Veigar vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Veigar
based on 3,561 Veigar vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Rakan
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some valuable Veigar versus Rakan counter stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Veigar usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Rakan
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Who is Better, Veigar or Rakan?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rakan, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes an ok counter to Rakan.
While Veigar does have a lower winrate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You should be careful when picking Veigar into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Veigar 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 trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar usually racks up much more CS relative 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. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Rakan build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cryptbloom, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Rakan than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 49.0% battling Rakan with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Rakan as Veigar, you should equip 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 runes players picked for Veigar vs Rakan matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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