Ezreal vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Ezreal
based on 6,365 Ezreal vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ezreal vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Ezreal vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Ezreal
Tips for Playing as Ezreal against Rakan
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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.
Ezreal vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Ezreal in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some strategic Ezreal vs. Rakan matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Ezreal’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ezreal may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Ezreal typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ezreal and Rakan
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Who is Better, Ezreal or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ezreal usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 45.2% win rate. As a result, Ezreal makes a bad counter for Rakan.
While Ezreal does have a much lower win rate than Rakan, when on opposite teams, Ezreal also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Ezreal into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Ezreal also has only a small 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 isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Ezreal vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Ezreal is a terribly counter to Rakan. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ezreal against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ezreal in order to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ezreal often picks up much more CS relative to Rakan. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Ezreal versus Rakan build include Muramana, Spear of Shojin, and Essence Reaver. When Ezreal included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Ezreal had an average winrate of 45.2% when countering Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Rakan as Ezreal, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Ezreal vs Rakan face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.2% winrate overall.
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