Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
The stat comparisons shown here feature several significant Ahri versus Rell matchup stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rell’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rell. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Ahri normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Rell. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable 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 League's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when playing against Rell, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes an ok counter to Rell.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate than Rell, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Rell.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rell. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Rell matchups, Rell is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Rell. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Rell.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri in order to counter Rell during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri most often picks up much more CS relative to Rell. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Ahri versus Rell build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Rell than with many other typical builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when playing against Rell with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Rell as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Ahri vs Rell counters, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
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