The second hit of Timewinder does more damage than the first; try to avoid it.
Ekko is significantly weaker when his ultimate is down. Watch for the trail he leaves behind to determine if Chronobreak is available.
Ekko's stun zone takes 3 seconds to arm. Watch for the image he creates on cast and try to guess where the zone was placed.
The stats shown on this page show some critical Rell against Ekko matchup stats that can help you realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ekko’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ekko. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Rell normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Ekko. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rell usually loses when trying to fight Ekko, with a 46.3% win rate. As a result, Rell makes a poor counter to Ekko.
While Rell does have a lower winrate than Ekko, when facing one another, Rell also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Rell into Ekko.
Additionally, Rell also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ekko. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rell vs Ekko matchups, Ekko is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Rell is a trash counter to Ekko. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Rell against Ekko.
To truly master Rell in order to counter Ekko during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell often accumulates a lot less CS as Ekko. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Rell versus Ekko build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Ekko than with most other common builds. In fact, Rell had an average winrate of 46.3% when countering Ekko with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Ekko as Rell, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Rell vs Ekko fights, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.3% winrate overall.
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