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Patch 5.1: Queen's Wrath (Q) Base bonus damage reduced to 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 from 15 / 35 / 55 / 75 / 95.

AD ratio reduced to (+30% bonus AD [+90% total]) from (+40% bonus AD [+120% total]).

Prey Seeker (burrowed Q) Ability power ratio reduced to (+70% AP) from (+100% AP).

Unburrow (W) Bonus attack damage ratio reduced to (+40% bonus AD) from (+50% bonus AD).

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Patch 5.7 Queen's Wrath (Q) AD Ratio reduced to (+ 20% Bonus AD [+60% total]) from (+ 30% Bonus AD [+90% total]).

Tunnel (burrowed E) Per-tunnel cooldown reduced to 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 seconds from 10 at all ranks.

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Rek'Sai is now being played as a tank, not because of the advent of Cinderhulk, but because building damage is no longer cost effective. She does no more damage than if one built AD on Skarner. Please, Riot, return her Q's ratio to what it was in 5.1. She should be able to be built tank OR AD.

8 Comments

Newb the Legend3 votes

I just miss my carry Rek'Sai ;-;

qetzel2 votes

The trouble is that she needed the nerfs.

If you were to give her the damage back, what would you be willing to sacrifice - she would need compensation nerfs.

PalPlays1 votes

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The trouble is that she needed the nerfs.

If you were to give her the damage back, what would you be willing to sacrifice - she would need compensation nerfs.

She was completely balanced in 5.1-5.6. Rek'Sai wasn't dealing a TON of damage, but she wasn't Skarner either. They nerfed her so much that Skarner deals MORE damage than she does!

MohawkBird2 votes

They pretty much ruined bruiser Rek'Sai, which was what she was supposed to be in the first place. She is basically a knock up bot and free vision since her damage is extremely low now even if you do build hydra. They need to put her ratios back on Queen's Wrath, but instead of nerfing the ratios to garbage like they did before they just need to increase the cooldown slightly if it's really that oppressive.

Jaygo411 votes

she's being played as a tank because of that reduction to her tunnel cooldown and because building tank is very optimal on someone who has that much utility if someone doesnt scale with AD very well, then they shouldnt be built as a bruiser

Fadedpf1 votes

She is built tank because early game is early game. Even gragas does great damage with 0 ap even if he had 50 ap it wouldn't make much of a difference, because well they gutted ap gragas too. Hp is a super important stat to have, you'll be better off soaking damage and letting your team get fed. She has some of the best early ganks and pressure this is why she is full tank now. Do you really want release reksai, warrior into hydra into triforce. Full AD and still an unstoppable bruiser knock up machine that can use ult to get back into the fight and 1 shot people?

Erockandroll1 votes

Honestly theirs no problem with a Champion being viable with multiple builds as long as a single build does not become oppressive. Rek'sai, got a lot of her Early game dueling nerfed, and that really hurt her Warrior build because Warrior falls off, (and Rek'sai falls off as well late game)

Cinderhulk has some later game scaling. Which makes her fall off less in the late game, which is useful in the tank meta, AND she still has a pretty good kit that can make use of tankyness.

A lot of her Q nerfs happened because people complained about her Dueling everyone at once. Which may be a fair complaint except that she may have lost too much single target dueling power. But that should be easily fixed with just a little more Base AD.

PalPlays1 votes

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Honestly theirs no problem with a Champion being viable with multiple builds as long as a single build does not become oppressive. Rek'sai, got a lot of her Early game dueling nerfed, and that really hurt her Warrior build because Warrior falls off, (and Rek'sai falls off as well late game)

Cinderhulk has some later game scaling. Which makes her fall off less in the late game, which is useful in the tank meta, AND she still has a pretty good kit that can make use of tankyness.

A lot of her Q nerfs happened because people complained about her Dueling everyone at once. Which may be a fair complaint except that she may have lost too much single target dueling power. But that should be easily fixed with just a little more Base AD.

No, base AD is not the answer. The answer is to return her status to that of Bruiser. I'm not asking for release Rek'Sai, but for what she had a few patches ago. Overloading a champ's weaknesses by bolstering base stats is what they did to Skarner, and just solidifies her new role as a tank.

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