Jayce with Rakan
How to Synergize Jayce and Rakan
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Jayce Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Jayce vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jayce and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Jayce with Rakan
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Jayce in LoL
The Jayce 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, Jayce 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 negative change shows that Rakan helps Jayce perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Jayce is an ally to Rakan, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This could indicate that Rakan does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Jayce is played together with Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rakan.
Moreover, when Jayce plays with Rakan on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Jayce during team fights.
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Is Jayce better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no top champion pairing for Jayce that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Rakan is a very typical companion for Jayce. By locking into the same team as Jayce, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 48.6%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Jayce and Rakan that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Jayce. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Rakan teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Jayce players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by pairing Jayce and Rakan together, you probably will not be providing your side a lot of tankyness. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Jayce to synergize with Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Jayce and Rakan synergy build consist of Muramana, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Jayce incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Rakan than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jayce had an average winrate of 48.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Jayce players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Rakan with Jayce are presented for every ranked division. To filter the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.