Anivia vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Anivia
based on 1,612 Anivia vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Anivia vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Anivia vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Anivia
Tips for Playing as Anivia against Rakan
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
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.
Anivia vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Anivia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some influential Anivia vs. Rakan counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Anivia normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Rakan. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Anivia and Rakan
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Who is Better, Anivia or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Anivia usually wins when taking on Rakan, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Anivia makes a good counter to Rakan.
While Anivia does have a higher win rate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Anivia also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Anivia into Rakanas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Anivia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Rakan matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Anivia is a decent counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Anivia against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Anivia 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia often racks up much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Anivia versus Rakan build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Anivia used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Rakan than with most other common item sets. In fact, Anivia boasted an average win rate of 51.2% battling Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Rakan as Anivia, Anivia players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Anivia vs Rakan counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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