Rakan with Aphelios
How to Synergize Rakan and Aphelios
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Rakan Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Rakan Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Aphelios helps Rakan perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is paired with Aphelios, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This could signal that Aphelios doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played together with Aphelios 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 Aphelios.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Aphelios on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Rakan during teamfights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no perfect ally for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Aphelios is a below average companion for Rakan. By playing on the same team as Rakan, he lowers their win rate by -2.8% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Rakan and Aphelios that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Rakan. That means Rakan players need to be cautious when lining up Aphelios comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by grouping Rakan and Aphelios together, you probably will not be granting your team much cover. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to synergize with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Rakan and Aphelios synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Aphelios than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 47.8% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Rakan players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Rakan and Aphelios pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
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