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About Rell

Abilities

Pros and Cons

Skill Sequence

Summoners

Runes

Example Runes

Items

Example Builds

Early Gameplay

Mid-Late Gameplay

Ability Usage

Warding

Matchups

Synergies

Conclusion

Notes


	TheBlueImperial "I didn't outplay you, I killed you because you scared me and I accidentally hit my keyboard"



	IGN: EmpressBlue (EUW) Playing since: December of 2017, I joined preseason leading up to season 8 Favourite Role: Support and Mid equally. Favourite Item: Zhonya's Hourglass so I can accidently press it walking to lane then die because I don't have it 10 seconds later. Introduction: Hey! My name is Nathan but online I go by the name TheBlueImperial or Blue for short and I've been playing league for about four years now and haven't looked back since. I'm from the United Kingdom despite my abysmal spelling/grammar and training to get my Helicopter Licences!

The story of Rell, the Iron Maiden

Lore is important to many of us in League of Legends, it sometimes decides whether or not we will pick up a champion and give them a try. is an unfortunate product of the Black Rose (and ) and their harsh, unforgiving and merciless experiments to gain power. She's been dealt so many difficult cards in her life but still gets up, still fights for those who can't and refuses to back down. Her unbreakable spirit is even more powerful than her ferromancy, she is one of my favourite champions in the lore. Below is her trailer and under that is her bio for you to get a sample of who is and whether you might like her.

Rell's Bio, read more Here

The product of brutal experimentation at the hands of the Black Rose (currently lead by ), is a defiant, living weapon determined to topple Noxus. Her childhood was one of misery and horror, enduring unspeakable procedures to perfect and weaponize her magical control over metal... until she made a violent escape, killing many of her captors in the process. Now branded as a criminal, attacks Noxian soldiers on sight as she searches for survivors of her old “academy”, defending the meek while delivering merciless death to her former instructors.


	Why YOU should play Rell

	To start off this section, I want to first talk about why I love playing Rell. I personally picked up Rell because I fell in love with her thematic first, she's been hurt in the past but she uses it to push her forward, not to push her down. She protects those who cannot protect themselves and crushes those who dare prey on innocent and the weak. She's a walking wall of armour who has power over metal, which is abundant in Runeterra, to overpower her foes. I then fell in love with her kit, Rell has little to no solo capabilities but she makes up for it significantly with the ability to synergise with so many champions and make game changing teamfights happen through the power of wombo combo's. She's tanky, has mountains of irreducible CC and has such a unique and interesting kit and playstyle due to the nature of her Ferromancy - Crash Down / Mount Up ability. For a lot of people, looking at these guides are often a starting point for picking up a champion. For those that it applies to, Rell is someone you should pick up if you like her thematic, kit or both. I highly suggest ignoring the "she's too niche" or the "she has too many counters" comments, if you enjoy a champ, then play them. I will do my best to help guide you to making her work in every game.



	Why her over other engage tanks?

	This is a bit of a tough question to answer, as most champions perform better against certain matchups, so realistically the answer depends on who you're against. But to be brutally honest, if you prefer Rell over other engage tanks such as Leona or Alistar, then you should pick her. If you're looking for a more matchup based answer, then check out the matchups section here.

Passive - Break the Mold

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Q - Shattering Strike

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W1 - Ferromancy: Crash Down

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W2 - Ferromancy: Mount Up

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E - Attract and Repel

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R - Magnet Storm

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is an incredibly fun champion with so much to offer. She's insanely good at initiating a teamfight, while being just as good at turning around an enemies engage. With tons of unique mechanics, synergies and playstyles you'll find it hard to get bored of the champion.

She does of course does come with her drawbacks, like any other champ. She's got a lot of hard counters, some popular champs. She is probably one of the most easily punished engage support when she misuses and ability like .

Despite all this, nothing beats the feeling of landing a 5 man engage with your and setting up a game wombo combo. She's a rewarding champion to play and well worth picking up, even if its just as a counter pick to some of your matchups.

▶		Incredibly durable from defensive stats being increased by a % while dismounted.
▶		Quick at traversing the map due to % movement speed buff passive while mounted.
▶		Huge teamfight setup with her Magnet Storm engage, can set up wombo combo's.
▶		Provides a % of her defensive stats to her tethered ally from Full Tilt, making them more durable.
▶		Her CC cannot be reduced by tenacity, due to it all being knock-ups or low duration stuns.
▶		Has a shield breaker on a basic ability Shattering Strike. Incredibly useful against Sett, Tahm Kench and Immortal Shieldbow.

▶		Incredibly slow while dismounted, leaving her vulnerable until her Ferromancy: Mount Up is available.
▶		Very long cooldowns, meaning you're very easily punished for misusing an ability.
▶		Has little to no agency, she relies on having an ally nearby to do anything.
▶		Her ability Ferromancy - Crash Down can be cancelled by certain types of CC, leaving her incredibly vulnerable.
▶		Difficult to pick up and learn due to how hard mistakes are punished.
▶		A lot of medium-hard counters, they are still winnable though!

I do recommend taking all of these Pros and Cons with a pinch of salt. A lot of her disadvantages don't really apply to the lower elo's of league because they're less likely to punish mistakes. So don't take them as a warning sign to not play her or consider trying her out, they're just a warning to be careful and mindful of your strengths and weaknesses.

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Like nearly every single champion in the game (excluding some rare cases) we want to max our ultimate at every opportunity with no exceptions. It is our fight/game changing ability, having it up more often is too good to pass up.

Since is our bread and butter ability it is important for us to max this second. It increases our shield strength from and our movement speed while chasing during . You're essentially levelling two separate abilities when you level it, which just increases is value so much.

After maxing we max , it has level scaling for damage, healing and cooldown whereas only scales with damage since 12.17.

Lastly, as mentioned before we max last because it now only scales with damage per level, this was done to allow for to max second over by giving it a static cooldown.


		The bread and butter summoner for the majority of the champions in League, take this every single game without exception for Rell. It extends the range at which you're able to engage on an enemy and is required for Hextech Flashtraption. It's also useful for catching or escaping someone while you're waiting for Ferromancy: Mount Up to come off cooldown.


	The most common summoner besides Flash for Rell, it synergies incredibly well with her playstyle. It boosts your kill pressure in lane, making you more likely to snowball and is incredibly strong against heal heavy opponents like Soraka, Nami and Yuumi. Try your best to use it when you expect them to use Heal to negate it's healing.


		While Ignite is more often than not the better choice, in some cases Exhaust is an incredibly strong counter to assassin heavy comps that'll be aiming to burst your carry. It's also strong against ADC's like Tristana who get heavily screwed over by their abilities such as Explosive Charge's getting it's damage reduced, usually securing the win for you.


	Their are only two scenarios where you'll take this summoner. When you're laning with an unusual lane partner such as Lissandra or Darius that wants to take Ignite themselves. The other scenario is when your ADC/APC takes Teleport and they request you take Heal, in this scenario you can still take Ignite if you believe it'll be more valuable.

Aftershock

is just kind of the staple pick for support tanks, it's the most consistent and reliable keystone for the class as a whole. It's incredibly useful on because when she commits to a fight she doesn't really have the option of leaving most of the time, you're kind of an all or nothing champ. Having the added survivability helps prevent many deaths when you engage, often changing the tides of battle.

Since our primary object as is to throw our faces at the enemy team to initiate a fight we will need all the defensive stats we can get, especially since we'll be incredibly immobile for awhile after engaging. provides a massive boost in these necessary stats which get further boost from our passive that grants a bonus 10% MR and Armour while we're dismounted.

Glacial Augment

With the rework to in season 12 preseason, it is now a viable keystone for tanks like . It's incredibly useful at helping lock down immobile teams from escaping your because of the slow. It can also end up forcing flashes during the early game because of the slow keeping them in range of your ADC. It also reduces damage dealt to all allies by 15%, this does NOT apply to you though.

While it's incredibly fun, it's not in my opinion a beginner friendly keystone. You're significantly more squishy and more so in the early game, so I recommend using until you're comfortable with .


	Resolve Runes

		The amount of potential tower damage this minor rune provides is not to be underestimated, it does a noticeable amount for a support that'd normally not even dent a tower. It's incredibly useful in winning matchups to help snowball faster and secure more tower plates for bonus gold. Sometimes though you want to forfiet hitting tower for your ADC to get solo plates, so not always a good pick.

		Since you bring mountains of CC to the table, you'll more often than not have this rune ticking in teamfights, it's not insane amounts of healing but will add up in the end and in some cases save someone from death. A worthy pickup for those who like to bring us much supportive power to their team as possible, even on an angy champ like Rell.

		This rune should never be underestimated for how much damage it really gives you, especially on a champion like Rell who can proc every time she engages. You're capable of proccing on your Ferromancy - Crash Down shield and it'll even proc off of items such as Locket of the Iron Solari. It shines in aggressive lanes where you're trying to get early kills to help snowball your ADC.

		When you're playing in an uneventful matchup, whether it be because of your ally or your lane opponents being impossible to jump on ( Ezreal + Yuumi). Conditioning will provide some extra scaling into the mid-late game to make up for being unable to do much during the laning phase of the game.[/color]

		A very underrated rune in my opinion, Second Wind provides a ridiculous amount of sustain against poke heavy lane/comp. It's also incredibly strong against burn champions like Brand, I can't even count the amount of times second wind has saved me from a burn death. It wont make you immune to poke though, just more durable to it, so aim to avoid poke still!

		Since Rell wants to throw her face at the enemy and survive their retaliation damage, she wants all the anti-burst she can get. Bone Plating can block 90-180 damage depending on level, which is incredibly strong and will save you from so many potential deaths during laning phase. Try your best to wait for it to be up before you engage in lane.

		Probably my favourite rune in the resolve category. The ability to get tenacity AND slow resistance without having to get an item for it is so incredibly valuable, especially for an already snail paced champion during combat. It also means you'll be less likely to consider Mercury's Treads just because you need the tenacity.


	Inspiration Runes

		This rune in unmatched in the amount of lane threat and kill pressure it provides, Hextech Flashtraption gives you an extension to your engage range and map traversal even when your Flash is down. It also allows you to avoid vision without having to burn your Ferromancy - Crash Down. Always take with an aggressive ally ADC like Draven.

		Sometimes you're against an incredibly potent poke lane and Second Wind just isn't enough. Biscuit Delivery gives you a reasonable amount of sustain for the laning phase to help survive it and stay healthy enough to actually engage when the opportunity arises. It also provides some mana sustain in lane and increases your max mana by a total of 150.

		The ability to use your active items such as Locket of the Iron Solari or Turbo Chemtank more frequently is incredibly satisfying and leaves you with less downtime in fights. It allow reduces the cooldown of your summoners, which for Rell is a blessing considering just how important and impactful a Flash engage is.


	Precision Runes

		Getting healed for 12% of your missing health for each takedown just skyrockets your survivability in a teamfight, especially since you're not the primary target. It will just continuously save you teamfight after teamfight, lane fight after lane fight. It also grants an extra 20 gold per takedown, which for a support is very much appreciated.

		I personally don't use this use however, some people really struggle with their mana management. Which is especially noticeable on a champion like Rell doesn't buy into mana items with relatively high mana costs. So this one is completely down to your preference or while you're learning to manage your mana.

		The main reason you go Precision for your secondary runes, Legend: Tenacity in conjunction with Unflinching means you don't have to buy Mercury's Treads against a CC heavy comp when Plated Steelcaps are more useful against them. Sometimes, you might just be against a particularly CC heavy comp and just want all the Tenacity you can get.

Standard Runes

The standard rune page for your games, take whenever you're planning on making large engages as often as possible and need every little bit of protection you can get. just synergises with incredibly well. It gives you a massive boost in defensive stats that are further amplified by 10% when unmounted after you use . It also gives a little bit of damage, which is always helpful when you're trying to secure kills bot lane.

All of the follow up runes are there to compliment 's play-style, by giving her more survivability and mobility for longer engage ranges. Some of the runes will provide sustain or cooldown reduction for better ability or summoner spell uptime. Essentially anything that can give and edge in the middle of battle.

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Keystone: Aftershock

As explained previously, the keystone just synergises with so incredibly well. You're going to be making incredibly aggressive plays and you will need every last bit of self protection you can get, you surviving a bit longer can be the difference between win or loss. This will be your standard choice for most games because of the reasons above, the safest rule is if you're in doubt what to take, just take .

1st Rune: Font of Life

will end up doing a surprising amount of healing throughout a game since our kit is just loaded with CC, it's always being used when you're fighting because of it. Don't expect level healing out of it though, I usually get around 1-8k+ healing out of it for my depending on the duration of the game.

Alternative Runes


	It can be an incredibly useful rune, being able to contribute to the destruction of a tower, especially while plates are up is incredibly strong. However, sometimes you want to forfeit plates to your ADC, which makes this more of a niche rune the higher elo you go.

	An incredibly strong rune, you're always activating the rune whenever you're engaging thanks to your Ferromancy - Crash Down shield. The damage really adds up over the game, the choice between this and Font of Life is down to preference if I'm honest.

2nd Rune: Conditioning

While doesn't activate the 12 minute mark, it's my personal favourite in this rune. Supports have a natural lack of gold since we don't farm, we rely on takedowns and our support items () for income. Having a rune that makes all armour and MR purchases 5% stronger is incredibly useful in my eyes. On top of this it stacks with your passive that increases all defensive stats by 10% while unmounted.

Alternative Runes


	This is another preference rune, similar to the choice between Shield Bash and Font of Life. Bone Plating provides better early game protection for lane engages while Conditioning provides better defensive scaling.

	If you're against a significant amount of poke, especially if they're burn champions like Brand, Second Wind provides an insane amount of healing over the course of a game. The rune outside of countering poke comps isn't that useful in my opinion.

3rd Rune: Unflinching

Tenacity is incredibly useful to have, provides a decent amount for a champion like . On top of this I find the other two options in this row to be more than lacklustre, meaning this is really the only choice unless they have literally no reducible CC. If that ever happens just take , it's not that useful in my opinion but it's better than nothing.

4th Rune: Hextech Flashtraption

Pretty much the main reason we take inspiration as the secondary tree, is more than a cool name, essentially having a budget flash with an insanely high uptime is so strong. The power of this rune should never be underestimated, being able to extend your engage ranges or traverse terrain without having to use your is so useful.

5th Rune: Cosmic Insight

is a really good rune, reducing the cooldown of and is just incredibly game changing at times. The more uptime you have on your summoners as the more you can make more aggressive engages which often lead to securing kills, it might not seem like an impressive rune but it is amazing.

Alternative Runes


	We take this with a similar reason to Second Wind, if you're against a poke heavy lane the extra sustain is incredibly helpful and will allow you to stay topped on health ready to make an engage for longer before you have to back.

	I personally don't like using this rune but it is worth mentioning because a lot of people actually really like the use of this rune. It allows you to instantly kill cannon minions and proc Relic Shield without having to go into melee range.

Rune Shards

Shards are a nice way to get a little advantage in a lane with better defensive stats, higher damage or lower cooldowns. only really cares about two of those things, defensive stats or lower cooldowns .

Picking which ones you're taking is pretty simple. You always take the Ability Haste shard, after that it depends on their damage distribution:

▶		Balanced magic/physical damage take the Armour and MR shard.
▶		Heavy magic damage take double MR shards.
▶		Heavy physical damage take double Armour shards.

Glacial Augment

A prewarning for this rune page, it is not beginner friendly at all. Not in my opinion anyway, since you're going to be a significant amount more squishy, so you're punished a lot more for misplays. Only take when you're comfortable enough on to deal with this, only then will you perform well with it.

The reason this rune is really strong though is because of it's giant AoE lines it leaves on the floor whenever your CC an enemy. These lines slow all enemies by a decent amount and make all affected enemies deal 15% less damage to your allies (this does not include you). In combination with your , immobile champions will find it essentialy impossible to escape you.

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Keystone: Glacial Augment

As explained previously, the keystone is incredibly useful at locking down enemies with very little mobility, since the slow makes it almost impossible for enemies to get out of your . It's also incredibly useful at securing early kills bot lane because the slow that follows up your initial CC means they're unable to escape your carries range, they will often have to burn or die.

1st Rune: Hextech Flashtraption

Pretty much the main reason we take inspiration as the secondary tree, is more than a cool name, essentially having a budget flash with an insanely high uptime is so strong. The power of this rune should never be underestimated, being able to extend your engage ranges or traverse terrain without having to use your is so useful.

2nd Rune: Biscuit Delivery

We take this with a similar reason to , if you're against a poke heavy lane the extra sustain is incredibly helpful and will allow you to stay topped on health ready to make an engage for longer before you have to back.

Alternative Runes


	I personally don't like using this rune but it is worth mentioning because a lot of people actually really like the use of this rune. It allows you to instantly kill cannon minions and proc Relic Shield without having to go into melee range.

3rd Rune: Cosmic Insight

is a really good rune, reducing the cooldown of and is just incredibly game changing at times. The more uptime you have on your summoners as the more you can make more aggressive engages which often lead to securing kills, it might not seem like an impressive rune but it is amazing.

4th Rune: Triumph

When you're making engages on you're often going to get focused early on in the fight and be left with very little health. Since your team should be following up on your engages, with each takedown they secure you're healed for 12% of your missing health and grants an extra 20 gold for each takedown (which is great for a support). The amount of times this rune has saved me in a teamfight, bringing me back from the brink of death again and again in a fight.

Alternative Runes


	While ConditioningSupports have a natural lack of gold since we don't farm, we rely on takedowns and our support items ( Relic Shield) for income. Having a rune that makes all armour and MR purchases 5% stronger is incredibly useful in my eyes.

5th Rune: Legend: Tenacity

is a pretty strong rune when you're up against a team with a considerable amount of reducible CC or when you don't want to invest in for that game. The only downside to this rune is that it takes time to stack, you don't farm so you rely purely on your proc's and takedowns.

Alternative Runes


	Tenacity is incredibly useful to have, Unflinching provides a decent amount for a champion like Rell. It also means you don't have to invest into Mercury's Treads when you're against a minimal amount of reducible CC.

Rune Shards

Shards are a nice way to get a little advantage in a lane with better defensive stats, higher damage or lower cooldowns. only really cares about two of those things, defensive stats or lower cooldowns .

Picking which ones you're taking is pretty simple. You always take the Ability Haste shard, after that it depends on their damage distribution:

▶		Balanced magic/physical damage take the Armour and MR shard.
▶		Heavy magic damage take double MR shards.
▶		Heavy physical damage take double Armour shards.


	Support Item: Relic Shield



	Pretty much the only viable support item for Rell in my eyes. Firstly, you're taking an AP support item because all her ratios scale with AP and she autos too slowly to make use of the AD support items. Secondly, you're not very good at proccing the passive for Spellthief's Edge because of how short range you are, you'll barely get to proc it in majority of matchups. Lastly, it gives much more health in comparison to the poke focused support items and Rell is aiming to be as tanky as possible. At 500 gold gained it will transform into Targon's Buckler, it provides a decent amount of stats that Rell loves and allows you to carry 3 Stealth Wards on the item that refill everytime you base. At 1000 gold gained it will be fully stacked and transform into Bulwark of the Mountain, it provides a decent amount of stats that Rell loves and allows you to carry 4 Stealth Wards on the item that refill everytime you base.


	Mythic Option: Evenshroud



	One of the biggest mistakes Riot made with the season 11 item rework was only giving tank supports a single Mythic item, it's annoying it took them a year to give us a second one but finally it's here and it's pretty good. It is sad though they ripped the passive off Abyssal Mask for it and left that item in a kind of useless spot. Evenshroud increases damage enemies take when you CC them (or they CC you within a certain range), since Rell is pure CC it's always being triggered on engages. It's Mythic passive also grants a bunch of resistances, something Rell loves. It trades the ally protection Locket of the Iron Solari provides for team damage amplification and self protection. It's pretty much the standard item for Rell but since it got quite a big nerf a patch after it's introduction (undeserved in my opinion) it's now more of a preference between Evenshroud and Locket of the Iron Solari. I personally prefer Evenshroud most games, but it's good to keep your options open to counter enemies if possible. The place the item shines is with the "wombo combo" comps, like teams with Lissandra, Malphite, Yasuo or Yone. Being able to increase the damage of those wombo combo's is insanely useful and where it's most effective, I try to always take it when in those scenarios.

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	Mythic Option: Locket of the Iron Solari



	This is the more supportive Mythic item for Rell, you're giving up some of your own tankiness to provide more supportive protection and damage mitigation to your allies. It's incredibly strong with Redemption and Knight's Vow when you're playing a peel focused game, when your goal is to keep your carry alive at all costs. Something to consider is when you're against lethality assassins, they will often buy Serpent's Fang, which drastically cuts down the value of the shield and how much it will protect someone. It doesn't mean it's useless against them but you will need to be a bit more efficient with it's uses, getting as much value as possible out of it. This is where Knight's Vow comes into use to try and mitigate that items affect on your ability to peel for your carry. It's Rell's second most popular item and since Evenshroud got quite a big nerf a patch after it's introduction (undeserved in my opinion) it's now more of a preference between Evenshroud and Locket of the Iron Solari. I personally prefer Evenshroud most games, but it's good to keep your options open to counter enemies if possible.

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	Mythic Option: Everfrost



	A lot of people will see Everfrost and think it is a troll item, you might even get people ping the item once you've built it. I can assure you though Everfrost is incredibly strong on Rell, you can use it to fish for engages without risking your life by commiting to a fight. You're capable of using Everfrost mid Ferromancy - Crash Down, making it significantly harder to dodge. In the end, you can also just use it to extend your CC lock duration after you've hit your initial CC. It's also very support friednly, it has a decent build path as you can go Kindlegem first item. Everfrost also only costs 2800 gold, which is incredibly cheap compared to most non-support Mythics. It might be an AP item, but the amount of utility, ability haste and health it provides is worth it for the cost. For some proof of the build working, here are some of the high elo Rell Mains Discord that introduced me to this build: Modern and Spectre. Both have been very informative with this build and helped answer questions I had with the build, so a big thanks to both of them!


	Legendary Items

		While Rell doesn't have mana issues, she can get insane value out of this item against slow moving melee comps. It provides shield after shield during long drawn out teamfights, it's a niche item but it's quite strong in it's niche scenarios.

		This item is incredibly powerful against comps which have a solo carry comp, you stick it onto them and become a pain to kill. Another time you can pick this up is if they have only 1 AP/AD champ, stick it on them and stack defencive items against the rest.

		Redemption has insane amounts of synergy with Locket of the Iron Solari, they both greatly increase the durability of your team. Redemption provides 20% heal and shield power which makes both Locket of the Iron Solari and Ferromancy - Crash Down shield stronger.

		Knight's Vow fits into the protection build very well, it allows you to make your carry a lot more durable so they can get more damage off before dying or potentially saving them. It gives a decent amount of health, some health regen and a lot of ability haste, which Rell loves stat wise.

		Probably the most underrated support item, no one seems to want to build it which is bonkers. It allows you to carry 3 Control Wards which already is incredibly useful. It also provides a 12% stat boost to your Health, Ability Haste, AP and AD at level 13 and all for just 1100 gold!

	Armour Items

		Unfortunately this item has been nerfed repeatedly making it less of a viable option across majority of champions that previously used it. However, it is still incredibly useful against fast moving enemy comps that are impossible to catch with just your normal movement speed.

		Thornmail is a great item against auto-attack heavy comps at the moment thanks to the buff to it's reflection damage. While the grievous wounds is insanely nerfed, it can still be a very impactful item against specific comps with healing and auto-attack focused damage.

		A pretty niche item in my opinion, I don't really see any real use of the item outside of countering crit heavy comps. But man does it shine against those crit heavy comps, especially since the active slows them and reduces their attack damage and crit damage.

		Usually built with the Everfrost build, it is still pretty viable outside of that. It's picked by both pros and onetricks because Rell leaves herself super vulnerable after using Ferromancy - Crash Down, delaying your death can give you enough time to get Ferromancy: Mount Up back in time.

		A pretty decent item, gives good stats and relatively cheap. A lot more viable now that Thornmail isn't madatory for it's anti-heal. It's great against on-hit comps that auto a lot and synergies well with Fimbulwinter thanks to the bonus mana increasing it's shield.

	MR Items

		Probably the best MR item against AP heavy comps due it giving the most amount of MR, especially when you're being targeted by the enemy. So if you ever find yourself against a 4/5 AP comp, pick this item up and save yourself from being blown up.

		A pretty strong MR item for Rell due to the new passive on this item, it provides a 25% increase to all healing and shielding you receive. This makes your Ferromancy - Crash Down's shield even larger than it can already get. It also has pretty strong stats for Rell.

		A more niche item but still very impactful against the right comps, if they only have 1-2 CC abilities to shutdown your carry, take this item. The ability to remove the enemies only CC ability against your carry is insanely strong, being able to remove an ultimate like Lilting Lullaby can be game changing.

	Boots

		By far the best option for Rell without any debate, they provide insane amounts of Ability Haste for a cooldown reliant champion and gives shorter cooldowns on Flash (Which Rell is super reliant on) and Ignite. It consistently hits a significant higher winrate than any of the other options for Rell.

		The other viable option boots wise for Rell is Plated Steelcaps, they're only really taken though when the enemy team is majority AD damage and have multiple auto-attack focused damage dealers. An example would be Akshan Mid, Kindred Jungle and Caitlyn Bot.

Support Item: Relic Shield

Pretty much the only viable support item for in my eyes. Firstly, you're taking an AP support item because all her ratios scale with AP and she autos too slowly to make use of the AD support items. Secondly, you're not very good at proccing the passive for because of how short range you are, you'll barely get to proc it in majority of matchups. Lastly, it gives much more health in comparison to the poke focused support items and is aiming to be as tanky as possible.

I would also like to mention something here in view of all potential build paths you might go, which is "Never. Sell. Your. Support. Item". I can not stress this enough, losing one of your most valuable tools as a support (which is vision control) for the hopes of surviving a little bit longer is a terrible idea, do not do it.

Standard Engage Build

is a pretty simple champion in the grand scheme of things, she wants to jump in and cause as much trouble as possible, to do so you need to be tanky enough to survive your initial engage. This is the standard build path which you will build majority of your games for since it does exactly that for her, on top of that you're gaining Grievous Wounds from and vision control with .

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Mythic: Evenshroud

was a really good addition to league, it's a shame it took them a whole year to add another support tank Mythic but at least we got it. Since is all about multi-target CC and setting up fights, you get a lot of value out of it's passive. The mythic passive also gives bonus armour and MR for every legendary item, making you even more durable for those fights.

Boots: Ionian Boots of Lucidity

are by far the best option for without any debate, they provide insane amounts of Ability Haste for a cooldown reliant champion and gives you shorter cooldowns on (Which is super reliant on) and . It consistently hits a significant higher winrate than any of the other options for .

Alternative Boots


	The other viable option boots wise for Rell is Plated Steelcaps, they're only really taken though when the enemy team is majority AD damage and have multiple auto-attack focused damage dealers. An example would be Akshan Mid, Kindred Jungle and Caitlyn Bot.

Legendary 1: Thornmail

is a great item against auto-attack heavy comps at the moment thanks to the buff to it's reflection damage. While the grievous wounds is insanely nerfed, it can still be a very impactful item against specific comps with healing and auto-attack focused damage.

Alternative Items


	If they have an APC or they're heavy magic damage I will usually buy Force of Nature second due to how insane it's new passive is. It just straight up cuts incoming magic damage down by 20%, it also gives you a bunch of movement speed which makes it worth the gold investment.

	While Rell doesn't have mana issues, she can get insane value out of this item against slow moving melee comps. It provides shield after shield during long drawn out teamfights, it's a niche item but it's quite strong in it's niche scenarios.

Legendary 2: Anathema's Chains

Every game there will always be someone who gets a little bit too fed and shreds your health like it doesn't exist or the game goes on late enough that the enemy carry has enough items to melt you. Simply marking the enemy carry with item cuts all incoming damage from them by 30%.

Alternative Items


	If you're struggling for gold and you're against a heavy physical damage team, especially if they're auto-attack focused champs this item is incredibly valuable. It lacks health but has one of the highest armour values on an item for it's price.

	A pretty niche item in my opinion, I don't really see any real use of the item outside of countering crit heavy comps. But man does it shine against those crit heavy comps, especially since the active slows them and reduces their attack damage and crit damage.

	A pretty strong MR item for Rell due to the new passive on this item, it provides a 25% increase to all healing and shielding you receive. This makes your Ferromancy - Crash Down's shield even larger than it can already get. It also has pretty strong stats for Rell.

Last Item: Vigilant Wardstone

Vision control is so important in league, epsecially when you're fighting over objectives. I don't see any real value out of giving up 's for another item, this item was introduced to further inventivise you to continue using control wards. Please consider buying this item for your last slot if you reach that point, your team might not thank you for your work in denying the enemy a chance to contest an objective... but I will!

Protection Build

doesn't have many games where she is incapable of jumping on an enemy team but they do happen, when you're against those sort of teams it's best to switch to a peel focused role. This build is focused around that role, giving you every possible resource available to protect your carry and keep them from dying. This build also doesn't just need to be used when you're against a difficult team to jump on, sometimes they have a ton of divers that want to blow up your carry and that is also a good time to bring out this build.

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Mythic: Locket of the Iron Solari

Since 's introduction we finally have a another choice for our Mythic, this did make a bit more situational. Where shines though is in games when you're primarily focused on peeling for your carry. On top of the other items and runes mentioned here, you can keep someone alive through more than anyone should ever survive as a carry.

Boots: Ionian Boots of Lucidity

are by far the best option for without any debate, they provide insane amounts of Ability Haste for a cooldown reliant champion and gives you shorter cooldowns on (Which is super reliant on) and . It consistently hits a significant higher winrate than any of the other options for .

Alternative Boots


	The other viable option boots wise for Rell is Plated Steelcaps, they're only really taken though when the enemy team is majority AD damage and have multiple auto-attack focused damage dealers. An example would be Akshan Mid, Kindred Jungle and Caitlyn Bot.

Legendary 1: Redemption

When you're doing everything in your power to keep your team alive, an item like is just incredibly useful. Being able to heal a large amount of your teams health with the active alongside 's active means your entire team becomes significantly harder to kill.

On top of this, gives decent stats and the 20% heal and shield buff works on everything, this includes both 's shield and your 's shield. Meaning you become more durable and so does your team, it's an incredibly efficient synergy.

Legendary 2: Knight's Vow

fits into the protection build very well, it allows you to make your carry a lot more durable so they can get more damage off before dying or potentially saving them. It gives a decent amount of health, some health regen and a lot of ability haste, which loves stat wise.

Alternative Items


	If they have an APC or they're heavy magic damage I will usually buy Force of Nature second due to how insane it's new passive is. It just straight up cuts incoming magic damage down by 20%, it also gives you a bunch of movement speed which makes it worth the gold investment.

	Every game there will always be someone who gets a little bit too fed and shreds your health like it doesn't exist or the game goes on late enough that the enemy carry has enough items to melt you. Simply marking the enemy carry with item cuts all incoming damage from them by 30%.

	If you're struggling for gold and you're against a heavy physical damage team, especially if they're auto-attack focused champs this item is incredibly valuable. It lacks health but has one of the highest armour values on an item for it's price.

	A pretty niche item in my opinion, I don't really see any real use of the item outside of countering crit heavy comps. But man does it shine against those crit heavy comps, especially since the active slows them and reduces their attack damage and crit damage.

	A pretty strong MR item for Rell due to the new passive on this item, it provides a 25% increase to all healing and shielding you receive. This makes your Ferromancy - Crash Down's shield even larger than it can already get. It also has pretty strong stats for Rell.

	Thornmail is a great item against auto-attack heavy comps at the moment thanks to the buff to it's reflection damage. While the grievous wounds is insanely nerfed, it can still be a very impactful item against specific comps with healing and auto-attack focused damage.

	A niche item but strong against the right comps, if they only have 1-2 CC abilities to shutdown your carry, take this item. The ability to remove the enemies only CC ability against your carry is insanely strong, being able to remove an ultimate like Lilting Lullaby can be game changing.

Last Item: Vigilant Wardstone

Vision control is so important in league, epsecially when you're fighting over objectives. I don't see any real value out of giving up 's for another item, this item was introduced to further inventivise you to continue using control wards. Please consider buying this item for your last slot if you reach that point, your team might not thank you for your work in denying the enemy a chance to contest an objective... but I will!

Everfrost Build

The less popular build, the use of might get you some questionable looks but I can assure you it's incredibly strong. It's incredibly versatile in helping you lock down hypermobile champions or making it impossible for immobile champions to play the game, there isn't many scenarios where the build isn't at least viable. It will take some getting used to though compared to the standard build as you're considerably less tanky.

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Mythic: Everfrost

A lot of people will see and think it is a troll item, you might even get people ping the item once you've built it. I can assure you though is incredibly strong on , you can use it to fish for engages without risking your life by commiting to a fight. You're capable of using mid , making it significantly harder to dodge. In the end, you can also just use it to extend your CC lock duration after you've hit your initial CC.

Boots: Ionian Boots of Lucidity

are by far the best option for without any debate, they provide insane amounts of Ability Haste for a cooldown reliant champion and gives you shorter cooldowns on (Which is super reliant on) and . It consistently hits a significant higher winrate than any of the other options for .

Alternative Boots


	The other viable option boots wise for Rell is Plated Steelcaps, they're only really taken though when the enemy team is majority AD damage and have multiple auto-attack focused damage dealers. An example would be Akshan Mid, Kindred Jungle and Caitlyn Bot.

Legendary 1: Zhonya's Hourglass

Usually built with the build, it is still pretty viable outside of that. It's picked by both pros and onetricks because leaves herself super vulnerable after using , delaying your death can give you enough time to get back in time.

Alternative Items


	Thornmail is a great item against auto-attack heavy comps at the moment thanks to the buff to it's reflection damage. While the grievous wounds is insanely nerfed, it can still be a very impactful item against specific comps with healing and auto-attack focused damage.

Legendary 2: Anathema's Chains

Every game there will always be someone who gets a little bit too fed and shreds your health like it doesn't exist or the game goes on late enough that the enemy carry has enough items to melt you. Simply marking the enemy carry with item cuts all incoming damage from them by 30%.

Alternative Items


	If you're struggling for gold and you're against a heavy physical damage team, especially if they're auto-attack focused champs this item is incredibly valuable. It lacks health but has one of the highest armour values on an item for it's price.

	A pretty niche item in my opinion, I don't really see any real use of the item outside of countering crit heavy comps. But man does it shine against those crit heavy comps, especially since the active slows them and reduces their attack damage and crit damage.

	A pretty strong MR item for Rell due to the new passive on this item, it provides a 25% increase to all healing and shielding you receive. This makes your Ferromancy - Crash Down's shield even larger than it can already get. It also has pretty strong stats for Rell.

	If they have an APC or they're heavy magic damage I will usually buy Force of Nature second due to how insane it's new passive is. It just straight up cuts incoming magic damage down by 20%, it also gives you a bunch of movement speed which makes it worth the gold investment.

Last Item: Vigilant Wardstone

Vision control is so important in league, epsecially when you're fighting over objectives. I don't see any real value out of giving up 's for another item, this item was introduced to further inventivise you to continue using control wards. Please consider buying this item for your last slot if you reach that point, your team might not thank you for your work in denying the enemy a chance to contest an objective... but I will!

Game Start

The start of the game is an incredibly important time where things can either go incredibly well for your team or set your team up for failure. Knowing what to do during the start of the game as and what decisions to make is a learning experience, over time you'll begin to learn what invades and fights you win and which ones you don't. In this section though I will run through some of the basics, my thought processes on why I did certain things and not others while including some useful tips for the start of the game.

Watching For Invades

Blue Side: When you're watching for invades on this side of the map you're usually going to sit in tri-bush bot lane, your Mid/Jungle watch the entrance from the other side of the bot-side jungle. If you're caught you should have ample time to run to the wall and over the wall to the safety of your turret.

Red Side: When you're watching for invades on this side of the map you're usually going to wait at the river entrance to your blue buff, your Mid/Jungle should normally watch the entrance slightly above you. Watching for invades on this side of the map is a lot more dangerous in my opinion, so pay attention at all times or you'll quickly find yourself dead or burning .

Leashing For Jungler

is a junglers best friend when it comes to leashing, she reduces the defensive stats of the / jungle monsters. On top of this can also tank at least two hits with the shield from before flipping them with for some extra damage and CC. Make sure you're standing behind the buff before using otherwise you will get stuck behind it after and body blocked, slowing down getting back to lane.

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has which counts as two separate abilities, making her pretty good for invades. She has AoE CC from and then shortly after can transform to use single target CC with for those trying to run. However, invading isn't something that will happen every game and is only really done when your team decide as a whole to do it. Never try to force an invade if people are refusing to turn up.

To help increasing your chances of successful invades, you'll just need to follow this simple checklist:

▶		Does your team have the stronger level 1? If not invading probably isn't the best idea as they might be waiting to invade themselves or counter-invade.
▶		Is your whole team present and willing to join the invade? If you have someone AFK (from running to the toliet, it happens) or against invading, you have to respect that and not invade.
▶		Will invading really be benefical to your team or just purely a risk? If you have a scaling/late-game comp then even if you have a decent level 1, it's usually not worth the risk of invading as it could allow the enemy to snowball and nullify your scaling.

Counter Invading

Sometimes you will be playing against enemy teams that scream "We're going to invade", they will usually be teams with champions like , , or . When you're against them and notice they'll probably invade you can group with your team to hide in a normal invade route to catch them off guard and completely shutdown their invade, this gives you the advantage since you're capable of hitting a big multi-target stun with as they huddle together to find you.

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	Rell's Laning Style

	Rell is best and most efficiently played as an aggressive engage support, looking for every opportunity to jump on the enemy laners and secure kills for your ADC/APC. She excels at holding enemies still for long periods of time and surviving large amounts of damage, especially in the early game. She is best paired with aggressive laners such as Lucian, Tristana and Samira. However, since Rell is probably one of the best "wombo combo" engage supports in the game, she is more than capable of playing less aggressive lanes to scale heavily into the mid-late game. Champions like Varus, Seraphine and Jinx are good examples of this, they need time to scale but when they do, they complement your kit so incredibly well with large amounts of CC and AoE damage. Since Rell is an engage support, she's pretty capable of roaming, less potent compared to her fellow engage supports like Rakan and Leona, but strong never the less. Roaming however is still not something you want to spam as a support, leaving your ADC/APC vulnerable in the lane by themselves and leeching XP off your laners repeatedly is not always the best call. Her playstyle and how to execute these playstyles varies from game to game, I've done my best to explain the thought process behind them during my games. Hopefully, they'll be a useful insight in how to make the right decisions during your Rell games.

Support Item Useage

grants a charge every 35 seconds, up to 3 charges. Basic attacks will execute minions below 50% health (since is melee). Killing a minion by any means with a charge grants you and the nearest allied champion gold as if you both killed the minion. These effects require an allied champion to be nearby and will always prioritise the closest ally.

Something to note, only your basic attacks execute minions below 50% health while abillites will not. However, your abilities can still proc the stack if it kills the minion, the only issue is that 's only ranged ability is which does very minimal damage. This doesn't mean you can get the odd minion kill with it, it's saved me from missing the odd cannon.

When To Make Engages

Since is an engage tank, you'll mostly be wanting to engage in majority of your games. However, picking the right time to engage is incredibly important for any engage tank, but most important for . Since her is essentially a self root with how much it slows you, making a poor engage is almost a guaranteed death sentence.

In this section I will be explaining the step-by-step process of when and how to engage, from map awareness to cooldown management. Hopefully, it'll help you with making the right choices in your games.

Map Awareness

Before you make any real decision, you need to pay attention to your mini-map, usually long before you make an actual engage. Tracking where all your enemies and allies are is the make or break for any engage.

In the above example, we have to enemies out of view, and . In this example, we recently just saw run into the bush bot lane. is still unknown but in this context we tracked him ganking Mid lane and heading top side jungle about 15 seconds ago. Meaning, he shouldn't realistically be anywhere near our lane at the moment.

Now we've tracked all our enemies, we need to look at the position of our allies. We can see coming down from tri-bush, which we've recently cleared for wards and the enemy is unaware. This means we want to make an engage, we have the advantage in numbers for this fight.

Cooldown Tracking

Tracking the cooldowns of enemy champions and their summoners is incredibly important. An without or a without her is extremely vulnerable. On top fo this, if they're lacking it's just a huge opportunity for you to engage them.

This applies to enemy supports as well, tracking when a support like lasted used her can often be the difference between a successful or failed engage. Another example is when enemy engage tanks mess up their own engages and burn all their cooldowns, they're exposing themselves and their ADC because they'll have no peel anymore.

A huge part of playing any engage tank is knowing what abilities will mess up your engages, baiting them out or waited for them be used and then exploiting those gaps in their cooldowns to secure kills. Especially for immobile champs like when her is down, she is usually just free kills for and her ADC.

Ally Jungle/Lane Ganks

Having any ally Jungler or even laner come and gank your lane is incredibly helpful, it can set both your lane and their lane up for success and snowballing a win. Whenever you see an ally Jungler/Laner making their way to your lane, try to assess whether or not it'd be a good idea to make the play, if you find it too risky just ping them off and more often than not they'll listen.

Another thing to be mindful of is ganks, if your enemy lane is pushed up to your tower, sometimes your Top or Mid laner will teleport to an available ward behind them. If you see this, make an engage and sandwich them between both you and your allies teleporting in. Be vigilant of enemy laners doing the same to you or countering a gank.

Understanding your ADC/APC

One very important thing to remember is that this isn't a solo lane, it's a duo lane. You're not the sole participant of this lane making decisions, you'll have to learn to understand the ADC/APC's you'll end up playing with and how they'll most likely want to play.

Some might be playing early game strength champions, but feel too uncomfortable in the matchup to make aggressive plays, especially if they're new to the champion or role. So be mindful of that, it can be annoying sometimes to give up some opportunities to engage, but if your ADC/APC isn't willing to follow them up, going in will be a death sentence. In these scenarios I highly recommend just playing out the laning phase safely, roaming if possible and then making impactful engages during the mid-late game.

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When To Peel/Play Safe

Peeling/Playing Safe is a much shorter explanation over when to engage, due to it being a lot more simple in execution. Peeling is a much more passive playstyle in which you're not being proactive, you're being reactive. Your job is to essentially nullifying any engages or plays that the enemy makes on your laner, this is most useful when playing against other engage supports.

Usually, this play style will be used when laning with ADC/APC's that have incredibly weak early games or little to no self peel and you're against a lane with tons of aggressive engages. An example of this is when you're laning with a or a , they're both quite immobile and lack self peel, nor is their sustained damage strong during the early game, they need to scale to function properly. As , you'll just be protecting them from champions like and that want to dive onto them and kill them.

Using this playstyle is usually more damaging than helpful if you're laning with an ADC/APC that excels in early game trades/all-ins. As those champions usually do not scale as heavily as the champions mentioned previously, so they get no value out of playing super safe. The exception to this is if you've lost one or two fights are are now behind, playing safe and waiting for either mistake to be made by them or a gank from your Jungler is the best call.

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When To Roam

Roaming is incredibly powerful, the ability to snowball your allies in multiple lanes can sometimes secure a win for a game. Roaming successfully is dependent on both the ally and the enemy composition, especially for .

To help increasing your chances of successful roams, you'll just need to follow this simple checklist:

▶		Is your ADC/APC relatively safe if you leave them to roam? Will they likely die if you leave them, if so, stay with them.
▶		Does the lane you're roaming to possess either initial CC for you to follow up or the mobility to follow your engage? if not it's probably not worth ganking them as the enemy will be able to escape before you both get on them.
▶		It it actually beneficial to be roaming to this lane? If they're a a champion that wants to passively lane and scale up, roaming to them could potentially backfire and ruin their ability to scale quickly.

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Objectives

Objectives are an incredibly important part of Summoners Rift, they're what can make or break your games. Objectives like / make your pushing power almost unstoppable, the Drakes like make champions themselves a lot stronger with helpful buffs and makes your teamfighting power a truly terrifying sight to see.

It's incredibly important to work with your team to capture these objectives, make sure you're not backing or dying just before an important objective comes up. is incredibly useful in capturing objectives because of how much zoning power and threat she produces due to her strong teamfighting CC.

Baron Nashor

The lovely is an objective that provides a pretty large buff to your entire team and causes any minions you stand near to get significantly stronger in damage and durability. Getting this objective just allows you to push enemy towers without the enemy being able to really stop the waves since the minions are a lot tankier, very useful against a champion like .

Elder Dragon

is the objective you will see least, it only spawns once a team has gained the Elemental Drake Soul which can take a very long time to do. It's for good reason though, the buff it grants causes enemies you hit to gain a true damage DoT, if they're brought below 20% maximum health they're executed. Getting this objective is high priority because it will often lead to the team that gets it winning the game. If the enemy gets it, do not fight them and wait out the buff because you will often just lose the fight if the enemy has it.

Rift Herald

(also known as "Shelly") is the objective that spawns in the 's pit before 20 minutes have passed, meaning it is purely an early-mid game objective but worth mentioning. Killing the will drop , when picked up it will replace your slot and can be used to place a for your team. The will then go to the nearest lane and will charge down any towers it comes into contact with, dealing massive amounts of damage but at the cost of it's own health bar. It's amazing for early game because it can take towers down quickly to cash in on the plates.

Elemental Drakes

The Elemental Drakes of Summoners Rift are incredibly powerful, they have the ability to sway the game in your favour. Each game will have a different order of drakes and choice of map alteration alongside their respective drake souls. Since is played bot lane as a support, you're going to often be there fighting for these drakes in the early game so it's best to understand what they do and whether or not they're worth fighting over.

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Hextech Drake

is a pretty strong drake that causes teleporters to appear on them map, you can very quickly get from one side of the map to the other in little to no time. It's buffs and Soul are pretty strong on since she will always want more ability haste and the chain lightning slow from hitting enemies helps her keep them in , she doesn't however get much use out of the attack speed it grants.

Cloud Drake

is probably one of the least impactful drakes in the game. Don't get me wrong, it's great to have that extra out of combat movement speed (especially for a support like )from it's buff on top of the slow resistance it grants. It just doesn't compare in raw power that the other drakes give, especially it's map change that just grants some areas in the jungle that make you move faster.

Mountain Drake

the best drake for , nothing comes close to the power this drake gives to a tank compared to the other drakes. It's buff gives a percentage buff to your armour and MR, it's Soul grants a shield that remains until broken and regenerates when out of combat. Having another shield on top of your shield makes you incredibly hard to kill alongside those percentage defensive stat buffs.

Ocean Drake

is my favourite drake purely because of how pretty it makes the map, with the rain and lightning sounds making it even better. It provides pretty decent healing that is really strong against poke comps, giving you percentage missing health healing that scales with how many of the drakes you have. The Soul makes you heal and regain mana everytime you hit an enemy, making you pretty difficult to kill when you consider how tanky is.

Infernal Drake

is great for your carries but not really for you, you're not a damage dealer. The Soul isn't very useful for you either as it just provides a burst of damage, something you don't really need to have as . The map removes terrain and bushes within the jungle, making for some interesting new warding spots and flanks.

Teamfighting on Rell

A champion that truly shines in teamfights, it is what makes such a valuable asset to teams. She has so much AoE CC with , and she can lock down entire teams by herself, allowing her team to very easily clean up and kill the entire enemy team.

Something to always remember is that even if you have a rough lane as you can still provide so much impact compared to other engage supports like who will just get blown up if they're behind. You only need to land one good engagement for your team to clean up, you might die for it but you're a support, it's somewhat your job to die for you team.

Identifying Your Teams Strengths

Every game you will have to identify your win conditions for the game, this wont always be your lane partner. You need to identify on your team who will be the right target focus on synergising with, you will usually prefer to fight alongside a than a during a game. Once you've identified your teams carry (or win condition) you will do everything in your power to enable them in teamfights and protect them from dying or setting up an combo for 's or a 's will be what wins you games.

Making An Engagement

As your true strength is making enagements in teamfights because of how strong your and enagement is. The amount of fights you automatically win for just hitting 2-3 people with your combo is just insanely strong, hitting 4-5? thats just a game winning engagement usually with the right follow up.

Making an engagement is dependent on many thing, but the two most important rules are "Do I have my teammates nearby" and "Do they have cooldowns up". You're purely setup as , you have no damage yourself and rely purely on your allies to kill people you engage on. If you engage when no one is nearby or still waiting for important cooldowns you will get absolutely no value out of it and will often die and waste your cooldowns.

I personally try to save my for when objectives are coming up, enemy teams will often funnel onto objectives to contest them and this is where truly shines. It also allows you to make some sneaky plays as you know they will want to contest the objective, allowing you to hide in a nearby bush and make a flank engagement.

Peeling Over Engagement

When you're against enemy comps that will just refuse to let you engage on them (with champions like , and ), it's usually beneficial to just protect your carry instead. Whenever the enemy team jumps onto your carry just dump all of your CC onto the, shutting down an engagement on your carry will mean your carry survives and you now have number advantage. You're also then using your abilities without them being interrupted or nullified, it's a win-win for you and your team. This form of playstyle is best used when you're using the Protection build with and , but isn't compulsory to work.

Counter-Engagement

Sometimes the enemy team wont wait for you to engage on them, they will instead engage on you when they have champions like , , , and similar engage champs. When this happens and peeling isn't an option or beneficial, jumping on their backline (now that their front line is on yours) will usually allow your team to wipe the enemy teams carries. If anything it will delay the carries from getting into the fight, allowing your carries to kill their front line and very easily fight the enemy carries with no interruptions.

Tracking Ally/Enemy Cooldowns

A lot of 's strength is setting up teamfights for your allies to pile on their abilities onto the enemy team, to do this properly you need to make sure you're paying attention to your allies ultimate cooldowns. Imagine making an amazing 5 man engagement but 's isn't up for 7 more seconds, imagine if you'd waited a little longer before burning your !

It's not just abilities and ultimates you need to track, it's important to make sure you're paying attention to when your enemies burned and if you're able to make an aggressive engagment on them. An without or up is as good as dead against with some follow-up. It's important to play smart not hard, use every advantage you can get against your opponents, abusing their cooldowns is one of those things.

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"Guess we're doing this!"

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A more niche mechanic for , buffering abilities is nothing new to league. Many champions are capable of doing this with abilities that have long animations/windups, the application of 's is less useful but still important to know. It can sometimes secure a kill on someone who is about to escape and is out of auto-attack range.

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"I'll fight to the end!"

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This will be the standard combo for in most of the early stages of the game, it's usually best to try and make use of the small animation cancels that are possible with , due to how insanely long her auto-attack windups are.

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"Let's do this for real!"

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The same as the above combo, but with the use of (or if it's up). It allows you to do some pretty undodgeable engagements from the bot side bushes, it's incredibly strong with because they wont expect you engaging from as far as you normally would.

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"Let's crush 'em underhoof!"

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This will be the second most used combo for in the early stages of the game, it's a lot more consistent and cannot be cancelled (amazing against champs like ) but only works on a single target unlike . It's usually best to try and make use of the small animation cancels that are possible with , due to how insanely long her auto-attack windups are.

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"Don't fall behind!"

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The same as the above combo, but with the use of (or if it's up). It allows you to do some pretty undodgeable engagements from the bot side bushes, especially since cannot be cancelled once you've made contact with the enemy.

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"Nobody leaves!"

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You unlock an insane amount of teamfight power once you hit level 6 on and unlock . It's 's most important combo, jumping in and locking down an enemy team to set up your allies abilities, if you have to drop the autos you can, you're not prioritising damage since you're just setting up for your allies now.

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"Do not walk away!"

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The same as the above combo but with the addition of (works with just slower and not as fast). It allows you to extend the range in which you can engage on the enemy, allowing you to make some insanely big engagements because the enemy don't expect your engage range.

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"Iron body, iron will!"

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Example of an combo. This is my favourite part of , it allows you to fish for engages without actually having to commit to a fight by throwing your body into the enemy. You can simply use a short item cooldown, if it hits you can usually just engage straight away with and if it doesn't root them you don't really risk or lose much.

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"This'll shut you up"

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Example of an combo. Simply extends your CC duration by rooting them after you have landed your intial CC with , making escaping your engagements as a hypermobile champion incredibly difficult.

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"Out of my way!"

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Example of an combo. The replay system isn't showing the combo correctly, however it will normally flip the enemy over your shoulders with and you just simply behind you so they land in the root. Makes escaping near enough impossible for the enemy, especially since they can't dodge since it's activated with an auto-attack.

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	Warding is relatively the same for every support champion, I would rather direct you to useful sources of material and guides on warding itself. That way it will be more frequently updated. I will have some Rell specific warding information below though, there isn't enough though to justify a whole section made for it.

Jovy's Warding Guide

I highly recommend checking out this Warding Guide made by the amazing Jovy, everything they make is super high quality, perfectly laid out and incredibly informative. It has everything any support could want for warding!

Mobalytics' Warding Guide

An in-depth but less beginner friendly Warding Guide made and maintained by Mobalytics. It contains a large amount of information but unlike Jovy's guide this is aimed at all lanes not just support, but still useful information.


	Fast Ward Kill


	Rell is incredibly slow at killing Stealth Ward's and even slower at taking Control Ward's, it's painful but there is sometimes a way to speed this up. Since Ferromancy: Mount Up is an auto-attack reset, we can use this to kill wards a lot faster than usual. It's uses are few and it wont happen all that often, but I feel like it's worth mentioning because it happens enough.


	Killing Wards Over Walls


	For a melee champ Rell has a decent auto-attack range, sitting at an impressive 175 range. This range is the threshhold for being able to hit wards over the smaller walls on Summoners Rift, if the ward is close enough to the wall you can position yourself to hit it over the wall.


	Pulling Yourself Over Walls


	Using the information above about hitting wards over smaller wards thanks to our 175 auto-attack range, this can be used to get over some walls. Since Ferromancy: Mount Up will cause her to charge (essentially dash) at the target, this means she can target a wall over a ward in range and get over said wall. This is a lot easier though thanks to the extended range from Ferromancy: Mount Up, bringing Rell up to an impressive auto-attack range of 275. This mechanic also works on a champions, it will however often make you and your target swap places, bringing you over the wall and them to your original location.

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	Janna is honestly one of Rell's worst matchups, even more so with Janna's recent mini-rework that makes her Howling Gale incredibly fast and even faster to recast quickly. On top of this her Monsoon is one of the easier abilities to use to shutdown Rell, you're reliant on getting fed during the laning phase because once she has Monsoon you're reliant on others burning her ultimate cooldown before you can engage. To beat Janna you need to punish every little mistake she makes, it's the only real way to beat her if they're a decent Janna. If they start lane without Howling Gale, force an engage and punish her for it. If they misuse Howling Gale to do anything but cancel Ferromancy - Crash Down, punish it. If Janna's carry walks to far away from her and is in range of your engage, punish it. You have to punish every single mistake in this lane to have a chance, you need to get your carry fed to win. Once she has Monsoon you're not going to be able to engage on her anymore, it's probably the easiest ability to use to cancel a Rell engage due to the size of it's AoE and instantaneous knockback. You either have to play for peel and protect your carry, roam and make plays away from Janna or wait for an ally to engage first to burn her cooldowns.


	Counter Items/Runes



	Janna is an enchanter based around shutting down engage champions like Rell, she comes equipped with knock ups, slows and knockbacks. To help mitigate the slow part of Janna, Unflinching comes in a handy as it provides some decent slow resistance throughout the game, making Zephyr less annoying. Since she can very easily cancel Ferromancy - Crash Down, having both Everfrost and Glacial Augment means you're capable of CCing her without having to commit any of your abilities. This will either force her to Flash, burn her cooldowns or secure her death since she has no mobility and will be caught in a root and slow field. Hextech Flashtraption is a pretty standard rune on Rell because it allows you to close the gap on champions like Janna a lot easier during laning phase, it'll sometimes allow you to engage incredibly quickly so that they have little time to react. Biscuit Delivery is purely to help during the laning phase since Janna is quite a poke heavy champion, plus thanks to all her CC it allows her laner to poke you more frequently.


	Abilities that cancel Crash Down



	Unfortunately Janna has two abilities capable of cancelling our Ferromancy - Crash Down, both of which are incredibly easy and consistent to use against us. Howling Gale is quick moving Tornado that knockups everything in it's path, it can be reactivated very quickly so our slow moving jump is very easy to cancel but you can easily play around this abilities by baiting it out or using Ferromancy: Mount Up. Monsoon however is a major pain in the arse, you can be half asleep as Janna but as long as you save this ability during mid-late teamfights to cancel Rell's engages... then you're winning. It's incredibly fustrating to play against due to how easy it is for the Janna to do, you either want to be the one to bait Monsoon out for your team to then engage or wait for someone on your team to bait it out before engaging.


	Example Lane Engage


	A very useful tip for laning against Janna as Rell is punishing her if she doesn't take Howling Gale level 1, if you see Zephyr floating around her head level 1 then jump on her. Janna is built around cancelling your Ferromancy - Crash Down, if she doesn't have it you can freely jump on her and it will usually result in a kill or them burning Flash. In the clip above we punish her taking Zephyr level 1 and she had to burn Flash, shortly after this clip ends we re-engaged on her and she died because she had no way of escaping or stopping my Ferromancy - Crash Down.

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	Lulu is definitely an interesting champion to fight, she's one of the best enablers in the game, providing buffs and CC from Whimsy, a lot of shielding from Help, Pix! and the ability to increase the health of an ally with Wild Growth. She's incredibly annoying, with a considerable amount of poke in the laning phase but nothing Rell isn't capable of handling. Now, to beat Lulu in lane you'll have to commit to fights pre-6 if you have an early game ADC/APC with you. This is because of how strong Wild Growth is and it's ability to cancel your Ferromancy - Crash Down and provide a large amount of irreducible health to her ally. Since her primary method of protecting her ally is her shield spam from Help, Pix!, make sure you're saving your Shattering Strike to pop them, completely nullifying those shields shuts down such a large portion of Lulu's ability to lane/peel for an ally. Later on in the game her Help, Pix! usually ends up lower cooldown than your Shattering Strike, so try to save it for when it'll actually lead to meaningful damage and not to waste it for the sake of popping a shield for those sweet eternal stacks.


	Counter Items/Runes



	Since one of Lulu's most annoying abilities is a point and click CC in the form of Whimsy, tenacity is always great to take against her. You can gain Tenacity from Mercury's Treads, Unflinching and Legend: Tenacity. Sunfire Aegis also provides Tenacity but, it's far too expensive for a support's measly budget. Lulu is an annoying poke champion due to her Pix, Faerie Companion passive and Glitterlance ability. Which makes runes such as Second Wind and Bone Plating super useful against her. Any way to minimise her poke so you'll be healthy enough to make engages to punish any mistakes from the enemy lane is helpful.


	Abilities that cancel Crash Down



	Thankfully, Lulu only has one ability capable of cancelling our Ferromancy - Crash Down and it's an ultimate, so it wont always be up and in the way of your engages. Try your best to track when she has her ultimate up and either wait out her ultimate to be used for someone else or when she is either CC'd or not in range of her ally.


	Example Lane Engage


	If the above clip is of me jumping over a blast cone and causing the enemy to FF straight after, it means I've not got a clip of this matchup yet! Sadly, I wasn't smart enough to save clips along the way and league is a huge pain when it comes to recording old patches ; o ; Sorry!

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	Senna is a peculiar champion, she's an infinitely scaling marksman, with sustain, mild CC, utility and a global ult capable of damage enemies and shielding allies. Senna is designed to be played as a support, the issue is her performance is less than ideal when paired with a marksman such as her lovely husband Lucian, she wants a tank/bruiser capable of farming and peeling for her while she farms Absolution stacks. Since Senna is a marksman with little to no mobility, this is very easily exploited. You're able to snowball lanes incredibly fast against any Senna that steps up ever so slightly without Flash, making her struggle to farm Absolution stacks easily. Some key things to remind yourself when facing Senna, she provides a decent amount of sustain through Piercing Darkness, so take all-ins over short trades because she will win the poke wars/long game. Upon hitting level 6 and you're engaging on a Senna or her allies, remember to try and save Shattering Strike for her Dawning Shadow, it'll hinder her ability to keep herself or her allies alive during all-ins. Once possible pick up a Bramble Vest, the amount of value you can get out of this item because of incentive to auto you for Absolution stacks. If you're playing against a fasting Senna, respect the fact that if the fellow laner of Senna is capable of peeling for her and cancelling your Ferromancy - Crash Down you have to give up some early fights, letting an infinitely scaling champion get an early lead will cause so many problems for you and your team.


	Counter Items/Runes



	Due to Senna being a poke focused champion, especially during the early game, anything capable of negating poke is incredibly valuable for Rell during this matchup. Bone Plating is a strong choice for negating some of Senna's Absolution damage while poking you for stacks. Second Wind is the better option for when Senna is matched up with another poke orientated champion such as Varus, you'll get more valuable out of it because it has no cooldown. Another option is Biscuit Delivery, it has great sustain for lanes that have extremely heavy poke and has some welcome help for any mana issues you might be facing during the game (due to it increasing your mana cap). Thornmail is probably one of the best items against Senna because it provides armour and health to help increase your survivability against Senna. It also returns damage to any auto-attacks that Rell receives and applies 40% Grevious Wounds to the attacker. Whenever you CC someone (which you have mountains of), you'll apply a 60% Grevious Wounds, making any healing Senna and her team can do minimal. The other two main items that directly counter Senna are Plated Steelcaps and Randuin's Omen, both directly reduce the damage Senna will be outputting by quite large amounts, which becomes incredibly more valuable if she is paired with another marksman or there are others across the lanes. Randuin's Omen can also apply an AoE slow upon activation, which helps lock down an already imobile champion like Senna after you've done your initial engage with Ferromancy - Crash Down


	Example Lane Engage


	If the above clip is of me jumping over a blast cone and causing the enemy to FF straight after, it means I've not got a clip of this matchup yet! Sadly, I wasn't smart enough to save clips along the way and league is a huge pain when it comes to recording old patches ; o ; Sorry!

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	Sona is a relatively easy matchup, she is a walking buff machine. She constantly applies healing and shielding through Aria of Perseverance and movement speed with Song of Celerity. Alongside this she has poke and damage buffs on her Hymn of Valor and a large AoE CC with Crescendo. To beat Sona you just have to punish her whenever she walks a little too far up, she is incredibly immobile and weak early game because she is a scaling champion. I highly recommend taking Hextech Flashtraption into this lane because she will either be in constant danger of death with her Flash down or will be cause both her and the carry to be zoned off the wave. Once she has scaled up you will usually have Thornmail by then and can very easily shutdown most of her healing whenever you engage on the enemy. Alongside your Shattering Strike popping any shields she applies on a target to save them, the only annoying part is she makes her team incredibly fast so your Ferromancy - Crash Down can be more easily avoided without the use of Magnet Storm.


	Counter Items/Runes



	Sona is an enchanter with no real mobility and no self peel outside of her ultimate Crescendo, this means anything that helps you close the gap on her or keep her locked down is incredibly strong against her. Runes like Glacial Augment and Hextech Flashtraption are strong for this reason, helping make sure you can punish her for being a slow walking gold pot early game. She will be poking you for the majority of the laning phase, runes that mitigate the poke like Second Wind or Biscuit Delivery make sure you can stay in lane longer. Being poked out of a lane you can easily engage and punsih misplays on is incredibly annoying, but it's always something that can be mitigated. Rell can already shutdown Sona's shields with her Shattering Strike but to reduce the healing we will need to pick up a Thornmail, this in combination with your kit means you shut down her entire kit.


	Example Lane Engage


	If Sona ever walks up into your Ferromancy - Crash Down range jump onto her, she will either die or will be forced to use her Flash. This clip shows Rell punishing a Sona that got a little too poke and being instanly punished for it.

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	Thank You For Reading!



	To close off the guide, I'd like to thank everyone that helped with the making of this guide. Everyone little bit of advice, feedback and assistance really helped make the guide what it is a reality. As always, like with every guide I've produced, a huge thanks has to be given to Katasandra. My guides would be nowhere near the quality they are without her guidance and help. I'd also like to thank Jovy for the banners she made for this guide, they're absolutely incredible. If you have any feedback, questions or requests for the guide, please feel free to either leave a comment here on the guide or contact me via the MobaFire Discord server, I'm pretty active there!

Guide Achievements

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▶		Lots of clips need adding or replacing
▶		Matchups and Synergies will just take awhile to build up, if you have any specific ones you want let me know
▶		For any spelling/grammar mistakes you spot, please report them to me and I'll get them fixed ASAP.

Change Log

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24th of December 2022

▶		Updating some outdated information, will be back to maintaining the guide now I'm settled in my new job.
▶		Removed all the Turbo Chemtank related information from the guide.
▶		Updated the cheatsheet to reflect this.

8th of September 2022

▶		Updated information in abilities section, since changes to Ferromancy - Crash Down / Mount Up and Full Tilt happened on patch 12.17.
▶		Completely changed the ability skill order because of the changes mentioned above.
▶		Cheatsheet made to reflect the changes.
▶		Updated the "Guide Achivements" section to show off the win (again :D) for a guide contest!

31st of August 2022

▶		Changed all information regarding Winter's Approach because of a bug-fix to Rell's interaction with the item.
▶		Tidied up some information that wasn't phrased clearly.
▶		Small tweaks to some of the formatting in some small sections.

14th of August 2022

▶		Updating some outdated information.
▶		Added more matchups and synergies to the cheatsheet.
▶		Fixed some errors with formatting, now work on different platforms properly rather than imploding on themselves.

15th of June 2022

▶		Changed it to say "Mythic" for the 2 secondary builds you have that only makes use of one mythic
▶		Added notes explaining the choices of the mythics in the Engage build
▶		Changed the title as well from "Final Item: Vigilant Wardstone" to just say "Final Item" for all the builds
▶		Renamed Vigilant Wardstone to Watchful Wardstone
▶		Removed Warmog's Armor
▶		Removed Gargoyle Stoneplate
▶		Removed Abyssal Mask
▶		Removed Silvermere Dawn
▶		Removed Guardian
▶		Moved Fimbulwinter (Rename to Winter's Approach for clarity) into the engage builds
▶		Moved Redemption into Guardian build
▶		Moved Mikael's Blessing into Guardian build
▶		Added notes explaining why W > E > Q max is the best option on cheatsheet
▶		Redone the runes, example runes, items and example builds sections to reflect the above changes.
▶		Finally changed Pro's and Con's to Pros and Cons (Enough people have complained about it now, I'm giving in)
▶		Swapped Locket of the Iron Solari and Turbo Chemtank around in the items section, so they match order of cheatsheet
▶		Added mention of Bulwark of the Mountain into the Relic Shield section
▶		Removed Relic Shield spam from every "example build" section, increase size of icons slightly to better fit the area
▶		Swapped Locket of the Iron Solari and Turbo Chemtank around in the example builds section, so they match order of cheatsheet
▶		Fixed title for the Mobalytics guide says "Jovy's Warding Guide" instead of "Mobalytics' Warding Guide"... whoops >_>

9th of May 2022

▶		Back to updating the guide, stopped playing league for a bit and didn't want to fake-update the guide.
▶		The usual spelling and grammar mistakes I've spotted.
▶		Tidied up some other areas and fixed some small issues!

11th of February 2022

▶		WE WON FIRST PLACE IN THE GUIDE CONTEST FOR SUPPORT, WOOOOOOOOOOO! (Added to the achievements list! :D)
▶		Finally removed a ton of redundent information now that I'm back home, main one being chemtech drake (Good riddance)
▶		Tidied up some other areas and fixed some small issues!

26th of January 2022

▶		Added the Everfrost build into the cheatsheet, item section, example builds and ability useage.
▶		Added new in-guide matchups and synergies.
▶		Fixed a lot of small errors and inconsistencies within the code alongside some spelling/grammar fixes.

20th of January 2022

▶		Updated to patch 12.2, minor changes.
▶		Added new in-guide matchups and synergies.
▶		A complete rehaul to the "Warding" section, some Rell specific ward tricks added.
▶		This changelog was added, yes... the changelog being added is in the changelog.
▶		The usual spelling/grammar fixes.
▶		Guide Achievements section added in the "Conclusion" part of the guide, we got featured recently (thank you!) and wanted to show it off :D


	There is obviously a huge gap here from the creation of the guide to the recent update in the changelog, I originally left out a changelog but recently decided I wanted to add one. Why? because I have the memory of an 81 year old man, having a record of what I've done is useful.

16th of August 2021

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Guide Created

Rell - The Angy Iron Maiden

Rell - The Angy Iron Maiden

Recommended Items

Runes: Standard Runes

Spells:

Flash

Ignite

Exhaust

Flash

Flash

Heal

Items

Ability Order

Break the Mold (PASSIVE)

Shattering Strike (Q)

Ferromancy - Crash Down / Mount Up (W)

Full Tilt (E)

Magnet Storm (R)

Threats & Synergies

Amumu

Alistar

Anivia

Bard

Blitzcrank

Brand

Braum

Galio

Gragas

Janna

Karma

Leona

Lulu

Lux

Maokai

Morgana

Nami

Nautilus

Neeko

Pantheon

Pyke

Poppy

Rakan

Renata Glasc

Senna

Seraphine

Sona

Soraka

Sett

Shaco

Shen

Swain

Tahm Kench

Taric

Thresh

Twitch

Veigar

Vel'Koz

Vex

Xerath

Yuumi

Zilean

Zyra

Aphelios

Ashe

Caitlyn

Draven

Ezreal

Jhin

Jinx

Kai'Sa

Kalista

Karthus

Kog'Maw

Lucian

Miss Fortune

Nilah

Samira

Seraphine

Sivir

Swain