Heimerdinger vs Rek'Sai
How to Beat Rek'Sai as Heimerdinger
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Heimerdinger vs Rek'Sai Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rek'Sai as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Rek'Sai
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Advice to Win Against Rek'Sai
When Rek'Sai is near, she can see the position of you and your allies, but only if you're moving.
If you see one of Rek'Sai's tunnels, briefly stand on one of the entrances to destroy it.
Rek'Sai's Furious Bite gains damage as she builds Fury. Be very careful around her when her Fury is full.
Heimerdinger vs Rek'Sai Counter Stats
How to Counter Rek'Sai with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some valuable Heimerdinger versus Rek'Sai matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rek'Sai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rek'Sai..
Heimerdinger usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Rek'Sai. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Rek'Sai
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Rek'Sai?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually wins when facing off against Rek'Sai, with a 56.7% win rate. Thus, Heimerdinger makes a fantastic counter for Rek'Sai.
While Heimerdinger does have a much higher winrate than Rek'Sai, when they face off with one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Heimerdinger into Rek'Saias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Heimerdinger also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rek'Sai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Rek'Sai matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Heimerdinger is a great counter for Rek'Sai. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Heimerdinger against Rek'Sai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to counter Rek'Sai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger on average racks up much more CS as Rek'Sai. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Heimerdinger versus Rek'Sai build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Rek'Sai than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 56.7% when countering Rek'Sai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Rek'Sai as Heimerdinger, Heimerdinger players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Heimerdinger vs Rek'Sai counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 56.7% winrate overall.
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