K'Sante vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as K'Sante
based on 1,835 K'Sante vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Rakan
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with K'Sante in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some significant K'Sante versus Rakan counter stats that can help you realize the differences between this set of champions. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
K'Sante typically has a much larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Rakan. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Rakan
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when facing off against Rakan, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking K'Sante into Rakanas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, K'Sante also has some 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 isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
K'Sante is a terribly counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master K'Sante 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante most often racks up much more CS compared to Rakan. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Rakan build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When K'Sante bought at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better vs Rakan than with many other typical builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 46.3% when countering Rakan with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Rakan as K'Sante, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for K'Sante vs Rakan LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.3% win rate overall.
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