Rakan with Nami
How to Synergize Rakan and Nami
based on 36 Rakan with Nami pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Nami Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Nami
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Nami
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 Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Rakan Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nami helps Rakan perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is an ally to Nami, he gets a very large increase in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Nami supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played together with Nami 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 Nami.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Nami on the same side, he on average receives more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Nami does a poor job of covering Rakan during teamfights.
Synergies between Rakan and Nami
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Nami?
There is no top synergy for Rakan that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Nami is a very bad teammate for Rakan. By being on the same team as Rakan, she decreases their win rate by -8.9% to 41.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Rakan and Nami that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nami has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Nami teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Rakan players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by aligning Rakan and Nami together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Nami ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 in order to synergize with Nami during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Rakan and Nami synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Nami than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 41.7% when playing alongside Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 41.7% win rate overall.
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