Originally Posted by
Dr_Strangelove
j4ndo, rengar is not weak. He was just completely absurd before the nerfs, now he's a normal champion. Using win rates isn't particularly useful seeing as bad players will still be picking him expecting to ride the free ELO safari bus and get shut down. Over the last week diana has suffered a lower win rate than rengar, does that mean that she is the worst mid champion? Other champions in the bottom 10 of the win ratio for the past week: Gragas, alistar and vi.
Rengar absurd before the last rounds of nerfs? LOL, after he was buffed, that was when he was absurd. Then he slowly started to get balanced, then Riot was like "shit, to many kids crying out being destroyed top lane by Rengar, we must be nerf him in the ground now, then buff him after we find more suitable 'non-game breaking' changes".
Stats or no stats, I personally feel that Rengar just doesn't have it anymore. That could just be me, and I'm only saying this is because I was able to go even with champions that counter Rengar and now, whatever way you build him, other champions could do his job better.
Before Rengar was nerfed, he could push lanes, win in trades, become tanky and still do damage and even could 1v1 a fed late game ad carry. Now he can't do any of them due to how badly his base damages on W were nerfed too. Escaping with ultimate is nearly impossible, as is chasing. What made Rengar fun and enjoyable to me was nerfed. He doesn't have the damage anymore to compete with the other top laners like Jax, Irelia, Darius and Olaf.
The only thing that Rengar has going for him is that he can build pure tank and survive a long time, and I saw Rengar being played in a scrim vs CLG today. Hotshot was playing Cho'gath against a Rengar who built a shit ton of health, sure he was tanky as fuck, but did 0 damage. In team fights he was able to last for a extremely long time, but he couldn't do anything because of his 0 damage. Then there's HotshotGG on Cho'gath being just as tanky and do tons of damage (and that was without trinity force).
The base damage to W was nerfed so hard that it can't even clear caster minions anymore with a double cast, the only chance you could do it is if you were ahead or built AP.
You picked Rengar to win lane, push it hard then assassinate the AD carry/tank and peel in teamfight. He can't do any of those anymore.
Rengar was broken due to his skillset (so was Diana) and Riot in their massive nerfs obliterated them.
TL
R: What Rengar can do, there are champions who do what he does better.