Rakan with Yorick
How to Synergize Rakan and Yorick
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Rakan Yorick Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Yorick
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 Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Rakan Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Yorick. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Yorick helps Rakan perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan plays on the same team as Yorick, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Yorick does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Yorick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Yorick.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Yorick on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Yorick does a decent job of covering Rakan in teamfights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no perfect companion for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Yorick is a very typical ally for Rakan. By playing on the same team as Rakan, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 50.4%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Rakan and Yorick that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Yorick has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Yorick allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Rakan and Yorick together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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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 Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Rakan and Yorick synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Yorick than with most other common builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 50.4% helping carry Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Rakan players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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