Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
The stats shown on this page show several important Rell vs. Viktor counter statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between the two. Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Viktor’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Viktor. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Rell often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes more damage than Viktor. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rell usually loses when facing off against Viktor, with a 47.6% win rate. Therefore, Rell makes a poor counter for Viktor.
While Rell does have a lower win rate than Viktor, when they face off with one another, Rell also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Rell into Viktor.
Moreover, Rell also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viktor. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rell vs Viktor matchups, Viktor is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Rell is a terribly counter for Viktor. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Rell against Viktor.
To truly master Rell to counter Viktor during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Viktor. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Rell versus Viktor build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rell combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Viktor than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rell boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when countering Viktor with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Viktor 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. Out of all the runes players used for Rell vs Viktor clashes, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Viktor as Rell are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.