Rakan vs Annie
How to Beat Annie as Rakan
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Rakan vs Annie Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Annie as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Annie
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Advice to Win Against Annie
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Rakan vs Annie Counter Stats
How to Counter Annie with Rakan in LoL
The stats provided here feature several influential Rakan against Annie counter stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Annie’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Annie. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Rakan normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Annie. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rakan and Annie
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Who is Better, Rakan or Annie?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rakan usually loses when facing off against Annie, with a 45.7% win rate. As a result, Rakan makes a poor counter to Annie.
While Rakan does have a much lower winrate compared to Annie, when they face off with one another, Rakan also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Rakan into Annie.
Furthermore, Rakan has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Annie. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Annie matchups, Annie is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Rakan is a bad counter to Annie. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rakan against Annie.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Rakan in order to counter Annie 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Annie. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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 need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Rakan versus Annie build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Chemtech Putrifier, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Rakan included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Annie than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 45.7% when playing against Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Annie as Rakan, Rakan players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Rakan vs Annie fights, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.7% win rate overall.
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