thanks for casting rek sai into the totally useless category

Curious what everyone thinks about this rek sai nerf?

Heres my two cents: I never understood all the rek sai hate. In no way was she broken or OP, she was insanely easy to kite and counter if you had the slightest bit of anything between your ears. Now instead of letting people learn how to counter her, she just gets nerfed into oblivion following the usual riot formula of "announce and hype up a champion people would want to play, then nerf them after everyone goes and buys them".

rek may have insane map mobility, but when it actually comes to a fight, she barely has any. she has ONE dash on a long cooldown which can VERY easily be sidestepped and avoided. Also, contrary to what people seem to believe, she cant return through the tunnels instantly. Theres a few second cd on it, meaning that you would be long dead before you can use the tunnel again if you messed up. She has ONE cc move that (contrary to popular belief) cant be spammed and is good for once a fight MAYBE twice if its a very drawn out one. her movement speed unburrowed is slower than most other champs, making her extremely easy to kite. sure she can keep up while shes burrowed... but she cant attack! all ranged champs can easily deal with her. NOPE shes op. now lets take away tons of damage so she cant duel anymore and has an extremely underwhelming "burst". The result? a champion who, as before, is easily kited, and who now gives a gentle love tap when she catches up. zero kill potential. As it was her scaling was pretty weak, now its pitiful. I just played a round where i was lvl 6 with the skirmishers blade - warrior and boots, and caught a lvl 5 kog on his own with a dorans blade and a bf sword. now i MAY be mistaken but isnt kog a late game hyper carry with an extremely weak early game and is super squishy? yea i thought so, and i went to punish him for extending alone. tunneled under, knocked up, smited him, then got kited and whenever my Qs landed i did hardly anything. and i had to run, and he flashed after me for the kill. totally unacceptable. it was a Kog maw who wasnt even fed like wtf.

I loved playing rek. Yes she was very strong once you learned to use her right, and especially if you got fed, but she wasnt broken. just play with a half a brain and you can beat her. playing against rek sai just required a TINY bit of mental functioning. in the patch notes, riot claimed that she was too strong and shouldnt be able to 1v4 the other team. first of all that was only possible if rek was EXTREMELY far ahead, in which case theres other champs who do the same even better (jax anyone? but riot buffed jax and i have NO idea why). its called being fed why should you penalize a champ getting ahead. her damage was pretty much all she had. now you gotta build straight damage to do anything respectable, but then youre extremely squishy. If you build tank, now your a mobile tank with no damage output AND no reliable cc. in the end youre useless either way.

Rek was a duelist that people were crying they couldnt fight 1v1. yea no $#it!!! do you 1v1 a jax or ww or trynd or fiora or xin or any of the various other duelists? NO!!! strong 1v1 doesnt make you op. Also just a fun fact, a buddy of mine was testing out rek 1v1 other duelists and surprisingly nocturne beats her, even though the general consensus is that rek is a better nocturne. just play smart and focus rek and you would have been FINE.

I think either the nerfs need to be totally removed, or at the very least toned down to not completely take away any damage. OR maybe if they really are that opposed to rek being a duelist, then they should buff her defense more to make her tankier (since shes really not a great tank), and maybe tweak her kit a tad to include maybe one more cc to give her some utility. maybe that slow on her burrowed q that people keep suggesting could work nice. But until the damage buff gets reversed, or she becomes tankier and maybe gets another cc, shes completely and totally useless. Back to nocturne i go!