Rek'Sai vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Rek'Sai
based on 609 Rek'Sai vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Rakan Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Rek'Sai Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Rakan as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Rakan
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several strategic Rek'Sai against Rakan counter stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Rek'Sai often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Rakan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Rakan
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Rakan?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rek'Sai usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rakan, with a 50.1% win rate. Therefore, Rek'Sai makes an ok counter for Rakan.
While Rek'Sai does have a higher win rate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Rek'Sai also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rek'Sai into Rakan.
Additionally, Rek'Sai has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Rakan matchups, Rek'Sai is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Rek'Sai is a decent counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rek'Sai against Rakan.
Other Champion Matchups Against Rek'Sai
Additional Information for Rek'Sai Players
How We Calculated Our Rek'Sai vs Rakan Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Rek'Sai in order to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Rakan. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Rek'Sai versus Rakan build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Rakan than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Rek'Sai boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when countering Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Rakan as Rek'Sai, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Rek'Sai vs Rakan matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
If you want to get Rek'Sai versus Rakan tips and counter builds for a a distinct division, feel free to choose one from the selection menu shown above. If viewing for the first time, the stats and guides given are computed using every game with data with these champions.