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 clarify several important Yuumi against Rek'Sai matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rek'Sai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Rek'Sai. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Yuumi normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Rek'Sai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when trying to fight Rek'Sai, with a 46.1% win rate. Thus, Yuumi makes a poor counter for Rek'Sai.
While Yuumi does have a lower winrate compared to Rek'Sai, when they face off with one another, Yuumi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Yuumi into Rek'Sai.
Additionally, Yuumi also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rek'Sai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Rek'Sai matchups, Rek'Sai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Yuumi is a garbage counter to Rek'Sai. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Yuumi against Rek'Sai.
If you would like to truly master Yuumi in order to counter Rek'Sai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi usually racks up less CS relative to Rek'Sai. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Yuumi versus Rek'Sai build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Yuumi incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Rek'Sai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yuumi boasted an average winrate of 46.1% battling Rek'Sai with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Rek'Sai as Yuumi, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Yuumi vs Rek'Sai clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.1% winrate overall.
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