Chaaaaaaaarge!!! can be cast at a great range. Try and predict where the enemy team will be by the time you reach them.
The last hit of Violent Tendencies deals more damage than the first three - make sure you hit it!
Kled generates some courage by killing minions, but gets much more from fighting Champions.
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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several strategic Kled vs. Rakan counter stats that may help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Kled’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kled may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Kled typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Rakan. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kled usually fairs equally well when playing against Rakan, with a 50.2% win rate. As a result, Kled makes an ok counter for Rakan.
While Kled does have a higher win rate compared to Rakan, when on opposite teams, Kled also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kled into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kled has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kled vs Rakan matchups, Kled is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kled is a decent counter for Rakan. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kled against Rakan.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kled in order to counter Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kled most often accumulates much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Kled versus Rakan build include Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Kled bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Rakan than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Kled had an average winrate of 50.2% when countering Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Rakan as Kled, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Kled vs Rakan clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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