Rakan with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Rakan and Xin Zhao
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Rakan Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Rakan Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xin Zhao helps Rakan perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is paired with Xin Zhao, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Xin Zhao does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Rakan during team fights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no one best companion for Rakan that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a pretty good companion for Rakan. By locking into the same team as Rakan, he increases their win rate by 1.2% to 51.8%. This proves that there is a good bond between Rakan and Xin Zhao that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Rakan. That means Rakan players don't need to be careful when lining up Xin Zhao teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, Rakan players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Rakan and Xin Zhao together, you may not be providing your other allies enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Rakan in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Rakan and Xin Zhao synergy build include Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 51.8% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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