Rek'Sai needs map specific nerfs for Twisted Treeline

doubleguac·1/7/2015, 4:10:16 AM·9 votes·1,340 views

Pretty much the title. Rek'Sai is already pretty overpowered in SR. On top of all of the strengths she has in 5s, certain aspects of her kit make her extremely broken on this map.

-TT is balanced around having no vision wards. Reksai's burrow vision and Q give her team an unprecedented amount of vision. Other champs (like Teemo) have historically been problems for generating too much vision. Reksai is better at this than Teemo ever was. Simply put: her burrowed vision is too strong in a mode balanced around having no vision wards.

-TT was completely redesigned a while back in order to prevent champions from dashing over the walls. Before the redesign, the mode was completely dominated by champions with low CD dashes. Rek'Sai gives me flash backs to old TT. She can tunnel under almost every wall on the map. She can go from the health pick-up to either lane. She can even tunnel from next to the altar to inside the enemy base (right next to their nexus). On top of this, she has very high base MS in burrowed mode, and she has a global tele ult. Without wards, there is very little counterplay to having this level of mobility.

-On top of these two unique strengths, she fits extremely well into the meta. She skirmishes well. She has high sustain. She can deal a lot of damage while building pretty tanky, or vice versa. Even if she couldn't tunnel under the thicker walls, and even if she didn't have the burrowed vision, she would still be an extremely strong pick.

TT is, generally speaking, a less balanced mode than 5s. There are a lot of champions who are too strong. But Rek'Sai is way beyond the pale. She needs immediate map specific nerfs. To put it bluntly: Rek'Sai is straight up ruining blind pick 3s right now.

3 Comments

Ztc5QpjekK1/7/2015, 5:37:04 AM4 votes

I agree... i wish more people would play 3s so Riot care more

Gunpoint1/7/2015, 2:38:34 PM1 votes

I'll have to try this lol