Rakan with Taric
How to Synergize Rakan and Taric
based on 94 Rakan with Taric pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Taric Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Taric
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Taric
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 Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Rakan Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Taric helps Rakan perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is an ally to Taric, he gets a very large increase in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Taric provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Taric on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Taric. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Taric.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Taric on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Taric does a poor job of covering Rakan during team fights.
Synergies between Rakan and Taric
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Taric?
There is no perfect ally for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Taric is a very typical companion for Rakan. By being on the same side as Rakan, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 50.0%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Rakan and Taric that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Taric has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Taric teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Together, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by grouping Rakan and Taric together, you probably will not be giving your side much sustained damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Taric ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 to pair well with Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Rakan and Taric synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Taric than with many other common builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Taric 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, Zombie Ward, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
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