Pyke vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Pyke
based on 4,705 Pyke vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Rakan
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
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.
Pyke vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Pyke in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several strategic Pyke against Rakan matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Pyke normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pyke and Rakan
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Who is Better, Pyke or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually loses when taking on Rakan, with a 46.6% win rate. Therefore, Pyke makes a poor counter for Rakan.
While Pyke does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Pyke also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Pyke into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Pyke also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Pyke is a terribly counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pyke 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Rakan. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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 several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Pyke versus Rakan build include Bloodsong, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Pyke used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Rakan than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 46.6% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Rakan as Pyke, Pyke players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Ingenious Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Pyke vs Rakan matchups, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.6% winrate overall.
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