Yasuo vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Yasuo
based on 7,276 Yasuo vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Rakan
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Yasuo in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some strategic Yasuo against Rakan matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Yasuo often has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Rakan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yasuo and Rakan
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yasuo usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Yasuo makes a bad counter to Rakan.
While Yasuo does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Yasuo also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Yasuo into Rakanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yasuo also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Yasuo is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Yasuo against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo usually accumulates much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Yasuo versus Rakan build consist of Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Rakan than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average winrate of 48.1% battling Rakan with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Rakan as Yasuo, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Yasuo vs Rakan counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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