Rek'Sai: The Worst Jungler you will Ever Love.

Mighty Sea Lord·9/19/2018, 2:29:23 PM·15 votes·9,862 views

I love playing Rek'Sai, since I first played her it was great, played her on Free Champion Rotation, then bought her with Blue Essence, and here is where my issue began, she is super fun to play, the plays you can do, the combos you can get and those all-in dives with your ultimate, however, she has no prominent feature, if you look at her champion stats, it's all balanced, a perfect circle, neither tank nor damage, neither rage-inducing Crowd Control nor scary burst damage (Rengar) it's just plain yet not boring, I always play her, I always have fun with her, however, I never get a satisfactory score, I end 10/6/4 or 6/12/6 and things like that, so I just mean her to be buffed, either make her a bit tanky or give her some damage, ganks that with any other champion would be a sure kill (Bruiser champions) end up in my death, since I don't have the damage to end him up or the tankiness to fight long enough for the kill, also, I feel her passive somewhat low on early game, and her Q lacks some area damage, this is how I personally feel, if you have any tips on how I could improve my playstyle or maybe Im missing something here I will gladly accept it. Thanks for reading my thread!

9 Comments

Salvor Hardın9/19/2018, 2:44:00 PM7 votes

Wrong sub-board.

But i agree in many thing about Rek, she is too OK in all areas, not an asassin, not a Tank, not a figther. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

420 grams9/19/2018, 2:58:17 PM5 votes

My problem with rek sai is that vision range is smaller than smite range, so you cant blue smite someone to catch them which she desperately needs. Then watching people side step your r just makes me just go play warwick since I can build full tank without losing damage or having to play in a constant near sighted.

Tormentula9/19/2018, 5:57:46 PM3 votes

Ult needs more consistency and tremor's delay needs reverted at the cost of less range on the tremor sense.

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Saitho Orihara9/19/2018, 3:40:09 PM3 votes

Rek'Sai was one of my first jungler that I played well and it was that champion that made my friends go like : "Oh shit he's playing Rek'Sai, let's go !" We all have or know someone that on X champion, he's a monster or it's just enjoyable to play with him. This champion was Rek'Sai for me, but now since her changes I don't play her often because, like you said, she got nothing going for her, she's not that tanky yet doesn't deal that much damage.

She doesn't feel like a Diver ( Vi XinZhao ) nor a Bruiser ( Aatrox Trundle ) not a Juggernaut ( Darius Garen ) and not really a simple Fighter ( Fiora Riven ) and clearly not an assassin ( Zed Talon ) , she feels like a not so good jack of all-trade.

She's so in the middle of everything that she got no strength going for her, if she's ahead, like really ahead, she feels like a Diver/Bruiser but if she's just not ahead and not behind she just kinda in the middle of everything.

I'll also say that her ult is really sad whenever you're against someone with a minimum of mobility because it's actually pretty easy to dodge her damage.

She just need more define strength, before she was a Diver with high map pressure but now she's a early-ish skirmisher-ish who if she's ahead she becomes a full on Diver who Dives the backline and eats some poor Tristana and Janna for breakfast but in other cases, she'll try to dive and try to survive long enough to maybe kill the backline ?

It's not really buffs that I'll want, it's adjustement so she feels a certain way, something that helps her in her diving scenarios would be cool, a small shield, more damage in specific scenarios like after coming out or more damage on the knockup target of her W I don't know, just a little somthing to make her go more in a certain way.

Let,s just hope Riot give her some love in the future.

[slayer-jinx-wink]

Mandalorian 1179/19/2018, 6:42:34 PM3 votes

I love rek’sai too, and I agree. Personally, I’d up her damage or scaling a bit to make her more of a fighter/diver off tank. That sounds pretty cool to me.

SpongebobIsLife9/19/2018, 3:44:02 PM2 votes

Yeah, they have nerfed her quite a bit over the seasons due to Pro-Play. Personally, I think they should just buff her damage a bit and maybe give her slight damage reduction upon un-burrowing.

PapaGreg219/19/2018, 7:06:27 PM2 votes

I don't think Riot even remembers that she exists anymore. Could you imagine if they put her in a game like Odyssey? Lol, it would never happen.

wolvius9/19/2018, 6:11:00 PM2 votes

Honestly they need to make her passive heal more or add some scaling to it. I love playing reksai but as you said she doesnt do any one thing well. They could also make her tremor sense better maybe more frequent tremors the closer a champ is or something, paranoia royal was not very pleasant how do you stay with team when they have no tremors.