Rakan with Graves
How to Synergize Rakan and Graves
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Rakan Graves Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Graves
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Rakan Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Graves helps Rakan perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is paired with Graves, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Graves does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Graves on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of covering Rakan during team fights.
Synergies between Rakan and Graves
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Graves is a very typical teammate for Rakan. By being on the same side as Rakan, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 51.3%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Rakan and Graves that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Graves comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Rakan and Graves together, you may not be giving your side much protection for burst damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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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 Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Rakan and Graves synergy build include Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Graves than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 51.3% when playing alongside Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Rakan players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Graves with Rakan are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.