Nunu & Willump vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Nunu & Willump
based on 2,606 Nunu & Willump vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Rakan
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
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.
Nunu & Willump vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Nunu & Willump vs. Rakan counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nunu & Willump normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Rakan. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually fairs equally well when taking on Rakan, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Nunu & Willump makes an ok counter for Rakan.
While Nunu & Willump does have a higher winrate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Nunu & Willump into Rakan.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Rakan matchups, Nunu & Willump is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a decent counter for Rakan. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Rakan. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Rakan build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 50.4% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Rakan as Nunu & Willump, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Nunu & Willump vs Rakan battles, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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