Lissandra vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Lissandra
based on 1,560 Lissandra vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Rakan
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Lissandra in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Lissandra versus Rakan matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Lissandra often has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lissandra and Rakan
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Lissandra usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rakan, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Lissandra makes an ok counter for Rakan.
While Lissandra does have a higher win rate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Lissandra also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Lissandra into Rakan.
Furthermore, Lissandra has a good 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Rakan matchups, Lissandra is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Lissandra is a decent counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Lissandra against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lissandra in order to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra typically racks up much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Lissandra versus Rakan build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Lissandra used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Rakan than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 50.3% when playing against Rakan with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Rakan as Lissandra, Lissandra players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Lissandra vs Rakan counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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