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[14.15] How to 1v9 on REKSAI TOP | White Snow's In-Depth Rek'sai Guide to ALL THINGS TOP LANE

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Runes: Standard

Precision

Conqueror

Triumph

Legend: Alacrity

Coup de Grace

Resolve

Second Wind

Revitalize

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

Standard

Flash

Teleport

Items

Standard Example build

Top lane menace

Mythic

Followup items

Tank items for when you're REALLY behind

Ability Order Standard

Rek'Sai Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Darius

Extreme

Do not get hooked in by his e with no tunnel up, let yourself get pushed in and call for jungle. If looking to trade, do short trades with unburrow -> 1q ONLY

Ivern

Ideal

His q delivers you into aa range for a guaranteed unburrow, and e allows you to slow nearby enemies to get an unburrow otherwise. Keeps you alive really well in the thick of a fight as well.

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Ivern

Ideal

His q delivers you into aa range for a guaranteed unburrow, and e allows you to slow nearby enemies to get an unburrow otherwise. Keeps you alive really well in the thick of a fight as well.

Champion Build Guide

Introduction

Hi, I'm White Snow, currently a 970+ LP/top 14 NA peak Challenger and Main, mostly in the top lane! is an extremely fun champion to play in the top lane. Though she lacks the flexibility of my other main champion, she executes her one game plan of taking over the map through getting a solo lead EXTREMELY well. Nearly every matchups is outplayable in some capacity, and you will find yourself being a menace both in the side lane pushes and 1v1s AND grouped teamfights. With extremely high game impact potential, is a solid pick up for any champ pool!

If you ever want to check out live gameplay with the listed runes, build paths, and playstyles, check me out at my stream !!

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PROOF of HIGHEST RANKED Reksai TOP

Pros and Cons

Reksai Top's Pros

→ Strong Laning Phase
→ Extremely Strong Splitpush
→ Very Good at Diving
→ Extremely High In-Lane Sustain
→ Extremely Difficult to Catch Due to Tunnels
→ High Snowball Potential

is a champion I like to pick to be a near-unstoppable force both in-lane and later on, in the splitpush. A combination of a brutal quick trading pattern that's hard to contest and high in-lane sustain makes Reksai an extremely oppressive lane bully after level 3.

Once you get items, you will first become impossible to escape due to your big spike, then transform into the scourge of side lane turrets with any grubs you may have.. You can take over teamfights with the durability of , and use your utility to wreak havoc in backlines using well placed flanks. Overall, Reksai is the pick for you if you enjoy insane sustain and being an absolute menace in the side lanes.

Due to 's kit, you will realise that your first couple levels are rather weak. You're also liable to get kited really easily against team compositions that have a bunch of interrupts. If you get a dash cancelled mid tunnel, you may find yourself caught out in an awkward position.

While you also do have a lot of leeway from behind, you will find yourself feeling much less useful when you're not fed and capable of threatning kills. When this happens, you'll find yourself unable to play for the same wincon as usual and will have to play for team and provide utility.

If you do not enjoy being kite-prone or having a weak level 1-2, Reksai may not be the pick for you.

Reksai Top's Cons

→ Relies on utility from behind
→ Dependent on tunnel cooldown
→ Extremely immobile without access to tunnels
→ Struggles when kited

Abilities

Passive

INNATE: basic attacks and ability hits generate 25 Fury. After 8 seconds of being out of combat, she loses 20 Fury per second. will not generate Fury against non-Champion icon champions.

When becomes burrowed, she consumes her current Fury over 3 seconds to heal based on current Fury, stopping once fully consumed or she reaches full health. If she starts generating fury while burrowed, the consumption occurs after 5 seconds.

Q - Queen's Wrath/Prey Seeker

ACTIVE: Rek'Sai empowers her next three basic attacks within 3 seconds to have a 0.25-second cast time and deal bonus physical damage to the target and surrounding enemies. The damage to the primary target is affected by critical strike modifiers.

resets Rek'Sai's basic attack timer.

ACTIVE: fires a void bolt in the target direction that detonates on the first enemy hit, dealing physical damage to all nearby enemies and revealing them for 5 seconds.

W - Burrow/Unburrow

ACTIVE: Rek'Sai becomes burrowed, reducing her attack range to 75 and her sight radius to 250 units while gaining access to her burrowed abilities. She also becomes ghosted and gains bonus movement speed, as well as Tremor Sense.

TREMOR SENSE: Rek'Sai and her allies gain obscured vision of nearby enemy units that are moving every second.

Once Burrow has been learned, Rek'Sai automatically becomes burrowed upon completing a Recall channel or respawning.

ACTIVE: Rek'Sai becomes unburrowed, gaining access to her unburrowed abilities. Additionally, she deals physical damage to nearby enemies and knocks them aside. The enemy closest to the center is instead knocked up for 1 second, and cannot be affected by Unburrow again for some time.

Rek'Sai can also trigger Unburrow by issuing an attack command, applying the knock up against the target once she is in attack range.

E - Furious Bite/Tunnel

ACTIVE: Rek'Sai bites the target enemy, dealing physical damage.

At maximum Fury resource Fury, Furious Bite's damage is doubled and converted to true damage.

ACTIVE: Rek'Sai dashes in the target direction, leaving behind a Tunnel with two interconnected entrances that lasts up to 10 minutes. The Tunnel can be traversed again when Rek'Sai targets either entrance, shutting down the Tunnel for a few seconds.

Rek'Sai can have up to 8 Tunnels active on the map at once, but deploying beyond the maximum destroys the oldest one. Enemy champions can destroy a Tunnel by standing on either entrance for 1.5 seconds, granting them 5 Gold 5 upon successfully destroying the Tunnel.

An UN-BURROWED Rek'Sai will automatically Burrow before entering the Tunnel and automatically Unburrow after exiting it. This does not put Burrow on cooldown nor trigger Fury of the Xer'Sai, but does trigger other Burrow effects and Unburrow.

Rek'Sai cannot enter a tunnel while immobilized, grounded, or silenced.

R - Void Rush

PASSIVE: Rek'Sai applies Marked as Prey to enemy champions she damages, lasting for 5 seconds.

ACTIVE: Rek'Sai selects the target Marked as Prey, becoming displacement immune and icon 2 unable to act and vanishing into the ground. After 1.5 seconds, she becomes targetable again and emerges from the ground Un-Burrowed near the target and Dash pounces at them, dealing physical damage and dashing 125 units through them.

If the target dies or is too far away before Rek'Sai vanishes, Void Rush is canceled with a 10-second cooldown.

Runes

Precision

is an extremely good rune for , rewarding trades w/ a stacking system you can easily fill up with a single rotation of spells in one trade. Conqueror especially shines later on in the game when you're playing longer fights in the side lane.

Out of all the runes in the top row of the precision tree, is the perfect complement to Reksai's sustain playstyle. In easier matchups where it's not as necessary, works well as a more aggressive option.

Out of all the runes in this row, is really the only choice for .

is good for scaling up your attack speed for higher DPS and combos in later stages of the game.

As top lane Reksai, you'll be only taking as your last precision rune. You shouldn't have trouble finishing off low hp targets with your R and you don't spend a ton of time at low hp due to your high sustain.

Followup Items

's builds aren't super flexible in the top lane, but its important to know which item to build to fit what need once you have your core items.

Below are items grouped by general stats, and explanations for when you'd run each item.

Bruiser Items

Provides invaluable stats for - Armor shred, Ability haste, AD, Movespeed to stick to targets. An extremely good staple item for most builds, but is generally built in response to teams with at least a couple of armor stacking champions to maximise use of the armor penetration. You can delay this if you dont immediately need the armor penetration.

is a great last item to splash into your build whenever you have a free slot and have a big shutdown or are otherwise extremely valueable to your team's gameplan. It provides a nice mix of damage and resistances while protecting potentially one shutdown from being given over to the enemy team.

is a great alternative to if you're into heavy melees that won't kite you out well. Can pair this with in runes + hp stacking to maximise damage and durability.

is a rather valuable item that provides a lot of survivability in teamfights. Build this when you're able to get lots of resets for HP in fights and against AD heavy threats. Get this after you have some actual HP items to pair with its resistances.

is an extremely good lifeline item again into heavy cc due to its tenacity on activation. It is a really good item to pick up for some fast durability in fights, either without hullbreaker when behind or after hullbreaker in the side lane to stay alive longer in collapses.

Survivability Items

is a really good MR item into ap heavy teams or a single ap-heavy threat that also has the bonus of extra movespeed in its statline to help you gapclose for your unburrow.

is a good armor item for when you just want to tank and deny healing. You can take this or sit on into healing heavy teams that you don't want to buy into.

is really good for games against heavy autoattackers, especially crit users as it will also lower their crit damage heavily. Can be paired with for major armor + attack speed reduction. This also has the bonus of helping you stick to targets wit hthe aoe slow.

is really good item for games against heavy autoattackers, especially on-hit users. Despite the wasted gold efficiency on mana, the raw armor + AH + attack speed slow is surprisingly useful. Pair with for maximum AS slow or any HP item so you can properly use the armor.

Jak'sho the protean

Jak'Sho the Protean is a good final resist item, as the shield combined with the resistances can turn you into an end-game raidboss combined with other tank items. Make sure you already have health when buying this item, as resistances are useless without HP to go along with them.

is really good for helping you gapclose on enemies with the bonus movespeed for your unburrow. This should be your default tank armor item when you need one, unless you're looking for one of the secondary effects from other ones.

Extra tips and tricks:

Tunnel Networks

With , proper tunnel placement can provide a lot of safety - offering both ways to engage and to retreat from enemy ganks, for example in this clip right here.

While in lane, the standard desired tunnel network is simple - two tunnels running through the three bushes as pictured below. This placement not only hides all 4 entrances from vision without wards, but also allows for a quick excape from enemy ganks while pushed up alongside the far track of the lane, as far as possible from any potential gankers. If against champions who want you to be the walls, however, having a network running in the middle of the lane in a place where minions won't interfere with you clicking on your tunnels works as well.

When the enemy tier 1 turret is down, your tunnel network will change to be closer the the inside track of the lane, with the game plan of traversing as many walls as possible to make you hard to catch without a copious amount of dashes, as well as having the advantage of faster travel due to using the inside track of the lane. This way, you secure an exit strategy, movement into the enemy jungle, and a quick way of rotation all in one.

Don't forget that tunnels made over walls can be longer than normal, as the end of the tunnel will be put to the closes point to the intended exit if the original exit wouldve been inside a wall.

Tunnel Knockup

One trick that you can use to peel yourself while escaping at the same time is to use the tunnel knockup trick - where you essentially unburrow while mid-tunnel animation. This only works when casting Tunnel, not when entering a pre-existing one. To do so, you must cast tunnel, then use an autoattack command to unburrow mid-tunnel animation as shown below. THIS NO LONGER WORKS WHY RITO WHY DID YOU HAVE TO RECODE TUNNEL AAA

Final Tips

- You can use your ult to avoid abilities or move yourself away from bad situations if you have a suitable target
- When unburrowing on a mobile target, aim to cancel whatever movement abilities they may have to catch them out in an awkawrds position
- The above point also applies to channels
- You can buffer cc as long as it doesn't cancel dashes using your tunnels, both the cast and entering pre-existing tunnels. You can near-nullify stuns, roots, and grounds this way.
- You can hide the start of your tunnel animation by starting unburrowed, then pressing w and e immediately as your burrowed abilities are immediately available the second you burrow
- Your threat in lane comes from being burrowed, try to be underground as much as possible. When burrowed, you can't be engaged on due to the knockup and you can use it to threaten a good trade if they waste cooldowns.
- After Fury generation was nerfed, make sure you're unburrowing and using unburrowed e constantly to generate fury faster than with just aas.

How To Pilot Reksai

Laning Phase (Winning Matchup)

With , one of the things I love the most about this pick is the super aggressive laning phase - once you hit level 3, you gain access to your full combo and some of the best trading patterns against top laners.

Step 1: Your first goal is to hit level 2 as quickly as possible. Your unburrow has very little use without your q to follow up, and it's hard to trade against certain matchups with only q. In the event of matchups that you can't just walk up and auto them to death, you're going to want to take control of the wave by immediately pushing it quickly with q, or by sitting back with w and denying any level 1 engages with the knockup. Once you hit level 2, you can start trading against weaker enemies with unburrow -> aa -> 3 q empowered autos, or you can farm with burrowed q until you hit level 3.

step 2: Once you hit level 3, you have the safety of your tunnels to resort to, if you have the push. Look to set them up ahead of time as pictured in the above section. Against melees, look to initiate trades with knockup and follow up with an aa -> 2 qs -> e -> last q (optional), as 4 hits fully charge your fury for e. Against ranged champions, you can trade by either spacing them and baiting them into w range or gapclosing first with a tunnel, ideally a pre-existing one so you have one to disengage with, and trading normally.

step 3: Once you have wave control, try to zone the enemy laner off cs and last hits by threatening a knockup trade whenever a minion they want to kill is low. After enough trades, you can look to dive, especially after 6, by using a tunnel to escape after a knockup -> combo or by dodging a turret shot with r to reset turret damage/prevent stacking and escaping turret range with a tunnel.

If you're able to properly crash the wave, look to let it push back without letting it grow too big. Once it's pushed to your side of the lane, you can look to freeze and assume complete control over the lane until you get to the point where you think you can dive on repeat, in which case you can look to trade aggressively before crashing waves to set up dives. If you actually get enough of a lead, you can look to zone enemies off their turret between tier 1 and 2 starting from level 6, if you're sure their jungler will not be coming by.

Laning Phase (Losing Matchup)

Every now and then, and when you start learning the pick, you might find yourself falling behind due to ganks or misplays. You might also just be in a terrible matchup. Don't worry, as these situations are almost always easy to get out of. It feels terrible, but there are some key things you need to remember.

First, you must not die simply for a little bit of cs. You are able to farm relatively safely using your knockup tools and your burrowed q. Focus on staying within XP range and keeping the wave from slow pushing, as this will let the enemy laner freeze the wave on you. In the event of an enemy freeze, you're going to need to have your jungler break that freeze. Look for roams when the enemy laner recalls at a convenient time, or look to outplay dives.

has a good time under turret due to her on-demand cc and her evasive ult, allowing you to outplay dives. You're usually just looking to catch as much cs as possible and trade as close to your turret as possible so that you're less reliant on your tunnel to trade, as in bad matchups your most common trade patterns are usually just unburrow -> 1 q -> back off + tunnel if needed. When trading with this short pattern, your tunnel won't be immediately available due to the burrow cooldown.

Mid Game

In the mid game, you are looking to rotate to objectives, create pressure on the map, and get resources so you can keep getting ahead, or back in the game if you're in a bad spot. Generally, your game plan will be to:

- Split down a side lane (Same side as the next neutral obj if your tp is down for it, else on the opposite side of the map)
- Ward your sides (So you don't get caught on the split) while setting up your tunnel network
- once you're pushed up and have pressure with your wave, (@river or past), you can either invade and steal camps if it's safe (vision control important), group up with your team for a play, or look for a pick (Also vision dependent).
- After a successful pick/play, look to gain an advantage on the map by either stealing jg resources, setting up wards for objectives, taking neutral objectives, or getting turrets.
- After gaining a lead, reset before the enemy team can abuse your unspent gold.
After this, you can rinse and repeat until the game ends.

Your goals are generally to gain an advantage, get an objective or map pressure or prep, and reset and keep your tempo going as a team. The above is simply an example of how to do so, and it may vary from game to game.