Rek'sai..What's going on?
TL;DR Rek'sai and what i noticed could be a few problems.
This champion has seen better days.(And hasn't seen many games) She was picked once during MSI-RiftRivals-Worlds2018 By Broxah against c9.(33 times in LPL twice in LCK)
That was it.
I've thought about this quite a bit and am slightly disheartened but i still love this champion
I do think it's because while rek'sai is good at many things, Her lack of great team-fighting,Having to dive into the backline as either someone too squishy to survive, or not tanky enough to provide any impact if the enemy team has good vision, to the late game cliff dive she takes from just how she plays out.
Secondly, my first point Rek'sai is NOT bad by any means personally(Yeah yeah i main her irrelevant)
Just there is always a champion who can do something Safer, Quicker, Better, Than Rek'sai.
Sure! You can go full Damage/Leathality, but you'll get out bursted by any half fed Ekko/Talon/Rengar/Khazix. Or Tank! But your lack of reliant peel due to her W no longer being AOE and having too long of a CD on individual targets to be used as reliant peel and her ult DESIGNED to be an assassian ultimate makes her being tank rather..awkward.
Bruiser! Jax or Irelia. However this tends to be her best bet. Not extremely squishy while being able to output some DPS.
While Rek'sai is a great level 3 and even level 2 Jungler, able to provide ganks and Invade most enemy junglers to 1v1 without an issue, her lack of great scaling along with her having no Defined role/build makes the champion feel very unfriendly to players wanting to play the champion past 1 game.
Recommendations? While i'm no balance member, I do think that removing her AOE from her W really hurt the champion, many times i've seen players attempt a gank only to knock up a minion who was slightly closer to Rek'sai than the enemy ADC, Too many times has this resulted in the death of rek'sai post rework.
Lastly.
Rek'sai got her last skin in 25-Jun-2015 That's 1,229 Days! The champions that are similar to that (That have not received a VGU) Shaco, Skarner, Xerath, Zilean.
Seriously guys i've waited a long time.
Sincerely. A rek'sai main who put way to much time finding facts that don't matter.