Xayah vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Xayah
based on 1,790 Xayah vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Rakan
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Xayah in LoL
The stats provided here show several significant Xayah versus Rakan counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between these two champs. Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Xayah usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xayah and Rakan
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Who is Better, Xayah or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Xayah usually wins when playing against Rakan, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Xayah makes a good counter to Rakan.
While Xayah does have a higher winrate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Xayah also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Xayah into Rakan.
Furthermore, Xayah 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Rakan matchups, Xayah is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Xayah is a decent counter for Rakan. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Xayah against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Xayah in order to counter Rakan during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah often racks up much more CS as Rakan. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Xayah versus Rakan build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Xayah combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Rakan than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Xayah had an average winrate of 51.5% battling Rakan with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Rakan as Xayah, Xayah players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Xayah vs Rakan counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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