Rakan vs Renekton
How to Beat Renekton as Rakan
based on 1,928 Rakan vs Renekton matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Renekton Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Renekton Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Renekton as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Renekton
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 Renekton
Keeping Renekton from being able to fight and gain Fury by continually harassing him will severely reduce the effectiveness of his abilities.
Pay close attention to Renekton's Fury gauge as that will usually signify when he is about to attack.
Rakan vs Renekton Counter Stats
How to Counter Renekton with Rakan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some valuable Rakan vs. Renekton matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Renekton’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Renekton. 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 receives less damage than Renekton. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rakan and Renekton
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Who is Better, Rakan or Renekton?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually wins when taking on Renekton, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Rakan makes a good counter for Renekton.
While Rakan does have a higher win rate than Renekton, when on opposite teams, Rakan also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Rakan into Renekton.
Furthermore, Rakan also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Renekton. 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 Renekton matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Rakan is an above average counter for Renekton. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rakan against Renekton.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to counter Renekton during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Renekton. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Rakan versus Renekton build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Renekton than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 52.2% when playing against Renekton with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Renekton as Rakan, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Rakan vs Renekton clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
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