Vladimir vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Vladimir
based on 3,418 Vladimir vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vladimir vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Vladimir vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Vladimir against Rakan
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Vladimir in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some important Vladimir versus Rakan matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Vladimir typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Rakan. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vladimir and Rakan
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Who is Better, Vladimir or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vladimir usually fairs equally well when taking on Rakan, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Vladimir makes an ok counter to Rakan.
While Vladimir does have a lower winrate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Vladimir also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Vladimir into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vladimir also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vladimir 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.
Vladimir is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vladimir against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir in order to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir most often racks up much more CS relative to Rakan. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have 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, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Vladimir versus Rakan build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Liandry's Torment. When Vladimir used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average win rate of 49.6% battling Rakan with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Rakan as Vladimir, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Vladimir vs Rakan counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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