Poppy with Rakan
How to Synergize Poppy and Rakan
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Poppy Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Rakan
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy 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 fall shows that Rakan helps Poppy perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy tries to synergize with Rakan, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Rakan supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played alongside Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Rakan.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Rakan on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Poppy during team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Rakan
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no top ally for Poppy that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Rakan is a very typical ally for Poppy. By playing on the same team as Poppy, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.7%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Poppy and Rakan that results in them performing at the same level together than without each other.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means Poppy players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Rakan allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by aligning Poppy and Rakan together, you probably will not be granting your team much AD. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Poppy in order to work well with Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Poppy and Rakan synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when playing alongside Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Poppy players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Poppy and Rakan pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.7% win rate overall.
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