Rakan with Bard
How to Synergize Rakan and Bard
based on 63 Rakan with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Bard
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Rakan Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Rakan perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan plays on the same team as Bard, he observes a great improvement in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Bard supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Bard 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 Bard.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Bard on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Rakan during team fights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Rakan that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Bard is a terrible companion for Rakan. By playing on the same team as Rakan, he drops their win rate by -14.1% to 36.5%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Rakan and Bard that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Rakan. That means Rakan players must be careful when lining up Bard teammates to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by grouping Rakan and Bard together, you probably will not be providing your side enough attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rakan to pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Rakan and Bard synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Bard than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 36.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating 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. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Rakan and Bard pairings, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 36.5% winrate overall.
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