Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
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 highlight some significant Twitch against Rakan matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Twitch’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Twitch may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Twitch usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Twitch usually loses when facing off against Rakan, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Twitch makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Twitch does have a lower winrate compared to Rakan, when on opposite teams, Twitch also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Twitch into Rakan.
Additionally, Twitch also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Twitch 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 allies during team fights.
Twitch is a trash counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Twitch against Rakan.
To truly master Twitch in order to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Twitch most often picks up much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Twitch versus Rakan build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Twitch combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Rakan than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Twitch boasted an average win rate of 47.4% when playing against Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Rakan as Twitch, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Twitch vs Rakan counters, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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