Nasus vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Nasus
based on 3,126 Nasus vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Rakan
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Nasus in LoL
The stats provided here feature some critical Nasus against Rakan counter stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nasus normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Rakan. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Rakan
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Who is Better, Nasus or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rakan, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes an ok counter for Rakan.
While Nasus does have a higher winrate than Rakan, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Rakan.
Additionally, Nasus also has almost no 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Rakan matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nasus is a decent counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nasus in order to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average gets much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nasus versus Rakan build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Rakan than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 50.6% battling Rakan with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Rakan as Nasus, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Nasus vs Rakan LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rakan as Nasus are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.