Rakan vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Rakan
based on 1,126 Rakan vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Rakan vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Rakan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some strategic Rakan vs. Cassiopeia matchup stats that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Cassiopeia. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Rakan typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Cassiopeia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rakan and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Rakan or Cassiopeia?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually loses when trying to fight Cassiopeia, with a 48.0% win rate. As a result, Rakan makes a bad counter to Cassiopeia.
While Rakan does have a lower winrate than Cassiopeia, when they face off with one another, Rakan also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Rakan into Cassiopeia.
Moreover, Rakan also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Rakan is a garbage counter to Cassiopeia. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rakan against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rakan to counter Cassiopeia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan often picks up a lot less CS as Cassiopeia. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Rakan versus Cassiopeia build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Cassiopeia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 48.0% battling Cassiopeia with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Cassiopeia as Rakan, Rakan players should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Rakan vs Cassiopeia LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.0% win rate overall.
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