Gragas with Rakan
How to Synergize Gragas and Rakan
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Gragas Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Rakan
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas 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 Gragas perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is paired with Rakan, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Rakan helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rakan.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Rakan on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Gragas in teamfights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no top companion for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, Rakan is a very typical ally for Gragas. By being on the same side as Gragas, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 47.7%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Gragas and Rakan that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be cautious when arranging Rakan comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. When paired, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Gragas and Rakan together, you may not be providing your other teammates much AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gragas in order to pair well with Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Gragas and Rakan synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 47.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Gragas players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.7% winrate overall.
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