Vayne vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Vayne
based on 5,956 Vayne vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Rakan
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Vayne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some important Vayne vs. Rakan counter stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Vayne usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Rakan
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Who is Better, Vayne or Rakan?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vayne usually fairs equally well when playing against Rakan, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Vayne makes an ok counter to Rakan.
While Vayne does have a higher winrate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Vayne also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vayne into Rakanas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vayne has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Rakan matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vayne is a decent counter for Rakan. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Vayne against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vayne in order 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 mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne usually gets much more CS as Rakan. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Vayne versus Rakan build consist of Bloodthirster, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Vayne bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Rakan than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vayne had an average win rate of 50.4% battling Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Rakan as Vayne, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Vayne vs Rakan matchups, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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