Tristana vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Tristana
based on 3,485 Tristana vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Rakan
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Tristana in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some significant Tristana against Rakan matchup statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Tristana often has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tristana and Rakan
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Who is Better, Tristana or Rakan?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tristana usually loses when trying to fight Rakan, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Tristana does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Tristana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Tristana into Rakan.
Moreover, Tristana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This 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 Tristana vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Tristana against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Tristana to counter Rakan during both the early game 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 stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana typically racks up much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Tristana versus Rakan build include Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Rakan than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 48.4% battling Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Rakan as Tristana, Tristana players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Tristana vs Rakan fights, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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