Taric with Rakan
How to Synergize Taric and Rakan
based on 94 Taric with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Taric Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Taric vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Taric and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Taric with Rakan
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
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.
Taric Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Taric in LoL
The Taric 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, Taric 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 worsening shows that Rakan helps Taric perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Taric is an ally to Rakan, he sees a big jump in his full damage output. This change could signal that Rakan provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played alongside Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rakan.
Additionally, when Taric plays with Rakan on the same side, he on average takes significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Rakan does a poor job of protecting Taric during team fights.
Synergies between Taric and Rakan
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Is Taric better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Taric that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Rakan is a relatively poor ally for Taric. By being on the same side as Taric, he decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Taric and Rakan that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Taric. That means Taric players need to be very careful when arranging Rakan teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, Taric players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by aligning Taric and Rakan together, you will not be granting your team much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Taric in order to work well with Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Taric and Rakan synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Taric included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when playing alongside Rakan with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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