Thoughts on Rek'Sai
So our newest champion has finally graced us with her presence, so what are your first thoughts on her??
Mine are that she's fun as hell, and the tunnels are fantastic! Building her with Hydra makes her clear like a god, and she has very good sustained damage. She's a complete monster if she's given the tiniest lead, however she's also VERY team dependent. Lacking a lot of cc (A whopping one) or gapclosers (Another whopping one if you want to go somewhere that you haven't tunneled before) she really needs help to stick to people. This makes people who kite well (Morg, Liss, Syndra) hell to fight, and those with high mobility (Yas, LB, Kalista) also hell. Her tunnels are so powerful, if you don't fall behind in the game and lose all of them. I can't recall how many times I've spawned with zero tunnels because my lanes started losing and I couldn't keep up the pressure. That brings us to her games where she does poorly, and they're hell. It feels like you need to do really well to keep up (I had one game when I was 7/1, and it felt like I was maybe 3/1) and if you start to get behind, it just gets worse and worse until you HAVE to avoid people, and you never have any tunnels. It's a painful experience. I'm still playing with her, and I'm not sure if AS enchantment is better, or if AD Pen one is. I like rushing Hyrda as it feels like I start doing damage then, but I want to try building her tanky a bit first and see how that goes. Anyways, most games seem to be a hit and miss, either you get fed and start doing well, or you don't and fall into obscurity, which kinda leads me to believe that she's just a tad on the weak side. If I did go to buff her, I wouldn't buff her damage, but her mobility. That's where it feels like she really lacks, as you tunnel in, they use a tiny gap closer, and now you don't have anything for 10 seconds. Maybe make her tunnel CD 2 sec less, and then the cooldown on the tunnels about 1 - 1.5 secs less.
What are your thoughts??