Cassiopeia vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Cassiopeia
based on 1,126 Cassiopeia vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cassiopeia vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Cassiopeia vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Cassiopeia
Tips for Playing as Cassiopeia against Rakan
Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
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.
Cassiopeia vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Cassiopeia in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Cassiopeia against Rakan counter statistics that may help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Cassiopeia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Cassiopeia often has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Rakan. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Cassiopeia and Rakan
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Who is Better, Cassiopeia or Rakan?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Cassiopeia usually wins when taking on Rakan, with a 52.0% win rate. Therefore, Cassiopeia makes a good counter for Rakan.
While Cassiopeia does have a higher winrate than Rakan, when facing one another, Cassiopeia also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Cassiopeia into Rakanas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Cassiopeia also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Cassiopeia vs Rakan matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Cassiopeia is a decent counter to Rakan. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Cassiopeia against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Cassiopeia in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cassiopeia often accumulates much more CS compared to Rakan. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Cassiopeia versus Rakan build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Cassiopeia used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Rakan than with most other common item sets. In fact, Cassiopeia had an average win rate of 52.0% when countering Rakan with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Rakan as Cassiopeia, Cassiopeia players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Cassiopeia vs Rakan counters, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Rakan as Cassiopeia are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.