Zed vs Rell
How to Beat Rell as Zed
based on 1,746 Zed vs Rell matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Rell Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Rell Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rell as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Rell
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Zed vs Rell Counter Stats
How to Counter Rell with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some valuable Zed vs. Rell counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the two. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rell’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rell. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rell. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Rell
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Who is Better, Zed or Rell?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when taking on Rell, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Zed makes a poor counter for Rell.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Rell, when facing one another, Zed also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Rellas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rell. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Rell matchups, Rell is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter for Rell. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Rell.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed to counter Rell during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed typically picks up much more CS relative to Rell. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Zed versus Rell build consist of Edge of Night, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Rell than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 48.9% when playing against Rell with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Rell as Zed, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Zed vs Rell face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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