Rakan vs Vi
How to Beat Vi as Rakan
based on 3,157 Rakan vs Vi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Vi Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vi as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Vi
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 Vi
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
Rakan vs Vi Counter Stats
How to Counter Vi with Rakan in LoL
The stats provided here feature several vital Rakan vs. Vi counter stats that may help you explain the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Vi. 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 Vi. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rakan and Vi
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Who is Better, Rakan or Vi?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rakan usually fairs equally well when taking on Vi, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Rakan makes an ok counter for Vi.
While Rakan does have a lower win rate compared to Vi, when they face off with one another, Rakan also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rakan into Vi.
Moreover, Rakan has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Rakan is a somewhat poor counter to Vi. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Rakan against Vi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan to counter Vi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Vi. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Rakan versus Vi build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan included at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Vi than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 49.7% when countering Vi with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Vi 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. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rakan vs Vi counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Vi as Rakan are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.