Wukong with Rakan
How to Synergize Wukong and Rakan
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Wukong Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Wukong and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Wukong with Rakan
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
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.
Wukong Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Wukong in LoL
The Wukong 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, Wukong sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rakan helps Wukong perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Wukong is paired with Rakan, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Rakan helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Wukong is played alongside Rakan on the same team, 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 Wukong plays with Rakan on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Rakan does a decent job of covering Wukong during teamfights.
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Is Wukong better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no perfect companion for Wukong that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Rakan is a very typical companion for Wukong. By being on the same team as Wukong, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 48.5%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Wukong and Rakan that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Wukong. That means Wukong players need to be cautious when lining up Rakan allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by aligning Wukong and Rakan together, you may not be granting your team very much engage potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Wukong in order to pair well with Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Wukong and Rakan synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong used at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Wukong boasted an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Rakan with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Wukong players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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