Leona vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Leona
based on 4,223 Leona vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Rakan
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Leona in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Leona versus Rakan matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rakan..
Leona normally has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Rakan
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Who is Better, Leona or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Rakan, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a good counter for Rakan.
While Leona does have a higher win rate compared to Rakan, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Rakan.
Moreover, Leona has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Rakan matchups, Leona is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Leona is a decent counter to Rakan. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Rakan. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Leona versus Rakan build consist of Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Rakan than with many other typical builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 51.2% when playing against Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Rakan as Leona, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Leona vs Rakan face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
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