Rakan vs Vex
How to Beat Vex as Rakan
based on 2,127 Rakan vs Vex matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Vex Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Vex Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vex as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Vex
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.
Rakan vs Vex Counter Stats
How to Counter Vex with Rakan in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several influential Rakan against Vex counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vex’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Vex. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Rakan normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Vex. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Rakan or Vex?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually wins when playing against Vex, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Rakan makes a good counter to Vex.
While Rakan does have a higher win rate than Vex, when they face off with one another, Rakan also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rakan into Vex.
Additionally, Rakan also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vex. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Vex matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Rakan is a decent counter to Vex. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Rakan against Vex.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to counter Vex 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 shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan often racks up a lot less CS as Vex. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Rakan versus Vex build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Vex than with many other common builds. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 51.2% when playing against Vex with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Vex as Rakan, Rakan players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Rakan vs Vex counters, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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