Brand vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Brand
based on 6,073 Brand vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Rakan
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Brand in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some important Brand vs. Rakan matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Brand often has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Rakan. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Rakan
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Who is Better, Brand or Rakan?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when facing off against Rakan, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a good counter to Rakan.
While Brand does have a higher win rate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Brand also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Rakan.
Furthermore, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Rakan matchups, Brand is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Brand is an above average counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Brand against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand in order to counter Rakan during both the lane 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 displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand typically accumulates more CS as Rakan. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Brand versus Rakan build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Brand used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Rakan than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 52.1% when playing against Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Rakan as Brand, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Brand vs Rakan counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.1% win rate overall.
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