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Don't get me wrong, I love this champion!

Her design is amazing, her personality, her idea, voice lines, lore... Everything with this champion resonates within me.

That is, with the exception of her kit. What is up with that? For every single one of her common abilities, there is a downside to it.

She steals Armor and Magic Resistance with her passive! But her attack speed is RIDICULOUSLY low. You'll take about 5 minutes to actually break down that pink ward! Even Jhin and Graves are envious;;

She'll deal damage on a straight line, and heal a friendly champion in the process! Except she need's to be connected through her E abilility, plus her heal is only noticeable if your ally in on the brink of death;

She'll engage with an amazing area, and gain a shield in the process. But her movement speed goes down to 200. No seriously, she becomes a living turtle. Good luck keeping the chase on that ranged ADC!

Her E is a nice Armor and Magic Resistance boost to you and an ally. Plus, a great stun, comparable to Irelia's. However you can't switch your ally quickly in the brink of the fray, and even if you place your E, you still got to wait for it's cooldown to pop it, and by then, everything is already in another position. Have I even mentioned that it only works IF an ally is nearby, otherwise it is a dead ability?

Her ult is the only part of her kit with no downsides, and it is pretty impactful. If everything aligns together.

Well, despite this, the champion is impactful, if your ally knows how to work with her. However I do still think she is quite undertuned, specially compared with other modern champion and reworks. There's too many hoops to go through, and you're covered in clad iron.

I'm bringing this post in order to listen to the community in respect to her. I'd like to know how (if) you guys play her, and why you do, or do not do so. Please share your opnion :)

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over 2 years ago - /u/Reav3 - Direct link

Rell is a Champion we talk about as a possible target for a midscope update, similar to what we have recently done with Swain/Olaf/Taliyah. We think we could potentially smooth out some of the issues brought up in this thread with a update like that. We haven't started work on one yet, but she is a Champion we feel is fairly high priority.

over 2 years ago - /u/Reav3 - Direct link

Originally posted by Braxenionuwu

Nice, I really love Rell as a concept! Tho gameplay is kind of really weird. Are you planning on releasing a poke support champ?

What do u mean poke support? Like a ranged Support?

over 2 years ago - /u/Reav3 - Direct link

Originally posted by Evelynn_lover

Hi reav3 I want to ask you a question while I saw you online, does the champion team decide who gets asu, and is asu included in the champion rankings that will come out this year, for example; jungler>melee adc> udyr> asu? :> I would be very grateful if you reply. because there are rumors/misunderstandings that we will get a 2nd asu this year.

No, ASUs are chosen and handles by PIE (The Personalization team) I don't speak for other teams so you would have to talk to someone from that team if you want details on how they choose

over 2 years ago - /u/Reav3 - Direct link

Originally posted by bz6

Call me dumb boss /u/Reav3, but I don't see a problem with Rell. I just feel her defensive stat 'stealing' mechanic could use a bit more umph. I love the champ truly. She is exactly what a tank should be, tons of CC with minimal damage.

I personally think we missed the mark on her fantasy. When we were in early development she was a really interesting a cool champion. When she was on her horse she was like REALLY fast, and then she was really slow when on the ground. As we started to balance the champ much later in development we found that her speed in her horse form would cause her optimal play to constantly leave her lane partner behind and just roam the whole game. It ended up being a pretty unhealthy play pattern so we had to nerf her horse movement speed to the point that her unique gameplay identity kind of disappeared. Now she is just regular speed on the horse and super slow armored, so she doesn't really get the super fast horse rider power fantasy tradeoff for being slow the other half of the time.

I think we probably need to re look at her and see if we can push her power elsewhere (not in roaming power) in a way that could give her a more unique identity and separate her from Leona more. Ideally Rell is in a place where people that like Leona also want to play Rell. Both are awesome armored tank supports. Right now if you like Leona you probably don't have a good reason to also play Rell and that is something we would want to address in a mid scope

over 2 years ago - /u/Reav3 - Direct link

Originally posted by Spideraxe30

Have mid scope updates dramatically increased the amount of popularity/engagement of champs so far, they certainly feel better, but do the stats back it up?

Not dramatically, but we do see bumps in engagement from them

https://imgur.com/a/QEKKUVs