League of Legends: Rek’Sai Changes Feature a New Ultimate

Rek’Sai changes have been promised for quite a while now. People have been complaining about how she’s fallen off completely over the last few patches. Her win rate has plummeted down to 48.48%. When she was weak, she was still being played but now her play rate is just 1.31% according to champion.gg.

Meddler, Lead Gameplay Designer for League of Legends, recently hit the forums and discussed the upcoming changes for Rek’Sai and said:

We’ll hopefully have the Rek’Sai changes in patch 7.11. It’s possible those move to 7.12 instead, depending on how work on her ult animations/sound goes, 7.11 is currently looking pretty likely though. Our goals are to give Rek’Sai a more engaging ult, reduce difficulties balancing organized play and regular play and better support a fighter, rather than tank, playstyle. Core changes include:

• Higher bonus AD ratios and lower bases (Q at 15-35 + 0.4 bonus AD from 15-55 + 0.2, E damage at 50-90 + 0.7 bonus AD from 80-120% AD)
• W now knocks up a single target for 1s, and slightly knocks other units back from Rek’Sai, rather than being a 0.5-1.0s knockup based off distance from Rek’Sai
• Tunnel CD after use drops much more with rank (10-2s, from 10-6s)
• Fury generates much faster (25 per attack/ability), converts to health faster (3s instead of 5), restores less health (20-190, rather than 25-450). More in/out pattern as a fighter, using lower tunnel CDs in part.
• A new ult. Short version is Rek’Sai marks targets as Prey when she damages them by any means. She can dash to marked Prey up to 1500 units away, dealing 100-400 (+1.4 Bonus AD) + 20-30% missing health. Short channel (1.1s). Lasting about 5s

At first glance, Rek’Sai’s complete rework looks incredibly extensive. Her ultimate become much more useful in terms of dealing damage, thus making her a more attractive jungle pick.

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