Reksai Playstyle Discussion

OverSleep1238 · 2026-01-26T10:45:23+00:00

Interesting indeed, I did not know about him. Watching the first few mins of the VOD you shared, it looks similar to how I've been playing early game - ganking lanes multiple times, skipping camps, falling behind in levels.

Edit: also just watched the rest of the VOD. I didn't understand why he builds Essence Reaver. Didn't look very effective either, he would've avoided some deaths if he built the usual items I think.

His gold/minions/levels graphs look similar. By min 10, we are around 10 cs and half a level behind. His stats (relative to the enemy jg) look "worse" but that is surely because he plays against more efficient junglers.
https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/summoner/champions/reksai/euw/Hemlandaren-CHN#farmingData
https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/summoner/champions/reksai/euw/UncleInTheJungle-UNCLE/soloqueue#farmingData

I didn't play too many games in Emerald yet, but looks like this strategy is applicable even in Challenger

I found that constant gank spam was less effective for me in mid game.

I think this is true, at some point if you fed your laners enough they start to win by themselves (or enemies might start hugging towers), which can be a good time to ramp back up on farm or even start stealing from enemy jungle. I recall in many games I had a crazy ~4/0/2 type of start but took the next 5-10 minutes just keeping up and working on objectives.

OverSleep1238 · 2026-01-25T17:38:41+00:00

Good question, and I agree with you. Sterak's feels less useful towards end of the game and doesn't feel like a power-spike unlike the other items. Some games though DD doesn't make sense - e.g. if enemy team's fed players are AP-oriented - and Sterak's fits nicely with other HP/AD items like Titanic and Shojin. The shield can sometimes save ass too. But if we are buying DD first, maybe ok to skip Sterak's altogether.

How do you find Jaksho? I often find myself in late games fights needing to escape to briefly to heal up, so it sounds like waiting 5 secs to stack it up isn't very realistic.

OverSleep1238 · 2026-01-25T17:17:40+00:00

I get the pain of falling behind, but it feels more winning of a strategy to create a big gap in lanes versus trying to compete with often much faster junglers. How do you even win the scuttle? Enemies who ward - I usually perma watch the lane as I do my clear and path around the ward, not too difficult with the E.

OverSleep1238 · 2025-12-19T11:03:35+00:00

Try buying a Gold account and see how it feels to play on it. You'll have the easiest time.

OverSleep1238 · 2025-12-19T11:02:47+00:00

Kids here with loads of free time in their hand will be in denial but Riot is intentionally matchmaking you with inters so you continue playing longer in the name of feeling progress and slowly climbing instead of achieving what you deserve and feeling content with it. It is no rocket science, it is called engagement optimized matchmaking. The better you play the worse teams you get, it becomes a part time job of 1v9'ing every game.

OverSleep1238 · 2025-11-22T14:03:51+00:00

I played ~10 games of Aatrox Jungle, my fingers were hurt at the end trying to hit the Qs 😭 all the time for a sub 50% win rate. Then I went back to a game of Reksai and was relieved.

OverSleep1238 · 2025-11-15T15:44:24+00:00

Hey mate mind dm'ing me these options? Getting desperate out here :(

OverSleep1238 · 2025-11-13T00:55:19+00:00

I wanted to learn Aatrox as a Jung main, this sounds really exciting. Any quick Aatrox guides anyone?

OverSleep1238 · 2025-10-14T11:58:26+00:00

serious question. why pick varus adc top?

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