Rakan with Alistar
How to Synergize Rakan and Alistar
based on 108 Rakan with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Rakan Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Alistar helps Rakan perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is paired with Alistar, he sees a great improvement in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Alistar helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played together with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Alistar on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Alistar does a poor job of covering Rakan during team fights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Rakan that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Alistar is a very bad companion for Rakan. By being on the same team as Rakan, he decreases their win rate by -14.5% to 36.1%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Rakan and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means you need to be careful when arranging Alistar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by pairing Rakan and Alistar together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of AD. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to pair well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Rakan and Alistar synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Alistar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 36.1% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Rakan players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 36.1% win rate overall.
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