Rakan with Kassadin
How to Synergize Rakan and Kassadin
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Rakan Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Rakan Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kassadin helps Rakan perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is paired with Kassadin, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Kassadin does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Kassadin 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 Kassadin.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Kassadin on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Kassadin does a decent job of covering Rakan during teamfights.
Synergies between Rakan and Kassadin
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Rakan that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Kassadin is a superb companion for Rakan. By being on the same side as Rakan, he raises their win rate by 3.0% to 53.6%. This signals that there is a very strong bond between Rakan and Kassadin that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players must be cautious when lining up Kassadin allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Rakan and Kassadin together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kassadin teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rakan in order to synergize with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Rakan and Kassadin synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Kassadin than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 53.6% helping carry Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Rakan players 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 runes players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.6% winrate overall.
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