Rakan vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as Rakan
based on 1,327 Rakan vs Naafiri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Naafiri
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.
Rakan vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with Rakan in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Rakan vs. Naafiri matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Naafiri’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Naafiri. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Rakan usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Naafiri. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rakan and Naafiri
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Who is Better, Rakan or Naafiri?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually wins when trying to fight Naafiri, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Rakan makes a good counter to Naafiri.
While Rakan does have a higher win rate than Naafiri, when they face off with one another, Rakan also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rakan into Naafiri.
Additionally, Rakan has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Naafiri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Naafiri matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Rakan is a decent counter for Naafiri. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rakan against Naafiri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rakan in order to counter Naafiri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Naafiri. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Rakan versus Naafiri build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Naafiri than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 51.6% battling Naafiri with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Naafiri as Rakan, Rakan players should use 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 that we analyzed for Rakan vs Naafiri face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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