User blog comment:Dantasticjux/Mastering Top as Renekton! RAWR/@comment-4948122-20130613184722/@comment-10816220-20130613191424

Lee Sin "with some skill" can outplay him, yes - but honestly, if you're more skilled than your lane opponent, you've probably won it anyway.

Darius "with right items"? Having to build just to counter your lane opponent generally means you're going to lose mid to late game, even against somebody with mediocre scaling like Renekton.

Garen going full tank isn't how to play Garen to begin with, but you are right that Garen can beat him.

Voli not building damage ends up being totally unthreatening - and if you make Voli end up being something other than a threat in mid-game, you've won your lane.

Malphite's a strange matchup for pretty much everybody - you can totally shut him down in lane, but as long as he gets his ult off, his team's got the better initiation.

Jax, Irelia, and Singed are all terrors later on - and your job as an early-game champion is to make sure that "later on" isn't a thing that happens. They'd have to build counter to you in lane to not get stomped, and that slows their overall progress anyway.

Pantheon's poke isn't nearly as powerful as you think, and while I suspect Panth would generally win such a matchup due to actually having a poke, he'd need more than that to deal with somebody who has an innate sustain ability. Same goes for Yorick, though Renekton's all in is far superior to Yorick's, so that'd be an interesting match-up regardless.

I'm honestly not sure how Plank automatically wins such a matchup - if he uses his q to poke Renekton, that's farm he's giving up (and if he gets close to farm, Renekton starts punching him). Plank can basically match Renek in lane as long as he still has mana for oranges and gunshots - Renek, as a manaless champ, will generally be at an advantage.

Yes, a good gank can stop Renekton dead. You know who else it can stop? LITERALLY EVERY CHAMPION IN THE GAME. Saying he can be stopped with a gank isn't really a huge mark against him.