Thresh vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Thresh
based on 4,806 Thresh vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Rakan Counter Build
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Core Thresh Items
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Rakan
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Thresh in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several significant Thresh versus Rakan matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan..
Thresh often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Rakan
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Who is Better, Thresh or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a poor counter for Rakan.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Thresh also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Rakan. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Rakan build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Rakan than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 48.7% battling Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Rakan as Thresh, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Thresh vs Rakan matchups, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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