Veigar with Rakan
How to Synergize Veigar and Rakan
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Veigar Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Veigar vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Veigar and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Veigar with Rakan
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Veigar in LoL
The Veigar 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, Veigar 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 drop shows that Rakan helps Veigar perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar tries to synergize with Rakan, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Rakan helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Veigar 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.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Rakan on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Rakan does a decent job of covering Veigar in team fights.
Synergies between Veigar and Rakan
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Is Veigar better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no top companion for Veigar that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Rakan is a superb ally for Veigar. By playing on the same team as Veigar, he increases their win rate by 4.0% to 53.3%. This demonstrates that there is a strong synergy between Veigar and Rakan that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Veigar. That means Veigar players don't need to be cautious when arranging Rakan allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, Veigar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Veigar and Rakan together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much sustained damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Veigar in order to work well with Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Veigar and Rakan synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Veigar incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 53.3% when playing alongside Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.3% win rate overall.
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