Rakan with Leona
How to Synergize Rakan and Leona
based on 85 Rakan with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Leona Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Leona
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Rakan Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Leona helps Rakan perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan tries to synergize with Leona, he gets a massive increase in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Leona provides cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Leona on the same team, he on average takes more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Leona does a poor job of protecting Rakan during team fights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Leona?
There is no perfect ally for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Leona is a not very good ally for Rakan. By locking into the same side as Rakan, she decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 48.2%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Rakan and Leona that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players don't need to be careful when enlisting Leona comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by pairing Rakan and Leona together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of attack damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Leona ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Rakan in order to synergize with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Rakan and Leona synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Leona than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Rakan players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Rakan and Leona pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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