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Rakan vs K'Sante

How to Beat K'Sante as Rakan in LoLRakan is in the a tier of champions
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TankFighter

How to Beat K'Sante as Rakan

based on 1,835 Rakan vs K'Sante matchups
Win Rate
53.7 %
K/D/A
3.13
Pick Rate
1.7 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

At MOBA Champion, we analyze millions of recently ranked League of Legends matches each week. In our dataset, Rakan fought K'Sante 1835 times. With so many games with Rakan versus K'Sante provides us confidence in our capability to provide informative statistics and a recommended build to obliterate your enemy. This matchup is fairly rare. Rakan encounters K'Sante in only 1.7% of his rounds.

Rakan vs K'Sante Matchup Summary

Rakan has done a good job of beating K'Sante. On average, he wins a terrific 53.7% of the time the champions fight each other in. In Rakan against K'Sante matches, Rakan’s side is 0.1% more expected to gain first blood. This indicates that he most likely will get first blood versus K'Sante.

Best Rakan vs K'Sante Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionWorld Atlas

Early Items

~5 Mins
BootsWinged Moonplate

Core Rakan Items

~22 Mins
TrailblazerZeke's ConvergenceCelestial Opposition

Optional Items

Knight's VowFrozen HeartLocket of the Iron SolariSolstice Sleigh

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Rakan to level upw
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Second ability for Rakan to level upe
>
Last skill for Rakan to max outq

Runes

ResolveGuardianFont of LifeBone PlatingUnflinching
DominationZombie WardUltimate Hunter
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceArmor
Rakan's passive ability p
Rakan's q ability q
Rakan's w ability w
Rakan's e ability e
Rakan's ultimate ability r
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E
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Q
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W
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W
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Rakan

Tips for Playing as Rakan against K'Sante

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 K'Sante

Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.

Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.

Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.

Rakan vs K'Sante Counter Stats

Rakan Image
Win Rate
53.7 %
VS
Win Rate
46.3 %
K'Sante Image
1.5
< Kills >
4.7
5.3
< Deaths >
5.4
15.1
< Assists >
6.6
0.25
< Killing Sprees >
1.07
31
< Minions Killed >
173
0.03
< Dragons Killed >
0.04
0.51
< Inhibitors >
0.42
1,251
< Physical Damage >
14,156
4,876
< Magic Damage >
3,508
773
< True Damage >
1,587
6,902
< Damage Dealt >
19,253
20,081
< Damage Taken >
30,466
8,259
< Gold Earned >
10,915
1.85
< Towers >
2.12
0.01
< Baron Takedowns >
0.01
6,192
< Total Healing >
4,850
10,251
< Experience >
14,623
68
< Vision Score >
16
33
< Wards Placed >
8
168
< Time Dealing CC >
1,057

How to Counter K'Sante with Rakan in LoL

The stats provided here emphasize some significant Rakan versus K'Sante matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than K'Sante. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.

Rakan usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than K'Sante. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.

Differences between Rakan and K'Sante

Damage Types Compared

Rakan
K'Sante
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Rakan
K'Sante

Who is Better, Rakan or K'Sante?

Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually wins when trying to fight K'Sante, with a 53.7% win rate. Therefore, Rakan makes a great counter for K'Sante.

While Rakan does have a higher win rate than K'Sante, when facing one another, Rakan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Rakan into K'Sante.

Additionally, Rakan has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.

While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Rakan vs K'Sante matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.

Rakan is a great counter to K'Sante. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Rakan against K'Sante.

Other Champion Matchups Against Rakan

Rakan Loses Against

LilliaLillia43.9% winrateSingedSinged44.6% winrateSwainSwain45.1% winrateTaricTaric45.9% winrate

Rakan Wins Against

NidaleeNidalee59% winrateYuumiYuumi58.4% winrateSejuaniSejuani56.4% winrateKennenKennen55.1% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

BrandBrand+ 54.7% 3868 GamesSwainSwain+ 54.7% 1847 GamesVel'KozVel'Koz+ 55.2% 817 GamesLilliaLillia+ 55.6% 6914 Games

Additional Information for Rakan Players

How We Calculated Our Rakan vs K'Sante Build and Stats

For this guide on countering K'Sante as Rakan, we analyzed 1,835 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter K'Sante as Rakan comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

Other Useful Resources

Rakan Build K'Sante Build

Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to counter K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Rakan typically racks up a lot less CS compared to K'Sante. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.

The most important items to focus on in your Rakan versus K'Sante build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Celestial Opposition. When Rakan bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. K'Sante than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 53.7% when playing against K'Sante with this counter build.

To have the best probability of defeating K'Sante as Rakan, you should equip 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 sets we have analyed for Rakan vs K'Sante LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.7% win rate overall.

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