Blitzcrank with Rakan
How to Synergize Blitzcrank and Rakan
based on 75 Blitzcrank with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Blitzcrank Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Blitzcrank vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Blitzcrank and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank with Rakan
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
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.
Blitzcrank Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Blitzcrank in LoL
The Blitzcrank 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, Blitzcrank sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan helps Blitzcrank perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Blitzcrank plays on the same team as Rakan, he observes a big jump in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Rakan supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Blitzcrank is played together with 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 synergisticly with Rakan.
Additionally, when Blitzcrank plays with Rakan on the same team, he often receives much more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Rakan does a poor job of covering Blitzcrank during team fights.
Synergies between Blitzcrank and Rakan
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Is Blitzcrank better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no top ally for Blitzcrank that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Rakan is a very bad companion for Blitzcrank. By playing on the same team as Blitzcrank, he drops their win rate by -3.6% to 48.0%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Blitzcrank and Rakan that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Blitzcrank. That means you must be careful when finding Rakan teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by pairing Blitzcrank and Rakan together, you may not be granting your team very much attack damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Blitzcrank in order to pair well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Blitzcrank and Rakan synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Blitzcrank included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average winrate of 48.0% helping carry Rakan with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Blitzcrank players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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