Heimerdinger vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Heimerdinger
based on 1,502 Heimerdinger vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Rakan
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some influential Heimerdinger vs. Rakan matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Heimerdinger normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Rakan
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Rakan?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rakan, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Heimerdinger makes an ok counter to Rakan.
While Heimerdinger does have a lower winrate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Heimerdinger into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Heimerdinger 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 facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Heimerdinger is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Heimerdinger against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Heimerdinger to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger often accumulates much more CS as Rakan. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Heimerdinger versus Rakan build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Rakan than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 49.9% when playing against Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Rakan as Heimerdinger, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Heimerdinger vs Rakan clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rakan as Heimerdinger are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.