Azir vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Azir
based on 1,862 Azir vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Rakan
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Azir in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some valuable Azir against Rakan matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between this pair of champions. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Azir often has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Rakan
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Who is Better, Azir or Rakan?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually wins when trying to fight Rakan, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a good counter for Rakan.
While Azir does have a higher winrate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Azir into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Rakan matchups, Azir is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Azir is an above average counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Azir to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average accumulates much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Azir versus Rakan build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Rakan than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 52.6% when playing against Rakan with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Rakan as Azir, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Azir vs Rakan counters, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.6% win rate overall.
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