Rakan vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Rakan
based on 3,846 Rakan vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
Rakan vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Rakan in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some critical Rakan versus Xin Zhao matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Rakan often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rakan and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Rakan or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually fairs equally well when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Rakan makes an ok counter for Xin Zhao.
While Rakan does have a higher win rate than Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Rakan also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rakan into Xin Zhao.
Additionally, Rakan has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Rakan is a decent counter to Xin Zhao. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rakan against Xin Zhao.
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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 Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan on average gets a similar amount of CS as Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Rakan versus Xin Zhao build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Rakan used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 50.0% when countering Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Xin Zhao as Rakan, Rakan players should take 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 players picked for Rakan vs Xin Zhao LoL games, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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