Rakan vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Rakan
based on 1,096 Rakan vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Rakan vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Rakan in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some influential Rakan versus Kalista matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Rakan typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rakan and Kalista
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Who is Better, Rakan or Kalista?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Rakan makes a good counter for Kalista.
While Rakan does have a higher win rate than Kalista, when on opposite teams, Rakan also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Rakan into Kalista.
Moreover, Rakan has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Kalista matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Rakan is an above average counter for Kalista. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rakan against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan most often accumulates a lot less CS as Kalista. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Rakan versus Kalista build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Kalista than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 52.9% battling Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Kalista as Rakan, Rakan players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Rakan vs Kalista clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kalista as Rakan are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.