Ziggs vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Ziggs
based on 1,429 Ziggs vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Rakan
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Ziggs in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Ziggs vs. Rakan counter stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Ziggs normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Rakan. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ziggs and Rakan
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 47.3% win rate. As a result, Ziggs makes a poor counter for Rakan.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Ziggs also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Ziggs into Rakan.
Additionally, Ziggs 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ziggs is a garbage counter to Rakan. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ziggs against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs 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 suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs often racks up much more CS compared to Rakan. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Ziggs versus Rakan build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Rakan than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average win rate of 47.3% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Rakan as Ziggs, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Ziggs vs Rakan matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.3% winrate overall.
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