Rakan vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Rakan
based on 1,556 Rakan vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Jayce
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Advice to Win Against Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Rakan vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Rakan in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some valuable Rakan against Jayce counter stats that may help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jayce’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Jayce. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Rakan often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Jayce. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rakan and Jayce
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Who is Better, Rakan or Jayce?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually wins when facing off against Jayce, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Rakan makes a good counter for Jayce.
While Rakan does have a higher winrate than Jayce, when facing one another, Rakan also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rakan into Jayce.
Furthermore, Rakan has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jayce. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Jayce matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Rakan is a decent counter to Jayce. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Rakan against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan to counter Jayce during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Jayce. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Rakan versus Jayce build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Jayce than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 51.7% when countering Jayce with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Jayce as Rakan, Rakan players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Rakan vs Jayce matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.7% win rate overall.
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