Rakan with K'Sante
How to Synergize Rakan and K'Sante
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Rakan K'Sante Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Rakan with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Rakan K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that K'Sante helps Rakan perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is paired with K'Sante, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that K'Sante does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside K'Sante on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside K'Sante.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with K'Sante on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that K'Sante does a decent job of covering Rakan during teamfights.
Synergies between Rakan and K'Sante
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Is Rakan better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Rakan that will always be his best ally. Yet, overall, K'Sante is a very bad ally for Rakan. By being on the same side as Rakan, they drops their win rate by -5.3% to 45.3%. This signals that there is a very bad synergy between Rakan and K'Sante that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
K'Sante has a much greater difficulty compared to Rakan. That means you must be very careful when lining up K'Sante allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Rakan players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Rakan and K'Sante together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your K'Sante ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Rakan in order to work well with K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Rakan and K'Sante synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of K'Sante than with many other common builds. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 45.3% when playing alongside K'Sante with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip 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 builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.3% winrate overall.
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