Kayle vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Kayle
based on 3,219 Kayle vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Rakan
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Kayle against Rakan counter statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kayle usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Rakan
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Who is Better, Kayle or Rakan?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kayle usually wins when trying to fight Rakan, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Kayle makes a good counter to Rakan.
While Kayle does have a higher winrate than Rakan, when on opposite teams, Kayle also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayle into Rakanas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayle has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Rakan matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a decent counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayle 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle most often accumulates much more CS compared to Rakan. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Kayle versus Rakan build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Rakan than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kayle boasted an average winrate of 52.0% battling Rakan with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Rakan as Kayle, Kayle players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Kayle vs Rakan counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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