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Rek'Sai
Patch 16.2.1
JungleDifficulty
Medium
Strength
Early
Mid
Late
Win Condition
Identify the enemy's most vulnerable lane and abuse tunnel paths to snowball it. Transition your lead into neutral objectives and use Tremor Sense to catch the enemy jungler rotating through their own jungle.
Playstyle
An aggressive early-game predator that uses unconventional gank paths and tremor-based tracking to snowball lanes and secure objectives.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- +High sustain in the jungle thanks to healing
- +Unrivaled gank angles using tunnels to bypass common wards
- +Can track enemy junglers through walls without vision using Tremor Sense
- +Massive 1v1 burst damage, especially once is empowered
Weaknesses
- -Significantly reduced vision range while using
- -Falls off hard in late-game teamfights where she can be easily peeled
- -Reliant on tunnels for mobility, which enemies can destroy
- -Very vulnerable to CC if she misses her initial knock-up
Abilities
Generates Fury by attacking. When you use , you consume that Fury to heal. This is your sustain. Don't stay at max Fury if you're low—burrow to top off your health between camps.
In regular form, resets your auto-attack timer and gives 3 empowered hits. In form, it fires a skillshot that reveals enemies. Use the burrowed version to check bushes or 'tag' enemies for .
Your core mechanic. Burrowing grants Tremor Sense (detects movement in fog) but limits sight. Un-burrowing knocks up the first enemy hit. This is your only CC; don't waste it on a shielded target.
In regular form, it's a bite. If you have 100 Fury, it deals bonus True Damage—this is your primary execute. In form, it creates a tunnel. Tunnels are your lifeblood for movement.
Passive: Damaging a champion marks them. Active: Rek'Sai leaps at a marked target, becoming untargetable briefly and dealing damage based on missing HP. Use this to dodge ultimates or chase Flashes.
Teamfight Role
Assassin/Disruptor
Wait for the fight to start, then use a tunnel to flank the backline. Your goal is to knock up the ADC or Mid, dump your full combo including a 100-Fury , and use to finish them or dodge peel.
If your own carry is extremely fed, stay back and use purely to peel the enemy frontline off of them.
Combos
Standard Gank
(Tunnel) → (Un-burrow) → (3 Autos) → (Bite)
Use the tunnel to get on top of them, knock them up immediately, reset your autos with Q to build Fury, and finish with a max-Fury bite.
The Gap Closer
(Burrowed) → → Flash → →
Tag them with the skillshot first so you can use later. Flash during the tunnel or right after to ensure the knockup connects.
Maximum Burst
→ Auto → → → → →
Knock them up, weave your three Q-empowered autos as fast as possible to hit 100 Fury, use the True Damage bite, then follow their escape with the ultimate.
Vision Check
→ →
While burrowed, use the skillshot to reveal a 'ripple' you see with Tremor Sense. If it hits, you get full vision, allowing you to decide whether to tunnel in or run.
Power Spikes
| Spike | Why |
|---|---|
| Level 3 | You have access to your full basic kit, allowing you to stack Fury for True Damage and use tunnels for ganks. |
| Level 6 | adds massive execution pressure and lets you dive towers safely since you become untargetable. |
| Level 11 | The cooldown on drops significantly, making you a constant threat to any isolated carry. |
| Level 13 | Usually when is maxed out, providing maximum mobility and True Damage scaling. |
Tips & Tricks
- •Tremor Sense from does NOT see enemies who are standing perfectly still. Be careful when entering bushes.
- •You can use to dodge huge abilities like Karthus ult or Veigar cage if you time the jump correctly.
- •Always try to have 100 Fury before using the bite part of ; the damage difference between physical and true damage is massive.
- •Place tunnels behind your own walls as a 'highway' to get back to your camps faster.
- •While burrowed, you can see the 'ripples' of Stealthed champions like Twitch or Shaco via .
- •Your resets your auto-attack. Always auto once after the knockup before pressing Q.
Common Mistakes
- ✕Staying in form for too long in a fight→You lose vision of everything except moving targets, making it easy for enemies to outplay you or for you to lose track of the fight.
- ✕Using to engage when you don't have Flash→If you use the tunnel to get in, you have no way to get out if the enemy collapses on you.
- ✕Forgetting to heal with →You'll enter ganks with 50% HP when you could have been at 90% by simply burrowing for a few seconds.
- ✕Using too early in a duel→You lose the execute damage based on missing health, often leaving the enemy alive with a sliver of HP.
- ✕Not clearing enemy-occupied tunnels→Enemies get gold for standing on them, and you lose your map pressure and escape routes.
AI-generated guide • Patch 16.2.1 • Cached