Rakan with Katarina
How to Synergize Rakan and Katarina
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Rakan Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Rakan Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Rakan perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan tries to synergize with Katarina, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Katarina does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Katarina on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Rakan in team fights.
Synergies between Rakan and Katarina
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top companion for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Katarina is a very typical companion for Rakan. By playing on the same team as Rakan, she drops their win rate by -0.7% to 49.9%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Rakan and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means you must be careful when lining up Katarina allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Rakan players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Rakan and Katarina together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to work well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Rakan and Katarina synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 49.9% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing 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. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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