Rakan with Jax
How to Synergize Rakan and Jax
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Rakan Jax Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Jax
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Jax
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 Jax Will Play
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
Rakan Jax Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jax as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, 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 Jax. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Jax helps Rakan perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is paired with Jax, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Jax doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Jax 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 alongside Jax.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Jax on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Jax does a decent job of covering Rakan in teamfights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Jax?
There is no perfect companion for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Jax is a very typical teammate for Rakan. By being on the same side as Rakan, he increases their win rate by 0.1% to 50.7%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Rakan and Jax that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Jax has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Jax teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Rakan players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Rakan and Jax together, you may not be giving your side enough sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Jax teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rakan in order to pair well with Jax during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Rakan and Jax synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Rakan incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Jax than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 50.7% helping carry Jax with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating 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. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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