Rakan with Brand
How to Synergize Rakan and Brand
based on 3,868 Rakan with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Brand Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Brand
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Rakan Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Brand helps Rakan perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is paired with Brand, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Brand helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Brand.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Brand on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of covering Rakan during teamfights.
Synergies between Rakan and Brand
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Brand?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Rakan that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Brand is a top-tier companion for Rakan. By locking into the same team as Rakan, he improves their win rate by 4.1% to 54.7%. This signals that there is a very real bond between Rakan and Brand that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players don't need to be very careful when lining up Brand teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Rakan and Brand together, you may not be giving your team enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Brand teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rakan to work well with Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Rakan and Brand synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Rakan bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Brand than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 54.7% when playing alongside Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 combinations players used for Rakan and Brand pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.7% winrate overall.
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