Viktor vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Viktor
based on 1,657 Viktor vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Rakan Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Viktor Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Rakan as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Rakan
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Viktor in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several significant Viktor vs. Rakan matchup stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Viktor typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Viktor and Rakan
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Viktor or Rakan?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Viktor usually wins when taking on Rakan, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Viktor makes a good counter to Rakan.
While Viktor does have a higher win rate compared to Rakan, when on opposite teams, Viktor also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Viktor into Rakanas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Viktor also has almost no amount of utility and CC, 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 overall in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Rakan matchups, Viktor is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Viktor is a decent counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Viktor against Rakan.
Other Champion Matchups Against Viktor
Additional Information for Viktor Players
How We Calculated Our Viktor vs Rakan Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Viktor 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor most often gets much more CS as Rakan. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Viktor versus Rakan build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Rakan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Viktor boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when playing against Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Rakan as Viktor, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Viktor vs Rakan counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
If you want to get Viktor versus Rakan tips and matchup stats and build suggestions for a a specific player tier, feel free to select one from the selection menu provided above. If viewing for the first time, the statistics and guides shown are computed using all matches finished with both champs.