Hwei vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Hwei
based on 5,273 Hwei vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hwei vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Hwei vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Hwei
Tips for Playing as Hwei against Rakan
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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.
Hwei vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Hwei in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some influential Hwei against Rakan counter stats that can help you understand the distinctions between this set of champs. Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Hwei often has a much larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hwei and Rakan
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Who is Better, Hwei or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Hwei usually loses when taking on Rakan, with a 45.6% win rate. Therefore, Hwei makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Hwei does have a much lower win rate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Hwei also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hwei into Rakanas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Hwei also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Hwei vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Hwei is a terribly counter to Rakan. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Hwei against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Hwei 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei most often picks up much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Hwei versus Rakan build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Hwei bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better against Rakan than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Hwei had an average win rate of 45.6% when countering Rakan with these items in their kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Rakan as Hwei, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Ghost Poro, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Hwei vs Rakan counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rakan as Hwei are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.