Syndra vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Syndra
based on 2,703 Syndra vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Rakan
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Syndra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several strategic Syndra against Rakan matchup statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Syndra normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Syndra and Rakan
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Who is Better, Syndra or Rakan?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Syndra usually loses when taking on Rakan, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Syndra makes a bad counter for Rakan.
While Syndra does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Syndra also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Syndra into Rakanas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Syndra also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Syndra 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Syndra is a garbage counter to Rakan. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Syndra against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Syndra 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra typically picks up much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Syndra versus Rakan build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Syndra incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better countering Rakan than with most other common item sets. In fact, Syndra had an average win rate of 48.0% battling Rakan with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Rakan as Syndra, Syndra players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Syndra vs Rakan battles, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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