Rakan with Gnar
How to Synergize Rakan and Gnar
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Rakan Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Gnar
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 Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Rakan Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gnar helps Rakan perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is paired with Gnar, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Gnar provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played together with Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gnar.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Gnar on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Gnar does a poor job of covering Rakan during teamfights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no top companion for Rakan that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Gnar is a very bad teammate for Rakan. By playing on the same team as Rakan, he drops their win rate by -5.8% to 44.8%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Rakan and Gnar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means you must be careful when enlisting Gnar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Rakan players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Rakan and Gnar together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 in order to pair well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Rakan and Gnar synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Gnar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 44.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating 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 we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.8% win rate overall.
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