Lee Sin vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Lee Sin
based on 3,524 Lee Sin vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Rakan
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Lee Sin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several important Lee Sin against Rakan counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Lee Sin usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Rakan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lee Sin and Rakan
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Rakan?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, Lee Sin makes a bad counter for Rakan.
While Lee Sin does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Lee Sin also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Lee Sin into Rakan.
Moreover, Lee Sin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lee Sin 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 teammates during team fights.
Lee Sin is a garbage counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lee Sin against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to counter Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Rakan. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Lee Sin versus Rakan build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Rakan than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 46.3% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Rakan as Lee Sin, Lee Sin players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Lee Sin vs Rakan fights, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.3% win rate overall.
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