Yasuo with Rakan
How to Synergize Yasuo and Rakan
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Yasuo Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yasuo and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Yasuo with Rakan
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Yasuo in LoL
The Yasuo 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, Yasuo sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rakan helps Yasuo perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Yasuo tries to synergize with Rakan, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Rakan supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Yasuo is played with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Moreover, when Yasuo plays with Rakan on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Rakan does a decent job of covering Yasuo during team fights.
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Is Yasuo better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no ideal companion for Yasuo that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Rakan is a very typical companion for Yasuo. By being on the same team as Yasuo, he increases their win rate by 0.7% to 51.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Yasuo and Rakan that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Rakan has a much lower diffuclty than Yasuo. That means Yasuo players don't need to be very careful when arranging Rakan allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Yasuo and Rakan together, you may not be granting your team very much engage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Yasuo to pair well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Yasuo and Rakan synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Rakan than with many other typical builds. In fact, Yasuo had an average win rate of 51.3% helping carry Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.3% win rate overall.
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