Leona with Rakan
How to Synergize Leona and Rakan
based on 85 Leona with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Leona with Rakan
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan helps Leona perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona plays on the same team as Rakan, she observes a big jump in her full damage output. This change may signal that Rakan helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Rakan.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Rakan on the same team, she usually takes significantly more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Rakan does a poor job of covering Leona during team fights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Leona that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Rakan is a terrible teammate for Leona. By playing on the same team as Leona, he lowers their win rate by -4.0% to 48.2%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Leona and Rakan that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you need to be very careful when finding Rakan teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by grouping Leona and Rakan together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona in order to pair well with Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Leona and Rakan synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Bloodsong. When Leona used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Rakan than with most other common item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 48.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Tenacity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.2% win rate overall.
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