Rakan with Kayn
How to Synergize Rakan and Kayn
based on 5,078 Rakan with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Rakan Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kayn helps Rakan perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is paired with Kayn, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Kayn provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Kayn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kayn.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Kayn on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kayn does a poor job of protecting Rakan during team fights.
Synergies between Rakan and Kayn
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no ideal ally for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Kayn is a very typical companion for Rakan. By playing on the same side as Rakan, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Rakan and Kayn that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kayn has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players need to be very careful when enlisting Kayn comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Rakan players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Rakan and Kayn together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kayn teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 synergize with Kayn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Rakan and Kayn synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Rakan used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Kayn than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when playing alongside Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Rakan and Kayn pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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