Rakan with Akali
How to Synergize Rakan and Akali
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Rakan Akali Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Akali
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Rakan Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rakan sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akali helps Rakan perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is paired with Akali, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Akali does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Akali on the same side, 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 Akali.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Akali on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Akali does a poor job of covering Rakan during teamfights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top companion for Rakan that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Akali is a very typical teammate for Rakan. By locking into the same team as Rakan, she drops their win rate by -0.3% to 50.3%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Rakan and Akali that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players need to be cautious when lining up Akali teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Rakan players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Rakan and Akali together, you may not be providing your team very much AD. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Akali ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rakan in order to pair well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Rakan and Akali synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Frozen Heart. When Rakan used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Akali than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 50.3% helping carry Akali with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% win rate overall.
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