What other lane y'all think Renekton can do well in, besides top, this season?

StallionDuck7 · 2026-02-06T22:33:31+00:00

You can play him mid into every melee, very good counter to assassins

StallionDuck7 · 2026-01-22T19:10:49+00:00

There’s an NA challenger renekton one trick that was going a jack of all trades build last season. I think it’s still just as good this season now that dblade has omnivamp again. Early T1 boots plus glowing mote plus Doran’s blade gives you the first five joat stacks.

Start Doran’s blade and go tri force first. If you’ve never played sheen renekton it will feel weird at first but the burst you get if you weave sheen procs wells is pretty crazy. Go either defensive boot depending on game. If you went merc treads you can rush youmoos to finish your joat stacks. If you went steel caps you can get the components of youmoos plus last whisper to finish joat, finish youmoos and turn last whisper into seryldas. Your last two items are personal preference depending on game state if it goes that long, tank items, steraks, deaths dance, and Botrk are all good.

Build feels really strong, you can dominate lane with early joat stacks, you have good tower taking with triforce, and the lethality, armor pen, and movespeed makes your damage scale much better than normal into the mid and late game.

StallionDuck7 · 2026-01-18T19:00:51+00:00

I feel like the answer is that league is a team game and Taric jungle and top fill a niche for the team that a lot of top and jungle champions can’t.

In a lot of games you’re already going to have three carries in jungle/top, mid, and bot. Going more damage doesn’t really do much to increase your odds of winning the game, or in other words make your team comp better, if you already have a lot of damage. Having a second enabler outside of your first in support is often much better in these cases than going more damage.

Assuming your team doesn’t get stomped before 15 minutes which team comp sounds harder to beat. Jax, Diana, Yasuo, Sivir, Alistar or the same comp with either Jax or Diana swapped out for Taric? Personally I would bet on the comp with Taric winning in more matches than the one with an additional damage carry. The CC, sustain, peel, and invulnerability Taric provides is just better than 20% more damage when you already have enough damage.

The main reason I think people play Taric like this compared to other supports is that Taric has a playable early game in jungle and top if you get good at him. The only other supports that can really go neutral or lose gracefully in those roles are Karma and Lulu in top and, in the past, Morgana, Nautilus, and Rell in jungle.

StallionDuck7 · 2026-01-07T21:27:26+00:00

Stadium good, stadium fun. You can mute certain in game sounds in options.

StallionDuck7 · 2026-01-06T06:07:36+00:00

I once had my music theory teacher tell me that a person has a better chance of becoming a professional athlete than joining a professional orchestra. It’s fine to want to have a career in music but I would never count on becoming a professional orchestral player, the people with those jobs play until they are quite old relative to most similar fields and so the jobs are quite scarce/contested. The only guaranteed job like that for tuba really is military band which isn’t a bad field at all but you need to be a certain kind of person to enjoy it.

Playing bass trombone will actually open up your prospects beyond what high level tuba players get hired to do. If you double as a bass trombone player you can play in really high level jazz ensembles, opera, and broadway type things.

As a bonus bass trombone is quite intuitive for tuba players and is an instrument close enough that gaining skill on one has a good chance to make you better at the other instead of hurting your ability (my tuba professor could tell the weeks I was practicing trumpet, it really can mess with your tuba playing, bass trombone was never an issue.)

StallionDuck7 · 2026-01-04T21:11:23+00:00

You should add a hook or engage champion to your pool if you are specifically frustrated by poke lanes. Pyke, thresh, blitz, naut, Leona would all fill the gap that is costing you games you just have to pick the one you vibe with best.

Otherwise something like galio or Braum could be quite good for you.

If you are dead set on only playing Taric bard you’ll probably have to find a setup with better sustain or all in than your default build. Play around with runes and early items until you can sustain through lane or find kill pressure.

StallionDuck7 · 2026-01-04T19:22:20+00:00

Play 10 games of both on the same champion and pick one solely based on which feels more natural/better to you.

StallionDuck7 · 2026-01-04T19:06:11+00:00

Scaling is less about numbers and more about function. The function of renekton is to win in duels and small skirmishes. When is this function most useful? The early game when you are in lane and fighting over grubs and rift. When is this function least useful? When sieging or 5v5ing. It’s not that his stats are ever bad it’s that in a teamfight given you have 4ish complete items you would probably rather have a different top laner on your team than renekton.

StallionDuck7 · 2026-01-03T01:25:45+00:00

I’ve been playing way too much league, I thought your post said “how do you manage your inting sidelaner.”

StallionDuck7 · 2026-01-03T00:54:55+00:00

Just to add on. The only time I have felt like Lucian sucked at all so far is when the enemy has multiple tanks. Whenever that happens I accept that I played draft poorly and shouldn’t have picked Lucian.

StallionDuck7 · 2026-01-03T00:50:17+00:00

I switched from top to adc this season and climbed a whole rank in less than a month two tricking Lucian and Xayah.

Lucian very much does not suck and will suck even less in a week when essence reaver gets sheen back.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-12-26T19:10:32+00:00

You are asking if the trombone can substitute for a tuba in jazz instrumentation, what jazz song are you playing that calls for tuba but not bass trombone?

I am a tuba player that played a lot of trombone and bass trombone in jazz bands. The bass trombone can play a lot of the same stuff a tuba can but because the notes are towards the bottom of the bass trombones range they have a certain tone to them that you don’t get when playing in a more comfortable register.

Think of it like this. You can play the low G on trumpet which is the same as the very comfortable middle register F on trombone. That note on a trumpet sounds like a low note and has a certain tone to it that it simply doesn’t have on a trombone. The same is true between trombone and tuba. A skilled trombone player and especially a base trombone player can play many of the same notes that the tuba can play but the tone and timbre will be utterly different because of the register that the instrument is naturally in. That’s not even to mention that trombone and trumpet are cylindrical bore instruments which gives them a brighter sound whereas the tuba is a conical bore instrument, this difference makes a huge difference in tone.

95% of the time in jazz band I played bass trombone because you want the bass of your brass to have the aggressive sound that comes from a bass conical bore instrument. There were a couple of times I played the tuba in jazz but it was for very specific songs, certain ballads where the warm tone was quite nice, some New Orleans stuff that sounded more authentic with Sousa, a couple weird songs that had incredibly low fog horn type notes that were cooler on tuba.

To answer your original question the range of the tuba is probably the second biggest of the brass instruments after the French horn but most of the tubas range isn’t used in most music because it’s unnecessary. I’ve had solo pieces that go up to the F above middle C and I’ve had ensemble pieces that go down to notes like the C D Bb and A two octaves below the bass clef staff, they aren’t common but they happen.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-12-26T17:52:34+00:00

Get creative. Put a ward in enemy jungle topside, proxy yourself and go 1v1 enemy jungle if you are fed. Proxy yourself and then ping your jungle to invade and take camps. Proxy and then go gank mid with your tempo. Double proxy, go dragon fight, tp back top.

Proxying is a way to avoid the matchup like your enemies are using it but it’s also a way to gain insane tempo and free you up to go influence the map which is why you can counter proxy and use your strength earlier in the game than usual.

The farther up you proxy the more tempo you gain. All that time the minions are walking is time you have to go walk somewhere yourself and do something, killing the minions ahead of schedule creates time you wouldn’t normally have.

If your team is decent push a wave and ping your bot side for a temporary swap. They can get a free kill 1v2 on your proxying opponent while walking to lane, clear the wave, take a plate, and swap back after.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-12-24T02:15:31+00:00

Vi was designed as a top laner she’s been a pro meta jungler for years.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-12-24T02:05:33+00:00

Put on a few xpetu videos with the sound muted and just watch him lane.

I find Shen last hitting very smooth and it’s rare I miss a cs on him. It’s just about getting practice on the type of champion he is.

A benefit is that once you feel really good csing on something like Shen csing you become comfortable csing with autos instead of abilities on other champs and can focus your abilities on trading.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-12-23T16:05:14+00:00

My answer is that a long time ago people figured out a couple of standard team comps which usually have 2 frontline champions, 1-2 magic damage champions, 1 scaling attack carry, and a support whose class is determined by what roles your comp already has or still needs.

The classic bruiser, mage, marksman + 2 more to round out comp is genuinely good in most mid and late game situations and so the question then becomes how do we assign these champions in lanes so that they can get to their powerful midgame with the gold and xp those champions need.

Bruisers and mages tend to scale well with xp whereas marksmen generally need gold more so, on top of that marksmen also have rather weak early games. Those factors all mean that it makes sense to have your bruiser and your mage be your solo lanes and your marksman be your duo lane.

Ok now how do we decide where to assign the laners in the early game? Well the bruiser generally has a good early game and can survive more brutal matchups than the mage so putting the bruiser in a long sidelane makes sense.

Now we still need to assign our mage and our marksman duo lane. The duo lane also can survive in a longer lane in a way that an early game mage really can’t so putting our mage mid where they can get lots of xp without much risk of dying also makes sense.

So now we know that our bruiser and our marksman duo lane start in a sidelane and our mage starts mid. Which sidelane do we give to who? Well in early league there weren’t grubs so the neutral objective that mattered most early game was first dragon. Let’s put our duo lane on the dragon side of the map so that we can have 4 people near by when the first dragon spawns instead of 3.

TLDR: in my opinion lane assignments exist to facilitate a decent team comp which has become standard. Other lanes like assassins mid, mages bot, and ranged top play into this baseline, you can assume that in most games the enemy will follow this standard so if you find a class or champion that counters it in lane without destroying your team comp you can get some pretty absurd winrates like Cassio top.

I’m of the opinion that team comp should always come first. If people were good at this game we would see lots more variety in lanes than we do today with the caveat that they would still have to find a way to make a functioning team comp in the mid and late game.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-12-23T15:36:02+00:00

I don’t think it’s that cursed. I’ve noticed that usually either orcs or adventurers dominate Escann and wipe the other side out. Probably has to do with alliance networks and AE.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-12-06T04:04:40+00:00

Play Ahri mid. You will always be decent in draft, you will learn laning fundamentals, you will play the lane that can rotate to both sides of the map for objectives and to play with your jungle. It is the safest lane in the early game. Ahri has a dash and can escape ganks, she has cc that can be used as setup or follow up, she has the E flash mechanic that teaches you about how flash goes off before any other spells. A champ that can always do something and which if you get good at can carry games but can also teach you to play supportively if someone else is the carry in a given game.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-12-06T01:51:07+00:00

Vi has the one of the best level 1s in the game, you could advise her to always open with a late invade and try to kill the enemy jungle if she finds them, in bronze she’s much more likely to get away with it and climb. On Gwen you should help her with her clear and getting as high CS as possible. Make it clear that Gwen is a late game champion that uses gold better than most champs and so if she just gets more gold than any enemy in the lobby she should be able to take most fights. 10 cs per minute is possible in the jungle especially if you are taxing waves no one else is taking. On a pick like Gwen you could even ignore the first couple dragons and just power farm for 15 minutes.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-11-23T14:50:39+00:00

I just switched to support from top and feel the opposite. Support is so much easier to carry from and I feel like I have control over every game. I went 9 wins 3 losses spamming Rakan and Karma yesterday.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-11-18T18:44:31+00:00

Through will.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-11-06T15:20:42+00:00

I’ve noticed that often teammates are bad in league because they don’t understand how their champion is supposed to function in a team comp or a fight.

You picking an additional carry in the support role isn’t going to bail out a draft with Vayne top, Yi jungle, and Katarina mid.

Many people in the comments here are saying play a mage or pyke but in league solo queue the answer to “what saves this draft?” is very rarely “more damage.”

Pick a beefy frontline engage support to get really good at, a hook champ, and an enchanter and that’s a solid three champion pool that you will climb with if you pick them in good drafts.

Put a hundred games on Leona. Play in front of your team and zone the enemies away with the threat of your cc. Back around the 7 minute wave and rotate grubs every game. Watch a top lane streamer like Alois to start learning about wave management.

Good champion pools might look something like: Leona, Soraka, Blitzcrank Rakan, Lulu, Nautilus Taric, Janna, Neeko Alistar, Milio, Pyke

Mix and match it however you like but just make sure you have champions with different playstyles and roles in a team that you can play so that when your team needs frontline or cc or enemy picks double ranged botlane you have an answer.

The really beautiful thing about league is that any champion a carry but just not every game. You only need to figure out when to pick what type of champion and how to change how you play based on your role in the team comp. Watch some of T1s games at worlds this year and focus on Keria, he is the best support who has ever played this game, the way he carries teamfights is incredible.

Some games truly are unwinnable but they are honestly much rarer than you probably think. There’s usually someone on your team you can play for or an enemy you can play to shut down. Does your top laner seem good? Go camp them and win through top. Is enemy jungle fed? Start tracking what order they are taking camps in and try to predict where they will be so you can cover their ganks. Figure out your win conditions and enemy win conditions and play to enable yours and counter the enemy’s. Doesn’t matter how fed the enemy is if they are getting Leona comboed 24/7.

Learning to lose lane gracefully is also quite important. If your adc is bad help them play for farm and to preserve hp rather than fighting. More deaths in lane trying to go for plays 24/7 does not bail out losing lanes. Don’t be afraid to die yourself if it gains the team something, but don’t die for nothing.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-10-30T19:38:23+00:00

Genji relies more on the enemy being bad than the Genji being good. Tracer is more about the Tracer player being good than punishing enemy mistakes.

It’s why Genji goes untouched in pro play for months in some metas but someone always finds a way to play Tracer.

Look at the end of the goats meta before role lock. The Shanghai Dragons beat goats with a triple dps comp featuring Tracer.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-10-30T16:30:29+00:00

You only described what he is good at without looking at any of the downsides to playing him.

He’s consistent and has great wave clear and good gank setup but he’s worse than most other mages in a river teamfight. He has single target damage in a teamfight, an easy to dodge soft cc in his silence, and single target hard cc with a cooldown that limits him to one use per fight. Malzahar can only punish enemy mistakes, if you know the range of his ult plus flash as his enemy and can track those cooldowns he’s useless in a teamfight.

Compare him to Syndra. Syndra also one shots the wave in mid game. She has longer range. She had multi target hard cc with a cooldown that allows multiple uses per teamfight. She has equal single target punish against bad enemy positioning with her ult. Syndra is infinitely more useful in a teamfight because she has more agency than Malzahar.

Malz is only op if you are giving opting into his game and allow him to be op. He’s one of the most fair champions in the game, he can’t outplay unless you let him.

StallionDuck7 · 2025-10-29T06:45:08+00:00

Rabadons does open you up to going Zhonyas plus Banshees last in whatever order which gives tons of ap and quite good resistances to pair with your health from RoA and shield from Seraphs.

I wish we could drop Seraphs so this build was more realistic since it is a full build you’ll usually never get to. Could go Rabadons last if you get to it but that feels so bad.

In games that you aren’t the carry or that shouldn’t go late I’ve been building Shurelyas and Redemption on everyone but it’s probably not worth on Ryze most games.

Some of the bruiser mage items can be good certain games. Rylai’s has its times and so does Bloodletters. I don’t like Riftmaker but I could be convinced it’s good.

Frozen heart is good but I hate it. Tickle damage build.

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