Kassadin with Rakan
How to Synergize Kassadin and Rakan
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Kassadin Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Rakan
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin 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 decrease shows that Rakan helps Kassadin perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin is paired with Rakan, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Rakan provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played together 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 with Rakan.
Additionally, when Kassadin plays with Rakan on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Rakan does a decent job of covering Kassadin during teamfights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no one best champion pairing for Kassadin that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Rakan is a top-tier ally for Kassadin. By locking into the same team as Kassadin, he increases their win rate by 3.6% to 53.6%. This shows that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Kassadin and Rakan that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Rakan has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Rakan allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kassadin and Rakan together, you may not be giving your other allies very much AD. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kassadin in order to work well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Kassadin and Rakan synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Kassadin used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Rakan than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 53.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Kassadin players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Kassadin and Rakan pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.6% win rate overall.
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