Akali vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Akali
based on 6,866 Akali vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Rakan
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Akali in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several valuable Akali versus Rakan matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Akali normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Rakan. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Rakan
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Who is Better, Akali or Rakan?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akali usually fairs equally well when playing against Rakan, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Akali makes an ok counter for Rakan.
While Akali does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Akali into Rakanas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Akali vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akali against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali often gets much more CS relative to Rakan. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Akali versus Rakan build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Shadowflame. When Akali bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Rakan than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 49.0% battling Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Rakan as Akali, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Akali vs Rakan battles, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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