Rek'Sai's playstyle doesn't fit her teaser trailer and theme

Visigoth··3 votes·758 views

In the trailer, she's portrayed as a Sand Beast of Shurima. Later it is revealed in fact she is the Queen of the Xer'Sai, an ancient race from the Void. Despite her primal sounds, it is evident that she is highly intelligent, as shown by he usage of the sand and various burrowing techniques in order to stalk her prey.

But one thing.

In-game she is a tank. She just kinda initiates a fight and is a general annoyance. In-game she herself doesn't do much damage, she's more of a supporting character to the team, who sets up for the higher damage dealers to get their damage done. In the cinematic however, she shows purely damaging aspects, using the ground to maneuver around and trap her prey.

I don't understand how they go from Land Shark of Death reaper the Shuriman ruins to minor hindrance who just has a metric ass load of hp.

I miss damage Rek'Sai... I'm not saying to buff her damage, oh god no. But it's pretty unsatisfying to have the Queen of the Xer'Sai to be nothing more a minor annoyance who just sits in the middle of your team tanking.

7 Comments

Lord Dusteon3 votes

I miss being able to build damage on Rek'Sai and not feeling like it did nothing.

Sire Hippington2 votes

honestly, she fits her teaser very well in the early game. She uses W, E and R to move around the map fast, stalking her prey and then burst out for masive damage. Her mid/late doesn't provide that anymore as her damage scales badaly and her kit forces her to be tanky in order to do shit in teamfights(and her teamfight impact still is rather shitty) Thats the overallproblem of bruisers, the can't deliver agressive fantasys later in the game, as the desperatly need tankiness to do atleast something befor dying in a teamfight.

Nameless Voice2 votes

I wish she:

a) actually had to build damage items to deal damage b) actually dealt damage when she built damage items

Building damage on her feels unrewarding, yet her base damages are high enough that it feels like she does a lot more damage than she should when building pure tank.

In other words, I'd rather see her more of a lighter bruiser/assassin rather than a tank/bruiser.

Ixtali Empress1 votes

She is more of a off tank/fighter :P I feel. She still deals quite a bit of damage and I build warrior on her and mainly armor/mr/hp and then perhaps an item like the last whisper whenever I play her. Also I feel she fits her role.

Erockandroll1 votes

She wasn't initially a tank. The champ spotlight said she's not a supper tank. Riot seemed to have an early game pressure was problematic on a champ that could duel, Especially when she had the Global pressure. (and in turn nerfed all her damage ratios) Which is part of the reason why People play her more as a tank with Cinder Hulk, Cause she has less pressure early game, and less ability to duel opponents.

disregardable1 votes

Yeah, I remember when Reksai was actually scary. I don't think I've had one that I was remotely concerned about in months...

Durzaka1 votes

She is only being built a tank because of the tank meta.

Damage Reksai still hurts, it just isnt as helpful to your team as tank Reksai.

Also, her early game damage is still a very big threat.

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