Jax with Rakan
How to Synergize Jax and Rakan
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Jax Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Jax vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jax and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Jax with Rakan
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Jax in LoL
The Jax 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, Jax 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 negative change shows that Rakan helps Jax perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Jax is paired with Rakan, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Rakan provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Jax 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 alongside Rakan.
Moreover, when Jax plays with Rakan on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Jax during team fights.
Synergies between Jax and Rakan
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Is Jax better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Jax that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Rakan is a very typical teammate for Jax. By being on the same side as Jax, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 50.7%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Jax and Rakan that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Jax. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Rakan teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Jax players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Jax and Rakan together, you will not be granting your team much sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Jax in order to work well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Jax and Rakan synergy build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Jax incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Jax had an average win rate of 50.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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