Vex vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Vex
based on 2,127 Vex vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Vex
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.
Vex vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Vex in LoL
The stats shown here show several critical Vex vs. Rakan matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Vex usually has a much larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vex and Rakan
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Who is Better, Vex or Rakan?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vex usually loses when taking on Rakan, with a 48.8% win rate. As a result, Vex makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Vex does have a lower winrate compared to Rakan, when on opposite teams, Vex also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less difficult character to learn. You should be careful when picking Vex into Rakan.
Additionally, Vex also has some amount of utility and CC, 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 a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vex 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 teammates during teamfights.
Vex is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Vex against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vex in order to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex on average gets much more CS as Rakan. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Vex versus Rakan build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex included at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better against Rakan than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Vex boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when countering Rakan with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Rakan as Vex, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Vex vs Rakan counters, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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