How to win the jungle race as Taliyah against Rek'Sai · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Taliyah's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Rek'Sai.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Danger — Avoid Rek'Sai | Rek'Sai out-classes you at the first buff — Fury-fueled Q autos clear fast and win the first raptor fight, and an Unburrow knock-up from an unseen tunnel starts every fight on her terms. Skip the level-1 crossing, full-clear away from them, and trade map pressure instead of health. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Danger — Avoid Rek'Sai | Do not be seen on the second camp: an Unburrow knock-up from an unseen tunnel starts every fight on her terms. On top of that, the Unburrow knock-up gives a free engage on anyone walking their tunnels, so they get there first. Ward her tunnel entrances — if you can't see the burrow line, don't walk the river. Refuse the level-2 skirmish and farm the opposite quadrant until your spike lands. |
| Level 3 Route | Danger — Avoid Rek'Sai | Hard no-contest for Taliyah at level 3: the full tunnel network plus knock-up means they dictate where every fight starts, and an Unburrow knock-up from an unseen tunnel starts every fight on her terms. Ward her tunnel entrances — if you can't see the burrow line, don't walk the river. Path opposite, ward your entrances, and let the clock carry you to your own spike. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Danger — Avoid Rek'Sai | This is a no-contest window: he builds a tunnel network through 4-5 that lets him arrive in a lane from an unwarded direction, and you have nothing that answers it. Full-clear the far side and let the objective timers carry you. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Rek'Sai's R | Rek'Sai wins the breakpoint outright — Void Rush executes anyone they have prey-marked, and Void Rush's untargetable execute finishes any trade that drops you low. Stay above execute range — a marked duel at half HP is already over, then trade objectives cross-map until your items land. |
| First Item Spike | First AP Item Spike | Your first item turns combo picks into deletions and your Q poke into pit-clearing artillery. Camps die to one rotation, funding permanent gank pressure. Force river fights where your stones, shove, and wall stack the geometry against Rek'Sai. Rek'Sai's first item is a real jump in duel power, but it is also close to the end of her scaling curve. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Taliyah Favoured at Full Build | You are the better full-build side, narrowly. He executes anything below the Void Rush threshold from across the map, so take the duel with cooldowns up and never mid-rotation. |
Start at the buff that paths into raptors — fresh-ground Q wants the AoE block early. Track Rek'Sai's start to time your first wall-surf gank against their slow side, not their entry side. Rek'Sai clears fast on Fury-fuelled attacks and Furious Bite, and her tunnels make her map speed better than her clear suggests.
Ranked by the race windows in Taliyah's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Taliyah vs Rek'Sai report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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Rek'Sai pressures 5 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Rek'Sai pressures 5 of the 7 windows, so Taliyah is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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