Gragas vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Gragas
based on 2,009 Gragas vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Rakan
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Gragas in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Gragas versus Rakan counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Gragas usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Rakan. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Rakan
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Who is Better, Gragas or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rakan, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes an ok counter to Rakan.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Gragas into Rakan.
Moreover, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas most often accumulates much more CS as Rakan. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Gragas versus Rakan build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Rakan than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 49.1% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Rakan as Gragas, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Gragas vs Rakan LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rakan as Gragas are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.