The Age of Rek’Sai is Here

[@Roflmao6173]

Honestly the thing that surprised me the most is how fast the push was

[@magicalJelly0495]

agreed, my laner left their tower to roam and with one wave i deleted the full hp tower

[@magicalJelly0495]

also i should mention i didnt really win lane, at this time i cant play reksai top well lol

[@ruthusflabbergast1263]

Q Cooldown gets really short

[@window9213]

Her Q gets like a .5 second cd mid game.

[@sleepycrow3849]

she is a jungler so the fast wave clear is her thing

[@QHuy11]

Rek'sai tunnels last 10 mins, so every time you recall then walk back to lane, you make a tunnel, it will add up after several recalls and become a tunnel system that make your trip back to lane significantly faster, basically an ARAM portal in SR

[@yoshiguy123]

You can feed at maximum efficiency.

[@wolfgangabelmann3109]

in mid its op

[@Cleriistoh]

I was waiting for him to tell it on the tutorial. It's so basic.

[@epicnoodles9981]

7:37 Ah yes the reksai vs varus matchup A perfectly normal day in the toplane

[@GuestingGameplays]

Yeah, this game’s kinda funny ngl

[@PanosLog]

It's just tanks and ranged matchups..... Man top is a fun and interactive role....... just end me in-game of course

[@XenagarD]

Well ranged champs become gods in top lane cause its supposed to be for weak melees to scale or survive until their power spikes. Now that sounds like something an adc would also like. However without ganks top laners turn into melee minions vs ranged champs.

[@aprofessionalateverything7585]

​@@XenagarD "weak melees" like jax, fiora and olaf

[@XenagarD]

@@aprofessionalateverything7585 not Fiora but the other two are easily kiteable with anyone who knows how to space and use their abilities on, Kaisa, Lucian, zeri, Quinn, vayne, jayce and even tristana, vs a melee without a gank will win lane.

[@animegurl69420]

alr time to kiss my lp goodbye 😌

[@MyJamesq]

One other tip: always remember to unburrow before you ult an enemy, the casting time before the damage will reduce your W in cooldown to burrow again. And you can tp tunnels xD

[@dazeen9591]

You can TP to tunnels?? Bro that is broken

[@Jangz_]

@@dazeen9591how is that broken? Its just a good feature

[@dazeen9591]

@@Jangz_ yeah just set up a bunch of tunnels in the enemy base. Hope they miss one and just back door for free with no minion wave meanwhile enemy is in your base or fighting for elder. Reksai tunnels last for frickin 10 minutes

[@gnaruto7769]

@@dazeen9591 the tunnels arent invisible.

[@ArielGoV]

​@@dazeen9591 so literally worse than a ward huh

[@RazorWinter]

7:50 very cool to add parts where Reksai is punished also 👍Gives an idea to what not to do as Rek and also how to counter it.

[@冬雪林ふゆきりん]

I had stopped playing reksai top for a while because i thought she was struggling in lane after playing it so much i would love to continue again

[@swaggingswagster5357]

I played her a bunch this patch in master tier and she is incredibly strong right now. After they reworked her ulti 6 years ago or sth i gave up and tried countless times and i can safely say she is finally viable on top lane mainly because of the passive buff

[@andrej7840]

@@swaggingswagster5357 if u play this top u have cancer

[@HiItsMars]

I haven’t played league in a very long time but I remember Rek Sai on launch. She was very broken and a staple for competitive play. “Rek Guy” by Dunkey is to date one of my favorite videos on the platform.

[@MangaGamified]

Anyone with a global ult was top tier back then for split push then, instantly join a fight, also for BD purposes, not just 3k range or half map range, IIRC her ult can global tunnel not sure if it had damage or not, she also had no mana, she was like flexibility queen.

[@Rylatar]

@@MangaGamified no damage, it was a straight up teleport. Also her knock up was better and she had a lot more base damage so she was great as a tank.

[@MangaGamified]

@@Rylatar She would be Queen in Aram if it was the old one, she has enough mix of both damage and tankiness to tank a low HP Tower then nexus, don't remember if her Q can damage towers back then

[@Rylatar]

@@MangaGamified I don’t remember if it did but I often miss old Rek’sai. I prefer playing tanks and she was a very comfy pick.

[@jaypham3393]

I love Rek’Sai so much. So glad she’s finally good

[@lehtalis]

I immediatly played it top when i saw the buffed they gave her. Tbh i think i made a hermeidinger top a mental breakdown because everytime he poked i healed with minion and i non stopped hit my ranged q. You have to imagine i was like full tower pussying around but hitting my q’s, he tried everything to kill me under tower, but after to many ranged q poke i just press R and win. Adding to this that reksai have a seriously dangerous burst prio due to her bump, playing her even full tank isn’t even trolling since your passive scales now, and meaning that you can get the most powerful trades with your opponent, because of the prio, you burst him, and you don’t worry about the rest because its going to heal back by gently retreating after your burst, even if you know that late game you might just spam q spell and win. High potential right here

[@brokerZIP]

The fact that her Q is now 2 sec cd WITHOUT ANY CDR is just insane

[@knicklichtjedi]

That looks neat! I especially like that they play Reksai as a preying hunter with the tunnel/roam baits!

[@astro.]

8:13 That's actually a bad tip for the Rek'sai vs Darius matchup. Any good Darius will save E to pull you out of your Tunnel mid-animation, putting that Tunnel on cooldown

[@evianwyner8280]

it means you can do your full combo easier if he doesn't E, and darius wont wanna just auto probably so he might Q or w, so he will have less threat once he Es i think idk, ive beat almost every Darius as reksai tbh, other than one who begged for ganks i swear

[@astro.]

@@evianwyner8280 Darius doesn't beat Rek'sai because of his E, he counters Rek'sai because he just straight up wins in an extended fight. "Having less threat once he E's" isn't true as its main purpose is just to help him stick on you, which he will have no problem with against a melee champion whose only disengage can be interrupted by displacement. Rek'sai is not supposed to beat Darius if Darius plays properly.

[@evianwyner8280]

@@astro. trueee, Darius is bs in long fights, its still winnable but if he makes no mistakes its... ehhh

[@zyul6420]

As a reksai laner main it can be tough. Dont expect this pick to be free but it has it's winning MUs. Yone/Yasuo are pretty easy just for yasuo it takes some outplay and use of trades. I personally switch between HoB and Conq depending on MU. Tanks and bruisers that can extend fights are conq and squishier targets can allow for HoB.

[@SirPenguino]

so i watched like a 2 year old video on this from you recently and said why not they got a buff maybe its good. Im so glad funny off meta picks work even 2 years later thx dobby!

[@ricolini70]

the sad part for me is that I used to do this exact playstyle in season 5, only then it worked better. Because rek'sai still had her old ult. meaning your split push was insanely strong if you set up a lot of tunnels for map control. they removed that playstyle completely and I didn't touch rek'sai top ever since. so my it feels nostalgic to get in a little bit of rek'sai top

[@luqqs3047]

it would not work, with carry toplaners being so popular a champ with a non combat alt is kinda ass

[@ricolini70]

@@luqqs3047 I have done it with 59% winrate over 100 games

[@nik_ms]

Yeah it reminded me of those times too, but, it's even better now imo

[@TrueMarcaBlanca]

​@@ricolini70 You are gold xd

[@arforafro5523]

Its better to have an incredible 1v1 ult instead of a very conditional teleport. Same reason Tryndamere and Jax are better at split pushing than Twisted Fate.

[@derrickdabeast9064]

great video as always dobby! I think it's time for mr.crocodile to get a time to shine in one of these videos!

[@Draxis32]

6:18 WOA, even I know that you have to time master's yi W well!

[@chunkitliem3635]

you clearly don't know, the master is dead no matter he time the W or not

[@ichbinnichdumm]

@@chunkitliem3635 He clearly does know. Because Yi gains more damage reduction in the first 0.5 sec of his W.

[@jjjj3653]

​@@chunkitliem3635 its 90 percent on the first sec

[@galileo6554]

Nah, the people above me are both wrong. The DR is halved against turrets, he would’ve died no matter what

[@chunkitliem3635]

@@jjjj3653 that's halved for tower, so it's only 45%, he would still be dead

[@aoffydosy1530]

Passive healing scales with her % max HP especially of late game is insane now. Healing amplification like Spirit Visage and Revitalize rune make her sustain almost every combat that doesn't make her down.

[@AdrianDelaCruz-pc2ql]

yeah in mid game i was healing 500 per full fury stack

[@tender0828]

Ah yes, I've waited for reksai supremacy for such a long time now

[@Shadow-ashlad]

The second I clicked on the video the enemy toplaner locked in Rek Sai

[@jhonasmanalo6942]

well me when i play rek sai top. my go to runes is hail of blades. its so effectives because reksai is so powerful at making a short trades and since hail of blades have a short cd. even you lose a trade as long as your rage is full you can easily back those mising hp

[@Sveirok]

You've made this video already word for word two years ago

[@bigearl]

Rek'sai is one of those champions that I'll forget exists for large stretches of time. Ivern and Skarner are also like that.

[@Blamzite]

I have been playing rek top for ages and although hardstuck in a low elo I would say going q-q-q-e is usually better than q-q-e-q as it lets you get an extra conq stack for dmg and E range is longer than Q as it can't be cancelled normally letting you possibly get an extra auto in before ending the trade. I also baits the enemy slightly as they aren't expecting the huge chunk of dmg to turn the trade around.

[@paake3134]

Interesting, thanks for this. One of my fav champs along Shen and Urgot (i know my taste is weird)

[@antihackerify]

im playin reksai mid with the assassin build, its strong af, you ik anyone early on, and you can gank well, have a good sustain, etc.. you can really snowball with this.

[@troyclayton7040]

What do you build ?

[@pumpkinking6660]

Pov: you're fighting a yorick top, and you roam once at twelve minutes and now your nexus is open

[@diehleeo1449]

Reksai is much more interesting this way compared to lethality reksai just walking up and clicking u for a full combo oneshot in stun. I hope they can find a way to keep this bruiser feel but make it feel more balanced at the same time.

[@Confirmed105]

The fastest way to get to full rage is: burrow Q - unburrow knockup(i personally prefer using W because of old habits) - auto - Q auto reset, and rage bar is full! - You can even buffer the E during the q auto for a fast burst of damage. - It is probably rek'sai´s fastest high damage combo. if you are lvl6 this combo+R is usually enough to guarantee a kill. - Full combo= Burrow.Q - W - AA - Q AA Reset - E - R is the full combo! (and you still have the last two Q AA's up after you R)

[@fullsoul5727]

ive been testing this build out on reksai jg Conqueror Triumph Alacrity Cut da grasss Footwear Insight Red Pet (green against heavy cc) Stridebreaker -> Lucidity -> Hullbreaker -> Cleaver it sounds super dumb but ive been playing it a bit in draft and im on like 70% wr over 10ish games

[@S6_043]

you know it's a classic when dobby makes another video on it

[@mistakenot2462]

Hahaha I have been playing rek sai top for a couple of weeks now on the PBE before the buffs went live. Nice to see it now catch on in love servers

[@KevinLeandroKim]

I don’t know how well it does against garen. I play garen and I don’t know if it’s the enemy player that plays bad or the match up is bad but I seem to win the lane almost every time.

[@itsdavyboi]

Something funny is that you can get a little behind at some point where enemy team and yours thinks you're trolling while pushing alone... until all the enemy base is down

[@thestarforger832]

I don’t even play Rek’sai, but I’m happy she’s meta now.

[@pesky2119]

Top so good varus and rek'sai, invaders from space are taking our place

[@Linbranke]

My idea the second she got the sustain buff, loved it, won't stop

[@amethonys2798]

Thing thing with picks like this and honestly Kaisa is their marks last so long that you really should try to milk your cooldowns after disengaging and go back in with ult when your E is back up to guarantee the kill.

[@pedrocalebe6407]

I remember people used to play her top back when her ulti was a global TP

[@baylorlopez4495]

yeah. i used to do that with my homies. brought zz rot along as well. insanely fun split push. 😂

[@pedrocalebe6407]

@@baylorlopez4495 dude remember triple proxy singed? That was the funniest shit EVER

[@wevegottrouble5891]

Rek'sai is another great example of a Jungler that was designed around jungling and not laning. She has the exact same problems as Warwick, where the champ is designed around being a beefcake to ease early and midgame jungling and absolutely goes out of control as soon as they're put into a lane. I'm honestly shocked nobody has figured out how to make Fiddle top a thing yet, because he ALSO has the same problems as Warwick that overtune him in lane. I've seen it working in mid lane but not top. Not just that, but Fiddlesticks has easy going into melee champions because of his Q W harass and ult.

[@teaiced12]

YOOO, REK SAI TOP IS BACK?

[@murchdawg]

as a reksai main this rework makes me so happy

[@TheMasterPlayGame123]

0:40 JUST CANNOT IMAGIUNE THIS

[@coveiro3864]

When are you going to do a video on reworked rell anywhere besides sup

[@Velorie1310]

only one which could rly work out is jgl currently, im spamming here currently there and safe to say its insane... she lacks bit dmg but u can 1v1 early on alot of other junglers, also having a second support gives your own support more choices if it comes to items, since rell shines with alot of them she can be flexible with her items too while still being tanky

[@swaggg3128]

Every video of yours i try it out, with this one, i went 1/11 but ended up taking 3 turrets and 1 inhib just by myself. I'd say this combined with baus strategy would work out PERFECT

[@d1mensi0n70]

I've already been abusing Bruiser Rek'Sai in the jungle, now I can queue top secondary and keep abusing it!

[@blacksionman]

I remember release reksai, 1v2'ing top and jungler for fun everytime, i shudder to think if she has returned to that state oh well lets go >:)

[@genghisfarn]

That skin at the start it's fkn siick, it's so big it looks like mega gnar tho

[@tubtubsablubblubs3996]

Fun fact: at about 1.5 attack speed with either HoB or LT, her Q DECREASES YOUR ATTACK SPEED DESPITE SAYING ITS HIGHER. The way I’ve found to bypass this is MANUALLY PRESSING W TO UNBURROW AND IMMEDIATELY CLICK Q. Its so buggy

[@michaellazimhosein6881]

I literally just started doing this yesterday before this video came out

[@kaelen9906]

someone locked this in first time in my game and went 0/12 and was down 5 levels. thanks dobby!

[@LoLDobby]

Oops..

[@kaelen9906]

@@LoLDobby lmao i watched the video in the morning, que'd up and sure enough there he was... spam pinging the jungler and losing inhib at 15 minutes

[@firebreathingfish9782]

I hope that one day we can have: *The Age of Skarner* Our Crystal Boi needs some love. Edit: I know that hes getting a VGU in the future, but hardly anyone makes vids on him anymore.

[@PiantaBroker]

I'm happy about the changes. I might try her top. her assassin build skill floor was too high in jungle. also I like when champions can work well in other lanes too.

[@legendaryvaleax8474]

very very well made video! thank you

[@ItGirlCaliiopx]

yass queen rek'sai! slay queen! slay!! SLAY YOUR ENEMIES !!!

[@purpletheoriesone4013]

U can add Cho into the counters as well his fukin Silence is a nightmare to deal with Shen is also an a hard matchup cause of his W

[@reggie9010]

Wait I recently got M7 with Reksai top lane. No wonder she felt so strong I had no idea she got buffed.

[@evasivoarcane744]

Having Jax as a counter seems to be the only real bad thing with the pick. Also, rek'say is just such a nice champ holy

[@steliosp1770]

The hullbreaker Reksai of the prophecy.. now that she does 10 million damage after buffs + stride got buffed.. its actually not a meme..

[@ANGGELAful]

I believe in Monster Champ supremacy

[@MrNinjability]

Reksai surging in league and TFT!

[@buzzlightyearpfp7641]

rek'sais passive becoming % based is all she needed. and then she got all the other stuff too and it was over

[@anudeepmayura11]

Seeing yone and gnar getting massacred is so satisfying

[@jorhey9346]

it's kind of cool the video ended with the ap varus top killing her, a nod to another video

[@muamua101]

Wasn't MidSai a thing a while ago? It used the exact same strat and Roamed for both counter jungle and lane gank.

[@WILDCARD-t8p]

back to season 8 baby i remember facing her on the top lane straight pain in the ass

[@0djunder0]

What about Donger as counter? You have to be carefull if the dongs have turrets avaible or its a certain death for Rek´

[@__edward]

10:30 what's that triangle effect on ezreal's back? never seen that before

[@лютыйкринжер]

fully stacked trinity mb?

[@LoLDobby]

@@лютыйкринжер I think so, too

[@CasuallyRekt]

So we going back to release rek? Ya know who could duel xin 1v1 (at a time when his legs weren’t broken)

[@kevindodson957]

in aram what would you trade out hullbreaker for?

[@__________________________4051]

Just got him in the top lane. This Rek'sai top is really broken, 1 v 4 and winning

[@slick571]

The only way to win lane is take a strong early bruiser contest lv 2 and dont let her hit minions, char. like Sett Darius Renekton Fiora come to mind, if you get ganked pushing her off waves say gg It's been like this for years just now she doesn't become a caster minion at 20 minutes exactly, cheers and good luck everyone

[@JajAAAAAAAAA]

Do you think trinity force can be an option? I know stride is insane on reksaï but like trinity / hullbreaker is THE split push item combo

[@nik_ms]

Yes, I tried with tforce and is insane, stride might be better for sticking to the enemy though. The games I played with tforce I was pretty ahead so I did insane damage and didn't need the sticiking power of stride

[@mistakenot2462]

I think that Triforce wasn’t as good on rek sai due to her relatively low base AD which Triforce does damage off of.

[@AdrianDelaCruz-pc2ql]

@@nik_ms it is not.

[@umbrasang787]

Sorry guys, not freelo. Stick with the OP / S+ tier picks for top lane if you want a main. The problem is that Rek'Sai struggles in just so many matchups and you are not supposed to teamfight anyways so.. tier B+ at most (very situational). Good players will zone you out of the wave so you can't abuse burrow's healing passive to even out losing trades -- keep in mind that champs that counter Rek'Sai generally either stomp her in short/long trades or just kite her to death so good luck touching the wave in Plat+. That translates to: feast or famine -- you MUST know the enemy pick before going Rek'Sai or you will regret it and feel like a silly duck for 30ish minutes. It works great as a niche pick for annoying champions like Ornn, Aatrox and Illaoi though. Just make sure to take grasp for Ornn. The key is to stay longer in lane, take plates and just abuse the sustain / item lead to take enemy jungle camps, ambush or simply force the enemy team to rotate. She does fall off terribly late game so remember the price you're paying for the splitpushing steroid.

[@AdrianDelaCruz-pc2ql]

why grasp for ornn?

[@umbrasang787]

@@AdrianDelaCruz-pc2ql cause he will take grasp and his base dmg is way too high for short trades to work with conq

[@danielzavala3746]

What's with all the ranged top.... I haven't played the game in awhile.

[@kklc5477]

this is a mid tier top off meta pick because she is useless without flash and against enemies who know her e and unburrow range but it should work nicely as most don't even understand how reksai works and they underestimate her damage and diving capabilities so this could be a meta pick for a while

[@amethonys2798]

Yeah the issue is for parts like 6:24 ideally Jayce just runs towards Reksai during the burrow (since it is fixed range) and Reksai is now completely stranded in the enemy wave and no way to get on top of Jayce.

[@DYFENGAME]

The True Void Queen

[@rivaynx]

Rmb when you can play AP RekSai in URF? Good old days...

[@LuisYasashi]

gracias por el tutorial, ahora pude subir a oro gracias a tu video

[@zacnorris1987]

Been playing reksai top for 3 years, i hope this video wont make me face her.

[@ahmedtag3904]

man rek`sai seems like a good matchup into those degenerate ranged toplaners, if i still played the game i would have given her a try

[@akoufhaine]

13:17 i don't understand, do those champs counter Rek'sai, or does rek' counters them ? Should i flash in or out ?

[@hashteraksgage3281]

They are strong champs against reksai. About the flash on cd thing he most likely means that you should look for plays with flash whenever it's available

[@Lunog522]

Imagine you facing heimedinger top

[@katsuro2611]

reksai is the best leage waifu

[@dukesagami9974]

Reksai looks so chunky here, fits her well being a juggernaut

[@purpletheoriesone4013]

I for told this for many people that Rek Sai Top is gonna be an a good pick and what did I got? FLAME AND TOXICITY TOWARD MY SILVER RANK I hate Leagues community that looks just only on Ranks Also i could for told Trynity is also good if u dislike Stridebreaker as much as I do since the only part of it for Rek Sai to be good is of course the slow

[@mihaelvulje6842]

lets gooo, people will forget about my varus top and run this abomination instead

[@cervod2529]

Rek'Sai gamer rise

[@GuestingGameplays]

Bro that Annie clip… nah man 💀

[@hungry_morfeus]

actually riot wanted her to play like a bruiser, so its done

[@granityseis104]

Reksai bullying renekton out of lane is absurd

[@bigbonk3841]

Base resistances seem so high

[@miguelribeiro7965]

Why rek sai with conqueror is better then with hail of blades??

[@hashteraksgage3281]

Toplane usually has longer trades, so conq is better. Gh trying to kill a tank with hail of blades.

[@Filthyy1]

I just cannot get this to work especially stuggled into malphite/urgot. I just suck in toplane.

[@erikvogl7975]

I predicted it on day 1 od patch no one believed me!

[@XiaohaoTryndamere]

Good videooo

[@yoxhi5044]

Been a hot minute to see a rek'sai, but she's top?

[@TheNewblade1]

I got a free win today cause the enemy top laner tried this, my top laner was ap varus.

[@soundwavetfoc9000]

instructions unclear, ended 3/12 on my silver promo