It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
The stats shown here show some influential Rell vs. Soraka counter stats that may help you grasp the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Soraka..
Rell typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Soraka. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rell usually fairs equally well when facing off against Soraka, with a 49.0% win rate. Therefore, Rell makes an ok counter for Soraka.
While Rell does have a lower win rate compared to Soraka, when facing one another, Rell also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Rell into Soraka.
Furthermore, Rell has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rell vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Rell is a somewhat poor counter to Soraka. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rell against Soraka.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rell to counter Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell often racks up a similar amount of CS as Soraka. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Rell versus Soraka build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rell used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Soraka than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Rell boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when playing against Soraka with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Soraka as Rell, Rell players should use 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 builds we have analyed for Rell vs Soraka LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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