Rengar vs Locke Counter Pick

The first two seconds decide this clash. Both champions sit at 125 attack range and both want to open on someone already committed elsewhere, but Rengar arrives with 68 base attack damage against 58 and Unseen Predator granting a free leap from brush. Locke’s approach runs through Ashen Pursuit, a teleport followed by a dash to his next target, which is a longer and more readable sequence. Across 1,392 games tracked in patch 16.13.1 that gap reads as 57.7% for Rengar.

Soul Ignition is where it turns. It grants Locke attack speed and movement speed while damaging him, healing part of that back only at the end of the duration, so his effective health during the window sits below what 655 base and 2,508 at level 18 suggest. Silver Stake compounds the point from the other side: its on-hit magic damage increases with the target’s missing health, which rewards Rengar for arriving mid-cast rather than before it. Purgatory can execute a low target and gains power for sealing champions away, making the heal on Battle Roar an ability to hold rather than spend early. Locke moves at 340 against 345 and carries 32 base armor against 34, so no stat lands in his column outright; a difficulty rating of 5 against 8 is the honest counterweight.