Rell vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Rell
based on 561 Rell vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rell vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Rell vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Rell
Advice to Win Against Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Rell vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Rell in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several significant Rell vs. Zilean matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zilean..
Rell typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Zilean. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rell and Zilean
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Who is Better, Rell or Zilean?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rell usually loses when playing against Zilean, with a 46.0% win rate. Thus, Rell makes a poor counter for Zilean.
While Rell does have a lower winrate than Zilean, when facing one another, Rell also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Rell into Zilean.
Furthermore, Rell also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rell vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Rell is a trash counter for Zilean. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rell against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rell in order to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell often accumulates less CS compared to Zilean. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Rell versus Zilean build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Zilean than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Rell had an average win rate of 46.0% when playing against Zilean with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Zilean as Rell, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rell vs Zilean LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.0% win rate overall.
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