Brand with Rakan
How to Synergize Brand and Rakan
based on 3,868 Brand with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Brand with Rakan
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rakan helps Brand perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand tries to synergize with Rakan, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Rakan helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Brand 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 synergisticly with Rakan.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Rakan on the same team, he often takes more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Rakan does a poor job of protecting Brand during teamfights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no top companion for Brand that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Rakan is a great companion for Brand. By locking into the same team as Brand, he raises their win rate by 3.3% to 54.7%. This signals that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Brand and Rakan that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Brand. That means you must be cautious when lining up Rakan allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, Brand players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Brand and Rakan together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Rakan ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand to pair well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Brand and Rakan synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Brand incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Rakan than with most other common item sets. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 54.7% when playing alongside Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.7% winrate overall.
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