Lux with Rakan
How to Synergize Lux and Rakan
based on 3,374 Lux with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lux Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Lux with Rakan
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Lux in LoL
The Lux 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, Lux sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan helps Lux perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lux tries to synergize with Rakan, she observes a great improvement in her complete damage output. This change could indicate that Rakan provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played alongside Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Rakan.
Additionally, when Lux plays with Rakan on the same side, she often 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 protecting Lux in team fights.
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Is Lux better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no top ally for Lux that will no matter what be her best ally. However, overall, Rakan is a decent ally for Lux. By playing on the same team as Lux, he increases their win rate by 2.9% to 52.7%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Lux and Rakan that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Lux. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Rakan allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Lux and Rakan together, you may not be giving your other allies enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 truly master Lux to pair well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Lux and Rakan synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lux incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Lux boasted an average winrate of 52.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Lux and Rakan pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.7% win rate overall.
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