Sylas with Rakan
How to Synergize Sylas and Rakan
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Sylas Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Sylas vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Rakan
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas 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, Sylas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rakan helps Sylas perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is paired with Rakan, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Rakan helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rakan.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Rakan on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Rakan does a decent job of covering Sylas during team fights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Sylas that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Rakan is a good teammate for Sylas. By locking into the same side as Sylas, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 50.2%. This proves that there is a somewhat important synergy between Sylas and Rakan that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Sylas. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Rakan allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Sylas players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Sylas and Rakan together, you will not be providing your other teammates much sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sylas in order to work well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Sylas and Rakan synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Sylas incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Rakan than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Rakan with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Rakan with Sylas are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.