Taliyah vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Taliyah
based on 1,359 Taliyah vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Rakan Counter Build
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Core Taliyah Items
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Rakan
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Taliyah in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some vital Taliyah vs. Rakan counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Taliyah often has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Rakan
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually fairs equally well when facing off against Rakan, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Taliyah makes an ok counter to Rakan.
While Taliyah does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Taliyah also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Taliyah into Rakan.
Furthermore, Taliyah has a good amount of utility and CC, 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 is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Taliyah is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Taliyah against Rakan.
Other Champion Matchups Against Taliyah
Additional Information for Taliyah Players
How We Calculated Our Taliyah vs Rakan Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually racks up much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Taliyah versus Rakan build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Taliyah included at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Rakan than with many other typical builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average win rate of 49.5% battling Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Rakan as Taliyah, you should use 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 sets that we analyzed for Taliyah vs Rakan fights, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
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