Aurelion Sol vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Aurelion Sol
based on 1,707 Aurelion Sol vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aurelion Sol vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Aurelion Sol vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Aurelion Sol
Tips for Playing as Aurelion Sol against Rakan
You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
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.
Aurelion Sol vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Aurelion Sol in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several vital Aurelion Sol against Rakan matchup statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Aurelion Sol’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aurelion Sol may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Aurelion Sol typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aurelion Sol and Rakan
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Who is Better, Aurelion Sol or Rakan?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aurelion Sol usually loses when trying to fight Rakan, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Aurelion Sol makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Aurelion Sol does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Aurelion Sol also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Aurelion Sol into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aurelion Sol has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Aurelion Sol vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Aurelion Sol is a bad counter for Rakan. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aurelion Sol against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Aurelion Sol in order to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aurelion Sol often gets much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well 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 values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Aurelion Sol versus Rakan build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Void Staff, and Liandry's Torment. When Aurelion Sol incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Rakan than with many other common item sets. In fact, Aurelion Sol boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when countering Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Rakan as Aurelion Sol, Aurelion Sol players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Aurelion Sol vs Rakan counters, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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