How can I defeat Rexxar on Braxis? Can you give me some tips?
As Rexxar you can’t really lose a lane without actively getting ganked.
Words from a Masters Rexxar main are that he hates going up against DW and Samuro in lane but that’s about it. But a good Sam player is very rare to come across and just a pipe dream in metal leagues.
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Pick TLV as solo laner and kill him if you got good micro skills. After level 7 you can kill bear by spinning and neutralize him even if you don’t have greatest micro.
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In the solo lane, you’d want either Deathwing or TLV. Chen is a skill matchup.
In the 4 man, you’d want Maiev and/or Mephisto.
Ban him.
That is why bans exist.
Except even up in Diamond when I played HL, people still did generic bans most of the time.
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Diamond ban phase is something else.
I see people banning main tanks when the enemy team already has a main tank picked or things like banning heroes that their team already has excellent counters for.
There’s a lot of people who snipe profiles and just ban their highest winrate hero without considering the context of those victories or even the current map/picks.
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Thanks for your replies. So there are three options to me:
1.) Ban Rexxar
2.) Pick Rexxar
3.) Pick Deathwing.
TLV or Chen are not an option, because I can’t play them good enough for ranked. 
But tbh it sounds problematic to me, if one hero is so dominant at one map. Does he might needs nerfs or is Rexxar/Braxis just comparable to Raynor/Valla to BoE?
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You need a solo laner who can jump on him, or one that can constantly kill misha.
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I know, but the weird thing is I don’t know one, except Deathwing, because A) Misha can be healed and B) Misha stuns you. C) The damage of both characters feels just too much.
I might add that the only hero I struggled as Rexxar (aside from DW) is Hogger, but I don’t know how Gazlow performs against Rexxar though.
Nah. At least not for that reason.
The thing is he only is so dominate if:
- He isn’t banned
- The team that didn’t ban or pick him had no plan to counter him 1v1
- The team who didn’t ban/pick him didn’t have a ganking/similar plan.
Like… nerfing a hero because of one phase of one map if the other team doesn’t try to counter it is a bad reason.
That being said, Rexxar has always been above 50% winrate, iirc, per developers. So nerfing him overall to make him slightly less strong on Braxis as a side effect would be okay with me from a numbers perspective.
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How would you counter him 1v1?
DW, Vikings, Chen or a gank plan?
Chen, Dva, Hogger, Leo, Sonya, Yrel, all good against Rexxar. If you go for melee that can solo laner, Samuro, Qhira, Illidan are also good. Maybe zera but he’s weak early.
Alarak and illidan can beat him if you are skilled enough , Leoric can do it but it’s like chen a skill matchup.
Qhira can bully him I think but after 7
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How can D.Va beat him? I can play her, but I can’t beat Rexxar in 1v1, because Rexxar and Misha just outpressure me and yet I didn’t lost to a D.Va either, when I played Rexxar.
Others have listed ways to do so.
I’m purely on the “ban him on the map” plan.
I’m just saying he shouldn’t be specifically because he is strong on one map.
Yes.
That last tweak completely broke him and even the compensation nerfs didn’t dial him back enough.
He’s insanely strong in every stage of the game and on every map, he’s too universal.
I hope this is satire.
Countering a hero by using a ban should not be considered a legit way of drafting since you’ll need to do it at the start of every single game if you want to make absolute sure of it. And forcing the enemy team to rotate against solely one hero is a plus for Rexxar’s team because they’ll have more map presence while Rexxar can just sit under towers and soak with Misha.
Entirely dependent on the Rexxar’s skill. He’s a ranged hero that has a disposable meat wall to bodyblock and stun you with. You won’t win trades with him unless you massively outplay him but even then he can just Q and/or W you and walk away to reset.
All you really can do is poke bear and bait out healing, try to bait Qs but sidestep them and just run him out of mana. It’s really his only weakness if they’re not playing hyper aggressively and putting Rexxar himself in danger.
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Countering a hero on one map because you don’t have a plan to deal with them, and they’re strong on the map.
That’s what bans are for. To solve weaknesses with your comps/Deny the enemy strengths.
I’m not saying “always ban him”. Just that if you don’t develop a strategy for a hero who is well known to be strong on a specific map… duh you ban them.
Yep.
- Play Zagara
- Play Deathwing. His stuns and slows are nothing to you, and you can eat Misha
Hogger and Gazlowe also have positive win rates against him.
If you’re in QM. You’re kind of screwed.
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And still he has a point, but just for a comparison is there similar heroes, who are dominant on specific maps like Rexxar to Braxis? Is he comparable to Valla for BoE?
Who cares. It’s one map.
If we nerfed heroes because they’re strong on X or Y map (and hence, buff heroes based on maps they are weak on), we would have some bizarre game state where maps don’t matter.
Should Dehaka get massive buffs because Hanamura exists and it’s design is very poor for him? No.
He should get buffs because he is generally on the weaker side though.
Rexxar should get nerfs if anything as he is on the stronger side overall. Not because of his performance on one map.
Where you would nerf/buff on specific maps is if a specific talent is overperforming drastically on a map.
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