Rakan vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Rakan
based on 3,219 Rakan vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Kayle Counter Build
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Core Rakan Items
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Rakan vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Rakan in LoL
The stats provided here feature several vital Rakan against Kayle counter statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kayle. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Rakan often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kayle. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rakan and Kayle
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Who is Better, Rakan or Kayle?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually loses when taking on Kayle, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Rakan makes a poor counter to Kayle.
While Rakan does have a lower winrate than Kayle, when they face off with one another, Rakan also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Rakan into Kayle.
Moreover, Rakan has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Rakan is a trash counter for Kayle. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rakan against Kayle.
Other Champion Matchups Against Rakan
Additional Information for Rakan Players
How We Calculated Our Rakan vs Kayle Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan to counter Kayle during both the laning 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 mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan often gets a lot less CS relative to Kayle. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Rakan versus Kayle build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Kayle than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 48.0% when countering Kayle with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Kayle as Rakan, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Rakan vs Kayle battles, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kayle as Rakan are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.