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So Rek'Sai is out. What do you guys think of her?

Quote from Veir

So Rek'Sai is out. What do you guys think of her?

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Not everyone on SEA server is a Philly.

Quote from Veir

Rek'Sai has officially taken the top lane away from me. I haven't won lane against her in a single match, even playing as Jax I lose. All she needs is a vamp scepter and that Q lifesteal begins to take place.

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From just seeing her abilities, I can tell you already what I think her main strong/weak points are

Pro
-She can clear jungles exceptionally fast, since if you create a bunch of tunnels you can literally move from camp to camp, your W deals AoE dmg and stun, your Q hits all the enemies around you for 3 times and your E scales off your fury, dealing on max rank 240% your AD as true dmg if you have full fury bar
-By leaving a tunnel (or making one at the moment (her E)) on strategic places (enemy's camps, enemy's bushes, ecc.) She can have great map control, leading to unexpected attacks/ganks/escapes
-She's manaless and her passive let her self-sustain by consuming fury
-She can lane too, since not only she can poke with her Q, self-sustain with fury and follow pretty well in ganks, but she can also avoid enemy ganks easily thanks to her W giving her vision, speed and no unit collision and her E
-She can detect enemies inside fog of war (as long as they move) and can check brushes with her Q
-If she gets a teleport, she can easily gank another lane and immidiately get back to his own thanks to her R, wasting no time at all

Contro
-She's basically an AD DPS bruiser who can deal true damage, thus not being that much useful in teamfights (she's not like Olaf who can shrug off any kind of CC and smack his opponent 'till his (the opponent) death)
-Her W can work against her: if enemy is waiting somewhere without moving, you can pretty much walk inside their full team and end annihilated
-She can poke, but her poke not only scales off AP, but can be used only during W and it is more useful as a way to check places than to wear somebody down
-While in W, you lose fury if you don't have full health, making it difficult to get a full-fury E on enemies
-No CC: she only has her W stun

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I'm gonna post what I wrote about her before she was available
Did I nail it?

Quote from Veir

Her poke is pretty much useless in lane (from what I've fought.) Her knock up from her unburrow can only affect you once for a certain amount of time, kind of like a Yasuo dash. Her main strong point is the fact that her 3 hit AoE Q attack is counted as a basic, meaning that it procs lifesteal. Once she gets a vamp scepter she just steam rolls. I normally see her building super tanky with only a vamp scepter as damage. Then after they get a randuins they get a ravenous hydra for double AoE damage, there's that teamfight she desperately needs. Now she has a ton of AoE damage to just nuke everyone in a team fight. She's also ridiculously hard to catch. If you start gaining the upperhand against her she just burrows and tunnels away. The increased movement speed and ignoring collision let's her outrun just about anybody.

tl;dr
She's an amazing top laner. Get a ravenous hydra and a triforce and just build tank. You win.

Edit: It's also ridiculously easy for her to gain fury. Like she has a full bar in just a few auto attacks.

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Man I forgot how important runes are in this game.. they give you like 1000 g worth of stats at level 1... that's ridiculous lol. No wonder it's so hard early game on my smurf. A single Ashe volley and 1 s in the morgana pool did half my health lol...