r/RenataMains

I played her since her release which I never did with any newer champions, I love playing her for the fact you can tilt the enemy so bad by using the revive or borrowing them with the ultimate, amazing R, game changing unless they're full AP or you lose before level 11.

But the state she is in right now? Terrible.

It's pure masochism playing her unless you have a duo which makes W more viable as they don't run with it.

Passive is fine if we ignore the slow Attack speed.

W is good as it is, would prefer the user gets a clearer indicator W was used on them as per visual pollution on league is terrible to tell in fast fighting.

Q? Terrible, slow, cannot Q + Flash, the stun is 0.5 for no reason.

E? It's an ability that exists to not make her broken I guess, again, cannot E+ Flash.

R? Great ability, annoyingly slow, the enemy team has all the time in the world to flame each other and dodge it before its casting duration reaches them.

And her build? You just buy any activable to compensate for her lack of power, I sometimes play with 4 of them, I need more fingers at this point.

I came back to playing her only because I got her prestige skin which is probably the best prestige in whole skin lines, otherwise the experience with playing her at the moment it's equal to torture. And not only because she is bad, adc often refuses to play with her until late game where we just win.

Update: I am not saying everything here should be changed, these are the flaws from my perspective, fixing 1 would be more than enough to give the champion a place to shine. Or, or, or, hear me out, the mana cost being terribly high for abilities that have a long CD.

I know most people already know this, but the data shows that more people still max E first even though it’s worse. Heads up though! The best order is 3 points in E → max W → max E. Don’t max W straight away, you still want those first 3 points in E.

Why is W better? E has a longer CD and lower shield value than other enchanter shields, already making Ardent/Staff less effective. On top of that, W already gives crazy AS/MS at max rank and has terrible AP ratios, so there’s even less reason to build those AP items. All of this, combined with W’s lower CD when maxed, lets Renata build tanky (Locket/Vow) and potentially get a 2nd W off in a fight.

not to mention allies dodging your E...