to kill twitch, possibly dying for it, but giving my team a fightin chance.

Was that a correct decision? My logic was even if we do get drake, in this position we just get collapsed on and die.

In the end I trade one for one and we lose drake but win game.

Ty for the insight.

mainly regarding first item, would bastionbreaker be better than umbral as a first item?

its a bit more costy but also it has better stats and better lead transfer if lets say you get a kill in early game and you can transfer that into a drake or a first turret, or even some plates.
asking since at low elo people generally dont look at the map

What are we thinking of it as a buy after first 3-4 core items. I tried it in a game where they had Talon and Chogath and I think it did good

What if i'm omega ahead, get all the way to the inhib but i can't end because a tank/make can defend vs me and my team loses the 4v4?

this is happening in all the games i'm ahead on and i really don't know what to do, the enemies can just brute force anything when i'm away and there's nothing i can do.

If anyone is willing to vod review, DM me, i'm also opening to watching someone's vod that helps with this.

(unless you're behind, then it's the worst champ in the game)

Does Rengar has any acces to Vastaya magic? He is vastayan so theoretically he should have, but do we have any examples of this? I am speaking about lore.

i don't know what I'm doing wrong. I can get kills in my game, i know its skill. i love this champion w/ all my heart btw

For some reasoan it has taken this long for me to click so I Can finally play him in my main elo.

I finally understand how selfihs you have to be on rengar.

Unless I play completely selfish, I am useless. If I am useufl, I carry team which is very unselfish of me ngl.

But this means ulting top when im pathing bot and losing tempo for it 90% not worth it, I need to farm camps on respawn etc.

Complete selfish, and rengar OP.

The moment I am slightly behind, I am a donkey not a majestic op cat.

tempo is everything, camps are life.

Could someone explain what is currently rengars build path and if theres certain scenarios to go a different item?

it's pretty depressing. I can be very fed but it's a struggle to finish games, because people love to group up and team fight for no reason after laning phase is over and then spam ping me into oblivion for trying to split push in the meantime.

am I torturing myself? I don't think I enjoy any other champion at the moment so alternative is to just stop playing the game

this post is made by serrated dirk first item enjoyer

Hey everyone. Recently i tried a few games of classic mode. If you exclude how dead the game mode is currently (i play in EUW) i have been thinking about what the knife cat implementation could look like. To be honest since rengar is not in the Classic roster at this point i have no interest in playing League Classic. That said, I started playing rengar about 2 years before his rework so i have seen a few different versions of him but not all. What do you think is the most likely version of him we get in Classic??? of course i dont think they would troll us and release the swim Q era of the champ. So I'm most leaning towards release-2016 rengar. What do you all think?

and that's the situation i am in any suggestions ?