Aatrox vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Aatrox
based on 5,823 Aatrox vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aatrox vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Aatrox vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Aatrox
Tips for Playing as Aatrox against Rakan
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Win Against Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Aatrox vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Aatrox in LoL
The stats provided here show some important Aatrox vs. Rakan matchup stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Aatrox usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Rakan. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aatrox and Rakan
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Who is Better, Aatrox or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Aatrox usually fairs equally well when taking on Rakan, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Aatrox makes an ok counter to Rakan.
While Aatrox does have a higher winrate than Rakan, when facing one another, Aatrox also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Aatrox into Rakan.
Moreover, Aatrox has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Aatrox is a decent counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Aatrox against Rakan.
Other Champion Matchups Against Aatrox
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How We Calculated Our Aatrox vs Rakan Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox in order to counter Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox often racks up much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Aatrox versus Rakan build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Aatrox combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Rakan as Aatrox, Aatrox players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Aatrox vs Rakan counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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