Gwen with Rakan
How to Synergize Gwen and Rakan
based on 2,452 Gwen with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Rakan
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rakan helps Gwen perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gwen tries to synergize with Rakan, she sees a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This may signal that Rakan supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played together with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Additionally, when Gwen plays with Rakan on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Gwen in team fights.
Synergies between Gwen and Rakan
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Gwen that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, Rakan is a below average ally for Gwen. By being on the same team as Gwen, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 46.9%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Gwen and Rakan that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Gwen. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Rakan allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Gwen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Gwen and Rakan together, you probably will not be granting your team enough engage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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How We Calculated Our Gwen Rakan Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gwen to pair well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Gwen and Rakan synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Cosmic Drive. When Gwen included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Gwen had an average win rate of 46.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Gwen and Rakan pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.9% winrate overall.
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