Gangplank vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Gangplank
based on 1,632 Gangplank vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gangplank vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Gangplank vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Gangplank against Rakan
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
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.
Gangplank vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Gangplank in LoL
The stats provided here show several vital Gangplank vs. Rakan matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Gangplank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gangplank may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Gangplank often has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Rakan. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gangplank and Rakan
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Who is Better, Gangplank or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gangplank usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Gangplank makes a bad counter to Rakan.
While Gangplank does have a lower winrate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Gangplank also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gangplank into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gangplank 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gangplank vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Gangplank is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Gangplank against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gangplank to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gangplank typically gets much more CS compared to Rakan. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Gangplank versus Rakan build consist of Bloodthirster, Essence Reaver, and The Collector. When Gangplank used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gangplank had an average win rate of 48.3% battling Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Rakan as Gangplank, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Gangplank vs Rakan fights, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
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