I love Renekton, but I hate top lane. As mains, can y'all explain to me why Renekton has never, ever been played in midlane?

Renekton mid is nothing unheard of, people today still play it if they're filled mid as one trick ponies. So who's played it? Pretty much most popular Renekton one tricks: Romanium, Trollnekton, Panther, RTO, Arthur(Korean Rene OTP). Also I'm pretty certain Faker has played Renekton mid in competitive, if not he has at least played him mid lane a few times in solo queue, main reason being a counter pick to melee mid lane champions. I'm sure there are plenty of vods on youtube where you can find enough inspiration to learn it. But essentially you kind of play it like you're a talon or zed, you go full AD and rush tiamat into ghostblade, with that you have the roaming pressence and wave clear to leave mid, then you have the following choices; take jungle camps / kill enemy jungler / present vision / bait mid laners / kill over extended laners or set up dives. Of course that's just basic mid lane knowledge, but that's what you pretty much do.

So why don't more people play it mid lane? Renekton just simply has too many bad match ups, plus with the lane being a "2v2" lane, in a sense you always have to play around a jungler to get a kill, otherwise if you try to make any kind of play or trade you get all in'd by the enemy jungler who is constantly hovering around your lane in most games. The lane being much shorter does present more issues too, it's a lot harder to run down people and the fact most champions have some kind of dash / blink mid lane it makes it harder to stick onto people and unload your full damage off, for this reason PTA or Electrocute is your best bet for cheesing mid lane and giving you a chance to one shot once you get Tiamat.

explain to me why Renekton has never, ever been played in midlane?

it was played midlane yesterday at msi playins

If you build him with enough damage to burst like other ad mids he lacks the ability to Assassinate and get out. Irelia talon zed yasuo all have escapes that can allow them to burst and get out.

That being sad I play mid croc into a ton of things and do fine, you just have to be prepared to get a little heat if you don’t do well.

Very poor timing to say hes never ever been played Midlane. MSI. And im pretty sure op.gg lists mid as his secondary lane instead of jg right now too

Renekton mid got played today at MSI..

Try playing him in the jungle. Renek is a croc, a croc should be in the jungle, right?

Lol really he is really strong in the jungle

He’s pretty good in mid but the short lane makes it more difficulty to manage than top, especially when you have certain ranged matchups. Into champs like Malz and Zed he’s great though.

if there is a melee against you its a gg but irelia is not a gg

gets pretty much destroyed against good players in ranged matchups. Also, in midlane, you can't really use the bushes effectively to avoid ranged harass in lane