Heimerdinger with Rakan
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Rakan
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Heimerdinger Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Rakan
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan helps Heimerdinger perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger is an ally to Rakan, he observes a noticable increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Rakan supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played alongside Rakan on the same team, 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 Heimerdinger plays with Rakan on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Heimerdinger during teamfights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Rakan
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no top champion pairing for Heimerdinger that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Rakan is a very typical companion for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same side as Heimerdinger, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.8%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Heimerdinger and Rakan that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Rakan has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Rakan teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Heimerdinger and Rakan together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to synergize with Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Heimerdinger and Rakan synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Heimerdinger players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Heimerdinger and Rakan pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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