Katarina vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Katarina
based on 4,002 Katarina vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Rakan
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here feature several vital Katarina vs. Rakan matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between the pair. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Rakan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Rakan
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Who is Better, Katarina or Rakan?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when trying to fight Rakan, with a 47.9% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a poor counter for Rakan.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Katarina into Rakanas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina 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 allied champions during team fights.
Katarina is a terribly counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically picks up much more CS relative to Rakan. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Katarina versus Rakan build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Rakan than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 47.9% when countering Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating Rakan as Katarina, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Katarina vs Rakan battles, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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