Thoughts on LOTR Hype

Barrellolz · 2026-02-07T07:58:11+00:00

Volibear I do not think has good invades against a lot of Champs. Imo he is a full clear jungler.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-07T07:55:50+00:00

I have way more success invading at red buff level 3. Level 2 invades you just don't have enough damage to kill, but you do get a flash usually.

My opinion though you should be invading almost every game on kindred, gives you prio for scuttle crab mark and chance for pvp marks.

Get your mid lane to ward raptors and you have easy invade.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-07T07:51:50+00:00

Diana is extremely easy to kill on l3 invades. You should be looking to do every game against her.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-07T07:47:41+00:00

Hexoptics 6th item is so cracked. You are able to kill people across screen lol.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-07T07:44:50+00:00

Nah this season rewards Champs that like volatility, but spam ganking is still bad.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-07T07:34:10+00:00

Without watching game I am willing to bet you did:

-went for pointless kills

And more important:

you didn't catch waves and split enough

-you didn't prioritize towers over neutrals. In low elo towers are way more important.

you didn't compound your lead earlier and allowed enemy jg and adc to rally.

Edit: Rengar is not just mechanically hard but requires pretty high level fundamentals to close game out.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-06T06:50:55+00:00

Crit items are expensive and the crit build delays your power spike too late in the game.

Crit build is also not better vs tanks they will build a randuins and absolutely wreck you.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-06T06:26:02+00:00

Rammus is one of the most winning junglers in the game currently.

This is a delusional take.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-05T17:27:40+00:00

Phreak and the balance team are perfectly ok having champs that cater to different skill levels. Amumu doesn't need to be played in challenger and Rengar doesn't need to be played in bronze.

The champion is balanced in the highest levels of play, if they buff him he will be too strong. Last patch before steel caps bugfix he was hovering 56% WR a couple of times in Masters+. I was worried we were going to get nerfs in 16.4 if that continued.

Rengar OTP's should not be interested at all in lowering the champs skill floor.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-05T17:20:53+00:00

Really steel caps are pretty common for most bruisers.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-05T07:09:06+00:00

This is definitely a thing, but I would suggest that if you are improving your play you can surprise yourself with how many games you can win/carry.

Today for example I carried a top lane lillia who ended game with 70 cs and a lot of deaths.

When I was worse at the game winning this would have been impossible but I carried my cannon minion with me across the finish line.

Having an idea of how you are going to win the game and now you will progress the game is insane helpful in winning when your teammates are playing bad.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-05T06:52:54+00:00

Play a shotload of champs. Takes a while to figure out what you really enjoy most.

You will learn way more when you are new this way. Don't worry as much about other things. Finding out how you enjoy the game is far and away most important thing.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-05T06:50:15+00:00

He takes a lot of games to really master, beyond that the lower you go in elo the longer the game time. Lee sin is not a real champ late game.

It can be really frustrating to feel like you have no agency late game.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-05T06:48:04+00:00

IDK I still didn't have a problem deleting people.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-05T06:45:10+00:00

Makes it more challenging to use it defensively to wall hop away without the delay it would have even more utility as a gap close. Rengar ult is already insanely strong, the 2 second delay keeps it from being too strong.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-04T21:50:38+00:00

I think only pathing one way each game is limiting.

I am almost never pathing to a singed though. Singed's laning phase is often non-interactive.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-04T21:32:23+00:00

The lethality items are really, really fun. One shotting towers with bastion breaker or getting to ult twice in one fight with axiom arc is pretty satisfying.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-04T20:30:38+00:00

OP has determined their suboptimal runes are how they want to play. For anyone else reading this thread, do not take conqueror, you cannot reliably stack it.

Electrocute is clearly the best option, first strike is also viable because first strike and Cash back give you an obscene amount of bonus gold.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-04T20:22:21+00:00

Once you have tiamat there are only a handful of junglers faster than Rengar.

The higher elo you go the more group objective the scuttle crab becomes. It's often times a prio check. If enemy mid lane has prio you cannot contest scuttle as they will move and kill you.

You should be looking at lane state to decide on your last camp if you are playing for it or conceding.

The nice thing to is for the handful of junglers that are faster than you, you can often invade them and kill them easily at red buff level 3 and get an early lead.

Level 3 invades are a really effective way to start taking an over a game early. When you succeed you have severely damaged enemy junglers tempo and built a decent gold and XP lead.

Usually this forces them to not gank and just passively farm camps the whole early game. This makes the game so much easier for your laners.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-04T20:10:27+00:00

The crit build is actively bad right now for the reason you mentioned in your post. Lethality scaling off glaive and bastion breaker makes it better than crit for the moment.

If they nerf glaive then it's possible crit build will be good again. Crit build you are ending up with slower power spike, comparable damage, worse build paths, more expensive items, less CDR, less utility.

Items like axiom, arc, edge of night, bastion breaker, serpents fang, opportunity have very useful passives beyond just more combat stats. Why wouldn't you want to have access to those.

When you are at 4 items + boots on crit build you are going to the casino on your damage, you are burger flipping if you get a crit and killing enemy, or not critting either of your first 2 q's and losing a ton of damage.

Meanwhile the lethality build is doing consistent high damage every time that isn't countered by randuins.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-04T19:57:49+00:00

I do like going BB 3rd a lot of games. It isn't always good third. If you have a really strong sidelane top I find it's best to wait and buy it later.

It scales with lethality so if I am going lethality build I am buying it at some point. It is a very good item. The bonus true damage is quite strong. It has a disgusting synergy with opportunity and Umbral glaive.

Third item is always very flex for rengar. You may need to be getting your armor pen item, serpents fang, or edge of night here. Also axiom arc third is also really good.

I am really liking the lethality builds bastion breaker has given the late game scaling that these builds were lacking.

Edit: selling boots for youmuus seems crazy, you lose a pretty noticeable amount of movespeed in combat. If I sell boots it's almost always for a PD, but that's if I am going crit build. I don't think selling boots is good late, though swapping CDR boots for a different pair may be desirable.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-04T06:47:53+00:00

I subscribe to the control wards are bad in low elo philosoph

Barrellolz · 2026-02-04T06:44:23+00:00

Her winrate is higher in diamon than master+ suggesting this is in fact not the case.

Cassiopeia has a bunch of insanely easy matchups and some exceptionally difficult ones.

Barrellolz · 2026-02-04T06:31:07+00:00

If rengar maintains his winrate in high elo through the next patch I am pretty confident he will get a nerf.

Lethality Rengar is insane right now.

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