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The aim, the Riot dev boss says, is to \u201cgive her a more unique identity, and separate her from Leona more. Ideally, Rell is in a place where people who like Leona also want to play Rell. Both are awesome armored tank supports.<\/p>

\u201cRight now, if you like playing Leona, you probably don\u2019t have a good enough reason to also play Rell, and that is something we want to address in a mid-scope update.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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This will include \u201cseparating her from Leona,\u201d champion boss Ryan \u201cReav3\u201d Mireles explained on May 4 and finding a \u201cmore unique identity\u201d for the Iron Maiden. Rell was released in December 2020 and promised to bring another hard-hitting, tanky, engage-heavy support to the League roster. While she found early success off the back of overtuned numbers, Riot devs quickly slapped her with several nerfs to her overall tankiness. The hit dropped her win rate significantly. Since then, Rell has all but disappeared from the League metagame. As of May 4, the Iron Maiden has slipped to a 1.02 percent play rate in competitive League queues, according to stats site Lolalytics. In normal lobbies it gets even worse\u2014the support appears in just 0.8 percent of unranked matches. Her wild slide has made her a \u201chigh priority\u201d for the League dev team. \u201cRell is a champion we\u2019ve talked about as a possible target for a mid-scope update,\u201d Mireles confirmed today. \u201cWe think we could potentially smooth out some of [her] issues with an update like that. We haven\u2019t started work on one yet, but she is a champion we feel is fairly high priority.\u201d The biggest issue, Mireles admits, is she fails to live up to her fantasy. When Rell was still in the development pipeline, the Riot devs dreamed of a new horse-focused character that lost pace when she was dismounted. When Rell hit testing, however, the speed-boost given by her mounted form made her too focused on roaming and took away from the standard bot lane dynamic. It ended up being \u201cunhealthy,\u201d Mireles explained, and the idea was scrapped. Without that fast\/slow gameplay, Rell became more focused on her tanky elements, including providing shields and lengthy survivability. The change steered her more towards a Leona clone, which is eventually how she shipped. \u201cWe need to re-look at her and push power elsewhere,\u201d Mireles said. The aim, the Riot dev boss says, is to \u201cgive her a more unique identity, and separate her from Leona more. Ideally, Rell is in a place where people who like Leona also want to play Rell. Both are awesome armored tank supports. \u201cRight now, if you like playing Leona, you probably don\u2019t have a good enough reason to also play Rell, and that is something we want to address in a mid-scope update.\u201d","apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/04224523\/riot-devs-are-plotting-big-rell-league-of-legends-update-admit-iron-maiden-missed-the-mark-with-release.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587761"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587856,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587761\/revisions\/587856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587761"},{"taxonomy":"invoiceable_action","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/invoiceable_action?post=587761"},{"taxonomy":"internal-label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-label?post=587761"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=587761"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=587761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}