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Jungling Rek'Sai T&T...

Ephamenne··1 votes·1,417 views

Hello Boards,

So I recently purchased RekSai after having watched gameplay of her ( Thanks Brofresco, you and your YouTube channel are great ) and having been taken. I quickly figured out by watching her gameplay she'd make a much better top laner than jungler but wanted to give her a shot in the jungle. My first two attempts were horrid and I realized I'll need to wait till level 20 for runes. That said, I want to have some insight into how I should jungle with her once I hit level 20 and thus made this board in hopes of getting higher levels to share some of their T&T ( tips & tricks ) for success.

Thanks in advance, Ephamenne.

8 Comments

Poptart Evelynn1 votes

Garbage jungler, play it top lane.

Not trying to be mean it just is.

Ephamenne1 votes

No no, I completely agree with you. She strikes me as a horrid Jungler but for some reason I still want to work on playing her decent in the Jungle.

Spiritflare8681 votes

Shes not garbage at all people just haven't figured out how to play her yet

EvilRabbitt1 votes

People still want to go AD because most of her ratios are ad. I say go ap and cdr. Machete into trailblazer into Magus. Rush sorc shoes during this period. Nuke for 1/3 of peoples hp until they build magic resist (still during this period). Buy void staff, chunk for 1/4-1/3 of hp at this point. Buy rab cap. chunk for 1/2 hp. Buy will of ancients so you can heal while underground. Itemize accordingly.

Gameplay? Clear buff camps, back at lvl 3 (start gromp if you can, otherwise get golems first). Grab trailblazer, clear chicken camp for ward clear, visit closest pushed lane. If all lanes are pushing to enemy instead of tower, head to wolves for more exp. If not, ganking lanes goes like this:

Burrow mode through jungle of opponent via tunnel. Use Q within enemy jungle to snipe at enemy laner (thats how long the range is). If they keep fighting your team, keep sniping. If they head to you, tunnel back out. Obviously for this double tunnel, you will need to chill for either your tunnel to come back up OR for your CD in tunnel skill to reset. Rinse and repeat until your lanes push themselves. Your Q has 100% ratio and morgana range, does aoe of about 100 units. Max it at lvl 9. Once team has sufficiently pushed itself because you acted as an extra support/ward for your team (yes, I consider AP rek a support jungler because ad makes her too squishy), join teamfights by being far away from enemy team. Continue sniping tactics you used in ganks. By now you should literally be chunking the enemy champions so hard that they are trying to hunt YOU down. Use yourself as bait. Very effective with your free flash, especially if you preset the zone you were baiting too. I did this in a team builder or draft.

TL;DR? Go ap, pure ap in the jungle. Ignore your jungle minions for the most part, only clearing during buffs or chickens. Rush Magus and Sorc shoes. Rush rab if they dont buy magic resist to counter your ridiculous ganking presence (not power yet, thats at level 9), otherwise rush last whisper (yes rush each item, dont buy in pieces). Its gimmicky, but incredibly dangerous. You don't need ad damage at all. Your purpose is to pressure the enemy team off your team, not to hero mode 1v5.

Of course, this is my opinion. Take with a grain of salt, offer hatred of my idea if you wish. Constructive criticism is appreciated, counter speculation without prior testing of what I have done as well is not as much. =)

Vore Monster1 votes

She's a great jungler when you user her right. You should go for scaling armor seals, scaling MR glyphs, AS marks, and HP quints. My masteries build is 13/17/0.

She can clear both buffs along with wolves/gromp or chickens/krugs. Suggesting you start at the krugs.

She falls behind fast if you fail to gank, so making safe decisions on whether or not the ganks will be successful will be your early-game factor. Go for Juggernaut to build up early-mid game beef then head for tri-force. The rest is all up to you and the game.

When I jungle her, I either fall behind due to bad ganks or push ahead of the entire enemy team due to good choices. And while she is a hard to master champion, she is very rewarding when played correctly.

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/na/26533178#matches

coppinslinger1 votes

I'm pretty sure nobody has really quite learned how to jungle Rek'sai properly. The thing is, she has A LOT of damage and map-mobility (not too much mobility within fights themselves), but not much CC. That means she is really good at picking 2v1 and 3v2 fights, and applying map-pressure, but not at team-fighting.

Try and set up your tunnels so you can ult to pressure points (side-lanes that you can push, dragon, etc.) and move around the map quickly. You can also use your tunnels to show up behind the enemy in lane if they are overextended for sweet ganks. Also your tremor sense means you can find the enemy jungler in their own jungle. Use this to track them and counter-jungle them, all the while keeping sweet tunnel escape paths as a get-away.

Basically, just try to be as annoying as possible, be where the enemy isn't. Counter-jungle the enemy jungler, ganked pushed lanes, push lanes the enemy isn't in, and take neutral monster objectives (dragon and baron) by ulting around the map for super mobility.

At least, that's how I figure she should be played. You aren't about making #LCSbigplays, just about picking the easy fights. Its quite easy to do this too because you can move around the map so much faster with your tunnels and ultimate.

EvilRabbitt1 votes

Thats what I saw too. Thats why I went sniper ap. When you watch the promotion video, you see she hunts them all down one by one. I definitely agree that she is made to add pressure, not to create it. =)

Nameboa1231 votes

Rek'Sai is a really good jungler if you put down your tunnels But for jungle i prefer Zed Zac Aatrox and Warwick

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