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Rek'Sai has Serious Issues

Cleril·6/7/2016, 5:26:11 AM·2 votes·815 views

RekSai is supposed to have map presence which is why she's weak in other areas.

However, until level 6 she has absolutely nothing but weaknesses. Her damage is heavily gated and I would rather you just took the true damage away from her E and give her sustained DPS like you already have with her Q. You're basically splitting up her damage between sustain Q, gated E, and long cooldown+enemy immunity W. Why make players fight against their own character? And honestly you could just take away the damage from burrowed Q as it's clear you just want it to be utility and put it into another ability that Rek'Sai needs to actually duel. Q is useless during a fight and is again primarily utility.

I mean seriously, what the hell is the reason for gating the abilities of a character with lackluster damage? It's understandable on Kassadin who is capable of insane burst but not RekSai . It's as if you think that her "global" map presence is so strong that she has to excel at literally nothing else. What exactly is she going to do with her presence? Fart voidlings on her enemies?

Speaking of presence how is she supposed to be able to sustain said presence and endure trades in fights with the antithetical scaling of her W? The healing isn't remotely useful during a fight as she has to remain burrowed to utilize it. The healing costs her fury which makes her E basically useless so she cannot go back into the fight until she builds it up again (which requires her to be in a fight she can't sustain or output enough damage in to win or live). Tryndamere can get fury quicker than Rek'Sai, and his heal has better efficiency.

Rek heals for 25 health at level 1 and 450 maximum at level 18 (if she has full fury).

Tryn heals for 80 health at level 1 and 300 maximum at level 18 (if she has full fury). Tryndamere instantly gains fury with his ultimate meaning he can heal for 600 health mininum at level 18. Rek has to build up her fury again (with no attack speed steroid again) and again if she wants to heal she's not going to be outputting damage where as tryn can output damage while both healing and gaining resources to heal.

Given that you'd expect Rek'Sai to have an infinitely better heal than Tryn. She doesn't and "map presence" is not a justified reason why considering she can't do anything with said presence unlike Shen, Gangplank, Karthus, Soraka, Nocturne, or hell even AurelionSol

And if she's supposed to be mobile (see: out of combat) then why the hell does her fury dissipate after 5 seconds on not gaining any?

The design of Rek'Sai is insanely counter intuitive. I can't think of a single other champion that works against themselves in so many ways.

It's no wonder "Beat Punchbeef" never designed another champion before or since Rek'Sai. The incompetence is unfathomable.

7 Comments

GGXJ96/7/2016, 5:34:44 AM3 votes

what LMFAO. her early game is where she shines..... you are just super shitty at rek sai. Reksai is an amazing champion if you are good at the game. For one your spells are terrible, your build is terrible, your masteries are terrible, as well as your runes everything you do on rek sai is wrong LOL. Not to be a dick just because you dont understand and think an amazing good champion is bad because you have no idea what you are doing. Shes okay in top but jungle is where she shines and her damage is actually really good early.

sincerely 90% win rate rek sai player

SaltyKracka6/7/2016, 5:30:02 AM1 votes

It's as if you think that her "global" map presence is so strong that she has to excel at literally nothing else.

This is precisely the case. Rek'sai so excelled as a mobile ganker, initiator and tank that they had to nerf literally everything else in an attempt to prevent her from just taking over the jungle in every level of play.

Fucking transformation champs.

Elite4Runner6/7/2016, 5:57:39 AM1 votes

Yeah I honestly don't know what you're talking about, she is fine. The only thing I find myself kinda agreeing with you on is her healing off of fury is a little awkward and underwhelming, but it is really only meant to be a minor heal while she is being mobile. She is really meant to sustain on lifesteal if that's what you're going for.

Narvuntien6/7/2016, 6:02:02 AM1 votes

Rek sai is currently a high pick at the LCS level. Number 2 jungler behind Kindred maybe 3 but Nidalee has fallen out of favour. at least on the Elise level.

Stonewall made a video about her and said her problem is that without team co-ordination she suffers a lot. So she is strong but you need to be co-ordinated with your team to get the best out of her.

Buffing her would be extremely dangerous since she already sees high level play, I think you have just got to get more team co-ordination to do well with her.

4th Chiming Lamb6/7/2016, 6:49:35 AM1 votes

I'm detecting a vast concentrationof UnskilledRekSaiIum in this post.

As someone who mains Rek'Sai (kind of), I can tell you based on personal experience that she excels at dueling, counter-jungling, map presence, ganking and farming at most stages of the game if she doesn't fall behind.

EDIT: After looking up your profile because of GGXJ9's comment, I did notice that almost everything you do on Rek'Sai is wrong. YOu're right to build Ravenous Hydra; everything else is wrong. Wrong spells, wrong role, wrong other items, wrong masteries...

Rek'Sai is not a tank. She is an off-tank bruiser. You build damage, then tank. And for the love of god; she is a jungler. Not whatever you've been playing her as with IGNITE, of all spells.

StealWolverine6/8/2016, 1:51:31 AM1 votes

tryndameres q is on a 12 second cd. if you use your q right before ulting you wont be able to heal until 7 seconds after it ends.