Rakan with Garen
How to Synergize Rakan and Garen
based on 3,458 Rakan with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Garen Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Garen
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Rakan Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Rakan perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan plays on the same team as Garen, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Garen helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Garen 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 synergisticly with Garen.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Garen on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Garen does a poor job of protecting Rakan during team fights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal synergy for Rakan that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Garen is a very bad teammate for Rakan. By being on the same side as Rakan, he decreases their win rate by -3.1% to 47.5%. This proves that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Rakan and Garen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Garen comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, Rakan players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Rakan and Garen together, you will not be granting your team enough AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan to pair well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Rakan and Garen synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Rakan used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 47.5% helping carry Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Rakan players 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 Rakan and Garen pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
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