Zeri vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Zeri
based on 1,248 Zeri vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zeri vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Zeri vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Zeri
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.
Zeri vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Zeri in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several strategic Zeri versus Rakan matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zeri usually has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zeri and Rakan
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Who is Better, Zeri or Rakan?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zeri usually loses when facing off against Rakan, with a 46.1% win rate. As a result, Zeri makes a poor counter for Rakan.
While Zeri does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Zeri also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more challenging champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zeri into Rakan.
Additionally, Zeri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Zeri is a terribly counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zeri against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zeri 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 suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri often racks up much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have 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 need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Zeri versus Rakan build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Runaan's Hurricane, and Navori Quickblades. When Zeri combined at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better countering Rakan than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zeri boasted an average winrate of 46.1% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Rakan as Zeri, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Zeri vs Rakan fights, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rakan as Zeri are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.