sponsoring the video rexa is a super interesting champion she was released at a time when riot was experimenting with more creative champion designs NUMBER_TOKEN was definitely a transformative year for the game and it laid the groundwork for all champions having unique gimmick nar had his kaiju transformation azir had his sand soldiers kalisto with her jumping around barred with his his you know the bard stuff echo with his time thematic and so on rek'sai's gimmick is that of tunnels she digs around someone's rift creating pathways for herself and attacks enemies from underground she's basically a landshark and was one of my favorite champions to play back in the day aside from being able to tunnel around the map she's a shape-shifter rek'sai has two forms borrowed and unborrowed but unlike j solis and nidalee her transformation is on a w so only her q and e change and she has a traditional ultimate in typical shapeshifter fashion one form is for utility and setup which is her burrowed form praise seeker is an extremely long range missile that deals a good bit of damage but more importantly reveals all targets struck so this is basically her main scouting tool also while burrowed she gains tremor sense losing her field of vision but instead being able to hear the vibrations of all enemies and units around her her e of course is her famous tunnels she dashes forward and leaves the tunnel behind her which she can then re-enter to dash in that same direction again so if she sets up her tunnels correctly she can save herself a lot of time traversing through the jungle her dps form is when she's on board or above ground she has two strong damaging tools queen's wrath and fury spike the former is for dps and clearing the latter is for burst damage all in all she has an awesome design tunneling through the rift and knocking enemies up from under them it was a really clever way to incorporate hard crowd control into her kit she used to be a popular champion because of this during seasons five to seven she would hover between a five to ten percent pick rate not the highest mind you but a very respectable number and she was consistently able to hold a NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN win rate nowadays though despite her win rate averaging around NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN percent she's been struggling to see any number above three percent and it's not because she's all that hard to play in fact she got a lot easier to play after they removed a lot of macro elements to her kit and made her a diver her usual combo would be to tunnel towards a target unbro to knock them up and then use q e and finish them off with ultimate afterwards when everything connects it's a very potent burst combo now when a champion has a very high win rate but a low pick rate that's an indication that those who played them become very proficient at them aurelian soul would be the best example of this he has over a NUMBER_TOKEN win rate but obviously a non-existent pick rate meaning he is likely only played by one tricks and thus finds a lot of success rex dies not as obscure as asol but she's one of those champions
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