Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
The Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rakan helps Lissandra perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra plays on the same team as Rakan, she gets a small increase in her full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Rakan helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Rakan.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Rakan on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Lissandra during team fights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Lissandra that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, Rakan is a very typical companion for Lissandra. By playing on the same side as Lissandra, he improves their win rate by 0.2% to 49.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Lissandra and Rakan that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players don't need to be careful when lining up Rakan allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Lissandra and Rakan together, you may not be providing your side very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra in order to pair well with Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Lissandra and Rakan synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Lissandra used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Rakan than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 49.7% helping carry Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Lissandra players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Lissandra and Rakan pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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