Akshan with Rakan
How to Synergize Akshan and Rakan
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Akshan Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Rakan
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Understand How Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Akshan Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan helps Akshan perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akshan is an ally to Rakan, they observes a marginal improvement in their total damage dealt. This change could signal that Rakan provides protection for them to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played with Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Rakan on the same team, they on average takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Rakan does a decent job of covering Akshan in teamfights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no top companion for Akshan that will 100% of the time be their #1 ally. Yet, Rakan is a relatively poor companion for Akshan. By locking into the same side as Akshan, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.5%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Akshan and Rakan that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Rakan has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means Akshan players need to be careful when enlisting Rakan teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, Akshan players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by aligning Akshan and Rakan together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akshan in order to pair well with Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Akshan and Rakan synergy build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan bought at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better as an ally of Rakan than with most other common item sets. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 47.5% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Akshan players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Akshan and Rakan pairings, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
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