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Renekton Guide

the Butcher of the Sands

Fighter

Tank

Tier B Top

Renekton, the Butcher of the Sands, is a fighter and tank champion that is easy to pick up. Across our 730 analysed ranked games, Renekton is mostly played in Top (100% of its games), with a 51.1% win rate in that role: tier B among Top champions (#25 of 48, ranked by win rate). Renekton's damage is mostly physical (78%): armor is the best defensive answer against this champion. Win rate varies with game length: 53.7% in medium-length games (25 to 35 min, 428 games) versus 40.0% in long games (over 35 min).

Updated Oct 10 2026 · Patch 26.22

Averages measured over 730 Top games played with Renekton, from our ranked Solo/Duo data collection.

How to play and combo preview

Renekton is a melee fighter whose attacks generate Fury, more so when he is low on health. Above 50 Fury, each ability is empowered: Cull the Meek heals more, Ruthless Predator strikes three times and destroys shields, Slice and Dice reduces armor. Dominus makes him sturdier.

The empowered trade

AA AA › AA AA › W › Q › E

When: You have more than 50 Fury.

Ruthless Predator strikes three times, destroys shields and stuns for 1.5 seconds; Cull the Meek and Slice and Dice are empowered.

The engage

E › W › Q › AA AA

When: An enemy is far away.

Slice and Dice charges and damages every unit in the way; follow with the stun then the circular attack.

See all 3 Renekton combos: key order, when to cast them, cooldowns →

Laning phase

Attack to generate Fury, and keep 50 points to empower your abilities before a trade. Ruthless Predator stuns for 0.75 seconds (1.5 s when empowered).

Common mistakes

• Spending your abilities before 50 Fury.
• Using Slice and Dice with no exit plan.
• Casting Ruthless Predator on an unshielded target when you could keep the empowered version for a shielded one.

Riot's official tips for playing Renekton

• Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
• Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
• Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.

Build, runes and summoner spells

The most-played core build is Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Eclipse (95 games, 63.2% win rate).

Black Cleaver+Death's Dance+Eclipse

95 games · 63.2%

Sterak's Gage+Black Cleaver+Eclipse

71 games · 63.4%

Sterak's Gage+Black Cleaver+Death's Dance

47 games · 55.3%

Skill order

Max order : Q > E > W57.9% · 57 games

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Q	●			●	●		●		●
W			●											●	●
E		●						●		●		●	●
R						●					●

The order shows which abilities reach rank 5 first; the grid shows the most-played level-up sequence with that order (measured over 81 games).

Starting items

Doran's BladeHealth Potion49.1% · 55 games

Doran's ShieldHealth Potion56.5% · 23 games

First completed items, in order

Eclipse›Black Cleaver

20 games · 60.0%

Laning phase (averages)

At 10 min: 3758 gold, 74 CS, 4930 XP. At 15 min: 5910 gold, 118 CS, 8624 XP.

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite52.6% · 481 games

Flash + Teleport47.3% · 224 games

Exhaust + Flash54.5% · 22 games

Most-played runes

Conqueror + Resolve

51.5% · 542 games

Primary tree · Precision

Triumph89%

Legend: Alacrity82%

Last Stand92%

Secondary tree · Resolve

Bone Plating67%

Unflinching59%

Shards

Adaptive force91%

Adaptive force99%

Health55%

Press the Attack + Resolve

53.1% · 147 games

Primary tree · Precision

Triumph98%

Legend: Alacrity78%

Last Stand94%

Secondary tree · Resolve

Unflinching67%

Bone Plating67%

Shards

Adaptive force90%

Adaptive force100%

Health scaling65%

For each row, the most picked rune among the games played with this page (share of games in brackets).

Which items to build against the enemy team?

We sort every game by the enemy team's damage. These are Renekton's completed items and their win rate in each situation; "▲" marks an item that does at least 3 points better than its usual win rate.

Mostly magic-damage enemy team56.1% · 187 games

At least 50% of their damage is magic

Black Cleaver 59.7% ▲

Eclipse 53.1%

Sterak's Gage 60.7%

Death's Dance 59.5%

Spear of Shojin 55.6% ▲

Stridebreaker 52.9% ▲

The item that stands out most is Spear of Shojin: 55.6% win rate, +8 points versus its usual win rate.

Mostly physical-damage enemy team50.0% · 238 games

Less than 35% of their damage is magic

Black Cleaver 53.0%

Eclipse 49.7%

Death's Dance 56.5%

Spear of Shojin 46.0%

Sterak's Gage 60.4%

Stridebreaker 43.6%

No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.

Balanced enemy team48.9% · 305 games

Mixed physical and magic damage

Black Cleaver 51.5%

Eclipse 52.4%

Death's Dance 57.4%

Sterak's Gage 59.2%

Spear of Shojin 43.5% ▼

Stridebreaker 43.9%

No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.

Counters and matchups

Who counters Renekton in Top

Darius Renekton: 31.2%16 games

Darius has the edge in 69% of the 16 Top duels against Renekton. See the Darius guide.

Ambessa Renekton: 44.0%25 games

Ambessa has the edge in 56% of the 25 Top duels against Renekton. See the Ambessa guide.

Camille Renekton: 55.0%20 games

Camille has the edge in 45% of the 20 Top duels against Renekton. See the Camille guide.

Yasuo Renekton: 55.6%18 games

Yasuo has the edge in 44% of the 18 Top duels against Renekton. See the Yasuo guide.

Gnar Renekton: 56.2%16 games

Gnar has the edge in 44% of the 16 Top duels against Renekton. See the Gnar guide.

Who Renekton is strong against

Yone60.0% · 25 games

Gnar56.2% · 16 games

Yasuo55.6% · 18 games

Camille55.0% · 20 games

Ambessa44.0% · 25 games

How to play against Renekton

• Pay close attention to Renekton's Fury gauge as that will usually signify when he is about to attack.
• Keeping Renekton from being able to fight and gain Fury by continually harassing him will severely reduce the effectiveness of his abilities.

Win rates measured over direct same-role duels; only matchups with more than 15 games are listed. See all of Renekton's matchups.

Renekton Top: what our games say

Laning phase against the Top average

Measured over 81 Renekton games with a timeline; the average covers 82 champions played Top in our ranked games.

Win rate by game length

Best result: medium-length (25 to 35 min). Only groups of at least 30 games are shown. A gap of several points shows the phase where the champion is the most reliable.

Abilities

PassiveReign of Anger

Renekton's attacks generate Fury, increased when he is low on life. This Fury can empower his abilities with bonus effects.

QCull the Meek

Renekton swings his blade, dealing moderate physical damage to all targets around him, and heals for a small portion of the damage dealt. If he has more than 50 Fury, his damage and heal are increased.

WRuthless Predator

Renekton slashes his target twice, dealing moderate physical damage and stuns them for 0.75 seconds. If Renekton has more than 50 Fury, he slashes his target three times, destroying damage shields on the target, dealing high physical damage, and stunning them for 1.5 seconds.

ESlice and Dice

Renekton dashes, dealing damage to units along the way. Empowered, Renekton deals bonus damage and reduces the Armor of units hit.

RDominus

Renekton transforms into the Tyrant form, gaining bonus Health and dealing damage to enemies around him. While in this form, Renekton gains Fury periodically.

Other Top champions to know

Most played

Jayce50.6 %Yone47.8 %Camille50.1 %Jax54.9 %Ambessa47.7 %Malphite46.2 %Garen50.6 %Nasus46.1 %

Strongest (at least 100 games)

Ornn59.1 %Aurora54.8 %Urgot54.6 %Yasuo54.2 %Sylas54.2 %Warwick53.6 %Cho'Gath53.2 %Anivia52.8 %

Frequently asked questions

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