Soraka vs Rell Counter Pick

Rell fights at 175 units of attack range against Soraka’s 550, and takes the matchup anyway. Break the Mold is the reason: her attacks and abilities steal armor and magic resistance on hit, eroding exactly the 32 armor and 30 magic resistance Soraka starts with, and her damage is mixed rather than pure, so there is no single resistance to stack in reply. Shattering Strike breaks shields and stuns in a line, Ferromancy: Crash Down knocks enemies up on the dismount, and Magnet Storm drags everything nearby toward her, three separate ways to remove the distance Soraka’s range is supposed to protect.

The numbers underneath are close. Rell holds 620 base health and 2,388 at level 18 against 605 and 2,101, and she is the slower champion at 315 movement speed to 325, though Full Tilt ramps that up for herself and an ally. Astral Infusion costs Soraka her own health to cast, and against a champion who strips resistances every time she connects, the cost compounds through every trade. Wish heals the whole team at once and is still the cleanest reply to a Magnet Storm that has caught two allies, though it does nothing about the resistances already stripped. Across 896 games on patch 16.13.1 Soraka wins 48.3 percent against Rell, a losing figure, but a narrow one, which is why the pairing is graded even rather than hard.