Sylas vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Sylas
based on 3,890 Sylas vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Rakan
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several influential Sylas versus Rakan counter stats that can help us interpret the differences between the pair. Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Sylas usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Rakan. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Rakan
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Who is Better, Sylas or Rakan?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sylas usually loses when facing off against Rakan, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Sylas makes a bad counter to Rakan.
While Sylas does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when facing one another, Sylas also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Sylas into Rakan.
Furthermore, Sylas has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Sylas is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sylas against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sylas in order to counter Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas typically accumulates much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Sylas versus Rakan build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Rakan than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average win rate of 48.2% battling Rakan with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Rakan as Sylas, Sylas players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Sylas vs Rakan counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
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