Rakan vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Rakan
based on 4,383 Rakan vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Rakan vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Rakan in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several valuable Rakan against Malphite counter stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malphite. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Rakan normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Malphite. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rakan and Malphite
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Who is Better, Rakan or Malphite?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rakan usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Malphite, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Rakan makes an ok counter to Malphite.
While Rakan does have a higher winrate than Malphite, when on opposite teams, Rakan also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Rakan into Malphite.
Furthermore, Rakan also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malphite. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Malphite matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Rakan is a decent counter to Malphite. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Rakan against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to counter Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should 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 Malphite. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Rakan versus Malphite build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Rakan combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Malphite than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 50.5% battling Malphite with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Malphite as Rakan, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Rakan vs Malphite counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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