S14 [14.11] Rengar guide (MULTISEASON CHALLENGER) Pusi Guide (IN-DEPTH) (2024)

When it comes to jungle pathing, it is very important to know that there is not one path you go every game. You want to adapt your pathing depending on the enemy team comp, the matchups and your win condition. There are 4 main paths Rengar can take.

The first two are either full clear starting on Blue and the other is a full clear starting on red.

Key points:
> Ward over the wall at the Golems to jump over them.
> Before a camp spawns, get Ferocity stacks before your first camp spawns.
> Make sure not to waste your Ferocity stacks.

The third and fourth paths I use are:
Red > Blue > Gromp into invading the enemies buff. The other Blue -> Gromp -> Red into the enemies jungle. As I mentioned the path you take depends on the matchup and your win condition.

Key points:
> Before a camp spawns, get Ferocity stacks before your first camp spawns.
> Make sure not to waste your Ferocity stacks.

The full clear paths are the more consistent ones since you can clear all your camps in time for the Scuttle, and you’re not at risk of losing tempo by ganking or failing an early invade.

When should you start Red buff and when Blue? You always want to start on the opposite side of the map to which lane you want to play for, or which lane will most likely have priority to secure you the Scuttle Crab into maybe invading enemy jungle and get the second respawned camps.

For example: If your playing on blue side and your matchups are the following: Malphite vs Ornn on top, Twisted Fate vs Sylas in the mid lane, and Thresh and Aphelios vs Yuumi and Ezreal and you’re Rengar vs Jarvan IV in the jungle. Looking and the matchups in hand, your bot lane is your win condition. You will want to enable them to carry the game and set the enemy bot lane behind as you don’t want to give Ezreal and Yuumi a free laning phase.

So in this example, your jungle path should be a full clear starting on Blue Buff, so you end up level 4 on bot lane and can secure the Scuttle, or preferably dive the enemy bot lane. If you know Jarvan IV is mirroring your pathing you can also use your bot lane priority to invade him at his Blue or Gromp.

Now an example of when you should be pathing to the topside to understand the concept of win conditions and matchups/priority. Lets say the matchups are the following: Jax vs Camille top, Zoe vs Akali in the mid lane, Jhin and Seraphine vs Ezreal and Pyke in the bottom lane and Rengar vs Graves in the jungle. Looking at these matchups, its fairly easy to tell that the enemy team comp is really ad-heavy and relies very much on auto-attacks, which basically means Jax is really good this game and there is a high chance that he will 1v9 this game. Adding to that you should realise that your Jax is in a hard favoured matchup where he can get a lead effortless and snowball it to a victory. This basically means that you should be full clearing starting on blue and pathing to top to again, get a successful dive or secure the Scuttle Crab into a invade.

When it comes to invading the enemy Junglers, you must consider certain factors, and for that invade to be successful, you want most of the factors to be in your favour. The most important factor is you must be able to beat the enemy Jungler in a straight-up 1v1 in every scenario- even if you can’t get all of your 4 stacks. Also, vision is very important, ask your teammates to ward the enemy Raptors at 1:23 so you know the enemy’s Jungler pathing the moment you see them at Raptors. Another important factor is lane priority. In general, you can say that the champions with range and poke are supposed to have priority on paper, so if its a ranged into melee matchup the ranged champion has prio. If your Mid laner can’t move, because they have to catch the wave, but the enemy mid laner does, you’ll fail the invade and lose way too much, so you flipped your way out of the game at level 3. You must think about the play result in your head before even doing the play.

What happens if my Mid laner moves first, but the enemy Top or Bot moves first. Do we win the skirmish? Can we stall until they catch up? You need a lot of experience; that’s why knowing your limits is so important. The good thing is that Rengar usually wins almost every skirmish because he is stronger than most Junglers after his level 3 spike, which allows him even to win 1v2 fights vs weak early game champions. Let me give you another example so you can understand the scenarios a bit easier. Let’s say you are playing on blue side and the matchups are the following: Gnar vs Gragas top, Diana vs Syndra mid Rengar vs Evelynn jungle. We ignore the bot lane here because in this scenario we want to invade the Evelynn at her Red Buff lat level 3. On paper, you should have top priority because Gnar is playing a ranged into melee matchup but no mid priority, because Diana is melee into ranged matchup. Do you still go for the invade? Yes, because you are way stronger than Evelynn in those kinds of skirmishes, and even if Syndra is there first, you can Flash her combo or just stall until the Gnar is there and your Diana follows up. By just knowing the matchups, you can abuse your early game strength and priorities into setting the enemy Jungler behind.

In conclusion; never autopilot your pathing. Always look at the wave-states, where your team has vision, which lanes have prio, what matchups you’re in/your allies are in and adapt your pathing based on those factors. Sometimes it’s best to full clear due to having high tempo or invade at level 3 or even counter gank a level 3 dive vs for example Elise. It is just important to know the factors you need to consider and know your limits. The rest will come with experience.