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Jungle

Rengar Build 26.22

B

Rengar hunts from the shadows, leaping out of a bush or off his stealth ultimate to land directly on a carry. Playable but nothing scary at 49.3% and trending up, his damage comes in Ferocity-fueled bursts, four stacks turning his next ability into a fight-ending swing or an empowered leap. Land the bola, jump in with an empowered Q, and a squishy is gone before the fight really starts.

#51 of 78 jungle this patch · 2.2k games
Win rate49.3%+0.1Games2.2kPick rate3.9%Ban rate10.4%Last 8 patches+2.7 since 26.15Damage profilei
AD
AP 5%AD 85%True 10%
DifficultyiHighPunishes misplays
ClassicModernARAMCounter

When Is Rengar Strongest?

The high point is the late game, so every extra minute helps, and games at this rank average around 28 minutes. Rengar wins by using that spike to pick off carries in the side lanes and around objectives, since each early trophy and kill compounds into the burst that ends a squishy the instant he lands.

Game timeline · Rengar drag or hover to scrub · space plays · ←/→ step
your power minute by minute · gold = item spikes · small = components · dashed = objectives
Camps1:30Drake / Grubs5:00Herald14:00Baron20:00Avg end28:01
Ambush zone8:06–9:36 Power spike 17:59
17:209:0310:1617:59
0:00 10:00 20:00 30:00 40:00
At 12:00
Power 59/100 · Even
Core 2/3 items
Gold ~5.7k
Phase Lvl-6 window
Next spike Ionian Boots of Lucidity · 17:20

Rengar Item Build

Rengar is a burst assassin who leaps from brush and deletes a squishy before they react, so the build stacks attack damage and lethality to make that one jump lethal. A little sustain and durability let him clean up the fight after the first kill.

Standard loadout · Rengar The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.
Starting items 450g Gustwalker Hatchling×1Stealth Ward×1 Core path · click an item for its recipe ››› Boots Ionian Boots of Lucidity51% · 48.5%Boots49% · 46.8%
Situational items pick an opponent in the bar above — the right swaps light up
vs AD threatsbuy this gamePhysical threats spike with lethality — armor answers buy the mid game back.GGuardian Angel6371.4%
vs stacked resistsbuy this gameWhen resists stack, penetration beats raw stats — swap a damage slot.BBastionbreaker5457.4%EEdge of Night87956.7%LLord Dominik's Regards1.1k55.4%
vision controlbuy this gameFights are decided a minute earlier by the team that sees first.EEye of the Herald2181.0%FFarsight Alteration27455.8%OOracle Lens1.5k48.4%

Best Rengar Runes

Fleet Footwork lines up with how he wants to open a fight, but the core plan never changes. He builds Ferocity, waits for the leap, and dumps a full combo onto one target. Whatever the rune, set the rest of the tree up to help him find that jump and survive the counterattack.

The pre-game page Fleet Footwork · Precision + Domination · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards
Precision Primary Fleet FootworkAttacking and moving builds Energy stacks. At 100 stacks, your next attack heals you and grants increased MS. Triumph84% · 50.4%Legend: Alacrity92% · 49.6%Cut Down74% · 49.6% Keystone plus three minors from Precision, two from Domination, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.
Domination Secondary Sudden Impact95% · 49.4%Ultimate Hunter68% · 49.1%
Stat shards OffenseAttack Speed+10% Attack SpeedFlexAdaptive Force+9 Adaptive ForceDefenseHealth Scaling+10–180 Health (by level)
Shards give +10%Attack Speed+9Adaptive Force+10–180 Health (by level)
His whole plan is to delete someone instantly, so build toward Umbral Glaive and then Profane Hydra to push his burst over the kill threshold. Falling behind early is recoverable on this scaling curve. Profane Hydra coming online by roughly 18 minutes is the point where a full Ferocity combo one-shots most squishies outright. Snowball early skirmishes into gold and rush that damage breakpoint.

Rengar Skill Order

Savagery hits five ranks at level 9 and Bola Strike follows at 13, which leaves one loose end: Battle Roar sits on the single point it got at level 2 until the very back half of the game.

Skill order · Rengar R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always
PriorityRR›QQ›EE›WW›Max Q first; E at level 3.
Lv 123456789101112131415161718
Q14579max 9
W214151718max 18
E38101213max 13
R61116max 16

Rengar Abilities

Battle Roar is the survival tool the combo talk leaves out, a heal off the damage he has recently eaten, and at full Ferocity it snaps him clean out of crowd control. Unseen Predator also banks bonus attack damage on his Bonetooth Necklace for every champion he puts down.

Abilities · Rengarpatch 26.22 base numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown
Unseen PredatorPassivePSavageryMax 1stQBattle RoarMax lastWBola StrikeMax 2ndEThrill of the HuntUltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.
SavageryPhysical damageMax 1stStatLV 1rank 1LV 4rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXDamage+35 per rank+105% ADlv 120lv 455lv 590lv 7125lv 9160Cooldown-0.5 per ranklv 16slv 45.5slv 55slv 74.5slv 94s

Rengar Base Stats

Base stats · RengarPatch 26.22
Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD68+3AS0.667+3%MS345Range125HP590+104HP56+0.5Armor34+4.2MR32+2.05MP4MP50

Rengar Matchups

Rengar hunts isolated targets, so squishies caught alone near brush are free while tanks and tightly grouped teams blunt his one-shot. Enemies with reliable crowd control or a way to disengage the instant he lands ruin the leap his whole kit is built around.

Lane matchups · Rengar click any opponent to retune the console
Hardest lanes · click to tune
Best hunting
How to lane vs carry junglers 01Invade early and leap from brush before they hit item spikes.02Track their clear with wards and counter-gank when they overextend for kills.03Do not let them scale freely; hunt and kill them repeatedly. Win rate by game lengthRengar overall · all matchupsUnder 20 min50.0%20–28 min46.4%28–35 min50.5%Over 35 min53.6%
Tanky frontliners and hard crowd control like Kindred, Darius, and Wukong blunt his dives, forcing him to jump a target he cannot actually kill. He hunts down Evelynn, Rek'Sai, and Zed, low-mobility squishies who evaporate the instant he lands on them. When the enemy has the tools to answer his leap, be patient and pick off isolated targets instead of diving into the group.
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