Talk:Rengar/@comment-68.40.62.91-20121004022240/@comment-71.236.199.117-20121005080634

Rengar feels stronger as a top than a jungler to me, since generally players will simply stay away from the river bushes when he jungles. In lane, generally, I'll start with potions and either boots or armor, depending on which boots I plan to buy (which is based on enemy team composition.) First item after that is going to be the necklace (which scales well as a basic item and is excellent if you're effective), then Brutalizer for cost-effective damage. After that, if the enemy team is being very defensive, get an Avarice blade for the gold, and start building a bloodthirster if they're getting frolicksome.

From there, you kinda go wherever you need to based on what's happening in your lane. Ideally, you'll start a Zeal/Trinity force. However, if your team is hiding behind you and wetting themselves during 'team fights,' you'll have to buy hp and defensive items in order to last long enough to kill someone before they kill you - hopefully allowing your team to take them now that they've blown all their cooldowns on you. Between these two extremes, just use your judgement. I always look at my death recap when I'm killed in order to see how much damage I took from physical/magical sources, and buy anything defensive accordingly.

For jungle, I'll often start with armor/potions, then a Madred's razors, followed by basic boots, followed by Wriggle's Lantern, full boots, and then start on the Brutalizer/bloodrazor, etc. You want to get up to Lantern to be consistently at both full health AND 4 Ferocity stacks. Using your ferocity is preferable to not having health, but it can severely inhibit your ability to rock people's world for emergency ganking.