Caitlyn with Rakan
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Rakan
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Caitlyn Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Rakan
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan helps Caitlyn perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn is paired with Rakan, she gets a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Rakan helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Rakan.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Rakan on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Rakan does a decent job of covering Caitlyn during teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no one best champion pairing for Caitlyn that will always be her #1 synergy. Yet, Rakan is a very typical ally for Caitlyn. By locking into the same team as Caitlyn, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 48.9%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Caitlyn and Rakan that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Rakan allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by grouping Caitlyn and Rakan together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough protection for burst damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Rakan ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to pair well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Caitlyn and Rakan synergy build include Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Caitlyn included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Rakan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Rakan with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Caitlyn players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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