Rakan with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Rakan and Heimerdinger
based on 936 Rakan with Heimerdinger pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Rakan Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Heimerdinger helps Rakan perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan plays on the same team as Heimerdinger, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Heimerdinger provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Heimerdinger 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 alongside Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Rakan in team fights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no top synergy for Rakan that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Heimerdinger is a below average ally for Rakan. By being on the same side as Rakan, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 48.8%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Rakan and Heimerdinger that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means you need to be careful when finding Heimerdinger teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Rakan and Heimerdinger together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Heimerdinger teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 to synergize with Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Rakan and Heimerdinger synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 48.8% helping carry Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use 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 players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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