Bard with Rakan
How to Synergize Bard and Rakan
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Bard Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Bard with Rakan
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rakan helps Bard perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Rakan, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Rakan supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Rakan on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Rakan does a poor job of covering Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Bard that will always be his best teammate. However, Rakan is a very bad teammate for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, he lowers their win rate by -15.8% to 36.5%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Bard and Rakan that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Rakan has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Rakan allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Rakan together, you may not be giving your team very much attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Rakan teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to work well with Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Bard and Rakan synergy build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Bard bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Rakan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 36.5% helping carry Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 36.5% winrate overall.
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