Kai'Sa vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Kai'Sa
based on 5,063 Kai'Sa vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Rakan
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several influential Kai'Sa versus Rakan matchup statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Rakan
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Rakan?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 45.2% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower win rate than Rakan, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kai'Sa into Rakan.
Additionally, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa 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 team members during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a garbage counter to Rakan. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Rakan.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kai'Sa
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kai'Sa to counter Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa typically picks up much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Rakan build include Guardian Angel, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average win rate of 45.2% battling Rakan with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Rakan as Kai'Sa, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Kai'Sa vs Rakan counters, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.2% win rate overall.
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