Varus vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Varus
based on 4,447 Varus vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Rakan
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Varus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some strategic Varus against Rakan counter statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Varus usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Varus and Rakan
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Who is Better, Varus or Rakan?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Varus usually loses when taking on Rakan, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Varus makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Varus does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when facing one another, Varus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Varus into Rakan.
Additionally, Varus also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Varus vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Varus is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Varus against Rakan.
Other Champion Matchups Against Varus
Additional Information for Varus Players
How We Calculated Our Varus vs Rakan Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus usually racks up much more CS compared to Rakan. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Varus versus Rakan build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Varus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Varus had an average winrate of 48.7% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Rakan as Varus, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Varus vs Rakan face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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