Blitzcrank vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Blitzcrank
based on 4,659 Blitzcrank vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Blitzcrank vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Blitzcrank vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank against Rakan
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
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.
Blitzcrank vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Blitzcrank in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several influential Blitzcrank against Rakan matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Blitzcrank may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rakan..
Blitzcrank normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Blitzcrank and Rakan
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Who is Better, Blitzcrank or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Blitzcrank usually loses when trying to fight Rakan, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Blitzcrank makes a bad counter to Rakan.
While Blitzcrank does have a lower winrate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Blitzcrank also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Blitzcrank into Rakan.
Moreover, Blitzcrank has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Blitzcrank vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Blitzcrank is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Blitzcrank against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Blitzcrank 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 tips and tricks for 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.
Blitzcrank most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Rakan. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Blitzcrank versus Rakan build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Blitzcrank included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average winrate of 48.9% battling Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Rakan as Blitzcrank, Blitzcrank players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Blitzcrank vs Rakan matchups, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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