Rengar vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Rengar
based on 4,201 Rengar vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rengar vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Rengar vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Rengar
Tips for Playing as Rengar against Rakan
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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.
Rengar vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Rengar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some vital Rengar versus Rakan matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Rengar normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Rakan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rengar and Rakan
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Who is Better, Rengar or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rengar usually loses when facing off against Rakan, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Rengar makes a poor counter for Rakan.
While Rengar does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Rengar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Rengar into Rakanas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Rengar also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rengar vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Rengar is a bad counter for Rakan. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rengar against Rakan.
Other Champion Matchups Against Rengar
Additional Information for Rengar Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rengar to counter Rakan 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 displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Rakan. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Rengar versus Rakan build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Rengar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Rakan than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Rengar had an average win rate of 47.7% when countering Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Rakan as Rengar, Rengar players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rengar vs Rakan LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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