Volibear with Rakan
How to Synergize Volibear and Rakan
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Volibear Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear and Rakan
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.
Volibear Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan helps Volibear perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Volibear is an ally to Rakan, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This change could signal that Rakan provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played alongside Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rakan.
Additionally, when Volibear plays with Rakan on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Volibear in team fights.
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no one best champion pairing for Volibear that will always be his best synergy. However, Rakan is a not very good teammate for Volibear. By playing on the same side as Volibear, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 46.5%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Volibear and Rakan that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Volibear. That means Volibear players need to be careful when lining up Rakan allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Volibear players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Volibear and Rakan together, you may not be providing your team enough attack damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Volibear to work well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Volibear and Rakan synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Volibear boasted an average winrate of 46.5% when playing alongside Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.5% win rate overall.
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