Annie vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Annie
based on 1,787 Annie vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Annie vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Annie vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Annie
Tips for Playing as Annie against Rakan
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Annie in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several strategic Annie vs. Rakan matchup stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Annie’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Annie may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Annie typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Annie and Rakan
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Who is Better, Annie or Rakan?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Annie usually fairs equally well when facing off against Rakan, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Annie makes an ok counter for Rakan.
While Annie does have a lower winrate than Rakan, when on opposite teams, Annie also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Annie into Rakan.
Furthermore, Annie also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Annie 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Annie is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Annie against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Annie to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Annie most often gets much more CS relative to Rakan. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Annie versus Rakan build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Annie combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Rakan than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 49.2% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Rakan as Annie, Annie players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Annie vs Rakan matchups, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Rakan as Annie are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.