Ryze vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Ryze
based on 1,022 Ryze vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ryze vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Ryze vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Ryze
Tips for Playing as Ryze against Rakan
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
Advice to Win Against Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Ryze vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Ryze in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some valuable Ryze versus Rakan matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences between the two. Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Ryze typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Rakan. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ryze and Rakan
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Who is Better, Ryze or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually loses when facing off against Rakan, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Ryze makes a bad counter for Rakan.
While Ryze does have a lower winrate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Ryze also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ryze into Rakanas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ryze also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ryze is a garbage counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ryze against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ryze in order to counter Rakan 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze typically accumulates much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Ryze versus Rakan build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Luden's Companion. When Ryze included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Rakan than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Ryze boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when countering Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Rakan as Ryze, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Ryze vs Rakan counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
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