Rakan with Sylas
How to Synergize Rakan and Sylas
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Rakan Sylas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Sylas
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 Sylas Will Play
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Rakan Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sylas helps Rakan perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan tries to synergize with Sylas, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Sylas doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Sylas 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 alongside Sylas.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Sylas on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Rakan in team fights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Rakan that will always be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Sylas is a very typical teammate for Rakan. By locking into the same team as Rakan, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 50.2%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Rakan and Sylas that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players don't need to be very careful when finding Sylas allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, Rakan players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Rakan and Sylas together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to synergize with Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Rakan and Sylas synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Sylas than with many other common builds. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 50.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Rakan players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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