When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
The stats shown here feature several influential Rell versus Kindred counter statistics that may help you explain the differences between the two. Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kindred’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kindred. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Rell often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Kindred. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rell usually fairs equally well when playing against Kindred, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Rell makes an ok counter for Kindred.
While Rell does have a higher winrate than Kindred, when facing one another, Rell also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rell into Kindred.
Furthermore, Rell has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kindred. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rell vs Kindred matchups, Rell is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Rell is a decent counter to Kindred. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rell against Kindred.
To learn all of the intricacies of Rell in order to counter Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Kindred. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Rell versus Kindred build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rell used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing Kindred than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Rell boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when countering Kindred with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Kindred as Rell, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Rell vs Kindred face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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