Shen vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Shen
based on 1,959 Shen vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shen vs Rakan Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Shen
Tips for Playing as Shen against Rakan
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
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.
Shen vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Shen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several significant Shen versus Rakan matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rakan..
Shen normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Rakan. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shen and Rakan
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Who is Better, Shen or Rakan?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shen usually fairs equally well when taking on Rakan, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Shen makes an ok counter to Rakan.
While Shen does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when facing one another, Shen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Shen into Rakan.
Additionally, Shen has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shen vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Shen is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Shen against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen often accumulates much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Shen versus Rakan build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Rakan than with many other common item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 49.3% battling Rakan with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Rakan as Shen, Shen players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Shen vs Rakan counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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