Rakan with Irelia
How to Synergize Rakan and Irelia
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Rakan Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Rakan Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Irelia helps Rakan perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is an ally to Irelia, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Irelia does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Irelia 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 alongside Irelia.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Irelia on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Irelia does a decent job of covering Rakan in teamfights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Rakan that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Irelia is a very typical teammate for Rakan. By playing on the same team as Rakan, she increases their win rate by 0.2% to 50.8%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Rakan and Irelia that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Irelia teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Rakan and Irelia together, you will not be granting your other allies enough engage potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Irelia teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 to pair well with Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Rakan and Irelia synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Irelia than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 combinations players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
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