Shyvana with Rakan
How to Synergize Shyvana and Rakan
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Shyvana Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Rakan
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shyvana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rakan helps Shyvana perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shyvana plays on the same team as Rakan, she sees a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Rakan helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played together with Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Rakan.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Rakan on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Rakan does a poor job of covering Shyvana in teamfights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Rakan
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no one best ally for Shyvana that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Rakan is a very typical companion for Shyvana. By being on the same side as Shyvana, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 49.2%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Shyvana and Rakan that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Shyvana. That means Shyvana players must be careful when finding Rakan teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Shyvana players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Shyvana and Rakan together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much attack damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Shyvana to pair well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Shyvana and Rakan synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 49.2% helping carry Rakan with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Shyvana players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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