Rek'Sai vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Rek'Sai
based on 409 Rek'Sai vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Kindred
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Advice to Win Against Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Rek'Sai vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several vital Rek'Sai versus Kindred counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kindred’s ratio of NaN, showing that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kindred..
Rek'Sai often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Kindred. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Kindred
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Kindred?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rek'Sai usually loses when playing against Kindred, with a 46.0% win rate. Thus, Rek'Sai makes a bad counter to Kindred.
While Rek'Sai does have a lower winrate compared to Kindred, when facing one another, Rek'Sai also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Rek'Sai into Kindred.
Furthermore, Rek'Sai also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kindred. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Kindred matchups, Kindred is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Rek'Sai is a trash counter for Kindred. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rek'Sai against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rek'Sai in order to counter Kindred during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kindred. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Rek'Sai versus Kindred build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Kindred than with most other common builds. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average win rate of 46.0% battling Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Kindred as Rek'Sai, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Rek'Sai vs Kindred counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
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