Hecarim with Rakan
How to Synergize Hecarim and Rakan
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Hecarim Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Rakan
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim 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, Hecarim sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rakan helps Hecarim perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Hecarim is paired with Rakan, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Rakan supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played together with Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rakan.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Rakan on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Rakan does a decent job of covering Hecarim during team fights.
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no ideal companion for Hecarim that will always be his #1 synergy. However, Rakan is a good ally for Hecarim. By playing on the same team as Hecarim, he increases their win rate by 1.4% to 49.9%. This signals that there is a good strategic relationship between Hecarim and Rakan that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Hecarim. That means Hecarim players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Rakan allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Hecarim and Rakan together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Rakan teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To truly master Hecarim to pair well with Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Hecarim and Rakan synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Hecarim had an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
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