Thresh with Rakan
How to Synergize Thresh and Rakan
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Thresh Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Rakan
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh 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 Thresh perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh tries to synergize with Rakan, he observes a massive increase in his full damage output. This may signal that Rakan provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rakan.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Rakan on the same side, he on average receives more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Rakan does a poor job of covering Thresh in teamfights.
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Thresh that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Rakan is a terrible teammate for Thresh. By locking into the same side as Thresh, he decreases their win rate by -14.3% to 34.2%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Thresh and Rakan that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Rakan teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Combined, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by pairing Thresh and Rakan together, you may not be providing your team enough sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Thresh in order to synergize with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Thresh and Rakan synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Thresh bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 34.2% helping carry Rakan with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Future's Market, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 34.2% winrate overall.
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