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Why is nobody talking about Rek'Sai?

Vore Monster·2/22/2018, 11:05:29 PM·1 votes·1,305 views

On release, she was kind of strong given her massive true damage and healing numbers, but she was still a bit clunky to work with given her odd Q animations and burrow/unburrow initiation.

Her ultimate was changed from a weird TP with her tunnels, into an execute that has no real control or strong tell on what can and can't be used to dodge it. While the change made her stronger, she became even more clunky and awkward to play.

Come season 8, she's kind of in a strange limbo of viability:

  • Her numbers are fine. She can scale well and really gets ahead when she starts picking up kills.

  • Her jungle clear isn't good. Unless she gets a hard leash on buff and skips raptors, she won't be able to clear the next buff, if not finishing it with sub 200 HP.

  • Her ultimate can be dodged as a point and click ability without any real consistency. Blinks like Leblanc' s and Flash dodge it outright, while things like Ahri dashes and Vayne's invisibility can't.
    Jumps are inconsistent with what hits or misses, and Kayne's wall walk is a grab bag of fun interactions with Rek'Sai's ultimate.

She's a fun and interesting champion from both an artistic and game design standpoint. I hate to see her standing in such an awkward position for 2 seasons without having her awkward feeling ironed out.

4 Comments

Poeticas2/22/2018, 11:26:07 PM1 votes

I gave her a try for a number of games, I agree her damage seems is so low. Can barely get her through the jungle... I think Riot doesn't care about this Champ. There is a good reason you rarely see her played.

ImGodlyatYasuo2/22/2018, 11:36:26 PM1 votes

I mained rek sai when she was an aoe knock up bot and I loved her a lot more back then now shes sorta a crappy bruiser, A weak camille is a good comparison.

LunchBoxSuhi2/26/2018, 5:21:15 PM1 votes

I'm at a loss about one of your points

Her jungle clear isn't good. Unless she gets a hard leash on buff and skips raptors, she won't be able to clear the next buff, if not finishing it with sub 200 HP.

I wouldn't do raptors level 2, I can see that clear path being an issue. If you're doing buff>wolf>buff you'll end up near 100% if you have refillable. If you want to do full clear take talisman since you q's are aoe.

If you want to do full clear you can start blue, gromp, wolves, red, raptors krugs, and grab scuttle in River and still be healthy.

Just need to kite camps better and use your healing passive more often.

Once you b and get tiamat you can clear most camps within 7 seconds without smite.

I agree the clunk around her ultimate but my issue revolves around her w. If you just use w to knock up and not click on enemy you can aa right away, if you click on the enemy so you prioritize them if 2 champs are beside each other your aa timer is on cooldown so you can't aa>reset with q> aa before they hit the ground.

It should be the same for both imo just QoL improvement.