Kalista vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Kalista
based on 1,096 Kalista vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Rakan
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack 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.
Kalista vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Kalista in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several important Kalista against Rakan matchup stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kalista usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kalista and Rakan
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Who is Better, Kalista or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually loses when trying to fight Rakan, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Kalista makes a bad counter for Rakan.
While Kalista does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when facing one another, Kalista also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kalista into Rakanas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kalista has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kalista 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 late stage team fights.
Kalista is a bad counter for Rakan. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kalista against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kalista to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista often picks up much more CS as Rakan. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Kalista versus Rakan build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Rakan than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 47.1% battling Rakan with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Rakan as Kalista, Kalista players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Kalista vs Rakan counters, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.1% winrate overall.
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