Samira vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Samira
based on 5,383 Samira vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Samira vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Samira vs Rakan Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Samira Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Rakan as Samira
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.
Samira vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Samira in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several influential Samira versus Rakan counter stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Samira usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Rakan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Samira and Rakan
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Samira or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Samira usually loses when trying to fight Rakan, with a 46.7% win rate. As a result, Samira makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Samira does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when on opposite teams, Samira also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Samira into Rakan.
Additionally, Samira has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This 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 in League of Legends, in Samira vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Samira is a terribly counter for Rakan. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Samira against Rakan.
Other Champion Matchups Against Samira
Additional Information for Samira Players
How We Calculated Our Samira vs Rakan Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Samira 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira often picks up much more CS as Rakan. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Samira versus Rakan build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and The Collector. When Samira combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 46.7% battling Rakan with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Rakan as Samira, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Samira vs Rakan fights, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rakan as Samira are displayed for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.