Nilah vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Nilah
based on 1,775 Nilah vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nilah vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Nilah vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Nilah
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.
Nilah vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Nilah in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several valuable Nilah against Rakan counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nilah often has a much larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. On average, they takes more damage than Rakan. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nilah and Rakan
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Who is Better, Nilah or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nilah usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rakan, with a 50.1% win rate. Thus, Nilah makes an ok counter to Rakan.
While Nilah does have a higher winrate compared to Rakan, when on opposite teams, Nilah also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nilah into Rakanas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nilah has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Rakan matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nilah is a decent counter for Rakan. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nilah against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nilah to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah often gets much more CS as Rakan. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nilah versus Rakan build consist of Immortal Shieldbow, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Nilah included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better countering Rakan than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nilah had an average winrate of 50.1% battling Rakan with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Rakan as Nilah, Nilah players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nilah vs Rakan counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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