Rakan vs Caitlyn
How to Beat Caitlyn as Rakan
based on 10,408 Rakan vs Caitlyn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Caitlyn Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Core Rakan Items
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Guide to Countering Caitlyn as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Caitlyn
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Advice to Win Against Caitlyn
Keep behind allied minions if Caitlyn is harassing you with Piltover Peacemaker (it deals less damage with each subsequent target).
You can intercept Ace in the Hole's missile from hitting an ally if you stand in its path.
Rakan vs Caitlyn Counter Stats
How to Counter Caitlyn with Rakan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several significant Rakan against Caitlyn matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Caitlyn’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Caitlyn. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Rakan typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Caitlyn. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rakan and Caitlyn
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Who is Better, Rakan or Caitlyn?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually fairs equally well when playing against Caitlyn, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Rakan makes an ok counter for Caitlyn.
While Rakan does have a higher winrate than Caitlyn, when facing one another, Rakan also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rakan into Caitlyn.
Additionally, Rakan has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Caitlyn. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Caitlyn matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Rakan is a decent counter to Caitlyn. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rakan against Caitlyn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan to counter Caitlyn during both the early game 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan on average accumulates a lot less CS compared to Caitlyn. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Rakan versus Caitlyn build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Frozen Heart. When Rakan incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Caitlyn than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 50.8% when countering Caitlyn with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Caitlyn as Rakan, Rakan players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Second Wind, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Rakan vs Caitlyn face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
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