Orianna vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Orianna
based on 1,594 Orianna vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Rakan
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Orianna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several important Orianna vs. Rakan matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Orianna typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Orianna and Rakan
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Who is Better, Orianna or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Orianna usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Orianna makes a poor counter for Rakan.
While Orianna does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Orianna also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Orianna into Rakanas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Orianna 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Orianna is a bad counter to Rakan. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Orianna against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Orianna to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna typically racks up much more CS as Rakan. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Orianna versus Rakan build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Rakan than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 47.1% battling Rakan with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Rakan as Orianna, Orianna players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Orianna vs Rakan battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.1% win rate overall.
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