Rek'Sai Warrior (item) will be back?

Quinterro·9/7/2016, 6:44:28 PM·7 votes·8,071 views

From Patchnotes 6.18:

When Rek’Sai was released, we positioned her as a member of the Fighter class: a durable, damage-focused melee champion that wants to hunt down prey and finish it off herself. In the months following release, however, our balance work on Rek’Sai de-emphasized her damage threat in favor of her team utility strengths. Her optimal playstyle settled into the Vanguard (offensive tank) space, and that identity mismatch has caused a lot of player frustration. So, when Rek’Sai’s competitive dominance put her on the balance radar, we resolved not to make the same mistake twice.

Overall, fixing Rek’Sai’s role requires more than being cognizant of where to cut power, and we won’t promise that this’ll be the last time Rek’Sai visits the patch notes. That said, pushing her back toward kill-or-be-killed skirmishes is the first step in the process

Does it mean that Riot want to bring back old Warrior (instead of Cinderhulk) Rek'Sai and nerf her Full Tank build?

36 Comments

RiotMeddler9/8/2016, 12:40:55 AM11 votes

We're planning on doing some work on Rek'Sai to shift her back towards a more damage focused champ. That'll likely involve transferring utility or tank power into damage, or at least pushing her towards more damage focused itemization. Details on that haven't been figured out yet. We wanted to mention it at this point since we've nerfed Rek'Sai a number of times recently but in not ways that have indicated that's our direction however (shorter term changes basically, working within her current state more than pushing her towards what we think she should be).

ForgiveColour9/7/2016, 6:49:10 PM7 votes

Friendly reminder that Reksai is pretty much p/b status ever since she got introduced to the lcs which is almost 2 years ago

XIII Vanitas9/8/2016, 1:15:23 AM3 votes

Honestly, Warrior is still garbage compared to the other enchantments.

Sexy Jack Rabbit9/8/2016, 5:00:30 AM2 votes

Why no talk on Kalista? Why are certain champions spoken about when others are not?

exiledFromBadmen9/7/2016, 7:04:25 PM1 votes

I'll be happy as long as they won't leave her like as it is now. She has to find a place.

Profirix9/7/2016, 7:06:01 PM1 votes

I wonder if Riot has finally nerfed her to the point that she is not played anymore. This is not a small nerf. This drastically changes her survivability, especially at early levels. Translation: "We've seen too much Rek'sai in the LCS. We're going to break her until we feel like revisiting the issue."

God damnit. I have no more reason to play one of my favorite champions without being a significant risk to my team.

DREADN0UGHT9/8/2016, 4:26:01 AM1 votes

In my case, fighter build reksai was always the proper way in soloQ