Should You Main Rek'Sai? Tier S
Yes. Rek'Sai is tier S for maining. 7 Challenger and 10 Grandmaster mains across Korea, Europe West and North America, on 86,741 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Rek'Sai holds more high elo mains per game played than almost anything else in the game.
The numbers
Score 19.53 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 7 Challenger · 10 Grandmaster · 132 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 86,741 games played worldwide · 0.94% pick rate · 0.37% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
So Rek'Sai I would have to play it up here. So the reason being is that this might be interesting and I don't I hope Riot Games does not I don't know. Anyway, less than 1% pick rate, 17 GM plus representation across three major servers, NA, EU and Korea.
17 with less than 1% pick rate and very low ban rates 37. This is very interesting. The data does not lie.
That being said, we will move on. I'm not going to reveal the Rek'Sai secrets here. I don't want to get it nerfed again.
It was already nerfed multiple times. There are certain things that Rek'Sai can provide that other champions cannot. And we're going to maybe go into that later.
This is similar to the scaling table. You can definitely make a lot out of your Rek'Sai gameplay and is one of the best champions to make by far. You can make it all the way to Challenger.
If you look on certain stat sites op.gg if you trust op.gg or if you trust other sites notice where refite [this word is unclear in the recording] is.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.