Renekton

He can get too hot.

It's not just that he's filling up a bar like Gnar or Renekton or...

Or...

Anyway, the other champions that have bars like that.

and they'll continue to do it because i think t1's drafting is not always it's it's a thing it's been a thing for a long time and i don't think that the drafts have been bad here this tournament though

Yeah, it's just, you know, we had the BOG disrespect, right? With the blind ambassador to Renekton open.

And then they made it into the worst Ash Seraphim draft of all time.

Playing it into Ezreal, Jarvan, Sylas was a hard one.

They just came out with, like, but the God Kings, like, it's, to me, it's awesome.

And for, like, those two, and then, like, Renekton to me, I love his Infernal, because it just, it looks sharp.

I don't know the last time I saw a base Renekton.

It feels good.

You are not wrong there.

So for top lane, we've got Chippy's recommendations here.

We have Renekton, Jax, and Camille.

I'm not going to go too in detail with these.

I think they're pretty straightforward.

It's interesting.

I'm just, I gravitated towards these when I started the game.

I played Renekton.

I played Lee Sin and Lillia.

And it's like, those are not in his champ pool.

Just like Thanatos Renekton.

When Gigo's counter to Renekton is Volleybear, he played it twice against Thanatos in the America's Cup.

So it's a known thing.

Should be in C9's draft reports.

I'm just looking at some of the legends now on where they dropped the ball.

Renekton probably feels unbelievably underwhelming, but he feels a little bit better in set five radiance.

There's a couple of cards that came out specifically for him, which is really, really cool.

Poppy, actually, I think Poppy could have been 10 times better.

Where it's like, it's literally a 3v5 for KC.

The only possible thing that matters in that moment is that they know where Renekton is, which is the bot side jungle.

He's below them.

And like, the only way you can lose is giving him an angle to get on your AD carry, basically, right? If you just wait for Thanatosa TP back, you get Elder and you probably win the game or at least have a very high chance to win the game.

You just need to wait for your top laner, and then there's nothing the other team can do.

But instead, comms were clearly cooked.

No one's paying attention to where the Renekton could be.

Tactical gets flashed on and stunned.

Game three, they first picked Tactical Ezreal, which I think is great, but Furia was smart enough that they weren't willing to give them any pairs with Ezreal that could give them lane prio.

So this was the Orianna Naafiri with Renekton top, with Ezreal and Alistar bot.

But what happened here is Volibear played into Renekton, got prio.

Victor played into Ori, got prio.

Sivir Karma played into Ezreal Alistar, got prio.

It's got such a solid game plan that it's gonna be a contender, uh, I think, regardless, which is, uh, which is really fun.

One that, uh, very much may not be a contender, but I'm, I'm pretty, uh, I- I'm kind of excited for, uh, just because the color combination, obviously, and I wanted to play this deck, but I didn't because of Lucian, uh, is Renekton.

Because Renekton got a really cool, uh, new little tool, which is the-

[laughs]

... uh, oh, Coalesce Energy, right? Is that what that card's called?

Yes, Coalesce Energy.

I sometimes forget the name of that card.

Really cool card for Renekton.

They take Ryze away because a lot of the Ryze counters are gone.

We have Vi, Taliyah and Renekton at that moment in time.

If I remember correctly, like there was, you know, a lot of the, well, I do remember correctly, like a lot of the stronger top lane blinds and the answers into Renekton were already gone, Gnar and Jayce or whatever.

So Renekton is very strong.

So this is our one, two, three.

And just because the enemy picked Ryze, that pushed us into a direction of picking Taliyah, right? And that already, the enemy's decision, If we want to make the correct decision, we need to also lean into something.

And then maybe, you know, maybe the people in the platoon, maybe they're his bros.

Maybe they start doing backflips and shit, you know, and it's the craziest fight ever, you know? Or it's just grief, you know? And I think that nuance, that detail is so important because either like you're Giga in tune and you've communicated your idea so well that...