Talk:Rengar/@comment-81.226.119.218-20130223143344/@comment-4708818-20130224225431

He is, according to the official rioters, "not in a good spot yet". This means, he will get tweaked in the following patches (neither necessarily nerfed nor buffed). Thus, they are aware of his weaknesses and strengths and will adjust them.

However, Jungle Rengar is at a fairly poor spot right now. He lacks the sustain early against the creeps to be a threat instead of a feed-on-feet coming to lane. Additionally, his damage heavily depends on his Q-Q-combo on empowered, but for successful ganks you will need to root with an empowered E to be successful. Thus, you depend hard on your mates to do the damage.

Also, if Rengar doesn't manage a few ganks pre-6, he will be poor. His amazing ganking potential after level 6 is just insanely good, but it won't be enough to come up if you haven't a advantage at this point.

Lanegar on the other hand is quite a beast. His free sustain on his W coupled with a E-W-Q-Q harass hurts everyone. Your only problem will be an enemy with range, because Rengar feels kinda lame for a predator.

Also, and thats a huge con to me, his personal item is useless. It gives quite nice things, but needs to much for it, where other items need less and give more. An AD-pure item with a few nice gimmicks is useless in late game, where you will most probably get to the full stacks, where it is really interesting.

All in all... I wait for the day the predator lion isn't a kitty hiding in brushes anymore. But it may be that Lanegar is the way Riot wants him to go.