Rakan with Gragas
How to Synergize Rakan and Gragas
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Rakan Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Gragas
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.
Advice to Understand How Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Rakan Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rakan sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gragas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gragas helps Rakan perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is paired with Gragas, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Gragas does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played together with Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Gragas on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Gragas does a decent job of covering Rakan in teamfights.
Synergies between Rakan and Gragas
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Rakan that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Gragas is a below average companion for Rakan. By locking into the same side as Rakan, he drops their win rate by -2.9% to 47.7%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Rakan and Gragas that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Gragas teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Rakan players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Rakan and Gragas together, you may not be granting your other allies very much attack damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gragas ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to synergize with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Rakan and Gragas synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Gragas than with many other common item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing alongside Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Rakan players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Rakan and Gragas pairings, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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