Rakan with Galio
How to Synergize Rakan and Galio
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Rakan Galio Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Galio Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Galio
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Galio
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 Galio Will Play
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
Rakan Galio Synergy Stats
How to Play with Galio as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Galio synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Galio, 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 Galio. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Galio helps Rakan perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan plays on the same team as Galio, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Galio provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played together with Galio on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Galio. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Galio.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Galio on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Galio does a decent job of protecting Rakan in teamfights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Galio?
There is no perfect synergy for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Galio is a very typical teammate for Rakan. By playing on the same team as Rakan, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 51.5%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Rakan and Galio that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Galio has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Galio comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Rakan and Galio together, you will not be providing your side very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Galio ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to work well with Galio during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Rakan and Galio synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Galio than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when playing alongside Galio with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing 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 sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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