Vel'Koz vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Vel'Koz
based on 2,154 Vel'Koz vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Rakan
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some significant Vel'Koz against Rakan counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between the pair. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Vel'Koz typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Rakan. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Rakan
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when facing off against Rakan, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter for Rakan.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Vel'Koz into Rakanas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz has some 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 in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to counter Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz often racks up more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Vel'Koz versus Rakan build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Rakan than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 49.8% battling Rakan with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Rakan as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Rakan fights, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.8% winrate overall.
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