Urgot vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Urgot
based on 2,071 Urgot vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Urgot vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Urgot vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Urgot
Tips for Playing as Urgot against Rakan
Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
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.
Urgot vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Urgot in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some important Urgot versus Rakan matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between the pair. Urgot’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Urgot may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Urgot normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Rakan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Urgot and Rakan
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Who is Better, Urgot or Rakan?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Urgot usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rakan, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Urgot makes an ok counter to Rakan.
While Urgot does have a higher winrate than Rakan, when on opposite teams, Urgot also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Urgot 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, Urgot also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, 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 a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Urgot vs Rakan matchups, Urgot is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Urgot is a decent counter to Rakan. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Urgot against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Urgot to counter Rakan during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Urgot typically gets much more CS as Rakan. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Urgot versus Rakan build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Death's Dance. When Urgot combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Rakan than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Urgot had an average winrate of 50.7% battling Rakan with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Rakan as Urgot, Urgot players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Urgot vs Rakan counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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