Darius with Rakan
How to Synergize Darius and Rakan
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Darius Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Darius vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Darius with Rakan
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius 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 fall shows that Rakan helps Darius perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Darius is paired with Rakan, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Rakan supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played alongside Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Additionally, when Darius plays with Rakan on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Darius in teamfights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Darius that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Rakan is a very typical companion for Darius. By playing on the same team as Darius, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 49.8%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Darius and Rakan that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Darius. That means you need to be cautious when finding Rakan teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Darius and Rakan together, you probably will not be providing your side very much magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Darius in order to synergize with Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Darius and Rakan synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Titanic Hydra. When Darius incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.8% winrate overall.
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