This is currently the dominant mythic on Rek'Sai. The gap-closer provided by the active is immensely useful as it provides either an increase to your maximum engage range, or an additional gap-closer after you've used your Tunnel to get close. It's very difficult to avoid Rek'Sai's full combo if she has Prowler's Claw completed, and you'll deal a ton of extra damage to your target. Even in tough games, you'll often be able to go 1 for 1 in kills against multiple opponents, or take out targets in team fights that are much more fed than you. The only downside to this item is that it doesn't make you tanky, but playing for team fight phase by buying a bruiser mythic is not worth sacrificing the huge power spike from Prowler's, since your best chance of carrying is by snowballing the early game rather than scaling and team fighting.

Most teams have a Marksman and often 1 or more other physical threats as well. Towers and neutral objectives also deal physical damage, so these boots will always be at least decent. They're a must-buy against teams with multiple AD champions that rely on basic attacks, like Tryndamere, Urgot or Yasuo.

Merc's are good vs teams with several strong stuns or roots (not knockups or knockbacks, as they're not reduced by tenacity). They also give magic resist, which obviously is going to be more useful against teams with more AP threats. Keep an eye on both the enemy team composition and itemization, as well as who on the enemy team is getting fed in the early game. Even if the enemy team has fairly evenly split magic and physical damage champions, you might want Mercury's Treads to deal with the 5/0 Annie rather than Steelcaps against the 0/2 Twitch.

The lethality stacks nicely with Prowler's Claw, and this item still makes you a bit tankier for mid-game fights. The spell shield will usually get decent value, but note that in some games it'll be exceptionally useful and in others it'll just block one Ezreal Q or something. If you feel that the shield won't get value against the enemy team, you can opt to skip this item.

The premier armor item for bruisers. Get this right after your mythic and boots against AD-heavy teams. It's also just a generically good item that'll usually fit around the middle of your build. You can delay it if magic damage is a more pressing concern.

In the ideal Rek'Sai game, you get fed early and then try to end the game without throwing your lead. Guardian Angel is perfect in these situations, as can prevent you from throwing the game with a single mistake. If you're behind and dying in a lot of fights, do not buy this item. The cooldown is very long and the stats aren't great by themselves. Get an item with better stats if you're having a rough game. You can also sell this late game if it's on cooldown and you have enough gold to replace it with something else.

Maw is quite good after its buffs, though obviously you'll need to ensure the enemy team has enough magic damage to warrant the item. Rek'Sai performs better with Maw rather than Wit's End, since she has great AD scalings.

This item is pretty generically good, but doesn't excel in any area other than softening up tanks for your AD teammates to kill. While Cleaver is never a bad choice, it's often not the most important buy. If you find you don't need one of the above items, or if you're in desperate need of armor pen (usually if your team is full AD), you can look to buy this. It's also a lot better if you're peeling off melees in team fights rather than diving squishies.

Sterak's is a bit overrated after the nerf. It's pretty bad early game since the base AD bonus requires levels to be useful. It's still a solid option against mixed damage late game, but you can't build it with Maw, which means its best niche is against incidental magic damage like Maokai and Lux (against which you probably don't need Maw) rather than dedicated threats like Syndra or Cassiopeia. Keep in mind the shield scales with bonus HP, so it combines well with items like Edge of Night and Black Cleaver.

This is a late game option to deal with a single enemy threat (usually the enemy AD carry). Late game carries will have % pen items which make tank items less effective. If there's only one champion on the enemy team likely to kill you late game (and you're okay with building an item that gives no AD), the % damage reduction from Anathema's can't be itemized against.

Force of Nature is often overkill with the options of Mercury's Treads and Maw of Malmortius, but if the enemy has mostly AP threats, it can give good value. Again, you won't get any AD from this, so build it later in the game when your usefulness as a damage threat is falling off.

This item is actually outperformed by Anathema's against a single target (except during the 4 seconds where Randuin's debuffs the enemy). Rather than building Randuin's to counter a single fed ADC, build it against teams with several AD threats late game, especially if those champions build crit.

This item counters shields and can help you snowball against champions like Lulu and Ivern, but it's a big risk. The lack of survivability means you'll be very squishy in the mid game, so if your team hasn't established solid map control or forced the enemy team to surrender, this item can be a liability later on. If you're not in a fairly commanding position by the time you've finished your Prowler's Claw, you might want to build a bruiser item instead.

Not the most efficient item in terms of stats, but the healing reduction is necessary against certain champions like Vladimir or Soraka. In a perfect world, someone on your team will build healing reduction so you don't have to, but solo there are no guarantees in solo queue. Pick it up when necessary, but know that you're giving up a better item in order to get this healing reduction, so it had better be worth the sacrifice.

I'm listing Kayn as Medium because Rhaast actually counters Rek'Sai, but Kayn's early game is weak enough that you should have a consistent advantage against him. This matchup becomes easy if you prevent him from freely farming and ganking pre-transformation. When you're winning early against Kayn, the game can be over by 15 minutes. If you fail to generate a lead early, you're in for some rough team fights as Rhaast outperforms you. Shadow Assassin is easier to punish but is still dangerous when fed.

This is a very volatile matchup. Kha'Zix has the tools to win 1v1 (especially after Q evolve), but he has a lot of other weaknesses you can exploit. His farming speed is mediocre, and he lacks any CC for ganks. You can also interrupt his Leap, or even if you don't, you can often still chase him since he has no other escapes other than his ult at 6. Your Tremor Sense will track him when he's invisible, making it easier to avoid being juked. Play around your laners with priority and/or lanes where you win 2v2 or 3v3. Avoid playing into Kha'Zix's strengths by not letting him fight you while you're isolated, unless you're confident you're strong enough to overpower him. You can spam gank and snowball your lanes much easier due to your CC advantage and the fact that Kha'Zix is more item-reliant and needs more gold and XP to stay relevant.

Ekko starts off on the weaker side, but his item scaling is disgusting. You have a window to punish him early game, but once he has his ult and an item or two, he'll become a serious threat. He also has great team fighting, which makes long games work to his favor. As is the case with many Rek'Sai skill matchups, the outcome of the game will largely be determined by how well you can snowball before the enemy jungler outscales you.

Your ability to interrupt Zac's Slingshot is a huge nuisance for him. Early game he can clear quickly and his ganks start to become strong at levels 6, 7 and 9, but without items, he's actually quite easy to kill. You have a large advantage early game, but it'll mostly evaporate once he has 1-2 defensive items. Denying him early gank opportunities by mirroring his pathing and invading when possible will help you get ahead while he's still weak. In team fights he vastly outperforms you, but you can mitigate some of the difference by interrupting his E with your Unburrow to peel for your team.

Your ability to track Shaco with Tremor Sense while burrowed makes his tricks a lot less reliable. Unfortunately, you don't have a great way to deal with his boxes (other than sweeper of course). Both champions have pretty good early ganks and decent clears. Warding his camps can make it easier to predict his pathing and give your laners more warning before he jumps into their lane, invisible. He can dodge your ultimate with his, which is a pain. Overall Shaco doesn't do anything too scary to you, but it's hard to punish him. Counterganking is effective since he's much more vulnerable once he's committed Q to engage. He also can't fight you directly early game if you're high HP (though he'll often have Ignite to somewhat offset this disadvantage, so be careful when you're low), but he's hard to chase down to kill if he saves cooldowns to use defensively. He eventually outscales you but you can remain relevant mid game, so whoever makes better use of the early game will usually be able to carry. Worth noting that AP Shaco is tougher to deal with because he'll often save his Q to escape and play more from range, while AD Shaco still scales well but can be punished.

The 1v1 vs Rengar is not great, but you actually perform pretty well against him in the team fight phase (which is rare for Rek'Sai). Be wary of facechecking him or getting counterganked early. He can be tough to kill if he uses empowered W to run away, even if you start a 1v1 with an advantage. Your main advantages are your superior pre-6 ganks and your Tremor Sense (plus Unburrow knockup). You can spot which direction he approaches from when he ults and tries to jump on your teammates. Due to your CC advantage, you can peel him off your team and focus him in skirmishes or team fights. Rengar still outscales you in terms of actual fighting ability, so it's still best to win early rather than let the game drag on, but don't panic if you reach mid game without completely shutting him down, as you can still defend your teammates against him fairly effectively in fights.

This matchup is great for you early game and great for Fiddle mid-late game. He only has his Q for defense, and you'll be able to easily outdamage his healing from his W with your Conqueror. You'll likely want Mercury's Treads and possibly the Legend: Tenacity rune to reduce the effectiveness of his self-peel. When warding against Fiddlesticks, try to place (some of) your stealth wards away from bushes. Fiddle can't buy Oracle Lens, but his effigies can reveal wards after level 6. He'll often place his effigies in bushes to prevent enemies from killing them for free (kinda like control wards), so he's less likely to clear out vision that isn't close to a bush. One thing to note is that Fiddle can clear very fast since he can use W to clear 2 camps at once. It's difficult to punish him on the first clear since you'll need to get level 3 to fight, but if you catch him clearing later on, he's quite vulnerable, especially if you interrupt his W and put it on its full cooldown. When he has ult and Zhonya's his much harder to deal with and you can't easily peel him off your team, so take map control early before you get to team fight phase.

This matchup is a lot like Fiddlesticks in that you have a large advantage early game, but his clear speed and scaling can become a problem if you fail to secure early advantages. Karthus is another fast clearer and will often try to steal your Raptors (or other camps) if you leave them up. He's generally pretty easy to kill as he has no escapes, but he deals a ton of damage, including with his passive after death. Do your best to kill him quickly and get out fast, and be ready to juke his Qs as you run away after killing him. Trading kills with Karthus is bad because he scales much better with gold than you. Maw of Malmortius is worth considering if Karthus starts getting strong. It requires another champion to target, but you can dodge Karthus' ult with your ult if you time the untargetability to line up with the Requiem detonation.

Rammus can win by spam-ganking for lane leads, playing around lane priority, and outperforming you in team fights. He's bad in 1v1s without Thornmail (your E true damage punches through his W) and he's a fairly slow farmer. Catching him while he's clearing his camps is really effective if you can sneak up on him, since he'll always use up his W to clear and he'll have no defenses left. You can also interrupt his Powerball with Unburrow, since Unburrow has slightly longer range than Powerball's hitbox. In team fights, you'll have to decide whether it's better to peel off Rammus and protect your backline or to dive the enemy backline when Rammus engages. This depends on team compositions and which team has the stronger ranged carries in that game.

You can interrupt his dashes with Unburrow and you're stronger in extended fights. You're also an early game jungler so you can match his pressure and prevent him from snowballing. As long as Lee doesn't get mega fed this should be easy to win. In team fight stage, buffer your Unburrow by right-clicking Lee and then right-clicking to move away repeatedly. This will prevent him from engaging past you.

Diana is a strong champion right now, but she loses 1v1s to Rek'Sai and you can start snowballing while she's still weak early. Invade if you have lane priority, or snowball through ganks if your lanes are being pushed in. Post-6, use your ult to dodge Diana's ult proc; it's very telegraphed. Diana outscales you but it's your game to lose.

Hecarim has decent early ganks and good farming, but he can't match you in fights. You can invade to steal camps but don't overextend for kills, as he can often just use E to run away if it's not on cooldown. If you match his ganks or snowball while he's farming, you should be able to shred him with your Serrated Dirk and Prowler's Claw power spikes.

Viego is only scary if he gets items. Early game, you have better CC and damage. His clear isn't nearly as fast as someone like Hecarim, so he'll need to find successful ganks to become relevant. If you take control early game you can shut him out of his jungle and leave him poor for the rest of the game. In 1v1s, you can ult to avoid his ult, or just ult to chase and kill him if you're winning hard.

Graves is still annoying if he gets a lead, but his nerfs at the end of last season hurt his ability to become an unkillable lifesteal crit machine. That, combined with the sticking power and damage from Prowler's Claw swings the matchup in Rek'Sai's favor. If he doesn't get ahead of you, you can treat him pretty much like any other AD carry and burst him before he can do much to retaliate.

Xin Zhao's only major advantage over Rek'Sai is his superior level 2. Once you hit level 3, Rek'Sai does basically the same thing as Xin, but she has faster farming and more mobility. If you're diligent about paying attention to lane priority, you should be able to pick winning fights against him, while Xin doesn't have a good way of escaping if his teammates don't bail him out.

Master Yi will beat you in a 1v1 eventually, but the game is completely out of his hands until he gets several items. You should be able to dominate the map early game and prevent him from getting to his item spikes. Be wary of a possible level 2 cheese with Ignite, as Yi's level 2 is deceptively strong and Rek'Sai's is rather weak. He can start his red and invade your blue side if you start blue, but if you avoid dying to that play, he'll be behind and possibly die to your laners.

Rek'Sai deals more damage than Jarvan and has comparable ganks once she hits level 3. Jarvan's a solid team fighter, but he'll only beat you with the help of his laners. Once you hit level 6, you can easily chase him even if he uses his E-Q combo to run away, so play aggressively if you're not in danger of dying to laners rotating to you. If he engages on you, 99% of the time his knockup will work before yours goes off, even if you buffer your Unburrow. It is possible to interrupt his E-Q but I have not been able to figure out why it happens. It seems to work extremely rarely, and in the worse case, you can use up your Unburrow without dealing damage or knocking Jarvan up. It's safest to simply stay burrowed and knock him up after his CC ends.

Nidalee can be a little tricky to fight pre-6 or without Prowler's Claw, but overall she's not too scary. She only has damage if she lands her Q first, and you can interrupt her W with Unburrow. Her short cooldown jump stops being an issue once you have Prowlers or ult. She's killable early, but if you can't find a good 1v1 pre-6, don't worry because your power spikes will outstrip hers. To countergank her

To be honest, I've played very little of this matchup, but Zed has a terrible win rate in this matchup and logically, Zed doesn't really have a way to beat Rek'Sai. Rek'Sai's ganks are better, she can stand up to Zed in 1v1s, and she has a similar power spike at 6. Zed has to build squishy so he'll melt once you have your first item. The one thing he can do is W-E-Q to chunk you from range, but as long as you're not too low on health to start with, he shouldn't be able to kill you. Save your ult to last-hit him after he retreats to one of his shadows. You can also dodge the application of his ult if you ult during the cast time, though you'll have to ult one of his teammates since he'll be untargetable.

Evelynn is vulnerable to early pressure, since her dueling is terrible and her gank power is mediocre pre-6. Rek'Sai's strong early game is perfect for capitalizing on Evelynn's weaknesses. As long as you use your time wisely and avoid simply trading farm, you should be able to take map control. You can also track her with Tremor Sense while burrowed, which works even when she's camouflaged; this makes it hard for her to countergank you.

Nunu is better in team fights and his ganks are fine, but he'll get stomped in 1v1s and skirmishes due to your higher DPS and true damage from Furious Bite. The Nunu player can win if he out-macros you, but his options are limited when you can match his early pressure and he can't confront you directly. His counterjungling is not usually an issue since Rek'Sai doesn't typically full clear since she spends time ganking. Slow games are bad for you, but if you get your power spikes on time you'll be able to start blowing people up and Nunu won't be able to stop you.

I've had a lot of success playing around Katarina mids, as they want to fight often and can completely take over a game with a few kills and a well-timed roam to bottom. Using your Flash to start her snowballing mid is usually worth the investment.

I prefer Katarina to Kassadin since she snowballs much faster, but Kassadin can do the work of 3 champions late game, so you have a bit more breathing room if the game goes long. Feeding him kills pre-6 is good if you can do it, but the ganks are a lot more reliable once Kassadin has his ult. Don't be afraid to help side lanes early and start the mid lane snowball later.

Ahri is pretty broken on the current patch and offers good setup or followup to Rek'Sai's CC. In lane you can start ganks with either Tunnel->Flash->Unburrow or Charm->Flash and follow up with whichever CC you didn't use yet. If you're focusing on pressuring a side lane, Ahri is also very safe against enemy ganks. She has good pick potential and roams, isn't a viable late game carry, so make sure you end the game quickly.

Veigar's cage virtually guarantees you either kill the enemy mid laner or blow their Flash for free. He has enough burst for the two of you to one-shot virtually any champion at 6. He doesn't have the same 1v5 potential as some other champions, but the gank setup alone is enough to make this pairing quite strong.

Good roaming mid with great gank followup pre-6 and post-6. Rek'Sai works pretty well with AP assassins since if the two of you are fed, you deal different damage types. Fizz' team fighting is also not bad for an assassin, which makes the mid game less awkward if you aren't stomping.

Fed Dravens can end the game faster than perhaps any other ADC. Feeding him kills for his passive also nets your team more gold per successful gank. You both are bad from behind, but your gank pressure should ensure that both of you get ahead. Preferably pair Draven with an engage support for more reliable kill pressure.

Tristana's huge W range and resets give her great followup on ganks. She can also demolish tower plates to capitalize on winning her lane early. Her ult and W make for good self-peeling abilities, which means you won't have to babysit her too much in fights. She also works well in kill lanes with supports like Leona or Nautilus.

Jhin can always chain his W with your knockup, and he can even R for kills if he's not in range to follow up with basic attacks. Jhin is strong at every stage of the game, which makes him a pretty consistent carry to play around.

Jinx is arguably the strongest hypercarry on the current patch, so obviously she makes this list. She relies a bit on her support to succeed in fights in lane, but giving her a 3v2 advantage will let her run down the enemy laners for a double kill in many cases. In team fights, killing one enemy to activate her passive can be enough to win a fight, and as with other reset champions like Katarina and Tristana, she can often turn a winning game into an early surrender by wiping the enemy team repeatedly.

Pair Leona with an ADC that can snowball and you have a recipe for an easy victory. Leona has great engage and loves junglers who can visit her lane often. She also can engage team fights better than you can and she's tanky enough to take tower aggro early or tank baron late.

Your gank pattern of flanking the enemy bot lane and knocking them up in melee range gives Braum a guaranteed gap-closer with his W. You and your ADC will apply his stun after the knockup, which often results in a kill or at least a lot of summoners being blown. Braum can also peel for his backliners well, which gives you more opportunities to dive the enemies without your carries dying to divers.

Pyke can struggle to win lanes 2v2 but he has fantastic gank setup or followup, especially when either of you have Flash to guarantee your CC. Pyke's ultimate also snowballs your team faster, which is good for ending games before Rek'Sai falls off. The only downside is your ults are both executes, but the upsides are worth the overlap.

Nautilus has a ton of CC, but can struggle a bit more in the 2v2 compared to Leona. He thrives with jungle pressure, and every gank will usually lead to at least one kill. His hook can be used to get picks in the mid game, as he can pull an enemy out of position long enough for you to safely burst without having to tank too much damage from the enemy team.

Orianna's early game damage is rather pitiful. She can shore up your weaknesses in team fights and you can deliver her ult, but Ori works much better with junglers that can play the game slower and engage team fights more reliably.

Zed is easy to gank for, but he often doesn't need your help to get solo kills, and both of you are somewhat countered by Zhonya's. With a Zed mid, you're also more likely to have too much physical damage on your team. Zed usually prefers a magic damage jungler like Elise or Nunu.

This combo can work on paper, but in reality every Jayce you gank for will 100% throw their lead. I don't trust solo queue players to 1v5 on Jayce and neither should you. It's simply too easy for him to make a positional error or overcommit to a fight and make the game take too long to close out.

This rating is for Gragas solo lane. Gragas can reasonably followup ganks but he just doesn't have the carry potential as AP or tank to justify spending time on him. Having him on your team can still be fine as long as you have other carries to play around.

Not only is Caitlyn fairly weak right now, she also doesn't mesh well with Rek'Sai's playstyle. Cait players will usually push the lane early, which leaves you with invading or diving as options (neither of which are guaranteed to work pre-6. Post-6 dives are fine, but Caitlyn doesn't have the same capacity to take over a game compared to a number of other AD carries. If you play around her, it's fairly likely she'll eventually get caught out while sieging a tower and you'll lose your edge. You are both very bad from behind and I prefer other ADCs either for better gank setup or more reliable scaling.