Alistar vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Alistar
based on 2,311 Alistar vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Rakan Counter Build
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Core Alistar Items
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Rakan
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several important Alistar against Rakan counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan..
Alistar typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Rakan. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Rakan
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Who is Better, Alistar or Rakan?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rakan, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes an ok counter to Rakan.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate than Rakan, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar 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 teamfights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Rakan. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Rakan build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Rakan than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 49.5% when countering Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Rakan as Alistar, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Alistar vs Rakan counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
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