Rakan vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Rakan
based on 1,560 Rakan vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Rakan vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Rakan in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some important Rakan against Lissandra matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between the pair. Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lissandra. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Rakan usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rakan and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Rakan or Lissandra?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually fairs equally well when playing against Lissandra, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Rakan makes an ok counter to Lissandra.
While Rakan does have a lower win rate compared to Lissandra, when on opposite teams, Rakan also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Rakan into Lissandra.
Furthermore, Rakan has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra 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 somewhat poor counter for Lissandra. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Rakan against Lissandra.
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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 Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan usually picks up a lot less CS as Lissandra. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Rakan versus Lissandra build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Lissandra than with many other common item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 49.7% when countering Lissandra with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Lissandra as Rakan, Rakan players should use 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 runes we have analyed for Rakan vs Lissandra counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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