Aphelios with Rakan
How to Synergize Aphelios and Rakan
based on 2,501 Aphelios with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Rakan Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Aphelios Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Rakan
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aphelios sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rakan helps Aphelios perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is an ally to Rakan, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Rakan helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rakan.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Rakan on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Rakan does a decent job of covering Aphelios during teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Rakan
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Aphelios better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Rakan is a very typical ally for Aphelios. By being on the same side as Aphelios, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Aphelios and Rakan that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Rakan has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when enlisting Rakan allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. When paired, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by aligning Aphelios and Rakan together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of tankyness. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
Other Champion Matchups Against Aphelios
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Aphelios Players
How We Calculated Our Aphelios Rakan Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to pair well with Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Aphelios and Rakan synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Rakan than with many other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 47.8% helping carry Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Aphelios and Rakan pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Rakan with Aphelios are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.