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Rell Guide

the Iron Maiden

Tank

Support

Tier A Support

Rell, the Iron Maiden, is a tank and support champion. Across our 885 analysed ranked games, Rell is mostly played as Support (100% of its games), with a 52.1% win rate in that role: tier A among Support champions (#6 of 38, ranked by win rate). Rell's damage is mostly magic (72%): magic resistance items are therefore effective against this champion. Win rate varies with game length: 53.8% in short games (under 25 min, 325 games) versus 46.7% in long games (over 35 min).

Updated Oct 10 2026 · Patch 26.22

Averages measured over 885 Support games played with Rell, from our ranked Solo/Duo data collection.

How to play and combo preview

Rell is an engage tank with two forms: mounted, she dives down knocking enemies up and gains a shield; on foot, she gains defenses, attack speed and range but is slowed. Her passive steals armor and magic resistance, and her ultimate violently pulls in nearby enemies.

The classic engage

W › Q › AA AA

When: Your team is ready to follow up.

Ferromancy has you dismount, knocks nearby enemies up and gives you a shield; Shattering Strike stuns along the line.

The joust with an ally

E › AA AA › Q

When: An ally is nearby.

Full Tilt gives Rell and the ally rising movement speed, doubled toward enemies; your next attack causes an explosion of magic damage.

See all 3 Rell combos: key order, when to cast them, cooldowns →

Laning phase

Shattering Strike breaks shields and stuns in a line. Your passive gives you bonus magic damage and steals resistances: fight up close.

Common mistakes

• Staying on foot while forgetting you are slowed.
• Casting the ultimate with no ally to take advantage of the clumping.
• Using Shattering Strike without checking the line of fire.

Build, runes and summoner spells

The most-played core build is Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari (90 games, 66.7% win rate).

Zeke's Convergence+Knight's Vow+Locket of the Iron Solari

90 games · 66.7%

Bandlepipes+Zeke's Convergence+Locket of the Iron Solari

19 games · 47.4%

Protoplasm Harness+Knight's Vow+Locket of the Iron Solari

17 games · 64.7%

Skill order

Max order : W > E > Q57.1% · 42 games

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Q		●												●	●
W	●			●	●		●		●
E			●					●		●		●	●
R						●					●

The order shows which abilities reach rank 5 first; the grid shows the most-played level-up sequence with that order (measured over 110 games).

Starting items

Health PotionHealth Potion53.3% · 107 games

First completed items, in order

Zeke's Convergence›Locket of the Iron Solari

16 games · 31.2%

Laning phase (averages)

At 10 min: 2929 gold, 13 CS, 2514 XP. At 15 min: 4497 gold, 19 CS, 4060 XP.

Summoner spells

Flash + Heal52.9% · 518 games

Flash + Ignite51.9% · 287 games

Exhaust + Flash47.5% · 80 games

Most-played runes

Aftershock + Inspiration

52.3% · 717 games

Primary tree · Resolve

Shield Bash94%

Bone Plating86%

Unflinching96%

Secondary tree · Inspiration

Cosmic Insight99%

Hextech Flashtraption92%

Shards

Ability haste92%

Movement speed67%

Health71%

Aftershock + Precision

51.8% · 56 games

Primary tree · Resolve

Shield Bash96%

Bone Plating84%

Unflinching95%

Secondary tree · Precision

Triumph100%

Legend: Haste100%

Shards

Ability haste96%

Health scaling89%

Health scaling82%

Glacial Augment + Resolve

57.1% · 56 games

Primary tree · Inspiration

Hextech Flashtraption98%

Biscuit Delivery98%

Cosmic Insight100%

Secondary tree · Resolve

Bone Plating86%

Unflinching79%

Shards

Ability haste98%

Health scaling68%

Health scaling70%

For each row, the most picked rune among the games played with this page (share of games in brackets).

Which items to build against the enemy team?

We sort every game by the enemy team's damage. These are Rell's completed items and their win rate in each situation; "▲" marks an item that does at least 3 points better than its usual win rate.

Mostly magic-damage enemy team57.2% · 264 games

At least 50% of their damage is magic

Locket of the Iron Solari 60.8% ▲

Zeke's Convergence 56.1% ▲

Knight's Vow 64.0% ▲

Protoplasm Harness 64.7% ▲

Abyssal Mask 66.7%

Bandlepipes 60.0%

The item that stands out most is Protoplasm Harness: 64.7% win rate, +7 points versus its usual win rate.

Mostly physical-damage enemy team49.5% · 210 games

Less than 35% of their damage is magic

Zeke's Convergence 50.8%

Locket of the Iron Solari 52.8%

Knight's Vow 49.4% ▼

Protoplasm Harness 57.1%

Bandlepipes 55.0%

No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.

Balanced enemy team50.1% · 411 games

Mixed physical and magic damage

Zeke's Convergence 49.6%

Locket of the Iron Solari 53.1%

Knight's Vow 60.5%

Protoplasm Harness 54.2% ▼

Bandlepipes 52.6%

Abyssal Mask 45.5%

No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.

Counters and matchups

Who counters Rell as Support

Thresh Rell: 45.2%31 games

Thresh has the edge in 55% of the 31 Support duels against Rell. See the Thresh guide.

Lulu Rell: 46.4%28 games

Lulu has the edge in 54% of the 28 Support duels against Rell. See the Lulu guide.

Janna Rell: 46.7%15 games

Janna has the edge in 53% of the 15 Support duels against Rell. See the Janna guide.

Alistar Rell: 46.8%47 games

Alistar has the edge in 53% of the 47 Support duels against Rell. See the Alistar guide.

Pyke Rell: 47.1%17 games

Pyke has the edge in 53% of the 17 Support duels against Rell. See the Pyke guide.

Who Rell is strong against

Leona73.1% · 26 games

Bard70.6% · 17 games

Rakan66.7% · 18 games

Nautilus64.0% · 50 games

Braum62.5% · 16 games

Win rates measured over direct same-role duels; only matchups with more than 15 games are listed. See all of Rell's matchups.

Rell Support: what our games say

Laning phase against the Support average

Measured over 110 Rell games with a timeline; the average covers 51 champions played Support in our ranked games.

Win rate by game length

Best result: short (under 25 min). Only groups of at least 30 games are shown. A gap of several points shows the phase where the champion is the most reliable.

Abilities

PassiveBreak the Mold

Rell's Attacks and Abilities deal additional magic damage and steal Armor and Magic Resist on hit.

QShattering Strike

Rell deals magic damage to units in a line, breaking their shields and stunning them.

WFerromancy: Crash Down

Mounted: Rell Dismounts, crashing down in her armor, Knocking enemies up and gaining a large Shield. While dismounted, she gains Armor, Magic Resist, Attack Speed, and Attack Range, but is Slowed.

Dismounted: Rell forms her Mount, gaining a burst of speed and Knocking Up the next enemy she attacks.

EFull Tilt

Passive: Rell gains out of combat Move Speed.

Active: Rell and an ally gain ramping Move Speed, doubled toward enemies and each other. Her next Attack explodes, dealing magic damage.

RMagnet Storm

Rell explodes in a magnetic fury, violently Pulling nearby enemies toward herself. Then Rell constantly Drags nearby enemies toward herself for a short while, dealing magic damage over time.

Other Support champions to know

Most played

Nautilus49.9 %Lulu51.2 %Thresh50.1 %Nami49.0 %Bard50.9 %Alistar52.8 %Karma45.9 %Leona51.7 %

Strongest (at least 100 games)

Poppy56.9 %Zilean55.0 %Neeko54.9 %Galio54.2 %Brand54.2 %Lux53.6 %Maokai52.7 %LeBlanc52.3 %

Frequently asked questions

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