Akshan vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Akshan
based on 2,041 Akshan vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Rakan
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Akshan in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several significant Akshan versus Rakan matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Akshan normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Rakan
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Who is Better, Akshan or Rakan?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 45.9% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a bad counter to Rakan.
While Akshan does have a much lower win rate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Akshan into Rakan.
Moreover, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Akshan is a bad counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan most often racks up much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Akshan versus Rakan build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Akshan incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better countering Rakan than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 45.9% when countering Rakan with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Rakan as Akshan, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Akshan vs Rakan LoL games, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.9% winrate overall.
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