Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some influential Rengar versus Lux matchup statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lux’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lux. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Rengar often has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Lux. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rengar usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Lux, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Rengar makes an ok counter for Lux.
While Rengar does have a lower win rate compared to Lux, when on opposite teams, Rengar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rengar into Luxas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Rengar has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lux. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rengar vs Lux matchups, Lux is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Rengar is a somewhat poor counter to Lux. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Rengar against Lux.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rengar to counter Lux during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar on average gets less CS as Lux. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Rengar versus Lux build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Hubris. When Rengar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Lux than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rengar had an average winrate of 49.9% when countering Lux with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Lux as Rengar, Rengar players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Ultimate Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Rengar vs Lux face-offs, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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