Malphite vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Malphite
based on 4,383 Malphite vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malphite vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Malphite vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Malphite
Tips for Playing as Malphite against Rakan
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
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.
Malphite vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Malphite in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some influential Malphite against Rakan counter stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Malphite’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Malphite may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Malphite typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Rakan. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malphite and Rakan
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Who is Better, Malphite or Rakan?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Malphite usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rakan, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Malphite makes an ok counter for Rakan.
While Malphite does have a lower winrate than Rakan, when facing one another, Malphite also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Malphite into Rakan.
Additionally, Malphite also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malphite vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Malphite is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malphite against Rakan.
Other Champion Matchups Against Malphite
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Malphite in order to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malphite most often accumulates much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Malphite versus Rakan build consist of Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Rakan than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when countering Rakan with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Rakan as Malphite, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Malphite vs Rakan counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
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