Elise vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Elise
based on 871 Elise vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Rakan
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Elise in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some vital Elise vs. Rakan matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Elise often has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Rakan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Elise and Rakan
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Who is Better, Elise or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Elise usually loses when facing off against Rakan, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Elise makes a bad counter to Rakan.
While Elise does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when facing one another, Elise also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Elise into Rakanas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Elise has almost no 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Elise 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Elise is a trash counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Elise against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Elise to counter Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Rakan. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Elise versus Rakan build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Rakan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Elise had an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Rakan as Elise, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Elise vs Rakan counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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