Yorick with Rakan
How to Synergize Yorick and Rakan
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Yorick Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Yorick vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Yorick and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Yorick with Rakan
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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.
Yorick Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Yorick in LoL
The Yorick 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, Yorick 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 worsening shows that Rakan helps Yorick perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Yorick tries to synergize with Rakan, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Rakan supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played alongside Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Additionally, when Yorick plays with Rakan on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Rakan does a decent job of covering Yorick in teamfights.
Synergies between Yorick and Rakan
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Is Yorick better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no top ally for Yorick that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Rakan is a very typical ally for Yorick. By playing on the same side as Yorick, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 50.4%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Yorick and Rakan that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Yorick. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Rakan comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Yorick and Rakan together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much AD. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Yorick to work well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Yorick and Rakan synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Yorick used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Rakan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Yorick boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Yorick players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Bloodline, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Yorick and Rakan pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Rakan with Yorick are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.