Ahri vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Ahri
based on 3,166 Ahri vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Rakan
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Ahri in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several influential Ahri versus Rakan counter stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Ahri normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Rakan
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Who is Better, Ahri or Rakan?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when taking on Rakan, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Rakan.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to counter Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri most often accumulates much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Ahri versus Rakan build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Ahri incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Rakan than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when countering Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Rakan as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Ahri vs Rakan LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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