Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several influential Lissandra vs. Rek'Sai counter stats that can help you understand the distinctions between the two. Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Rek'Sai..
Lissandra typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Rek'Sai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lissandra usually wins when trying to fight Rek'Sai, with a 53.6% win rate. As a result, Lissandra makes a great counter for Rek'Sai.
While Lissandra does have a higher winrate than Rek'Sai, when facing one another, Lissandra also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Lissandra into Rek'Sai.
Furthermore, Lissandra has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rek'Sai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Rek'Sai matchups, Lissandra is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Lissandra is a great counter to Rek'Sai. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lissandra against Rek'Sai.
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra to counter Rek'Sai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra usually picks up much more CS compared to Rek'Sai. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Lissandra versus Rek'Sai build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Lissandra bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Rek'Sai than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 53.6% battling Rek'Sai with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Rek'Sai as Lissandra, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Lissandra vs Rek'Sai counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rek'Sai as Lissandra are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.