Rakan with Xerath
How to Synergize Rakan and Xerath
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Rakan Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Rakan Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xerath helps Rakan perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan tries to synergize with Xerath, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Xerath provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xerath.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Xerath on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Xerath does a poor job of covering Rakan in team fights.
Synergies between Rakan and Xerath
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no perfect ally for Rakan that will no matter what be his best ally. However, overall, Xerath is a very typical teammate for Rakan. By being on the same team as Rakan, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 51.2%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Rakan and Xerath that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means you need to be careful when finding Xerath allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Rakan players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Rakan and Xerath together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 to synergize with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Rakan and Xerath synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Xerath than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 51.2% helping carry Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Rakan players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.
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