Zac vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Zac
based on 2,465 Zac vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Rakan
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Zac in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some influential Zac vs. Rakan matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Zac often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Rakan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zac and Rakan
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Who is Better, Zac or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zac usually wins when taking on Rakan, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Zac makes a good counter for Rakan.
While Zac does have a higher winrate than Rakan, when on opposite teams, Zac also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zac into Rakanas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zac also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zac vs Rakan matchups, Zac is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zac is a decent counter for Rakan. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zac against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zac in order to counter Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac often accumulates more CS relative to Rakan. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Zac versus Rakan build include Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Zac bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zac boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when countering Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Rakan as Zac, Zac players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Zac vs Rakan LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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