Shaco with Rakan
How to Synergize Shaco and Rakan
based on 2,898 Shaco with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Rakan Counter Build
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Rakan
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Advice to Understand How Rakan Will Play
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.
Shaco Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shaco sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan helps Shaco perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco is paired with Rakan, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Rakan helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Rakan 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 alongside Rakan.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Rakan on the same side, he on average receives more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Rakan does a poor job of covering Shaco during teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Rakan
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Rakan is a very typical companion for Shaco. By being on the same team as Shaco, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 49.2%. This demonstrates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Shaco and Rakan that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Rakan has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Rakan comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Shaco and Rakan together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much tankyness. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to work well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Shaco and Rakan synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Opportunity. When Shaco bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Rakan than with most other common builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 49.2% helping carry Rakan with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Shaco players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Rakan with Shaco are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.