Rakan with Zilean
How to Synergize Rakan and Zilean
based on 158 Rakan with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Rakan Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Rakan perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is an ally to Zilean, he sees a noticable increase in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Zilean supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Zilean 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 synergisticly with Zilean.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Zilean on the same team, he on average receives more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Rakan during team fights.
Synergies between Rakan and Zilean
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Rakan that will always be his best ally. Yet, overall, Zilean is a below average teammate for Rakan. By playing on the same team as Rakan, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 49.4%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Rakan and Zilean that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players must be careful when finding Zilean comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Rakan and Zilean together, you will not be granting your other allies enough sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 pair well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Rakan and Zilean synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Celestial Opposition. When Rakan used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Zilean than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 49.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Rakan and Zilean pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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