Talk:Rek'Sai/@comment-5955640-20141224035602/@comment-8468980-20141225160803

"Why is she only a fighter?"

Riot tried to make a melee that wasn't a jack-of-all-trades like J4, Lee, Xin, Vi, etc. Rek needs both damage and tank items to be useful. Those other champs mentioned can build pure tank and initiate or at least rely on in-kit scaling stats (armor pen, free AS, percentage max hp damage) to help them deal damage throughout any point of the game. Or they have such good modifiers that they can go mostly damage early on if they snowball.

Rek's burst isn't so great that she can get away with all damage, and her ability to initiate is poor and her damage relies on bonus AD hardcore. So she's got pretty strict itemization requirements, and isn't particularly very versatile in that she can really on fill the role of "extra tanky damage in team fights".

She's obviously an incredible split pusher, though, I don't mean to sound like she sucks.