Bard vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Bard
based on 3,809 Bard vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Rakan
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Bard in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several critical Bard against Rakan counter statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rakan..
Bard usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Rakan
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Who is Better, Bard or Rakan?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Rakan, with a 53.0% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a good counter to Rakan.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Rakan matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Bard is an above average counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Bard against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Rakan. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Bard versus Rakan build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Bard incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Rakan than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 53.0% when countering Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Rakan as Bard, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Bard vs Rakan fights, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.0% win rate overall.
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