Gwen vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Gwen
based on 2,384 Gwen vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gwen vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Gwen vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Gwen
Tips for Playing as Gwen against Rakan
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Gwen in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some influential Gwen versus Rakan matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences between these two champs. Gwen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Gwen may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Gwen often has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives more damage than Rakan. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gwen and Rakan
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Who is Better, Gwen or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gwen usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 45.3% win rate. As a result, Gwen makes a bad counter for Rakan.
While Gwen does have a much lower win rate than Rakan, when on opposite teams, Gwen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gwen into Rakan.
Moreover, Gwen has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gwen vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Gwen is a trash counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gwen against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gwen in order to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gwen typically accumulates much more CS as Rakan. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Gwen versus Rakan build include Nashor's Tooth, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Riftmaker. When Gwen incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Rakan than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Gwen boasted an average win rate of 45.3% when countering Rakan with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Rakan as Gwen, Gwen players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Gwen vs Rakan LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.3% win rate overall.
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