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Rek'sai, the rift's "best girl". Why haven't you played this wonderful champion yet? It's simple...! You are either afraid of the dark, don't like winning or you simply haven't heard of her yet!

You may think that this champion is bad or hard to play, that she's just a downgrade from Sejuani or effectively a worse ward, but I'm here to explain to you why she is an amazing champion, easy to carry with and absolutely devastating in the right hands and with the correct build~!

Cheap Shot You can proc this with your knock-up allowing decent damage off of your Q, but nothing more in your kit benefits from it.		Taste of Blood You're not laning against anyone, so why would you take this rune? You already have plenty of healing from your Burrow fury consumption.		Sudden Impact Sudden Impact Procs off of both your Tunnel for your engage and from the leap on your Void Rush, much better for both burst and your ebb and flow style of consistent damage.

Zombie Ward When first learning to play this champion the "lack" of vision is extremely disorienting, making this a very friendly option for becoming used to the unique playstyle that is Rek'sai.		Ghost Poro This rune is best on defensive junglers or against invading junglers. Rek'sai would rather trade camps or kill someone.		Eyeball Collection Any increase in damage is generally your best option, and this makes scaling somewhat easier. I personally run this every time.

When playing Rek'sai the most important thing to learn is how to play while burrowed. As you go through the map, the only time you'll be unburrowed is when you're either attacking or need vision to check for wards when Duskblade procs, so learning tremor sense and using it to invade/counter gank is incredibly important.

Your early rotation when clearing camps is Prey Seeker -> Unburrow -> Queen's Wrath -> max fury Furious Bite -> Queen's Wrath -> Burrow -> Prey Seeker -> Unburrow -> Queen's Wrath.
That's Q* - AA - Q - E - Q - W - Q* - AA - Q, using Q as an auto-reset and auto-attacking while abilities are on cooldown.

My preferred style of clear is to invade the top jungle buff, taking your toplaner with you and your midlaner if they are willing. You do a lot of damage at level one and can easily trade well against most junglers/toplaners, assuming you run into them. If you run into enemies while doing this, just back up and clear your own top buff.

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After this clear Raptors if you're topside or Gromp if you're botside then immediately gank toplane.
When ganking make sure to ping so your laner can keep vision of the enemy and follow up on your knock-up.
Come in behind the enemy, only using your tunnel if they react too quickly or after they Flash. You'll want to clear one of your camps after your top gank then immediately go to scuttle, which spawns at 3:15, after which you can go about clearing the rest of your topside jungle. Ideally your first back is at around 1,350 gold so you can buy Stalker's Blade, Boots, a Dagger and a Control Ward.

On any gank, your general combo is knock-up+Q, run the full Q out then E at max fury, throwing out a Chilling Smite near the end of the combo. The most important thing if they aren't dead at this point is to follow them burrowed, but wait for the internal knock-up cooldown to reset before attacking them again. It's a more guaranteed kill this way, and if they Flash and your own+ Tunnel wouldn't secure it then you've basically put your own laner massively ahead anyways, forcing your enemy to back and burn their summoner spells to survive.

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Post 6 you can easily tower dive. In this clip I run for a regular gank, but because my laners didn't have vision of them I was unable to dodge the hook, and having that immediately followed by an Ignite prompted my swift retreat. Instead of leaving completely, though, I stay burrowed and fire a Prey Seeker into the trade that follows, landing it on the Yasuo as he is taunted by Galio. They get a bit of damage onto him, then from the jungle I launch Void Rush, executing Yasuo under tower and escaping through the jungle once again.

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In this clip you can see how I use the terrain to extend my Tunnel distance, Flash to try and get close enough for a knock-up, hit two empowered autos with Q on the Cass, killing her, then I use my Chilling Smite on the Lux in order to Void Rush her, dodging her ultimate with my own. The "thumbs up" is vital in this situation as well.

When it comes to teamfighting with Rek'sai, you basically want to play it in a similar way as a gank, but instead you more rely on other team members to engage and follow up with your own CC, poking with Prey Seeker until that fight breaks out. You can still force the engage with a Tunnel+ Flash for a knock-up on a vital target or a Prey Seeker followed immediately by Void Rush, but in either case you are so squishy you'll almost always want to look to retreat immediately after putting out your burst damage. Never too far, though;
opportunity can always come knocking, and Rek'sai loves a free meal.


Pathing options for Tunnels:
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