Kindred vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Kindred
based on 2,222 Kindred vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Rakan
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Kindred in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some important Kindred versus Rakan matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Kindred typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their foe does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Rakan. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kindred and Rakan
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Who is Better, Kindred or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kindred usually loses when trying to fight Rakan, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Kindred makes a bad counter for Rakan.
While Kindred does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when on opposite teams, Kindred also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kindred into Rakan.
Additionally, Kindred has almost no amount of utility and CC, 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kindred is a garbage counter for Rakan. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kindred against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kindred in order to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred often gets a similar amount of CS as Rakan. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Kindred versus Rakan build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred incorporated at least these three items in their build, they performed much better vs Rakan than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kindred boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when countering Rakan with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Rakan as Kindred, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Kindred vs Rakan counters, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.7% winrate overall.
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