When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
The stats shown here highlight some important Rell against Darius counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Darius’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Darius. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Rell normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Darius. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rell usually fairs equally well when taking on Darius, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Rell makes an ok counter to Darius.
While Rell does have a lower win rate than Darius, when they face off with one another, Rell also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rell into Darius.
Additionally, Rell also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Darius. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Rell vs Darius matchups, Darius is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Rell is a somewhat poor counter to Darius. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Rell against Darius.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rell in order to counter Darius during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell on average gets a lot less CS compared to Darius. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Rell versus Darius build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Darius than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Rell had an average win rate of 49.7% when playing against Darius with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Darius as Rell, Rell players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Rell vs Darius fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Darius as Rell are displayed for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.