Caitlyn vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Caitlyn
based on 1,871 Caitlyn vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Caitlyn vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn against Rakan
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Caitlyn in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some influential Caitlyn against Rakan counter statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Caitlyn typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Caitlyn and Rakan
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Who is Better, Caitlyn or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Caitlyn usually wins when trying to fight Rakan, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Caitlyn makes a good counter for Rakan.
While Caitlyn does have a higher winrate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Caitlyn also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Caitlyn into Rakan.
Additionally, Caitlyn has almost no amount of utility and CC, 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Rakan matchups, Caitlyn is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Caitlyn is a decent counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Caitlyn against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Caitlyn to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn on average picks up much more CS relative to Rakan. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Caitlyn versus Rakan build include Galeforce, Infinity Edge, and The Collector. When Caitlyn incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Rakan than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Rakan with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Rakan as Caitlyn, Caitlyn players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Caitlyn vs Rakan counters, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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