Kassadin vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Kassadin
based on 1,405 Kassadin vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Rakan
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several important Kassadin versus Rakan counter stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Kassadin usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Rakan. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kassadin and Rakan
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Rakan?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kassadin usually fairs equally well when playing against Rakan, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Kassadin makes an ok counter for Rakan.
While Kassadin does have a lower winrate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Kassadin also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kassadin into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kassadin 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 trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kassadin is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kassadin against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to counter Rakan during both the lane 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin typically accumulates much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Kassadin versus Rakan build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Kassadin used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Rakan than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 49.1% when countering Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Rakan as Kassadin, Kassadin players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Kassadin vs Rakan counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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