Talk:Renekton/@comment-120.28.230.167-20130310111215/@comment-4900160-20130310161329

I disagree with you Krufix. Renekton NEEDS to deal significant damage at all stages of the game to be useful. Just building TBC and full tank won't work, he's not a Nasus with a strong early. What usually happens whe you sacrifice damage for tankyness is this:

Late game happens. Teamfight starts, Renekton dashes on carry and stuns him, carry flashes away, you can't catch up and you're already mid-life because you're in the middle of the ficht. You try to do as much damage as possible and ou eventually die. Problem, the damage you did is insignificant to tanks, and carrys heal it back thanks to lifesteal/spellvamp. Teamfight is over, your team lost because you were not able to kill the ADC and you couldn't dish out enough CC/damage to make up for it. Now enemy team is pushing your base, you lost.

ON THE OTHER HAND, You decided to build half AD and some defensive items, and you full build looks somewhat like this [boots, TBC, Ravenous hydra, BT, Sunfire Cape, Spirit visage] (Many other options exist, like randuin's, warmogs, Maw, depending on the nature of the main threat). Teamfight starts. You jump on the carry, either instakill him or deal so much damage he escapes but cannot come back into the fight without risking being killed by your own carries. You turn back and start fighting in the middle of everyone, but this time, even if your life is low, you deal SHITONS of AoE damage and heal tons of HP with all your AoE lifesteal, your Q, and the SV passive. Maybe you'll die, but you've significantly hurt the majority if not all their team. And that's a bad scenario. Typically, with this kind of build you can instakill squishies without any problem, and if you manage to remove the carries threat, you are much more likely to survive the fight against the remaining tanks/bruisers with the build I just mentionned than with an Off-tank one.

Really, I want to insist on how both The black cleaver, AND Ravenous hydra are core on Renekton. BT isn't on the other hand, and you can perfectly go for another tanky item instead of spending 3200 gold for it.