Rakan with Varus
How to Synergize Rakan and Varus
based on 4,176 Rakan with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Varus Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Varus
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Rakan Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Varus helps Rakan perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan tries to synergize with Varus, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Varus does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Varus.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Varus on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Varus does a decent job of protecting Rakan in teamfights.
Synergies between Rakan and Varus
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Varus?
There is no ideal ally for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Varus is a not very good teammate for Rakan. By being on the same side as Rakan, he decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 48.2%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Rakan and Varus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Rakan. That means Rakan players don't need to be very careful when arranging Varus teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Rakan players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Rakan and Varus together, you will not be providing your other allies very much engage potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Varus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 pair well with Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Rakan and Varus synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Varus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 48.2% helping carry Varus with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use 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 rune combinations players picked for Rakan and Varus pairings, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.2% win rate overall.
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