Rek'Sai questions
or 
I see arguments for both and I have so far only used because I find her a bit too frail to the early jungle. What do you think is better ?
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I don use anything but Aoe smite because everything else is just bad.
They put in new jungle camps that are harder to kill and you need smite to get the bonuses (ESPECIALLY BIRD /WRAITH CAMP FOR SWEEPERS). If i save smite to hit a champion i lose out on ward sweeping potential, which in turn will give me no kills because they have vision.
i've played 4 games wither her. So far, 
has been my go to item. I've tried trailblazer, but found that after my second item, I didn't need it. Counter jungling is super easy as 
, so halving 
's CD, granting movement speed, and granting an extra 20 gold is really useful. So far, in the 3 games i've played with it, I got between 500 and 1100 extra gold each game.
So. This is how I build Rek'sai.
- 9/21/0 masteries.
- AS marks, flat armor seals, scaling mr glyphs, 2 AD quints, 1 armor quint
- I pretty much universally build
. I feel like these are core on her. - I get a minimum double kill every game, I've had a 1v4 quadra kill, I can full clear the jungle without a leash no problem (krugs>smiteless red>chickens>Wolves>blue>gromp) and b, or I can go (krugs>smiteless red>blue) and gank, depending on how the game looks as I'm finishing red. I normally still have my second health pot for blue.
- At level 18 with this, you still have like 1.8 AS or something stupid like that, you still do enough damage to matter, and you can survive in a fight. However, the drawback is you stop being a carry in the late game, and you still aren't a tank, so you have to be careful on engages. However, you are still an objective controlling beast that contributes heavily in fights.
EDIT: Notably, I've only ever had three games with a negative KD, and one of them was my first game with her. I've went legendary multiple times, get a double kill every game almost, usually a triple at some point (I've gotten a quadra in a 1v4). I currently have a 53% winrate on her (after 15 games), which included three separate games with AFKs, one of which I had literally every kill on my team and still ended at 7/4 @ 20 minutes in a 3v5.
I prefer Stalker's personally. The added utility from the slow aids in ganks, and it's only her fist clear that's really fragile. After that, she has little difficulty clearing.