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In today's patch (14.04) Rek'Sai was adjusted. After the patch went live, the Rek'Sai mains community has quickly discovered some glaring issues that I would like to bring attention to, in the hopes that others can be made aware of these problems.
First of all, what's broken and why am I making this post?
1. Rek'Sai Q can now be cancelled
Rek'Sai Q has been reworked to no longer work as a spell, but instead as an auto-attack. This classifies it as an "enhanced auto-attack", which would usually lock you in once the auto-attack is started, meaning it cannot be canceled. For this patch however, Rek'Sai Q has been modified to not lock you in, making it possible to cancel you auto-attack.
This may not seem like much of an issue at first, but it quickly becomes very obvious that any half-decent Rek'Sai combo will now result in cancelling your own Q. Using E, R or any active item like Stridebreaker will now result in your Q enhanced auto-attack simply being cancelled.
The cause for this is known, as Phreak explain here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igkchyN6_4Q&t=2052s
-> this is an intended change. But unlike described, the result is that you are now forced to play slow or simply lose your auto attacks.
This means that especially more experienced players now face the issue that all the acquired skill and combos are useless, as you are forced to play as slow as possible. Kiting has become near impossible to execute at a high level.
2. The tunnel bug has not been fixed
As can be seen here: https://imgur.com/a/u0YfmQB the tunnel bug has not been fixed, in contrary to the descriptions provided by Riot.
3. Item fixes from PBE were reverted
Before patch 14.04, the following items did not work properly on Rek'Sai: Sundered Sky, Shojin, Hullbreaker. All 3 were fixed on PBE, but the current live version of the game only contains a fix for Sundered Sky, meaning the fixes were either reverted or got lost unintentionally. As Shojin has high potential on Bruiser Rek'Sai, this is very sad to see.
4. Skins are bugged
From community reports we have gathered that some skins now have exceptionally long delays on their Q animation. This seems to be especially true for Everfrost Rek'Sai, where the Q has a very visible delay between animation and damage when compared to other skins.
Like I said, I hope that this post can gain some visibility, as Rek'Sai usually gets very little attention. Especially bug nr. 1 results in a very horrid playstyle that does not feel intentional at all. Multiple Challenger OTPs have spoken out inside the community and also hope that this can be addressed soon.
As seen in the above mentioned video, Riot is considering not fixing Nr. 1 at all, as there are other priorities. I hope I can shine some light on the fact that this is a very important problem for Rek'Sai and that maybe the priorities should be slightly reconsidered.
Edit: Edit: Edit: more clarification for issue #1, added problem nr.4, readded both because formatting is hard.
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