Jayce vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Jayce
based on 1,556 Jayce vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jayce vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Rakan
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Jayce in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some influential Jayce vs. Rakan matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Jayce typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Jayce and Rakan
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Who is Better, Jayce or Rakan?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jayce usually loses when taking on Rakan, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Jayce makes a bad counter to Rakan.
While Jayce does have a lower winrate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Jayce also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Jayce into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Jayce also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jayce vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Jayce is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Jayce against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Jayce in order to counter Rakan during both the laning 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 stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce on average accumulates much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Jayce versus Rakan build include Muramana, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Jayce included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Rakan than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Jayce boasted an average win rate of 48.3% when countering Rakan with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Rakan as Jayce, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Jayce vs Rakan face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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