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Looking for Tips: Rek'Sai

Wind234·3/25/2016, 10:15:34 PM·1 votes·593 views

Hey all! So Rek'Sai is a champion that I've been wanting to learn how to play better as, but I just can't seem to get her right. All the times I've played her, I've had to be carried or was just near useless to my team. Thus, I was hopeful that any Rek'Sai players out there might be willing to give a few tips on how to play her well. There are some things I do well enough with her, but others I need work with, so any tips regarding the following would be much appreciated:

-ganking (how to effectively gank as Rek'Sai - what should I do?) -item builds (I feel like she doesn't do a whole lot of damage on her own right now no matter what I build on her...and I still die rather quickly if I build tanky) -teamfights (should my focus be on using my knock-ups to disrupt the frontline? Should I zip behind and go for the squishies? What should my focus be?)

Thanks for anyone who takes the time to read and even more thanks for any help! ^^

5 Comments

Morgy Morgy3/25/2016, 10:17:11 PM2 votes

you're kinda a knock-up bot and that's it riot nerfed her all to hell unless you somehow get really far ahead, build full tank.

Elisza Kitsune3/26/2016, 4:55:30 PM1 votes

*Bronze 3 Level 4 mastery rek'sai user speaking She's REALLY good at counterjungling as well as scouting for your team because of her W. You should be trying to practice and positioning your E so it

Comes from behind them
Lands right on top of the enemy and knocks them up She's really helpful for teamfights if you burrow with your tunnels into the middle of the team to knock them up and if you have a yasuo tell them to ult. The positioning may be a bit hard though. Generally I build bruiser Rek'sai instead of full tank. She has AMAZING sustain after a team fight with her passive. Say you survive a team fight and are at 1/2 health. Fight a jungle creep and grind up that fury. Then W to regen :D Her general ganking combo is W E Q AA (for the knockup) Q E I like devourer on her but warrior works just as well. :) feel free to ask me more questions / ask for tips

DorkunedAuras3/26/2016, 7:42:29 PM1 votes

So first off, her ganks are amazing. She can tunnel over ANY wall, and get behind enemies like that. You should always be able to reach an enemy with a good tunnel. a good knockup should be able to set up your laners for a kill/flash burned.

I build very bruisery, item 1412 item 3074 Tank, though you should go less damagey until you get used to her.

In teamfights, your goal should either to peel off enemy divers looking to eat your squishies, if they have a jax or xin, or you should be looking to flank and destroy the enemy back line (only works if you build somewhat damagey).

I go AD marks and quints, armor seals, and Mr/lvl glyphs, and go either 12/18/0 (with Tlord's) or 12/0/18 (with strength of the ages), depending on the damage you want to do.

Just remember, full tank rek'sai (if you do this, get titanic hydra always) is mostly just a knockup bot, but very reliable at that. Bruiser Rek'Sai is a scary beast who can hunt early, but falls off, but will always threaten squishies, but is VERY easy to screw up and die.

My biggest tip for Rek'Sai is just to remember, every wall is a thing you can go over. it makes escapes and such super easy.