Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several vital Rell vs. Lissandra matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Lissandra. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Rell normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rell usually loses when taking on Lissandra, with a 44.5% win rate. As a result, Rell makes a poor counter to Lissandra.
While Rell does have a much lower win rate compared to Lissandra, when facing one another, Rell also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Rell into Lissandra.
Moreover, Rell has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rell vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Rell is a terribly counter for Lissandra. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rell against Lissandra.
If you would like to truly master Rell in order to counter Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell usually racks up a lot less CS as Lissandra. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Rell versus Lissandra build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Lissandra than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rell boasted an average winrate of 44.5% when countering Lissandra with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Lissandra as Rell, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Rell vs Lissandra battles, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.5% winrate overall.
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