Rakan with Gwen
How to Synergize Rakan and Gwen
based on 2,452 Rakan with Gwen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Gwen Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Rakan Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gwen helps Rakan perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is paired with Gwen, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Gwen does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Gwen 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 with Gwen.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Gwen on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Rakan during team fights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no top synergy for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Gwen is a very bad ally for Rakan. By playing on the same team as Rakan, she lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 46.9%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad synergy between Rakan and Gwen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gwen has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players don't need to be very careful when lining up Gwen comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Rakan players should 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.
Although, by pairing Rakan and Gwen together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough engage potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Gwen ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Rakan to work well with Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Rakan and Gwen synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Gwen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 46.9% helping carry Gwen with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating 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 runes we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% winrate overall.
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