User blog comment:Deshiba/RIOT Reworks./@comment-24165677-20140320155820/@comment-1330314-20140323024542

Rengar currently isn't that bad of a jungler, it's just that his play patterns are pretty unhealthy. As a top laner, Rengar's ranged poke (his E) is so easy to land he can just use it to whittle down his opponent's health while keeping himself topped up with his own inbuilt sustain at no risk, giving his opponent very few opportunities to do anything about it. His current ult is structured in a way that lets him insta-delete any squishy target from extremely long distance, no matter how well-protected they are, and his tendency to snowball means he can easily be too much to handle if he gets so much as one kill early on. His Q is also such a powerful pushing tool that it's extremely attractive for Rengar to splitpush, even when he should be helping his team. His rework's main goal is to push him more into being a fighter rather than an assassin by forcing him to engage his target for a little while before finishing them off, while also making his ranged poke harder to land in lane and removing the splitpushing abuse potential on his Q.