Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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.
The stats shown here emphasize several significant Singed against Rakan counter statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Singed normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Rakan. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Singed usually wins when facing off against Rakan, with a 55.4% win rate. Thus, Singed makes a fantastic counter for Rakan.
While Singed does have a much higher winrate than Rakan, when facing one another, Singed also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Singed into Rakan.
Additionally, Singed has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Singed vs Rakan matchups, Singed is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Singed is a great counter for Rakan. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Singed against Rakan.
If you would like to truly master Singed in order to counter Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed typically picks up much more CS as Rakan. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities 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 case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Singed versus Rakan build include Dead Man's Plate, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Singed bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Rakan than with many other typical builds. In fact, Singed had an average win rate of 55.4% when countering Rakan with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Rakan as Singed, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Singed vs Rakan face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.4% win rate overall.
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