Naafiri vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Naafiri
based on 1,327 Naafiri vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Rakan
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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.
Naafiri vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Naafiri in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several strategic Naafiri against Rakan counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Naafiri normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their foe does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Rakan. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Naafiri and Rakan
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually loses when taking on Rakan, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes a poor counter for Rakan.
While Naafiri does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Naafiri also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Naafiri into Rakan.
Additionally, Naafiri has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Naafiri is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Naafiri against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri 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 mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri typically accumulates much more CS as Rakan. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Naafiri versus Rakan build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when fighting Rakan than with most other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 48.4% battling Rakan with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Rakan as Naafiri, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Naafiri vs Rakan face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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