Rakan with Wukong
How to Synergize Rakan and Wukong
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Rakan Wukong Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Wukong
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 Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Rakan Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, 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 Wukong. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Wukong helps Rakan perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is an ally to Wukong, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Wukong does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played together with Wukong on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Wukong. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Wukong.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Wukong on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Wukong does a decent job of protecting Rakan during team fights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Wukong is a below average teammate for Rakan. By locking into the same side as Rakan, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 48.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Rakan and Wukong that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Wukong has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players don't need to be careful when finding Wukong comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Rakan players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Rakan and Wukong together, you will not be granting your side a lot of engage potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Wukong ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to pair well with Wukong during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Rakan and Wukong synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Wukong than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when playing alongside Wukong with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Rakan players 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 runes players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
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