When Rek'Sai is near, she can see the position of you and your allies, but only if you're moving.
If you see one of Rek'Sai's tunnels, briefly stand on one of the entrances to destroy it.
Rek'Sai's Furious Bite gains damage as she builds Fury. Be very careful around her when her Fury is full.
The stats shown on this page show some valuable Rell vs. Rek'Sai matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Rek'Sai. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Rell often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Rek'Sai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rell usually wins when trying to fight Rek'Sai, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Rell makes a great counter to Rek'Sai.
While Rell does have a higher win rate compared to Rek'Sai, when on opposite teams, Rell also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Rell into Rek'Sai.
Additionally, Rell has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rek'Sai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rell vs Rek'Sai matchups, Rell is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Rell is a great counter to Rek'Sai. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rell against Rek'Sai.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rell to counter Rek'Sai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Rek'Sai. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Rell versus Rek'Sai build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Rek'Sai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rell boasted an average win rate of 53.1% battling Rek'Sai with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Rek'Sai as Rell, Rell players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Rell vs Rek'Sai counters, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.1% winrate overall.
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