Rakan vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Rakan
based on 3,524 Rakan vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Rakan vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Rakan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some critical Rakan vs. Lee Sin matchup statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lee Sin. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Rakan often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Lee Sin. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rakan and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Rakan or Lee Sin?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rakan usually wins when taking on Lee Sin, with a 53.7% win rate. Therefore, Rakan makes a great counter for Lee Sin.
While Rakan does have a higher winrate compared to Lee Sin, when they face off with one another, Rakan also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Rakan into Lee Sin.
Moreover, Rakan has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Lee Sin 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 team members during team fights.
Rakan is a great counter for Lee Sin. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Rakan against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rakan to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Lee Sin. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Rakan versus Lee Sin build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Lee Sin than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 53.7% when playing against Lee Sin with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Lee Sin 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 sets players picked for Rakan vs Lee Sin counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.7% winrate overall.
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