Zed vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Zed
based on 4,078 Zed vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Rakan
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Zed in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several significant Zed against Rakan matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed often has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Rakan
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Who is Better, Zed or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when taking on Rakan, with a 46.6% win rate. As a result, Zed makes a bad counter for Rakan.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Zed into Rakanas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zed is a garbage counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zed against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to counter Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average gets much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Zed versus Rakan build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 46.6% battling Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Rakan as Zed, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Zed vs Rakan battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.6% winrate overall.
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