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As a jungler, who is more viable? Diana or Rek'Sai?

exiledFromBadmen··1 votes·1,786 views

Your thoughts are important for me :) They both seem strong but I can't decide.

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LaowPing2 votes

Never liked talking about "meta" but here goes.

Rek'sai is considered a stronger jungler due to her ability to detect moving targets. She's great at getting to her buffs, moving around the map, and ganking lanes along with the vision that tremor sense provides. She's also good at counter jungling for the exact same reasons I just listed.

Diana isn't as strong as top tier reksai but she still has her strengths. Her clear is good due to her passive and her shield but she's not as strong of a ganker as reksai. Diana needs a easy gank target or an ally with good cc to gank before 6, afterwards her gank potential becomes really good but it's fairly reliant on landing her q. If her q does land she gets two gap closers which let's her stick to her opponent.

Rek'sai is the stronger pick but she's more advanced. Counter jungling is difficult if you're not used to when to do it. As far as I've seen, reksai falls off late game (someone tell me if I'm wrong) where as Diana scales really well later on. She is essentially an akali with tankyness and can burst down targets on her own and still 1v1 very well. Most people just play diana mid instead but if you need an AP jungler diana is a good pick.

Edit: forgot to mention Reksai also has good sustain and clear speed. She's basically everything you'd probably ever want in a jungler.

exiledFromBadmen1 votes

I forgot to say that I mainly play good early gankers (Elise , Sejuani, Sion immediately came to my mind) but also play Shyvana because of the very strong late game.

I actually play junglers that has good early and late game (Elise (with item 3708 has strong late game that is like Diana), Sejuani, Sion, Maokai to a lesser extent) but I find Diana as a Shyvana type jungler that has to farm. RekSai also shines with her knockup. I played her before nerfs (when she first released) and found that she has a weak late game. I don't like champions that has poor lategame because I like teamfight champions most.

Thanks for your reply, probably picking Diana because of her scale into late game.

Merxamers2 votes

Rek'sai is one of the safest, strongest picks you can take for the jungle. Get cinderhulk + black cleaver + all tank, and she has all the damage and survivability she needs. She has great clear, mobility, gank pressure, and teamfight presence.

Diana isn't nearly as safe a pick as Reksai, but with the new Devourer enchant she is pretty broken. Seriously, if you jungle as her, don't get Runeglaive- abuse that new devourer until they nerf it. Right now, Diana might be stronger because of the broken item, but all other things considered, Rek'sai is the stronger, safer pick

exiledFromBadmen1 votes

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Rek'sai is one of the safest, strongest picks you can take for the jungle. Get cinderhulk + black cleaver + all tank, and she has all the damage and survivability she needs. She has great clear, mobility, gank pressure, and teamfight presence.

Diana isn't nearly as safe a pick as Reksai, but with the new Devourer enchant she is pretty broken. Seriously, if you jungle as her, don't get Runeglaive- abuse that new devourer until they nerf it. Right now, Diana might be stronger because of the broken item, but all other things considered, Rek'sai is the stronger, safer pick

Thanks for your reply. I have to ask that how is Rek'Sai's teamfight potential?

Merxamers1 votes

she can be a strong tank, and can periodically generate knock-ups, so she's really good in team fights. You can peel with her, engage, CC, deal damage to, and chase down enemies. You'll want to build her mostly tanky thought, like you would a jungle jarvan

exiledFromBadmen1 votes

Thanks. This changed my mind actually.

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